Site search from Google Search results

Today I was just searching for Handango and I got a search result page and the first search result had a new search box to search the Handango Site.

This is something that I have seen for the first time. You can see the search result with another search box for site search

Pagerank update July 2008

I find some pagerank update on the google toolbar. I have found that most of my website pagerank has been changed, but not much of difference. This blog has the same pagerank, but I have found many internal pages with great changes in pagerank. Some of my internal pages has a better pagerank than my homepage. I have not done anything to boost my pagerank as I do not worry much about that now. The first pagerank update for the year 2008 was in January 2008

Google Adsense Certificate Issue

I just downloaded the latest version of Firefox and was using it. I went to the Google Adsense website to check the stats and the first message that I got was

This shows that the certificate used is for Google.com, then I went ahead

I thing Google should sort this issue out

Google Trends to compare different websites

Google Trends is another service from Google where you can compare different website with considerable traffic and popularity for Traffic Region, referral and search keywords. If your site is not having much traffic, then you may get a message that Google does not have sufficient data to display the trends

You can additional trends data if you sign-in to the Google account. You can compare the traffic by countries, referrals and search keywords.

Google Adsense New Improved Custom Search for better earnings

Google Adsense has an option for earning from the search results other than banners and text links. I am not sure how many of us use it and what is the potential of earning from the Google Adsense search. To be frank, I was using this only on one of my blog and I did not get much revenue from this. Today I received an email from Google Adsense support team encouraging the use of the Search feature.

There are many new features that they have added and I feel that everybody should try this.

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Two Image Ads shows same ads with different sizes – Google Adsense

I have been using two ad slots with Image ads on a page with Google Adsense. I see most of the time that the ad served is for the same product. For example you have 4 placements (Maximum allowed according to the Google Adsense TOS). Two text ads and two image ads of different sizes. Mostly the two image ads displayed are of the same product. Have you ever seen this kind of problem?

Google Affiliate network to replace Google Adsense Referral program

I got an email from the Google Adsense Team saying that the Google is discontinuing the Referral program from August end. Instead we can sign up for the Google Affiliate network which is actually the Google acquired company, Doubleclick.

I am not at all worried as I do not use the referral products on any of my blog now as I tried and was not working well for me. If you are using referral code, just start removing it as it will not work after August end. If you are using in templates it should not be a problem but if you have used for individual pages, then it should be a tough time for you.

In the affiliate network you will not be paid for impressions or clicks, but only for conversions according the rates set by the advertisers. Depending upon the kind of visitors that you will be getting you will earn or there is no point wasting your space for this kind of program.

Overriding the default Adsense setting in Google Ad Manager

I got an invitation for Google Admanager few days back and was just going through the features before using it. I had tough time working on the the default Google Adsense settings. Google Admanager has a feature of showing Google Adsense ads if you have linked one for the slots which are free or even compete with the booked ads. Right now the user does not have the feature to modify the Adsense attributes like the link color or the border color as we can do for individual ads in Google Adsense control panel. But we can do it by using from Javascript provided on the help page of Google Ad Manager.

As per the information given on the help page is added the code, but was not working. You can see the code info below

According to the help page as you see above, I inserted the code as given below

  //page level
  GA_googleAdAdSensePageAttr("google_color_link", "CC0000");
  GA_googleAdAdSensePageAttr("google_ad_type", "text");
  //slot level
  GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr("kishoreasokan_Homepage_336×280", "google_ad_type", "text");
  GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr("Kishore_Asokan_Below_Content_336×280", "google_ad_type", "text");
  GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr("KishoreAsokan_Post_page_250×250", "google_ad_type", "image");

But this was not working, and spend a lot of time and even posted a help request at Google Groups for Ad manager

Later I was going through some some other help pages for tagging, I came across this information about tagging and in that the attribute is GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr instead of GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr and when I corrected the code according to this it is working fine.

  //page level
  GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("google_color_link", "CC0000");
  GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("google_ad_type", "text");
  //slot level
  //GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr("kishoreasokan_Homepage_336×280", "google_ad_type", "text");
  //GA_googleAdAdSenseSlotAttr("Kishore_Asokan_Below_Content_336×280", "google_ad_type", "text");
  GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr("KishoreAsokan_Post_page_250×250", "google_ad_type", "image");

Now let me explain you how to  use the attributes to override the default adsense settings. When you login to the Ad Manager and go to the inventory tab, you can find the Default Adsense setting link. In this you can set your default adsense properties, but there is no option to set properties for individual solts or placements adsense properties.

But you can override the default adsense properties in the Ad Manager in two levels

1. Page Level
2. Slot Level

For setting the page level properties, you have to add the following code to change the property which will be applicable on a page level basis, all the slots will be effected

GA_googleAddAdSensePageAttr("param", "value");

 

and for Slot level modification you need to add

GA_googleAddAdSenseSlotAttr("slotname", "param", "value");

What are the properties that you can override?

• Border: param = google_color_border
• Title: param = google_color_link
• Background: param = google_color_bg
• Text: param = google_color_text
• URL: param = google_color_url
• Alternate ad URL: param = google_alternate_ad_url
• Ad unit (text, image, text/image): param = google_ad_type
• Corner style: param = google_ui_features

Now its working great. Google Help centre needs to correct the information given on their help page

Google Pagerank Update is on

I saw some threads on Google pagerank update, but could not find any change on any of my websites. I found a thread on DP on this. Its sure that the pagerank update is on. I used the pagerank checking tool for checking my websites and my money making blog just 2 months old has got PR 2 from PR 0, that’s good and I have seen some changes in the search engine ranking for this blog.

Other important thing I have noticed this Johnchow who had lost his PR in the last update has gone from PR 3 to PR 4, I don’t think he has stopped paid links or paid reviews.

Google Image Labeling

Have your ever noticed Google Image Labeling, its like a game that you can play with somebody that you don’t know. Ok I will tell you how does this work. Just go to Google Image search and search for something. At the bottom of the search result page, you will see something like this

Just click on the Google Image Labeler link.

How does this work?

You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a two-minute period, you and your partner will:

• View the same set of images.
• Provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see.
• Receive points when your label matches your partner’s label. The number of points will depend on how specific your label is.
• See more images until time runs out.

After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.

You not get paid any cash, its just helping Google to label the images and give a better search result

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