Staska.Net

Just recently I found out about the new e-mail going around. Thank God I did not receive it. I might have had a heart attack.

The e-mail goes like this:

From: Google AdSense [mailto:adsense-adclicks-noreply@google.com]
Sent: June-17-09 7:31 AM
To: info@example.com (publisher prefers to remain anonymous)
Subject: Google AdSense Account Disabled

Hello,

While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since
keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our
advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.

Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the
interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We
realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in advance
for your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve taken,
please do not reply to this email. You can find more information by
visiting
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

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And then it goes to say: sorry, we are joking, we are not from Adsense, we are just promoting our (paid) service to prevent such thing happening to you.

Holy m%^&$f%cKi%^nof… How many people stopped reading after that  “Sincerely” and break…. And got scared sh%^&ess?

Is that the way to promote your service? By impersonating Google and scaring people? FU uniCliqs or whatever.

And you got the initial idea so right. Such  hosted service can be useful and needed.And the idea of making it into a guest posts is great. Even problogger picked it up initially, until he saw the details of your e-mail campaign.

It probably could have ended  on much more high profile blogs if you did it right.

But you decided to go the stupid way for a quick buck, by scaring people into subscription instead…

I am pretty unhappy (to put it mildly) with the results from the last Google Page Rank update. While getting PR3 for Staska.net was a nice thing for a blog that was barely a month old, my other sites did not fare that well.

The thing that really pissed me off, was the reduction of the toolbar pagerank for my main cellphone blog. I’ve got PR5 for it last July and it has been steadily there until April 2007 update.

Since this January, when I resumed my blogging activities, I at least doubled (maybe even tripled) the number of incoming links to this blog. And a lot of the links were from PR7-8 sites like Engadget, Gizmodo or CrunchGear.

So when I saw my PR start to fluctuate on various Google datacenters in the beginning of April, I was pretty sure that I’m getting a bump to PR6 for the cellphone blog. Only to find it brought down to PR4!

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Now that the fourth big tech show week (CES, MacWorld, 3GSM, Cebit, CTIA) is behind us, I came to a conclusion. I hate these big tech show weeks!

I run a few (2 updated almost daily and 2 updated when I feel like it) tech “newsy” blogs. They are about ayear old and are real “newsy”. I don’t have special access to hardware to do a reviews, I do not even have a deep knowledge of PCs or Cell Phones (topics of my blogs). I consider myself an advanced user. What I do, is find new things that others missed and report them.

Every major and minor company is timing their PR stunts for one of the big tech shows. And prior to the show there’s a  lot of leaks, rumors and hints about new products. A nirvana for a guy like me.

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