SEO, Adsense and General Stuff

Some of you have have noticed a new look for adsense and some new TOS.
Here are some screenshots posted over at digitalpoint.
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A quote from an Adsense Optimization Webinar,

E. Lazar
This is with regards to high traffic forums and the question is basically, on the ads, because forums and people return – the same people return to the forums, do you have any specific suggestions for forums like that?
P. Ho
We want to make sure that […]

Darren Rowse has written a post explaining why we might be having poor July earnings. In this post he explains how recent events such as

American Independence Day
Summer Time
London Bombings

This ties in with what I was saying about a drop in sales and traffic on the 4th of July.

I have just finished installing Spam Karma 2 - Reloaded to reduce the amount of comment spam I keep getting. I have also removed all comments except those where someone was making a useful contribution to the bl0g. You do not have to register now to post a comment however name and email are […]

For the past few days I have been using this free tool to calculate your success. AdSense Calculator lets you type in your impressions, click thru rate and average cost per click, it will then calculate your daily, monthly and yearly earnings/clicks. This will give you a great estimate of what your earnings could be […]

If you’re having problems creating a Google site map, this programme may help you: SOFTplus GSiteCrawler. It is a windows generator for google site map files. You can currently download it for free. So, go grab yourself a copy play around with it and hopefully you will get your site map submitted to google within […]

If you’re worried about accidently clicking your adsense ads you can do somthing about it.
In C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc you should notice a file called hosts. There is no extension but you can edit it with notepad. Add this to your file.
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
However there is a problem with this technique, it will stop all adsense ads, not just […]