Blog Scrapers Beware

The Google Adsense blog today made readers aware of a system that would allow content creators to report those who steal their content and monetize with Adsense. It is inferred that the original content creator should attempt to contact the thief responsible, but if all else fails a complaint should be registered through the Google help center.

It's our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable intellectual property laws.

Of course the first question that crops up is what will Google do to find proof of infringement? After all anyone could report that any competitors content is stolen and cause issues for the Adsense Publisher. I'm not thinking that this will stop all blog scrapers from stealing content, but maybe it will slow down the biggest offenders. A few well placed Adsense bans might put a stop to those who think it's ok to throw up a Spam Blog and monetize with your hard work.

MoneyQuake FireFox Addon

I'm a stat hound and actually starting to leave a wear spot on my screen from checking my Adsense earnings so often. Furthermore, it's not just Google Adsense earnings I'm looking into, I'm actually more into affiliate marketing and having an addon that updates automatically in the bottom status bar is awesome. Saves my mouse from traveling further than it needs to and just makes life simpler. Only problem is that the old faithful Adsense Notifier plugin for FireFox no longer will log me in, so I needed an alternative.

Thanks to some recommendations I've found a great alternative to Adsense Notifier, it's MoneyQuake. Simply by hovering over the MoneyQuake logo at the bottom of the FireFox browser you can get instant updates on a large number of affiliate networks and Google Adsense.

List of Affiliate Programs Compatible With MoneyQuake

MoneyQuake is a powerful Firefox extension, which displays your real-time earning statistics from most popular advertisement systems like:

• Google Adsense
• Bidvertizer
• TraficCashGold
• StreamRay
• UmaxSearch
• PeakClick
• Buckster
• SoftwareProfit
• AdultAdsCash
• KlikVip
• AdultFriendFinderrn
• Begun
• Yandex.Direct
• Glavmed

To find out more information on MoneyQuake and download the plugin click here.

Avoiding Duplicate Content Penalty

One of my most favorite blogs recently published a post regarding affiliate datafeeds and duplicate content penalties. It's a big deal if you rely heavily upon search engine traffic, so it's worth a read. If your not familiar with 'duplicate content penalties' it's where popular search engines (Google) penalize your site's rankings because you have 'similar' content with another site.

With so much competition it's important to cover yourself whenever possible. Read about duplicate content over at 5StarAffiliatePrograms.com. The ever changing face of search engine algorithms means that this news may be dated by the time you read it, but it's important to keep moving forward. Simply copy'n paste is not always the correct answer. ;)