Tedster at WebmasterWorld has put together a list of recent and common questions posted by people at Google Webmaster Forums. The list also has links to some important active topics. Here are some of the topics:
Inside AdWords blog announced that Google will be improving the algorithm for evaluating landing page quality. The new algorithm will effect AdSense publishers in a big way. According to the blog:
Nathan Weinberg announced that Google has bought AdSense. So from now on Google will be the proud owner of the domain adsense.com. Well that was the gist, but the complete story goes a long way back. The complication started when AdSense, not Google AdSense, but AdSense Consulting, the company got started in 1996 under the name of AdSense.com.
As reported by Reuters Google has sent invitation to more than 100 advertisers for the testing of placing ads in 50 U.S newspapers including New York Times and Washington Post. If this experiment is successful then Google plans to extend the same for hundreds thousands of its on-line advertising customers.
Your can now open attached spread sheets in Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Your Gmail account now has a new link through which you can can view attachments in Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The attachment will open directly in Google Docs & Spreadsheets , requiring no extra step. This new feature can be of great help and will definitely make Google Docs & Spreadsheets more popular. It seems like Google will soon add more such features for other types of documents as well.
Two threads one of Webmaster World and other of Search Engine Forums are discussing about effectsof placing all your sites in one Google Webmaster Central account. The arguement have a positive and negative angle. Using one account for all sites can be useful to you as Google will give you higher ranks if you give them more and eventually win their trust. But it can be harmful also as Google knowing the owner, can devalue votes and links from one site to another in your Sitemaps account.
SiliconRepublic.com reports that Google has claimed that the click fraud estimates are exaggerated and these are less than 10%. At a press briefing in Dublin, Shuman Ghosemajumder, business product manager for trust and safety at Google said, "Some firms appear to make the problem larger than it is."
There are reports of people receiving fraud settlement compensation. A WebmasterWorld thread has following comments:
"Got my $6.45 wohhooo! headed to McDonalds for a Big Mac on google.
After spending $480,000 over 3 1/2 years I see a $280 credit in my account for Oct 20.
I've spent $188,000 this year alone, and my payout is only $30. This is a joke. I bet I've had
Google has announced the realease of Zend Google Data Client Library , which connects PHP5 to the Google Data APIs .
"The Google Data APIs provide a simple standard protocol and writing data on the web. For example, Google Base,
Calendar, Blogger, and CodeSearch each have a data API following the Google Data protocol.
Zend Google Data Client Library provides a PHP 5 component to execute queries and commands against Google Data APIs from your PHP applications."
JotSpot, makers of Wiki application, has been bought by Google. It was announced by JotSpot site and Google Blog. For now the new registrations have been closed but new users can sign up in their waitlist and know about re-opening of registrations. Details about the deal have been discussed in Google FAQ . However, the financials of the deal are not being unveiled. For the deal Joe Kraus of JotSpot says on Google Blog"
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