Working at Home on the Internet

All Hail the Googlement! Or Else

Sign in to your Google AdSense account in the past couple of days? No…?

This is what greets you!

Why do they say Please Review when you don’t have a choice? You get Three Options for now… until May 25th

• I Agree
• Remind Me Later
• Disagree (cannot use AdSense)

After May 25th you either accept their dictates or you can’t use AdSense on your Site(s) even if you have been with the program for years.

And now for the Bad News…

You have to have a privacy policy that fits “THEIR” program and include a user option for cookie management? How do you do that? I don’t know, but I’ll have to find out if I want to use AdSense on any of my sites. And so will you.

I am really beginning to think that Google wants to OWN the Internet.

Google is the Largest Search Engine

They want you to use the Google Toolbar so they can track your Internet usage (supposedly to enhance your experience)

They dictate how we can and can’t be indexed for SEO (don’t kid yourself, the other SE’s follow their lead)

It USED to be Ok to have other Advertising on your site as long as it wasn’t contextual, until they decided that ANY text ads were bad.

Google fell Out of Love with non-US publishers although they may (or may not) be reconsidering that decision.

They said that Page Rank was your Authority on a Subject. They changed that to your authority as they see fit as long as you play by their rules.

Now this.

What’s next? You won’t be able to have your own Blog unless it fits the Blogger mold? You can’t have anything indexed unless you belong to Google Services? If you ask nicely on bended knee, the Great and Powerful Google will grant your wish?

All Hail the Googlement! Hail Caesar! Heil Hitler!

Glad I got that out, but I think it will get a lot worse trying to work on the internet before it gets better.

If you want an easy to understand overview of all the Changes to the AdSense TOS you should read JenSense’s post on all the changes. She is a lot nicer than I about this whole thing.

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February 28th, 2008 at 05:54am | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Google | reader remarks | Print This Post

Share Your Home Business Story With Us

Everybody has a story and we’d like to hear yours.

I have told you about some of my difficult friends wanting computer help for nothing, how I deal with some of the hazzards of working at home and the freedom to deal with whatever you feel like when you get the urge. Heck, I even shared the experience of spouses working together separately in the same house.

Now it’s your turn.

Tell us a story, please… It can be something funny that has happened when you first started your business. Maybe something that you made mistakes with or some of your greatest triumphs. Tell us how you started, where your ideas came from, how you handle difficut clients, how you made some serious decisions about your business.

This is open to any home business person with a story to share, it doesn’t have to be just working on the internet. I am sure there are some good stories involving writers, freelancers or even B&B’s. Whatever your self employed situation, you are invited to participate.

Only a couple of rules (there’s always rules, huh?)

Send your article via my contact form to be posted here.

Share in comments (if it is a short story)

Put a link to your own article in comments (if there are enough, I will have a link post w/captions).

NO SPAM (This goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway)

So, Share Your Home Business Story With Us!

February 5th, 2008 at 01:43pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Community, Work at Home | reader remarks | Print This Post

Another Milestone for WAHI… 100,000 Spam Comments Blocked!

 Not all that long ago I was talking to a blogger friend and she was not only disappointed with the small amount of comments she had gotten on her blog (she is not an active blogger presently, or I would link) BUT she actually complained that she had gotten -0- Spam comments.

I understand what she was saying… “even the spammers aren’t interested”. Well, let me tell you what I told her.

“Getting real comments from real readers is probably the best thing that any blogger could want, BUT SPAM SUCKS!”

Right now I am sitting here waiting, just waiting…

99,949 Spam caught by Akismet.

99,967 Spams…

(I have FastStone Capture ready and waiting…)

99,971… (seems to be stuck here, maybe they are watching SuperBowl Pre-game shows?)

I don’t know how all these guys have the patience to get that screenshot that shows an Event like this! This is probably the First and Last time I am just waiting for Spammers to Spam me. I know that if I go somewhere and do something else, I’ll end up missing this hallmark.

Ok

It seems everybody stopped Spamming to go watch the SuperBowl (nothing has changed in an hour), so, this is where I’m going to leave it until tomorrow. Hopefully, the Spammers will have REALLY BIG HANGOVERS so I can catch the Big 100,000 mark on screen.

Here’s the Pre-Historic Pic

I’ll really be keeping an eye on this, so if anything happens during the game (well, half time) I’ll update. If not, stay tuned tomorrow to see the final screenshot numbers. I have no doubt it will be over the 100k mark.

Update1: It is now 9:01pm EST and we’re up to 99,989 I think we will break the 100k tonight.

Update2: Just as soon as the SuperBowl was finished (NY 17 NE 14) it started again, I can’t believe I actually caught this!

History Has Happened

I guess the next Spam Milestone will be 250k? Stay tuned for the Never Ending Story…

February 3rd, 2008 at 06:02pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Spam, Stastics | 1 reader remark | Print This Post