Adsense keywords can fluctuate wildly in price. So what happens when a keyword related to your site becomes the subject of a bidding war? One Austin attorney found out.

Google has always had a stake in spam blogs, but its domain parking service raises its involvement to a new level. Will rumored reforms keep the bad guys away?

Anyone who is a regular reader to this site knows that, in order to get Adsense removed from a scraper or plagiarist’s page, you are required to file a DMCA notice.
Adsense has its own DMCA policy and follows it very strictly. Though results can be obtained through that means, few bloggers actually use it.
Not only [...]

Advertising networks are very important allies in the fight against plagiarism and content theft. As one of the most popular revenue streams for scrapers and other spammers, they often unwittingly bankroll many of the content thieves who plague the Internet.
However, advertising networks are not covered by the DMCA. Since they are not hosts and are [...]

In a pair of previous posts I lauded Google’s progress in the war on Spam on its Blogspot service. Though my intuition was confirmed, at least somewhat, by Google itself, it appears I might have spoken too soon.
I recently ran across this link on the social news site Reddit. It is a submissions listing for [...]

When FeedBurner announced that it was being bought out by Google last month, several things were immediately clear. 
First, it became clear that the owners of FeedBurner were going to receive a $100 million payday. Second, it was clear that Google would receive access to a berth of statistics about RSS feeds not previously available to [...]

In a move that is likely to be a blow for spammers and scrapers, Google recently started closing Adsense accounts for having an “unfit business model” and has sent letters to many high-value Adsense members, some earning $70,000 or more per month.
The initial discussion about the closings centered around the practice of Adsense Arbitrage, buying [...]