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Privacy Policy Generator for Google Adsense Publishers

As Google have just changed the Terms and Conditions of their Adsense program, one of the requirements now is that all Adsense publishers should have a “Privacy Policy” on their websites. Below is the exact wording that has been added to the Terms and Conditions for Adsense publishers ….

“You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your user’s browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management.”

To help make life easier in preparing this privacy policy, we have created a “Privacy Policy Generator”. Simple enter some basic information in the form below, and a privacy policy, specific to your individual website will be created for you. Once the policy has been created, simply copy and paste it onto a page on your site. You can easily make any modifications you wish.
Go to that page >>

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AdSense Referral Program Changes TOS to Add 90 Day Requirement
Shawn asked me if I was aware of this thread at his forum named New referrals adsense ruls? where a member points out that AdSense has added a little line to the TOS that includes a phrase “within 90 days of sign-up.” Now, everyone I ask, and every place I look, I can not find the 90 day requirement. That is a big deal. So on November 4, 2005, when the AdSense Referral Program Launched, it did not have the 90 clause, as far as I know.
Of course you can imagine how upsetting this is to those who sent AdSense tons of referrals, and how those will expire.

When you’re running a website, whoever is surfing it is staring at the screen…but where?  One of the biggest questions for website designers is, “Where are the user’s eyes looking?”  Where do your eyes go when you read articles on the Web? What do you notice and what do you miss?
Well, we’ve got some answers for you, because this topic has been studied.  Turns out that the upper left quarter of the screen gets the most attention, according to the Eyetrack III research of The Poynter Institute, the Estlow Center for Journalism & New Media, and Eyetools. But that’s not all.  There’s more to it than that.
People’s eyes have some very common behaviour patterns.  It probably has to do with our hunter-gatherer ancestry.
First, we do reconnaissance, or “recon” as the military calls it.  Users’ eyes flick over the entire screen at whatever draws their attention. And what draws it most?  Well, the first hot spots are headlines, photo captions, subheadings, links, menu items and the logo on the page—doesn’t matter if it’s a good logo or a bad one, people look at logos.
Then the upper left corner of the screen gets special attention, probably because that’s where people expect to find the very best stuff.  And the right-hand and lower part of the page almost always gets less attention.
This is info that site developers must know: when you put your most important, vital content outside that critical upper left corner, that important content might as well be invisible when people are making the big decision: whether to stay on your site and read more or go somewhere else.
Yes, people scan a page quickly.  But scanning has a purpose: it quickly identifies to a user what they really want to read.  The good news is that if you can hook them right off the bat, when they start actually reading a news story on the Web, they read a larger proportion than if they were reading that very same story in the newspaper.

Frontloading

Frontloading means that you start headlines, paragraphs and links with the most important words. The first words should communicate the subject of the headline, paragraph or link.  This is not like writing a novel or a story, where you have time to be coy and not get to the point for awhile.  You’ve got about a quarter of a second to grab that user’s attention or he won’t read the rest of the sentence.  Make the most of that opportunity.
If you do this, and you frontload your writing, especially at the top of the page, user’s eyes will easily catch the most important info, and they’ll keep reading.
Here are some examples of good frontloading:

·    Foo Fighters release new cd
·    Barbeque beef ribs recipes everyone will like
·    Tom Cruise stars in a new movie

Here are some bad examples that are not frontloaded:
·    New cd is being released, it’s by the Foo Fighters
·    Everyone will love these great new recipes for barbeque beef ribs
·    New movie is coming out and it’ll star Tom Cruise

You’ve probably heard a lot about Google AdSense (which is actually more accurately known as Google AdSense V1), but you may not know just what it is.  Well, for one thing, it’s a one of the hottest new ways to make money online without having to do a whole lot.  If you’ve read Robert Kiyosaki’s book, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” you know that passive income is the best kind of income to have.
Passive income is income that you get without having to work for it.  I know this may sound like some kind of “pie in the sky” get-rich-quick scheme, but passive income is for real.  In fact, every single billionaire on earth uses the power of passive income to keep money coming in while he or she jets off to parties and resorts and such.
The best example of passive income in the physical world is real estate.  When you own an apartment building and hire a property manager and a maintenance crew to take care of it for you and collect the rents, all you have to do is cash the checks that roll in.
Of course, passive income doesn’t just happen overnight, or everyone would be getting it.  In the case of the apartment building owner, it took money, time, and knowledge to set up an S corporation, find a building to buy, put up the cash to buy it with and get a loan for the rest, renovate it, then screen and hire the property manager and maintenance crew.  But once that was all done, checks began rolling in with little or no effort.
Well, Google Adsense is the online equivalent of that.  You’ll have to invest just a little bit of time in learning about it, but once you get it set up you can look forward to seeing those nice checks roll in.  Or, if you’re totally online, seeing money flow into your PayPal account.

Just What is Google Adsense?

Google AdSense is a fast and absolutely ridiculously easy way for people with websites of all types and sizes to put up and display relevant Google ads on the content pages of their site and earn money.
Because the Google AdSense ads relate to what your visitors came to your site to read about, or because the ads match up to the interests and characteristics of the kind of people your content attracts, you now have a way to improve your content pages AND make some serious bucks off of them.
Google AdSense is also a way for site owners to provide Google search capability to visitors and to earn even more money by putting Google ads on the search results pages. Google AdSense gives you the ability to earn advertising revenue from every single page on your website—with a minimal investment of your time
So what kind of ads do you have to put up?  That’s the good part—you don’t have to decide.  Google does it for you.  AdSense always delivers relevant ads that are precisely targeted—on a page-by-page basis—to the content that people find on your site.  For example, if you have a page that tells the story of your pet fish, Google will send you ads for that site that are for pet stores, fish food, fish bowls, aquariums…you get the picture.
If you decide you want to add a Google search box to your site, then AdSense will deliver relevant ads targeted to the Google search results pages that your visitors’ search request generated.

