SEO Thoughts

To improve your site ranking you must optimize it for search engines. Search Engine optimization is a all time hot topic and full time career. We all know basics of SEO like:

  • Submit your site to directories and search engines
  • Optimize sites content and key words
  • Get Reciprocal links etc…

But one more thing we must keep in mind that we must consider search engine and its working while optimizing the site, because trying to fool search engine always backfires. I think Google’s – 30 Filters, a must read article.

Strange GMAIL Functionality, but its a BUG

For some days I have been receiving mails sent to other address the difference between that address and mine is a single dot. When I researched further, I found that its a functionality, how GMAIL works. Read from here.

According to google, Gmail doesn’t recognize dots (.) as characters within a username. This way, you can add and remove dots to your username for desired address variations. Messages sent to your.username@gmail.com and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com are delivered to the same inbox, since the characters in the username are the same. But you have to use dot in order to log into your account.

They shouldn’t allow dots at first place, if this was the case. If you have an email address that has dot in it then change it ASAP. You might be loosing confidential data to someone else.

Does this mean Google mail is not secure?

10 things NOT to do with Google AdSense

There is no question that you can make some good money with Google AdSense, but you’re setting yourself up for disaster if you make any of these Top 10 mistakes!

1. Do not use fake information when opening your Google AdSense account.

2. Do not hack or modify Google AdSense code other than to change the parameters that Google authorizes you to change.

3. Keep AdSense ads off of your registration, confirmation, and all “thank you” pages.

4. Do not display AdSense ads and a competitor’s ads (like Overture’s) on the same page at the same time.

5. Don’t “beg for clicks” or provide any incentive for clicking on your Google AdSense ads.

6. Never click on the ads running on your own site, even if you are genuinely interested in the product or service and are thinking of buying it!

7. No misleading labeling

8. Avoid keyword spamming and other divisive tricks

9. Don’t advertise anything on Google’s prohibited items list.

10. And the 10th dumbest thing NOT to do with Google AdSense is to let the other nine things stop you from running an honest site that’s designed to make the most out of this very profitable opportunity that Google offers!

Google Custom Search will launch tomorrow

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Google will be launching a new “custom search engine” tomorrow — something I thought would happen after seeing the domains “IndexBench.com” and others a month ago. The Financial Times reports it will be similar to other excellent services like Rollyo.

“Marissa Mayer, vice-president of search products and user experience, said it was the most significant launch that Google would announce in the final months of this year. By letting companies and individuals build their own specialised search engines, it will also create competition for the many new “vertical” search products that have recently been launched on the web, she added.” — Financial Times.

Not only will this new service be used by the person customizing it, but the creator can also “paste” a search box on any website to share their search engine with others — and they will enjoy a slice of ad revenue generated through the AdSense network.