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Important Google Adsense Rules.

Published on September 12, 2008 in Adsense. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Here is a Google Adsense Cheat Sheet.

1. Google Ads must be from genuine user interest. Any method that artificially generates clicks in prohibitied.

2. Clicking on your own ads for ANY reason is prohibited.

3. You may not ask visitors, pay visitors or otherwise encourage site visitors to click your ads. 

4. You may not “fool” people into clicking the ads by using graphical gimmicks or misleading labels.

5. You may not promote sites displaying ads through unsolicited mass emails.

6. Google ads can only be displayed on sites that adhere to Google’s content guidelines.

7. Sites displaying Google ads may not include:

  • Violent content, racial intolerance, or advocacy against any individual, group, or organization
  • Pornography, adult, or mature content
  • Hacking/cracking content
  • Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
  • Excessive profanity
  • Gambling or casino-related content
  • Content regarding programs which compensate users for clicking on ads or offers, performing searches, surfing websites, or reading emails
  • Excessive, repetitive, or irrelevant keywords in the content or code of web pages
  • Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site’s search engine ranking, e.g., your site’s PageRank
  • Sales or promotion of weapons or ammunition (e.g., firearms, fighting knives, stun guns)
  • Sales or promotion of beer or hard alcohol
  • Sales or promotion of tobacco or tobacco-related products
  • Sales or promotion of prescription drugs
  • Sales or promotion of products that are replicas or imitations of designer goods
  • Sales or distribution of term papers or student essays
  • Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity, or infringes on the legal rights of others 
  • Stolen copyrighted material
  • Deceptive or manipulative behavior intended to trick search engines or site visitors
  • Pop-ups or pop-unders that interfere with the site navigation, change user preferences, or initiate downloads

    • 8. Adsense code must be placed into pages without modification.

    9. Adsense ads may not be integrated into a software application.

    10. Up to 3 ads can be displayed on each website page.

    11. A maximum or two Adsense search boxes may be placed on a page.

    12. Up to 3 link units may be placed on each website page.

    13. Adsense for search results pages may show only a single ad link unit.

    14. No ad may be placed in a pop-up, pop-under, or an email.

    15. No element on the page may obscure any portion of an ad.

    16. No Ad may be placed on any non content based website pages.

    17. No Ad may be placed on a website page published specifially for the purpose of showing ads.

    18, Google ads and search boxes are not to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout or colors as the Google Adsense Ads.

    19. You may have other ads on your site, they may not be confused with Google Ads.

    Cool Google Chrome Tricks.

    Published on September 11, 2008 in Browser. 0 Comments Tags: , .

    I was hunting for a way to use my Google Bookmarks with Chrome when I ran into a couple of cool Google Chrome tricks and a couple of things I really don’t like about Chrome.

    First off, I learned that Google didn’t build in support for very many of it’s own features.  I’m not sure if they just wanted to avoid the accusations that they just built a browser to promote their own products, or they just haven’t gotten around to it yet. In any case, I use quite a few of Google’s offerings, so I would like them more integrated into Chrome.

    1. There is no way to sync the Google Chrome bookmarks with Google Bookmarks.  This kinda stinks because I don’t ever use browser bookmarks.  Bookmarks belong on the cloud, so I have all of mine stored with Google. So, Google, please eliminate the “in browser bookmarks” and let me have easy access to my bookmarks stored on the cloud.

    You can still add bookmarks to Google Bookmarks withing Chrome.  You have to select “always show bookmarks tab” from the little wrench icon in the upper right corner of the browser, or you can just hit “ctrl-b”.  Then you have to drag the Google Chrome bookmarklet to the browser bar (You can find the bookmarklet here). Any time you visit a webpage that you want to save to your Google Bookmarks page, simply click the bookmarklet in the bookmarks bar.

    2. I HATE the backspace button being used as a shortcut for the “Back” button to go the previous page in the browser history. I have navigated backwards in my browser SEVERAL times when I was just trying to delete the text in a form field. 

