I want to thank everyone for their research and contribution to this thread. I started it this morning and got busy, went to lunch with some old friends who run a charter boat service out of the British Virgin Islands, came back to the office, looked after a bunch of phone calls and dealt with some other issues, and then checked this thread. Wow! All these responses. You guys have done all my home work for me. Where do you want me to mail the commission checks -- cheques for our UK contributors.
Buy me a nice bottle of New Zealand wine Bob Sit down with a glass and an opener looking out on a pleasant view Think about things and have a nice time drinking it. In answer to Shawns query I get the spread off Wordtracker they do Overture, Findwhat, Bay9, Goclick, Searchboss but Overture is the only one worth tracking.
Thanks to all the good work everyone did yesterday I have just written and posted a Mesothelioma or Asbestos Cancer article. It will be interesting to see what type of AdSense income this generates. I'll keep you posted. Of course anyone who would like to throw up a link and drive some traffic to this page would be welcome. I could even be persuaded to reciprocate with a PR5 or PR6 link back to you from a relevant article or page.
Great page Bob but do you think that Google will take note of this part of it, why would you take a chance by publishing this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Most reader know that it is possible to buy ads that will be displayed on Search Engine results pages when certain keywords are searched on. The current record high payment for keyword advertising of this type is held by "mesothelioma" and "asbestos cancer". These law firms are currently paying between $60 $100 every time someone clicks on one of their ads. If you look on the left side of this article page you will see several ads for attorneys, lawyer and law firms seeking clients with mesothelioma cancer. If you are interested in learning more about these law firms and decide to click one of these ads, that law firm will pay Google something in the range mentioned above, depending on their specific advertising contract with Google. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Your favorite critic AC
I'd think that could be borderline if google sees it.. I know they can be really, really picky sometimes.
This article, while informative, is a clear cut attempt to exploit a high paying AdWord keyword. If Anthony is right and Google is an unprincipled bunch of captialists, then they will welcome the extra business no matter how they get it. If they are principled, I challenge them to show where I'm encouraging click throughs. Aren't their ads additional information? That is all I said. If their ads aren't informational what are they doing displaying them?
Yes Bob, but WHY MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLOIT ADSENSE? Just publish the article as a public service and leave it at that. No need for that paragraph at all. That is all I am saying. You could add more information such as links to the American Cancer Assoc. or other groups to help those who are suffering, even a government link or two. There is no need for the inside information on how Adsense Programs work for the readers that will be drawn to the article.
But that is the "Internet phenomenon" hook in the article. The information is available on many of the lawyer's pages. Where do you think I got it? But what makes my article unique is the internet tie-in. At least that's my opinion.
Bob I am not going to bust your balls, you ask for opinions, you got mine, I would remove that section. It looks suspect to me, if you want to leave it in, then leave it in. Do you think you can do an effective review of the article since you are the author of the article? Bob you yourself said that you wanted different types of articles in your InfoPool, so why do you have to include the "Internet tie in" in all your articles? InfoPool is exactly that, Information, not every article has to have a tie in to SEO or webmastering to be in your InfoPool. Folks that are suffering from this condition could not care less what Google gets paid for ads, there is no need to tell them, you just put your page and website at risk. It is doing you no good, buy could do you harm to leave that paragraph in.
You only mention conventional treatment by the Government Monopoly of drugs and pharmaceuticals. There are others ways which might interest your readers if you truly care about giving them the right info / a complete set of options as oppose to creating a high-paying ad page. The fact that only these approaches are known is probably the reason for the highly lucrative CTR rates. Have a look into other ways of ridding the body from toxic elements without nuking the body. Your aspartame client will probably have an interest in this self-healing I'd imagine.
Bob I highly doubt that any of those organizations listed in your ADSENSE ads on your Cancer page are paying $60.00-$100.00 per click. Some of those organizations are simply informational sites, I just do not think this is in line with what any of those sites would pay for a click.
Have you actually clicked through on any of them. I followed some of these links from a generic search and all kinds of pages that look like informational pages are simply fronts, almost doorways sites, for Law firms. BTW Anthony have you put up the link to this article like I asked you to yet?
Damm Good Looking Site Radsoft, you are going to make Bob mad with that one, maybe you can buy him out since you have the market cornered. I bet the folks in China are going to translate your site and make money simply highjacking sites for the China market, I think I will start doing that
TOPS30, If you genuinely have a viable -- even anecdotally -- alternative medicine response to this disease, write it up and send it to me, I'll publish it as an addendum to my article. I have no axe to grind here. I'm only reporting the generally excepted wisdom on the situation. I'm not a medical researcher or an alternative medicine proponent.
What's to clean up? You talk about removing a paragraph. Do you mean a paragraph or do you mean the entire "Internet Phenomenon" section? The point is that I'm not an expert on this subject. The background information I have supplied is simply culled from other reports and sources. My contribution to this thread is to show the place of the personal injury/class action suit lawyers in a thing like this. Many condemn these lawyers, but for other's they are saviors. What do you think of the part they are playing in this disease? Is all the advertising they are doing for the benefit of the mesothelioma victims, or is it really only baltant self interest? John Edwards, Kerry's running mate, made his millions on cases of exactly this type. Was he fighting for the little guy or just getting rich? Is it possible to do both?
No Bob, just what I highlighted in my prior post, like I said you are hurting yourself. Put something in place of the Google gets $60-100 bucks when someone clicks on the ads to the left. Google is going to can you anyway, so why promote a page that is going to get you suspended from ADSENSE? If you clean the page up you do yourself a favor, Disgust said the same thing, how many more opinions do you need? Disgust does a lot of Adsense business per month so she knows what she is talking about, Right? Like I told you replace that with some information links to the American Cancer Assoc. or like Top 30 said put some other data in the article. We don't want to bust your balls Bob, but are trying to help you