Link Frenzy: Google Related Articles

With all the brouhaha surrounding Google lately (including my own), it's appropriate to point out the plethora of articles written about Google penalties, PageRank and AdSense. The older articles are courtesy of Snoskred. I have no idea where she finds the time to read all the links she sent to me. It must have something to do with time management. The newer articles I found by searching Google Reader. All of these links are only a fraction of what's being written about Google.

On Google PageRank Updates and Penalties:

More On Google PageRank:

On Google AdSense:

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Tobsy on 2007-10-11 at 5:02 am (Reply)

A widely discussed topic. Thanks for the mention, RT

Maurice (TheCaymanHost) on 2007-10-11 at 5:14 am (Reply)

Hi RT

It's quite a list and seems likely to get a whole lot longer, but thank you for the link love which is always appreciated.

My post was made after talking to a handful of recently banned Adsense publishers, some of whom had been using traffic exchanges and hadn't read the updated rules. They assumed this was the reason for their ban, and claimed they hadn't been naughty in any other ways. Whether that was the whole truth or not I have no way of knowing, but the standard Google "invalid clicks" email doesn't seem to reveal a whole lot from what I understand.

It's funny though, Google seem to let the ads run and only send a warning, followed shortly thereafter by a ban, as these "small timers" approach pay out time. Wouldn't it be better to issue a warning as soon as someone is seen to be breaking the rules and allow them to correct the error of his/her ways? 'Better for whom?' is probably the more relevant question there I suppose The little guy can often take almost a year to earn $100……..so why only issue the ban shortly before they qualify and not as soon as they know of an infraction?

Apparently, those banned receive an automated notice confirming that ad revenue will be returned to advertisers. I wonder eh? All those thousands of bans multiplied by 100 bucks, do Adwords publishers ever see refunds?

The current page rank stir up has made for interesting reading - even saw one blogger deciding to give up with Text Link Ads for fear of Google reprisals. Surely that is playing into their hands, but, as someone who earns very little through TLA he has decided it's not worth the risk!

Anyhow, thanks for the extra reading

Mike on 2007-10-11 at 6:52 am (Reply)

Maurice - you're spot on. The more people who drop TLA or PPP or any of the other revenue sources, the happier Big G will be.

hari on 2007-10-11 at 12:05 pm (Reply)

I agree. What would you rather have?

A high PageRank which you cannot capitalize on commercially in any way without fear of reprisals from google? What good does that do?

Or

a steady income stream from people who are not as miserly as google is when paying for AdSense (the stream of pennies is literally insulting and I took off adsense more than a year ago because it wasn't worth it.)

K-IntheHouse on 2007-10-13 at 2:02 am (Reply)

Thanks for the link collection, RT! I'm off to reading those now..

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Link Frenzy: Google Related Articles