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So there really are a LOT ways of getting your blog ripped off. I think I’ve had maybe 4 or 5 of the top dozen rip offs happen to me. Actually, getting ripped off on a daily basis is my number one source of traffic. Unless I write some special piece, people coming to steal my pictures, is where about 40 percent of my blog traffic comes from. People LOVE, LOVE, LOVE stealing pictures off the internet. Listen I’m not gonna lie; every day I go looking for pictures on the internet too. But usually I try leave the source of the picture ON the capture if it’s from a news source. If it’s an old picture the name might not be on there. But pictures are NOT the only way people will try to rip off your blog . Sometimes they’ll take the actual content-word for word AND your pictures that might go with the article. One of MY most visited posts is people coming to read how some guy in Hong Kong is stealing one of my post . That was my first time having somebody steal my blog content and MAKE MONEY from it. I wrote that piece about 2 weeks after I started working on this blog back in October. And I guess I was just shocked that TWO WEEKS into it somebody would steal my content and put some adsense up and not give it a second thought. Those are called Splogs by the way. Spam Blogs. (You can read the comments section on THIS PIECE to see info about my most recent word for word content theft). But here’s another case; about 2 weeks after I joined Entrecard I found somebody doing this…

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So no doubt about it Adsense is totally screwed up this week. They have definitely got some problems. I started seeing weird numbers maybe around Tuesday and so I went out on the web looking for what exactly the nature of the problem was. The only thing I found was a link that it turned out to be Darren’s famous Problogger site. I left a comment telling some dude that the numbers do eventually settle down, but that the Adsense panel would give you temporary bad numbers for about 12 hours. And when I went back today my comment wasn’t there. Now I have left maybe one or 2 comments over there before, usually NOT agreeing with the ProBlo. Like for example this CRAP called Twitter that everybody seems to be jumping up and down about. So maybe I’ve been “banned” but I also keep a browser open for 4 and 5 days so sometimes it browser can get funky if you do as much web stuff as I do and not close it. So maybe the comment didn’t go through. But ProBlo did have a link to the Adsense current known issues .Those updates over there are pretty sparse, but I will at least confirm there’s a problem. And I use PPC on some of my site, so I’ve disabled that for now because I can’t monitor my cost to earnings accurately. AND if you use PPC I strongly recommend doing the same for now . For instance right NOW, Thursday night, I’m getting multiple readings showing click numbers that don’t add up to the total.

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