Just A Story About Google

“Google Advertising Loves Link Farms”, this title grabbed me today when I visited SitePoint forums. Take a look at the story:

“A couple of months ago I started in earnest tracking the advertising hits that Google generates for me. And what I found is not a happy picture. About 30-40% of the traffic generated — ie. the traffic that I pay for — comes from link farms” says Rick Strahl on his blog.

Rick explains that he sent an email to Adsense support and asked about Link Parking sites and what their policy was in regards to counting these hits towards paying clicks. The response he received was essentially a shrug of the shoulder.

Someone from AdWords team responded to Rick that they know about the website which work as link parking places, but they are legal, so he has to pay for these links. Rick says that Google’s technical support tried to convince him that link parking site links do better conversions than ‘regular’ links.

“Better for whom?” asks Rick “for Google”?

Read the discussion Google Advertising Loves Link Farms in SitePoint forums.

Dedicated Hosting Offers

I’ve decide to summarize some dedicated and managed web hosting offerings I found areound the web. They come from companies taht I know as a quality ones.

Apollo Hosting – Dedicated Servers

Apollo Hosting is a quality web hosting company. They are well-known with their VPS hosting but I can get a good deal on Dedicated servers as well. They offer CeleronD 2.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB SATA, 1000 GB/mo, Plesk 8 control panel, and etc, for $99.95/month. There is a $99.95 set up fee.

HC Servers

I know this company for years and host some of my websites on managed server with them. HC Servers offers Managed Intel Core 2 Duo, 160GB SATA Hard Drive, 1000 GB Monthly transfer, 5 Free IP Addresses, and 2 GB RAM for $169/per month. It now comes with 1 free month. Good bargain! Check also their discounted dedicated servers. 

HiVelocity

This company advertises in WebHostingTalk.com their Dual Quad-Core Xeon dedicated servers. The price is $259/month. The server comes with 250 GB HDD, 4GB RAM, 1 IP address and $99.00 set up fee.