Grace Moon, a 6th grader at Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley, California, won Google’s Doodle 4 Google contest.
The caption for her doodle, “Up in the Clouds,” read:
My doodle, “Up in the Clouds,” expresses a world in the sky. This new world is clean and fresh, and people are social and enlightened. Every person [...]
The fourth-largest ISP, Cox Communications, is allegedly blocking its subscribers access to file-sharing sites.
In a study, about 54% of Cox subscribers were blocked from file-sharing sites. According to the AP, users were not completely blocked from the sites, but there was a delay in the users’ access to the site.
Cox’s subscriber agreement does state that [...]
Optimizing your website for Yahoo! search is not much different than optimizing for Google. For starters, both search engines use the same sitemap format.
You can use a simple bots.txt file to direct Yahoo! to the sitemap that you are using for Google. But, the best way to get Yahoo! to your sitemap is to [...]
Chitika now offers “ADS SUITABLE FOR ALL WEBSITES!” The shouting words are theirs, not mine.
According to Chitika, Chitika|Premium is the first ad unit to provide non-product listings such as finance, travel, sports, AND MORE!
Yahoo! offers you the chance to get your site considered for inclusion in Yahoo! search results for free.
To submit your site to Yahoo!, you need to be logged into your Yahoo! account.
Once logged in, go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
You can submit your site and your feed on this page, but you can’t submit them simultaneously.
For whatever reason, you may have the need to beg Google to include your site in its search engine results again. You can request reconsideration by clicking the Request Reconsideration link in your Google Webmaster Tools account. Just fill out the form and anxiously wait to hear back from Google.
Seriously, though, I wouldn’t anxiously wait [...]
That’s been the longest week of my life. I wonder what was going on with Google.
The next time my blog suddenly stops being listed in Google, I’ll remember to just chill and not freak out like I did this week.
Once you purchase a domain, you will be bombarded by spammers and scammers through your email account and your physical mailbox.
If you’ve just registered your domain, the bulk of the unsolicited mail will attempt to get you to fork over more money through the purchase of web hosting.
Once it’s about time for you to renew [...]
Have you received a notice from ADSDAQ that went something like this?
[domain] has been declined to serve ads from ADSDAQ…
If so, you can get the site reconsidered. If your site didn’t blatantly violate ADSDAQ’s TOS, then the site was more than likely declined because of the content. If ADSDAQ can not properly categorize your [...]
What in the world (wide web - he he) is going on with Google and Ping-O-Matic?
I’ve tested Google and Ping-O-Matic’s pinging services for my WordPress blogs for several days, and cannot seem to get anything indexed. Do any fellow webmasters know if Google is changing their algorithm or if Ping-O-Matic is broken - again?