Category Archives: blogging

A Solution to Adwords Spam

Feb
3
2007

Google has come under fire of late due to the inconsistent nature of the adwords network in relation to allowing the spread of and sites. Whether this criticism is fairly leveled is another matter. I have discussed this at length previously and as pointed out by Miles Burke, maybe Google is now promoting blog comment spam.

Now I was thinking on this the other day, the problem is that Google has a mainly automated system for adwords registration and delivery. I suspect they randomly dip into the pool of advertisers and manually vet them from time to time. I also would imagine that you would have matching analysis on the adwords and resultant advertisers site, and that this is applied again at random or to risk locations or information areas.

Do Blog Ads equal Spyware?

Jan
15
2007

It’s an ongoing debate, do you put ads on blogs (usually from Google) or not. Jeremy Keith thinks they suck and if you do you are an ad whore. Mind you I think he is missing a point in people wanting to drive traffic to their blog. It’s easier for Jeremy; author, speaker and web rock god. People just flock to his blog to read his pearls of wisdom. Others without this bonus (for which Mr. Keith has worked hard – hats off to you Jeremy) have to find other ways and means to drive traffic, be it Digg, Del.icio.us, Technorati or 9 rules etc, yes we have to whore.