I will have to add some of those buy words into the mix.

What do you think of the microsoft tool called OSI that indicates a business term. That’s supposed to be a free tool that shows the relationship of the searcher to how close they are to buying. I’ve heard varying opinions about the accuracy of this tool, and I was wondering if these other tools are based upon Microsoft’s business keyword tool.

It depends on who at Google is doing the inspecting.

Most of their visual inspections are done by contractors in India who look for a few common signs of a spam or thin affiliate site. There was a document floating around that contained the specs for this. Essentially they give the site’s index page a less than 30 second look and click the Yes/No button. This is what the typical BANS site will see before being deindexed.

More extensive reviews are done by Google employees working in one of the teams responsible for web spam or Adsense/Adwords quality. These are typically longer and more in depth from what I understand.

The way to see if they’ve visited is to be tracking your visits some way and see if you have a visitor from a google.com or related domain/IP.

I don’t remember how I found your blog, but I have enjoyed reading your post for quite some time now. Since you mentioned surviving a Google visual inspection, is there a way to know that there has been one? Sorry if this question is probably somewhat off topic.

Just remember that if you use Adsense section targeting that you use it to indicate the primary content of a page and to ignore things like the sidebar and header and footer sections. Don’t use it to point to a small, keyword stuffed, bit of text or you may find your Adsense account canceled.