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google are ending adsense Referrals

I did ok with them but hey good things can come to a end..

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program. We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August

Google are now launching

www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork.

FOR the USA only

adsense Refferals did have uk affiliates but according to the email its only for the usa

Ah well..

http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14882

I’ve just checked out a post on SER forum to see if it was a copy a paste job .. you know the sort when someone pastes the same thing about a subject on a load of forums.

Anyway.. The point is that the query return zero results but below showed the results without the quotes..

Brand new for me ..

Here is the screen shots:

Close up:

Here is the query:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22The+inspection+of+searches+will+turn+as+a+helping+hand+for+you+to+find+the+appropriate+

If you haven’t heard of Mr site is a massive cheap cms .. basically a website in a box..

I know loads of people who use it to try selling on the web as it cheap and a pretty good cms for newbies.

Over the weekend and notice went out as follows:

Due to continual problems with Trojan Viruses on the Mr Site servers we would recommend you do not update or republish your site until Mr Site has emailed all users to confirm that this has been rectified.

Mr site has removed its support forum a while back but a unoffical site was setup here: http://www.mrsitemembers.proboards79.com/ 

I hope this guys get it sorted as I know of many unhappy customers who can’t change/update their sites.

This may have a major effect on the UK serps if google block/warn searchers about this…

Mr site, site is down too.. http://www.mrsite.com/   some crazy s**t going on here..

I’m getting 1.4 million indexed pages on google see this link: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22created+at+www.mrsite.com 

I guessing maybe 100,000’s of sites are effect as many of these sites are tiny e.g. 3 pages etc..

I’ve assume this was sort of happening anyway without it be public but yesterday I and all adsense publishers got a email anoucing it!

We’ve recently enabled the Google content network to accept display ads served from qualified third-party vendors. At this time, only ads in English are eligible.

If you’re currently opted in to image ads, you’re already able to receive third-party ads. If you’ve disabled image ads, no third-party ads will be served on your site. (Learn how to enable or disable image ads at

 

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9741.)

I run picture/txt ads on to of a forum I run with 10k+ page views a day which has oftern had high end adverts e.g. DHL targeting the site. I’ve assumed this targeting was NOT directly applied but via some agreement / 3rd party..

I hope my $ are going to go up

I look forward to the results.

Today in 1920 Florence nightingale was born!

Today in 2008 google.co.uk give respest to her on the google.co.uk homepage with a new google logo link to http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=florence+nightingale%27s+birthday&hl=en

With the query “florence nightingale’s birthday”

This isn’t showing on the google.com homepage for me “yet” .. UK thing

Here is the logo:

Here is a bit of info about who she was and what she did.. taken from : http://www.netwrx1.com/CherryAmes/nightingale.html

• Florence Nightingale studied nursing in Alexandria, Egypt, and at the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses in Kaiserswerth, Germany.
• She became superintendent of London’s Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen in 1850.
• She went to Scutari with thirty-eight nurses early in the Crimean War to direct nursing operations; her efforts resulted in greatly reducing mortality rates among the sick and wounded.
• She founded the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London in 1860, marking the beginning of professional nursing education.
• In 1907, she received the British Order of Merit; she was the first woman to be so honored.

On the uk homepage of google today we have a funky logo from the artist Jeff koons promoting the igoogle theme homepage on the uk public.

Who is jeff Koons?

American artist Jeff Koons burst onto the international art scene in the 1980s. He creates iconic work such as Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Rabbit, and Puppy. He is exhibited throughout the world.

 

here the logo:

Find out more here: http://www.google.co.uk/help/ig/art/

Google uk is just about to overtake ITV for the amount of cash made from advertising..

In the first 3 months of this year google has made$803 million( about £407m)a massive 40% up on a year ago.

Hitwise reports some 78% of searches are made on google by UK internet users in 2007 but i’m pretty sure its far higher..

Marc Mendoza - whose media buying agency is putting a lot of its clients’ budgets online - tells me that Google now has about 80% of the UK online advertising market.

Read more from the bbc:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/04/google_how_big_is_too_big.html

I used to go to night clubs loads when I was younger and was up for “maybe” going this weekend..

My GF did the ibiza thing and love to dance…

So.. Went  to look a club I went to a few time and really enjoyed called “The Cross” just outside Kings cross in central london..

After search for “the cross” and “the cross nightclub” the offical site wasn’t showing …

Finally I thought i’d add london.. “the cross nightclub london” which returned google local at the top with the address of the club “BUT” the url was a club the other side of town!

I then looked up the news on “the cross nightclub” to find that its been sold off for flats

So along came another super club pacha and took the local results for themselves along with some SEO target the natural results too.. 

Wonder how long it will last ?

So if you know a competitor is closing down and you want the traffic then why not blag top spot via local search..

Here is a screen shot:

Google have just switched the lights off in the uk..

 Google full blackout.. Great fun but of course its all about raising awearness of worldwide energy conservation effort..

For more info see http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earthhour/

Visit uk google here: http://www.google.co.uk/  

Here’s  a screen shot!

This week I’ve seen some talk about people linking to IP’s ..

Now it used to be far more common, but now domain is king..

Regarding seo, ip’s are a nightmare..

SER had a post about it here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016518.html 

Anyway.. Every day I seem to see a ip index for something or other, normally long tail terms but just now I was search a username of a forum member as you do and came accross no other than digg..

Digg has been double index via digg.com and a ip..

Over 90,000 pages are indexed on that ip have a look:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A64.191.203.30

The one interesting thing to look at is which pages are index ip vs domain.. 9 million vs 90k… lets say only 10 links point to the ip then those 10 link would index 90k of pages… something to think about.. but finding what and who has linked is a real pain..

I suspect it might be to do with some api or widgets…