Google have just done a major update of their index and rankings, and it seems to be affecting a lot of people.
Luckily, the change seems to be mostly positive with many sites – especially new ones – gaining in PageRank.
I’m glad to say that Money Blogger now has it’s first PageRank! We’ve been given [...]

Here’s a prime example of the Google problem for you.
Regular Money Blogger readers will know I’ve been promoting Google Adsense quite a bit. This is partly because it’s a product I believe in which makes me good money, and partly because they’ve had a good referral program.
Until now.
This post on the official Adsense [...]

I’ve been using Google AdSense for over 4 years now, and during that time I’ve earned over $50,000 from it.
But for the past couple of years, I’ve never really recommended it to other people.
My main issue has always been a lack of transparency from Google. Publishers don’t know what percentage of revenue they’re getting [...]

Over the last few days, several people have asked me about Google Adwords and how to run an ad campaign for their blog there.
Adwords is a very complicated beast, and a comprehensive guide is well beyond the scope of this blog, but I thought I’d get together a few tips for those of you [...]

It’s been a few days since Google changed the clickability of AdSense ads, and I was wondering what changes (if any) people are seeing?
After a small blip upwards for a day, my CTR (click through rate) across all my sites has settled down to around 1.5%. Before the change, it was around 1.8%, and [...]

Darren Rowse is reporting that Google AdSense ads are about to become “less clickable”.
Currently, a reader can click anywhere on an AdSense block and it will be registered, but with the changes, only the title and URL of ads will clickable.
The idea is that this will dramatically cut down on accidental ad clicks, saving [...]

If last week’s fuss over sudden loss of PageRank on many blogs proved anything, it’s that you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Even though this particular change doesn’t seem to have affected search results, it does show that you can never rely on things staying the same. No matter how good your [...]

It seems Google has delivered a virtual slap in the face to many top blogs this week, cutting up to 3 points of their PageRank.
Popular sites like Engadget and Autoblog have seen reductions of 2 PR points, while some SEO focussed blogs like Search Engine Journal have seen drops of three points.
The speculation is [...]