"... no longer tracking adsense ads that are clicked on....."

"Google has acquired PeakStream, a start-up selling tools for writing software that can take advantage of multicore processors as well as graphics and gaming chips, according to published reports."

WebmasterWorld members touch on that age old subject of links." (-subscription required)

"Attributor CEO and co-founder Jim Brock calls the "DNA" of the material, which boils down to a specific paragraph or a few sentences. With that information, Attributor can watch where the content is going in turn giving publishers a map. Publishers can then determine where, how, and when the content is used."

AdSense put arbitrageurs on notice for June 1st. Now that it has arrived what, if anything, is being seen in regards to earnings?

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the latest changes to Google"s SERPs."

"Twine is intended to let you suck in email, bookmarks, RSS news feeds, websites, photos, videos, database and any other digital information. Then it tries to make sense of it."

"What they thought was a winning bid of $275 was actually missing three zeroes to the right."

"Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally."

"Up to 6 months of historical keyword data, download and export CSV data, top query percentages, and now fresher updates."

"Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of "zombie" computers to send out millions of spam e-mails."

Does natural linking actually take place for the average site? What do you see in a site that makes you want to link?

"Our intent is to support the growth and evolution of this community-based business, and StumbleUpon will run as a separate business unit within eBay Inc."

"My goal is to make this the Definitive List of Google Acquisitions."

"He then unveiled his team"s solution: a mathematical model that tries to determine when users want new information and when they don"t. (And yes, like all Google initiatives, it had a name: QDF, for "query deserves freshness.")"

"...new pricing feature for customers of its recently upgraded Web search advertising system that allows them to pay for online ads based on the quality of each site"s audience."

"Baidu.com, China"s most popular search engine, reportedly plans to announce details of a European expansion later this month."

"Referred to as Ask 3D inside the company, the revamped search engine groups results by media type, including video, music, photos, news and blogs."

"WebmasterWorld members react to Yahoo"s Quality-Based Pricing."

"As of today, the transition is complete and all machines crawling as Slurp are now in crawl.yahoo.net."

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the next step for a TLD beyond .com"

"The two partners unveiled their new service -- known as Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google AdWords ..."

"Google Inc. plans to spend up to $600 million to build a data center in North Carolina, state officials and the company said Friday."

I tend to linger in places where the air is one of authenticity - the marriage of voice, context and content. How can we apply this to our sites?

Outsiders can now develop Internet services on Facebook"s infrastructure with full access to all its members. The company will impose no limitations on what kinds of applications others can create, except that they be legal.

"Hot Trends, a list of the current top-100 fastest-rising search trends, will be refreshed several times daily, using data from millions of Google Web searches conducted up to an hour before each update, the company said."

"Google is to ban adverts for essay writing services - following claims that plagiarism is threatening the integrity of university degrees."

"A key Internet standards body gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to a powerful technology designed to detect and block fake e-mail messages. It"s called DomainKeys Identified Mail, and it promises to give Internet users the best chance so far of stanching the seemingly endless flow of fraudulent junk e-mail."

"Removing the Google Toolbar from a new Dell system doesn"t completely take away Google"s effect on a PC. Ulevitch thinks this borders on placing spyware on new computers, for the sake of boosting the razor-thin margins in Dell"s PC business."

"... it would be useful to list the top 130 [social bookmarking] sites I"ve come up with and list them here, all sorted by the number of backlinks the domain has overall according to Yahoo!" (subscription required).

" Among the issues we"ll tackle is malware, which is the subject of our inaugural post."

"Google has taken a stake in a biotech company co-founded by the wife of one of the search engine giant"s bosses."

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the latest update from Yahoo!"

"Internet advertising revenue, fueled by increases in classified ads, lead generation and display advertising, grew by 35 percent last year to $16.9 billion."

First announced by TechCrunch and now confirmed by both parties -- Google has acquired Feedburner.

In what looks like a very full service offering, Google want to mashup maps, click to call and geotargetted search from mobile devices.

"The auction giant eBay said it would begin selling radio airtime to advertisers starting Wednesday, expanding into a business that Google entered last year."

"...stating that most misclicks by AdSense inventory vendors were automatically discounted. I was surprised to see a few noted SEO"s comment with shockingly naive responses rarely seen in the SEO space."

"A European Union committee is questioning how Google Inc. manages and stores the personal data it collects from consumers who use the company"s popular search engine."

"The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google"s planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed on the agency"s plans said yesterday."

"Today at Yahoo! Publisher Network we"re pleased, and I mean pleased, to announce that publishers in our network now have the option to be paid via PayPal, rather than by check or by electronic funds transfer."

"Google Inc. said on Tuesday it has bought Internet security startup GreenBorder Technologies Inc., which creates secure connections to protect e-mail and Web users from malicious or unwanted computer code."

