The AdSense Publisher Support team has just released an ad placement/targeting guide for bloggers.

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Good luck. You’ll probably get 2% CTR with that ad placement scheme.
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WebSideStory, the web analytics company recently released a study that shows search engine conversion rates beating other Internet marketing methods, e.g. banner ads, affiliate marketing, comparison sites, referral links, etc.
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In part 1 of the DrToy Story, we looked at some of the site’s basic search engine profile. This time around, we tackle keyword research.

Every serious SEO campaign should start with a thorough keyword selection process. Oftentimes client perceive this phase as just another high traffic keyword hunt in Overture, Keyword Discovery and Wordtracker. In a saturated and extremely competitive market like toys, keyword research actually means discovering profitable keyword niches your competition hasn’t discovered or exploited to the fullest.
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I ordered a few copywriting books from Amazon. The $45 shipping fee is pretty steep considering I’m bound to get the books after at least 3 weeks. Ahhh, such is life for SEOs living on the other side of the world.

Did I miss anything?
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I’m on Manila Bulletin! Thanks to Annalyn of Blog-O-Rama for the interview. You can catch it here. Hurry grab a copy before my mom buys them all.
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Dan Kramer reports that the King has won a “copywright battle over cached web content”.
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For a friend who’s looking to sell the website, here’s the alternative.

…if your website is more than three years old, is listed in DMOZ, has lots of green pixel fairy dust, a low alexa rank, is an authority site or has any other redeeming qualities you might be able to sell some text links. Depending on the topic of your website you may be able to earn up to a few hundred a month. If you don’t have the time, resources, or inclination to do it yourself try contacting a text link broker. Another idea is instead of selling standard links is selling presell pages.

I’ve seen 336×280 ad units carrying 3 or 4 ads again. Others are seeing it too. I reported earlier that eCPM got a boost by showing less ads so on whether this development is good or bad for publishers, a big fat “I don’t know yet”.
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Having conquered contextual advertising, Google is now testing rich media ads on a select group of publishers. According to Jensense this looks to be a strategic move for Google to isolate competitors in the rich media ad format space.
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The earliest references I could find about link bait / link baiting are Aaron’s Link Bait (08/20/2005) and Nick’s The Art of Link Baiting classic (11/09/2005).

How then did the Linkbait.com domain get registered so early (created on 04/24/2005)? Who really coined the term? Who popularized it? Who’s the grand daddy of link baiting?