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 […]

It looks like YPN are trying to crack down on Made-For-Adsense (Or Yahoo) sites. On all of the sites I have seen running YPN, the ads are all intrusive
Don’t duplicate (*cough* STEAL *cough*) content from other sites. We want to be with someone original.
Agreed. You should write your own content or pay someone to do […]

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 […]

Link Worth Calculator - Text Link Ads
After reading about this tool on ProBlogger I decided to try it out. This is a good tool to calculate how much a link from your site is worth. I had a go and it returned some good results. I had a go with www.bbc.co.uk and it returned some […]

Modded Up: Winning The Fight
A good post comparing the reaction of the adsense team vs the yahoo team after he reported a total of 13 sites. 5 of the sites reported to Adsense were banned and 0 out of 8 of YPN have not been punished. Yahoo may still be relativly new but they should […]