"Third party extensions including the widely used toolbars from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Facebook, LinkedIn, as well as social bookmark extension from Del.icio.us and two anti-hacking add-ons, the Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar and the PhishTank SiteChecker all put users at risk of having their browser infected with malicious code."

"What we"ve wanted to do, quietly, is amass the largest real estate position on the Internet, which we feel we have,"

"GoDaddy.com, the leading registration company for Internet addresses, has agreed to take over and manage more than 850,000 domain names belonging to customers of a troubled rival, officials announced Tuesday."

"...what mechanism provided your single biggest amount of non-SE traffic." (-subscription required)

"Gears is a browser extension that we hope -- with time and plenty of input and collaboration from outside of Google -- can make not just our applications but everyone"s applications work offline."

"Microsoft saw its share of the market slip to 9 percent, down from 10.1 percent a month earlier. Google, meanwhile, increased its lead, accounting for 55.2 percent of Web searches, up from 53.7 percent in March. Yahoo grew its share to 21.9 percent, up narrowly from the 21.8 percent share it held in March."

"I posted about a year ago when I was only getting about 400K visitors a month that I was embarking on a quest to hit 1M visitors a month, and it now looks like I"m roughly 1-2 months away from the goal as I"m on target to hit about 940K visitors this month. The point is, I"m close enough to my goal that I"ll disclose a few details." (-subscription required)

"WebmasterWorld Members noticed and discuss the latest update to Yahoo"s SERPs."

"How fast do new search terms and subjects migrate? WebmasterWorld members have some interesting observations."

"It takes about 10 seconds to solve a captcha, so that means humanity is wasting thousands of hours solving them."

"They are still indexing pages that were 301 redirected three years ago, redirects which have been followed by every other search engine in the known universe."

"FBI is in the process of locating and notifying the users of one million computers controlled by hackers through automated crime networks or "botnets," officials said Friday."

"WebmasterWorld members give enlightenment on best and worst money decisions, with some interesting eye openers." (-subscription required)

"A small Virginia company in a patent fight with eBay Inc. asked a federal judge Tuesday to stop the online auction powerhouse from using its "Buy It Now" feature allowing shoppers to buy items at a fixed price."

"You can now create a CSE by simply placing a small piece of tailored code on a page on your site. With that one piece of code, Google"s search technology will automatically include in your new CSE all of the sites you have linked to from that page, creating a dynamic, powerful and tailored search experience really quickly. Moreover, your new CSE will update itself periodically to include any new links added to that page."

""Today we"re experimenting with video identification tools," Chen wrote in a blog posted online."

"Leading Chinese Internet portal Sina Corp. said Monday it has reached an agreement with Google Inc. to cooperate in the areas of searching and advertising."

"Since the inception of the Web, online commerce has enjoyed hypergrowth, with annual sales increasing more than 25 percent over all, and far more rapidly in many categories. But in the last year, growth has slowed sharply in major sectors like books, tickets and office supplies."

"Apple Inc. launched a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows-based PCs on Monday, pitting it against Microsoft Corp."s Internet Explorer and Mozilla"s Firefox."

"At eBay, subtle change is about to become a thing of the past. Under pressure from analysts and investors to jump-start growth in its core auctions business, eBay is making a series of upgrades intended to make the site more friendly to buyers. In so doing, it may have to endure a torrent of criticism from more than 700,000 sellers who rely on eBay for their livelihoods and who have firm ideas of their own about how best to serve buyers."

"The results show the majority seem to give the virtual worlds the thumbs down."

"Google"s AdWords Broad Match is causing some issues of concern: "we noticed a lot of clicks for one single broad term. The problem was that we weren"t bidding on it.""

"...the world"s most popular video-sharing site introduced local-language sites in nine countries on Tuesday that will all just go by YouTube."

Updated: Because these emails are easy to mistake for authentic ones from Google, we"ve temporarily discontinued sending them as we work on ways to provide more secure communication mechanisms. We hope this will reduce confusion."

"The webpages compromised are all legitimate sites devoted to subjects such as tax, jobs, tourism and cars. The sites are thought to have been booby-trapped using a malware kit, called MPack, sold commercially online."

"...acquired the assets of Zenter, a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations."

"Google Inc."s online search engine maintained the largest share of the U.S. Internet search market in May, according to a report released Wednesday by Nielsen/NetRatings."

"Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday it would acquire Rivals.com, a site for fans of college and high school teams, bolstering the Internet media company"s place as the top U.S. sports site in audience terms."

"A European Union investigation set off by concerns over how long Google stores user information has widened to include all Internet search engines."

"In addition to controlling your ad placement through methods such as location and language targeting, site exclusion, and network distribution preferences, you can refine your targeting with Internet Protocol (IP) address exclusion. This feature enables you to specify IP addresses where you don"t want your ads to appear. "

"Google and its allies may have lost key Capitol Hill votes on Net neutrality laws last year, but now they"re mounting a counterattack: a lobbying effort to extend similar rules to forthcoming wireless broadband networks."

"AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WebmasterWorld Inc. and SEO Class Inc. today announced a partnership to produce PubCon SEO Class educational conferences..."

"Internet advertising revenue rose to $4.9 billion in the quarter, a 26% increase over the first quarter of 2006."

"When it came to choosing a name for your blog what considerations went into making your final choice and eliminating the alternatives?" (-subscription required)

A few WebmasterWorld members reporting that the new Google AdSense code is causing unrelated java script errors on sites. Google appears to have it resolved already.

"WebmasterWorld members discuss Google"s latest Webmaster Guidelines."

"WebmasterWorld members discuss the pros and cons of using Stylesheets over good old HTML for SEO." (-subscription required)

"...oneSearch was first launched in North America at the beginning of this year as one of the biggest programs of Yahoo."

"I was checking our listings that show up under the normal site: command however i had my cap locks on. It showed very VERY different results."

"In a report released today, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy."

Microsoft said Google"s acquisition of DoubleClick went over the line, while Google claims Vista went over the line...

"WebmasterWorld members share their top tips on buying quality domain names."

"Yahoo Inc is rumoured to be working on an attempted takeover of Bebo, Britain"s most popular social networking site, and is thought to be willing to pay as much as 1 bln usd for the site, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph newpaper."

"It seems that they are ordering my inbound links by the perceived quality of the site."

"...market share will slowly decline from 40% in 2006 to 32% in 2011 as video advertising grows."

"The FBI and the Department of Justice have charged several alleged cyber criminals responsible for gaining control of over one million personal computers and using them for identity theft and mass distribution of spyware, officials announced Wednesday."

"EBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google AdWords network in the U.S in an eyebrow-raising move ..."

"Web search leader Google and semiconductor maker Intel launched a broad-based programme on Tuesday to introduce more energy-efficient personal computers and server systems to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

"Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang said Tuesday that the Internet company was entering its "teenage years." Investors complained about the growing pains."

"Google"s latest patent application could mean that Google Mash Up Social Networking, Video And Search all in one."

"According to some WebmasterWorld members, it seems that registration on an ecommerce site is often a turn-off. Is registration helping or hindering your ecommerce business?"

"...the launch of paypal.thefind.com, a new shopping search engine built specifically to enable consumers to browse products exclusively from merchants who accept PayPal payments."

"In the spirit of transparency, we"re publishing our response to the Working Party"s letter." However, nothing has changed.

Add to the list of tips to make an ecommerce site outperform the competition!

"Yahoo plans to acquire Right Media, a privately held company that runs an advertising marketplace, in part to bolster its position as a seller and broker of ads outside its own sprawling network of Web sites, the companies" chief executives said yesterday."

"Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you"ve never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here"s how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire."

"Sony said on Thursday it will launch a video-sharing site in Japan on Friday, marking the electronics and entertainment firm"s first step towards challenging Google"s YouTube service."

"The Japanese arm of U.S. e-tailer Amazon.com Inc. on Tuesday opened a virtual shopping mall that allows third parties to set up shops on its Web site."

MySpace, in conjunction with investors International Data Group and China Broadband Capital Partners, has announced its Chinese launch.

"Google could avoid future malware attacks carried out using advertisements posted on its Web sites if the company more thoroughly investigated customers of its AdWords system, according to security and legal experts."

"Microsoft reported quarterly sales and profits that surpassed Wall Street"s expectations yesterday, suggesting that early sales of its new Windows Vista operating system were off to a solid start."

"Amazon.com, the online retailer, is expanding a program designed to allow independent sellers to use its network of distribution centers to store and ship their products, according to Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon"s founder and chief executive."

"On Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 10:54am in a court in the Eastern District of Virginia, Project Honey Pot filed the largest anti-spam lawsuit ever. Seeking more than $1B in statutory damages, the suit was brought on behalf of our members. It targets a huge swath of spammers. If you"ve harvested email addresses or sent spam in the last two years, chances are you"re on our radar screen and we"re coming after you."

"On Tuesday, April 24th, Google identified and canceled AdWords accounts displaying ads that re-directed users to malicious sites."

"Microsoft may be older and bigger than Google, but it"s Microsoft nipping at Google"s heels and not the other way around, according to two Gartner analysts who closely follow the moves of the companies."

"We are pleased to announce the arrival of adCenter 3.7.1. As communicated in advance of the upgrade, reporting will remain out of SLA until around Tuesday May 1st 2007 due to the massive amounts of data that we must process as a result of the upgrade."

"..boosts customer-perceived relevancy with a greater number of query results."

Google reported revenues of $4.23 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, an increase of 57% compared to the third quarter of 2006 and an increase of 9% compared to the second quarter of 2007.

"They agreed to use technology to eliminate copyright-infringing content uploaded by Web users and to block any pirated material before it is publicly accessible."

