Over the past few days I have received several emails about the rebirth of the Niche Builder Services menu at the top of the pages of the website. (Some may recall, I pulled down the services option menu in mid-2008)
Since others are asking, I guess it’s worth explaining… that I almost quit the Niche Store Builder site last month. (Not to be confused with quitting smoking, I haven’t lit up since last year!) Yup. I had a very bad taste in my mouth over something, I got pissed off and …

Truly, I don’t know the difference between Mayday, Caffeine Google and Horse-poop right now… too much Google going on in my head.
They have however made the new update official… and you can read all about it on the Official Google Blog.
A few keynotes:
Google Caffeine is Fresher!
Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index
Google Caffeine is INSTANT
Searchers want to find the latest relevant content and publishers expect to be found the instant they publish.
Finally…
With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index …

I just wanted to give a fair amount of positive press to the Google Mayday Update, so everyone does not think its all bad…
Mayday Facts for My Own Sites

Website traffic DOWN on approximately 20% of my sites overall.
On the 20% of the sites effected, Traffic is down 70-80%
On the sites affected… Google STILL DOES send traffic (Not a deindexing thing)
Are you ready for this…
Are you SURE you are ready…
Earnings on One of the Effected sites has increased by 200%!

Thats right… serious… 20% of the traffic, 200% of the earnings over …

Google recently made a VERY significant change in their search algo, which is affecting everyone… not just those in the affiliate world. Just look at some of the very obvious failures in the new algo.
Edit: Read the next post also – traffic is down, but conversions of the traffic it IS sending, is UP! There is a positive effect of Google mayday!
Google Fail Whale

Image from Flickr

Jewelry Auctions – You would assume to find eBay right? nope, not even in the top 10… but you can find several affiliate sites!
OK then… …

I am at a complete loss of words today. I have several sites, and up to a +3 year old website, that Google has decided to stop sending traffic to… Of course, they can do this without reason, effecting my livelihood and income, without repercussion and without accountability!
What the hell am I, the little guy supposed to do to Google? The implications to these smaller sites were dramatic!
I’m not alone… but I can say it was NOT an adsense issue like those at WarriorForum, several of the effected sites did not even …

Google announced they are now going to share the adsense earning share… 68% is the number most of us earn!
If you have a lot going on in the adsense world like I do (50-60% of my income is adsense generated now)
this is HUGE news!
Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — AdSense for content and AdSense for search.
There is a new reporting interface only available in beta right now (You can sign up here) this is …

So — I was getting my daily fix of SEO news from Aaron Wall over at SEOBook … and he had this video showing in his content, it is SO TRUE and funny as hell! The F-Bomb is dropped a few times, so beware if you are at work.
As you watch it… think of all the places you hear exactly what the video is telling you to do!
Article Sewers and Blog Spam

If you like the video, check out XtraNormal — they seem to make it easy! (Thanks for the reminder …

Many of you may notice that if you go back and view some of the older content on the site, you see adsense, or in some cases, adbrite (an adsense alternative) ads. You won’t however see it, if the content is less than 10 days old.
So… why am I showing ads based on the publish date and most importantly, how did I do it?
Why Show Date based Ads
It should not come as a surprise that I have a lot of indepth content on this site. Most articles are more than …

If you use cloaking on your site, or still have BANS sites around that are running every link through a 302 redirect, you have 4 weeks to fix it, or your account will be expired.
ePN has a post about this on their blog, and in the last paragraph… it’s very clear:
If you are currently using a 302 redirect in a method similar to the one described above, please inform us by emailing CS and make the appropriate changes immediately. From June 8th 2010, we will treat this issue as an intentional …

Well, it looks like the caffeine update at Google is finally spreading to everyone. In fact, at Webmaster World, its been coined as the Google Mayday. Take it for what it is… but the name is very fitting!
What Does Google Mayday and the New Search Results page mean to you, the website owner? Pay attention to your traffic and conversions more than ever… because it could mean a LOT!
What’s Going on with The Longtail Search?
Not sure how the longtail search is going to shake out in all of this, and …