11 Sep 09 AdSense Site Maintenance This Saturday 12 September 2009
Google Adsense
If you haven’t heard yet, AdSense will be doing maintenance on this coming Saturday on 12 September 2009. Bear with me, there’s no need to think negative LOL. Only problem is you will not be able to login to your AdSense account, the rest will do just fine. So, no need to panic. It’s actually periodical maintenance and it will not take very long as well.
So, what’s the most important question in this post? Of course, the ads will serve as usual, the clicks will be paid accordingly and your ads targeting won’t be affected. Here are some cities that will be starting in their local time.
Ottawa - 1pm Saturday
London - 6pm Saturday
Kolkata - 10:30pm Saturday
Manila - 1am Sunday
Auckland – 5am Sunday
Just for the heads up. Everything else will be working as normal.
Tags: ads, adsense, Auckland, google, London, maintenance, Manila, Ottawa
03 Sep 09 Google AdSense Filtering Improvements
Do you use AdSense Filtering service? If you haven’t, Try once. It will be a bit of surprise that you don’t know which IP are using to serve your ads as well as competitive ads filter will enable you to block specific ads, such as competitors’ ads, from appearing on your pages.
Now there are two additional features in Competitive Ads Filter that have been improved now.
I will directly quote from AdSense Blog, so that you will not misunderstand the meaning.
Faster filtering
In the past, the Competitive Ad Filter sometimes took up to several hours to block URLs you’d entered. Knowing you’ve wanted a faster filtering system, we’re excited to let you know that URLs added to your Competitive Ad Filter are now usually blocked within 30 minutes. We hope that this will help you quickly make changes to maintain a positive user experience on your sites.Increased filter list size
At the same time, a growing number of you have let us know that you’re running out of space in your Competitive Ad Filter. Now, you can add up to 500 sites to your filter list, more than double the previous limit. As you add new sites, please continue to keep the possible revenue impact of filtering in mind.
So, this is actually a big improvement for me, because It is always good to use filter service from AdSense and it will improve and give you safety for your website as well.
Tags: ads, adsense, blog, google, improve, revenue, Website
19 Aug 09 Default Font Faces to be updated
Hello, I just got an email from AdSense team that they wil be tweaking a few more updates regarding to fonts, so that Ads will look more natural and nicely fit in with AdSense displayed websites.
So, to get more precise information I will quote here..
Currently, most ad units set to the AdSense default font face are displayed in Arial, with a few in Verdana. Here are the new default font faces we’re launching for our ad units:
Arial: 728×90, 336×280, 120×600, 120×240
Verdana: 300×250, 160×600, 468×60, 250×250, 234×60, 125×125, 180×150
Times New Roman: 200×200
So, tweak your AdSense Ads and generate your income better than ever.
Tags: adsense, google, income, update, Website
14 Jul 09 Choices of Keywords
Choices of keywords
There are many techniques to plan for keywords in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) world. It is critical to use all the techniques so that search engines can index your site better than others. It is actually called on-page optimization which is important part of SEO.
Typically, the choices of keywords are to target traffic to your site relevant to keywords that internet users will search. However, each page can be optimized for different keywords, but the most important thing is not to focus on search engines, but to focus on the content of your materials. So, here are details keywords that you can actually optimized on page and they should be done on each and every single page of your site. Especially when you have a blog, it is very effective to optimize as blogs are content based and pretty easy to implement your SEO.
Keywords density
Let’s say, if you are writing about SEO, you will probably write more than once on the word, SEO. But too much is never good and always follow your heart to write rather than worrying too much about search engines and how they will index. Sometimes, when you try so hard, it makes visitors not only to feel confused but also not to come back for next time.
Long tailed keywords
Long tailed keywords are usually very long keywords and sometimes it is good to implement on possible long tailed keywords on your site. For example, “how to make a good plan on summer holidays” are long tailed keywords and you can actually optimize for headers, titles and rhetorical questions. It is important to know that generally, search engines will omit more of the conjunction words, but if you include them, they can be searched and match up according to the relevancy of search as well.
