Sadly my Adsense revenue via Hubpages has hit the Google fan being shredded into a bloody gore of lifeless pulp. I figured that the goodness would not last given Google’s on-again/off-again dance with Hubpage content. Unfortunately I figured correct.

Tracking a couple of my best keywords in which I use across various platforms including WordPress.com, Tumblr, Squidoo, self hosted, and until recently, the withering Hubpages, I find myself well regarded in Google’s sphere. The first couple of pages shows my prowess at ranking for my keyword within all those entities, until about 10 days ago when my Hubpage splattered itself into the bowels of the Google beast.

Unfortunately this occurred across many of my Hubpages. I was first concerned with my lack of Google earnings, cut well in half for the earnings period. Then upon noticing the ranking tankage decided to spend a few days lifting the pages via content improvement and additions. It has done little good for either my earnings or page rankings.

It is an annoyance. Google has flaunted Hubpages’ relevance time and again. Their constant algorithm jerk-offs leaves little consistency in the rankings. I have no idea if this is related to my personal mis-fortune with Hubpages/Google or if more people are seeing a revenue/ranking decline recently.

I really don’t care.

Neither Hubpages nor Adsense on Hubpages is worth the time and effort to get bent. I despise Adsense. I despise Google. I am completely ambivalent to Hubpages. If I can make some passive Adsense cash then that’s great. But I will not spend time chasing a payout from Google.

So I will push ahead undaunted in my desire to collect affiliate payouts. I stood peering into the shadows at my favorite urinal at the gym when something caught my eye above the rim. Advertisements from local enterprises. I made note of one sales page full of products and juicy keywords that I will collect onto a webpage over this weekend.

I try to stay alert for potential opportunities. I am a scavenger. Motivated marketers are keen on doing a grand job of determining what will sell for their product masters. I enjoy slinking about and snitching their ideas. They pay thousands of dollars for marketing advice. I simply pay attention.

For the last 6 months or so I have attempted to regale you with my worldly views during the few times I poke my head out of the weeds. It has been a tiresome exercise and mostly a complete failure. This train wreck was my ambition to collapse two blogs into one and turn a relatively successful make money online blog into something more general because I was sick of hearing myself wax poetic SEO prose.

Lost Ball suffered greatly. 5 of my 11 readers split as far as I can tell. Writers are egotistical. I figured if readers liked me greasing the keys with well placed words on building websites then surely they would love to know my view on more cerebral topics. My ego swelled and deflated in a matter of 6 months. So be it.

My other website, that started out as a rant against the imperial federal government machine, was ignored like cartoons in a whorehouse. Funny thing was it got more traffic sitting idle than this piece of shit did with weekly updates. I hadn’t looked at the stats in months. Nor did I look at the comments. I had awesome leftist comments detailing my retardation. I had folks in conservative networks wishing to add me to their  readership and requests for articles. Ignoring that site was moronic.

Therefore:

as of today I will return Lost Ball back into the sewage from whence it came. Perhaps I will be motivated to discuss my efforts at making money online. It’s still as unproductive and ugly as you remember. If nothing else I suppose I will have the inclination to “review” the gross affiliate marketing “products” floating in my web sewer.

Looking around it sure feels lonely as most MMO folks have ceased their online journey. Guess they are boogieing offline to the sounds of Amway or some shit. However, I have unhitched my raft, lit my lantern, covered myself with my cloak  and with a twirl of my wind blown mustache have eased back into the mist shrouded web sewer with renewed vigor.

You will note that all survival, government, political bullshit posts have been removed from this blog. They have found a new home on Lipskip.com. Comments were boxed up and included with the move. I appreciated the efforts many of you made in voicing your opinion. I felt it was my duty to preserve your thoughts.

By all means please visit Lipskip (fucking stupid name) if you have an interest in what I might say about the government and survival. If nothing else I hope to irritate big government adherents.

One thing that will change on this pile of excrement is that eventually, assuming anyone bothers visiting, I will place advertisements into the white space in the hopes of capturing the clicks of search engine first time visitors. Long time fuckers will necessarily dismiss the monetization efforts. Hopefully my hypocrisy will not stray too far between my loathing of affiliate marketing products and my desire to stack crisp federal notes.

Apologies for the bullshit.

I hope you were paying attention the last couple of weeks as the powerful government lobbyists worked hard to have their representatives in D.C. pass SOPA and PIPA. You were lucky, dear friends, that entities like Wikipedia, Reddit, Google and some 7,000 other websites took a stand FOR freedom. Left, right, conservatives, Socialists, it didn’t matter. People may not care about a free reality but do not take away their virtual freedom.

The Internet stands against tyranny.

I laughed out loud as reports indicated that Anonymous took down DoJ, RIAA,MPAA and Universal Music. Anonymous reported on Twitter: ““Tango Down! JUSTICE.gov – U.S. Government Website DOWN!”.

Awesome stuff. The battle lines are drawn.

