- New Google AdSense Policies: [JenSense] This has got some people up in arms and is being discussed here, here, and here among other places. Google is playing the role of the playground bully. Basically Google is saying if you use AdSense you can’t display contextual ads from any of our competitors. Other updates put scraper sites on watch.
- 302 or 301?: [Multiple Sources] Always a popular debate. SEO Rountable revisits an article by Scottie Clairborne suggesting that a temporary redirect was the way to go until the new site starts to achiever rankings. SEO Rountable brings in some good articles and opinions to suggest that might not be the best thing to do today. I would do a 301 instead of a 302 personally, but Jill Whalen at High Rankings would disagree with me.
- More Adwords Quality Score Stupidity [Michael Gray] Michael uses the example of having to bid a minimum of $0.20 for his own name as yet another example of how random the Quality Score is for AdWords. I’ve come across the same problem in multiple campaigns of my own.
- Google checkout dwarfed by PayPal [JP Morgan]. Duh. Did we expect anything less? What I find amazing is Google checkout already has 6% of the market compared to 42% for PayPal. That is pretty remarkable considering the length of time in that particular niche. I think Google checkout stands to give them some real competition over time.
- The Tipping Point for OpenID [Jeremy Zawodny] Jeremy talks about this being the year to see if OpenID will thrive or dive.
- New SEO Blog [Search Trends] Dave Bascom introduces an SEO blog of one of his newest employees.
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