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Stumble Make AdSense?

December 7th, 2007

I recently wrote a blog that turned out to be pretty popular with the social bookmarking crowd(SBC), visits totaled into the thousands. At the end of a few days of continuous traffic via sites like Stumbleupon, Reddit and others I got curious as to why the AdSense for content ad block I placed in the article wasn’t converting anything, nothing, notta, zip, zilch.

Balancing traffic recorded via Google Analytics and ad impressions recorded by the AdSense report for the ad channel didn’t add up. No big surprise, 90% of the web surfers who visited the page were using the FireFox browser and it appears half of those were using an ad filter plug-in. Mybloglog stats reported (more…)

Google is Best Show in Town

November 20th, 2007

Lately, even more than usual, we have been inundated with forum and blog posts proclaiming disgust with Google. I have seen entire web sites remove their AdSense and even use the robots.txt to block Google’s spider from exploring.

I don’t understand it so I’ll take the opposing view.

Apparently there are no longer any sites being displayed on page one for any search. Lord, I hope it isn’t “Bar Envy”. (more…)

Remove the nofollow in your brain

August 2nd, 2007

It is time to resurrect Barry’s blog post about paddling! He discussed tactics worthy of paddling, number 8 is “If you ‘nofollow’ all outgoing links from your web site then get ready for a paddling.”

More and more I am seeing references (backlinks) to information on my web sites in blog posts and static pages but the backlinks contain the “nofollow” tag!

Come on people! Remove the “nofollow” you have between your commonsense and greed portion of you brain. The next popping sound we here should be your head coming out of your ass! Using information/original content in a positive fashion from someone Else’s web site deserves every bit of recognition you can muster - this includes an uninhibited link!

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Google Diversity Results Follow-up

July 28th, 2007

This post is a follow-up of the Dr. J and Mr. H SEO Test. The test is exploring Google’s attempt at producing a diversity in the search results. (more…)

Meta Keyword Test Conclusions

July 10th, 2007

The results are in.

I only monitored the top three search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) during the test. Combined they are about 84% of search engine traffic worldwide. Here is a list of the actual stats from April 2007.

First the title attribute (title=”")

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The Mrnavycs Keyword Test

June 13th, 2007

I had a desire to test the relevancy of the keyword meta tag and the title attribute due to the continuous questions posed on the various SEO forums. I will write my conclusions and expect some argument/discussion based on my findings from this really small test. :crazy:

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