I’m collaborating on a set of components for the Mambo 4.5.3 site over at PropertyTalk. The first draft was written by the site owner and I’ve gone in an Mambo-ised them.
Category: Technical Discussions
Adsense for Search (AFS) is the system where you have a Google search box on your site to present targetted ads. Personally I don’t see the attraction but plenty do.
I’ve become aware of an interesting scenario this week exploiting Adsense for Search, one way was smart and I liked it. The other was pure spam.
More foul stuff is coming our way in the concept of mass blog promotion. From what I can see the idea is that you sign up (& pay your money) and a fake blog post will be inserted into the blogs of members – and theirs into yours.
Search the web long enough for ideas on boosting your site’s ranking and you are bound to find pages with text like this
Did you know that you can dramatically increase the number of visitors that come to your site on a daily basis from Google? And it’s not constantly improving your position in Google search engine result pages (SERPs) for your competitive keywords which can take some time after working on your search engine marketing campaigns.
Redirects are where a link to a site looks like http://www.mysite.com/go/143/ or http://www.mysite.com/goto.php?site=143
These are great for the directory owner because they can track the popularity of a link and capture other statistics. They are, however, almost worthless for the site owner.
Every day there are new directories being created and keeping up with them can be quite a trial. If you have a series of sites that you submit then adding them manually can be a bit of a struggle.
Solution: have a generic descriptor file for sites to identify the main sections of the site that might be submitted to a directory.
I just got spammed by an Australian crowd with this on their own blog…
Blog spammers
For all those newbie blog spammers out there that are looking for top blogs to spam, well SearchEngineBlog has a link to the top500 blogs in the world.Proceed with caution as most of these blog will spot a spammer from a mile off.