It’s only just come to my attention that Clickbank have removed their HopAds service. If you were not familiar with it, it allowed you to create ads for Clickbank products that could be displayed on your webpages. The ads were keyword driven (you’d provide a keyword and Clickbank would serve up ads for products about that keyword). There’s very little online discussion about the demise of the service. Here’s the copy of an email Clickbank sent me (which I initially … 
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, the Google Penguin update resulted in many legitimate online businesses and quality websites getting penalized by Google and plummeting in the search engine rankings. It’s not an overstatement to say that many people’s businesses were killed off overnight.
It’s now been a few months since the Penguin Terminator was set loose and concrete data about what exactly it was doing has been gathered. There was a lot of speculation about this in SEO …
