I couldn’t hide my excitement when Chief_Atenista called me up today to ask about AdSense placement/blending tips for the Atenista.net forum. It’s not everyday that you get to help your alma mater (sorta). His problem: high ad unit impressions, paltry clickthroughrates (CTR).
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Yey! One more way for us international webmasters to monetize our websites! Not.
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When you read Brett Tabke’s interview at Search Engine Roundtable, you almost feel sorry for the guy. Spider stress :)

A R6 will do ;)

Timely advice from Evhead’s Evan Williams. Dedicated to my existing and future Web 2.0 startup buddies. Some choice cuts:
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Yet another take on the Trustbox topic, this time by Calum guestposting at Stuntdubl.com.

The juiciest parts include theories on how your linking behavior can get you boxed in. Usual SEO link building traps to avoid are: too many generic directory listings, and getting backlinks from recognized link sellers.
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Get with the program. If you need to take a look at the full TOS, click here.

Now can you use that to AdSensebowl, especially #6?

Not too many believers for Dipsie, the search services Valley startup.
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An intimate look at Google by ex-Googler Doug Edwards (Google’s former Director of Consumer Marketing) - perfect link bait.
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And they actually wanted this to happen? Wow.

To free up bandwidth and system resources, Brette Tabke of WebMasterWorld.com decided to ban all spiders including those of the major search engines. It took Google and MSN just two days to remove WMW from their index. A site:webmasterworld.com search used to show around 2 million pages. Now, the same search returns zero pages. Check out WMW’s robot.txt file.

The funny thing about this “issue” is this:

Brett was talking about doing it about 3 years ago, but it wasn’t because of bad spiders, which won’t take any notice anyway. If I remember correctly, it was to do with getting too much unwanted traffic from the engines.

Arrogance.
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