Google has recently posted a short article with tips & advice on how to design a website . The design tips are useful to well versed designers as well as the upcoming webmasters, focussing on some of the essential success factors of an effective website.
This is true for bloggers as well. And especially for those who want to make money from blogging .
Having an effective design & a strong content is a sure way to win attention on the internet!

We are releasing the new AdGrace Theme - our third free Wordpress Theme that is very suitable for sites & blogs that display ads .
The approach is simplistic with focus on uncluttered content & design. The color scheme is chosen to be a combination of green & mild blue to sooth the eyes.
The AdGrace Theme is completely widgetized with 2 right aligned widgets.

Here is the second Free Wordpress Theme - Blog Ads Theme suitable for websites & blogs with advertising. Advertising could be an excellent way to support your home business & small business.
The free Blog Ads Theme is optimized for showing ads on your sites or blogs. The main feature of the Free Blog Ads
This is the second free Wordpress theme after the popular Pro Ad Theme . In the Blog Ads Theme the layout & structure are optimized to display CPM ads as well as CPC & CPA ads …

Flash files are often used by website designers for attractive presentations. But the flash files, being rich media, was not helpful in providing keywords for search engine robots. Search engine crawlers could neither tag them as images, nor as text.
Now that changes with Adobe & Google collaborating to share the flash file technology so that Google search engine crawlers could index meaningful information from the rich media flash files.
Adobe plans to provide Google and Yahoo with its Flash Player technology in an effort to get more of the content …

Yandex is the largest search engine database in Russia. Reports point that it could be the most popular search engine used in Russia with about 44% of the Russian search engine market share.
Much like Google has become a standard word in the English dictionary meaning "search", Russians are used to "Yandex" in a much similar matter.
In fact, comScore reports that Yandex is the Number 2 search engine in Europe. Adding to the competition to Google, Yandex will go for a Nasdaq listing in the fall of 2008.

While writing the Wordpress Lifeline Series to help new bloggers with a step by step how to guide to start blogging & then make money from it, I realized that there were not many good free Wordpress Themes that were created & optimized for advertisements.
So I created the Free Wordpress Pro Ad Theme. I am still working on the cosmetic part of the theme & I shall be able to roll it out by Aug 2008.
The main feature of the Free Pro Ad Theme is that the layout & structure …

I read an excellent article by Lisa Johnson of Minnesota Council on Foundations on an initiative to allow people browsing the Internet & using search engines, to donate to their charity.
When you use GoodSearch to look up information on the Internet, you could help donate 50% of the advertising money raised by search engines, to a charity of your choice. You do not need to sign up or spend a cent. 
GoodSearch is powered by Yahoo! and the technology allows the searches to track and direct these search-generated proceeds to charities.

Google launched AdPlanner today. Its a research and media planning tool that connects advertisers and publishers. It helps advertisers identify the publishers who serve in the keywords category & a preferred demography.
The tool allows you to aggregate statistical information as well as analyze them by drilling down into the data. Being from Google, AdPlanner can be easily integrated with MediaVisor , the analytical tool from Google’s subsidiary DoubleClick.
According to the release information, Google says that AdPlanner is designed for use by media planners. It can be used …

Ever since the battles between the various top social media networks have given media ample food to talk & write about, the webmasters’ groups have joined the battle with their own Social Media Optimization buzz.
Now we have two highly popular jargons - Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) & Social Media Optimization (or SMO).
While Search Engine Optimization relates to the various theories, principles & practices that enable a web site or blog to be indexed favorably, Social Media Optimization focuses on how to leverage the various social media networks like MySpace, …

How often do you watch the comments left on your blogs & posts? If you are a cautious blogger, you should be watching the comments on your posts frequently. Not all comments are meant to be kept. Cleaning them up once a week is a good practice, especially if you have just started to build your rank site & blog’s rank with the Search Engines.
If you search Google about the best practices of leaving comments, a great many will show up. I will analyze the other side of the coin. …