Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

Other things that alert Google editors are:

• Images all hosted on another domain,
• External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
• Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
• Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so black-hat-2002!).

FYI: Google also asks editors to mark uniquely authoritative sites as either Vital or Useful.

How to Make a Positive Impression on Google Editors

1. Add valuable content, downloads (like a custom application, video, or audio), the option to receive something through real mail, or an ezine.
2. Link to multiple affiliates/revenue streams.
3. Make your website somewhat organic (no
   Advertise on TV with Minimal Budget
   TV advertisements are often considered as expensive and unaffordable. That comes mainly from the great respect people have for the television as a media. It is admitted that TV plays the biggest role in our lives, as a regulator of our public opinion, and a navigator of our social behaviour. Ever since its invention, television has become so vital a part in our daily routine, that a world without TV sets is almost impossible to imagine.We are all deeply aware how important advertising on TV can be for the new and inexperienced in the business. Advertising is the only way that you and your firm can show t
   Dramatic title. Well, it’s about time- a lot of sites should be knocked off their rankings pedestals.

   What? Google Rates Sites By Hand?

   If you hadn't heard, Google is indeed using human editors to increase the quality of its search results and catch more web spam. You must know what web spam is- those Google search results that contain only more (fake) search results, pages with no real content but lots of links and adds? These are black hat spammers trying to fake out Google and make money via affiliate programs and AdSense.

   At one point, it wasn’t clear Google could beat these spammers- they always had a new programmatic trick to stay a step ahead. Enter human editors. It may seem anathema to Google's style, but it's critical to achieving their stated goal: quality search results.

   For more details on these editors, or "raters", including a copy of a help wanted ad for European Google editors, check out these links:

   http://www.searchbistro.com/index.php?/archives/19-Google-Secret-Lab,-Prelude.html

   and

   http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7183.

   Which Sites Are Tagged as Offensive?

   If you don't want to get blacklisted, the most important thing for you to understand is what you should and shouldn't do when creating websites.

   Ideally, it would be just as simple as following Google's Webmaster Guidelines (http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html). You could make the case that it is that simple. But it's easy, when you aren't getting any traffic and want to promote your site, to violate a suggestion you hadn't read all that carefully. Especially since so many sites are violating them. So the first imperative for webmasters is don't just skim Google's Webmaster Guidelines - read them slowly. MEMORIZE them.

   Is that enough? Let's look at Google's site editing instructions (their 13 page “Spamguide.rtf”) and see.

   Affiliate Websites Under Human Scrutiny

   The first important distinction they make is that sites must have unique value to their visitors. This is discussed in terms of how to uncover "Thin Affiliates". A thin affiliate is a website that merely duplicates all or part of another site and directs traffic to it. The goal of the thin affiliate is to throw up many pages quickly (often with the aid of webpage-generating software), including their affiliate links.

   Often these sites, like the fake search results websites, have pulled a large number of keyword search phrases together from Overture or Wordtracker, and, using some form of SEO (perhaps black hat), have wormed their way to high rankings.

   Google doesn't mind an affiliate site that provides extra content or value for visitors. But a thin affiliate earning commissions and providing nothing? Offensive!

   Navigating the Gray Area

   Google tries to help the human editors distinguish if the site is thin or not with both principles and examples. Here are some of major points made:

   • On thin affiliate websites, all external links point to one website (however, a site that compares prices between several affiliates does add value and is acceptable).
   • A good test for thinness: Would the site stand on its own without the pages that lead to affiliate sites? Or, is there rich, unique content on the site?
   • Some other criteria help editors identify program-generated sites: Sites with multiple similarities (or substantial equalities) between pages including formulaic descriptions, content, and template; and repeated text or dictionary-like lists of words in the description. [to check for these, search google for 'site:www.ANYSITE.com' without the quotes].

   Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

   Other things that alert Google editors are:

   • Images all hosted on another domain,
   • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
   • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
   • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so black-hat-2002!).

   FYI: Google also asks editors to mark uniquely authoritative sites as either Vital or Useful.

