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Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologism splogs, are artificially created weblog sites which the author uses to promote affiliated websites or to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites. The purpose of a splog can be to increase the PageRank or backlink portfolio of affiliate websites, to artificially inflate paid ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed. Spam blogs are usually a type of scraper site, where content is often either Inauthentic Text or merely stolen (see blog scraping) from other websites. These blogs usually contain an high number of links to sites associated with the splog creator which are often disreputable or otherwise useless websites.

Splogs sometimes choose a name similar to a popular blog in order to benefit from the occasional incoming link from careless bloggers, who think they are linking to the popular site.

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For a lot of people with privacy concerns, their number one concern is that the search engines and browsers store and keep track of their online activity. You can take steps to ensure that the search engines don’t keep track of your online activity. The instructions shown below are for clearing and/or disabling your search history in the mostcommon browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Netscape Navigator.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Go to the “Tools” menu.
2. Select “Internet Options” and the “General” tab.
3. Click the “Clear History” button. To completely disable the history function, set “Days to keep pages in history” to zero (”0″).
4. Click “OK” to exit.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Go to the “Tools” menu.
2. Select “Options” > “Privacy” > “History.”
3. Click on “Clear.” To completely disable the history function, set “Remember visited pages for the last X days” to zero (”0″).
4. Click “OK” to exit.

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To clear your search history from the drop-down text box on the Google Toolbar:

1. Click on the Google logo on the Toolbar to access the drop-down menu.

2. Click on “View History” option

3. Select the “Clear History” option.

If you’d like to completely disable your Toolbar’s search history,

1. Click the “Settings” button on your Toolbar.

2. Select “options…” and in the Toolbar Options go to “More”

3. Deselect “Set and Keep search settings to Google”

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CLEARING YOUR GOOGLE SEARCH BOX HISTORY

The search history that displays in the search box on the Google homepage is stored by your browser, not by Google. The Instructions shown below is for disabling this search history in common browsers. The browsers for which the instructions are shown include the Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Netscape Navigator 8.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Go to the “Tools” menu.
2. Select “Internet Options” and the “Content” tab.
3. Within the “Personal information” area, select “AutoComplete.”
4. Click on “Clear Forms.” You can also un-check the “Forms” box in this window to keep this information from being stored in the future.
5. Click “OK” to exit.

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What is Google Web History?

You know that great web site you saw online and now can’t find? With Web History, you can view and search across web pages you’ve visited in the past, including Google searches. Web History also provides interesting trends on your web activity, such as which sites you visit most frequently and what your top searches are. Finally, Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you’ve searched for and which sites you’ve visited.

You can access Google Web History by visiting www.google.com/history.

How to access your Google Web History?

Once you signed up for Google Web History, you can access it from any computer. All you need to do is go to Google Web History, sign in and you are taken to your Web History page. You can also click on “Web History” from your Google Accounts page.

Privacy and Personalization

If you share a computer and don’t want others to see your web activity, it is HIGHLY recommended that you always sign out of your Google Account when you are done. Web History data is stored online on Google’s servers, so unless you are signed in, no one can view your account.

Also, whenever you create a Google account, you are automatically signed in to a number of services like Google Calendar, Google Spreadsheets, Google Alerts and also Google Web History. If you wish to remove Web History service, log into your Google Account, click on “My Account” link, then click on “Edit” next to “My Services”. Then select “Delete Web History“.

Web History is only accessible by signing into your Google Account. So you can put those privacy concerns aside. If you have more doubts, you can visit Google’s Web History Privacy FAQ.

You can also see your web history in an RSS feed. To add your history to your RSS feed aggregator, click here.

Web History Restrictions

1. Your web history activity is only recorded when you are signed into your Google Account.

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What is Google PageRank?

Google PageRank (one word) is Google’s measure of the relative importance of a Web page on the Internet. The numbers rank from 0 to 10. The higher the number, the stronger the PageRank.

How is PageRank determined?

PageRank is calculated based on both the quantity and PageRank quality of your incoming links. The higher the PR of your incoming links, and the fewer outbound links there are on a page, the more PR is passed to your Web page. For example, a Web page with a fairly high Google PageRank of 6, but divided among many outbound links, might pass along much less PageRank than a PR4 page with only one or two outgoing links. It’s best to consider PageRank transfer on a case by case basis rather than as an overall blanket assessment. The number of variables is simply too high for easy calculations.

Is it important to have good PageRank?

