Quote from Jensense.com: -

The New York Times ran an article about Quigo, a contextual advertising company that targets premium sized publishers. In the story, comments from both Yahoo & Google were included. But one quote by Kim Malone, director of online sales and operations for Google AdSense, jumped out… the fact that Google will begin listing all publisher websites where AdWords advertiser’s ads are being run.

In response to further questions about Quigo, though, Google said it was prepared to make changes to its AdSense service that mimicked Quigo’s approach, an unusual step for a company accustomed to mapping the terrain in every aspect of its business.In the next few months, Google’s advertiser reports will begin listing the sites where each ad runs, Ms. Malone said. She added that advertisers on the Google networks would soon be able to bid on contextual ads on particular Web sites rather than simply buying keywords that appeared across Google’s entire network.

Still, Ms. Malone said she did not see much of consequence coming from the changes. “We don’t expect a lot of demand for that placement targeting,” she said. “It’s the brand, the display advertisers who care where they run.”

My comment – OHHHH SHITTTTTT

Dont know about you but I know lots and lots of people who have had their Adsense accounts closed in the past month or two. Many have them closed for being outside the program policies (Cripes who isnt!) so they at least get paid and the unlucky ones who get accused (Accused is the best way to describe it – slander or deformation is perhaps closer) and have their money stolen by Google without proof.

I think that the big G has changed their policy and they are having a cull on the MFA publishers. If you want to talk about what you can do to protect yourself let me know and I will ellaborate as best I can.

Picture this… you have a PR7 blog and in fact within the inner pages there is even a fabled PR9 in that site somewhere…. would you have NO ADS at all…? Well thats what Mike of Newsvine etc etc has been doing (I linked using the word Mike as he likes to rank for his first name LOL)

Its bugged me for an awful long time, in fact its 50 % of the reason i check the site once in a while just to see if Mike had finally cracked and added an ad or two

Well tonight the insanity has cleared and he has added some to test – and he chose (Wait for it – wait for it) Adsense (slaps head in disgust) – Oh and nice targetting Google Laser eye FFS !!!

Patrick – get your ass over there and advertise on that site! Text link ads was made for sites like that…..

Ok people, time to stop the prep and time to get back in the game…. im just about ready to climb back on the horse and get back to what I know best.

There will be a redesign of the blog soon and there will also be a fishing flood of other sites appearing sometime soon… im afraid some people wont like them but I DONT CARE !

Just CLICK CLICK CLICK is all i wanna hear!

Well it took Eddy a while to post the show but its finally up. My good friend DaveN and Mikkel talking about me on Strikepoint over at webmasterradio. I actually stumbled in to the chat room half way through this show and it slowly dawned on me that the discussion was all about me, a very scarey situation.

Thanks for highlighting the issue guys and great show as ever!

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