Don’t misunderstand me dear reader: piracy is not honorable. Stealing is immoral.

Isn’t it just a little coincidental that the FBI swooped down in helicopters, seizing millions in property and shuttering numerous websites soon after SOPA and PIPA were tabled? Like the government was saying, “you know, we have the authority, the POWER, to shut these sites down whether it is signed law or not.”

Don’t think for a minute that it was all about stopping a rogue outfit distributing Hollywood content with abandon. No, as The Daily Reckoning reported:

…the trendline with Megaupload was clearly toward using the space to launch new artists with new content: not piracy but creativity. As Wired.uk wrote, this crackdown came shortly after Megaupload announced music producer Swizz Beatz — married to Alicia Keys — as their CEO. They had rallied a whole host of musicians including Will.i.am, P Diddy, Kanye West and Jamie Foxx to endorse the cloud locker service. Megaupload was building a legitimate system for artists to make money and fans to get content.

What’s this all about? It is some powerful corporate lobbyists trying to prevent the emergence of an alternative system of art and music delivery, one powered by people rather than merely the well- connected.

The U.S. government is corrupt and sick with the lobbyist cancer. More from The Daily Reckoning:

This is the battle for whether the digital age is permitted to exist in an atmosphere of free speech, free association, free enterprise, and real property rights, or whether it will be controlled by government in conjunction with aging media moguls from monopolistic corporate oligarchies. The lines are clearly drawn, and it is taking place in real time.

I cannot imagine a life not being free. I refuse to believe that even the wanna-be Marxists running around this country really hope to achieve a collectivism that would infringe on their rights. But this is where we are. I can only imagine how many hypocritical Socialists who have supported ever expansive government the last 10 years were actually on the front lines of stopping SOPA and PIPA.

The government is at war against its citizens. Power and control. Piracy controls are just a tip of the their spear. You’ll eventually have to decide if you prefer to be among the collectivists collecting scraps from their government master’s table or if you want to be free and choose liberty.

I support the protests over SOPA and PIPA. Bravo to Reddit, Wikipedia, WordPress, Google among others protesting these ridiculuos bills. I thought about Lost Ball going black but figured it already is.

My government is the scourge of this earth. Too much power wielded by officials bent on controlling vast swaths of your life. Too much power bought by lobbyists with no interest in the good of the Republic. From the Patriot Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, Obamacare, to the proposed SOPA legislation, lobbyists are spending mountains of money to control how you live and how they enrich their lives.

Hollywood executives have reportedly spent upwards of $90 million to enact SOPA. Unfortunately they are focused only on piracy, which is bad of course. Unfortunately these things have, as they say, unintended consequences. The bill is so freaking broad that supposedly if I link, or a commenter links, to a web listing that is dubious as far as their copyrights, then my site could get shut down.

Imagine what that must be like for Reddit, Tumblr or WordPress.

A day doesn’t go by that I am not thoroughly disgusted with my government. The asshats that are in charge in D.C. are incredibly stupid. Very few are responsible citizens that believe in this Republic and wish to preserve it. For most it is a power trip. A means to enrich themselves at our expense.

What is it going to take to wake people up?

One day, and it may begin the day Obama is re-elected, there will be significantly more chatter about State secession. Our 2nd Amendment rights will be assaulted like no other time. The police state will be suffocating. But more and more people will want out of the federal system.

Many will leave the country. Many won’t have the means. And they will begin wondering what the point of being in the federal system is. A second civil war in this country would not surprise me at all.

Sorry, I wandered off tangent. How did I get from SOPA to civil war? Crazy right? Maybe not.

There will be something that the government does, maybe SOPA, that will piss enough people off in this country en masse, where they will demand real government change.

Taking away the only freedom people know, the Internet, the WWW, just maybe the catalyst to get people, young and old, rich and poor, all colors, finally paying attention to what this government is doing.

I’m no fan of Google but I suppose a few people that peruse the droppings of this blog are. Google just PO’d the technical sensibilities of the writers over at Gizmodo. It’s difficult to imagine any serious technical pop writer dissing their darlings: Google (or Apple), yet here we are. Apparently Google splooged their algorithms again to get the most out of their Plus social excrement.

From Gizmodo’s article “Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine“:

Google changed the way search works this week. It deeply integrated Google+ into search results. It’s ostensibly meant to deliver more personalized results. But it pulls those personalized results largely from Google services—Google+, Picasa, YouTube. Search for a restaurant, and instead of its Yelp page, the top result might be someone you know discussing it on Google Plus. Over at SearchEngineland, Danny Sullivan has compiled a series of damning examples of the ways Google’s new interface promotes Plus over relevancy. Long story short: It’s a huge step backwards.

The thing is most people think Google is some kind of benevolent utility created to provide free search results for the surfing herd. In fact their purpose as a public company is to provide shareholder value. In short: to make fat stacks of cash. Maybe the search results will suck but some boardroom pinhead has decided that getting more out of Plus is a way to create more wealth. Whatever. I don’t really care if their results are lacking or not. But it’s fun to watch those that do care twist and shout.

