Once upon a time people wrote articles about high value keywords and tried to rank for them. This occurred because Adsense displayed ads that were based on the content of a website. As a result of this there are many articles about high paying keywords like “laywers” or “asbestos” and not so many articles about [...]
Google has entered the arena of social media outreach and is engaged in directly contacting publishers about Google products and offerings, asking people to write about them. In a nut shell, they are link building now. It is through a third party, but they are doing it. I received an email a couple of days [...]
The Google webmaster guidelines recommend that you support the “If Modified Since” HTTP header. It wasn’t easy for most people to figure out if they supported it or not. I wanted a tool for my webmaster tools page that simply answered the question… “Does my website support If Modified Since?” Here it is… If Modified [...]
Google has taken some steps that help you keep you claim your Google gadgets and allow you to remove gadgets that are claiming to be you or your brand, but are not. This happened often, and made the google gadget directory look strange as shown in the screen shot. There were over 100 “clones” of [...]
Google does not have the staffing required to support customers. This has been an issue with them for years and won’t come as a surprise to anyone dealing with Google for awhile, but I must say that many people buying the Nexus One phone had no way of knowing this. Google has a good name. [...]
How to reach normal business owners with real advice about local SEO? Google representatives Ryan Hayward and Ari Bezman as well as industry leaders like Mike Blumenthal, Matt McGee, David Mihm, Mary Bowling, and Ed Reese are coming together to do just that. We are pleased to announce to have Google as a sponsor for [...]
It is no secret that Adsense recommends larger ad units like the large rectangle. Using recommended Google Adsense sizes that are blended into your posts is likely to result in you receiving much more per click than you would with a smaller ad, on the same page, in the sidebar. How to Float Adsense To [...]
Many Google videos and much Google documentation refers webmasters to the page: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ This webpage used to contain a wealth of information that was useful to new and/or struggling webmasters. It explained and linked to several resources that helped the webmaster community. Rather unbelievably, the page now is almost worthless to new webmasters, and I [...]
The Overstock Google gadget ad shown below is using my browsing history to display products… These product ads (Google gadgets ads that display products from a live database) have been around for about a year for larger Google advertisers, they showed different products from a database based upon what was searched for, but this Overstock [...]
Have you ever seen a grouping of Google gadgets available as tabs? It looks like the image to the right (click image to see what I am talking about). This is the way iGoogle tabs are distributed. A page like this is shown to the user who can then decide which of the gadgets will [...]
