Google Adsense on Free Hosting Account

yahoo geocities free web hostingI’ve got this old geocities account that has quite a number of good articles. Google did mention that we’re not allowed to host other contextual advertising ads from a different company on the same page. This is where the problem comes in, what if its beyond my control? Yahoo provide free hosting inexchange for a sidebar that display contextual ads. Is it against Google Adsense policy to have ads display on my Geocities web pages? I’ve email them and the answer is:

Thanks for your additional email regarding Google ads on Geocities sites.

Google AdSense program policy does not permit Google ads to be published on the same web page as other contextually-targeted ads. You’re welcome to place other contextually-targeted ads on web pages that do not display Google ads.

Our intent with this policy is to be as fair to our advertisers as possible and to maintain the integrity of the AdWords and AdSense programs

Blogger.com is a free blog hosting by Google, and what if they’ve decided to display contextual ads on the navbar in the near future, would it be against adsense policy to have ads on blogger.com? and What if I’m a Yahoo Publisher Network user? Am I allowed to display ads on Geocities web pages?

I’ve lost a steady source of income due to the adsense policy, the Geocities’s webpage has been around for almost 4 years and its a waste. Policies are policies, I guess I have to toe the line.

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June 30, 2006 | Filed Under Contextual Advertising

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Spiderman 3 Black Costume

If you think that this is a black and white poster of the next spiderman movie, then you’re wrong. Yes Black is the new Black, and the third installation of Spiderman feature a black costume. Don’t believe me? Just visit the official Spiderman website.

spiderman 3 black costume

Spider-man adopted this new black costume, eventually he found out that this costume wasn’t what he think it is - it was an alien symbiote. Dumping the costume, Spider-man returned to his blue and red colors. But the costume had separation issues, and turned into Venom, one of the modern era’s most popular spider-foes.

Yes, you got it. Its an interesting story indeed. I’ve watched the first and second installation and I’m not going to miss the third installation. From what I’ve read, Green Goblin is back but this time its not Senior Osborne anymore, it is his son, peter’s good friend.

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June 30, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized

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Google Checkout Is Alive! Awake Monster!

Yes, Google Checkout is here finally. According to them, you’ll be able to shop online now with the new e-wallet on the block. Now, can I top up my Google Checkout account with the money made from adsense? It would be great if I can do that.

Google Checkout

Google released the long-rumored Google Checkout (Codename “Sierra”), a PayPal-like system to shop online without having to re-enter your personal information, and without having to remember different passwords.

Now, Google is great, and when there is competition it is even better, but it seems to me that Google has become the Microsoft of the internet. Its getting bigger and bigger, eating up smaller companies as it expands. I love competition, a balance competition. Pay pal must be shivering now, and the only way to survive this competition and out smart Google would be to accept porn payment. Yeah, sounds dirty but If I am the shareholder, I would do anything to grab the unexplored market. What say you guys?

From what I’ve read online, its buggy, unstable, lack of features and still merchants … What are you waiting for? Try the all new Google Checkout!

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June 30, 2006 | Filed Under Web Application

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Google and Web Traffic

I’ve been reading LiewCf.com for quite sometime and his recent post of a sudden drop of traffic caught my attention. According to him, daily visitors from 8000 was reduced to 2000 due to the latest Google Index updates. What amazed me about the post is the number of bloggers that pool in their knowledge, dropping their comments and suggestion on how to improve his web ranking again.

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Some blame it on the Text Link, while others says that his web is full of advertisements, which trigger an alert in Googleplex thus was dropped from Google’s search engine.

My conculsion would be slightly different from others, I believe Google knows that most of the blogs out there tend to quote (steal) somebody’s article and drop a few line of their own comments, its like plagarism but in a polite way by linking back to the original author. I believe Mr.Liew’s website has too many articles that was quoted from other source with his short 2 cent worth of conclusion. This might be the main reason why Google drop his url from their search engine, he might have been black listed because of the massive quoting.

The best blog would be those that has original content, highlight your original content like how Darren Rowse from Problogger.net did it. I’ve tried what Darren Rowse did on my other blogs, and I am glad to say that it works. Traffic on my other blogs that highlights my best and original post experience a tsunami increase of readers and traffic by 100%, profit from Google Adsense increase 100%.

LiewCF weakness would be his faith in Google, I’m not saying Google is a bad search engine, I’m a loyal Google user, from their gmail to blogspot. What I’m trying to say is we should optimize our blog for all search engine, be it Yahoo or MSN. We should diversify into other areas, be it online affiliate or offline affiliate. My suggestion for Mr.Liew would be - highlight your best and original post, stop quoting from other blogs, diversify into other search engine, and change the look of your blog, make it a little bit more presentable and reduce the number of ads. One or two Google Adsense would be enough.

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June 28, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized

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Sidenotes for Blogs

Darren Rowse has an interesting post on this new little feature for blog. Its called sidenotes, combination of Javascript and CSS. You’ll be able to insert notes and pictures inbetween the articles and the readers has the ability of hide the notes if they felt like it.

You can see them in action here.

Very cool and unique feature, makes me wonder if it works with Blogger.com and is it possible to insert adsense into the notes? Please enlighten me. Thanks.

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June 22, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized

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