Just been pointed out to me that Syndk8 – everyones favourite blackhat SEO forum – and a place I used to spend an awful lot of time and where I still moderate – appear to be bidding on SEO names.

And its not just me, Dave Naylor and Esrun get ads too

But they dont seem to be bidding on people like Earl himself, Perk, Irishwonder, Bompa, Dianne88, TheKaptain, Vsloathe and many of the other high profile members.

I assume that this is another attempt to sell the Autopligg tool (Im not a big fan of that)

If it is its odd they arent after phrases like: -

Link spamming

Odd but made me chuckle – see if you can find anyone else I have missed.

Just noticed this tweet on twitter that seemed a little odd to me.

This tweet appeared saying “We wrote something new today…”
I think this is from the excellent wordpress to twitter plugin but I cant see any mention of them mentioning me on that site?

So I had a poke around and I am confused…

They dont seem to mention me anywhere, I thought perhaps it was a scraper being bold but I cant see that anywhere and if they had I would expect to see something here

So perhaps its just a way of attracting attention on twitter by mentioning sites that may appear in peoples searches in the hope of putting your site in front of peoples eyes.

If it is it seems odd that they would use my site

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…