Adwords phishing beware

Now i see increased activity of adwords phishing, I get a lot of emails like this

“Our system was unable to process a payment for your outstanding Google AdWords account balance using your primary credit card. For the time being, your account is still open, and your ads are still running. However, we require you to update the payment information in your AdWords account very soon in order to ensure continued ad serving. Please update your credit card information in order to trigger our billing system to try processing your payment again. If you plan to use the same credit card(s), please use the ‘Retry Card’ button on the Billing Preferences page of your account. Otherwise, please follow the steps below to update the information in your AdWords account. 1. Log in to your AdWords account at: http://adwords.google.com 2. Click the ‘My Account’ tab. 3. Click ‘Billing Preferences’ link. 4. Click Edit next to the appropriate ‘Payment Details’ section. 5. Enter your new or updated payment information. 6. Click ‘Save Changes’ when you have finished. In the future, you may wish to use a back up credit card in order to help ensure continuous delivery of your ads. You can add a back up credit card by visiting your Billing Preferences page or visit the AdWords Help Centre for more. Tip: You can review the status of your billing on the Billing Summary page, under the ‘My Account’ tab. If a payment has been declined, click ‘Payment Declined’ beside the line item to review information for that particular payment. Once your payment has been processed successfully, you can view and print an invoice from your Billing Summary page. —————————————————————— This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message. If you have any questions, please visit the Google AdWords Help Centre at https://adwords.google.com/support/?hl=en_GB to find answers to frequently asked questions and a ‘contact us’ link near the bottom of the page. —————————————————————- Thank you for advertising with Google AdWords. We look forward to providing you with the most effective advertising available. Sincerely, The Google AdWords Team”

Most of them are scam igmore it,

Google 3rd quarter results summary,

GOOGLE ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER 2008 RESULTS
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 16, 2008 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008.
“We had a good third quarter with strong traffic and revenue growth across all of our major geographies thanks to the underlying strength of our core search and ads business. The measurability and ROI of search-based advertising remain key assets for Google,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “While we are realistic about the poor state of the global economy, we will continue to manage Google for the long term, driving improvements to search and ads, while also investing in future growth areas such as enterprise, mobile, and display.”Q3 Financial Summary Google reported revenues of $5.54 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2008, an increase of 31% compared to the third quarter of 2007 and an increase of 3% compared to the second quarter of 2008. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs (TAC). In the third quarter of 2008, TAC totaled $1.50 billion, or 28% of advertising revenues.
Google reports operating income, net income, and earnings per share (EPS) on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis. The non-GAAP measures, as well as free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of liquidity, are described below and are reconciled to the corresponding GAAP measures in the accompanying financial tables.
GAAP operating income for the third quarter of 2008 was $1.74 billion, or 31% of revenues. This compares to GAAP operating income of $1.58 billion, or 29% of revenues, in the second quarter of 2008. Non-GAAP operating income in the third quarter of 2008 was $2.02 billion, or 37% of revenues. This compares to non-GAAP operating income of $1.85 billion, or 34% of revenues, in the second quarter of 2008.
GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2008 was $1.35 billion as compared to $1.25 billion in the second quarter of 2008. Non-GAAP net income in the third quarter of 2008 was $1.56 billion, compared to $1.47 billion in the second quarter of 2008.
GAAP EPS for the third quarter of 2008 was $4.24 on 318 million diluted shares outstanding, compared to $3.92 for the second quarter of 2008 on 318 million diluted shares outstanding. Non-GAAP EPS in the third quarter of 2008 was $4.92, compared to $4.63 in the second quarter of 2008.
Non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income, and non-GAAP EPS are computed net of stock-based compensation (SBC). In the third quarter of 2008, the charge related to SBC was $280 million as compared to $273 million in the second quarter of 2008. Tax benefits related to SBC have also been excluded from non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP EPS. The tax benefit related to SBC was $63 million in the third quarter of 2008 and $48 million in the second quarter of 2008. Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to GAAP operating income, operating margin, net income, and EPS are included at the end of this release.

Webmasterworld guy needs help for his website

I came across this thread where a webmaster world guy was seeking help for the problems he was facing,
“Noticed a 50% Google traffic drop in one of my sites. Site has some 7 years and has some 170 pages in 3 different languages including English and Spanish. Several pages was #1 and others in first 10 positions mostly.
Other search engines seems to be ok with rankings including some Yahoo’s #1.
Even now with half the usual traffic I get lots of bookmarks what is a good indicator to me.
Regarding Google: some pages are still #1 but other pages are dozens or hundred of pages down now for older keyphrase.
However I noticed that if I pick just some words of my keyphrase my page ranks in first 10 or 30 results, while using the old 2 words keywords phrase that used to rank #1, results in #300
I haven’t changed site so I wonder why Google went from love to hate with those pages…
So what I’m doing is “deoptimizing” pages, lowering keyword density and wait, but I’m not sure about it. I’m assuming a kind of -950 penalty http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3215939.htm
Perhaps I just need to wait (in case my case matches this: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3669390.htm )
Site was banned in wikipedia months ago, but never had problems with google about it and I don’t think Google use wikipedia to consider a site good or not. “

Can you help join this thread, webmasterworld.com/google/3705564.htm

Malware problem how to request review by Google

ReviewsYou can request a review via Google’s Webmaster Tools and you can see the status of the review there. If you think the review is taking too long, make sure to check the status. Finding all the malware on a site is difficult and the automated scanners are far more accurate than humans. The scanners may have found something you’ve missed and the review may have failed. If your site has a malware label, Google’s Webmaster Tools will also list some sample URLs that have problems. This is not a full list of all of the problem URLs (because that’s often very, very long), but it should get you started. Finally, don’t confuse a malware review with a request for reconsideration. If Google’s automated scanners find malware on your website, the site will usually not be removed from search results. There is also a different process that removes spammy websites from Google search results. If that’s happened and you disagree with Google, you should submit a reconsideration request. But if your site has a malware label, a reconsideration request won’t do any good — for malware you need to file a malware review from the Overview page.How long will a review take? Webmasters are eager to have a Google malware label removed from their site and often ask how long a review of the site will take. Both the original scanning and the review process are fully automated. The systems analyze large portions of the internet, which is big place, so the review may not happen immediately. Ideally, the label will be removed within a few hours. At its longest, the process should take a day or so.

