Holy Shmoly! » Text Link Ads http://ocaoimh.ie Look what I found today! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:27:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Life after Text Link Ads http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/10/25/life-after-text-link-ads/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/10/25/life-after-text-link-ads/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:07:53 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/10/25/life-after-text-link-ads/ Continue reading →]]> Hi, my name is Donncha and I used to have text-link-ads on my blog. They’re gone now but only after Google slapped me into submission and reduced my page rank to 4. Initially I felt angry and shocked that this happened but I have no excuse, I heard it from the horses mouth, I knew it was coming. I was one of those evil unscrupulous demons who manipulated the pagerank of other sites for money. My guilty conscience is somewhat alleviated by the fact that I refused to show a text link ad for a Viagra spammer yesterday morning. Oh well.
Google’s own advertising, Adsense, is still running here, as is Kontera, (leave a comment and you’ll never see them, isn’t that nice?) and the competitive ad filter advice I gave out a few days ago really makes a difference to your bottom line. Just ask Justin!

What’s in store for the future? Keep an eye on this blog. WordPress MU 1.3 is coming real soon now. There are going to be lots more free and GPLed WordPress plugins, including a pretty cool digg proof cache that also works in WordPress MU. Think of it as WP-Cache on afterburner! A couple of sites are already testing it with positive results. I’m watching the access_log roll by on a server as a digg is happening now. Load average is hovering around 1 and the page loads quickly. Sweet.

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]]> http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/10/25/life-after-text-link-ads/feed/ 13 Do Text Link Ads use Text Link Ads? http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/06/03/do-text-link-ads-use-text-link-ads/ http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/06/03/do-text-link-ads-use-text-link-ads/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:27:40 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/06/03/do-text-link-ads-use-text-link-ads/ Continue reading →]]> The front page of Text Link Ads doesn’t have any text link ads, and neither does their blog. The blog has “Auction Ads” adverts there instead.

Matt Cutts warned that sites selling links would be penalised by Google. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

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