Google Maps Drops Wikipedia Layer

It seems as if Google dropped the Wikipedia layer from Google Maps a few weeks ago.

A Google Maps Help thread has dozens of complaints from Google Maps users that the Wikipedia layer is gone.

The layer provided additional content from Wikipedia about location specific data on the map. Now, it is no longer available.

In fact, if you look at the help document about the available layers, you will not see Wikipedia listed there. The current options include:

• Traffic
• Photos
• Labels
• Webcams
• Bicycling
• 45º
• Terrain
• Transit

Google has not yet responded to the complaints in the thread. But it does seem the Wikipedia layer is officially gone from Google Maps.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.

Google's Matt Cutts: The Nofollow Can Only Hurt You When...

Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, posted a video yesterday on the question of, "can nofollow links hurt your site?" The answer is no but there is a "corner case."

If you absolutely spam links in a way that is so evasive and so annoying that people know you by name, then Google may take action. Even if the links are nofollowed, Google may take action against very large scale abuse of links.

It is a way for Google to go after spammers who are harming sites and encourage them not to.

Here is the video so you can listen to it yourself.

Forum discussion at Google+.

How To Write SEO Friendly Blog Post Titles: 3 Major Tips?

Surely about 80% traffic that you get from search engines or other sources (Directories, Forums) depend on your post title. Titles are designated the heart of a post content and no doubt they're the king of your entire blog content. Titles are strongly needed to be optimized by webmasters to get indexed faster so that it will be sure to retain both Page rank and traffic too. Blog authors must pay heed to their content as well as make sure whether the title of their content is SEO friendly or not. If blog authors dedicate a minimum towards post title then i think there is nothing else left to optimize. Search engines always hunt for keywords and based on that they will rank you on a particular topic, so every blog author needs to feed search engines smart and highest searchable keywords with a view to getting ranked higher in SEO competition. Let's try a watch about picking search engine friendly keywords that will help webmasters to index pages rapidly and thus to target traffic online.

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How To Protect Your Adsense Account From Being Banned?

We've posted several articles related current adsense violations, invalid click activity, how adsense team detect invalid click, and now how to protect your adsense account from being banned. This tutorial is the last one of Adsense Violations series and it focuses only on Google Adsense account protections. Basically to protect your adsense account you must be an experienced user of Adsense account, you must watch daily stats of your site and clicks coming from visitors across your site. Must be aware about adsense account while getting huge clicks but not the average increase of CPC, CTR so these things will lead your account to be banned, so an experienced user always keep watching on these phenomenons to protect his account and use the account for longer period. Learn more below....

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How Google Adsense Team Detect Invalid Click Activity?

Search engine giant Google is today leading about 70% companies to advertise their products through Adwords program, about 40% ads are published and handled by Adsense program, and about 30% are published by Google Local Search, Google Mail, Wallet, Hangouts, and other landing projects of Google. Today it's becoming too hard to get approved an adsense account for some certain region of world, and after getting approved some newbies are trying to make instant money by cheating google but it's one type of cock and bull history to make money by Adsense cheating Google. Again once get caught by Adsense team it's not possible to retrieve account very soon, you need to appeal for it but Google adsense team will review it more and more times, so it took about 3/4 months to get response from Adsense team.

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What Is Google Adsense Invalid Clicks Activity?

With a great start of Google adsense tutorial i myself thought how ought to arrange a complete series which will discuss each distinct fixed point of Google Adsense invalid click activities and its violations.  This is how i made it and think will be absolutely comprehensible to the users and they will get the actual information about It. I read many posts about Google Adsense violations and restrictions and i thought its really very hard to retain an Adsense account for a longer period for any user. Because invalid click is such a process which no-one can detect without viewing site stats and even a visitor who doesn't know about invalid click or even Google Adsense Program but clicked on Google Ads and after some seconds he closed the window and thus it will result as fraudulent click and this might hamper your Adsense account. So to remove these issues and to protect Google Adsense account for longer period we focused on 10 different topics (related to Adsense violations) and written one post. You just go through this whole post and increase your ideas about Google Adsense Violations.

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Add Awesome jQuery WordPres Slider To Blogger!

jQuery an advanced language basically used in webpage development, widget monetization, plugin improvement and other related accessories. jQuery is use by advanced and experienced coder no doubt. There are lots of jQuery example online which is built-in javascript and other hardcore languages. Animation content like slider is fully powered by jQuery and Google APIs. If you wish to develop any jQuery based slider then you must know advanced languages like HTML5, CSS3, PHP etc. Today we're going to publish a light weight and smarty slider which is fully compatible with blogger and all other HTML based templates. A simple script which is able to perform something big across your site, let's see how...

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jQuery Navigation Menubar Widget For Blogger.

CSS3 is an advanced language and released after simple CSS which is not capable to show advanced functionality of any gadget like Edge Shadow, Image Rotating, Image Popup, Gradient, Popup Navigation, Opacity, etc. If we want to over stylize our widgets then we must adopt advanced code like CSS3, sometimes we need not any jQuery support and thereby we come across fantastic gadgets on the basis of CSS3 only. Today we're gonna publish such an advanced CSS3 powered navigation bar which takes no additional support of jQuery but quite able to show an amazing popup dropdowns on any frontend. The script is powered by Lasindu Nadishan and further developed and widgetized by WBT Network. If you wish to share this widget with your readers don't forget to link back us and it's original author.

