There was an interesting thread in webmasterworld.com discussing which is better, Adsense or affiliate programs,



Read the thread here,

One poster Anthony does an interesting post which is worth a quote here,

Any who, there are many, many sites that do so well with affiliate programs that
they wouldn't even consider running Adsense. As long as you, your site, and your
traffic meet the requirements for whatever affiliate program is avail, it can
very well outperform Adsense.
A personal endorsement, for a targeted
affiliate program can potentially blow Adsense out of the water. You can write
several articles/page of actual, useful, informative content, that also serve as
a platform to promote an affiliate. You can't really do that with Adsense...
while those ads may be highly targeted, there is little you can do to entice a
visitor to action.
If you are talking a collection of sites, that range in
topic, and you could only select 1 advertising method... then yeah, Adsense may
be the best route. But a single site, single topic, with an available affiliate
program that fits... you may be missing out if you didn't try the affiliate
game.
Fwiw, my best Adsense day ever is less than 1/10th of my best
affiliate program's top day.
There are plenty of AdWords bidders that do
nothing but promote affiliate programs... and many are very profitable at it.
For example's sake, assume that a profit is indeed being made by the Adwords
bidder. -$1 top bid for Adwords term that does nothing but link to an affiliate
program. -Since a profit is assumed, the return has to be at least $1.01 for
every click. -You run Adsense only & the above ad appears on your site.
-Assuming a rather large EPC of 70% per bid... you get $0.70/click on the ad.
Since the return is at least $1.01/click & you are only getting
$0.70/click, you are potentially missing out on an additional $0.31/click for
not running the affiliate program yourself.
A great tip, imho, is to use the
preview tool & find out what ads targeted towards your site are affiliate
links. Then rush to the affiliate site & see if it may be more profitable to
just sign up for that affiliate yourself. I've found several very profitable
programs through this method.
and back to the original question...
Which
is best? That all depends on your site topic, the availability of targeted
affiliate programs, and your ability to promote those affiliate programs.
Depending on those factors, it could easily go either way as to which is best
for your specific site.
I would suggest at least searching for programs that
would appeal to your site's visitors & then give them a go. Then can be
incorporated to your site in any number of ways... all while continuing to run
Adsense.

Read more on it here: webmasterworld.com/forum89/4040-2-10.htm

A clever webmaster does a 301 redirect and makes his site show a pagerank of 10 on the google toolbar,



Actually the original pagerank belongs to google.com he does a 301 redirect and makes it look as if his site has all those backlinks,

The questionable site can be found here,

forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=4473



We dont or display any adult sites so I am not providing direct link here,

Microsoft offers google deskbar with their partner package,



Read it here,

Microsoft urges users to download partner pack for WinXP.

One of the webmasterworld.com member reported that he is seeing weird results when he does search,



he said "
When I do a search they have a little link on top that says "IMAGE RESULTS FOR (your search)"

And Reply from googleguy,



Um, no, you didn't see that.
Actually, I'm not aware of a particular test like that. But it wouldn't surprise me if someone was trying it. :)

Google is showing updated backlink data for sites in their index in these datacenters



216.239.57.105
216.239.57.104
216.239.57.99
216.239.57.98



All the more no improvement in what google shows as backlinks, still they prefer to show only random sampling of backlinks, Let us see how it goes,

Pagerank is updating in these datacenters of google,



216.239.57.99

216.239.57.104



If you are in a hurry to check your pagerank use SEOchat.com's future pagerank tool or wait till the new pagerank propagates to all the datacenters

A poster in webmasterworld.com posted asking how to Deciphering Google Penalties, That post sounds pretty interesting so I am posting it here,

Trying to determine the type of penalties given by Google, seems to lead to a lot of differning theories, and I am finding it hard to determine who is correct: I will give the following example that I am having, my theory on what the problem is, and am interested in hearing what the SEO experts have to say.
Our market is rather niche with what I consider low to low-moderate competition. Their is only about 10 major players in our industry, with maybe a 100 or so want to-be's, which pop up year to year and disappear.
Optimizing for the top 10, should not be to difficult, and for the past 5 years, we have ranked #1 or #2 for our popular keywords. After Florida we were still in the top 10 after disappearing for a few weeks.
For the first few years, our site was widget.ca, and then we got a widget.com domain. We got our ISP to enter an AName (or was it a CNAME alias) in the DNS entry, so the same two names pointed at the same IP address.
Google duplicate content filter, always filtered out the widget.com from the search results and always displayed the widget.ca when searching for our popular keywords.
Around mid september, after several years of this behavior, Google now chooses the widget.com instead. The site:widget.ca -something proves the .ca is gone and the widget.com shows up with the site: qualifier.
Both widget.ca and widget.com have a PR of 5 (4 after the last PR update in late september). However the only way to get my widget.com listing to appear in the top 10 is to put the exact worlds of our title text, as the search entry.
The widget.ca site had four times the links of the widget.com, however shouldn't the links be combined when determining PR, when you have two URLs that point to the same IP address.
If the PR was not combined, I should still show up in the first few pages, as the keywords are niche, and not very competitive.
What is interesting, is sites that link to us appear favorably in the listing, but our site is not found unless I type the title of our homepage exactly.
We are not using 301 redirects, as we are running on an IIS server, and putting a 301 redirect will create an infinite loop, of reloading the home page, unless we have two separate sites (and thus pay for the two separate sites), instead of the two domains pointing to the same IP address and directory structure.
Only our home page is indexed, as we run an dynamic site with a complex URL query string. We are working on going static this winter.
Will this problem go way on its own? If it does, how many google update cycles before things return to normal? Is this a strictly a duplicate content penalty, or are their other factors?
Could this also be a sandbox issue, as the widget.com might be consider a new entry despite being an alias for widget.ca?

