I saw many people at Digital Point and WebMaster World complaining about their Adsense income drop over the past few months. People attributing it to the worldwide economic depression. The proof is here now.

Google has released its 2009 Q1 earning statement recently. Amidst all the complex jargon, two stats are of particular importance to all those affected by Google Adsense. Google Network Revenues and TAC – Traffic Acquisition Costs.

Google Network Revenues are the partner sites generated revenues. The partners include major establishments like Ask.com, New York Times etc and all bloggers and small sites owners. This can include revenues under other programs as well.

TAC – Traffic Acquisition Costs are the portion of revenues Google has received only with Adsense programs.

As the graph below shows, TAC is on the decline since Q32008. This means Google is earning lesser by every quarter through its Adsense Program.

Google earning has a direct bearing on the publisher earning, hence you may be seeing lesser moolah through the Adsense on your site.

All in all, don’t fret if you are seeing a lesser amount in your account everyday. It’s happening with everyone!

PS: If you want to explore programs beyond Google Adsense, here is a pretty good list of adsense alternatives.

Reason why your Google Adsense earnings are falling is a post from ReviewOfWeb

My prediction went true, Google has updated toolbar Page Rank on the eve of new year. Generally it takes about 2-3 days to take effect and to propagate to all websites but this time it seems they have completed it in 24 hrs straight. As Matt Cutts says …

It’s pretty much done now.

Last page rank update fell around September’08 and toppers maintain their position. Google.com and Usa.gov(the official website of US Government) have a perfect page rank of 10.

Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe are at 9 PR while Intel.com is down by 1 point to 8. You can check your Page Rank through the umpteen number of tools lying all over the web.

This blog’s went up by 1 point to become Page Rank 2 now. Did you see any change in your blog’s PR?

As predicted Google has updated Page Rank is a post from ReviewOfWeb

For the uninitiated, Google Adsense for domains is a program from Adsense that allow publishers to place adsense on undeveloped domains. The idea behind this is to let user find related relevant information rather than 404’s and also let the publisher make some money from the clicks that get generated on undeveloped domains. Till sometime back, this program was only available to big domain name registrars and domain parking companies like Sedo, Godaddy etc.

What can be termed as a big decision, Google is now opening up this program for all publishers. Most of the terms and conditions that are applicable for normal adsense usage are applicable for Adsense for domains too. Check TOS. Here are some quick facts about Adsense for domains program-

• A maximum of 1500 domains are allowed per publisher.
• It won’t work like normal adsense where we can just copy and paste the code. You need to modify your DNS settings – like CNAME and ANAME Record. Here are the complete Instructions for major Domain Name Providers.
• You can’t use Google adsense for domains with any other Google service. For example, you can’t use Google Apps and Adsense for domains on the same domain. Though adsense for domain on example.com and Google Apps service on mail.example.com (sub-domain) should be fine. Refer.
• With this program, you can change the look and feel of your entire page (not only the adsense ad) right from your adsense account. Some of the options available are-
• With adsense for domains you have the option to provide keywords. The keywords provided by you may be used while targeting ads. While specifying keywords make sure that you don’t give conflicting keywords for ambiguous domain names. For example if your domain name is appleforum.com, then either enter keywords that refer to fruit apple or enter keywords that refer to the company apple. But not to both. Refer some more hints.
• Here is a quick start guide on Google Adsense for domains.

As of now this program is only available to US publishers. Considering Google’s past record with such releases, it should be available to non-US publishers within 6 months.

Now why it can sound death bells to domain parking companies?

Most of the domain parking companies use ad feed from Google, Yahoo or Ask. Domain owners flock to them just because they want to utilize their unused domains and make some money out of it. The money made from such ads is divided between Google, domain parking company and publisher. With the introduction of this program, the middle-men (domain parking companies) can be easily cut. Thus making more moolah for a publisher. I guess in coming future these domain parking companies would get reduced to a market place or an escrow service provider for domain buyers/sellers.

Google Adsense For Domains for all publishers. A death for domain parking companies? is a post from ReviewOfWeb

One of the co-founders of Google has started blogging on http://too.blogspot.com/ . Acc to Sergey, “too” means his life outside world.

I like the way his company-Google- functions and has reached this height in a relatively short span of time. I am certainly looking forward for more posts from Sergey and have already subscribed to the blog. You can subscribe to Sergey’s blog feed here

Google founder Sergey Brin starts blogging is a post from ReviewOfWeb

Youtube.com and most of the video sharing websites do not allow you to download videos. However these two sites make up for that lack.

1) KissYouTube.com

• You can download any video hosted on youtube. Just enter the full URL in the text box on home page.
• Other way is to append the word kiss before youtube in your URL Ex: Eg. http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=tRTk0RPXtW4

Kiss you tube does not work for other sites like Google Videos. For these sites you can use

2) http://keepvid.com/ Works the same way as 1)

Download videos from YouTube is a post from ReviewOfWeb

I am quite fond of Google, its philosophy towards work and the way this company has made our life easier. They try to automate most tasks which we used to do manually earlier. As an example if you receive any email in your Gmail account containing address or a date, what it does is extract the address or date and simply show a link asking you to “Map this” or “Add to calendar” respectively, on the right hand side bar.

But this time something funny happened. I received a mail from myBB for a new security release. For the uninitiated, myBB is a forum software like VBulletin, SMF. This mail had a version number on the subject 1.2.13. Now what our intelligent Gmail script did was, it took the version no from subject and converted into Wed Jan 2, 2013 and at the same time created a link to “add to calendar”. LOL

Too much of automation can be risky sometimes.

Perils of Automation is a post from ReviewOfWeb