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About Khan Academy & Its Origin.

''A small team trying to do something big'' keeping this motto in mind Khan Academy Team is going ahead day by day as a non-profit organization of free online educational platform. Khan Academy is an organization on a mission while it's a non-profit with the goal of changing education for the betterment by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. At the beginning Khan Academy was run by several members and by the year 2013 Khan Academy has a group of 45 members where each of them handle individuals with whatever they prefer to operate insight Khan Academy according their basis. Before establishing such a world class incentive program Khan focused on these that ''too many people around the globe don’t have access to good education materials, or they are forced to learn through a system that doesn't properly cater to their individual needs'' but he thought ''the technology exists today to fundamentally change this, and we're trying to build the tools and resources every student deserves''. Khan still feels that a few great people can make a big difference and he will strive to hire the very best — people who are passionate, thoughtful and creative.

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72% Were Hit By Google's Penguin 1.0 Or 2.0 Algorithm

Google's 2.0 Penguin update went live over 3 months ago and we ran a poll shortly after asking how many of you were impacted by this Penguin update.

We had almost 1,500 responses since launching the poll and the results were pretty significant.

The question was: How Were You Impacted By Google Penguin 2.0?

The results:

• 53% said I Was Hit By Penguin 2.0
• 19% said I Was Hit By Penguin 1.0 & Did Not Recover With Penguin 2.0
• 4% said I Recovered From Penguin 1.0
• 24% said they were not impacted by any Penguin update

Here is the pie chart:

Tomorrow I will share the did you recover from Penguin 2.0 results.

Forum discussion continued at Google+, Cre8asite Forums, WebmasterWorld, DigitalPoint Forums, Black Hat World and Google Webmaster Help.

Top 10 Largest Community Forums 2013

Internet is becoming more and more flexible today serving millions of ways to satisfy users on various topics whatever a user prefer most. Communities are such type of website based discussion board or message board where over millions of registered user access the site each day, post their conversions entering a specific chat room. The posted conversions required specific delay to publish before the moderator allows it to be published. When the question would be published then it will be answered by any registered user who works for the moderator. There are a huge number of communities online, and the range of conversation topics is limitless. Communities are hierarchical or tree-like in structure: a community forum can contain a number of subforums, each of which may have several topics. Within a forum's topic, each new discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people as so wish. Have more info, today we'd discuss informing some largest communities online and those are famous over years yet.

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Reports Of Another Google Update : September 4th

I am seeing some early signs of a possible major Google update currently underway. The chatter has definitely spiked in the early morning hours of today, September 4th.

This comes shortly after an unconfirmed August 21st update. In fact, that update post has well over 250 comments and a bunch of recent ones this morning reporting the update people are seeing this morning.

The WebmasterWorld thread has two new posts this morning and I expect a lot more. Plus I see dozens of threads at Google Webmaster Help Forums with individual complaints in the past several hours.

One WebmasterWorld member said:

Yes we are seeing same in several high traffic sites, about 50% decrease at exactly same time, must be going something very big.

Another preferred member said:

Yep 25% drop here since Thursday 29 Aug. No WMT messages, no idea why. All I can see is that Google has turned up the preference for brands.

Via the comments in our August post:

30% drop in traffic on Aug 24. Another 80% drop in traffic on September 3rd. Google analytics landscape (graph) changed from Mountains to Rivers.

Via one of the threads at Google Webmaster Help forums:

We've noticed this morning that the site's rankings dropped significantly (about 80%). I've checked the manual actions in WMT for a penalty, nothing, I've searched for a major Google Algo update...nothing. I have no idea what's going one, especially that this site is 7 years old, the traffic before this major drop was about between 20k and 30k daily visitors. We've done 0 link spamming and the only thing I found wrong so far is that some spam websites copied our content in full. We've did several DMCA reports on that but that shouldn't be the problem of this major drop. We have no clue what to do.

Something major is going on and I'll see if I can get a comment before I go offline tonight.

September 2013 Google Webmaster Report

This past month, we did not have any official update but something made the Google results rumble in late August, we have over 250 comments with complaints in the post. I am waiting on official confirmation from Google if there was some sort of update or not.

Google's Matt Cutts also announced links within widgets must be nofollowed. Google moved the reconsideration requests feature into the new manual actions viewer. Plus, webmasters and SEOs are getting impatient with not seeing a PageRank update in over six months.

Otherwise, the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread is pretty quiet over the labor day weekend.

