In the quest for monetizing their website, webmasters sometimes forget the base fact that they own the site and not Google Adsense! So, often you see webmasters ask questions like ‘Whether Adsense TOS allows linking to such and such site or whether the TOS allows pictures next to ads and so on and so forth. As long as the queries are related to simple ad placement it may be OK but more and more webmasters are getting influenced by the TOS and ad returns that they are willing to modify the content itself. This cannot be good news for the internet since finally it is the quality of information that matters along with the way it is presented. If you are good at presenting your knowledge in a certain way (say, first person), then you should continue to do so, irrespective of whether Google Adsense representatives likes it or not. (more…)

I started six month ago with Google Page Creator (GPC) to use it for a kind of personal log about projects and websites. I created a three page website in Dutch language to get some experience about the features and I think it’s an easy to use tool but with basic possibilities.

I got also a PageRank of 4 after the first PR update! The bad site is that I have almost ZERO visits because the pages are not high listed in Google. Next I thought, maybe it’s because of the dutch language, thats why I translated the page into the English language this weekend.

On th other site, I can’t remember that I found any GPC in the Google SERP’s within the last 6 month… Maybe because Google doesn’t spider/search their own Google (GPC) pages? The pages of my GPC site are listed in the search engine if I use the “site:” command, but I need a 4-5 words phrase to get my pages listed…

I hope the existents of GPC pages within the top50 of the SERP’s is possible, otherwise this tool is worthless in times of MySpace, Squidoo and other Web 2.0 communities.

No, I don’t think so, but finally there is a standard for website submission in our sight. The three biggest search engines will continue the development together of the sitemap format introduced by Google. Finally you need only one sitemap to include all your websites pages into these three search engines!

Read here the original Google Blog post and visit also the new Sitemap project website.

After reading several articles about the new Google Co-op feature the Custom Search Engine, is this my first experience with this great (and fast) new service from Google.

Community powered search is not new, you find another version on the main page of this blog the “Swicki“. What is so special with the new Custom Search Engine from Google? First of all Google search results are fast and most of the time the SERP’s are from some value (if you use the right search query). Next its possible to insert the form and the results in your own website, this way you can create you’re personal search page together with other items (banner, RSS feeds etc.). (more…)