    3. Have you ever closed a tab by accident? I’ve done it several times, usually while cleaning up the browser space and getting rid of the dozens of tabs I’ve opened throughout the day. Here’s the fix, just press Ctrl+Shift+T to open the last closed tab, or open a new tab and check the “Recently closed tabs” section on the right side of the page.

    4. If you ever need more space in a text area, you can resize it by grabbing and dragging the lower right corner of the text box.  I find this really useful when you’re blogging.  The text box in blog tools never seems to be the right size, so you can easily grab it and make it bigger or smaller. I really enjoy this one, and am actually making use of it RIGHT now while authoring the post.

    5. Interested in using Chrome, but you don’t want to be all “look at my Google browser.” Then check out Chromium, Google’s open-source version of the browser. Google is either very sincere in helping the open-source browser project movement to help “move the web forward,” or at least they want to make you believe they are. Anyway, check out the Chromium homepage here, or click here to see the latest snapshots for windows to install it. You’ll probably want the directory closest to the top of the page, and download mini_installer.exe to install it. Enjoy having a browser that lacks Google branding, or jump in an help make the internet a better place to surf. Be wary, the open-source browser may be less stable than the Google Chrome version.

    6. In Firefox you can drag tabs from one browser session to another.  This was pretty cool, but I always wanted to drag a tab right out of the browser into it’s own browser session. Well, you can’t do it with Firefox, but you can with Google Chrome. I’m a browser spawning fool, and I love it.

    Browsers Browsers Everywhere.

    Published on September 5, 2008 in Browser. 0 Comments Tags: .

    I recently installed Google Chrome and have been using it fair amount to see how well I like it.  So far, I’m a big fan of the increased screen area, and I haven’t had too many problems with surfing.  There are several small features that are absent, but what can you expect from the beta release of a new browser. I’m really looking forward to seeing where they go with this thing, and how they implement it with their other tools (GMAIL, GOOGLE APPS, YOUTUBE, PICASA, etc.)

    So, I added the Google Chrome icon to the browser party in my quick launch menu. The choices, the choices, I can now choose from Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Flock.

    Sheesh, who’s next?

    Make WordPress Plug-in Installing Easy.

    Published on September 5, 2008 in Wordpress. 0 Comments Tags: , .

    To make installing WordPress Plug-ins easy, try installing the “One Click Updater” Plugin by Janis Elsts.

    I’ve used it for installing both plug-ins and themes on several wordpress sites and it has worked great and saved my tons of time downloading, unzipping, and uploading plugins to websites. Just a couple of clicks, and this plugin will actually install directly from a web address.  

    Loving it.

    Here is a quick summary of some of it’s features:

    • You can upgrade all plugins with a single click (only in WP 2.5 and up).
    • It’s easy to identify any plugins that have update notifications enabled. There is a yellow or goldish mark in the Plugin Management tab.
    • It is easy to quickly determine if there are any necessary updates.. 
    • It simple to install new plugins and themes.
    • Deleting a plugins or theme only takes a couple of clicks from the Plugins/Themes tabs.
    • Debug mode is available if something doesn’t work. It will display a detailed log whenever it tries to update or install a plugin.
    You can download the plugin from wordpress.org, or from the author’s homepage.

    Google Chrome Browser Launches (Finally!)

    Published on September 2, 2008 in Browser. 0 Comments Tags: , .

    We’ve been waiting years to hear that Google would finally launch it’s own browser. The time is finally here.

    Click Here to read about it.

    Click Here to read the comic about it.

    Click Here to download it.

    Must have Word Press Plug-In

    Published on September 2, 2008 in Wordpress. 0 Comments Tags: , .

    If you are running a word press site be sure to install the “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” Plug-In. This will save you a lot of time and aggravation.

    WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

    WordPress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.

    1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
    2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
    3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
    4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
    5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
    6. Upgrades wordpress files.
    7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
    8. Re-activates the plugins.

    The plugin can also can be run in a automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.

    Click Here to visit the “WordPress Automatic upgrade” Plug-In page on WordPress.org.

    Well worth the install time!

    Techy Techy Geeky Geeky.

    Published on August 10, 2008 in General Geek. 0 Comments

    It’s about to get deep in here.  Stay tuned.