USA Today Piece on Google AdSense Features Scott & Slegg
Barry points to a USA Today article on the Google AdSense program and its effect on web publishers. There are some nice quotes in the article, and with Jen Slegg, John Scott and Rand Fishkin in the mix, you can tell who’s doing their PR homework (where’s Andy?).
Quotes from the article:
“The whole advent of blogging and social networks is that people can get their thoughts out there, and be paid for it,” says Google Vice President Sheryl Sandberg. “We started off crawling the world’s information for the Google index. Now, we fund the creation of that information.”
“AdSense, in my opinion, is the worst thing to happen to the Internet,” says John Scott, who runs the V7n.com online forum for search marketers. “Google is … in essence, paying people to inundate the Web with literally billions of worthless pages.”
Vote for this post : 0“The average is more like a few thousand a month,” [Jennifer Slegg] says. “The ones who do really, really well, however, really work for it. It’s not a windfall; they put in the hours.”
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krfans on Sep 17, 2007 at 4:23 am
Yes, I had to agree with John Scott, the initial idea of Adsense is good but unfortunately, when there money involved, alot of things would change. (mostly for the worst) Try or deliberately write some content that pay more in Adsense.
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