You know how Google always tells you that you shouldn’t cloak?
And you also know what their position is on keyword stuffing?
Well, aparently Google has been keyword stuffing their own pages and delivering different pages to visitors than what they feed their own robot GoogleBot.
There’s an interesting article (Google Caught Cloaking - Keyword Stuffing Titles) over at Threadwatch about this whole situation.
Whether this was by accident or on purpose doesn’t really matter. A company such as Google must never ever allow such things to go live.
Basic change management with a good technical review of the pending change would have easily caught this. Having such a thing go live must simply never happen.
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March 9th, 2005
My experimental affiliate program fuelled passive income book website just hit another milestone.
On March 8 the site reached the level of search engine visitors that it got in the entire month of January.
February saw double the number of search engine visitors than January, and if the traffic continues at the same pace, then March will see 3 or 4 times as many search engine visitors than January.
And the cool thing about it all is that I wont have to work 3 or 4 times as many hours as I did in January 
I put in the system once, which took a bit of time because I had to code it all from scratch. Then I’ve improved the system a few times by spending a few evenings coding some additional functionality.
I still have lots of ideas for more functionality, and will be implementing them when I feel the need to spend some time programming.
The beauty of it all is that it’s total passive income. It doesn’t matter if I don’t work on it for several months - the site will still produce income. The daily income will, in fact, increase over time as more and more pages gets indexed in the search engines.
And the system is now at a stage where I’m beginning to look at using it on additional passive income websites.
And that’s another benefit of passive income. Once you have a system in place it’s just a question of duplicating it to increase the income. And site #2, 3 and 4 is so much easier to launch than the original “blueprint” site.
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March 9th, 2005