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Google Adsense $0 CPC – What Is Your Cut?

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Got clicks? How about some extra cash in your pocket. Google Adsense can do the job in selling your adspace for you. Is that a good idea? Display targeted Google ads on your website’s content pages and earn from valid clicks or impressions. Adding Adsense to your site as a way to make some extra […]

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Blackberry Interactive Shopping AD

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Sometimes I’m really disappointed about the Google Ads which appear next to a blog post. Not relevant, scam ads. Sometimes I’m really impressed. Just take my last point about a possible new RIM product; the BlackBerry Watch. Next to this story is a highly targeted, interactive shopping ad from CNet. Looking closer at the Ad, […]

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Markov Chains readable on Splogs?

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Ever wondered how a splog looks like which has real unreadable Markov Chains on it? I just found one through following the most popular searches yesterday. Like always, just follow the money, in this case the traffic, and you will find some pretty bad web spam. Yesterday, between all the searches around Michael Jackson’s death, […]

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Google Adsense eCPM; Down in Recession

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Since the beginning of April, I’ve seen a decrease in Adsense revenue on the sites that I run. Normally I don’t get that much per months, but there has been a significant drop from one day to the other. Since April, the revenue has come down. So, naturally my hypothesis is that this is due […]

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Get Rich Quick Skype Spam

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The Get Rich Quick scams are getting crazier and spamier. If you don’t get crazy about the garbage ads on Google’s or Facebook Network, eMail spam or Twitter spam, now you can expect spam through Skype. I just received the following message from somebody who is not in my network: Hi, How are you today?  […]

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No more garbage ads?

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I hope these garbage ads I recently wrote about will be history once and for all. It seems the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection is going after the Government grant scammers who widely advertise on both Google Adsense network, and through Facebook Ads. I recommend to everybody not to fall for these get rich quick […]

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Google Created the Cesspool; now clean it up

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The last couple of days have been full with controversy, discussion and a lot of blog posts to read regarding the great piece of thinking Aaron Wall put on his blog regarding a possible update Google has made to their algorithm. Read: Google’s New Search Engine Rankings Place Heavy Emphasis on Branding. Parts of this […]

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Garbage Ads on Google Finance

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Wow, how much more relevant can this ad be…? (Sarcastic!). I was just checking the stock price of the eBay Stock and saw this big ad placed on the page by Google. Below you see where the ad shows in the full page. Normally, the Google ads are pretty invisible, they sort of blend in […]

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100% Relevant Google Ads

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Yesterday I did a quick post on the Get Rich Quick website of Tom, read: Free Money from Obama. Today, I see that Mister Google has got the perfect 100% Ad targeting on this post, check out the picture below: Now that is what I call relevant Ad targeting. Still I think these ads are […]

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