"Google has developed a prototype online platform for its health offering that incorporates personal medical records, health care-related search features, diet and exercise regimens, a localized "find a doctor" application, and other elements."

Is the industry somewhat sanitized? Gone corporate? Everyone just quietly making their own money now? Sure, the users grow. The money grows. The ad spending grows. The number of websites and blogs grows. But for some reason, I don"t feel it like I used to. The impact has been softened." (-subscription required)

""We are opening our platform in the next couple of months," DeWolfe said, confirming months of speculation that MySpace would follow in the footsteps of Facebook, which emerged as a serious competitor after allowing software developers to create applications for its users."

""The World Digital Library initiative will digitize unique and rare materials from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world and make them available free of charge on the Internet," Paris-based UNESCO said in a statement."

"Microsoft Corp. the world"s largest software maker, is a contender to buy Internet advertising firm 24/7 Real Media Inc. for as much as $1 billion, the New York Post reported on Tuesday."

""We think YouTube offers the world"s leading platform for entertainment, education and free speech," Michael Kwun, managing counsel for litigation at Google, said in a briefing with reporters at Google"s headquarters here. "We"re not going to let this lawsuit distract us.""

"In many cases you want to show your visitors all kind of information about your great widgets. Problem is: your red, green and blue widget all share some properties. Now if you talk about blue widgets and widgets in general on a single page, you show duplicate content." (-subscription required)

Thousands of users unload on digg as HD DVD key number is posted.

According to Business 2.0, webmasters are experiencing the fastest salary growth among IT positions.

"Three out of every four unique Blogspot.com URLs that appeared in the top 50 results for commercial queries were spam..."

"A new service from Yahoo! Japan called "Minna no Topics" which means "Everyone"s topics" is now open."

"ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly indicating that it will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar on March 31, 2007"

"Many YouTube users received cease-and-desist orders from the RIAA. At issue, once again..."

The basis of the suit is: "IF YOU COPY OR DISTRIBUTE ANYTHING ON THIS WEB SITE, YOU ARE ENTERING INTO A CONTRACT..."

"WebmasterWorld members discuss link exchanging and the pitfalls."

"The most popular forum question that doesn"t get answered is "What are the best affiliate programs for quickly and easily making money?""

"I"ve been having an increasingly difficult time getting my work done because I am constantly bombarded with technical questions all day long.

"But the profit and sales numbers posted by Yahoo after the market"s close still managed to beat Wall Street analysts" expectations, sending shares higher in after-hours trading. "

"If you self-manage or co-lo a Linux server, you absolutely need to know how to secure it. If you don"t know, you need managed hosting. Full stop. No questions."

"Developers can use the Flex SDK to freely develop and deploy Flex applications using either Adobe Flex Builder or an IDE of their choice."

"WebmasterWorld members discuss how to choose a color scheme for a web site: What will work, and what won"t work. Are niche sites different from general sites?" (-subscription required)

"Some of the text in the new T&Cs allows you to participate in current and future adCenter services, such as Content Ads."

"Live Search Mobile, which users have to download to their handsets, displays listings and driving directions on maps, Microsoft said Monday. The company will also offer free 411 directory assistance from any phone."

YouTube can match video duplicates now. The new system identifies pirated video on YouTube as it gets uploaded, but the system puts the onus on content owners to provide YouTube copies of the content first.

"The Wall Street Journal reports Discovery Channel will announce today its purchase of HowStuffWorks .com for $250 million. "

WebmasterWorld members discuss how to specify link requirements when subcontracting to a third party link development firm.

"Google Inc. won the right to sell advertising on 400 Web sites owned by China Telecom Corp., helping it compete with Microsoft Corp. and dominant local rival Baidu.com Inc. in the world"s second-biggest Internet market."

"I just had my AdWords account hacked and it seems campaigns were setup with redirects..."

"Google Inc. won the right to sell advertising on 400 Web sites owned by China Telecom Corp., helping it compete with Microsoft Corp. and dominant local rival Baidu.com Inc. in the world"s second-biggest Internet market."

Four new patents for Google. Document Scoring Based on: Traffic, Query Analysis, Link-Based Criteria, and Document Inception Date. The criteria aren"t news on their own, but the methodology may well be.

"I just logged on to my Google Homepage which I use for all my news, bookmarks, and feeds, only to find it has been reset to a version I used months and months ago."

"WebmasterWorld members discuss affiliate marketing, and try to help members hone their skills with ideas and motivation."

"Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to release an early version of Apollo, software that will let people run Web applications online and offline."

"Yahoo! hired veteran dealmaker Blake Jorgensen to be its new chief financial officer yesterday in a sign the struggling Internet titan may be looking for its own deals, despite overtures from software giant Microsoft."

In the not-to-distant future I will be married with one newborn and with plans to hire staff within a few months, I am wondering how that can work with a newborn.

"Some forums and content management systems have "newsflash" type content."

I"m convinced that today"s webmaster is under the Google mindshare spell. Most don"t even realize it." -- the discussion continues.

