Comments on: Accidense?

By: Review: Search Engine Marketing Glossary » Make You Go Hmm

Review: Search Engine Marketing Glossary » Make You Go Hmm — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:44:21 +0000

[…] Of course the Creative Commons license doesn’t stop somebody else from registering a domain and doing precisely this which gives back where points are taken away, as long as they attribute the source. If I was rolling something like that out, I’d also create an API with access to the terms so that developers could mash the terms into their other search engines easily. Maybe even plugins for the popular blog engines so that definitions could be flagged. This might seem like too much for a relatively small number of terms, but I suspect as time goes on more terms will emerge. What, no accidense? […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Hmm quickies #25

Make You Go Hmm: » Hmm quickies #25 — Wed, 10 May 2006 00:05:32 +0000

[…] - Speaking of games, there is a Halo 3 demo that was shown at E3 2006 earlier today for free download in Xbox Live. My son, the Halo gamer, was all over it. I’m going to check it out shortly. - Another Accidense-like sighting at Google, this time by seroundtable share/bookmark: MyWeb | del.icio.us | digg it! […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Don’t have RSS feed, don’t want one, too bad, they can now use Feed43

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:17:52 +0000

[…] Honestly, nobody reading with blogs should want me to read their sites for being an ad revenue candidate, they should want me for the reason in the paragraph I just wrote above and because I genuinely like their content. I do buy from ads from sites I like, but I don’t believe I’ve ever intentionally clicked (see related post on accidense) on a third party’s Google Adsense ad. […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Near miss or past midnight on April 15, 1912 for GOOG?

Make You Go Hmm: » Near miss or past midnight on April 15, 1912 for GOOG? — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:45:31 +0000

[…] I’m worried about Adsense on a number of levels. My biggest concern with this program by far is click fraud. As long as advertisers are willing to put up with this in their purchases, Google will continue to be successful in this arena, but Google’s willingness to explore more aggressive advertisements like rich media, intersitials and the omnipresent accidense continue to shake my confidence in their model going forward. How much can they squeeze from the marketplace? The answer isn’t to squeeze harder on the fruit they already bear, it’s find new fruit, cultivate more crop. They seem to be focusing on the former, not the latter. […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » How to write headlines even a corpse would read

Make You Go Hmm: » How to write headlines even a corpse would read — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:54:44 +0000

[…] - write down two or three keywords that describe the content of the story and blend those into the title creatively - consider using key (short) quotes within articles or stories you are writing about. For example, the quote from Google’s blog was so juicy I decided to use for the title (pictured above) - play on words. For example, I combined the word accident and Adsense to make the word: accidense - avoid getting too cutesy with titles and not summarizing the post body. If the title has nothing to do with the post it’s a big risk that is more likely to backfire than not. Readers don’t want to feel like they got suckered. - when in doubt, be boring. If you can’t think up a good title, then just come up with something descriptive with no sizzle. It’s better than doing a “no title” or just having the date. […]

By: Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » Advertisers must hate “accidense”

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:05:20 +0000

[…] TDavid wins the “come up with a cool new word of the week” award for noticing “accidense.” What’s that? That’s what happens when people accidentally click on Google Adsense ads (he noticed that some Google ads have more clickable whitespace than others, which increases the chance they’ll receive “accidense.”) […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Clickstream in, links out?

Make You Go Hmm: » Clickstream in, links out? — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:18:14 +0000

[…] How can they trade links for something based completely — or even primarily — on clicks especially when it has already been pointed out that stuff like accidense exists. Clicks are not a failsafe method of proving anything. Clicks can be automated. Clicks can be fraudulent. Clicks are just as fallable and exploited, if not more so, then links. Ask anybody who has ever run and/or been involved with the affiliate owner side of running a pay per click (PPC) program. Google knows this well because they run a PPC program (Adsense). […]

By: T Bryce Yehl » Google Adsense vs. Yahoo! Publisher Network

T Bryce Yehl » Google Adsense vs. Yahoo! Publisher Network — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:21:34 +0000

[…] Update 11/27: Russell IM’d to say that YPN has ad targeting options. I had noticed them shortly after I posted this, but they don’t seem to have made a difference — I still primarily see ads from Vonage and Lending Tree. With a brief look around Russell’s site — which serves ads under limited circumstances — I saw mostly the same. I’m left wondering if Russell’s results are due to positioning that results in high rates of accidense. […]

By: » Word Of The Day: Accidense InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:52:50 +0000

[…] Make You Go Hmmm makes the excellent point that the blank space in Google AdSense ads that is still clickable is basically cheating. If I click on blank space, am I really interested in an ad, or is it more likely my mouse cursor is there so it won’t click anything? Why does Google put so much clickable ad space in its ads, and are advertisers being cheated? […]

By: shane

shane — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:46:06 +0000

Tell that to problogger and all the spam blogs he has.