Hopefully you took the time to actually read the new Adsense Terms and Conditions. The new terms require all Adsense publishers to display a privacy policy on any web-site displaying Adsense ads. Here’s an excerpt from this page: We’ve also added some specific privacy policy requirements that make it necessary for publishers to post and abide by […]

Google has made huge strides since their initial launch. What was once just another search engine is now an extremely successful company that provides a wide variety of highly useful on-line applications. Each day, Google makes people’s lives a little easier, productive, and even rewarding. In this post, I’m going to mention a few of […]

A large percentage of web-sites across the Internet suffered a decrease in Google page rank after the recent update. Web and search engine guru’s speculate that site’s buying and selling links endured the majority of the blows. Web surfers might enjoy and even praise Google’s efforts to weed out spam and improve their search engine […]

As mentioned in this post, one of my latest projects, Laugh Out Loud Videos has been making some nice progress. So far this year the site has received 166 unique visitors and is performing somewhat nicely in the Google search index. The reason I say somewhat nicely is because the results, or what Google is […]

Nearly all webmasters know getting indexed in Google is a number one priority when launching a web-site, but some people find the process extremely difficult, even tricky. Most will agree the best type of traffic is search engine traffic. The people using Google and other search engines depend on relevant results to find the information […]

Here’s a nifty little script I came across that will prevent you from seeing your own advertisements. This is especially helpful with Adsense, and easily integrated into Wordpress themes.

<?php $hidden = ‘192.255.255.255′; $userip = $_SERVER[’REMOTE_ADDR’]; if($userip != $hidden){ print ‘ <p> <script type=”text/javascript”><!– google_ad_client = “your-google-publisher-id-here”; //468×60, created 11/14/07 google_ad_slot = “111111111111″; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //–></script> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”> </script> </p>’; } ?>

Make sure you replace […]

Google has a fantastic little tool called Google Trends. Today I check my RSS feeds, and the #1 searched term was: thehills.mtv.com Why? Because people would load up google.com and search for thehills.mtv.com instead of just typing thehills.mtv.com into their browser’s address bar. Where’s the logic behind that? Why the added step of searching for a website […]

Quite a few people over in Google groups have been reporting their gmail account has been disabled. Users are also mentioning they’re unable to contact anyone at Google, and they’ve yet to receive any sort of written response from Google, either. Although a couple long term GMail users have mentioned their account is disabled, the […]

Randy from grownupgeek.com had an interesting post that compared his SEO score with several other well known bloggers. Naturally, after reading the post I checkout out Nullamatix.com’s SEO score, and the results were surprising. Shoemoney from shoemoney.com is one of the Adsense poster children, an affiliate marketing genius, and a successful on-line entrepreneur; but how much […]

TechCrunch posted an article with details about a Google patent regarding publications. The patent entitled, “Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications” is being thought of a potentially new service that will allow users to create their own printed magazines. The speculated result is a magazine with custom content, chosen by users, with highly targeted […]