What"s a reasonable price for links? I contacted a bunch of sites, and the replies demanded much higher prices than I thought was justified.

"If the keyword gets a few thousand searches according to the major keyword tools, will that mean, that having the exact match domain name will make sense for type-in traffic?"

"Blocking these 2 things just may buy you some time from when the vulnerability is posted to the time you or your customers get around to installing the fix without being hacked."

"I want to upgrade to a dedicated Linux server. However, I have NO idea how to manage a sever and wouldn"t know where to start."

How do the six recent Google patents on Phrase Based Indexing extend the prior art of semantic analysis in Information Retrieval? Let"s take a look at some of the IR principles that the system embodies.

"Why would I need a CMS if I have tools like FrontPage or Expression Web available to me?"

"Yahoo Inc. plans to sell online-video and display ads for the Web portal of Comcast Corp., the country"s largest pay-television provider, under a multiyear partnership announced Monday."

Ban affects only computers owned by the military; 11 other websites on block list.

"I finally had my first $100 day. Here is what has helped me..."

"...it is believed to be one of the most significant adult domain transactions in history."

"...place a background image behind your AdSense ads...isn"t this against the AdSense TOS?"

"New Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet"s key oversight agency announced..."

"Google said it is combining results from its established SERPs with content to help users find videos, images, maps, etc. In addition, it has an updated layout for its home page with navigation it claims is easier to use. Here"s what WebmasterWorld members are saying."

"Just want to let everybody know that the short descriptions for ALL new or modified Sponsored Search ads is now live..."

"In a bid to boost its presence in advertising, Microsoft said Friday that it will acquire Aquantive, a digital marketing and services company, in a deal worth $6 billion."

"ComScore and Nielsen/NetRatings on Thursday buckled to advertisers demands that auditors be allowed to review the way the web site-ranking companies come up with Internet metrics."

"WebmasterWorld members continue to wrestle with the issue of selling links."

"The following is a companion piece on how to get more out of Digg. If you"re new and never used Digg before I suggest going back and reading Social Bookmarking: How to Use Digg Part I." (-subscription required)

"EBay ended its ad boycott against Google yesterday but said it would scale back spending on the search engine going forward."

What is the Best Definition of Quality When We Speak of Smart Pricing?

"For anyone who"s looking at the social bookmarking space the one of the websites getting a lot of attention and shouldn"t be ignored it"s Digg. In Part I I"m going to go over some of the basics to help you get started with Digg." (-subscription required)

"Internet giant Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc., a pioneer in online services for businesses, are discussing an alliance that could help them compete more effectively with Microsoft Corp., according to people familiar with the matter."

"Has Yahoo now removed the Overture keyword suggestion tool as well?"

"...webmasters can now mark parts of a page with a "robots-nocontent" tag which will indicate to our crawler what parts of a page are unrelated to the main content and are only useful for visitors."

"Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post has learned."

""Internet users interested in Belgian news and users of Google"s search engine may have noticed today that the Web sites of the Belgian French and German-language daily newspapers ... are again referenced on the search engine," a joint statement issued by Google and Copiepresse said."

"Yahoo Inc. is shutting down Yahoo Photos, its first-generation photo storage site, and asking users to move instead to Yahoo"s Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr, a Yahoo official said on Thursday."

"The football organisation said YouTube had "knowingly misappropriated" its intellectual property by encouraging footage to be viewed on its site."

"Google Analytics has some smart new features, such as outbound link tracking, being introduced over the coming weeks.

One of the largest internet communities gets voice-enabled.

Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir present a new method that resizes images, even to new aspect ratios, without conventional cropping or stretching methods. The algorithm identifies visually important and unimportant pixel data, even along irregular "seams" in the image.

"The W3C will develop and release a new version of HTML which will be called HTML 5."

"Do you use a global reset.css, and if so, which is your preference?"

Interesting thread on using Javascript to bookmark a page without reloading said page: "...My goal here is to have JavaScript go to the location of a bookmark/id on the page without of course reloading the page when a key is pressed. "

"WebmasterWorld members discuss ways to help make customer service and support less of a chore, and more of a profit center."

Google says "The new version of Google Analytics is easy enough for a layperson to understand, but also offers the sophistication experienced users need."

"An inherited ban from the Inktomi days, has finally been lifted and my site now appears in Yahoo search results."

AdSense near menus or flash items is now longer acceptable. This new rule contradicts many previous statements on where to place ads.

"...1st Rule of SEO was never to endanger a client site by having it associated with SEO."

"I"m convinced that today"s webmaster is under the Google mindshare spell. Most don"t even realize it."

"What the heck do you do when a long time moderator becomes more harmful to your forums then helpful."

"Redirection from /index.html to /. Example if someone types http://www.example.com/index.html we will take them to http://www.example.com/."

"When the traffic hits 100 uniques a month? 1,000 a month? 10,000 a month?"

