Entries Tagged 'Google' ↓

Commenters do us a favor by participating in our blogs, the least we could do is give them a followable/indexable backlink. However, all versions of WordPress adds the rel=”nofollow” attribute to links inside the comments box. The major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN etc…) all obey this rel attribute (nofollow) which when used on [...]

Google (GOOG: 537.00 +1.89%) deals a serious blow to Yahoo, online brokers, and financial data providers by announcing free real-time last-sale prices across all Google properties including Google Finance, Personalized Google, Mobile, and Google.com. The Google service will be similar to Yahoo who offers free ECN quotes but charges $9.95 per month for streaming real-time [...]

Launched in 1996, the Amazon Associates Affiliate Program is the grandfather of all e-commerce affiliate programs. Amazon Associates has evolved over the years along with Amazon itself and currently offers a number of ways for affiliates to profit from sales generated from their sites. Generating revenue with the Amazon Associates program is all about choosing [...]

Over on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog Google has explained in detail how they deal with duplicate content. Should you care? Yes, especially if you have a WordPress blog. As Google points out, “Most of the time when we see this (duplicate content), it’s unintentional or at least not malicious in origin: forums that [...]

A recent thread on Digital Point Forums concerns the recent appearance of logo images in Adsense ads. It appears that Google is testing using small logos in place of the text verison of ‘Google’ in the signature line ‘Ads by Google’. I grabbed the examples shown here from the Google ad in the sidebar. [...]

As of November 2006, Technorati claims to be tracking 60 million blogs. OK, so what? Anyone who has had problems getting indexed by Technorati will ask themselves, ‘Are these tags worth the trouble’? Technorati online help is mediocre at best and support is nearly non-existent. Assuming you have claimed your blog, there are two more [...]

Recent polls show that online shopping will soar this year with 80% of internet users buying gifts online ($33 billion in the fourth quarter of 2006). Traffic in some niches run 10x in December as compared to September. Is your blog ready? If you are an advertiser, publisher, or both (like me), you need [...]