Google’s birthday cake

Has everybody seen it yet on their home page?

Report a spam result in Google

Google has introduced a new feature, for now as an experiment only. It lets the users shape the SERPs to their liking by removing unwanted results reporting them as spam. OK, this will only remove the sites in question from …

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Google + AdSense + Blogger…

Just read on Threadwatch about Google’s innovation on Blogger: they now let you add your AdSense code and even register for a new AdSense account right from your Blogger account. I got curious and went to check for myself and …

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Blogger accounts deleted as result of inactivity?

Those of you who use Blogger blogs for different purposes like blog&ping, beware of the new danger from Blogger. Seems that it’s deleting newly created accounts if after a blog has been created it’s not been posted to for some …

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Have you got an email from Google?

There is a thread on SEOChat forums discussing Google’s latest tendency to send people emails notifying them they are about to get banned due to them “using techniques” that are “outside our quality guidelines”. A very polite move indeed, but …

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Google’s manual review

One of my spam blogs has been manually reviewed by Google. How do I know? – I got this referring URL in my logs for it: http://www.corp.google.com/~pong/spam/ Now for those of you who’d like to go and see what it …

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Latest stats for this blog

This is to illustrate how Google Blog Search has picked up. From the last 100 page views for this blog, – 15 visitors came from Google Blog Search – 12 visitors came from Syndk8 – 6 visitors came from Technorati …

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Google account for homepage can now be registered with any email address

Looks like this is a very recent innovation on Google’s part. Now, when you sign into your Google home page , it displays a message: Not using Gmail or other Google Account services? Create an account now You can sign …

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Could it be Yahoo’s way of fighting smart SEOs?

I have noticed recently that adding our RSS feeds to My Yahoo is not that easy any more. It will find the feed you enter the URL for, even display its contents, but when you click “Add to My Yahoo” …

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RSS Tip for Google Blog Search

I have come across this tip that shows how to make the best out of your RSS feed and the new Google blog Search. If you have a popular blog that generates income through advertising, chances are you offer an …

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