Removing low quality Adsense

Since I rediscovered the issue of Adsense Smart Pricing, I’ve been looking more carefully at how my Adsense is deployed.
I have no idea if Google even still employs such a system - but I figure paranoia about it is a good excuse to focus on making my own Adsense campaign leaner.
Now, I’m not a big […]

VideoJug for Online DIY help

Maybe I missed the boat on this one, but I just discovered VideoJug as a great resource for DIY help.
The kitchen tap in the new Barratt House couldn’t be turned off properly - it nearly goes off, then it’s back to full again.
Getting a plumber in winter doesn’t sound like an immediate solution, especially […]

Why American business needs the UK

Both Matt Cutts and Jeremy Schoemaker post their blog stats online.
What’s really interesting is comparing the stats together, to peice an image of the English language internet.
For example, Matt Cutt’s site has the largest data sample, and in a simple and succinct manner I think most clearly demonstrates an image of the English language internet:

Combine […]

Google patent threat to Presell Pages?

SearchEngineLand posts about a recent Google patent intended to help filter out duplicated content.
Text isn’t too much of a worry - any good content development strategy in general markets will aim to minimise any duplication of text.
However, this bit really strikes out:

2. Similarity sketches can be created for pages based upon lists of hyperlink in […]

Ev1 servers scraping juggernaut

Well, I’d hate to sound too much like IncrediBill - but today I received nearly 9,000 emails to my Inbox - all vbulletin MySQL failure error messages.
Turns out someone at Ev1servers was hitting my comparative religion forum really hard and frequently maxing out the MySQL connections.
Took the site down for an hour in […]