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Archive for May, 2005

Google AdSense ‘Hijacked’ in Search Engine Results

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AdWords Advertisers Can Filter Publisher Sites

JenSense reports that Adwords advertisers can now negative filter publisher sites:

AdWords advertisers now have the ability to add AdSense publisher websites to a new tool called “Campaign Negative Sites”. This means that advertisers who have one or two websites they wish not to have their ads appear on (whether they are competitor sites or just […]

Don’t Mess with SEO Inc.

… unless you have the legal budget to back it up.
Google Blogoscoped reported how SEO Inc. dropped out of Google’s rankings for virtually every SEO-related term, including their company name.
SEO Inc. fired back with a cease & desist notice.
Some people / companies will never learn.
After sending the cease & desist, Boing Boing eventually picked up […]

Google Says: Webspam Aint Cool

Andi Baio broke another webspam story recently, this time on Syndic8 hosting articles on their various sub-domains.
An update on the article reads:

May 6, 2005: Philipp Lenssen reports that Syndic8.com was removed from Google’s index entirely. By e-mail, a Google engineer also confirmed that the Google AdSense account for Syndic8’s ad affiliate was terminated.
I agree with […]