   How to Make a Positive Impression on Google Editors

   1. Add valuable content, downloads (like a custom application, video, or audio), the option to receive something through real mail, or an ezine.
   2. Link to multiple affiliates/revenue streams.
   3. Make your website somewhat organic (not
      The Secrets to Corporate Blogging
      Web logs, popularly known as blogs, have become one of the hottest communication tools on the Web. Offering the opportunity for anyone to create their own free Web site, encouraging opinions and interaction, blogs provide forums for individuals to create their own highly personal presentations to the Web audience, and for consortia of all types to experience the sort of online community feeling that was pioneered by early newsgroups and by the phenomenal success of AOL in the 1990s.Blogs have reached into the corporate and government sectors as well. A prominent federal magazine suggests that some compan
      editors, check out these links:

      http://www.searchbistro.com/index.php?/archives/19-Google-Secret-Lab,-Prelude.html

      and

      http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7183.

      Which Sites Are Tagged as Offensive?

      If you don't want to get blacklisted, the most important thing for you to understand is what you should and shouldn't do when creating websites.

      Ideally, it would be just as simple as following Google's Webmaster Guidelines (http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html). You could make the case that it is that simple. But it's easy, when you aren't getting any traffic and want to promote your site, to violate a suggestion you hadn't read all that carefully. Especially since so many sites are violating them. So the first imperative for webmasters is don't just skim Google's Webmaster Guidelines - read them slowly. MEMORIZE them.

      Is that enough? Let's look at Google's site editing instructions (their 13 page “Spamguide.rtf”) and see.

      Affiliate Websites Under Human Scrutiny

      The first important distinction they make is that sites must have unique value to their visitors. This is discussed in terms of how to uncover "Thin Affiliates". A thin affiliate is a website that merely duplicates all or part of another site and directs traffic to it. The goal of the thin affiliate is to throw up many pages quickly (often with the aid of webpage-generating software), including their affiliate links.

      Often these sites, like the fake search results websites, have pulled a large number of keyword search phrases together from Overture or Wordtracker, and, using some form of SEO (perhaps black hat), have wormed their way to high rankings.

      Google doesn't mind an affiliate site that provides extra content or value for visitors. But a thin affiliate earning commissions and providing nothing? Offensive!

      Navigating the Gray Area

      Google tries to help the human editors distinguish if the site is thin or not with both principles and examples. Here are some of major points made:

      • On thin affiliate websites, all external links point to one website (however, a site that compares prices between several affiliates does add value and is acceptable).
      • A good test for thinness: Would the site stand on its own without the pages that lead to affiliate sites? Or, is there rich, unique content on the site?
      • Some other criteria help editors identify program-generated sites: Sites with multiple similarities (or substantial equalities) between pages including formulaic descriptions, content, and template; and repeated text or dictionary-like lists of words in the description. [to check for these, search google for 'site:www.ANYSITE.com' without the quotes].

      Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

      Other things that alert Google editors are:

      • Images all hosted on another domain,
      • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
      • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
      • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so black-hat-2002!).

      FYI: Google also asks editors to mark uniquely authoritative sites as either Vital or Useful.

      How to Make a Positive Impression on Google Editors

      1. Add valuable content, downloads (like a custom application, video, or audio), the option to receive something through real mail, or an ezine.
      2. Link to multiple affiliates/revenue streams.
      3. Make your website somewhat organic (no
         Turn the Tables on Spammers: Search Engine Superiority
         It's not often you'll hear anyone praising spam. Until today.Ok, ok, ok -- we all hate it. When I check my e-mail box for the numerous domains that I own, I have hundreds - if not thousands of spam messages. It had gotten to the point that I could not tell between real e-mail and spam. I remember not logging into one account or a week, only to find out when I did that there were over 1,000 e-mail messages of which 995 were spam!First off, what kind of strategies can you use to fight spam? Here are a few that have worked very well for me:1.DO NOT put your e-mail address on your website in 'p
         editing instructions (their 13 page “Spamguide.rtf”) and see.

         Affiliate Websites Under Human Scrutiny

         The first important distinction they make is that sites must have unique value to their visitors. This is discussed in terms of how to uncover "Thin Affiliates". A thin affiliate is a website that merely duplicates all or part of another site and directs traffic to it. The goal of the thin affiliate is to throw up many pages quickly (often with the aid of webpage-generating software), including their affiliate links.

         Often these sites, like the fake search results websites, have pulled a large number of keyword search phrases together from Overture or Wordtracker, and, using some form of SEO (perhaps black hat), have wormed their way to high rankings.

         Google doesn't mind an affiliate site that provides extra content or value for visitors. But a thin affiliate earning commissions and providing nothing? Offensive!

