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Confused by "blocked by robots.txt"  errors? Read this post at Official Google Webmaster Central Blog for debugging robots.txt problems. The post has a handy checklist for debugging a blocked URL.

Like if you are looking at crawl errors for your website and notice a URL restricted by robots.txt that you did not intend to block then:

Google Base Blog has announced the Redesigning of the Google Base homepage. Google has removed the search box from the Google Base home page. You can continue search from the Active Items dashboard, but for that you need to be within the Google Base home page. With this Google becomes the first search product not to feature a search box. Instead of the search box, it has added more examples of "popular and interesting item types- like car parts and filmography". Google has laid emphasis on maximizing usability by introducing the changes.

An Inside AdSense tip tells people to try rotating in and out the AdSense blocks with non-ads. Google recommends Related Links.  On being launched, the related links were confused as other AdSense product. So, rotating the ads out with real free content could be a better idea.

After the tool allowing users to preview AdWords ads by geo specific criteria, Google now has a tool oy-oy.eu. The tool allows you to see Google results as if you are in another country. With  the tool located at http://oy-oy.eu/google/world/ you can select the locations you want to compare side by side. The available locations are Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay.

Google, as usual always looking for something new, has come up with a brilliant way of advertising on sites.  The magic words this time is Google Related Links.

Earlier this year, Google adopted the on-line processing system, Writely. Now it decides to go one step further into becoming a member of the Google Borg. But for this, they need their user base to make the switch from their old Writey user login to that of Google Account. The Google Account program is a unified username and password login which spreads over Google News, Personalized Google Search, AdWords, AdWords and Google Checkout among other Google Services.

Google has implemented a new feature to assist the users. Matt Cutts wrote in his blog that Google has introduced the changes keeping in mind a "gentle reader" and not a typical user. All users are not power users and many get lost and are unable to find the website they were attempting to go to by simply typing the URL. Google mow has a better way of handling the url queries. Where, previously the query was treated like info: www.example.com giving the single url in the index, it would now be treated as "www.example.com", returning the ten best matching urls.

Google is running seminars across the US for "Beginner & Intermediate, and Intermediate & Advanced."
The seminar, AdWords Seminars for Success would emphasise on :

* Want to learn how to get more out of your AdWords campaigns?

* Looking for account management tips from industry professionals?

* Ready to boost your ROI and drive more business to your site?

According to a DigitalPoint Forums thread, some Google AdSense Publishers, can place ads within email newsletters or other e-mails. Although Google AdSense program policies state that, "No Google ad or Google search box may be displayed on any domain parking websites, pop-ups, pop-unders, or in any email."

However, with special permission from Google you can place AdSense ads in their emails.