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Our cul-de-sac has a halloween tradition of building a fire and having a potluck at the end of the street.  It’s a great place to catch up with the happenings in the neighborhood and chatting about all sorts of topics. One of the topics that came up was the recent acqusition of Wink by Reunion.com [...]

Just to share with the world some of the pain we’re seeing.  Here’s the current graph of the rate of pages crawled per day by GoogleBot. As you can see, we’re on a trend down…  This is absolutely insane!  We’ve got 60,000 pages on our site, at a rate of 400 per day we’re looking [...]

Well, it looks increasing they CPC rate to $0.55 has improved the impressions.  I’ve logged an additional 1,200 impressions in the last day.  I’ve also now gotten 12 clicks (up from 800 impressions an 0 clicks yesterday).  This now is showing a total over the run of a 0.73% CTR. The good part is that [...]

Background: Wink has had no end of problems with Google.  It roots back to our book marking service which was overwhelmed with spammers.  At one point I estimated that 75% of our new user registrations were link farm spammers.  Over many months I’ve cracked down on these abuses and with the re-launch of our service [...]