Recent google PR update has severely punished sites for selling links; either directly or through paid reviews. It means any sort of links, either bought or sold would do only harm to your site and no good. Such links have done no good to webmasters who have purchased links.

It is not that getting links have become passé. Even today, links help in getting higher PR and traffic. But only genuine links do help.

Few common methods to get links that won’t harm your site are:

1. Signatures: Use signatures at the end of every email you send out, or in forum posts.
2. Leave comments on other websites. Remember to leave meaningful comments, which supplement the content of the page. This would help webmasters too as they do get user generated content and your comments, where useful would help them get higher traffic too.

Other than to a premium publisher, Google allows only three ad-units on a page. In some cases, many publishers are not able to serve more ads and thus lose on to opportunity to make extra money.

To help publishers overcome this limitation, Google has announced launch of Google Ad-Manager that help publishers improve revenue opportunities and productivity. With this tool, you can sell remnant ad inventory as well as reserved ad inventory directly to advertisers.

This tool can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure directly-sold and network-based inventory. Its features include an intuitive user interface, automated yield optimization. This tool is offered free by Google to help publishers address the problems of ad management and it effectively complements the
DoubleClick Revenue Center

This tool is in beta version.

Google has bowed to repeated requests from Ad Publishers to allow them to exclude certain sites from adwords campaign. Google’s new AdWords Site Exclusion tool allows advertisers to keep their ads out of broad categories of sites besides allowing them to exclude certain individual ones.

This tool would make it easier for advertisers to exclude sites where they feel the incoming clicks fail to convert at a satisfactory rate. This tool can be used with any type of campaign running on the content network: keyword-targeted or placement-targeted. Essential difference between earlier site exclusion feature is that now advertisers can exclude a category too.

However, blocking a category may keep ads from appearing on what would be relevant pages for the campaign.

This is summarized excerpt of Google Adsense team advice to maximize the earning potential of your site.

While the revenue fluctuation, especially if revenue earnings are on decline, is bound to bother you, you may not always be able to decipher the root cause. Google advises you to look for following in case you experience decline in revenues.

First recommended step is to check for various revenue indicators from the site stats as such as eCPM,
CTR, and page impressions etc. Calculate revenue by multiplying your page impressions by the effective cost-per-thousand impressions (eCPM) and dividing by 1000.

World’s largest search engine, then Froogle, Google Answers, Google documents and now Google has launched Google Health. Google plans to compile online personal health care records that would contain confidential medical information of the general public, including test results and prescriptions.

In an interface similar to use of email account, a user can manage his own records, with access via a user name and password. New service is expected to help both doctors and the increasing number of patients who use the Internet for their own medical research. Sounding optimistic about potential of this service CEO Eric Schmidt said, "There are 6 billion people who would benefit from the system. Only 1.5 billion or so are online. A reasonable goal will be that every single person who has access to the Internet would consider having a personal health record."

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This deal definitely holds much for all those connected to the online world! According to the latest posted news, Microsoft has approached Yahoo, a Sunnyvale located content and search portal firm to get on to the table to discuss friendly takeover note by the former. If affected, the takeover would be one of the largest in the American corporate history. Also, it would be the largest takeover in the history of Technology sector.

The takeover announcement reflects how is the biggest software firm on earth threatened by the efforts of Google. Both Yahoo and Microsoft lag far behind Google in the search market. Hence, even the combined forces of Yahoo and Microsoft will require building up a strong ground before they can set a challenge for Google which controls around 62 percent the market share in the lucrative search market across the world. The combined entity would still control only 16% of the talked market.

China eased new Internet controls that limited video sharing to state companies saying today that private competitor that already operate in the fast-growing industry are allowed to continue. Any new competitors must comply with the rules, which took effect last Thursday, the government said.

The rules, announced abruptly in December, appeared to be aimed at extending China’s pervasive Web censorship ahead of the Beijing Olympics and prevent unflattering videos from popping up.

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