Homepage Blog Feature About the Termination of my AdSense Account

[Shachar Shemesh]

diksbcseanbcsa wrote:
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>
>   I found shlomi's post interesting.  Methods to promote personal
> web sites should be of interest to anyone that have one.
You are free to argue with Matan on whether this message was on topic to 
this list or not. I lean toward Matan's point on view, but I do not feel 
strongly about it. What I do feel strongly about is posting links to 
outside sources, particularly your own, with no indication of who might 
be interested in the content of the link. This is a classic "teaser" 
technique, and I fail to see what purpose it serves beside driving 
people who would not, otherwise, click on the link to do so. To me, 
that's dishonest.

If you found Shlomi's post interesting, that's good for the both of you. 
It does not excuse the fact that I, who did not, had to click the link 
to find out what it was about.
>   I don't
> think that Shlomi's motivation in that post was to create traffic to 
> the site.
>   
No. Shlomi's motivation for both the post AND for not putting in an 
abstract was to make more people view his opinions/story. Generating 
traffic is EXACTLY what he was after. I own a blog too, as, I'm sure, 
many other regular participants of the mailing list. Shlomi's is the 
only one who gets a regular "hey, look what I just did" mails here. If 
everyone who owned a blog treated Linux-IL as an RSS replacement, the 
list would contain little else, and would probably die in less than a 
month. Still, so long as it's only Shlomi, that had been acceptable so 
long as he is not using dishonest techniques to generate his traffic.
>   In fact, I wonder what revenue did Shlomi got while adSense was 
> active.  On my rare visits to Shlomi's site, I don't recall ever 
> seeing some evidence to his adSense account.  Perhaps I don't 
> understand what adSense is all about.  I did took a brief look at
> google's adSense page.
>
>   
People want to generate traffic for more than just financial incentives. 
That does not mean you are free to monopolize community resources in 
order to do so. If Shlomi gains enough money from AdSense to retire 
early to a privately owned Carabean island, I'll be more than happy for 
him. All I'm asking is that he plays fair, and not litter where I (and 
others) eat.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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