The Core

Their sales are said to be on target for around $2 Billion this fiscal year, seems that they have picked the right time to IPO - their growth has to plateau soon.

Best time to sell assets is during their boom, before they're bust.

nope, but Dave @purecontent is a good guy to sort out Google News issues if you've hit a brick wall.

Gurtie, you think a cold approach to him would be fine?

One of my big mainstream sites has been kicked out from Google News.

I presumed there wasn't enough extra info on the site so put it through redevelopment, expanded the team on it, and reapplied for inclusion - but was stunned to receive an email stating that the site "violated Google's quality guidelines" and therefore cannot be included.

When I sent a follow up email asking what the issue was, Google refused to say. I have no idea what the problem is - this is supposed to be a nice clean site - and it's my biggest earning site, so obviously I'm keen to try and address any perceived issue.

I need a way to be able to talk with Google about this, however, Google have obviously put up a brick wall.

Anyone know anyone on the inside who could possibly help, please?

Google are peeing me off so I've finally decided to try and wean myself from Google dependency - that means killing Google Analytics and finding an alternative to Adsense.

Periodically I receive emails from one company or other offering YPN ads for use, but my cynicism suspects being royally ripped off by these people.

In which case, my questions are:

1. Are there any decent companies to run YPN ads through if not able to sign up directly with Yahoo?
2. Is there a relatively simple and painless way to register for YPN contextual advertising?

Even felching and rimming goes to kittens 

Still, with a little imagination...

http://www.wdyl.com/#changing+at+baker+street

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Change+at+Baker+Street 

Ed

PS Yes I'm 34 and I still read Viz.

Okay, I thought I was worldly wise until I read this.

As a publisher consider this an absolutely awful development - makes a complete mockery of being strong in a niche, especially when the clicks used to pay well - as now CTR has gone right down and the ads are often for lower paying niches.

As a user, what I find especially frustrating is when I visit a website for research and end up with their ads following me everywhere - or even worse, I've already bought, but the ads still follow.

I'd be impressed if chrome was entirely free of patent disputes, but what I find somewhat surprising is that rather than go after Google for patent violation, Apple was targeting HTC and trying to block sales of their products.

For "How to create content that does this!" you forgot to add:

ensure you have quality writers in the first place

I was going to type "no Indians" but recently I've been taking on UK freelance journos who quote national papers on their resume, but I find their work quite poor and over-priced. Luckily, in that sort of arrangement, you only pay for what you use, and easy to reject what's not suitable.