If you’re into upgrades, Google is now offering “AdSense Premium”, which is CPC based and, for the time being, offers less flexibility in terms of ad sizes — only banners and skyscrapers are currently available. You can apply using existing AdWords accounts, or you can request a new account. Applicants are usually notified within a day as to whether they’ve been accepted for the program.
Here’s the thing you need to know:  Google has no strict criteria for acceptance into the AdSense program, and Ad Sense doesn’t hit you with a minimum traffic requirement. The only criteria they’re really sticky about is the standard “acceptable content” requirements, and that’s pretty standard almost anywhere.
Google AdSense says they’re serious about attracting quality content sites, and because of that they only allow AdSense members to serve one ad per page.  This means you can’t use AdSense for both banners and skyscrapers.(Note: banners are those horizontal ads that run up top and down bottom.  Skyscrapers are the tall ads that run vertically, on the left and right of your page text.)
Once you’ve been accepted into Google AdSense, you’ll be able to get the AdSense advertisements on any site you own using the same ad code, provided you obey the Google guidelines. (And that’s very, very important—more on that later.)
Your reporting doesn’t occur in real time, but is updated regularly throughout the day. Right now, you can’t view reports based on a domain or site basis if you run the AdSense on more than one site.
Before you sign up, you really ought to read the lengthy and detailed FAQ on the AdSense site.

What Can AdSense do for Me?

In three words, earn you money.  More relevant ads on your pages translates into more clicks—and more money that you receive. Because when users click on an ad, Google will pay you. If you’ve set up your own sales team, you’ll get an additional benefit: AdSense complements their efforts.  It doesn’t compete with them.  With AdSense, you get a reporting page that gives you a breakdown on how your ads are doing and what they’re bringing in.

Google has a huge advertiser base, so they have ads for all kinds of businesses and for just about every type of content no matter how broad or specialized it is. And since Google provides the ads, you don’t have to spend time talking to your advertisers.
AdSense represents advertisers that span the spectrum.  These advertisers range from large global brands to small and local companies. And ads are targeted by geography so global businesses can display local advertising easily. One more thing: you can use AdSense in many languages.

So how does AdSense figure out how to do all this targeted advertising?  Well, AdSense has the ability to deliver relevant ads because the gurus at Google understand how web pages really work and they’re continually refining their technology to make it smarter all the time.
For example, some words can have several different meanings depending on context. You’ve seen th is happen with “two” and “too” and “to.”  Google technology is smart enough to understand these distinctions from the context that the word appears in, so you get more targeted ads.
When you put a Google search box on your site you start making money off of web searches that people do on your site. This ability to search off of your page keeps them on your site longer—since they can search from right there where they are—and it will only take you a few minutes to get AdSense up and running.   The best part, of course, is that AdSense is free for you to use.

What Kinds of AdSense Ads Will I Get on My Site?

Obviously, there are some kinds of ads you wouldn’t want to have on your site, such as pornographic ones or ads for sleazy multi-level marketing schemes that scream “Make $30,000 a month just for watching TV!” in big red letters.
Well, you can put your mind at ease.  Google has an ad review process that checks the ads they send to your site.  This process ensures that the ads that you serve up are family-friendly and that they comply with Google’s strict editorial guidelines.
Google’s ad-screening team combines sensitive language filters, input from site owners like you, and a team of linguists with good old common sense to filter out ads that could be inappropriate for your content.  And if that’s not enough, you have to capability to block competitive ads and choose your own default ads.   That’s another nice feature: Google kind of lets you run your own show.

Now, another thing you might be concerned about is whether the ads will clash with the look, feel, and colors scheme you’ve got going with your site.  Don’t worry.  You can customize the appearance of ads and choose from a wide range of colors and templates. Same thing goes for your search results page. And reports are customizable, too. Google provides flexible reporting tools that allow you to group your pages any which way you want.
That means you can view your results by URL, domain, ad type, category and more so that you can figure out where your earnings are coming from.

How do I Get Started?

It’s easy to get started with AdSense and it only takes a few minutes.  You fill out one single online application and that’s it. Once you’re approved, it takes only minutes to set up AdSense; all you have to do is copy and paste a designated block of HTML into the source code for your site.  Once you do that, targeted ads will start showing up on your website.

Am I Going to Make a Lot of Money Off of This?

While we can’t guarantee results, of course, since a lot of your success lies in your own hands, we wouldn’t have written this book if we didn’t believe in the power of Google AdSense.  A lot of webmasters are making a lot of money off of AdSense, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t be one of them.
The amount of money you can make with Google AdSense mainly depends on what user needs your Website fills. For instance, a site about women’s issues can make some serious bucks on AdSense because of the high level of competition for related keywords.
The CPC (cost per click) is the amount you get paid every time a user clicks on one of those ad banners.  CPC rates for competitive keywords can be more than $1, which translates directly to your site’s earning potential within the program.
However, if you’re in a less competitive market, you’ll make less money—that’s just a fact of life. Still, it’s unusual to see anyone using Google AdSense report earnings of less than an effective $1 CPM (cost per 1000 impressions), and the average runs in the range of $4-$5 CPM. Some people are making an effective CPM of $15 or more with AdSense. Oh, and best yet, this is all after Google takes its commission.
About that commission…commission is definitely one thing is that’s a little bit ambiguous with AdSense. Google doesn’t publicize it’s “cut”, and only displays the publisher’s cut in proprietary member reports, so getting good, accurate information on this has been difficult.
To date, comparisons of AdWords rates with AdSense earnings add up to commissions of between 40% and 60%. People speculate all the time on user boards as to why Google refuses to publish its commission rates, but no one has the answer. It might have something to do with legal reasons or it could just be that Google wants to retain the ability to change rates without having to send out an announcement about it each time, which costs money.

Let’s talk about the Traffic Equalizer program. This is the program my dear subscriber used to create extra pages for his site map. In case you don’t know what Traffic Equalizer is, let me briefly tell you. It is a program that quickly generates hundreds or thousands of pages designed to rank well on search engines for huge lists of keyword phrases. You’ve probably seen this pages before…they have an ad on top and then listings that appear to be like a directory or a search engine.

