Google Engage Gift Card Code

As part of the Google Engage program I received a box of ten mailers that clients could use to get $100 in AdWords credit. I also got a very nice Google hat. This took me back to the days in 1995 when I approached Earthlink to see if they wanted to do affiliate marketing like CDNow was doing. They were not set up to track visitors online but did give me a bunch of installation disks that had a code on them that identified me. Earthlink also kept a box of them at their offices that also had that code on it so they could send them out when people filled out an online form I had on my site POP-I, the first music portal on the Internet. Thanks for the memories Google, the old days all over again.

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Google launched a recommendation tool called Hotpot that lets people share with their friends information about shops, restaurants, bars, theaters and other places in their life.

“We’re making local search results for places on Google more personal, relevant and trustworthy,” product manager Lior Ron said in a blog post. “When you rate places you like, we’ll tell you about other related places you’ll love.”

After introducing an AdSense feature that lets users to change the font faces of ad units, Google has rolled out an another feature related to the aforementioned feature only. The newly launched feature allows users to change the font size of the text in AdSense ad units. Users are given three options to choose from – small, medium and large.

The Inside AdSense blog puts forward a few important things to be remembered when changing the font size of AdSense ad units. They are:

• Ad titles will be scaled.
• Font size can be applied to the body of the ad.

In an effort to make Webmaster Tools’ Message Center more accessible, Google came up with a new idea which make it possible to forward messages to the users’ personal Google account. And as we all know that Webmaster Tools Message Center is used by webmasters to communicate private and confidential information pertaining to sites that they have verified. The information could be anything related to sites of the webmasters, details about potential issues with Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, or any confirmations of actions taken within Webmaster Tools Center and so.

A couple of days ago, Google has launched the Google Translator Toolkit, a set of tools. Unlike Google Translate (which is machine-based,) this set of tools including translation search, bilingual dictionaries and ratings enables users to edit or improve upon the machine-translated output.

For instance, if you are an Arabic-speaking reader and you want to translate a Wikipedia article into Arabic, you just need to load the article into the Translator Toolkit, correct the automatic translation and click the publish button. By using the Toolkit, you can translate and publish the article faster and better into Arabic or any other language that you want.

Recently, Google introduced Page Speed, a Firefox Add-on that comes with Firebug integration in its web community. Page Speed is a tool that helps improve and enhance the performance of web pages, without any external change.

The tool is a great deal of help for webmasters and developers to evaluate the performance of their web pages. Webmasters get a set of scores for each page and suggestions on how to improve its speed and performance when they run Page Speed on their pages. Page Speed performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code.

Of late, Google has added a new feature to its Google Friend Connect – New Recommendation Gadgets. The new feature allows publishers that use Google Friend Connect to know which parts of their websites their visitors, like best.

Publishers can create the gadgets on Google Friend Connect’s site and then embed the code into their own sites. After the gadget is embedded, visitors can recommend the content they like, be it a whole page, articles, photos or any other content by clicking a “recommend it” button that accompanies any piece of content on the site.

A few days ago, Google released Google Search Options, a collection of tools that enable users to refine their results and generate different views in order to find what you need faster and easier.