Hey everyone!

I'm back in New Zealand and it's back to work. I've got lots of stuff to catch up with, particularly since my laptop packed a sad. I've spent today doing a few site critiques for Affilorama members, and I came across something that I thought I might share here.

I was looking at one particular site which was pretty much aimed at earning money from Adsense. An important consideration with Adsense (and other context ads) is positioning your ad blocks in a place where they're...

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One thing that generates a lot of discussion and, dare I say, something approaching superstition for internet marketers is PageRank. Those little green pixels that appear in your Google toolbar giving your website a ranking out of ten. (If you haven't got a Google Toolbar you can get one from Google.) You'll see a lot of advice out there on how to boost your pagerank, a lot of bragging from high-pagerank sites and a lot of effort exerted by low-pagerank sites to try to raise their sites into...

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I'd like to take the opportunity to revist the Google AdWords shakeup of mid-July. Many of you will remember the roasting I received back then for my blog post "What determines quality score?" — definitely not my finest moment! This time I've done my homework, conducted my research, consulted with experts, and now I'm ready to put my ideas out there again.

First let's do a quick recap: Google recently made changes to its Quality Score assessment algorithm. The quality score is determined by...

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Guys I made an absolute shocker with my "hunches" and hypotheses in my last 2 blog posts. Such an unfortunate way to start a blog, but I'm not one to shy away when I make a mistake.

I guess I'm living proof that you don't have to get everything right to be hugely successful online. That's small consolation for all the egg I have all over my face right now. But anyway...

Here's the deal...

I received this reply from Suzzie..

Mark,

I’ve been reading through your blog and there are tons of...

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Thanks so much for the posts everyone, there have been some very interesting points raised about whether or not PR is a contributing factor (see comments made by Travis, Phil Wiley and others to my last post).

I decided to email google adwords about it so that I can get a reply in writing, this is what they had to say:

Thank you for question on why many people's keywords recently became inactive for search, and what you may do to decrease the minimum bid required to reactivate these words. I...

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