Atlast google's pagerank update happened, Finally many webmasters/seos and site owners faces are happy since the toolbar pagerank is updated now, Hope everyone faired well in this update,

From Google's SMS service page:

https://www.google.com/sms/
What is Google SMS?



Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Just text. No links. No web pages. Simply the answers you're looking to find. How do I use it?
Enter your query as a text message. See some sample queries.
Send the message to the US shortcode 46645 (GOOGL on most phones).
Receive a text message (or messages) with your results, usually within a minute. Results may be labeled as "1of3", "2of3", etc.
To get Google SMS help info sent directly to your phone, send the word 'help' as a text message to 46645.
Why should I use Google SMS?
Get local business listings when you're on the road and want to find a place to eat
Compare online product prices with ones you find in retail stores
Look up dictionary definitions to expand your vocabulary or prove a point
Find other specialized types of information, as described in how to use Google SMS

Recently these SEO forums were started by some guys hidden behind a proxy whois information, They personally have a lot of hatred for some SEO companies and they started bashing them as much as possible,



Following are some interesting reviews of some SEO companies,

Traffic Power Official Review from SEO-FORUM
Traffic-Power.com will get
results where few others can.
Traffic-Power is a highly comprehensive
internet marketing company based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Their technological
know-how coupled with a huge research and development department has given them
the edge in Search Engine Optimization. By continuously researching search
engine trends and comprehensively testing cutting edge placement techniques they
keep on top of the myriad and frequently changing business that is SEO.
More
than just SEO, Traffic Power boasts a number of products and solutions for every
business need. Their Merchant Associate Program has been so successful, that
there are thousands of technology professionals on the web selling Traffic Power
advertising services under their own brand name.
If you're looking for a
comprehensive Advertising package on the internet, you need look no further than
Traffic-Power
Email us your comments
and reviews!

As we know traffic power is absolutely a company doing unethical practices, it is weird their site is listed as the best SEO services site,

Aaron's SEO book review on their fake site,

SeobookOfficial Review from SEO-FORUM
Seobook Overview
Simply put, Aaron Wall's SEO Book is a waste of money, even at $39.99. Two thumbs down. 0 out of 4 stars. You get the idea.
Seobook Con vs. Con (No Pros here!)
The problem with his eBook is the same problem as all SEO books have. Once a book is printed, the contents within it cannot be changed. This isn't a problem when you are reading the latest fiction piece by John Grisham or Stephen King, but when the book is a guide to a technology that changes everyday, the problem is huge. What was printed last month about the state of SEO might have been true at the time, but one little Google update can make that book irrelevant. Search Engine Optimization techniques, companies, and services are changing all the time to keep up with the changes of the search engines.
A better question to ask yourself though, is why would you want to pay $39.99 for something you can get for free? There are dozens of websites and forums, like this one, that provide the latest information on seo techniques, seo companies, and search engine news for no charge. These sites and forums have the flexibility to update their information every minute of the day, whenever something new happens. The same cannot be said for a book.
We at SEO-Forum are a bit perplexed as to the cost of SEO Book. Aaron Wall currently operates several websites, including the one for his SEO Book. On one of his sites he provides much of the information in his book online at no charge. On the same site he also promotes his own SEO Services, for a fee of $120 an hour. On another of his sites he mocks the SEO industry as a whole. It's a bit odd to take so many stances on the same service. Aaron Wall claims to be an expert, but he sounds more like a scam to us at SEO-Forum.
Seobook Conclusion
The question you really have to ask yourself when considering purchasing Aaron Wall's SEO Book is whether or not you want to pay for outdated information, when you can get the most up to date and relevant information for free from other sources. If it was up to us at SEO-Forum, we'd put that money back in our wallets instead of throwing it in the garbage.


Fake review of Pageoneresults,

PageOneResultsOfficial Review from SEO-FORUM
PageOneResults SUMMARY
Search Engine Marketing by Edward Lewis aka pageoneresults is located at www.pageoneresults.com. They claim to specialize in search engine optimization and search engine marketing services. Their site consists of a lot of general information that can be found anywhere on the web, links to other sites, and very little information on their actual product. Basically, there is nothing special to be found here.
PageOneResults SERVICES
On the pageoneresults.com website you can find services ranging from web site design and redesign, to web marketing, SEO, and some traditional marketing services. The trick, however, is to find where to actually obtain these services. Is Edward Lewis not confident in his product? If a potential client can't even find what they need on Mr. Lewis' own site, one has to wonder how effective his product can be. No where on the site can you find examples of design work, sites he has done SEO work on, or any sort of client success.
PageOneResults COST ANALYSIS
After looking through PageOneResults, we were unable to obtain any concrete information about the fees and pricing of Edward Lewis' services, even though there is a page titled Fees. The site comprises of text such as, "Our published hourly rates are $XXX.00 USD per hour." Another place on the website states one estimate was $12,000 USD for initial development with additional charges possible.
A more shocking thing we noticed on PageOneResults was the Guarantees section. Truth be told this is actually a NO GUARANTEES section. PageOneResults states they cannot guarantee their SEO work and also cannot work with single words and generic search phrases. This information leaves SEO-Forum wondering what exactly you are paying for.
Combine the lack of concrete pay structure along with a no guarantees policy; you could end up throwing away tens of thousands of dollars for nothing if you are not careful.
PageOneResults CONCLUSION
In the end, it appears PageOneResults strategy is to try and confuse potential clients with a lot of information and possibilities while in reality providing nothing. Our suggestion to you is to avoid PageOneResults, and Edward Lewis you should consider changing your company to NoPageResults.

There are more funny reviews which are all fake visit the forum here : Seo-forum.net