         Navigating the Gray Area

         Google tries to help the human editors distinguish if the site is thin or not with both principles and examples. Here are some of major points made:

         • On thin affiliate websites, all external links point to one website (however, a site that compares prices between several affiliates does add value and is acceptable).
         • A good test for thinness: Would the site stand on its own without the pages that lead to affiliate sites? Or, is there rich, unique content on the site?
         • Some other criteria help editors identify program-generated sites: Sites with multiple similarities (or substantial equalities) between pages including formulaic descriptions, content, and template; and repeated text or dictionary-like lists of words in the description. [to check for these, search google for 'site:www.ANYSITE.com' without the quotes].

         Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

         Other things that alert Google editors are:

         • Images all hosted on another domain,
         • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
         • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
         • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so black-hat-2002!).

         FYI: Google also asks editors to mark uniquely authoritative sites as either Vital or Useful.

         How to Make a Positive Impression on Google Editors

         1. Add valuable content, downloads (like a custom application, video, or audio), the option to receive something through real mail, or an ezine.
         2. Link to multiple affiliates/revenue streams.
         3. Make your website somewhat organic (no
            What's So Special About SEZs?
            The Indian government is facing political heat from the farmers, opposition, and even from its own allies on setting up of special economic zones. The policy that aims to emulate China's success with SEZ by establishing a tax & customs free zones to encourage exports is now under fire on land acquisition. The controversy has prompted the Prime Minister to put on hold further approvals of SEZs.The SEZs have always been marred by controversies — earlier by the Finance Ministry's fear on tax exemptions offered to these zones and now by the land acquisition.There is not much doubt, that the SEZ concep
            oviding nothing? Offensive!

            Navigating the Gray Area

            Google tries to help the human editors distinguish if the site is thin or not with both principles and examples. Here are some of major points made:

            • On thin affiliate websites, all external links point to one website (however, a site that compares prices between several affiliates does add value and is acceptable).
            • A good test for thinness: Would the site stand on its own without the pages that lead to affiliate sites? Or, is there rich, unique content on the site?
            • Some other criteria help editors identify program-generated sites: Sites with multiple similarities (or substantial equalities) between pages including formulaic descriptions, content, and template; and repeated text or dictionary-like lists of words in the description. [to check for these, search google for 'site:www.ANYSITE.com' without the quotes].

            Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

            Other things that alert Google editors are:

            • Images all hosted on another domain,
            • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
            • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
            • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so black-hat-2002!).

            FYI: Google also asks editors to mark uniquely authoritative sites as either Vital or Useful.

            How to Make a Positive Impression on Google Editors

            1. Add valuable content, downloads (like a custom application, video, or audio), the option to receive something through real mail, or an ezine.
            2. Link to multiple affiliates/revenue streams.
            3. Make your website somewhat organic (no
               Earn Money From eBay
               Have you ever researched about eBay? If you have don’t you get surprised with the amount of money that people earn with eBay? Earning a few thousand of dollars per month is pretty much common on eBay. And if you have any doubt, try to have a look at the list of power-sellers on eBay.The minimum criterion for being a powerseller is earning at least $1000 per month. A sliver powerseller should make at least $3000 per month. A gold powerseller makes at least $10,000 per month. And if it is a platinum powerseller, he should make $25,000 per month at the least. The highest ranked is the Titanium powerseller a

               Obviously inoffensive websites can have one or two of these features, so Google encourages editors to send them a question rather than just mark the site offensive.

               Other things that alert Google editors are:

               • Images all hosted on another domain,
               • External links not placed for humans but to get them indexed by search engines,
               • Stock description for affiliate links rather than custom comments, and
               • Hidden text (Could you be any dumber? That's so black-hat-2002!).

               FYI: Google also asks editors to mark uniquely authoritative sites as either Vital or Useful.

               How to Make a Positive Impression on Google Editors

               1. Add valuable content, downloads (like a custom application, video, or audio), the option to receive something through real mail, or an ezine.
               2. Link to multiple affiliates/revenue streams.
               3. Make your website somewhat organic (not formulaic)- don't use keyword spam webpage generating software.
               4. Add unique descriptions to webpages and links.
               5. Host your own images.
               6. List your contact info, phone number, availability, etc.
               7. It's ok to have an affiliate program and spawn affiliates.