After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account
poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a
responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due
to invalid activity, we’ve found it necessary to disable your AdSense
account. Your outstanding balance and Google’s share of the revenue will
both be fully refunded back to the affected advertisers.

After browsing the web, I found this to be pretty common for a lot of honest hard-working people.

It looks like they ban the account after someone or some click-bots click a lot through your ads. Very strange! I can’t believe one multi-millionaire monopoly like Google, and they are not informed of this problem. So, it’s very easy to disable Adsense accounts all over the web.

The dominant market position of Google’s services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship all over the world.

Luckily my income is not coming from Adsense, I never received a single check from them and I honestly think that Adsense is not a good system for people who want to do a serious long-term income, because your business will depend on the arbitrary discretional decision of someone with a mouse on Montain View offices and a Coca-Cola next to his Monitor, and your business can just finish with one click-mouse that will ruin your life if you really built let’s say 400 sites after 5 years of hard work and your daily foods depends on that.

NEVER EVER put all your eggs on the same Basket.

I can see their ads all over web on illegal sites and not on honest sites. Of course, someone will disagree with me and say that he does a “killing with adsense” and that “adsense rocks”.

Anyway, I can live without it. But of course I will appeal, since this is completely unfair. I just had a few clicks each month from visitors and they ban the account like it was heavily clicked by someone. My account had no chance to be clicked that way by anyone.

Yes, I know, I used to talk wonders about Google Algo in other posts, but Adsense make them really look really bad.

Oh, one more thing, I added the Category ADSENSE SCAM. I have nothing to lose.

“Indignation” is the definition of this post.

According to Google, they found that people who use Instant Previews are about 5% more likely to be satisfied with the results they click. The previews provide new ways to evaluate search results, making you more likely to find what you’re looking for on the pages you visit.

Raj Krishnan, Google product manager said: “We’re trying to avoid cases in which you click on a result and almost instantly discover that it is not what you were looking for and you have to go back and click a different result”, adding that frustrated search process is “a bad experience.”

Users of Google can now see how a little window with the web image will open when you want to pass over a search result , providing an idea of whether the site is appropiate or not.

This new feature will be most beneficial to people on slower networks, who need a greater degree of precision in their searches, hopefully cutting down on search time.

Google Search submission URL. Submit here if your site is new and/or still not listed in google. How to know if your site is listed in Google?

Just go to Google and type this in Google Search -> site:your-url.com

1) Google Search submission URL:

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

2) Google Blog Search:

Make sure you submit here, because if your site is listed in Google, it doesn’t mean it is listed in the blog search. High quality and when you make a new high quality post, you can also get listed in the top 10 in Google, at the bottom, where it says: “Blog posts about…”

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

3) Bing Search:

Bing was originally known as MSN Search. Microsoft’s official search engine that is here to stay.

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

4) Yahoo Site Explorer:

You can submit a webpage or a Site Feed. They can ask you to verify your submission by adding a META tag to your home page, or uploading a verification file to your site. It’s worth it to submit there and take a few minutes to verify it.

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

5) Yahoo RSS submission:

Another great tool from Yahoo to submit your RSS, very useful.

http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/submit

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Happy WordPressing everyone!

Content duplication is one of the most common issues(or challenges) webmasters and site owners must face. There are many different ways to deal with content duplication. The canonical link element is one of the methods used to resolve this issue. The canonical link element was recently endorsed by Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

Another popular search engine like Ask dot com has recently implemented the canonical link element. Most Content Management Software like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have recently implemented the canonical link element in their code. I will talk more in detail about the “Canonical Link Element” soon.

Make sure to subscribe to the RSS and Twitter. Wish you a great start of 2010! Happy blogging!

The theory is that Google puts new sites in holding period until they’ve aged enough to warrant consideration. First of all, this is definitely not how it works, but it’s quite possible that new sites are “untrusted” at first. Many sites get a page rank quick. However to get trusted, it takes a lot longer and hard work.

The biggest reason why new sites have a hard time getting ranked is that they should have a hard time. Their competitors have had years to establish their site on the web. A long time to build links, write content and keep the site active. I don’t know of an easy way to overcome this, but I don’t think it’s inevitable that you must wait a year or two to get trusted. I launch new sites with my clients all the time and we have seen this behavior during the last few years. In short: Work hard and don’t give up.

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Alva Edison.

To a search engine, a page that isn’t in their results is a page that does not exist. So, if you’re pointing links at pages that aren’t getting indexed, the PageRank is passing out through those links into the ether. Therefore, it is important in the long run to know which pages are getting indexed and which aren’t. Then you should take steps to improve your index penetration. In the long run, you’d like to have your entire site indexed. The first step is checking to see if you’re getting indexed at all.

To Improve your index pentration you can do the following exercise. Take one of the pages from your site that’s not indexed at all, and link to it from a couple pages that are in the index. Wait a couple weeks, and check back to see if your page has moved into the search results and if your page is now “cached”. Then you can repeat the process to bring more pages into the search results.

To know if a specific page is indexed, you will need the google toolbar installed. After installing the google toolbar, visit the page you want to check if is indexed, for example “yourdomain.com/my-articles/search-engines/” and on the toolbar click on “cached snapshot of page”. If this is your first time through with the fast start process, don’t get hung up on indexing just yet. You’ll have plenty of chances to revisit this article, after you’ve done some work to develop and optimize your content, build links and tweak your design.

Let’s say that you spend hundreds of hours building, tweaking and promoting your site and you managed to get a #1 ranking for “real estate”. Unless you sell real estate of all kinds in every part of the world, a big amount of the traffic you’ll get will come from people who are looking for something you don’t actually have. Although you may not optimize your blog for those keywords, it’s very important that you know what they are, as it applies to your blog too.

As you work through this article, make a list of the 5-10 major keywords that describe your blog. These should be mostly single words (like “cars”), with perhaps a couple of commonly-used phrases (like “real estate”) mixed in. These major keywords will form the backbone of your site design effort, since they will help define the themes around which you will organize your blog’s content. Don’t worry too much about them right now, because this is one of the many cases where you can easily correct an omission in future. In other words, if you forget a major keyword today, you can do something about it next month and so on.