Here’s an example — I make a big list of keywords related to doll making. Let’s say I have keywords like “easy doll making”, “porcelain doll making” etc etc. I plunk them into Traffic Equalizer and the software crawls search engine data to produce the top results for that keyword. It then lists those sites and inserts your site at the top…and voila! It creates pages, theoretically designed to rank well for search engines. If you click the “Traffic Equalizer Page screenshot” you can see a screenshot below.

So, let’s be serious…is this good content? Or does it cause you to question what Google writes in it’s guidelines?:

“Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you’d feel comfortable explaining what you’ve done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, “Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?”

Now, don’t get me wrong..I am not placing judgment and I’ll let you in on a secret — Traffic Equalizer IS in my software library. I also know that Google rules are not law and I cannot go to jail for breaking them. But I do know you can be dropped from their index, which brings us back to my advice about not doing the crime if you can’t do the time. If you employ tactics like this, you have to expect that things may eventually come to an end for you. So, don’t put stuff like this on your life’s work — i.e. your main website that you NEED to stay listed on search engines.

But here’s a few tips for working with Traffic Equalizer —>

1. Always, always put Traffic Equalizer pages on a separate domain, on a separate IP, on a separate server. Keep it as far away from your “most precious” website as possible.

2. Traffic Equalizer provides you with a very basic (and ugly-looking) template. I didn’t believe it at first, but my research today seems to confirm that if you use that original template — your pages and possibly your whole website will be dropped from Google’s index. Create a new template, with graphics, different colors and add a bit of content…don’t make it this plain, highly-recognizable pages.

3. Search and ask questions at the Traffic Equalizer support forum…for product owners only. You’ll find people who have been banned from search engines, but look for people who are getting tons of traffic from Traffic Equalizer and find out what they say about how to use the program. Resource http://www.internetbasedmoms.com
“Traffic Equalizer” (software)

Review by Jeff Alderson:

If you want to succeed on the Internet you web traffic. You don’t necessarily need a lot of traffic. But you need targeted traffic. That is, visitors who belong to your target market and are likely to become your customers or referrals.

As you probably know, the search engines is one of the most effective and targeted ways to get more quality traffic.

But just how do you do it?

If you surf around on the Internet, or if you make a search on one of the search engines, you’ll find a lot of answers to that question.

Some of the methods you’ll read about are rather difficult and complicated to apply. Other methods – including several software programs – promise to get you more traffic from the search engines, just by making a few clicks.

Unfortunately, many of the methods and products promising to give you more traffic, are hyped, and they’re produced by people who’re either ignorant or are simply scrupulous and more interested in getting your money than helping you to get more traffic.

When I got this software program by Jeff Alderson, it immediately caught my attention. If you’re read my review of his other software product, AdWord Analyzer, you’ll also know that I really like that product. Besides, when I bought AdWord Analyzer Jeff Alderson gave me an excellent service and really seems to go out of his way to serve his customers.

But, what about Traffic Equalizer - is it any good?

Easy to install

Traffic Equalizer is really easy to install.

I know that most software programs are easy to install, but sometimes I’ve had some really bad experiences with installing other software programs. They cause your computer to crash, or they don’t work correctly after you’ve installed them.

However, Traffic Equalizer was really easy to install. I didn’t run into any problems during the installation process.

Easy to use

In order to run Traffic Equalizer you just need to fill in a few fields in the software. Then you click on the Ok-button, and you’re practically up and running.

When you click on the Ok-button, Traffic Equalizer generates a number of html-pages with special search engine “friendly” content.

It’s important to emphasize that these pages are neither the traditional doorway pages nor the so-called Smart Pages. The pages generated by Traffic Equalizer have their own, unique set up.

I can’t reveal more of the exact details about how Traffic Equalizer works, but Traffic Equalizer really is a very easy program to use.

One really great feature in Traffic Equalizer, are the small pop-up boxes that belongs to each field in the program display. For example, if you wonder about what to fill in in one of the fields, just move your mouse to the question mark about that particular field, and you’ll immediately see one of the small pop-up boxes I’m talking about.

Helpful and straightforward user manual

One thing that really annoys me about many software products is that the enclosed help manual is so difficult to read and use. Either they’re too short and superficial, or they’re too long and difficult to read.

The help manual (user manual, instruction manual or whatever you prefer to call it) is short and right to the point. It’s only 10 pages long, so you aren’t scared away by it.

Can it really make my web pages rank higher on the search engines?

This is of course the most important question that you’re probably wondering about.

Jeff Alderson goes as far as actually promising that Traffic Equalizer will help you to get higher rankings on the search engines.

But is he right?

The answer is: Yes, probably!

Based on my own experience and knowledge about the way the search engines work, I think that it’s a safe bet that the pages generated by Traffic Equalizer will help you to get better rankings on the search engines – especially if you also do everything you can to optimise your pages, such as optimising your keywords, title tags, meta tags, adding articles, internal and external links etc.

Another question is of course whether your web pages will be penalized by the search engines if you use Traffic Equalizer.

Based, again, on my own experience with and knowledge about the search engines, I think the answer is: No, but there are no absolute guarantees.

So far as I can see, there’s nothing in the pages generated by Traffic Equalizer, that’ll cause your web pages to be banned by the search engines. The pages generated by Traffic Equalizer could as well be handmade by an active web master. It’ll just be a lot more work.

Therefore, my estimate is that it’s pretty safe to use Traffic Equalizer. But again, there are no guarantees here. Sometimes the search engines will even penalize web pages where no “tricks” of any kind have been used.

Overall assessment

Jeff Alderson’s Traffic Equalizer is a really useful tool that can give your web site a lot more web traffic from the search engines.

Traffic Equalizer is easy to install, easy to use and you can put it into action almost immediately.

The most question is of course whether Traffic Equalizer will actually help you to get better rankings on the search engines or not. As I said above, the best answer I can give, based on my own experience and knowledge, is: Yes, probably.

