Source: text-link-ads.com

Text Link Ads have created a new toy for bloggers to play with called the Blog juice calculator which gives your blog a ranking on how much ‘blog juice’ it has in comparison to other blogs in your niche.

They measure your blog juice by looking at Bloglines subscribers (40%), Alexa ranking (15%), Technorati ranking (30%) and Incoming links from Technorati (15%).

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By: Loren Baker | Source: searchenginejournal.com

Google is serving Adwords and Adsense advertisements on Google properties and the sites of Google AdSense members who are connected with Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups which are benefitting from revenue which is originated by Google advertisers.

The specific Google properties which are serving these ads are housed on the Google Orkut social network. Orkut groups which were serving these Google Ads were set up by Hezbollah, Iraqi insurgent and other terror oriented groups.

I took it upon myself to perform some searches within the Orkut network and came across multiple Hezbollah and Al Qaeda groups, associated forums and member profiles which are serving Google AdWords contextual advertisements.

Sure the argument can be put together that Google is not responsible for the content which is created by members of their Orkut community, which lets registered users set up their own forums, blogs, and groups to connect different users over the Google network.

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By: Joe Lewis | Source: webpronews.com

Earlier this year, Google extended an offer to merchants to take advantage of Google Checkout services for free until the end of the year, a gesture that rival PayPal matched in kind. Tuesday, the company officially extended the offer of free services until December 31, 2007.

The move is surely aimed at positioning Google Checkout as a more universally accepted alternative to PayPal as an online payment processor. By extending free processing until the end of 2007, Google hopes that more merchants will take advantage of the service, and by extension, other Google services such as AdSense.

Along with the extension of free payment processing, Google also announced the following new features that have been implemented into the Checkout service:

Easy coupon creation: Create coupons from the Google Checkout Merchant Center. You can specify $-off discounts and %-off discounts, and add restrictions such as "one per customer," "new customers only," and so on. Try it now (requires a Checkout merchant account).

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