Get Instant Approval for Adsense for Domains

Google is now providing domain parking page hosting.  They put sets of ad links on the page to help monetize your domain name.

This has been around for some time, but I only tried Adsense for Domains this week.  It looks like everyone is automatically approved, though you have to go through an approval process that looks to me like is just Google verifying you have your DNS entries setup properly.

My first domain I tried took some time to get approved.  My second domain was immediately approved.  I edited my DNS settings before I submitted the domain name to Google.  The Google automated verification process was able to verify me on the first try.

You can see an example of Adsense Parking Page.

There are several sets of ad blocks on the parking page.    The domain name is at the top left.  There is a search box under that, and also at the bottom of the page.  (I'm assuming this is monetized through Adsense for Search.)  There is a list of ten normal text links Adsense ads on the left.  There is a graphic banner ad under this (we are at the bottom of the page now) and a 5 x 4 "popular categories" ad block under that.  The top right also has a list of related topics. 

I don't know if it will make money or not.  The domain I purchased cost me a little over $2 for the first year.  I don't have to make much money.  But if I only get a nickle a click, that is about four clicks per month to break even - assuming my labor is free.

Google Penalty on Blog Links

I've been looking at services such as PayPerPost. This company brokers between advertisers and bloggers who want to sell text links by blogging about the company's product.

The problem is that Google has decided to penalize blogs that sell textlinks unless they use the nofollow attribute or use javascript to mask the link to search engines.

Google's take on PR and paid text links can be found at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66736

Getting a "Reaction"

Chris Catto of http://blog.chriscatto.com/ was asking about how to get a "reaction" on Technorati.

A reaction on Technorati is a blog giving a hyperlink to another blog. To some, this is known as link love, or even a link exchange. To get a reaction, just get someone to link to your blog, or any article on your blog.

Reactions are only reactions if they come from Technorati indexed blogs. If the link is less than 180 days old, then this also adds to the blogs "Authority". A linking blog may provide as many Reactions as it wishes, but only the last Reaction counts as an Authority vote.

Once you have a reaction to your blog, then the next time you post an entry to your blog and Technorati gets pinged and indexes you, then the reaction is converted into Authority.

90 Days in One Day

For some blog programs to make money, such as PayPerPost, there is a requirement to have your blog be 90 days old. Why wait? Age your blog in a day.

The PayPerPost Blog Requirements state:

• Your blog must be at least 90 days old, verifiable by a third party index of the site.
• If over 90 days old, your blog must have at least 20 entries in the past 90 days. If just around 90 days old, your blog must have 20 pre-existing entries.
• No blogs with gaps over 30 days (no entries posted for 30+ days) will be accepted.

So to get around this just create a bunch of new blog entries and change the timestamps on your blog entries to spread them out over a three or four month period. (Hint: put more of your entries in the current month so they will still count in a few days for now. Your first attempt to get your blog accepted is likely not going to work. It may take you a couple of weeks to get everything right.)

Once you have done this you can then submit your blog to Google and get it indexed. Also submit your blog to the main Google index.

This probably won't really work for you. So what you need to do is get some "link love". Get several people to link to your site in exchange for you linking to them. While submitting your site will get Google to crawl your pages, the link love is what makes Google decide to put you in the public index so people see your site.

Freshness Variances on Technorati

The term "freshness" as used on Technorati refers to when the last post was made on a blog.

For one blog I have the "everything known" page says the blog was last updated 1 day ago. Yet my favorites page indicates the blog was last updated 13 days ago. A freshness variance of 12 days. This same blog also seems to have questionable content and a few days ago Google ads stopped showing on it. So I do not know if this is a precursor to flagging, or if this is some strange hiccup in the Technorati data warehousing updates.

Technorati on again, off again flagging

Technorati has a flagging policy I can't understand.

I created a blog sometime back called Poker Room Notes. My first post was in March of 2006, about 18 months ago. I'm a little embarrassed. The original purpose of the blog was to show how annoying online poker software was. So I would spend hours creating messages complete with custom graphics that detailed annoyances in the software. I develop software for a living and think that in general poker software has a lot of bad design issues. Initially, there was no advertising on the site. And later I expanded the site to talk about Atlantic City poker rooms.

Well, the Technorati spiders saw "poker" so they flagged the site for "spam." This sounds good now that I hear about it, but I don't email anyone about the site, so it is not a spam site. So what's a flagged person to do? Technorati will manually remove the flag when you ask them to. I did, and the site came into the index.

Well, it was indexed for five days or less, then reflagged. I've sent in a ticket to support and am waiting on a reply again. This re-flagging makes no sense. I'm waiting to hear the rationale behind it all.

Flagged for Review by Technorati

Technorati will flag some blogs for review and not index them at all. In one case, the blog was about experiences in poker rooms. The blog was flagged as possible spam. Ironically, at the time there was no advertising of any sort on the blog. Just description of software problems with online poker, and talk of experiences in Atlantic City poker rooms.

The following email came from Technorati Support

I've taken a look at the issue regarding picking up your pings for
http://redwhiteandbluepoker.blogspot.com/. After making a small adjustment, I've sent our spiders to revisit your page and your blog should be indexed successfully from now on.

Please let us know if you experience any problems in the future. I apologize for any inconvenience. I'm afraid that your blogs were inadvertently flagged for review due to your blog subject. Unfortunately, poker is a subject that at high risk for spam. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any other questions. Thank you for using Technorati!

Best Regards,
Janice Myint
Customer
Support Specialist
Technorati