So, my final conclusion is that Traffic Equalizer is a really useful piece of software that you can use in many contexts. For example, you can use it to get your affiliate mini-sites to rank higher on the search engines. Thus, you’ll be able to much more quickly launch a great number of affiliate mini-sites that get a lot of traffic from the search engines.
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Traffic Equalizer is a hot tool that many site developers use to massively increase traffic to their site and thus put them on a level playing field with the big boys. TR boasts that they drive highly targeted buyers to your site.

In a nutshell, you import a list of keywords, you fill in a few form fields, and the program automatically creates optimized pages. They claim it’s very search-engine friendly. It is a program that quickly generates hundreds or thousands of pages that are specially designed to rank well on search engines for huge lists of keyword phrases. You’ve probably seen these types of pages before. They feature an ad on top and then there are listings that look like a directory or a search engine.
All you have to do is make a list of keywords, type them into Traffic Equalizer and the software crawls search engine data to bring back the top results for that keyword. Then it lists those sites and inserts your site at the top…and voila! It creates pages that are supposedly designed to rank well for search engines.
The thing is, some of the pages it produces can look a bit clunky, like this:
Using Traffic Equalizer
You should always put Traffic Equalizer pages on a separate domain, on a separate IP, even on a separate server. Keep it as far away from your website as possible. More on why later.
Traffic Equalizer provides a template that’s…well, not great-looking. And here’s the thing: many users are saying that when they use that original template, unmodified, their pages and in some cases their entire website are getting dropped from Google’s index. The work-around here is for you to create a new template, with your own graphics. Change the colors and add some of your own new text. You want to change this from being easily recognizable to Google.
Traffic Equalizer runs a support forum…for product owners. So if you get TE, be sure you take full advantage of it to get tips and such. Mind you, in those forums you’ll see posts from users who’ve gotten banned from search engines. What you want to do is look for people who are getting tons of traffic from Traffic Equalizer and find out their secrets.
There are also some helpful sites, such as http://www.webtrafficstrategies.net/cb_templates which offer different templates for TE.

Traffic Equalizer will do all the work FOR you!

In a nutshell…

1. You import a list of keywords
2. You fill in a few form fields
3. The program automatically creates optimized pages

And before you ask, NO, these are definitely NOT “doorway” pages.

Doorway pages offer no real content and usually redirect visitors to another web page using Javascript, Flash, or other deceptive techniques.

Traffic Equalizer is a highly sophisticated yet simplistic system. Yes, there are optimized keyword pages involved, but they are search engine friendly, content-rich pages!

They merely act as the overall mechanism which ultimately fuels the traffic. And what really matters is HOW these optimized pages fuel the traffic (sorry, that’s the one thing I can’t reveal to you).

What I CAN tell you is this… with Traffic Equalizer, you’ll easily gain MORE unique and specifically targeted viewers than you could possibly imagine!

How do I know that? I’ve personally tested it with all sorts of websites and diversified products. And just to make certain the results weren’t inflated or unrealistic, I deliberately conducted the tests with a half-hearted, “lazy” kind of attitude.

I figured it this way…

If Traffic Equalizer could produce incredible traffic results IN SPITE of someone barely making an effort, there was no limit to what might ultimately be achieved!

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From Related Forums Topics:

Traffic Equalizer causes Google ban?

Hi,

I’m curious and interested in Traffic Equalizer. Is it any good?

Does your site get banned by Google because of TE?
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What does it do? If i just creates lots of hits and no one clicks you will just loose money and your CRT will go down. But if it will create clicks you will sure to banned before santa comes.
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It’s a software that creates thousands of pages for your website and makes more of your pages indexed by Google.

But the question is, could i get banned by google?
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It’s a program that creates thousands of pages for your website.

So the more pages get indexed, the traffic you get. That’s what i’m after.

The question is, could I get banned by Google?
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It makes spam sites.

Would you want to make sites that have no real content ?

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It’s a program that creates thousands of pages for your website.
Creates Pages, or Steals Content? Depends on how you look at it, I suppose.
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Its a screen scapper, it just generates pages of SE results

yes it can get your site banned, but there are people who make money by doing it , the just make like 20 sites a day or something

I wouldn’t advise putting it on a site that you are attached to
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According to the TE website, the software creates pages by listing other sites on its pages based on keywords like a directory or something.

It claims to boost up your traffic fast because the software can create thousands of those pages.

What’s confusing me is, if websites with TE get banned by search engines, how do the sites get as much traffic as it is claimed?
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yes it can get your site banned, but there are people who make money by doing it , the just make like 20 sites a day or something
You mean make money with google adsense on the TE site?
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yes

sometimes to its possible to get quite few visitors before the site is banned

maybe you can add 10 or 20 pages of traffic equalizer stuff and not get banned

but if you create like 500 pages of scraped content its likely to get banned
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Is it possible to use TE to create the pages, but just use a few of them? Could you add content to some of the pages, and use them?
And do you have to know html, so you can add your google code to the pages, or does it add it for you?
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ahh so it just create a lot of junk pages. No i guess if you have something on them Adsense would not mind but Google serach would.
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Is it possible to use TE to create the pages, but just use a few of them? Could you add content to some of the pages, and use them?
And do you have to know html, so you can add your google code to the pages, or does it add it for you?
I’m not sure how you add the code. But I know that the code can be added as I personally asked the owner of the script.
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Never used TE myself, but the theory is that you create a template that the software uses and then it scrapes search results to populate the page.
If you don’t know html then forget it.

The idea is that you generate 1000’s of pages on very very specific keywords which in turn will drive large amounts of traffic to your sites.

My advise:
If you don’t know what you’re doing, then don’t touch autogenerated pages.
TE type stuff is normally put on throw away domains - never put it any where near your treasured sites.
And imho DP isn’t really a suitable place to be discussing this type of site - at least not when it comes to actually creating them.
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Search engine matter aside, ask yourself how do you like to be fooled by pages like those?

Sites with those kinda content anger me. They sucks, waste my time and are nothing but junks. Please, the net is already full of craps. Please don’t add some more …

Keyword Density SEO Tool shows you the keywords you should be using and what to do to improve your search engine ranking without sending hundreds of automated queries to the search engines.

