Click Settlement Spam - Google AdWords Click Fraud Class Action

May 20th, 2006

There seems to be an unsolicited email (spam) currently being sent out to AdWords advertisers, inviting them to take part in the recent class action suit against Google.

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Google AdSense Interview

May 20th, 2006

It’s not everyday you get to listen in to an interview with a Google AdSense team leader, but if you’re an AdSense publisher, you get the chance and it’s not breaking the law then I’d suggest you do it!

Fortunately for you, Jennifer Slegg (of JenSense contextual advertising fame) has published her first MP3-based audio show from Webmaster Radio, called Click This!, in which she interviews Kim Malone, Director of Online Sales and Operations for Google AdSense.

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RSS to Blog Announcement

May 14th, 2006

I’ve just found out that there’s going to be a new version of RSS to Blog released some time this week.

Some of the new features appearing in version 4.0 include:

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Source Code Goldmine v2 - Almost There…

May 1st, 2006

Jeremy burns is about to launch the second in the series of Source Code Goldmine, where once again, a number of products will be sold with complete rights.

If you’re only interested in parts of the package then an alternative to buying it would be to sign-up with the membership websites that tend to dissect and give away parts of these types of packages. The tricky part is finding those memberships that will supply the parts of the package you want, however, it’s possible that you’ll end up with a lot more bang for your buck!

Get Free Links By Commenting On Other People’s Articles

May 1st, 2006

EzineArticles.com recently switched off their requirement for registration-for-commenting on articles and replaced it with a CAPTCHA system in order to ward off any automated commenting bots.

Manual spammers might be rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of obtaining high PR backlinks just by expressing an opinion on someone elses work, but there is still a review team to moderate comments so those backlinks are still going to have to be earnt. Unlike articles, the comments won’t be syndicated so for a variety of links it’s still going to be worthwhile submitting those articles.

It’s worth noting that any links in comments will be tagged with rel=nofollow until the level of comments hits 2,000 per month.