Pruning Flowers with a Male Yeast Infection

As an Internet marketer, I’m a big fan of using pen names for the different markets I’m promoting.  There’s a very legitimate and honest reason for doing so.  Some people feel that using a pen name is dishonest, but I disagree.

If you look at it from your customer’s point of view.  Just pretend for a minute that you’re a gardener looking for information on pruning flowers.   As someone who’s looking for information on pruning flowers, you jump on the computer and do a search for pruning flowers in Google. 

The first result you find is a very nice squidoo lens all about prunning flowers.  The article is so interesting and informative you just have to know what other articles this person has written.  A few clicks later you’re on the profile page for this writer expecting to find other flower or gardening related articles.

To your surprise you find articles titled “10 Steps to Getting Rid of Male Yeast Infection”, “The Ultimate Guide to Underwater Kickboxing”, and “Speed Reading Tips for Ed ‘mankini’ Dale”.

Now what would be your first thought if you came across a writer who writes everything from pruning flowers to male yeast infection?

I know personally my trust level will suddenly drop and I would be more cautious.  I would certainly think twice about any product or service that this writer had recommended.  Nine chances out of 10, I would probably not buy the product they were recommending just because something seems fishy.

I would much rather just use pen names to keep each market separate.  I would rather John to write articles on male yeast infection and Debra write articles on prunning flowers.

That’s just my opinion, what are you thoughts?

~Shannon

Google is using us to detect paid links.

It’s been a while since I last logged into my Google Webmaster account and noticed a new link.  The link invites website owners to report other sites that are using paid links so Google can “improve” their algorithmic detection of sites who are buying/selling paid links.  I don’t know about you, but I think this is wrong.  Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, not to dictate on how the world should use the internet. Google is growing too fast. They have a monolopy in the search engine business and now expects everyone obey their requests.

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Listen Google… Help us help advertisers!

Ever since I started using Google Adsense I have been concerned with getting banned. As a infant in the internet marketing industry I am still learning to walk. I will have bumps and bruises along the way while I am testing various sites, copy, design, etcera to get the best results. I’m sure I will make a mistake or two during my development and learning. I just hope I don’t make Google upset with me and givem me a time out.

I’ve emailed Google and had them review my sites to make sure they are not in violation, however it is still a concern.

My biggest concern would be getting banned for things that are out of my control. Like I stated in my email to Google I would like to be notified if my account is triggering invalid clicks. If I’m being attacked by a bot or getting a lot of invalid clicks from a specific ip range, I want to be notified.

If Google would work with it’s publishers rather than just punishing them for things out of their control, we could work together to reduce the amount of click fraud.  I hate spammers, fraud, and just bad behaviour as much as the advertisers.  I have no desire or intention to knowily cause an advertiser any extra expense than necessary.

Useful Resources:

• Google Adsense TOC
• Google Adsense Policies
• How to get your Google Adsense Account Banned
• ADSENSE TIPS - The Don’ts Of Adsense

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Search Google’s Sponsored Links

 You should always take into consideration the number of advertisers using the Adwords network when doing niche research.  That is if you’re planning on using Google’s Adsense to monetize the site.  I’ve come across a few excellent keywords during my research that would have made for an excellent mini site, however due to no advertisers on the adwords network and no suitable affiliate programs they weren’t worth the time to create.

In order to find out how many advertisers are on the adwords network for your given keyword, I use Google’s Sponsored Links search.

Here’s a quick tip: Don’t rely on the total results when you first search.  Click past the first page.  More pages and more results will appear.

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My Gratitude Rock

Giving gratitude for the things we have in life is very important. The grass is always greener on the other side and we rarely take the time to appreciate the things we already have in life. I have so many things that I’m grateful for that I take for granted. I’m longing for a better future, but I haven’t taken the time to be grateful for the things I have now.

So, once a week I’m going to list the good things that has happened to me during the week that I can show gratitude or give thanks for. I’m going to try and not post the obvious things like I’m grateful for having a roof over my head or that my car didn’t break down this week. I want to post about the new things in my life, no matter how small, that I should take note of and be thankful or grateful for.

My Gratitude Rock for this week (in no particular order):

• Daughter had first top tooth.
• Won $5.00 at work.
• My Son said out of the blue that he loved me and hugged me.
• Having the determination to continue my work.

What is your gratitude rock?

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