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Some people try to make a living, or extra bucks anyway, by creating so-called parked domains, which are static sites devoid of content but rife with links, and Google is more than happy to oblige them by allowing the placement of AdWords advertising thereon, gaining the owners access to AdSense bucks.
Not so fast, some advertisers are crying–while shouting "wolf" at the same time.
Recent lawsuits have targeted Google for a) placing the ads on parked domains to start with and b) placing the ads on sites with URLs that allegedly violate trademarks and copyrights (such as bedbathandbeyondcom.com).
The latest to join the legal fray is an Illinois firm named JIT Packaging, which accuses Google of placing its ads on "low-quality" sites that produce few if any conversions.
(My favorite parked domain is gamil.com, which I land upon everytime I misspell Google’s gmail.com. However, never I am ever tempted to hit a link or an ad on a parked domain, which I guess helps prove the "low-qualityk" portion of the legal argument.)
Google reportedly had no comment over the latest lawsuit.
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29
Jul
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday will rule that Comcast wrongly interfered with file transfers among its customers who were sharing videos (almost certainly illegal bootleg copies).
Comcast countered that it was merely trying to protect available bandwidth for other customers who weren’t engaged in such (illegal?) activity.
In a real boost for First Amendment rights, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said he believed that consumers should have "unfettered access to the Internet," according to the WSJ report.
Comcast and the cable industry are expected to challenge the ruling in court and hope eventually to implement "Internet metering" to charge more for higher bandwidth usage, while still retaining the right to block usage at will.
In this case, I’m rooting for the federal agency.
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26
Jul
One of the primary sources for affiliate products–and profits–is Clickbank. If you haven’t joined or discovered its wealth, that’s your first step, certainly.
But now noted Internet video producer Jay Douglas nas come up with a program to provide you with promotional vidoes for the hottest ten Clickbank sales opportunities–ten videos each month for just $47, and he charges $1275 if you want an original (one only) 60-second video.
I signed up. For this slight monthly investment, I figure if I can parlayat least two or three of the videos into Adsense-driven sites, then I can see some steady sales and income.
But hurry, Jay is offering just 500 memberships, and then the door slams shut.
Check out the Jay Douglas System now.
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25
Jul
Recently, a site called MentalFloss (?) spread the suspicion publicly that it had been dropped from the Google search results because it was offering full-text RSS feeds, in other words, duplicating its content on subscriptions.
However, none other than Matt Cutts, the Google guru who knows all the answers, says that that wasn’t the case at all. The site had been dropped because Google thought it had been hacked. Cutts says that he himself uses full-text RSS feeds on his blog.
Cutts wrote back:
This has nothing whatsoever to do with RSS full-text feeds. I happily use full-text feeds on my personal blog, for example, and recommend that others feel free to do the same.
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17
Jul
SnagFilms has taken the YouTube model to legitimate heights.
SnagFilms has created a repository of 250 documentaries, many of them feature length, for free viewing, What’s more, it enables you to create widgets for your favorite documentaries and place them on your MySpace, Facebook and other social networking pages. However, if you host your own WordPress blog as I do, you can’t use the widget, but you can embed the videos in a post.
Over at my latest effort, a site called News Verite, I embedded a video on today’s post. You can check it out there.
Once you go to SnagFilms and find the video you like, you can hit the Snag button to create and send a widget to your social networking platform. You also have the option to e-mail the link or capture the embedding code, which is what I did and used at News Verite (a take-off on cinema verite).
When you share the documentaries, SnagFilms proclaims you a "Filmanthropist."
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