2by4 - 11:25 pm on Aug 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

"resource pages with lots of outbound links and lets say three AdSense blocks on"

Try as I might, I can't see why Google should treat this as anything other than what it sounds like. If this is a 'resource page', then what's the point with having 3 adsense blocks? Unless of course that page was designed to bring in some traffic, who would get confused by all those links, then just click on adsense to get out.

If it's a real resource page, then what's the point of all those adsense blocks? Those would only dilute the value of the alleged 'resources'. If they were actually intended to be resources that is. When I see a page like this, I think one and only one thing: adsense spam page. That's about half a second before I leave the page, and about half a second after I get there. And that's probably what Google thinks too. Why should they think differently?

In fact, the only reason I don't block out all google adsense ads in the first place is so I have some warning that I've landed on that type of page.

Reseller keeps using the term publisher in these threads, I'm not sure I'd use that term myself for this type of stuff.