"Microsoft Corp., the world"s largest software maker, said on Monday it plans to offer a streaming video service that stores and hosts video for its new Silverlight online media platform."

Some people say they suffer ranking problems very soon after adding a sitemap for Google. Could it be that a sitemap.xml fle exposes them to widespread scraping?

"Google will shortly roll-out a new feature on its mapping service that will allow users to easily embed maps directly into web pages."

"Since October 8th, hackers inserted an iframe into the ads served by 24/7 and distributed trojans via the ad network servers. It"s not known how widespread the attack is."

"Yes I know, "Web 2.0" is a buzz word that annoys some people. But it is also a useful term, refering to web sites that are more interactive, often having AJAX components, dynamic/user-generated content, social networking, content sharing, etc."

Matt Cutts just blogged a clarification about dashes and underscores - looks like the reporting was not quite accurate.

"...we are improving the way we factor price into the formula. We are also adjusting the way your actual cost-per-click (CPC) is determined for ads in top spots. As always, only ads that meet our stringent quality requirements will be eligible to appear in top spots."

"The Traffic Quality Center is an online resource center that provides more visibility into what we"re doing to help define, prevent and protect against click fraud, as well as to offer information on other traffic quality initiatives. "

"Microsoft also created the Advertiser and Publisher Solutions (APS) Group. This new business group will be responsible for building Microsoft"s monetization engine to serve the advertiser and publisher community."

"In closing a $6 billion buyout of digital marketing company aQuantive on Monday, Microsoft is taking a first step in its quest to leapfrog Yahoo and challenge Google in the online advertising business. "Our goal is to be No. 1 or No. 2," Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft Corp."s platforms and services division, said in an interview last week. "

"So, for those of you who are in the Real Estate SEO sectors (Independents), what are your plans for the future? If I"m not mistaken, this is the biggest news to hit the Real Estate industry in quite some time."

"How can I redesign a website without losing traffic and search engine ranking?"

"Web search and Internet services company Google Inc. on Friday began selling expanded online storage, targeted for users with large picture, music or video file collections."

"A new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific allegations."

"The United States Supreme Court has just cracked 100 years of antitrust jurisprudence in a decision that may profoundly affect the way consumer goods are priced in the future. This decision holds great promise -- but not without danger -- for manufacturers of virtually any type of consumer product. "

"Microsoft Corp. said on Monday its Web search business remains on a "positive trajectory" with plans to roll out several updates over the next 12 months."

"Yahoo Inc may be struggling to convince Wall Street of its future prospects, but for the first time its users gave its services overall a better rating than what Google Inc received, according to a study released on Tuesday."

Google has now added the word "excessive" to their webmaster guidelines on what makes a problematic linking scheme: "Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging."

"I"d guess that most folks who were seeing this will now be good to go - while those who are still having an issue will find things resolved soon."

Google has made their robots.txt analysis more helpful. Now it recognizes sitemap declarations and relative urls, and also gives detailed feedback about multiple errors per line.

"Skype has issued the following statement: Some of you may be having problems logging in to Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it"s a software issue and hopes to have this resolved quickly."

"GWT is going to start notifying you in your GWT account if they believe your site or sites have malware installed. They"ll also offer a process where you can request a review and get the notice removed, which has been a big bone of contention from what I understand."

"If you choose wisely you know that in a few years what once wasn"t all that obvious will make you look like you were really smart."

"Short Internet videos from the creator of the animated TV show "Family Guy" and Raven-Symone, star of the Disney Channel show "That"s So Raven," will be distributed over Google Inc."s AdSense network,"

"American Airlines Inc. yesterday filed a lawsuit against Google Inc., claiming the search company is infringing on the airline"s trademarks by using them as keyword triggers for paid advertisements by other companies."

"Today Microsoft plans to try to convince regulators that it can connect consumers to high-speed Internet over unused television airwaves without interfering with existing broadcasts."

"WebmasterWorld Members discuss Google AdSense eCPM, reporting differing performance."

"What are the advantages / disadvantages of using a Blogspot blog for this project as opposed to publishing on my own site without a blog structure?"

"I think I can honestly say that I have tried... everything.

"Security vendors have warned e-mail users to be as vigilant about PDF attachments as they would for other documents, after seeing a sharp rise in spam embedded within PDF documents."

"After reading online about a lot of changes in how important/not-important certain meta tags are now-a-days, I"m now wondering which ones on the above list should stay, which should go, which should be added."

"Susan Wojcicki, Google vice president of product management for advertising, said on Tuesday Google was shying away from the industry race to deliver tools for advertisers that stitch together a user"s various online actions into one profile."

"The agency stopped short of a broader requirement sought by potential bidder Google Inc. that would force the winner to resell access to its network on a wholesale basis."

Google confirms what webmasters have begun to notice: "...we"ve decided to stop labeling these URLs as "Supplemental Results"."

