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Google Adsense Terms And Conditions To Update April 23rd

Google AdsenseStarting April 23rd Google’s Adsense Terms & Conditions will be updated and need to be accepted by publishers by May 23rd.

If you’re based in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, or North America, you’ll see a [Read more...]

Increase User Engagement With New Google Adsense Link Ad Previews

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Google let us know via their Adsense Blog they have updated their link ad units that lets users preview ads which help increase publishers performance. When users click on a link unit keyword, the resulting page now shows thumbnails of the advertisers’ landing page.

You may have three link unit ad formats in addition to the three standard units. Let us know if you try them out!

Google: Adding Too Many Pages Too Quickly May Flag A Site To Be Reviewed Manually

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Matt Cutts from Google answers a question from John Mueller via a YouTube video. John Mueller asks: “Should I add an archive of hundreds of thousands of pages all at once or in stages?” Matt Cutts releases a video response as shown below, in short adding too many pages too quickly can definitely flag your site to be reviewed manually, in essence it is much better to break them down into pieces when adding pages. See video: [Read more...]

Google Announces 24th Panda Refresh

Google has announced their 24th Panda refresh stating that it will affect 1.2% of english queries affect.

Google Search in Chrome Gets More Secure

chrome-security-logoReported by The Chromium Blog, Google search in Google Chrome gets more secure.

When users are signed in to Google, Chrome sends their searches from the [Read more...]

Will You Double Your Blog Profits in 2013?

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Will 2013 be the year for you? What about your Blog and its profits? What steps will you be taking to make sure this is your best year yet?

2 important steps one should always take: [Read more...]

Windows 8 Pro upgrade pricing will jump from $40 to $200 on Feb. 1

Windows 8 StartupFor those of you all who are considering upgrading to Windows 8, better to it sooner than later as starting February 1st, Microsoft with increase the upgrade price from $40 to a whopping $200.

Windows 8 upgrade editions will be priced as follows starting in February: [Read more...]

Google Adsense Optimization Checklist

Google AdsenseThe team over at the Google Adsense blog have provided us with an optimization checklist to make sure our sites are fully optimized for success.  This will be a 2 part series, Google has released part 1: [Read more...]

Google Image Search Testing New User Interface

t-google-image-search-new-interfaceSeems like Google is testing a new UI for images, as you can see from the image above, there is a different layout that pops up. As stated in WebmasterWorld, yeah it is incredible and great for Google, they are using showing someone else’s image as the image only pops up in the a layer but the webmaster of the site is not getting any hits from it, only Google is. So it pretty much looks like and is good for Google and possibly the person searching, but not the webmaster who provided the image.

 

Google AdSense “Site Management” Beta

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Google is now pushing a new feature called “Site Management”,  it allows you to categorize your ads by site. This allows you to create sites and then set specific actions by site in the list. So if you want to block specific ads from showing only on specific sites, you can easily do it this way. [Read more...]