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Re: Blocking Adverts Might Cost You Money

webprofessor — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:48:08 -0000

Is it wrong to zip past adverts when I record a show on my Tivo or VCR? Of course not, its not my job to worry about the producer of the content. If you can't find a way to make money off the people blocking your ads then your just a poor marketer.

Re: Blocking Adverts Might Cost You Money

webprofessor — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:48:08 -0000

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:48:23 -0000

Nice write up Andy.. best one I have read to date about Blogrush.

I don't see much upside in BlogRush, displaying posts of questionable quality for other sites just doesn't sit well with me. I might be more inclined to give it more of a chance if the widget wasn't broken 2/3rds of the time.

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:48:23 -0000

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:34:38 -0000

But Andy you did endorse the links by putting the widget on your site in the first place.

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:34:38 -0000

But Andy you did endorse the links by putting the widget on your site in the first place.

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:35:09 -0000

Andy I have to object to your example on the grounds that your comparing apples and oranges.

If you created a syndicated feed of your favorite authors and shared it on your site you are telling your readers "Look here are some people I trust to provide good articles for you". Blogrush is another animal though because you don't know who your linking to.

When readers encounter links on your site they are trusting you to send them to a safe site that has something they should check out.

Does that mean you agree with all you link to? Of course not. It does mean once you give up control of who you link to you had better trust the selector of those links. Otherwise your squandering the faith your readers put into your site.

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:35:09 -0000

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:39:36 -0000

The difference is that Adsense is advertising. Most readers know that advertising should inherently be distrusted and viewed through neutral eyes.

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:39:36 -0000

The difference is that Adsense is advertising. Most readers know that advertising should inherently be distrusted and viewed through neutral eyes.

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:25:58 -0000

I understand what your saying but I don't think the same concept applies since its supposed to promote related articles not related widgets.

Re: Blogrush Testing and Tracking (Updated – John Reese Quote)

webprofessor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:25:58 -0000

I understand what your saying but I don't think the same concept applies since its supposed to promote related articles not related widgets.

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

webprofessor — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:01:06 -0000

Andy a few years ago I might have agreed with you that they received penalties but I don't now. Toolbar PR doesn't matter anymore and isn't an accurate indicator of Googles opinion on a site. You know that toolbar PR and incoming traffic are not related and any link buyer that isn't a novice knows that as well. The only measurable indicator that we currently have of Googles opinion of a site is traffic and thats what we should focus on when we discuss penalties.

Re: Digg Favorites Slapped By Google

webprofessor — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:01:06 -0000

Re: Profile: Smilebox mixes Web and desktop

webprofessor — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:46:47 -0000

Nice insight about how time constraints of moms plays into how they need their apps built. Thats a good takeaway lesson from this.

Re: Amanda splits with ABC — does anyone care?

webprofessor — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:15:46 -0000

Don't count her out just yet. I am sure we'll be seeing her cleavage somewhere else soon.

Re: Markus Frind: The Craig Newmark of dating

webprofessor — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:56:29 -0000

Dude what are you talking about? His sites been on several television shows sometimes including him. He's been mentioned by the BBC, NPR, and other new organizations. I'd say he's pretty well known at this point.

Re: The Google API kerfuffle, and what it means for startups

webprofessor — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:04:16 -0000

Basing part of your business off of free tools of obvious value and not expecting that somewhere down the line that the free part might get scribbled out is short sighted.

I personally welcome the change. When the API first came out I worried that every one and there brother would be able to generate long tail campaigns. Not that the API is no longer free the value of having internal tools has increased.

Re: A Small Peephole On Google Supplemental Results | BPWrap

webprofessor — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:45:59 -0000

Thats a really nice find. I don't know if I care much though about the supplemental index. I tend to just rely on my logs to determine if my pages are important enough for google. I mean honestly if I am not in the supplemental index but on page 10 of the serps is there really a difference?

Re: TechMeme list heralds death of blogging?

webprofessor — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:52:20 -0000

I genuinely like that all the cat posts are going to Twitter. It makes the blogs I read more topical and interesting for me.

Re: Time to Say Goodbye to the NoFollow Tag?

webprofessor — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:11:57 -0000

Since when is linking to someone in a non-offensive way a bold move ? No follow is a concept that was corrupted from the start by google trying to use it as a proxy war against paid links.

Re: MyBlogLog Reacts to Boycott, Reinstates Shoemoney

webprofessor — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:03:00 -0000

Your going to boycott a service because they banned someone that was trolling them and posting exploits ?

lol.. you are really to much.

Re: Blocking Ad Blocking

webprofessor — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:25:44 -0000

David Google Adsense is one of the easiest advertising forms to block with adblocking software. You simply block the domain they serve it google adsense from. I haven't seen an Adsense block in ages since I installed AdBlocker.

Re: Blocking Ad Blocking

webprofessor — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:47:11 -0000

@HMTKSteve - Its easy to block those types of image ads too. You just block common banner sizes ( can't do this with adblock but I think Norton has a tool to do it ) and common names for advertising. The only real way to get advertising that isn't block is to actually use regular text links that go directly to the target.

Re: Blocking Ad Blocking

webprofessor — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:00:01 -0000

How to detect adblocking? You simply use a javascript that checks your DOM for the ads you use. If you can't detect the ads in your DOM or they have been altered to be invisible then you don't display your page.

Re: Blocking Ad Blocking

webprofessor — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:57:53 -0000

unconstitional? lol..

what amendment do you think is being broken?

Re: Blocking Ad Blocking

webprofessor — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:49:04 -0000

Thats retarded. Free speech rights only applies to how the government treats us not what private citizens do. If I want to go through the Sunday paper and cut out all the ads before I read it I can. If I want to kick you off my lawn while you wave signs up I can. If I want to remove ads from a page I downloaded onto my computer in the privacy of my home.... guess what.. thats right I can.

Marketers can rant about this all they want but what they really should be doing is being creative with their marketing and not make enemies out of their audience.

Re: BlogRush Widget Termination T Minus 24 Hours

webprofessor — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:26:49 -0000

I killed it after I saw my third error message. Besides banner exchanges are so 90's

Re: Spammers Get Around Captchas

webprofessor — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:27:18 -0000

thats not a new strategy at varient that I read about a few years ago and have used is to use captchas on a porn site. The captcha's though are just copied from what ever site you want to log in to. So users get their porn and you get your captchas solved. WIN! WIN!

Re: Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

webprofessor — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:25:31 -0000

Wow that brought back a lot of memories. I miss the early days of AOL chat rooms ... I made a lot of friends and got a lot of dates in real life that way.

Re: Bilder in Foren mit Javascript verkleinern

webprofessor — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:43:46 -0000

Hello,

Please accept my apologies for my english post on your german blog. Unfortunaltly I do not speak German. I have updated the function to allow the user to click the image and see the image at full size then click it again to reduce it back to the present parameters.

Te updated version is here

http://web-professor.net/wp/2005/08/29/resize-large-images-in-forums-part-2/