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Q. What has Google taught us? A. Google has taught us to publish what we know. Q. Whaddaya know? A. I know where the good vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants are in Philadelphia. Q. OK, so Google will index what you know. What good does that do you? A. Aside from various ways in which it is personally rewarding, you can put up Google Adsense links with approximately no effort, and make some money at it. Q. Can't I just make up some cool-sounding nonsense instead of publishing what I really know? A. No, because nobody's going to notice cool ads on a page they hate. Q. Yeah, but isn't Google having a bit of trouble targeting the ads on that page correctly? A. Hee, yes, they are. Omaha Steaks ads! Best of luck with that. But Google AdSense provides a way to filter out particular ads, so in a few hours that one should be replaced by something a little more relevant. Q. Okay, but how does anybody find out about my pages in the first place? A. See how do I promote my web site? in the WWW FAQ. | |
| Posted at: 10:42 | 3 comments |
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Re: Publish What You Know Tom wrote on Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:57 |
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As you can see, I have reenabled commenting on Innards, with the addition of a "captcha" mechanism to frustrate spam. Unfortunately, a large-scale automated submission of very unpleasant spam took place yesterday, so hand-editing is no longer sufficient. In the future I hope to add the option of verifying your "real person"-ness by listening to audio rather than looking at an image, because I realize that the current system is unfair to the vision-impaired. But at the moment, this is my best alternative to offering no commenting at all. Reply |
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Re: Publish What You Know Thomas Boutell wrote on Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:26 |
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... And if this worked, I have spam filtering, too. Yes, there are people out there patiently typing in captchas in order to link to their irrelevant crud. Reply |
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Re: Publish What You Know Thomas Boutell wrote on Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:16 |
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And now comment spam is ignored by Google, thanks to their new rel="nofollow" system for links in comments. Reply |
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HEY SPAMMER! We use Google's nofollow feature. Search engines will NOT follow your link. And we'll delete it anyway. Save my time and yours. Thank you.