How google can penalize your website because of adsense
Lesson learned – sometimes google can penalize your website because incorrect use of adsense.
This storry started a while back when I begun adding adsense on one of my websites where I suspected it is not allowed (it’s a website on which people can upload school content and such).
Everything was fine for a while – about 4 months, I got a little amount of money too when suddenly the website dropped from the search engines. I thought it was because of duplicate content or because of the too many pages the site had, which was strange but I had no clue.
So I kept my website simple removing all pages that were not important, I even removed the adsense from some of the pages including first page because anyway I was not making any money anymore.
After 8 months guess who was back?… my website 
– I was happy for 1 month until I received another payment from adsense (cumulated with another website) – just after payment was confirmed the website was down again from the search engines, so now I suspected the cause: I removed all adsense from the website, after 2 more months my website was back again!!!
In conclusion I think google has a swith for it’s personnel, including the google adsense staff who can shot your website into his legs bringing it down for a while.
Idea Using API for Translation and Detection
When reading how to use google’s translation and detection API I thought to a very easy to implement idea, targeted to a specific country.
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SEO for starters – Google tutorial
Google webmaster central has made a further step in helping webmaster building their path in the seo business.
Designed for starters, the seo information can be useful for any of us. You can read more from here:
Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide
Update: reading the google’s seo starter guide I’ve noticed a little paragraph about “Don’t forget about offline promotion”:
You could also send out
recurring newsletters to clients through the mail letting them know about new content on the
company’s website.
Isn’t this a similar thing to online spam, just it’s… offline?
Google Youtube Audio Indexing
Google launched, relatively recent, a new service called google audio indexing or gaudi that can be found here: http://labs.google.com/gaudi
The service is on beta stage for the moment but it promises a lot from my point of view. I have played a little with gaudi and I found it really interesting. The first thing that I’ve noticed was the lighting search speed, but maybe because there are not as many youtube videos indexed (because it’s only in it’s beta stage, Google choose to only index youtube political videos. ).
What bothers me when searching for things that I want is that there isn’t a “please wait” or “loading” message (similar with that gmail has). So when I’m hitting “Search Videos” button for a moment nothing seems to happen.
T-Mobile G1 – first to have Google Android as it’s OS
T-Mobile G1 is the first mobile phone that comes with Google Android as it’s Operating System.
Android is an open operating system and platform that is based on the Linux kernel. In addition, it has a middleware application and other valuable development tools. Developed by Google, Android is designed to work with mobile devices. As a result, developers can use Google-developed Java libraries to write managed code in a Java-like language. However, Android does not work with programs that were developed in native code.
Guess what – RentACoder forgets about direct linking
Recently RentACoder (RAC) website changed their politics about direct linking.
If, in the past, you created a new bid request and a direct link (www.ecommy.com) was added to exemplify what you needed now the link has changed and became:
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/WarningPage.aspx?ExternalUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecommy.com
I wonder if the global crisis we are in has dramatized the battle for high page rank and of course for traffic. If so – how someone will be able to get a high PR nowadays (especially because in order to have a high PR you need quality links from high ranking websites)?
UPDATE: the reason that rentAcoder updated how customers are redirected to external websites is based on security issues. There were websites that cloned RentAcoder login page asking login credentials. Hackers later used the stolen data to buy projects on RAC and paying with coder’s money.
BBC does not Share Page Rank Anymore
BBC is no longer sharing it’s page rank because any external links are blocked.
For instance instead of linking to www.ecommy.com they are applying this crap:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/redirect.shtml?http://www.ecommy.com/
Read the full article here
Update: BBC wanted to measure how much traffic they were sending to other sites so that they could figure out how to send more.
New: Data Quality suggestions from Google Base
Google launched a new feature for their google base service. The new “Data Quality” tab will help merchants improve the quality of their listing.
Keep your foreign visitors with google translate widget
Some times when I check the map overlay function from my google analytics account I notice that
even if some websites are in local languages, an important number of traffic comes from abroad.
In order to reduce the average bounce back of the website, you can try the google translate widget:
http://translate.google.com/translate_tools
Check this live demo out:
Tutorial – How Google works
The following video tutorials are talking about how google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s page and how are displayed in the search results.
Discoverability:
Crawling and Indexing:
Ranking – Relevance and importance:
Google resources for webmasters:
Other resources: