There are two ways to watch what Google does with its search engines. One is through the eyes of the average user, and the other is through the eyes of an online publisher who is concerned about search engine traffic getting to his or her websites. (By extension, the SEO industry, which purports to help [...]
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Recent Senate hearings focused on whether or not Google was abusing its power as a de facto monopoly in internet searches. Google executives testified that they do not cook the search results that the Google algorithm generates to favor their own internet properties, nor do they punish those with competing web services. While Google’s hands [...]
I occasionally publish a page or “hub” on the free content publishing platform called HubPages. There is no editor to submit to for approval. On the other hand, there is no payment, although you can collect a revenue share from Google Ads via an existing Google AdSense account. Also, HubPages now has an in-house advertising [...]
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There has been a ton of sound and fury regarding Google’s social networking website, Google+. I’m Brian Nelson on Google Plus if you are interested. Well, actually, there has been a lot of noise in the echo chamber of the techie dome. It turns out that none of my family members, nor any of my [...]
Read between the lines on a recent NY Times article and you’ll see Google admitting that buying paid links, supposedly a violation of its Webmaster Guidelines, is just fine, as long as it doesn’t work out for you. This NY Times article shows, yet again, major retailers engaging in link spam by buying numerous paid [...]
While perusing the greatly improved performance reports for AdSense ads displayed on my websites I began to wonder whether a new option for AdSense would be valuable. I use AdSense to help me make money writing online with some of the various websites I publish. I don’t make millions but I do well enough to [...]