Yes, as PageRank is part of the Google algorithm that determines where your blog or website will appear in the search engine results. Higher PR pages, especially for competitive keywords, will often be listed higher, but high PageRank is only one of about one hundred determining factors in the Google algorithm. It is not by any means the most important factor in search engine rankings.

How can I find out my Google PageRank?

PageRank is displayed in increasing amounts of green on a gauge on the Google Toolbar. The Google toolbar can be downloaded for a PC. Google bundles the Firefox web browser with the Google Toolbar. . The toolbar also displays a sampling of the page’s inbound links, but is not considered a reliable indicator of current PageRank. There is no Google Toolbar currently available for a Mac. Google maintains the true PageRank internally, and the toolbar display is generally agreed to be very inaccurate.

How to turn on PageRank in my Google Toolbar?

To turn on PageRank, follow the instructions below:

1. Click the Toolbar “Settings” button. Select Options.

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The Google AdSense team is amazing — both their support pages and their support staff. However, you might come across issues once in a while like say using the Adsense Preview Tool etc. In such a scenario where you need to contact the Google Adsense team or their specialists, use the link below.

Contact the Google Adsense Help Center

Once, you click on the link above, you are asked to select a topic which covers most of the issues users and publishers like you might face while using Adsense. The options given to you are Account Issues, Ad Troubleshooting, Search Troubleshooting, Generating Earnings and Reports, Receiving Payments, Referrals, Invalid Clicks or Unusual Account Activity or Other.

Say, you accidentally clicked on one of your ads (clicking on your own ads is prohibited by Google), you would select Invalid Clicks or Unusual Account activity and then select ” I accidentally clicked on my ads” and then hit continue.

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In one word … NO.

Clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited by Google as it has the potential to inflate advertiser costs. To combat this menace of click fraud, if Google suspects or finds out that you have been clicking on your own ads and trust me Google will, your Adsense account will be banned. So, please do not click on your own ads.

If you wish to test the ads being displayed on your website or blog without the risk of invalid clicks, I suggest using the Google Adsense Preview Tool. The clicks and impressions from the Adsense preview tool are not applied to the Advertiser’s account and you can happlily click through to the target site without worrying about invalid clicks being generated on your account.

The Google AdSense preview tool allows you to preview the ads that may show up on your webpage. This is a very useful tool for website admins who are displaying Google Adsense ads on their website. You can even click on the ads being shown here as the ads are in a test state, so you don’t have to worry about Google penalizing you by banning your Adsense account. You can preview ad formats and colors where you can select a new border or background or text colors. You can also view ads which visitors to your site say from Australia or U.K or India or China or from any other country might be seeing when they visit your website.

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What is the Google Adsense Preview Tool?

The Google AdSense preview tool allows you to preview the ads that may show up on your webpage. This is a very useful tool for website admins who are displaying Google Adsense ads on their website. You can even click on the ads being shown here as the ads are in a test state, so you don’t have to worry about Google penalizing you by banning your Adsense account. You can preview ad formats and colors where you can select a new border or background or text colors. You can also view ads which visitors to your site say from Australia or U.K or India or China or from any other country might be seeing when they visit your website. You can see how to Install the Google Adsense Preview Tool for Internet Explorer and Install Google Adsense Preview Tool for Firefox.

How to Uninstall the Google Adsense Preview Tool?

1. You now need to download a registry file(.reg) from Google to your Desktop. Right click the link below and select Save Target As… Save this registry file (.reg) to your Windows Desktop

Uninstaller for AdSense Preview Tool

2. Double click the file you just downloaded to your Desktop. A confirmation window will appear. Click Yes to continue.

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What is the Google Adsense Preview Tool?

The Google AdSense preview tool allows you to preview the ads that may show up on your webpage. This is a very useful tool for website admins who are displaying Google Adsense ads on their website. You can even click on the ads being shown here as the ads are in a test state, so you don’t have to worry about Google penalizing you by banning your Adsense account. You can preview ad formats and colors where you can select a new border or background or text colors. You can also view ads which visitors to your site say from Australia or U.K or India or China or from any other country might be seeing when they visit your website. You can see how to Install the Google Adsense Preview Tool for Internet Explorer.

Install Google AdSense Preview Tool in Firefox

1. You now need to download a registry file from google. Right-click the link below and select Save Target As… Save the registry file(.reg) to your desktop.

AdSense Preview Tool Registry File

2. Double-click the file from your desktop and click Yes in the confirmation window.

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