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		<title>My First $1,000+ Adsense Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my last two slightly negative posts I thought I&#8217;d make this post a little bit more on the positive side. November 6th Ford released official information and pictures on the new 2008 Bullitt Mustang so all that night I was busy getting my Mustang site updated with the pictures and news. I knew that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After my last two slightly negative posts I thought I&#8217;d make this post a little bit more on the positive side. November 6th Ford released official information and pictures on the new 2008 Bullitt Mustang so all that night I was busy getting my Mustang site updated with the pictures and news. I knew that this news was going to be every where. CNN had already done an article on it and I knew people were going to be searching for it. I rank number 1 in Yahoo for 2008 Bullitt Mustang (guess where I rank in Google&#8230;). I also know that Yahoo has a section on their main page that highlights the days top 10 searched items. So about 5PM Nov. 7th my site starts feeling a bit sluggish. I log in to the server and run a quick top stats to see my server load over 10. What I thought had happened initially was that I had hit the main page of Digg because I submitted my article to it. After I confirmed that wasn&#8217;t the case I opened up Mint and saw nothing but search referrals coming in from Yahoo. To make a long story short this is what it ended up looking like as far as earnings:</p>
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<p>Total uniques for that day was 52,000. The next day the traffic continue up until around 5PM when it finally was removed from the main page of Yahoo. Needless to say I was very thrilled with the end results. I also ended up doing real well with an affiliate system I had set up and of course Tribal Fusion and Vibrant Media paid extremely well.</p>
<p>So to all of those that just concentrate on doing good in Google you may miss out on what other search engines have to offer. Especially since Yahoo is beginning to push their SERPs real hard on their main page.</p>
<p>Oh and check out how bad weekends are for me. Especially holiday weekends :(</p>
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		<title>Adsense Screws Up, Changes Click Area</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure many of you have heard about or even received an email from your Google rep regarding the new changes that will be coming for all ads. The changes have to do with where a click gets registered on the ad. Before this change you could click anywhere on the ad and it would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sure many of you have heard about or even received an email from your Google rep regarding the new changes that will be coming for all ads. The changes have to do with where a click gets registered on the ad. Before this change you could click anywhere on the ad and it would register a click. Now they have changed it where you have to click the URL or the ad heading for it to register. </p>
<p>Blogoscope has a great image showing <a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-13-n42.html">how the changes will look</a>. It makes me sick to my stomach to see how drastic it is going to be. </p>
<p><img src="http://blogoscoped.com/files/clickable-areas.png" alt="Google Ad Click Region" /></p>
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<p>What I want to know is if you click on the description&#8230;. how the hell are you not trying to click on the ad? It makes absolutely no sense. I&#8217;ll give Google the white space just for arguments sake but not the description. It really does blow my mind how Google can use the same click region since for years and years and then all of a sudden make such a <strong>drastic</strong> change citing accidental clicks. How does Google determine that there were enough accidental clicks on the description area to warrant that being removed from the click region? There can&#8217;t be a way.</p>
<p>This is just another move by Google that favors the advertisers. They probably had a few huge network refuse to use Adwords due to the click region being as big as it was and that forced them to make the change. Wouldn&#8217;t surprise me a bit. If Google is out to make a profit I&#8217;m not buying that this is going to help them any at all. </p>
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