If you've been even half awake and following the news in SEO circles for the last decade or so, you probably know this already but Google just saw fit to make it official - Google does NOT use the keywords meta tag for search rankings. (Note that they don't explicitly say they don't use it as a … [Read more...]
YAAGU (Yet another Adsense guidelines update)
Just when you thought it was safe to blend your ads with your website, along comes this post on the Adsense blog warning us otherwise.. If you're too lazy to read it, section 1 says: 1. Ads shouldn't be placed under a title or section heading in a way that implies that the ads are not ads. For … [Read more...]
Is it curtains for Adsense Arbitrage?
This week, forums and blogs were all a-buzz trying to make sense of a letter that Google sent to a number of Adsense publishers. In short, the letter politely informed them that Google disapproved of their "business model" and would be terminating their Adsense accounts effective June 1. … [Read more...]