Yes! Adsense have a new look and I am loving it!

“The new AdSense has been designed to help you manage your account more efficiently, offer you deeper insights about your site’s revenue, and give you more control over the ads you show. A few of the new things you can do include:

• Make changes to your ad units in bulk by visiting the My ads tab
• Compare your performance this month and last month under the Performance reports tab
• Visit the Allow & block ads tab to block categories of ads

Want to learn more about the new interface? Visit google.com/ads/newadsense”

It is currently in Beta phase. Check it out!

I was amazed by the power of the Google Wave, so I wanted to try a few of its features.

The best thing to try is how to embed it on a blog or website. My adventure on this task started of me searching for possible ways to put a Wave on my blog. In the process, I was able to find a plugin for WordPress. I installed and tested it, but it didn’t give a satisfactory result. So I continued searching and found a discussion that helped me embed a wave.

Here’s my test wave:

I am happy with the help that I got from the discussion. I really learned a lot.

Thanks to Plurk and Marhgil Macuha because if not for those two, I wouldn’t know that TODAY is the deadline for a new requirement of Google Adsense:

In preparation for interest-based advertising, please ensure that your site’s privacy policy is up to date by April 8, 2009. Visitation information from publisher sites will be used to create user interest categories, delivering more relevant ads and improving monetization for publishers over time. Learn more…

I need not say more, JUST UPDATE YOUR SITE with PRIVACY POLICY NOW!

You could take a look at JenSense for some examples.

Do you have an Adsense account, but doesn’t seem to earn enough?
Do you like to write but have no time to promote your blog to maximize your earnings?

Well, 611Connect has launched a Writer Compensation Program. It could be a solution to your problem.

611Connect is a website focused on cell phones and wireless technology and is making its way on top of search engines for its target keywords. They are offering participants 100% of the Google Adsense revenue from the post on blogs or ehows that they have created.

Check Writer Compensation Program to learn more about this opportunity. Hurry and sign up to maximize your earnings!

I guess a voice and video solves all the problem for people who communicates via Gmail. My father and I use this because my dad doesn’t know how to use anything but Gmail.

It is an answered prayer. Check: Voice and Video Chat on Gmail.

Now communicating via Gmail would be better than ever, and I know Google is making things better.

I just read the post of a Filipino SEO, Benj Arriola about the Google Translation service. He created a good example on his site; a Tagalog or Filipino being translated in English. I just want to refer you to it, so that you would understand it more clearly.

Here’s Benj’s post: Ingat sa mga translations

For now, the translation is not refined, but as Benj say, it would be soon.

I think it is a great development for us to gain more knowledge. My apploud to Google on this one, but their Google Chrome just isn’t doing well for me now.

It was just two months ago since Google PR last had its update. Today, I have seen changes on some of my blogs and so I searched if there was an update on PR. Indeed there was a PR update last September 27, 2008.

Here are the top 10 results from Google as I searched for “google pr update september 2008″

1. Latest Google PageRank Update – September, 2008
2. Google toolbar PR update – 27, September 2008
3. Google PageRank Update – September 2008
4. Google PageRank Update – 27th September 2008
5. Yet another PageRank update for September 2008
6. Google PageRank Update – September 2008
7. Large Google PageRank Update (September 2008)
8. Google PR Update in September 2008
9. Google PR Update in September 2008 Same as above
10. Google PageRank Update Again (September 2008)

I downloaded and installed Google Chrome awhile ago to test it. As I have blogged yesterday, this is still on Beta and I expect that there would be a lot of changes from then on.

Feature checking:

• It copied all my bookmarks and saved data’s from Firefox. So, I have a smooth transition. I haven’t loss any info I needed, and that’s a big – OK.
  • OH! I just found out, there’s no plugins, addons, toolbars, etc. yet. So, I will be waiting for that. I need to install a PR tool to have a live PR view everytime I check a websites.
• It promised to be faster, and so I tried it on sites that loads slow. Result: it was indeed a bit faster.
• The design is good for the eye and it seems to use all the spaces provided, but clean to look at.

To sum it all up, I like it.

Additional Info:

• I was doing QA on some of my clients site when I noticed that Google Chrome does not or could not recognize referrer page. [NOT GOOD]
• A friend also said that he could not install flash on Google Chrome.

There has been write-ups that this is what they call the Google OS. Check SearchEngineWatch but I think Google is still working on that one. As I have said on my former post, “Google is making its way to be the virtual service that anyone would ever need.”

Are you on Chrome yet? If not – better not be late, because everyone seems to be moving to this browser. I just did!

Everyone seems to be talking about this new Google Browser – Google Chrome. As Google had announced it on their blog, that it will be released for Beta September 2, 2008 (Tuesday). Philippine time seems to be advanced, so need to wait for their Tuesday.

In the meantime, while we are waiting for the launch, here is a comic book to explain more about Google Chrome.

It seems, Google is slowly making its way to be the virtual service that anyone would ever need. Plus open-source … FREE FREE FREE is always nice!

Will it kill Firefox, Internet Explorer and all those other web browsers? We don’t know yet. But time will tell, and that time is near. So, let us keep track on its update and reviews once it is out.

If this works well, Google will surely conquer the virtual world.

I just saw some changes on my sites PR (Page Rank) today. This site has went down to PR 1 from PR 2. Actually, most of my sites had decrease in PR, however one of my site did have an increase and that is the Iloilo Bloggers; from PR 3 to PR 4.

I noticed that some pages or profiles of members had increase in PR as well, most of them have PR 2 profiles, while 2 of them had a PR 3; GM and Oliver.

Now, what seem to contribute this PR increase? I think it is because members had linked the site up and their blogs may have gained PR, so that is added into my score on Google.

Because I had a PR 4 on my Iloilo Bloggers, I will give you 4 SEO TIPS on how to earn PR:

1. Create a BUZZ to have other sites link you. -TIP given by Benj Arriola
2. Have a good design for your blog or site.
3. Update – not necessarily a daily update, but you have to check it once in a while to be able to reply for comments of visitors.
4. Do not link up PTB (Paid To Blog) sites, Google hates them, that was the main BIG thing during the PR update last October 2007.

That’s it for now. Good Luck and may you have a PR increase on the next Google PR Update.