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Imagine this. You spam your website URL on hundreds or thousands of sites and it gives your site a boost in Google rankings. Then BAM! Your site drops in ranking because of “bad” links. So what’s a little spammer suppose to do? Easy. Disavow them with the newest tool Google has created. Ok. Ok. The [...]

I’ve already mentioned using Google Alerts to know when your website is listed and to alert you to possible copyright violations and now, I want to let you know of a few more uses for Google Alerts. Watching your competitors. Add an alert for your competitors name or product so you know what they are [...]

More and more people are trying to take the express way to success by stealing parts and even all of peoples website content and with the growing amount of automation tools, it’s growing at an alarming rate. In the past, the only way you could find the thiefs was to spend hours on search engines. [...]

If you want to know when your site is listed in Google you have two primary options. 1. Visit Google and search for: site:yourdomain.com 2. Load a program, fill out it’s settings and let it check While both options work, they are time consuming. A much better method is to let Google themselves tell you [...]

The recent YouTube bans has gotten people complaining all over the web. Many have a false feeling of entitlement but some have real concerns. Like the lost of traffic, the increase of bandwidth costs and of course the lose of income. However, what’s done is done and if they can’t get their accounts restored, they [...]

On Monday, June 13 2011, Harlan D. Kilstein Ed.D. of Overnight Copy posted a warning on the Warrior Forum about YouTube banning accounts. As usual, they are banning first and asking questions later. To make matters worse, they aren’t giving members a warning or even a reason why the ban happened. They are also displaying [...]

If you have AdSense on your sites and the ads don’t match the theme/content of your site, here are two little tricks you can use to help make the ads match your content. (This one documented in the AdSense Support site here.) You simply place the following before your main content area:

In 2005 Google launched Google Video to compete with YouTube and had fairly dismal results in comparison. Then a year later they purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion. If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em out. When Google purchased YouTube many people thought Google Video would be closed fairly quickly but they continued accepting new uploads [...]