"Answers Corporation announced today that, due to a search engine algorithmic adjustment by Google, Answers.com has seen a drop in search engine traffic starting last week. As a result, overall traffic is currently down approximately 28% from levels immediately prior to the change." (-subscription required)

"Disney said it would pay $350 million for Club Penguin, a virtual community... More than 700,000 users now pay $5.95 a month to customize penguin characters and then chat and play games with other "penguins.""

"WebmasterWorld Supporters give sound and tested advice on a basic concept of SEO." (-subscription required)

"Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers. The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon"s reliable and scalable payment infrastructure."

"Niche online stores are making a name for themselves by finding cool stuff, from travel deals to live event tickets to surplus electronic and other thingies, at discount prices that keep bargain hunters coming back again and again."

"The group behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia has accused Baidu.com, China"s most popular internet search engine, of being the worst violator of its copyrights. Florence Nibart-Devouard, chair of the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation yesterday asked the company again to give credit where it is due."

"Version 4.0 includes support for mobile ads, the ability to post changes to selected campaigns, custom date ranges for performance statistics, and the ability to update negative keywords along with your regular keywords."

"It looks like there online ad spend will continue to grow, with online spending being distributed more frugally amongst a broader range of players."

"Potential bug/feature in IIS may allow creation of new duplicate URLs. How can this duplicate content be avoided?"

"today we became a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN), an innovative patent-sharing organization founded to create a legally protected environment for anyone who works with Linux...."

"A trade association representing major music publishers signed on as plaintiffs in an existing lawsuit accusing YouTube of copyright infringement, joining a growing list of parties who argue Google Inc."s video-sharing service routinely violates intellectual-property rights."

Could you live without Toolbar PageRank? Would not seeing it help the web as a whole, or hurt it?

"According to Google, they will test a new feature in the US to allow reader comments on stories appearing in Google News."

Google Inc. has received U.S. antitrust approval to acquire Web-based security provider Postini, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

"The company will stop offering download-to-own and download-to-rent programs on Wednesday, according to an e-mail message sent to customers yesterday."

"In coming months, 16 national standards groups will formally vote on whether the Joint Photographic Experts Group, after which the JPEG file format is named, should make Microsoft"s relatively new HD Photo format a standard."

"I did some things that added about 1000 incoming links to my site from various sites of so-so quality.

Social-networking Web site Facebook Inc. is quietly working on a new advertising system that would let marketers target users with ads based on the massive amounts of information people reveal on the site about themselves. (-subscription required)

""While the click through was only about 16 per cent, this a real boon for search engines," said Jim Jansen, an assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State and lead author of the report."

"...the next-generation set of tools, content and resources for SEO professionals and webmasters..."

"Brazilian authorities are investigating people who might have abused Orkut, a social networking site owned by Google Inc., and have asked Google Brazil to turn over information about Orkut users."

An interesting thread in the link world: "I contend that image based links pass 0 PR and provide little or no equity. Can someone back me up here?"

"When I try to check my internal or external links in webmaster tools by clicking on the hyperlinked number on the righthand side of the page, it gives me "Our system is currently busy. Please try again in a few minutes." for the last 2 days."

"Google"s overall goal is to have a record of every e-mail we have ever written, every contact whose details we have recorded, every file we have created, every picture we have taken and saved, every appointment we have made, every website we have visited, every search query we have typed into its home page, every ad we have clicked on, and everything we have bought online."

"The messages were blank but contained MP3 attachments of around 95 kilobytes, around the size of a cellphone ring tone. The attachments were audio files all pumping up the same penny stock."

"...AdSense service places contextually relevant ads alongside CNN.com content."

"Survey: 80 per cent found the product they wanted in a printed catalogue and then went online to place their order."

"This is the result of a legal dispute over the ownership of the Bodog.com domain name."

"More evidence is emerging that Apache is suffering against Redmond, after a survey revealed that Microsoft"s Internet Information Services Web server is outserving Apache on Fortune 1000 websites." (-subscription required)

"It also seems that despite the amount of inbounds pointing to www.mysite.com/fluff/ Google has chosen to rank www.mysite.com/fluff//"

"...dollar value so high I"m not sure I really trust a payment gateway to do adequate anti-fraud verification to prevent charge backs which at that dollar value would be devastating especially early on."

I am getting thousands of hits where the items in my log show the referrer as follows;

The currently published specs for HTML 5 no longer require the alt attribute for an img element - and the longdesc attribute is nowhere to be seen in the current draft.

"...a "Show More" hyperlink in the lower left corner of a 728*90 AdSense banner on my site. When I refresh the page, "Show More" is not re-appearing."

"Microsoft Corp. and Eolas Technologies Inc. have settled their long-running legal battle, according to a letter sent to Eolas shareholders. The suit charged Microsoft with infringing on Eolas patents in its Internet Explorer browser."

