We were recently contacted by several of our customers and visitors regarding the new Instant Adsense Templates being promoted by Joel Comm. These inquiries are likely due our previously published article, "The Truth about Adsense Optimized Templates" and they also know that we have promoted Joel Comm's Adsense eBooks for years. Folks are confused as to why these Adsense Templates are any different than other HTML templates or HTML document.

First let me say, that we do think Joel's Adsense Optimization ebooks are a great resource for anyone who wants to go beyond the Adsense Optimization Tips that Google provides. We've always given Joel a two thumbs up on his Adsense ebooks. We have attended several of his conferences, attended his Adsense Code teleconference, and our manager even met him in person at the Affiliate Summit this year.

But we do not endorse nor recommend his new venture regarding the poorly developed Instant Adsense Templates loaded down with several thousand pages of Private Label Articles.

Joel says "don't use the articles as is", but this really is no different than what the other Adsense Ready Template designers are saying about the packages they sell to hundreds of people. It is also a direct violation of Google Adsense's policies to publish duplicate content. Folks who use them "as is" (and we suspect most will) are subject to permanent termination of their Adsense account. I can only imagine the groans coming from Google engineers who know that in a few weeks, they will have to tweak their bots to zap these junk articles from their search engine indexes.

Further the template designs we saw did not contain search engine friendly source code and looked no different than the others you see being sold despite the note on the website that says they look better and are better.

It is not a difficult task to copy/paste Adsense code into a navigational column or below/beside thumbnail images. In the sample website we saw using these Instant Adsense Templates, these are the only differences we noted when compared to basic HTML templates.

Sorry Joel, you missed the mark on this venture but we do think your Adsense eBook is great. :)

// posted by BasicRic on 7/05/2006 06:22:00 PM / Permanent Link  

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Happy July 4th to our U.S. visitors. We hope you have a great holiday!

// posted by BasicRic on 7/04/2006 08:01:00 AM / Permanent Link  

Wow, can you believe it is July already? Have you started preparing your website(s) for the most wonderful time of the year for online merchants and affiliates? What time of year am I referring to? Well, the fall retail sales crush, of course! With the increase in gasoline prices, 2006 is predicted to be the highest in online sales yet.

I know that you are thinking of vacations and especially celebrating the July 4th holiday in the USA. So am I. But don't let that distract you from preparing your existing website or developing a new site targeting that niche you have always wanted to dive into.

REVENUE TIP ... I'm not only talking about the fall and Christmas season. For example, prom season here in the USA is in May. Yes, that date has passed but anyone interested in developing a prom dress or accessory site for next year might be interested to know that the prom dress shopping frenzy starts 4 months prior to May. Plus it takes some search engines, like Google, several months to index your site. It's now time to start developing niche sites for next spring's product trends.

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// posted by BasicRic on 7/01/2006 12:59:00 PM / Permanent Link