For last month's recap, see the August report. Here is the monthly recap as we saw it:

• Some Reports Of An August 21/22 Google Update
• Google: Links Within Widgets Must Be Nofollowed
• Google Webmaster Tools Shows Your Manual Spam Actions
• FYI: Google's Reconsideration Request Now In Manual Actions
• All Of Google's Manual Actions For Search Spam
• 6 Months Later, No Google Toolbar PageRank Update...
• Google's Matt Cutts Issues Subtle Warning To Ghost Networks
• Google In-Depth Articles Goes Live, Here Is How To Be Included
• Google: We Fight Spam All Around The World But English Spam Gets More Attention
• Webmasters Fear Linking Out After Google's Warnings
• Google's Matt Cutts Wants To Know Which Small Sites Should Rank Better
• Google On Why Links Within Webmaster Tools May Or May Not Be Enough
• Google: We Want Your Feedback On Search Policies. Really?
• Google's Matt Cutts: Page Speed Not More Important For Mobile Ranking
• Google's Matt Cutts: +1s Don't Improve Rankings
• Google: Short & Basic Reconsideration Requests Won't Do It.
• Google Wants To See You Really Mean It With Reconsideration Request
• Google's FAQ On Rel Author Says Not For Product Pages
• Google AdWords & Webmaster Tools Team Up With Paid & Organic Reporting
• Google Skip Redirects Adds Support For rel-alternate-media Annotations
• Maybe I'm Not That Ugly, My Face Is Back In Google

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google Almost Admits Making A Mistake Regarding Natural Links

Last week, we reported on a situation where Google said a link to a site was unnatural and thus the site still has a penalty but the truth is, the link was indeed natural and as natural as it gets.

Shortly after publishing our story, Google's Eric Kuan, posted in the Google Webmaster Help thread almost admitting Google made a mistake.

Eric is a member of Google's Search Quality Team. He wrote in the thread:

Thanks for your feedback on the example links sent to you in your reconsideration request. We'll use your comments to improve the messaging and example links that we send.

If you believe that your site no longer violates Google Webmaster Guidelines, you can file a new reconsideration request, and we'll re-evaluate your site for reconsideration.

I guess this is as close as Google coming to admitting they made a mistake?

Maybe more will come in and fight their cases and who knows, we will have a whole group of threads on why Google is wrong and horrible.

I am a bit surprised to see Google come in and respond to this but hey, it is really nice to see it.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

How To Install jQuery MenuBar To Blogger?

Today publishing an awesome jquery tab section widget for blogspot user fully CSS3 powered and containing an awesome Date Timestamp along with Social Bookmarking buttons. This light weight tab is perfect geared on dark viewed templates and on top above header it has perfect and fading location to the users. This will keep users prompted to share your content on social media as well as they could see current Date by the timestamp. This tab is commonly seen on Commercial websites and this script extended a new boundary of Blogger traditional widgets.

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10 Best SEO Services And Companies 2013!

Today publishing a hot list of 10 best seo serving companies of 2013 and we focused on various important topics before enlisting them at all. These SEO company rankings are derived from a proprietary score that we calculated based on a variety of date points. Definitely these companies have already proved their theme in a thousand hours and they have already differently millions of registered and non registered users per day. In this tutorial we just pointed out their ranking, location, pricing, current clients, founded year, and other various things we tried to inform the readers. We analyzed each 3 different SEO companies before rating them and their service. So let's go ahead and try it out yourself

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Download Best Free Premium Blogger Templates!

WBT Repository always remains updated with latest and hot topics, designs, widgets, plugins and other miscellaneous staffs. In the previous posts we presented readers some rarely shown recipes like Blogger Mag, Jquery Contact Form, Stylish And Rarely Seen Jquery Tab Menu and so on. Today we're publishing a gather of best quality blogger templates developed and updated by WBT Network only. We generally accept order from our readers and according their dictation we build design whatever they want. And today's tutorial we're gonna consecrate them for free. You're most welcome to explore our repository always.

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Recent Post Widget For Blogger!

Feedburner gives a great opportunity to deliver content via feed and email subscription by riched Rss and Atom feed process. You may show feedburner's landing process of recent posts of your entire xml feed across your site. By displaying recent post a reader will be more attracted to your recently published content thus your gather more page views. You could modify your recent posts very easily add some styles with bullets numbering very easily if you're an experienced user of HTML and CSS. Anyway today we'd learn how to install feed burner's recent post widget on blogger just within 3 minutes.

Note: This tutorial is an integrated part of recent comments widget of blogger you may try out the tutorial right below

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Top 7 Email Marketing Services 2013!

Today the most agitating word which strongly related with web marketing is email marketing. Email marketing is one type of turning content of web business and at the beginning of search engine and their mail provider service email marketing got a primary value to the internet marketers and gradually email marketing became world's largest traffic provider system with all an accord it increases a site's page rank as well as does automated SEO for any company website. Today there are lots of companies got succeeded along with email marketing service and of late they're dominating a giant internet business having millions of registered users only. Now we'd discuss some top email marketing servers along with the web definition of email marketing, let's go ahead.

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Google AdSense Adds 5 New Font Types

Google AdSense has announced the addition of five new font types to the font family, which brings the total font types or styles to eight.

The new fonts include Open Sans, Open Sans Light, Roboto Light, Ubuntu Light and Lora. The previous font styles were Arial, Times, and Verdana.

You can manage the font types when you create or edit ads. Here is the font selection area:

Here are what each font looks like:

Open Sans:

Open Sans Light:

Roboto Light:

Ubuntu Light:

Lora:

Forum discussion at Google+.