    Features

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Use Keyword Density SEO Tool to:

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“Most” search engine optimizers only tell you the keyword density of the words YOU ENTER.

Keyword Density SEO Tool analyzes ALL the words on the page and suggests keyword phrases that are already heavily embedded in the content of the file. From there, you can use Keyword Density SEO Tool’s “top keywords” tool to scan the major search engines for the phrases the heavy hitters are using. You will also see words that don’t work and why!
Keyword analyzers don’t account for word proximity, or phrases.

When a certain phrase appears more than once, Keyword Density SEO Tool then calculates the “Keyword Density” of that phrase. The keyword density is the ratio of the phrase to the total number of words, adjusting for the number of words in the phrase. This way, you are analyzing both the keyword density and the proximity of keywords at the same time.
Some search engine opimization programs only do part of the job.

Keyword Density SEO Tool scores your page based on several Search Engine Optimization techniques. In addition to keyword density calculations, it verifies that your site is not overloaded and that it has the correct distribution of profitable keywords in the most critical locations.

Keyword Density SEO Tool Scores Pages Differently

There is a pervading myth that by inserting words you think are relevant to your site in your keywords meta tag, you will automatically improve your search engine ranking. The truth is that only a select few search algorithms utilize the keyword meta tag. Keyword Density SEO Tool calculates relevant keyword phrases by analyzing ALL of the words on the page, not just the meta tags.

Keyword Density SEO Tool factors phrases, not just keywords. When a certain phrase appears more than once, Keyword Density SEO Tool then calculates the “Keyword Density” of that phrase. The keyword density is the ratio of the phrase to the total number of words, adjusting for the number of words in the phrase. This way, you are analyzing both the keyword density and the proximity of keywords at the same time.

SEO professionals suggest an average of 3% - 7% keyword density for relevant phrases; however, recent changes in Google’s algorithm may challenge this belief. Our system accounts for a number of different criteria, not just density, so words that aren’t as prevalent might still score as “optimum” if they are placed correctly.

Conversely, if the keyword density is too high (above 10%), it may appear to be artificially “stuffed,” and may be penalized as spam by the search engine. Keyword Density SEO Tool warns you about words that may occur too frequently to be helpful.

Generally, a well written page will have its own prevalent keyword phrases. Keyword Density SEO Tool helps you identify them.

Keyword Density SEO Tool lets you set these thresholds yourself to fine tune for your own optimization goals. With this system, web developers get the benefit of keyword density scoring, while also tapping into the value of correct keyword placement.

Note: Keywords scoring “Optimal” by Keyword Density SEO Tool when weighed against the whole site are your best bets for success. Visit and Alalyze your site now >.

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With the decline of meta-tags, keyword density ranges have become very important.  They’ve also become very controversial.  Here’s the thing: you want a high enough keyword density—at least 7%–that your keywords rank highly in the bigger search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, DogPile, and HotBot.
But, as we discussed, you don’t want your keyword densities so high that they turn your content into over-hyped gobbledygook, nor do you want to raise a red flag when the spiders come crawling over your content.  If your keyword density is 20% or more, the search engine will most likely red-flag you for “keyword stuffing” and penalize you by moving you down in the search results.
Thus, keyword density ranges are controversial.  To make things worse, different search engines have different algorithms.  One of them might thing an SEO keyword density of 18% is fine, another may not.
The only way a search engine can figure out just what your page is about is to search for the keywords you use. Those keywords don’t necessarily have to be right there on the page—they can be in the title and in links that will lead to the page.  Having said that, though, keywords that appear on your page are certainly the most common way that search engines use to decide what your page is all about. Keyword density refers to the ratio of keywords to the total number of words on the page.
Now I want you to look again at the paragraph above. There are 95 words total, and I used the word “keywords” exactly five times. The keyword ratio for the paragraph, then, is 5 divided by 95 times 100, or about 5.26%.   Easy math, correct?  You bet.
But how much does that stuff matter?
Well, it’s not a matter of life and death, but it’s pretty important.  You see, when a search engine compares two pages to figure out which one ought to rank higher, keyword density will factor into it—usually pretty significantly.  In fact, all other factors being equal (which is pretty much impossible, but let’s pretend), the page with the higher keyword density will generally rank higher.
However, simple as Keyword Density is, it can also get really complex in a hurry. Do plurals or other stemmed variations of your keyword count as keywords? Should stop words, which are those common words you see all the time like “a” or “the,” be ignored when calculating density?
Should you include off-page content, like meta tags and titles, in your calculations?  What about keyword frequency or keyword proximity or keyword prominence?  And like I’ve said before, bear in mind that if your keyword density gets too high, search engines just might realize it and penalize your page.
But now, hold on.  Even though keyword densities are getting to be a complex science with lots of complicated algorithms, you can do it!
Keyword densities really are not rocket science, so don’t fall into the trap of making things more complicated than they need to be. Go to Google and search on “keyword density.”  The first three pages should be ones that provide about 20 or 25 different tools for calculating KWD.
Now all you have to do is pick one that feels user-friendly to you and use it to optimize your web page, noting the results. Now try something else: run a Google search on your keyword, and run the analysis on the first ten sites.  Take a good hard look at the results.  From this, you should get a good idea how your page will compare with the ten top ranking pages in Google, at least in terms of keyword density.
Here’s the thing that frustrates people, though: if you go and do that with three or four different KWD tools, you will no doubt come up with different numbers, but the graph of those numbers will look very similar. Don’t worry about it, because the numbers aren’t the most important thing.  You only care how they compare to each other.
Something else you’ll probably discover is that keyword density is not a very good indicator of rank. The top ranking page may have a much lower density than the page at number ten, for example.
Why does this happen, when you work so hard to get your keyword density high?  It happens because KWD is only one factor among many. It’s important to a good ranking, but it’s not the be-all and end-all of a good ranking. What you really want to know from your analysis is the range of density values that rank well. Chances are good that if your page is below that range, getting on page one to compete with the big dogs will be tough, and if you’re above that range, the search engines may think you’re “keyword stuffing” and you’ll be penalized. Just remember, though, the numbers are guidelines you should know, not carved-in-stone rules that forever define your fate.  Experiment!
You may hear self-proclaimed website gurus say that keyword density should always run between two and eight percent or whatever the current numbers being quoted in forums across the Internet happen to be.  That’s partly true.  Those numbers are probably fairly accurate for most keywords. They’re based on averages and it’s always good to stick close to an average.
But there’s a problem.  Here’s how the problem goes: the most commonly used letter in English is the letter “E.” If you wrote a ten word sentence, it would be much easier to use the letter E five times in that sentence than it would be to use, say, the letter Z five times. Letters aren’t an even distribution.  Neither are keyword.  Big shock, huh?
Remember what I said earlier about not sounding awkward in your content?  Well, the biggest thing about keyword density is that it must read well and sound very natural to a user.  It’s useless to get a page one ranking if your content is very lame.
Like the letter E, some keywords are easy to use a lot of while still sounding natural.  For instance, if your keyword was “grass” on a site about lawn care, it wouldn’t be hard to use “grass” a lot.
But some keywords just don’t lend themselves to being used a lot—like “quince.”  (It’s a type of fruit.)  Here’s the choice to be made: you can use an average range, which will work well most times, or you can spend time analyzing the top ten pages to find the best range for that particular keyword and be sure you’re not trying to optimize for a Z or a quince.
Frustrated?  Don’t be!  It isn’t that hard.  If you’re still confused, check out a competitor’s page in Google’s cache (which highlights the keywords for you) to get a good visual feel for density.
Another good tip is to perform a “real person sanity check” on your content.  Reading your optimized content out loud several times, and try to get a natural flow that will make the copy draw users who will come back.  Then take a hard look at your content.  If you can substitute a keyword for a pronoun without loosing your flow, do it.
For instance, if your keyword is “hammock”, instead of a sentence saying, “I love to lie in it,” say, “I love to lie in my hammock.”

