SEO, Adsense and General Stuff

After the most uncomfortable flight ever from Mexico, I have finally arrived back in the UK. I’m jetlagged at the moment and can’t be bothered writing much so here is some stuff I’ve found interesting on my return.

Adsense testing non branded ads. I’ve found that the more the ads blend in the higher the CTR. Good news then.
YPN is making it easier to report bad publishers
Search Engine Strategies in San Jose starts tommorrow.

As usual Jensense has some stuff about the adsense and YPN and other sites I link to will no […]

All these sites provide good information regarding; Contextual Advertising, SEO and Affiliate marketing and other related info. I read most of them and have probably missed a lot out. Here we go;
Blogs

Shoemoney (Also check our his radio show, Net Revenue
ProBlogger (Some of his posts also apply to websites as well as blogs)
Google Adsense Blog (Makes […]

They subject of Net Neutrality has intensified in the last few months. I found this post a few weeks ago and found it interesting. The post explains what Net Neutrality is and how it affects a wide range of people who use the internet daily.
Basically, if the phone companies get their way, ISPs will be able to choose which Search Engine you use.
For example, let’s say that Comcast creates a search engine (intending to set up a system like Adwords), if Net Neutrality is not protected, it could (in theroy) slow down (or remove access) to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! or MSN. […]

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 […]

In an interesting topic at digital point (yet again) a user asked how to optimize for the UK. Being a UK site myself I have found it quite easy. (If you haven’t noticed yet, this is a .co.uk address )
It was suggested that;

1. Hosting in the UK
2. Using UK in the content
3. Links […]

I was reading through some old posts at WMW. A user named “Hanslicht” had managed to get 3000 quality links in just 9 months. He found the good links by searching this. What a good way to get some links.
# “Add link” +”your keyword(s)”
# “Add a link” +”your keyword(s)”
# “Add site” +”your keyword(s)”
# “Add […]

Sorry for not posting for a while, I have been real busy with my new site (more later).
The basic awnser to this is no, it does not make a difference at all. However most people will click a .com rather than a .net. People think that .com is more professional than the .net, .info, […]