Who is failure – another Google Bomb

Danny sullivan has reported another Google Bomb and this time,Obama is the target.The phrase for which the bomb has been done is “who is failure”.Here is a screenshot [iam taking a snap since this might not be available soon if google takes action,like it has done in the past]:

 

Revenue of about.com web site – what do you think it would be?

I have always been impressed by the quality and the amount of content available in sites like about.com.Recently,i came across an article in RWW about mega-content sites.It had said that answers.com makes about at least 1.5 million every month [the data is a little different and i do not remember exactly;you can refer the article for exact figures].So that made me think about the revenue of about.com.What do you think would be the revenue of about.com?I am very sure that it is in the range of millions of dollars each month.But the exact figures?Nobody knows in fact.

 

What does google have to say about this?

 

So i turned to google for help and this is the best information i have got regarding my quest to finding revenue of about.com:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=767877

 

Here is the key point found in this article:

About.com had revenues of about $2.2 million a month for the first
half of 2005.  By 2006, revenues had almost tripled, to almost $6.4
million.  Who knows what it is at present?

The fact that the revenue of about is greater that of the answers.com is of no surprise to me.I am very sure you are not surprised either.

Pubcenter ads – Do they make a difference?

well, i agree that pubcenter wants to be a strict competitor to the adsense network but have you seen the ads by pubcenter?Here is one of them:

 

This ad was spotted on hubpages and as you could see,it is possible to show a thick black border below the ads.But doesn’t that look strange?It even looks a bit unprofessional.Anyway,it is great to see that these pubcenter ads are different [in terms of looks] than the adsense or overture.Hope there are many more customizations like these that could be made by web masters.Going off the track and trying new ad looks is definitely going to help all publishers relying heavily on these sort of ad networks.

 

And do you think that the above pubcenter ads will perform insanely in terms of the CTR?I guess yes.Despite the terrible look of the ad,i am quite sure that the CTR will be a little high.