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Google Adsense Offer $100 Affiliate Commision For Referals
In what no doubt is a move to ward off competition from YPN -- which many webmasters are flocking to for its apparent higher payouts -- Nick W at Threadwatch notes, Google have begun offering a $100 commission for each AdSense sign up lead who earns at least $100:
With our new referrals feature, you can increase your revenue while increasing your users' awareness of useful products and services. By adding a referral button to your site, you can direct users to sign up for AdSense and monetise their web content.
While your users learn more, you can earn more -- US $100 for every new AdSense publisher who earns $100.
Anyone with a AdSense account can add the code immediately.
The Importance of Contextual Linkage
Jim Boykin emphasises the increasing irrelevance of low quality, high quantity links, and the increasing need for "Links within Content and Linking to Content" to perform effective SEO:
Yesterdays link monkey is worthless today. The teamwork of tomorrow includes having the site owner make a real resource. They need to give away information, give away free tools, link out great, add a forum, blog, Content, Content, Content (and all unique…and no machine generated crap),
This content should link out to trusted content within the text, and should be written about things that are good enough to get links. Newsworthy or reference worthy material. You should do everything you can to provide something of value that people would want to link to - yea, the things that Jill Whalen has been preaching since 1995. And Look where she’s now.
Although his theory is somewhat speculative; some applied common sense on how search engine algorithms ideally could be engineered for relevancy, combined with some anecdotal evidence, such as how link networks seem to have been dampened since the Jagger updates; suggest he's spot on.
Found via SEO Book
Google to Announce New Service at Webmaster World Luncheon
Linda Buquet at ThreadWatch informs that Google plan to launch a new and supposedly exciting service on Wednesday:
Webmaster World Luncheon
Hosted by GoogleDon't miss Google's presentation of an exciting new service that you can register for at the show! Lunch will be provided, so come early to get good seats and free schwag.
No clues are given as to what the service will be.