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Keyword Density Analyzer

See what keywords on your page are seen as most important to the search engines with our Keyword Density Analyzer (KDA). The keyword density targets have been set as the result of extensive research into the algorithms of all the major search engines. Items in red indicate that your keyword density may be too low to rank across all engines. Items in blue indicate that your keyword density may be too high to rank across all engines. This tool can help you adjust your keyword density so that you know you are in the ballpark of what is acceptable to the major search engines for your target keyword. Click Here >

Keyword stuffing was considered to be an unethical search engine optimization (SEO) technique. Keyword stuffing occurs when a web page is loaded with keywords in the meta tags or in content. The repetition of words in meta tags may explain why many search engines no longer use these tags.

Keyword stuffing had been used in the past to obtain maximum search engine ranking and visibility for particular phrases. This method is completely outdated and adds no value to rankings today. In particular, Google no longer gives good rankings to pages employing this technique.

Hiding text out of view of the visitor is done in many different ways. Text colored to blend with the background, CSS “Z” positioning to place text “behind” an image – and therefore out of view of the visitor – and CSS absolute positioning to have the text positioned far from the page center, are all common techniques. As of 2005, some of these invisible text techniques can be detected by major search engines.

“Noscript” tags are another way to place hidden content within a page. While they are a valid optimization method for displaying an alternative representation of scripted content, they may be abused, since search engines may index content that is invisible to most visitors.

Inserted text sometimes includes words that are frequently searched (such as “sex”), even if those terms bear little connection to the content of a page, in order to attract traffic to advert-driven pages.

In the past, Keyword stuffing was considered to be either a white hat or a black hat tactic, depending on the context of the technique, and the opinion of the person judging it. While a great deal of keyword stuffing was employed to aid in spamdexing, which is of little benefit to the user, keyword stuffing in certain circumstances was not intended to skew results in a deceptive manner. Whether the term carries a pejorative or neutral connotation is dependent on whether the practice is used to pollute the results with pages of little relevance, or to direct traffic to a page of relevance that would have otherwise been de-emphasized due to the search engine’s inability to interpret and understand related ideas. This is no longer the case. Search engines now employ themed, related keyword techniques to interpret the intent of the content on a page.
Keyword stuffing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Where to Place Keywords

It is important to stuff your keyword into the title, headings, image alt statements, hyperlinks on the page, hyperlinks pointing to the page and in your general keyword rich text.

How to: Keyword Stuffing

General techniques for keyword stuffing are to use invisible text, the hidden input tag, or back in the day people would duplicate tags or repeat the same word over and over again in the meta keyword tag.

Some people also use the keywords way too often in the visible page copy to where the page reads horrible.

Why Keyword Stuffing is Bad

Using a keyword over and over again, the keyword becomes more and more targeted until it is too rich in density. The page may trip a spam filter or sound goofy to readers…either way the page will not convert.

Search engines such as Yahoo! actively edit their search results. If you are caught keyword stuffing by an editor or competitor your site might get banned. Read More About keyword stuffing>>

Avoiding Keyword Stuffing Ban

Average Keyword Saturation for Google, MSN and Yahoo

When deciding upon keyword placement we all try to get the most out of our target keywords saturation. In the same time no one wants to get penalized by accidentally inserting too many keywords in the page copy, or by including too many words between H1 tags. Since search engines would never publish the exact numbers for maximally alowed keyword frequency or keyword prominence, all we can do is just study top pages in SEPRs and make more or less informed guesses. Or we can conduct an experiment, and calculate the average numbers for top pages in the results of the major search engines: Google, Yahoo! and MSN. For the tables below I used data provided by WebPosition software, which calculates the average scores of the top 5 positions for dozens of keyword searches conducted by WebTrends Inc.

Of course aligning your parameters to the top averages will not guarantee you the high rankings, but it can ensure that your keyword saturation stays within the allowed boundaries. Read More>

Keyword Density or Keyword Stuffing?

