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A lot has been written about the odd things you can buy online, and this particular listing's been radiating around the blogosphere…
When I did a recent Q&A thread one of the recurring themes with sites that were struggling was AdSense ads positioned above their content. Many websites are never given the chance to grow because they monetize too aggressively and look to spammy to enjoy the benefits of organic growth and community building.
According to Compete’s month-to-month statistics, there have been two dips in the amount of time people spent online in the past year, and one of those occurred between August and September. On a year-to-year basis, though, the total amount of time is up by nearly 25 percent.
This should come as no surprise from the people who’d sue you to stop you from linking to them: at a publishers’ consortium today, after complaining about the limited nature of robots.txt, the newspaper industry has proposed new standards to prevent search engines (and other sites) from indexing their sites willy-nilly.
Google has officially said that buying and selling links that pass PageRank is a violation of the company's Webmaster Guidelines, and can result in a drop in search rankings.
Eric Schmidt will put Google’s money where the company’s mouth is in January when the bidding begins for the highly valued 700MHz spectrum.
