Google Adsense appears to be broken

Well, the Adsense team blogged about Adsense being down today, but they apparently miscalculated the amount of time it would take to be back up and running.
Tomorrow, from 10am to 2pm, our engineers will be performing routine system maintenance. You know the drill: you won’t be able to log in to your account during these [...]

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Google splogs are still thriving

After years and years of research, millions of dollars, and hiring of some of the most intelligent people on the web, Google still can’t stop the spam blogs from flooding its index.
This morning I woke up and started searching for information about the Wyoming GOP Caucus. I started with regular search, but the results were [...]

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HitTail for Bloggers

Are you one of those bloggers who watches his/her search terms and keywords religiously? Do you constantly seek to know what your readers were searching for when they found you?
Most bloggers, without question, will say YES!
It’s probably safe to say that the majority of us (bloggers) are well aware of our traffic sources. Bloggers like [...]

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Matt Cutts discusses ALT image tags

Something we should all be doing…
Obviously, Google likes it when we use image ALT tags, and here Matt Cutts appears suggesting it will help make your site much more search engine friendly.

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Is Scratchback a form of link selling?

The RSS feeds this morning have been somewhat lacking in excitement. I’m about 60% through them all and the first post to catch my eye is a post over at impNERD. The post is about a new blogger widget called ScratchBack.
ScratchBack is an online “tipping” system. It allows you, the publisher, to accept tips and [...]

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ScribeFire blends surfing and blogging

Ever come across something of interest that you feel is worth blogging, but have to ask “do I really want to go log in and get this posted up?”
I certainly have. In fact, it happened today. I came across a post about Matt Cutts and his comments on subdomains vs. subdirectories that I knew would [...]

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Nevermind pay per post… try holding a contest!

Blog Herald has a post up about a cash prize contest currently running thanks to an online discounts voucher site out of the UK.
The contest brings nothing new to the table in regards to the idea realm, but it does beg the question… is this the new pay per post? I mean, in the past [...]

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Is Google having trouble keeping its index fresh and relevant?

According to a discussion that took place during the Organic Listings Forum here at Search Engine Strategies Chicago, Google has issues with product specific pages on shopping sites.
The Organic Listings forum was moderated by Danny Sullivan. The panelists were Mike Grehan, Mark Rosenberg, and Erica Schmidt.
During the Q&A part of the forum someone took the [...]

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