Oral SeymourEntrepreneur. Internet, Technology, Social Networking and Search Engine Enthusiast………

I found out through a thread on DigitalPoint Forums today that adlogger is dead. I didn’t want to believe so I did a couple tests myself to confirm this.

Here is a quote from the Grown up Geek blog.

“Unfortunately the development of AdLogger has been put to a halt. Due to some recent changes in the Google AdSense program, AdLogger has been rendered inaccurate and useless. Despite the best efforts to circumvent these changes and maintain a high level of accuracy, our developers could not come up with a solution.”

A post on the main Adlogger site, a post recommends ClickAider as an alternative. ClickAider is an analysis tool that helps publishers maximize revenues from Pay-Per-Click Advertisements.

On the the same DigitalPoint thread, Terabite, a highly respected member of the forums, recommends Bad Behavior. It is a script that can block most/all ‘bots’. It was made for spam-bots, but it blocks virtually any automated bot and would probably help protect you against clickbots.

I am currently testing both ClickAider and Bad Behavior and I’ll review both scripts after I’ve gaged their effectiveness.

I was checking the number of indexed pages on a site today and i noticed that none of the pages were labeled supplemental.

I did some sleuthing and found this thread on DigitalPoint Forums that linked to this Google Blog post that announced the end of the supplemental results.

Since 2006, we’ve completely overhauled the system that crawls and indexes supplemental results. The current system provides deeper and more continuous indexing. Additionally, we are indexing URLs with more parameters and are continuing to place fewer restrictions on the sites we crawl. As a result, Supplemental Results are fresher and more comprehensive than ever. We’re also working towards showing more Supplemental Results by ensuring that every query is able to search the supplemental index, and expect to roll this out over the course of the summer.

In a nutshell, they have stopped labeling these results because the difference between supplemental and the main index is now so narrow.

It gives us one less thing to worry about.