Overlapping keywords
This is basically associated with long tailed keywords search, the best way to highlight your keywords are H1, H2, paragraph html, bold, underlined, and italics, but not overkill it, of course. For example, the keywords that can search well on “make money online” could also be searched well in “make money online information”.
Misspelled keywords
They are to avoid at all costs for me, I have some contradictions with some of the SEO masters that you can actually intend to use misspelling, however, I do not follow their suggestions because most of the search engines no longer use meta tags because of keywords spamming and 90% of top search engines have already filtered with spelling checker for search results especially in English language search.
Plural keywords
Some people actually use plural keywords to search. So, it’s sometimes good to construct your site with both singular and plural number for commonly used words. Therefore, you can actually cover both when search is sought.
Localizations of your targeted audience and keywords
If you actually install Google analytics, you can actually geo-target or alternatively know who are your frequent visitors. The selection of words can actually give them easier to understand meaning and more feel like to read it more. For example, use toilet, loo, bathroom, lavatory or restroom according to your visitors to get acquaintance with your site. If you are promoting for products or services focused on particular country, it is vital to use these localizations for your potential buyers/visitors.
Caps and Hyphens
Usually, capital and hyphenated keywords are not mentioned much in on page SEO. But they are actually practical to use. Many people overlook SEO but build millions of web pages and they do not know what they are missing. In addition, capital keywords are not treated for special but it actually looks very professional, however, with good spelling checker website such as Yahoo! and Google actually make use of the importance of capital, because in some cases, capital plays a role, for example, internet and Internet. For hyphens, most search engines consider as a space, however, indexing with or without hyphens are different, so the best thing is to use both intentionally, so that you can cover both. Or you can do some research on what type of usage and search is used on particular keywords and examine whether e-mail or email is used more if there’s a case.
So, there you go, these are fantastic methods for on page optimizations and I am sure you do not miss these, so that you can generate more visitors than your competition. Because once you have started a website, you have millions of competition and the most important thing is to offer uniqueness and attractiveness to your potential visitors. Good Luck.
Reference: SEO Book by Aaron Wall 2006, an e-book which I really like. I am not affiliated with the author and you can actually Google to buy his materials if you want.
Tags: blog, e-book, generate, google, Google Analytics, h1, h2, how to, information, keyword, make, money, more, page, pr, search engine, traffic, Website
18 Jun 09 How to get better indexing with Twitter posts
Lately, I have been using this service, Twitoaster.com, for my tweets. It is really awesome service and I actually enjoy using it. It can actually track your twitter discussion, hence whoever replies to your tweets, will get indexed in Twitoaster.com.
How does it work?
As usual, it is basically an external API, so when you login at twitoaster, simply use your twitter login and password there, and that’s it. It will actually index all your replies, retweets that are in public timeline.
What’s the catch?
Why do we create accounts on facebook, friendster, myspace, twitter, digg, technorati? It is basically understandable that they give you traffic, search ability and special add-on functions that you can actually link back to your blog, profiles, websites, etc. Twitoaster can index your tweets, RTs, therefore, in a marketing point of view, when you post a URL in your tweets and someone replies you, your URL will get indexed which is good for extra traffic when someone search as many of internet marketer uses twitter to gain more traffic. Google index pretty quick with Twitoaster and I sometimes found my tweets while I search some of the keywords I posted in Twitter. That means, you don’t need extra time to input your tweets to be seen, not only in twitter, but also in Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live.
Usability
It is similar to blog commenting and it works with the feed, so, it is extremely easy to use and very user friendly, whatever you post in Twitoaster will be posted in Twitter, but it is not very good to spam because you have limits to use external APIs in Twitter, nevertheless, if you post something really good in 140 characters, it is possible that you will get some replies and that will actually make your tweets easily found and more popular not only in Twitter, but also in the web.
So, give it a try at Twitoaster.com and tell me what you think.
Have a good one.
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