Seth Godin has an article today called ads are the new tip jar, where he advocates clicking on webmaster welfare Google adsense or other contextual ads to help bloggers get paid for their work. He of course completely ignores that advertisers will be paying for clicks from people who had absolutely no intention of using or buying the service advertised. If you click on an ad and your purpose is to make sure the site owner or blogger gets money from the click, and you had no intent to buy or research, that is click fraud.
That kind of behavior comes from some belief that bloggers are entitled to get paid for their work wheter it’s valuable or not (see Adsense: Why Bloggers Don’t Get It). Bloggers need to realize just because a handful of lifestyle mommy bloggers are able to make a living blogging, there isn’t an unlimited market for […]
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What a great conference for SES at San Jose and the many new people to the event in attendance. Below are the TopRank team blog posts for the final day. Another big thank you goes to (L to R) Jessica, Ashley, Thomas and Dana for a great job covering sessions. If you saw these happy faces at the conference, be sure to comment and say hello. Thanks to SES too, for having us.
Google Dance 2008 Photos - TopRank Team
Blog SEO Tips from SES San Jose - Lee
Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Michael Brito Intel - Lee
Social Media Analysis and Tracking - Jessica
Internet Marketing Conference Tips: Heather Lloyd-Martin DMA SEMC - Lee
Black Hat vs White Hat Playing Dirty with SEO - Ashley
It was a great conference with plenty of all new sessions and many tried and true topics. Of the sessions I was able to attend, I particularly enjoyed:
Tech Giants Orion […]
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