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<title>Sphinn / Hot Today / Google AdSense</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:09:46 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Seth Godin Wants to Cheat Advertisers with Fake Clicks]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/67432</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/67432</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:09:46 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/67432</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin has an article today called ads are the new tip jar, where he advocates clicking on Google adsense to help bloggers get paid for their work. Michael is right - this needs to be discussed more as to why it's a terrible idea.<br/><br/>62 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Twitter Cloaking Their Site to Show Adsense Ads in Their Cache?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/66002</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/66002</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:03:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/66002</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm]<br/><br/>61 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google ads for your own site on your own site? What the heck?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54384</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54384</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:09:19 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54384</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google seems to feature ads TO your site ON your site. This is obviously wasting webmasters' money. Surprised to see that there is not some sort of filter to prevent this from happening.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wacky, Crazy &amp; Nutty Fonts in AdSense Ads]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53904</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53904</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:46:50 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53904</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Seriously, first comic sans and now variations of Times, Plain Serif, No Serif, Vanilla and Arial.  At least I hear CTR is up. :)<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Updates List Of Third-Party Ad Providers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52028</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52028</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:33:25 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52028</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you're an AdSense publisher, and you're not using the free widget, it's time to update your privacy policies again. :)<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50104</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50104</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:11:46 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50104</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A nice little tool I built to help easily stay in line with the new AdSense  privacy requirements as far as third party ad providers go.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Banned By Google: UK University Outs US MFA Sites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34304</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34304</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:08:26 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/34304</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google Webmaster Central and the Google Search Quality team have a new ally in the global fight against Web spam, cloaking, paid links, link farms and other non-sanctioned schemes: the Security Group at the University of Cambridge.Web sites crea<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2007 AdSense Earnings Poll Results Are In]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28280</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28280</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:27:35 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28280</guid>
<description><![CDATA[25% of the AdSense publishers I polled took in over $5,000 in 2007 from AdSense.  But 33% took in less than $50.  Which one are you? :-)<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Huge News: Google to Kill 'Domain Tasting' Adsense]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24989</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24989</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:36:12 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24989</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Domain Tools reports that Google will stop allowing &quot;domain tasters&quot; to register a domain, slap Adsense on it for a couple days and make $$, then drop the domain. Quote: &quot;A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they <br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Adsense Referral Hydra Had To Be Clobbered]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/22258</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/22258</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:09:49 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/22258</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Andy Beard: &quot;For me the obvious reason why they would restrict this to only partners in certain counties is fraud, or gaming the system. Google is made up of regional offices, so it would be hard to separate Eastern Europe from the rest of Europe, o<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AdSense Testing New ‘Slider’ Ads]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18315</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18315</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:50:22 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18315</guid>
<description><![CDATA[People are reporting seeing a new type of AdSense ad appearing on their blogs - ads with little arrow buttons on them which rotate ads. Here's how they look...<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Digitalpoint Banned From Adsense?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16847</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16847</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:14:59 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16847</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'm wondering if there's any connection between this and a thread on Digitalpoint that claims their ads are being blocked. There's some confusion that the missing ads may be related to some database errors that the site was having last week, though <br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reasons Why Media and Bloggers Should Not Run Google AdSense - Just Say No!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16671</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16671</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:55:09 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/16671</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google sells ads at a low cost because it doesn't have to pay for the content. Most of the content they use to monetize is harvested from the Internet for free. If you pay editors &amp; writers to create content (or do it yourself) you are at a huge dis<br/><br/>26 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AdSense Publisher Will See Drop in Earnings: Click Behavior Change Coming]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13727</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13727</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:01:13 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13727</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google emailed me that they are changing what constitutes a click on AdSense ads.  They are implementing the same rules they have with AdWords ads.  A click on the title or URL is a click, but a click on the background of the ad will no longer be a <br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Truth Behind Why Google Checks Bounce]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13465</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13465</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:33:36 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13465</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SearchEngineRoundTable TWICE reported Google AdSense publishers' checks bounced. How can one of the world's richest companies checks SEEM so rubbery? Read the SEORoundTable Post for info about your AdSense checks.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Retirees Are Making Lots of Money with Google Adsense]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/11214</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/11214</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:05:06 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/11214</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Alonzy, 57, now makes $120,000 a year from the ads Google places on his Natural Handyman website, and he couldn't be more thrilled. &quot;I put in two, maybe three hours a day on the site, and the checks pour in,&quot; he says. &quot;What's not to like?&quot;<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Writes A Bad Check!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5067</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5067</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:46:13 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5067</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From the page: &quot;Are you sure? Do you know who Google is? You're kidding me, right?&quot; She says she does know who Google is, but that this particular account doesn't have enough funds to cover my check.&quot;More from the page: &quot;I say to the teller, &quot;Ho<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Releases Adsense Feature and Then Pulls It]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4064</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4064</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:34:27 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4064</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Is Google just completely inept, despite have a gargantuan amount of money and brain power behind it?<br/><br/>24 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Barry Schwartz Gives His Thoughts on Splogs with Adsense]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2228</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2228</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:01:05 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2228</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After hearing Barry Schwartz get a bit riled up on the DailySearchCast, I decided to interview him briefly on the issue of splogs and Adsense.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stolen Content &amp; AdSense - Time for Change!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2070</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2070</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:23:47 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2070</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I am honestly tired on how Google makes it easy to report spam and paid links in Google Webmaster Central but AdSense makes you go through hoops to report stolen content.To report an AdSense account stealing content, you need to file a DMCA requ<br/><br/>25 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Forget Babysitting and Paper Routes, Teen Turns to SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1966</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1966</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:02:24 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1966</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO may seem like &quot;rocket science&quot; to some (like Dave Pasternack!), but one teen has cracked the code, turning knowledge of SEO and Neopets into an income-generating asset.<br/><br/>26 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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