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Home page update..

 Its now xmas @ google

More here: http://www.google.co.uk/doodle12.html

So here it is..

 

Ad and image placement: a policy clarification

We’ve recently received a number of emails from publishers asking how we feel about the placement of images near Google ad units. There’s been some confusion on this issue, and so we turned to our policy team to set the record straight.

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/ad-and-image-placement-policy.html

I got invited last week to attend a meeting regarding the usability of google base.
So today I popped down to google’s London office to have a look around and “Attempt” to discuss my problems with base and froogle alike..
Was a cool office with a very relaxed atmosphere… The trolleys with chocolate and drinks.. The funky furniture and inspiring projections on the walls like google earth..

I saw all the doodle for google posters (there are real )

More info coming soon..

I was asked to approval of any blog post regarding the meet up which is cool.. And most likely blog it up after xmas.. 
Cheers to Clay, Product Manager of google base..

Didn’t take any photo’s .. Maybe next time

http://googlebase.blogspot.com/2006/12/we-need-providers-to-help-us-improve.html

I just set my girl friend a site to have a play with.. Hopefully she’ll make so much money I’ll never have to work again

Anyway the point of the post (back on topic boy) So I got her to apply to adsense, now things change / I forget.. But google is recommending using the add url for adsense search which I find interesting… So is it a myth that you submit and nothing happens ???

 * Google cannot return SiteSearch results if your pages are not
included in Google’s search index. Please note that adding SiteSearch
to any page will not queue that page for crawling by our bots. If you
would like to manually add your site’s main URL to our crawl, you may
do so at http://www.google.co.uk/addurl.html . Submitting your site in
this manner does not guarantee inclusion in Google’s index.

imho just add link somewhere ..

Note the “u” in colours lol..

The new single page layout dosen’t make any differnce to me… But hey might help someone ?

The colours are pretty

The visual representation is very good bar not really needed for anyone using moth or 2 plus unless loads of people are making less $100 per month ?

Plain a simple… Good job I guess

 Here a screen shoty :

Read more :

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-payment-history-page.html

Full report over @ beeb but is google msn etc.. Going to do anything about it ?

Most fraud is via phishing email so google/msn can’t do anything about that but serp warning and toolbar would be great

 IE7 now has a phishing site alerts which is a step in the right direction..

 This quote is one of the most BS

Rob Gruppetta, of the FSA’s financial crime team, said “phishing” was growing rapidly in the UK.

“We are very concerned about the rate of increase. It has gone up by 8,000% in the past two years.

“But in the grand scheme of total fraud it is still quite small.”

Read the rest :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm

Google home page update..

Google has add a linky to google maps..

Plan your Christmas shopping trip with Google Maps. 

Screen shot

Great to see the word “Christmas” and not seasons greeting etc..

Just seen this on a mate PC..

 Got him to take this screen shot..  Funny imho …

 Its so bad for user experience imho..

I clicked on the add to see what ask was going to off me in regards to msn and the same ebay ad is on both ask and google.. The serps both have msn at the top so whats the point ???

Is ask just paying something like 0.000000001p per click for these crazy terms..

 Any way here the screen shot:

 I’m looking forward to some feed back on this but i’m pretty sure its not going to be very applicable for me and my sites again

Bringing radio advertising to Google advertisers: an update

There’s been a lot of speculation about what we’re doing in radio advertising so we thought we’d give you a quick update regarding what we’ve been working on since the acquisition of dMarc Broadcasting earlier this year. Here’s a note from Josh M., a member of the Google Audio Ads team:

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Quite a few comments in forums regarding the drop in indexing/ranking when adding the site maps protocol.. This used to be a google sitemaps topic and now has moved to yahoo, however tim (assuming Tim Mayer) has commented on SERT the following

This is simply not true.
Tim

Posted by: Tim at December 5, 2006 1:36 PM Permalink

 Last month Google, Microsoft & Yahoo! Back SiteMaps Protocol, so it makes sense to begin converting your sitemaps to one standardized file. One such webmaster did that, submitted the new file to Yahoo! and claimed that Yahoo!’s Site Explorer dropped half of his pages from the index.

Read the entire blog here:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006856.html