Nov
15
Holiday Rant: Poison Words for Adsense
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As good as AdSense targeting is, what I’ve found over time is that there are certain words that act as POISON WORDS and can kill targeting on some site pages, even if those words appear nowhere on the pages, but simply are included in the global navigation of a site. It doesn’t matter if those happen to be higher priced advertising words - if they’re way off they just plain look silly and are a useless distraction.
There’s no doubt that it’s time to give a try at Section Targeting and if that doesn’t work for those pages, just not run AdSense on them at all.
Jul
17
I just checked Yahoo, and with a site of mine that’s as clean and fresh as newly washed linens hung out in the sun and fresh air to dry, a site 100% non-commercial and totally for the benefit of users, newly listed in ODP, there are already scraped sites turning up at Yahoo - subsidized and funded by Google AdSense.
This is criminal. It is not only tainting the integrity of the quality of carefully screened ODP-listed sites, but in my opinion is misusing the data freely made available to them. Not to mention tainting the sites they’re listing.
Thank goodness for Yahoo Search showing those or we wouldn’t know it’s happening. My gripe is with Google for subsidizing useless swill with nothing more than scraped content and no value for users.
What’s really sad is that these sites get listed at Yahoo right off showing up as back-links, while the actual updated ODP categores are not yet showing up.
Jun
26
Spurred by this joke at ABW Affiliate Forums
That’s the economic globalization of tragedy, from the far reaches of the world wide web right to the local gas station when you stop to get gas, running up to the car trying to sell you a flag because some mothers’ sons got killed fighting in a useless war someplace that serves no purpose other than to pad the pockets of “global economic interests” that the poor blokes who died would never have seen a penny of even if they had survived.
Mar
21
This came in by Google News Alert:
So ya, background can be checked, and I’m personally grateful to have reached the point in life where I couldn’t care less. BUT…
What’s terribly sad is that people can malign other people, even tell outright lies about them - and there is no way to counteract that which is found by Googling (or in private forums or venues, which still maligns, FYI).
Yup, of course there’s a personal application - among others.
It’s gotten back to me that some things have been said that are anything but the truth; in fact they’re quite the opposite - they’re diametrically opposed to facts, realilty or truth. OK, let’s call it what it is and say it’s outright lying - which I believe is malicious in intent, to put it mildly.
Deliberate? Of course. Do I care? Of course - not because of any expected reason, or that anything is public, because naturally it hasn’t been. The person isn’t that honest. But it’s maligning and damaging nevertheless.
What DOES bother me is that some people can reach a point of propogating their image of importance and prominence to the point that what they say is believed, even though they are, by reason of background, history and empirical evidence, nothing more than common liars.
There are too many people around nowadays who have managed their image and reputation to one of “respect and esteem” when the reality of the matter is that they are nothing more than pond scum who know how to market themselves well.