Sometimes SEO experts go too far in their desire to push their clients’ sites to top positions and resort to questionable practices, like keyword stuffing. Keyword stuffing is considered an unethical practice because what you actually do is use the keyword in question throughout the text suspiciously often. Having in mind that the recommended keyword density is from 3 to 7%, anything above this, say 10% density starts to look very much like keyword stuffing and it is likely that will not get unnoticed by search engines. A text with 10% keyword density can hardly make sense, if read by a human. Some time ago Google implemented the so called “Florida Update” and essentially imposed a penalty for pages that are keyword-stuffed and over-optimized in general.

Generally, keyword density in the title, the headings, and the first paragraphs matters more. Needless to say that you should be especially careful not to stuff these areas. Try the Keyword Density Cloud tool to check if your keyword density is in the acceptable limits, especially in the above-mentioned places. If you have a high density percentage for a frequently used keyword, then consider replacing some of the occurrences of the keyword with synonyms. Also, generally words that are in bold and/or italic are considered important by search engines but if any occurrence of the target keywords is in bold and italic, this also looks unnatural and in the best case it will not push your page up.

Selecting The Right Keywords.

What is a Googlebot? It is one of the little web-searching spiders (automated) that we talked about in the last section. And these spiders have definite preferences, so you want to make sure your content is good spider food.

Spiders like:

• Neat codeless lines of code than lines of text (or more lines of text than lines of codes.)
• Normal keyword densities of 3-7%.
• Lots of backlinks on pages that link back to your home page. (Top sites have an average of 300 backlinks.)
• Original content not found anywhere else.
• Quick downloads of sites, which means not a lot of dynamic URLS to other sites.
• Site maps.
• ALT Tabs for images.
• Link partners who are contextually relevant to your page (i.e., if your page is about buying real estate, links might about be how to get loans, how to prospect for deals, how to start a corporation but not about pet gerbils, latest fashions, or cell phones.)

• New content every time the spider comes to check up on your site.

Spiders do not like:

• More lines of code than text.
• Nested tables.
• Super-high keyword densities, which they call keyword stuffing.
• Doorway pages that act as a portal and which just happen to have super high keyword densities.
• Too many backlinks to your home page from within your domain.
• Duplicate content from another site regardless of who stole what from whom.
• Lots of dynamic URLs that cause a site to take forever to download.
• Repeating the exact same words in your linking text, which the spider will interpret as automated link swapping. (Interestingly, it is fine for the spiders to be fully automated, but they hate it when we do that!)
• Stale content that never changes.

Definitions of Googlebot on the Web:

* The crawler Google uses on a daily basis to find and index new web pages.
* Google’s main spider which scours the web for pages
* Google’s search spider.
* Google’s Web spider.
* This is the spider or the crawler of Google which crawls web sites monthly. Googlebot will visit and index pages on a daily basis and mark that page in its search results as being fresh.
* Google’s robot scanning the Internet is called GoogleBot. The technology employed in GoogleBots is varied. They all share cache between them. The different spiders include vertical search spiders and spiders associated with ad targeting.
* Name of the indexing robot of Google, which scans the Web from link to link looking for new pages. You may know if googlebot came to visit your site by looking at the log files of your server.
* The agent name of Google’s search engine spider which crawls the web to create its searchable index.
* Google’s main robot. Known as a “spider” it crawls the web and records information about websites as visits them.
* name of searching robot, used by Google.
* A Googlebot is a search bot used by Google. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Googlebot is a search bot used by Google. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine.

If a webmaster wishes to restrict the information on their site available to a Googlebot, or another well-behaved spider, they can do so with the appropriate directives in a robots.txt file, and by adding the meta tag <META NAME=”Googlebot” CONTENT=”nofollow”> to the webpage. Googlebot requests to Web servers are discernible from their user-agent string ‘Googlebot’.

Googlebot has two versions, deepbot and freshbot. Deepbot, the deep crawler, tries to follow every link on the web and download as many pages as it can to the Google indexers. It completes this process about once a month. Freshbot crawls the web looking for fresh content. It visits websites that change frequently, according to how frequently they change. Currently Googlebot only follows HREF links and SRC links.

Googlebot discovers pages by harvesting all of the links on every page it finds. It then follows these links to other web pages. New web pages must be linked to from another known page on the web in order to be crawled and indexed.

A problem which webmasters have often noted with the Googlebot is that it takes up an enormous amount of bandwidth. This can cause websites to exceed their bandwidth limit and be taken down temporarily. This is especially troublesome for mirror sites which host many gigabytes of data. Google provides “Webmaster Tools” that allow website owners to throttle the crawl rate.

You may want to  visit Google ’s support pages about Googlebot for learn more about ;

* Why doesn’t Google index all of the pages of my site?
* Google 101: How Google crawls, indexes, and serves the web
* How often will Googlebot access my web pages?
* Why is Googlebot downloading information from our “secret” web server?
* Can you tell me the IP addresses from which Googlebot crawls so that I can filter my logs?
* How do I prevent Googlebot from following links on my pages?
* What is Feedfetcher, and why is it ignoring my robots.txt file?
* Why is Feedfetcher downloading the same page on my site multiple times?
* What kinds of links does Feedfetcher follow?

What is the Google Dance?

Once a month, and totally unannounced,  Google has a major shift in it’s rankings.  This is when Google “tweaks” is algorithm, and when it updates each sites PageRank and Back Links.
During the month there will be minor changes in rankings.  This is called ‘Everflux’.  But only about once per month does Google Dance, updating the back links and the PageRank.  The dance usually lasts about 3-5 days.  During these days the Google Results will vary widely.

The Google Spider is called Googlebot.  Most sites are revisited by Googlebot only around the Google Dance time.   Read More >

Keyword Frequency is the measure of the number of times a keyword appears on a page, or in an area on a page. Search Engines place importance in the number of times a keyword is listed on your page. In general, the more times a keyword appears on the page, the more relevant it will be to that search.

However, search engines will penalize you for keyword spamming if they feel you were excessive. A standard recommended repetition of each keyword is 3-10 times.

Why is the keyword frequency so important?
- Search engines like Google, Yahoo and AltaVista display results based on secret algorithms. No outsiders know the equations, but we all know that these are based mainly on keyword frequency and link popularity.