I spent the last two weeks vacationing in Orlando. I had a glorious time in Disney World and Universal blowing through my clicktastic winnings from the past year. The playgrounds were fantastic and the family had an enjoyable time. Spending time with my family at enjoyable locations such as this is the reason I bother creating websites for the consuming herd. That and adding to my soon to be worthless USD saving accounts.

I am constantly amazed at the efficiency of Disney. If only they were in charge of the TSA. You would have friendly employees that care about your well-being. They could rapidly deliver proper security service at maximum speed. Traffic through the gates would move at an even pace allowing you to quickly be on your way to wherever your destination is. The challenges of arriving and leaving Disney parks within the herd is mitigated by their unbelievable competence, unlike anything to do with the TSA, or government, for that matter.

This year was my first visit to Universal. The differences between it and Disney couldn’t be more stark. They are both fun parks but one is an experience, the other is a destination. You experience Disney. Universal is a funhouse. I thought about the differences and concluded Disney has a single point of reference to always rally around: Walt Disney. It is singularly focused. Universal does not have a reference point.

Universal has better rides. The Hulk. Rip Rockit Coaster (wow!). The kids loved the Harry Potter ride. Of all the rides I have ever ridden it is the only one that completely nauseated me. The Simpson Ride (hilarious and insanely visual). Terminator 3D which is not a ride but a live action 3D movie. The Mummy. Spiderman. Etc., etc.

I had to laugh at Universal. I think outside Rio beaches there was probably not a larger concentration of skinny plastic Brazillian chicks roaming the planet. It was astonishing to see the massive chest inflatables as well as over processed facial work. What is up with all this fake body work?

Anyway, Disney is still our favorite. The employees are friendlier. The people visiting are happier. Families with older teenagers, particularly boys, will probably dig Universal more. Younger families will feel more comfortable at Disney.

It was nice to take a break from the drudgery of office droning as well web slinging. I allowed myself time to check out a new tool and update some Squidoo properties as well as a blog or two. Nothing taxing. I didn’t stand by and watch the world continue its burn either. Blissfully unaware of political bullshit and economic catastrophe. It was a grand time. Now on to Christmas!

I am a web sewer magician always looking for tools to make my experience more enjoyable and ultimately profitable. Keywords give me sustenance for without quality word collections my lantern dims upon the bow of my raft as I float among the shit looking for the bright lights of clickers. I have found such a tool that provides me with copious amounts of orderly keywords to snack upon.

Christmas came early for your favorite splork. Seems one of my 4 or 5 readers decided to allow me access to their latest invention. I have seen keyword tools come and go. A couple I used that sank to the bottom of the pipe were The Keyword Academy’s Niche Refinery then Keyword Tool Dominator. I gave up on MS and MNF as well.

Anyway the tool is Keyword Researcher (If you feel generous you can click here on my affiliate link for his tool).These days I am not really looking to compete with keywords. I simply need new ideas for keywords and then try to dominate those long tail word collections as long as possible. I’m not going for typical 2-3 word keywords. I’m going for the easier long, long keywords. 4-6 words. If you follow Fraser’s Keyword Strategy you know what I mean. These loong keywords are great but how to come up with them?

Keyword Researcher creates lists of keywords you can use. If you need keywords and ideas I can happily recommend you give this tool a go. Give the trial a whirl, sit back and give your mustache a twirl while it works to bestow upon you keyword exaltation.

Yahoo spammers are working their magic again after a short respite. Seems they have moved on to the online Maine newspaper to get out their sewage listings.

Note the trends in Yahoo.

Seems the actress, Hilary Swank, is promoting a lose weight program which as we know from previous spam machine spew, is not the case. Click on the Yahoo story and you will find yourself on the Bangor Daily News.

Tasty no?

Note the previous story. Who knew Justin Bieber had a diet program? The next story is Lindsay Lohan’s lose weight program. Awesome. Interesting that Hilary, Justin and Lindsay all have the same exact lose weight program. The salespage is identical. Huh. If you read the claptrap you will find an affiliate link to click for your enjoyment.

Right now, this very second, this shithead has 20% of the listings in the Yahoo trends solely for lose weight programs for a celebrity. Brilliant.

Fuck spammers and Yahoo.

BTW, I highly recommend using the search engine Startpage, “The only search engine that does not record your IP address.” They use Google’s listings but keep your search private. Plus it is fully encrypted.

Q: So, Startpage uses Google Web results. Is my privacy still protected? Completely. Startpage works under the same strict privacy policy as Ixquick; we don’t store any personal data (like your IP address) and don’t pass on any of this data to third parties, including Google. This way you will get Web results from the most popular search engine with the privacy protection from the world’s most private search engine Ixquick.com.

Fuck Google.