If any of your campaigns are hit by the recent changes in Google AdWords quality score, you might want to consider doing some or all of these:

1. Add content
2. Add detail privacy policy
3. Add contact us page
4. Add external links to helpful resources

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld

From: jerry@akebono.stanford.edu (Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang)
Subject: Re: new category request
Date: 21 Dec 1994 11:19:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
Reply-To: jerry@terminus.stanford.edu

In-reply-to: eric@netpost.com’s message of Tue, 20 Dec 1994 09:13:04 GMT

hi eric - i will create a category for web promotion and place
you in it.

jerry yang
yahoo
http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/

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Jerry,

Can you help me create new category for Web promotion services?
Yahoo does not have one. The closest match is at

http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/computers_and_internet/www/

I haven’t fouind any other companies that do what I do, so
any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

It’s not everyday we see a newly created marketing forum that manage to attract over 1500 members within three weeks of being launched and EarnersForum is one of such forums.

If you are looking for a forum to discuss about making money online, then check this one out. Besides its good content, several big names in the Internet marketing niche such as Joel Comm, ShoeMoney, Darren Rowse to name a few, are a member of this forum too.

Joining the forum also puts you in the running for some pretty amazing prices including $1000 sent via Paypal, a copy of Aaron Wall’s SEO Book, a developed niche article web site and several others.

That’s not too surprising is it?

Just take a look at PetalingStreet.org for an example, and you’ll find the majority of bloggers prefer to write about themselves and share their own experiences rather than to discuss about politics or technology.

There’s nothing wrong about this of course but it also means that there’s always room to accommodate bloggers who would write about non personal and current issues, obviously.

According to a recent survey conducted by The Pew Internet & American Life Project “A-list” bloggers are usually those who write about topics that covered by traditional media but in general blogging is more of a personal experience.

After reading Graywolf’s experience with AdWords and how he had to pull the plug after the recent changes made by Google Adwords Quality Score, I kind of feeling a little bit lucky for not being affected negatively by the new algorithm changes.

Graywolf writes:

When I changed my landing page there was minimal increase in average time on site and number of pages viewed. My original landing page had a zen-like brevity to it,consisting of the following elements a top graphical banner, a product description, a product image, and a “buy button”.

You read that right, the dawn of social bookmarking commercialization is here, and it’s bound to happen anyway sooner or later.

In an effort to attract more existing and active users from Digg, Reddit, NewsVine and delicious, Jason Calacanis and the new Netscape Project are offering $1000 per month to these people to put in at least 150 stories per month on Netscape.com.

That’s US12,000 per year for doing what they have been doing all this while!

20 positions of loyal bookmarkers which will be called “Netscape Navigator” is available.

Forum Interactive has conducted a study using its SEMLogic technology to find which factors were the most important to the pages ranked on the first page of search engine result pages.

They analyzed the keyword “laptop”, a very competitive one at that, to find various on-page and off-page factors that influence it ranking in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

Here are some of the interesting findings:

In-Bound Link (IBL) Quality. This is a measurement of key elements on the page containing an in-bound link which, in combination, influence the link reputation for the target of the link. This is the only factor that had the same level of relative influence across the search engines and happened to be the most influential in all cases.

Google has added another layer to their verification process to screen out shady fraudsters from joining the AdSense program. The process verifies the potential affiliate’s e-mail, phone and mailing address and ensures the accuracy of your contact information.

The new verification process was not yet put in place when I joined them in 2003.

To verify your e-mail address, Google will send out e-mail to inform you that you will be receiving a Personal Identification Number (PIN) via standard mail.

Those who can’t help but to check their AdSense stats every five seconds or some are probably suffering from GAD or Google AdSense Disorder, nothing serious but I guess it’s still a kind of an addiction

As you know, constant checking won’t lead to more earnings – in fact, it could lead to the opposite.

So, Eric Giguere of Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense has written 10 things you could do to be more productive rather than checking your AdSense stats over and over…

Like the popular YouTube.com, MySpace, the most popular social networking site is struggling to find a way to monetize its traffic.

Banner ads don’t make a Web site as much money as a sponsored link on a search results page.

Sponsored links lead directly to a business’s Web site, whereas banner advertisers are only supposed to make an “impression” on a visitor.

Compounding the problem is the fact that MySpace doesn’t even get the lucrative blue-chip brand advertisers to buy those banner ads despite the fact that its member demographic is the young and malleable crowd after which marketers lust.