Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Google Gets In Sync A Bit

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Nice to see Google syncing up a bit after the last few rough and tumble months. To me, it appears as if the company has been pumping a lot of cash into infrastructure improvements. Of course they haven't made me privy to such news, but oh well. ...

Improving Your CPM

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Let's take a look at some ways to improve your CPM. This is a matter of importance if you derive a good bit of your website revenues from Google Adsense. The key to raising your CPM is somewhat simple. You need to make sure that you are ...

Google Keeps People On Their Toes

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Google is one company that is always evolving. And when they evolve, the rest of the internet feels the pain. This is especially true if you focus yourself too much on what you think "Google wants". The company themselves have always consistently said: "Make your websites for ...

Fresh Information Should Matter In Google

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

It seems that Google places an emphasis on the age of documents, but I'm not sure that this strategy is always the best. Sure, some great documents are old, but documents are being born every day on the internet, and certainly some of them are better than the ones ...

Ad Tuning For Adsense Continues To Pay Off

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

You must keep tweaking your Google Ads. You stand so much to gain, and really nothing at all to lose. If the ads don't perform better, revert. The advantages of tweaking are obvious: you can get more money for no extra effort. If you can increase ...

Adding To Your Website On A Schedule

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

If you manage content websites, you'll probably want to add content on a fairly regular schedule. It's long been rumored that Google is a fan of websites that add content slowly and consistently, and from observation, it appears this is true. Blogs seem to usually rank well in ...

Google Data Center Watching

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

I noticed there are still a few people out there watching Google Data Centers. I thought this practice had basically disappeared in the past. I'm sure old habits die hard, so that's the main reason people do it. It's very entertaining to watch. People actually start ...

Google Indexes Almost Instantly

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

One nice thing about Google these days is how quickly new pages are added to their index. I see traffic the same day now on blogs. When you compare this to how they used to do it, it's a quantum leap of an improvement. In fact, it ...

One Nice Thing About Google Webmaster Central

Monday, October 1st, 2007

The Google Webmaster Central has been updated lately, and a number of features have been added. I probably won't have need for most of them. But I will say it's very helpful to have some Google-side record of crawling events. This way, if you ever make a ...

Finding News For Your Niche

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Lately I've been finding that "Google Alerts" is about the easiest way to consistently find news for your niche. Sure, it helps to have a number of RSS feeds set up for the main players in your field, but it also helps to have Google constantly scanning for your ...