I"m finding way too many instances of sites experiencing problems which may be due to issues revolving around meta descriptions, duplication, and believe it or not, lack of having one.

What are the most important things you would look for when selecting a lawyer?

"Police in China"s capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user"s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content."

"For people like my neighbors it was really hard to even figure out which security messages were bogus and which were real, which is of course what the malware writers want to have happen."

The classic catch-22, "can"t get traffic without some links - can"t get links without some traffic..."

"On 2007-08-18, the Google Directory was updated with new information taken from the most recent ODP RDF dump. This update includes all directory edits through 2007-08-07. The previous Google Directory update was so long ago, that it is almost forgotten. That update on 2006-02-19 included all ODP edits through 2006-01-29 at that time."

"Controlling Googlebot behavior with unavailable_after meta element and via HTTP headers rather than on-page meta elements: the X-Robots-Tag header."

"This new ad management feature means that your ad unit settings (such as colors and channels) for new AdSense for content ad units will be saved in your AdSense account every time you generate ad code. Then, if you"d like to change any of these settings in the future, all you do is make the update within your account -- you"ll no longer need to manually replace the ad code on all of your pages."

"The domain used to host small Google Gadget applications written by Web developers could be misused by phishers, a Web security researcher said Friday."

"Google has plans to buy up and partner with companies to keep apace with Baidu, according to various reports."

"Facebook Inc. is close to choosing between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to sell ads for the social networking service outside the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter."

"Under an agreement to be announced Wednesday, Google will pay Nielsen an undisclosed amount to obtain detailed information about the kinds of people who watch specific TV shows."

WebmasterWorld members are reporting big discrepancies in channel data vs. aggregate account statistics, and some fear their site"s financial performance has been affected. Google is aware of the problem and is working on correcting it.

"When the domain name of interest for which an availability check is made is registered shortly after such a check, the individuals making the availability check may reasonably assume that the organization operating the web site or service they used to determine the availability of the name preemptively registered the name."

"How do you really figure out what company is a good host?" (-subscription required)

"To help keep track of their various presentations, blog posts, articles, and more, they"ve created a new website to serve as the single source for all click fraud and ad traffic quality related information."

"A U.S. study suggests Internet users mistakenly have an inherent trust of Google search results that appear higher on a page."

"On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users" computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update."

"The ads, which appear 15 seconds after a user begins watching a video clip, take the form of an overlay on the bottom fifth of the screen, not unlike the tickers that display headlines during television news programs."

"...Content Ads Beta available to all U.S. customers! On Wednesday, August 29, we will upgrade adCenter to include Microsoft Content Ads."

"This makes it so easy to include a map within a site. No need for an API, simply go to google maps and select "link to this page" and copy the html into your site."

"Today Adobe, the San Jose software maker, will announce that it is integrating a standard format for high definition video into the newest version of its immensely popular Flash video player."

"US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm."

"Google Labs add on-screen keyboard to aid search in 14 additional langauges."

"Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search."

""We do not blame anyone but ourselves," wrote Skype spokesman Villu Arak in a blog posting."

"we"re reducing our crawling machines by a significant amount with this update, so you might have observed a significant reduction in crawl load from us along with fewer machine IP addresses hitting you over the last few days."

"The new feature provides the ability for site owners to alert Yahoo! of the dynamic parameters in URLs that they"d like Yahoo! to ignore, which we"ll then automatically rewrite accordingly."

"For generations, advertising interrupted the entertainment that Americans wanted to read, hear or watch. Now, in a turnabout, advertising is increasingly being presented as entertainment, and surprisingly, the idea of all ads, all the time, is gaining some favor."

"The sale could raise as much as $20 billion, according to some estimates."

"After a brief period of selling only Vista, Dell was forced to bring back Windows XP, since there remained a lot of demand for the old system. Now Dell is going even farther, as it"s warning business customers about the difficult challenges that lay ahead of them if they decide to adopt Vista." -TechDirt

"Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections."

"Beginning today, two of FeedBurner"s previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free."

"Google Inc. has acquired GrandCentral Communications, a start-up that lets users manage their existing phones and voice mailboxes over the Web as if they were a single account, the company said on Monday."

Google"s recent problem in which an employee blog post created a public backlash is just one example of how companies must balance benefits and risks associated with open communication.

"There is more money in this one little room than all of AdTech or SES put together."

"Google was banned from using the name "Gmail" for its popular webmail service by German court, following a trademark suit filed by the founder of G-Mail, German mail system."

"Jelsoft Enterprises Limited has been acquired by Internet Brands, Inc."

What"s the best way to show your visitors an email address without it being harvested by spammers?

MSN AdCenter has released new reporting services, with better information on traffic quality. Included are ad clicks with low or unclear commercial intent; patterns of unusual activity; and clicks that originate from spiders, robots, questionable sources, or test servers

In a move that signals a more aggressive involvement in the US market, Opera Software is opening offices in California"s Silicon Valley.