Why Keyword Frequency Matters

The first search engine optimisation topic most people come across is meta tag creation. Creating the right meta information is the be all and end all of traffic building as far as many webmasters are concerned. Although there are many other areas we consider to be equally imporant - link popularity, site navigation issues to name just two, successful meta tag creation is still fundamental to the search engine optimisation process.

We have already covered the meta information basics in another Bytestart article, but one area - Keyword Density (also known as Keyword Frequency), warrants an article of its own. Meta Information provides the “shop window” to a website - the Title, for example, is the first thing punters will see when they do a Google search, so it is important to make this tag readable and attractive, without trying to over-optimise it with your chosen keywords. Same goes with the Description tag.

Search engines will take your meta information as a guide to what your website is about. From these snippets of code, the crawlers will determine how relevant the content of a given page is to the meta information you have programmed in the header code. It is therefore important to ensure your keywords appear an optimum number of times within the page in question, without overdoing it.

To rank highly for a given keyword/keyword phrase, your keyword density (keyword frequency) should not be too high or too low. Too high and your page may be deemed as a spammers creation, and penalised. Too low, and the engines will think your content is unrelated to the keywords you have programmed, and rank lowly.

Gone are the “good old days” we remember fondly, when you could create a large number of keyword-rich pages and submit them to the likes of Altavista for a Top 10 ranking. Search engines are wise to this now - they are intolerant of such attempts to skew results. The only way to ensure a good ranking (in a meta sense) is to produce quality content-rich pages, which are genuinely related to the overall subject area you specialise in. In this content, ensure you repeat your prime keyword phrases, but at the same time ensure that the readability of any content isn’t compromised by your search engine optimisation effort!

Keyword Density algorithms will vary from engine to engine. What page text is indexed will also vary. But, fundamentally, if your keyword (or phrase) occurs 5 times in every 100 words viewed by an engine, your keyword density will be 5%. Read More>

There are many things to consider when you go to put keywords in the text of your pages. Most search engines index the full text of each page, so you should put your keywords throughout your text. However, each search engine uses different ranking algorithms. And that’s the really hard part–difficult though it may be, you need to keep all of them in mind.

General rules
Your main page should be full of keywords because that page has a higher chance of being indexed than other pages. And for some search engines, it will be the only page that is indexed.
Some engines will rank your page highly if it has at least 100 words on it, so consider that your minimum. Directories include pages based on the quality of their content, so make sure your pages aren’t just lists of keywords. If you do that, you risk not getting in the big directories AND you will irritate readers—they won’t come back.

Important design concepts
When you create your pages’ content, pay attention to:
Keyword prominence
Proximity
Density
Frequency

The thing about keyword prominence is that the best place to place keywords in your text is at the top of each page, preferably the main page. The closer your keywords appear to the start of the page or the start of a sentence, the better. You’ll frequently see “keyword prominence” used to describe search engines’ algorithms. Be aware that some engines also say the bottom of the page should contain keywords as well.
It gets more complicated. Search engines view pages differently than people do. Here’s an example:

Home About Us Products Contact

Chrome. We’re all about chrome. Chrome bumpers, chrome trinkets, we love chrome.

Now, you may think you did pretty good by putting your keyword, which was obviously “chrome”, at the top of your page. A search engine, however, sees your page this way:
Home About Us Products Contact Chrome We’re all about chrome Chrome bumpers chrome trinkets we love chrome

Now your keyword placement doesn’t look nearly as good as it did before, does it? So the moral of the story is: try to put keyword-rich text at the very top of your page. If you put images at the top of your page, make sure to include ALT tags so the search engine ignores them.
Now, about keyword proximity. Some engines, such as Google, use keyword proximity as part of their ranking formulas. So what’s it mean? Keyword proximity refers to how close keywords are to each other. You want to put your keywords as close together as possible and make sure your sentences are clear.
Here’s an example:

Meow Mix sells the very best cat food as far as taste tests of actual cats are concerned.

versus

Meow Mix scored number one in taste tests to see what kind of food is really preferred by the typical cat.

The two keywords are “cat” and “food.” If a user searches for “cat food,” the first sentence will rank higher because its keywords are closer to each other. Why do search engines do this? Because if you’re searching for “running shoes”, a page that contains “running shoes” is probably relevant, but a page that contains, “I was running late for work and forgot to put on my good shoes,” probably is not.
Why is keyword density important? Because, as I said earlier, it measures how often that particular word comes up. Keyword density is also known as keyword weight. The higher the percentage of keywords in relationship to other text, the higher your page will rank—to point. Many search engines, Google included, have gotten wise to the fact that extremely high keyword densities are probably contrived.
Here’s an example of how keyword density it measured. Let’s assume the keyword phrase is “cat food.”
Cat food is our only business.
Since “is”, “our,” and other stop words are usually not counted, there are three “words” in the sentence: “puppy food,” (which the search engine counts as one word, since that’s what it’s searching for), “only,” and “business.” “Cat food” composes 1/3 of the sentence, or 33%.
Realistically, keyword density is almost never this high, nor should it be or your copy will sound very contrived. The recommended density is 3-7%. This means that your keyword should repeat 3-7 times for every 100 words.
Sure, that may not sound hard, but believe me–having 10 keywords and trying to repeat each one 3-7 times per 100 words of text is practically impossible. Instead of trying to do that (and having copy that sounds really weird), pick two or three of your most important keywords and try to use them 3-7 times for every 100 words.
So what about keyword frequency? Keyword frequency is a measure of the number of times keywords occur within a page’s text. It’s kind of related to the concept of keyword density. The thinking is that search engines want to see a word used more than once to make sure it’s something you’re really talking about. The best number of times to repeat a key word is 3-7 times.
Don’t get overly clever and try to use tiny or invisible text to put keywords at the beginning of your pages. Search engines look for this, and when they find it they call it spam and they’ll probably reject your site for it.
So, in a nutshell, you want to:
· Include at least 100 words in page text
· Use keywords at the beginning of the page
· Place keywords close to each other
· Repeat keywords 3-7 times for every 100 words