Google Ad Manager Is Now Open For All AdSense Publishers

Way back in May, 2008 I got the privilege to be one of a limited number of Google Adsense Publishers that were given the chance to test drive Google Ad Manager. I must say its a great way to publish and manage your Ads if you have a network of websites - and at the same time have the flexibility of displaying Google-served ads from your Google Adsense account.

Today, Google announced in its AdSense Blog that the Google Ad Manager service is now available for everyone - with Google Adsense accounts that is. Several new features were also added. A snippet from the Adsense Blog announcement:

Interface available in 32 languages: Do you prefer to work in Turkish or Vietnamese or Hungarian? Now you can! Ad Manager supports international currencies, too.
Ad network management: Easily manage your third-party ad networks in Ad Manager to automatically maximize your network driven revenue.
Automatic macro insertion: Save time and avoid tagging errors since Ad Manager now automatically detects and inserts macros from most popular 3rd party vendors.
Creative preview on live site: Preview the look and feel of ads on your live site to ensure ads look as expected before you start the campaign.
Day and Time Targeting: Don’t want your orders to run on weekends? No problem. With day and time targeting, you can set any new line items you create to run only during specific hours or days, or as little as 15 minutes per week. Use day and time targeting in addition to geography, bandwidth, browser, user language, operating system, domain and custom targeting.

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Google Chrome EULA: An Honest Mistake or Something Else?

Being a fan of open source systems and of course, of the great and mighty Google, I would certainly use everything that Google offers for free - search engines, toolbars, website contents, gadgets, adsense, feed managers, and lately, its new web browser Chrome.

However, a CNET article the other day made me think twice about just installing anything and not reading through the End Users License Agreement or EULA. I must admit, I rarely read the EULA when installing softwares on my PC. How many people are actually reading the EULA’s of softwares they were installing? Most people just click on the I Accept the End User Agreement tickbox or button and voila, install the software as recommended. I rarely choose the CUSTOM Install option as well as it might complicate my life even more.

The new Chrome browser from Google had this in its EULA:

“The software which you use may automatically download and install updates from time to time from Google. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit Google to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the services.”

Problem with this? Well since I trust Google so much I find it a great extra service that they fix and improve my browsing experience without me even looking the fixes and updates myself. So this one is okay. But how about those other softwares you installed? Could you trust its Developers to give you software updates without thinking about stuffs like malware, spyware and other programs and add-on that are designed to compromise data, privacy and security?

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Busby SEO Challenge Final Results and Updates

The Busby SEO Challenge competition was a great way to discover and learn Search Engine Optimization for every newbie SEO enthusiasts like Bloggista.com, a Busby SEO Challenge participant to the hotly contested Busby SEO Challenge competition organized by Busby Web Solutions, an SEO Company based in Australia.

Many Filipinos joined the Busby SEO Challenge which ran for about 3 months. The goal - rank first in Google Top Page when the key phrase Busby SEO Challenge is searched. Teams from Indonesia ranked solid in first place, a day before the Busby SEO Challenge officially close.

Start Time:	1st June 2008 (12:00 midday, Perth, WA)
Finish Time:	31 August 2008 (12:00 midday, Perth, WA)

The top winner wins USD5,000.00 while the second and third runner-ups get USD2,000.00 and USD500.00 each respectively. Check back this post as I will be posting the winners and top 10 best performers once the results are out.

Busby SEO Challenge winners:

One big lesson learned from this competition was Teamwork. Others resort to obtaining thousands of backlinks by all means - some I personally doesn’t want to do at all - which borders to SPAMMING just to get backlinks.

Anyways, a big congratulations to the winners and to all the participants of the busby seo challenge contest. Hopefully next year, Busby Web Solutions will again run this event so we can participate.

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The 2008 Beijing Olympics Results and Medal Standings

I have not optimized this blog for the 2008 Olympics Results, Medal Tally and Olympic Records but visitors kept on coming to this site from Google and Yahoo looking for Olympics Games 2008 Updates. Thus in order not to waste your time, I’m giving you the links to what’s happening with the 2008 Olympics Summer Games in Beijing.