Posted by Vijay on August 1, 2008 ·
Adsense video units are now available for Indian publishers. I think Google is rolling out Adsense video units option step by step to Indian publishers. I just spotted ‘Video units’ option in my Adsense setup tab. This will be definitely a good additional revenue source for Indian publishers.
Configuring [...]
Posted by Vijay on July 1, 2008 ·
Google and Yahoo! improved their indexing algorithm with the help of Adobe to crawl flash sites. Adobe will now provide optimized flash player to Google and Yahoo! to index SWF file content.
All flash files, flash menus, banners and flash sites with textual content and links can be crawled and indexed [...]
Posted by Vijay on July 1, 2008 ·
Google announced that “Google Adsense referral program” is now retired and will be stopped during the last week of August.
If you are using Google Adsense referral units to promote Google products or Adsense referrals then you need to remove referral ad code from your site before August end, in order [...]
Posted by Vijay on May 31, 2008 ·
If you are not monetizing your blog feed with any advertising then you have a great option coming soon. Yes as announced by Google when Google acquired feedburner, they are now introducing Adsense ads for feedburner feeds. This feature is currently in beta testing phase available for selective publishers [...]
Posted by Vijay on May 23, 2008 ·
The winners of the Doodle4Google competition are declared. The winner of this competition is Grace (Suryung) Moon, a 6th grader from Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley, California.
See her doodle creation “Up in the clouds” below:
Posted by Vijay on May 18, 2008 ·
Comscore released list of ‘Top 50 web destinations in US‘. For the first time in history Google ranked number one in the ‘Top web destination’ list in terms of monthly unique visitors.
Google reaching monthly 141 million users in US while Yahoo is now at second place with 140.6 million [...]
Posted by Vijay on May 15, 2008 ·
Google announced a preview release of Google friend connect. Google friend connect is an application that provides social features to website visitors. Social networking on any site always attracts more visitors and same thing is made simple for website owners to socialize their site using Google friend [...]
Posted by Vijay on May 12, 2008 ·
We heard thousands of news and articles about Microsoft and Yahoo! merger. All ended without any outcome. Microsoft finally decided not to go for Yahoo! acquisition.
Posted by Vijay on May 9, 2008 ·
Windows live search redesigned its home and search result pages. Now it’s looking more similar to Google search. The new design mainly focused on clean home page and more breathing space for results on search result pages.
After Yahoo! now it’s Live search that followed Google path to see if [...]
Posted by Vijay on May 7, 2008 ·
Youtube India version is now live! You can see most popular Indian videos on Youtube India.
Here is a Youtube India fan video:
There are millions of Indian’s currently surfing and uploading video’s on Youtube. Surely this Indian Youtube version will increase Youtube popularity in India.
Though [...]
Posted by Vijay on December 14, 2007 ·
Adsense team is doing some great updates in Adsense ad formats and ad performance. Just got update from Adsense team about new feature “Ad Review center”. You can now filter irrelevant ads appearing on your site. This feature was there since many days but now you have greater control over ad management [...]
Posted by Vijay on December 5, 2007 ·
This is the time to review the top trends in search in 2007. Major search engines like Yahoo, Google and Ask released list of top queries of the year 2007. You can get idea of what’s hot in search right now and major events that happened in year 2007.
Top fastest growing queries in US on Google:
1. [...]