"Results 1 to 35 of about 4" – what causes it ?

Interesting post by a senior member in webmaster world

“Two days ago a new CMS went live that replaces an old one that had loads of canonical problems. Some content pages had upwards of 4 or 8 different URLs indexed, and some content pages could be returned for a near infinite number of different URLs.
The old CMS used horrible dynamic parameter-driven URLs and the new one uses short folder-like URL formats, and *all* canonicalization factors have been taken into account.
There are a lots of sites to be moved over to the new CMS, but we started with the smallest — so small that it doesn’t really need a CMS (except that using the CMS has made it very easy for the owner to keep it updated).
The site was already fully indexed, and some content pages show under multiple URLs, because basic non-www to www canonicalisation and so on was only added a few months ago. Many of the really old non-canonical URLs are also still listed.
Now that the new CMS has been installed, and the old content reinstated, most of the old URLs in the SERPs (actually all except domain root) are now 301 redirects (from long and horrible dynamic, to short folder-look alike URLs).
Last night Google reported “1 to 35 of about 8” for a site:domain.com search.
Today it shows “1 to 35 of 4”. None of the new URLs are showing up yet (I expect they will in the next 24 to 36 hours).
So, their internal system “knows” that most of the URLs they already had are now redirects, and it seems that those URLs aren’t now included as a part of the “site count” (the “of nnn” number).
I would guess that the URLs that now redirect are already moved over to Supplemental.
Hence… “1 to 35” – what we are showing you “of 4” – how many URLs that we think are “real” (200 OK).
Now I understand a bit more, I think.
I would expect the new URLs for content to start appearing tomorrow, or soon after. “

World on economical crisis – a pictorical presentation

SEO Spam again needs to stop to get good name for SEO industry

We need to top these Spam SEOs and SEO companies from sending out bulk mails to get some good name for ethical SEO companies. Their claims are ridiculous.

“Hi,

The purpose of this letter is to introduce “88888888888Solution.” – an India
based company and Our link popularity service.

We have been handling SEO and link popularity campaigns since last 2.5
years for our numerous satisfied clients across the glob. We’ve strong
and experienced team of Link popularity experts, who has expertise to provide
high quality, ethical and theme based links. We do not use any shortcut
tricks, software and FFA/Spam/web rings site while creating links and most
importantly, we charge very nominal for phenomenal service, please see
below to get an idea about our methodologies for link popularity campaigns
:

Our Approach for securing links :

(a.) First of all of we analysis the campaign to get familiar with current
statistic, relevant industry and competitors, It makes us easy to approach
right link partners.
(b.) Second step includes creation of database of relevant websites which
are to be requested for Link Exchange through emails and form submissions
– if they have implemented form for link exchange.
(c.) In 3rd step : we manually draft emails as a link exchange request
to webmasters through Outlook express, we offer our web directories/site
to webmasters for link back basically, we follow 3 way link exchange process
which yields a ONE Way link for client’s campaign.
(d.) Finally, we provide link backs to those webmasters who revert us positively
to finished off with link exchange.

We ensure that we never indulge in any Spam activities as we never send
follow up to webmasters who do not respond to us in our first email and
If someone doesn’t agree with 3 way exchange we simply delete his/her id
from database.

Please get back to me for any information/queries.

Eagerly looking for your earliest reply.

Thanks & Regards,
—
Sales Team

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Vulnerable sites Alert letter from Google now shown in Google webmaster tools

Google now shows security hole / vulnerable site warning mails in webmaster blog itself.

According to webmaster blog:

Recently we’ve seen more websites get hacked because of various security holes. In order to help webmasters with this issue, we plan to run a test that will alert some webmasters if their content management system (CMS) or publishing platform looks like it might have a security hole or be hackable. This is a test, so we’re starting out by alerting five to six thousand webmasters. We will be leaving messages for owners of potentially vulnerable sites in the Google Message Center that we provide as a free service as part of Webmaster Tools. If you manage a website but haven’t signed up for Webmaster Tools, don’t worry. The messages will be saved and if you sign up later on, you’ll still be able to access any messages that Google has left for your site.

One of the most popular pieces of software on the web is WordPress, so we’re starting our test with a specific version (2.1.1) that is known to be vulnerable to exploits. If the test goes well, we may expand these messages to include other types of software on the web. The message that a webmaster will see in their Message Center if they run WordPress 2.1.1 will look like this:

Quick note from Matt: In general, it’s a good idea to make sure that your webserver’s software is up-to-date. For example, the current version of WordPress is 2.6.2; not only is that version more secure than previous versions, but it will also alert you when a new version of WordPress is available for downloading. If you run an older version of WordPress, I highly encourage you to upgrade to the latest version.

Google webmaster central video – transcript soon to come

Google’s education video for webmasters to get a decent insight on how Google works.

Accessibility – Crawling and Indexing:

Ranking:

Webmaster Central Overview:

Other Resources:

Google now reads text in pages – boost to their algorithm

A major boost to their algorithm Google now can read specific text on a page of a forum. I feel this is a good boost to their already sophisticated algorithm. When you search something like this

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awebmasterworld.com+google+keyword+tool you can see the specific data under some search results. I feel this is a major step forward