By Jim Kukral
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May 29, 2007
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Google, Google Adsense, Google Adwords
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This is only the first step. The free ride is over. I told you so.
Some online publishers may get an unwelcome jolt on June 1st. Google, which provides thousands of ads to websites through it’s AdSense program, will shut off adds to certain websites beginning Friday.
Sites which are heavy in ads but light in content may be bumped from Google’s AdSense program. Several so-called online publishers who have ads with little content have already received emails saying their websites will be dropped from the AdSense program. Google says these sites influence search results, not necessarily for the good of users, by pointing users searching for specific products to these sites. Once they click through, the user may get the information they are looking for but they also may only find an ad or picture related to that product.
The change is scheduled for June 1. Google says, the clean up will affect the Internet, primarily by cleaning up search results so that users don’t click through to a site filled with ads but with no content to support the ads.
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Business Around A Lifestyle
The world changed on 9/11 in so many different ways. Since that day, there has been a major shift happening in the way people think and live their lives. Sure, many people still chase the dollar as their ultimate goal. However, many more people have begun to realize that the world could, well, end tomorrow.
That's why people are choosing to pursue a business around a lifestyle, instead of a lifestyle controlled by their business. It makes sense, right? If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you still try to live your life in a way you never wanted to?
Take a look around you and you'll see that this shift to becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur is being adopted by more and more people every day. Some of those people are falling into it because they have been laid off from their jobs and are literally forced into it. Some of those people just figure out a way to make it happen because of the "end of the world" thinking mentioned above.
You linked to a completely unrelated topic.
In the thread you linked too, you were talking about this blog from Matt Cutts about reporting paid links:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/
This June 1st deal is more about Adsense arbitrage or sites with mainly Adsense and no content.