Webmaster Journey

Google is probably the last company that you would expect to write you a bounced check… but it did happen.

Mobilejones has the amazing (and hysterical story) [via John Chow]

Feedburner is making its stats PRO and My Brand service free.

Interesting move after the acquisition of Google some weeks ago.

Yahoo has announced the launch of Yahoo SmartAds, a new advertising platform that delivers tailored display ads to highly targeted audiences.

The new service automatically converts creative campaign elements and offerings into highly customized and relevant display ads by delivering ads according to the Web surfer’s age, gender, location and online activities.

Read more at Techcrunch.

Bloggingtips wrote an article about top 10 mistakes new bloggers make… simple points but spot on.

[via Problogger]

Payperpost launched their marketplace as direct competition with Reviewme.

With the extra $7mil fund from its investors; it would be interesting to see how PPP will fair in the next few months.

Their biggerst problem however, could be the poor quality of publishers… lots of blogs are set up simply for the purpose of making money from PPP. Even with the marketplace we could see a mixed of blogs with different qualities… it scared advertisers away.

From Official Google Blog’s latest entry…

We don’t condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we’re also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up.

So does that mean Google bombers will get away with what they did? SEO players out there must be cheering the statement.

It’s official, Google acquired Feedburner.

Well, not every thing that Google touches would turn into gold… but the purchase of Feedburner is definitely something exciting. With Google’s advertising network and Feedburner users’ readership, it should provide some good monetizing option for bloggers with strong subscriber base.

Hope that Feedburner will continue to provide excellent service regardless of the monetization option.

Accident happens… Google Adsense team wrote an article to calm webmasters fearing the safety of their account due to accidental click on their Adsense; and they advised against contacting them if it occurs…

As most of you know, our program policies state that publishers are not permitted to click on their own ads for any reason. For this reason, we’ve received many emails from publishers letting us know that they’ve accidentally clicked on their own ads. If you’re one of these publishers, we truly appreciate the efforts you’ve made to monitor your account and keep it in good standing. However, we do understand that an accidental click may occur from time to time, so there’s no need to contact us each instance this occurs.