I miss the old days of creating made for Adsense sites then sitting back and watching the free money roll in. The reason most of us had to slow down from doing that was that Google started banning accounts for very soft reasons and taking all the money back.

But today they opened up a new way for us to get free cash…

Google have announced that they have opened up their Adsense for Domains to normal publishers

And now ill show you what I will be testing so you too can have some free Google cash…

One of the reasons why Google may have banned accounts in the past was that the traffic didnt have any referrer (so Google didnt know where it came from) or it took a spammy path to get to the ad page.

Now Google lets us chumps in their Adsense for domains programme we have some advantages again: -

They expect ‘undeveloped’ sites so we dont have to have anything other than a crappy holding page with reference to the domains subject
We dont have to create crappy MFA style content anymore
Many people reach parked domains through a simple type in method – thats where people type in something like “cheapcarinsurance.com” in the address bar rather than searching for it.
So we can ‘gather’ our traffic from any crappy source (spam spam spam) and then as long as we clean off the referrer we make it look like type in traffic

So heres the plan
Have a look through your domains or buy a new domain like iwantacheapmortgage.com
Put a parking message on the page that includes the line “i want a cheap mortgage”
Add Googles Adsense for Domains code.
Hope their targetting doesnt blow as much as it did
Send traffic from any spam you can through a page that ‘cleans’ it

I would also keep your CTR down to something low for a while as Parked domains will have a really low CTR – we will have to find the level that gets us in trouble..

Let me know how you get on but thanks to Google we are back in the Adsense easy money game..

Had an email (Hi Hugh!) and a few other people asking why their site didnt return any results on my cachechecker tool.

For those who arent aware cachechecker is a tool I made that allows you to check what places Google thinks your site is linking out to. So you can ensure they are all links you put there and arent the result of a hacking attempt or dodgy plugin etc.

Cachechecker works on all domain extensions

Top reasons why your site isnt returning and results: -

Your site isnt indexed
Check this by doing a site: search on google – eg In the google search box type site:domain.co.uk replacing domain.co.uk with your site.
This lists the pages google have indexed for your site and if there arent any thats a good reason why it wouldnt work.

You arent getting or allowing google to show the cache they have of your page.
Sometimes people add code to their site that they have now forgtten or the designer you used had views on this that they didnt tell you about.
Have a look at those site: results and look to see that you have the cache link like this

If you dont have it then in your browser try view > page source and look for this tag in the head section of the code

This piece of code tells Google etc not to show the cache of your page

There are some reasons why people might want to prevent caching of their pages by Google but most of them are rubbish in my opinion

If your still not getting any results then by all means ping me an email like Hugh did and ill look at your domain myself (paul@seoidiot.com)

Now go try out cachechecker and make sure you know who your links are voting for!

Its been about two weeks since I moved across from the .com version of my site across to the .co.uk version.

I did what most of us would do and 301′d the site across, some tweaking needed but fairly basic stuff.

I know whenever you do a full site 301 there are a few days when watching Google work it through can be a stressful experience but they are doing a good job so far.

Time yet for a major fekk up but so far so good…

Have you had any problems doing something similar?

Moves can go wrong…

A week or so ago I had a ping from my mate Dean Hunt. Dean has a site in the top 50 online money making blogs and he had a problem.

He had spotted that someone, somehow had managed to insert about 50 links into his site linking off to lots of parasite hosted pills sites.

Not good for business even worse for rankings. We have since found that he wasnt the only one!

(There are in fact over 13,000 sites with this issue from what I can crawl)

So after a bit of advice from DaveN and Ben I managed to clear the problem and since then Dean’s rankings have returned!

Without going into much of the detail about how they did this (If you’re interested I did a small write up on Deans site) the end result did seem to pose a problem for a lot of blogs.

Dean like everyone else couldn’t see the links in his site as they had been cloaked for Google only so I decided it might be useful to create a simple tool that would show you what you linked out to from Googles perspective via the cache copy or your page.

Cachechecker is a simple tool that shows you what links are present in the Google cached copy of your page. Click here to try the tool for yourself, its cheap free and easy.

Its simple granted but the story made the front page of Sphinn so I know its something that worries a lot of folks.

Anyone have any comments or suggestions ?

Times are hard and they look like they will be getting harder for most people. Spammers however have some advantages over the rest when times get hard: -

The click based spammers (Adsense, AFF ppc offers etc) don’t suffer the same problems as those selling a physical product as they don’t actually have to sell anything. They get paid for the simple action of a ‘click’

Even if you are skint you can still window shop and click.. They also have the advantage that they aren’t tied to a product or service so swapping out to an alternative offer is pretty painless, as long as there are advertisers they will prosper.

I think that there will be advertisers throughout any downturn as it remains one of the most measurable ways to spend on advertising there is.

Those spammers who have created networks to promote a set niche will have to do some adjustments it seems but they are often in a position of power where they can sell their cheaply gained traffic to the highest and most desperate merchant.

Spammers often also have the luxury of being able to earn a living whilst the spam adds to what they earn, giving them security and making the downturn less painful.

So if your feeling the credit crunch fire up the spam and ride it out.