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Archive for January, 2008

Google Plans To Bring Back Adsense Referrals

Few days back we had written about the changes in google adsense referrals, but many publishers didn’t like the idea and wrote to Google about it. Today Google posted a follow up on the topic on their Official Blog.
Considering the publishers feedback, Google has decided to modify the original plan.
The changes to referrals promoting AdSense [...]

Google releases Checkout Trends

Google Checkout Trends reveals the sales data of merchants in Google’s Checkout sales network.
Google Checkout Trends helps webmasters to get an idea about the success of products.
Here is the link-
http://checkout.google.com/trends

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Yahoo Implements OpenID 2.0

Having to remember different passwords to sign onto various Web sites is a major annoyance in the Internet age.
On Thursday, a project aimed at ending the inconvenience by enabling a common log-in got a big boost when Yahoo Inc. unveiled plans to test the system starting Jan. 30.
The Sunnyvale company’s support gives the project, called [...]

Google Announces 5 New Initiatives

Today Google.org shared its game plan, announcing five core initiatives to help combat climate change, global poverty and emerging threats such as pandemic disease. These initiatives draw upon Google’s strengths in access to information and scalable technology.
The five major initiatives:

Develop Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal (RE<C)

Accelerate the Commercialization of Plug-In Vehicles (RechargeIT)

Predict [...]

Mobile Version Of Gmail Gets A New Look

From the Official Gmail blog:
“We’ve just released a new look and feel for the mobile version of Gmail on your iPhone. Our goal: make Gmail fit nicely as part of the latest Google on your iPhone experience. This means that we had to make Gmail faster and more fluid.”
Changes that we will see in the [...]

Customizable Google experience for iPhone Users

Google has announced sizeable improvements to it’s mobile applications for Apple’s iPhone. Applications that have been updated include Google Reader, Calendar, Gmail, iGoogle, Search, and Picasa.
Some of the improvements announced today include:

Improved UI: The applications look and feel slicker, and they are easier to activate, navigate and use via a touch-screen.
Customization of default tabs: Now [...]

My First Google Adsense $100 payout

After over 10 months of hard work I reached my first $100 payout.
Here’s my stats

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Dreamhost bills customers for multiple years

Dreamhost has had a billing glitch and has billed hundreds of customers for as much as 2 years in advance, with debits/charges up to $400 in some cases.
Dreamhost Status:
We are currently aware of some billing inaccuracies which we will be resolving later today. All of these issues will be resolved, and any billing errors corrected. [...]

Checking Backlinks For A Domain

For those who don’t know here is a way how you can check backlinks for a domain in Google, Yahoo and MSN
For Google type in link:domain.com in the search bar.
For Yahoo use: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
For MSN type in linkdomain:domain.com in the search bar.
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How Google Identifies Paid Links

Today I found a nice article written by domainpubber on how Google Identifies Paid Links.
Below is the Top Five Ways Google Identifies Paid Links mentioned in his article

Your Competitor Reports You - That’s right; the GSP (google secret police) can use Google’s form to turn you in even if you don’t buy or sell links. [...]