After having a discussion with Matt Davies and others on Twitter today it became clear that many SEO’s are now getting increasingly frustrated by the way large brands can buy links without care whereas smaller brands get toasted.
Went to see a mate of mine yesterday and was aware of the fact that they didn’t have an easy way to see where a site ranked in Google so thought id post my quick way of keeping track
I miss the old days of creating made for Adsense sites then sitting back and watching the free money roll in. The reason most of us had to slow down from doing that was that Google started banning accounts for very soft reasons and taking all the money back.
Times are hard and they look like they will be getting harder for most people. Spammers however have some advantages over the rest when times get hard: -
If you use a free theme from a Google advert you are an idiot.. Yeah you are, admit it. You would have to be unless you knew what you were doing. Having spent some time recently helping out when people have had their blogs hacked I decided to take another look at the free theme [...]
Had a great time at SEOroadshow over the weekend but a couple of the conversations I had got me thinking. I know thats unusual but bear with me and we will see what falls out of my fuzzy brain this morning… When running a typical link building campaign most agencies and SEO’s will do the [...]
In my previous posts we solved the crappy 404 in SMF and sorted off site links so they didnt harm us, ohh and tweaked the post page to have slightly better on page SEO (Slightly….) One last thing to change and a story of why I changed it. I have been looking to build the [...]
I know its against Googles TOS but I couldn’t give a flying fish what they say. What I thought I would do is show you a snapshot from one batch of sites over a full year and discuss some of the ways in which I worked to get these results.
OK simple answer – dont do anything silly and have lots of accounts… Once in a while though youll get one of those helpful emails from the Adsense Team giving you a telling off and offerig some advice, in case you havent seen them heres the advice: -
LOL Looks like my friends over at Google are getting even more picky about who they let into their high quality no spam advertising network, Adsense.