Just checking the Search Engine Results Pages for TheShishaShop.com and it seems that the term “shisha flavours” gets good ranking as follows:

Engine         Rank
Yahoo          2
Yahoo UK     1
Google         15
Google UK    9
MSN            22
MSN UK       18

Please note, by UK this is meant that search results are filtered to only include results from UK.

Abit of work is still required to optimise Google and MSN, but this should be achieveable when the new front end gets installed.

Google PR Update
A check on Page Rank here confirms that VSNetwork has been given a PR of 1, its just that not every Google PR server has this updated, nevermind, its a start!

Less than a day passes after receiving a Google Page Rank 1 and what happens? It’s taken away! Curses and other blocked words are again being directed towards Google for once again screwing us over! 

SITES UPDATE
Because of a lack of time, updates were not made to many sites including the and domains that have recently a lot of traffic from SERP based on searches for Valentines Day related keywords. Essentially, this is a big blow but what is clear is that these domains can be used for either online ecommerce stores selling adult related gifts, clothing lines, fragrances etc… or use as an affiliate hub… Or maybe, one for each? With some SEO and promotion, this could work. Valentines is too late now, however, Amazon aStore may be the solution for the short term here…

Tokyo Drift has been getting steady traffic since its inception, sadly since Google killed the Adsense account a while back, most of the traffic had been wasted, well a new Adsense account that had been sitting dormant for quite a while was activated and within a day was converting. A closer look at the domain and what could be added to improve the ROI is clear, more pages, more content, more targeted ads including ebay, Amazon, Itunes and adsense! The Fast and the Furious universe includes 3 movies, 3 soundtracks, possible spin-offs and not forgetting biographies, cast news, RSS feeds and more. The idea is, once the site is complete, automate the process so that news is added every other day automatically. This could potentially be used as a template for a lot more projects…

VSNetwork will get a face lift soon as it is a bit over due now, Site links will be added to the main page to prvide more back links for all other sites, this should improve SERPS, thats the theory anyway.

Well it’s certainly not the greatest achievement but it can certainly be said, “about bloody time!”. The Blog has been quiet for some time with focus more on news articles than actual news of projects that are being worked on. In fairnesses, alot of the projects are on hold.

Sadly, the main ambitions were lost, for a while at least, but now are back. So what exactly is the goal? To create and document the online Property Portfolio of Websites under the Virtual Solutions Network.

These sites will be a combination of brand new sites built from scratch, addresses niche areas, while others will use turnkey systems as the core with fresh content built around them. Finally, there will also be sites that are purchased for redevelopment and resale. Look out for more fresh updates for this site as they are posted including information on the t status of the current portfolio.

The goal is to also add fresh articles on Promotional techniques and SEO, as these tools will essentially market the sites and build their popularity.

Checking through the weblogs, this interesting search query was found within the refferals from MSN:

http://search.msn.co.uk/…

Now this query was made by someone else who had also been screwed over(not surprisingly, that person decided to use MSN instead of Google search) over alleged Click Fraud. Having a look at the results, VSNetwork.co.uk came up in third and fourth spots, but there are many other sites that were screwed over:

http://www.domainblog.net

http://www.itsmyjourney.com

http://business.timesonline.co.uk <-- Really good article here

Who needs Google Adsense anyway? Right? If you have also been screwed over by Google, please feel free to leave a comment.

Alot has happened in the last 3 weeks, especially with TheShishaShop.com project that has taken alot of time and resources. Other significant news relates to Google and its Adsense network. We were accused of click fraud and have had our account terminated! More on than later on as additional posts are added to make up for the last three weeks!

In quite a surprising move, here an email that was recieved from Google:

” It has come to our attention that invalid clicks and/or impressions
have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have
therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that
this was a necessary step to protect the interest of the AdWords
advertisers.

A publisher’s site may not have invalid clicks or impressions on any
ad(s), including but not limited to clicks and/or impressions generated
by:

- a publisher on his own web pages
- a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads
- automated clicking programs or any other deceptive software
- a publisher altering any portion of the ad code or changing the
layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads for any reason

These or any other such activities that violate Google AdSense Terms
and Conditions and program polices may have led us to disable your
account. The Terms and Conditions and program polices can be viewed at:

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_GB
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_GB

Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further
participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The
earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected
advertisers.

If you feel that this decision was made in error, and can maintain in
good faith that the invalid activity was not due to the actions or
negligence of you or those you are responsible for, such as employees
and family members, you may appeal the closing of your account. To do
so, please contact us only through this form:

http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/request.py?contact=invalid_clicks_appeal&hl=en_GB

If Google decides to evaluate your appeal, we will do our best to
inform you quickly and will proceed with appropriate action as
necessary. If we have reached a decision on your appeal, subsequent or
duplicate appeals may not be considered.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team”

This of course was a ridiculous and outragous claim and an immediate appeal was made! This decision by Google has greatly affected the VSNetwork of sites including live sites such as TokyoDriftTheSoundtrack.com and PowerTheBrain.com. Let’s up Google decides to do the right thing and re-enable the account!

Here’s an update on the VSnetwork SERP:

Following on from another Adwords experiment, the same principle will be applied to the following advert:

Seen FF3:Tokyo Drift Yet?
You’ve Seen the Movie Now
Get the Thumping Soundtrack!
www.TokyoDriftTheSoundtrack.com

At the moment, the Adwords campaign is sitting comfortably in the position 1 Adwords slot, the budget for the keyword has been altered slightly to be placed in the position 2 slot. This experiment will be stopped tonight before 12am.

Its been known for until a week or so that the web bots have been slowly indexing the site, however, its been surprising that Google was the last to do this and finally (as of the weekend) Google has added VSnetwork to their results pages.

The total number of pages that have been indexed are as follows:

Yahoo : 12

Google : 10

MSN : 86

Total : 108

The tool used to find this information will be released soon for public use to check on their own stats. Interestingly, MSN seems to favour blog sites as it already has the most pages indexed with 86 pages although, there isn’t actually 86 pages yet, so it takes into account all the separate categories available.

An experiment has been setup using a high Adwords daily budget that will run for only one day. This is effectively the money that was recieved for the two sales from last week. The goal is to determine just how much can be made from effectively one days Adword bombing campaign.

Once this experiment is complete (Tuesday 11:59pm) its very unlikely that the Adword account will be used again. Fingers crossed, hopefully there will be unleast two more completed transactions!