I’ve seen this for a few days now..

On the status of one of my accounts I have

 View daily budget recommendations   

 But you click on it and get a interesting messages

This link is now inactive.
Recently we sent you an email to let you know you could increase your impressions and clicks by changing your campaign’s daily budget. However, we have turned off the link you just clicked for one of the following reasons:
- You have already accessed and approved our daily budget suggestions.
- You have already accessed and disapproved our daily budget suggestions.
- Our daily budget suggestions are no longer applicable based on recent changes to your account.  

Great.. .

Cool its great news..
(a week old I know, still catching up on mi blogging here)

I’m working on a site that going to use google check so I’ll be blogging some feedback… I still spend a hour or two a day messing with my paypal subscriptions..

Gonna be good to compare..

 More info here
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-checkout-open-in-uk.html

Google blogs about another company its bought…

We’re expecting 

google titles the post ..

hmmm To buy everyone ?

First of all, we want to welcome the team from Tonic Systems to Google. Tonic, which we’ve just acquired, is based in San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia. They have some great technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and it will be a great addition as we add presentation sharing and collaboration capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Google then goes on to joke about family photo’s ..

Our due date is this summer. We promise to share family photos just as soon as we can.

Rather odd.. Some one been on the google gulp http://www.google.com/googlegulp/

More info here..

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/were-expecting.html

seomoz google ranking factors fun

Lots of opinions..

From:

Aaron Wall Andy Hagans Ani Kortikar Barry Schwartz Barry Welford Ben Pfeiffer Bill Slawski Caveman Chris Boggs Christine Churchill Danny Sullivan DazzlinDonna Debra Mastaler EGOL Elisabeth Osmeloski Eric Enge Eric Ward Guillaume Jeremy Schoemaker Jill Whalen Jonah Stein Joost de Valk Laura Lippay Lucas Ng (aka shor) Marcus Tandler Michael Gray Mike McDonald Natasha Robinson Neil Patel Rae Hoffman Rand Fishkin Russ Jones Ruud Hein Scottie Claiborne Thomas Bindl Todd Malicoat Wil Reynolds Will Critchlow

I’m loving DD content on dup content effecting ranking..

Content Very Similar or Duplicate of Existing Content in the Index 

Worth a read but a many blogs suggest “take is with a pinch of salt” as always…

Click here for the full reports

This site is well… um…

Below your see a beer bottle, big enough to fit a human in..

Quote from the website

COF014 Beer
Beer sellers go to the afterlife in their favourite brand  

Enjoy even more of the coffins  here

Google been testing this a fair bit..

I really like almost all them..

Seen some perfect examples that work so so so well..

BUT …

I just came accross this one on one of my sites which has two single ad blocks next to each other.. YUCK..

Its now offical ..

So if you have 2 blocks next to each other then its time to change..

more info here

This came up in my adsense today.. (also in my girl friend’s)

April 2007 Optimization Report

Dear Publisher,

Here is your optimization report for the month of April. After an automatic review of your sites, we think you might be able to improve your monetization using the following tips:

You may be filtering ads that monetize well on your site.

Not enought clicks.. Well some of my channels hit 100% - 200% CTR and other are at 1% on a good day..

I’d love it if google would advise via channel !!!

http://www.google.com/tisp/

Whats this…

Off to read up…

So cool.. Signed up . .. hehehehe