Make Adsense Notifier work with Firefox 3.5.*
For those of you that use, or used to use Adsense Notifier, you’ll find out that if you switch to Firefox 3.5, Adsense Notifier will no longer work. Well, I’ve got good news for you! If you follow the steps below, you can have it back.
Step #1 – Create a new folder on your desktop.
Step #2 – Download the Adsense.xpi file to that new folder by right-clicking on that link and choosing “Save Link As…”.
Step #3 – Rename the downloaded Adsense.xpi file to “Adsense.zip” and unzip it as usual. If you can’t see the extension within Windows, click here.
Step #4 – Open the install.rdf file with notepad.
Step #5 – On line #33 replace this:
33 | <em:maxVersion>3.0b5</em:maxVersion> |
with this:
33 | <em:maxVersion>3.6.*</em:maxVersion> |
Step #6 – Save the file.
Step #7 – Zip all the contents back up the same way it was and name it “Adsense36.zip”.
Step #8 – Change the extension back to “xpi”.
Step #9 – Open the Adsense36.xpi directly within Firefox by going to File > Open File.
Step #10 – Click on Install and then you should up and running.
Note: The fix worked for me, however, I am not providing a guarantee that this information will work for you. It should though. Good luck!
Do you think Google will take over the world?
Google isn’t just a search engine anymore. Let’s face it, Google is a household name (and a verb in some cases). Sure, it started as a search engine, but they have branched out into so many other free services like email, maps, website analytics and even their own web browser. Yesterday, Google introduced the new Google Chrome OS.
“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.” Read Full Article
What’s next for Google? How long will it take before I’m driving to work in a Google car? What about a Google restaurant? “Hun, do you want to eat at Google tonight?” LOL
Google Squared now in Google Labs
“Google Squared is an experimental search tool that collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection, similar to a spreadsheet. If you search for [roller coasters], Google Squared builds a square with rows for each of several specific roller coasters and columns for corresponding facts, such as image, height and maximum speed.”
“This technology is by no means perfect. That’s why we designed Google Squared to be conversational, enabling you to respond to the initial result and get a better answer. If there’s another row or column you’d like to see, you can add it and Google Squared will automatically attempt to fetch and fill in the relevant facts for you. As you remove rows and columns you don’t like, Google Squared will get a fresh idea of what you’re interested in and suggest new rows and columns to add.”
To test it out, I did a search for “energy drinks”. At first, there was three column headers: Type, Author and Genre. I removed those and added “caffeine”. Six out of the seven results filled in the new column with an amount of caffeine. The one that didn’t wasn’t even an energy drink. In order to add more energy drinks to the list, I clicked on “Add next 10 items”. My favorite (Monster) was then added to the list of energy drinks to compare.
In my personal opinion, I think that this may come in handy every once in a while, but it wouldn’t get used on a daily basis. You’ve got to give Google a pat on the back though.
More Information:
Square your search results with Google Squared
Different types of energy drinks (in case you’re thirsty)
Google AdSense – Section Targeting
What is section targeting and how do I implement it?
Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you’d like us to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to your site’s content. By providing us with your suggestions, you can assist us in improving your ad targeting. We recommend that only those familiar with HTML attempt to implement section targeting.
To implement section targeting, you’ll need to add a set of special HTML comment tags to your code. These tags will mark the beginning and end of whichever section(s) you’d like to emphasize or de-emphasize for ad targeting.
The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:
<!-- google_ad_section_start --> content goes here <!-- google_ad_section_end --> |
You can also designate sections you’d like to have ignored by adding a (weight=ignore) to the starting tag:
<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) --> content goes here <!-- google_ad_section_end(weight=ignore) --> |
You can use section targeting to make suggestions about as many sections of a page as you like. However, please be aware that we can’t guarantee results, and that it may take up to 2 weeks before our crawlers take into account any changes you’ve made to your site.
In order to properly implement this feature, you’ll need to include a significant amount of content within the section targeting tags. Including insufficient content may result in less relevant ads or PSAs. In addition, please keep in mind that this feature should only be used to emphasize significant sections of your site’s relevant content. It is against our program policies to manipulate the ad targeting to result in ads that are not relevant to the content of your pages.
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=23168
Using 301 redirects to avoid duplicate content
It has been brought to my attention that having a website that is accessible with and without the “www.” before the domain name is BAD!!! The reason for this is that search engines will consider this as two seperate sites that have duplicate content. The other problem is that an index.html file would also be seen as seperate page to a search engine. In order to understand this a little better, see the example below:
- http://bfxmedia.com
- http://bfxmedia.com/index.html
- http://www.bfxmedia.com
- http://www.bfxmedia.com/index.html
In the example above, all of those different URLs would have displayed the same page. In order to resolve this problem, use this Redirect Check SEO Tool. After you submit your website for testing, it will run through all the variations of the URL and give you the status code for each one.
To redirect all traffic from http://bfxmedia.com to http://www.bfxmedia.com, you would add the lines below to your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.bfxmedia\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301,L] |
Although, that didn’t work for me because of the way my subdomains are redirected. I had to use this instead:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bfxmedia.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301] |
To redirect http://www.bfxmedia.com/index.html (and all other default page variations) to http://www.bfxmedia.com, you would add the lines below to your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.htm
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.htm$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.shtml
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.shtml$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.asp
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.asp$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.aspx
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.aspx$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.cfm
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.cfm$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.pl
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.pl$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/default\.asp
RewriteRule ^(.*)default.asp$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/default\.htm
RewriteRule ^(.*)default.htm$ http://www.bfxmedia.com/$1 [R=301] |
For the example site bfxmedia.com, I have corrected all the problems and now only one URL displays my “home” page. All the other variations are safely redirected.
Useful Links:
Redirect Check SEO Tool
SEO advice: url canonicalization
Canonical and Duplicate Versions of Content
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