10 Great Things NOT to do with Google AdSense

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 There is no question that you can make some good money with Google AdSense, but you’re setting yourself up for disaster if you make any of these Top 10 mistakes!

1. Do not use fake information when opening your Google AdSense account.

Google says that’s a no-no and they will cut your account off and keep all the money you may have earned. Besides, trying to hide your true identity can cause serious problems with the I.R.S. or whoever your tax authority is.

2. Do not hack or modify Google AdSense code other than to change the parameters that Google authorizes you to change.

Any attempt to bypass Google’s built-in algorithms not only poses a danger to the integrity of the network, but it threatens the financial modle that Google operates under. You’re not dealing with some Mom-and-Pop company here, and Google has the legal muscle and deep enough pockets to drag you through every court in the land if you damage their business with your hacking antics.

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3 Ways to Use CSS for SEO

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First of all, what is CSS? CSS stands for cascading style sheets and CSS is a way of separating presentation code from your actual content in web design. Usually you build up a set of CSS style rules that are stored in a separate file that has a .css file extension. You then link to the CSS file from your web pages using an HTML link tag.

There are many, many web design advantages to separating your presentation code off into separate CSS files and this article will tell you 3 excellent ways that you can use CSS to make your web design more search engine friendly.

Web Design Technique 1 - Us CSS to Structure Your Document

Let’s consider the facts that we know about search engines. They send their search engine robots to your site to read the content that you have there and the easier it is to find for them the better because they don’t waste much time looking. So having said this, what is the point of bogging down your pages with lots of un-necessary presentation markup that could quite easily be stored off in a separate CSS file. Most often this means removed any extraneous table tags and replacing them with a smaller number of HTML div tags which can be formatted using CSS rules. This removes the vast majority of presentational markup and leaves you with nicely formatted content that the search engines can easily find and index.

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Why is Validation Important?

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Why you should make sure that your webpages are validated? Thats exactly what we’re going to answer in this tutorial. Hopefully you’ve heard off XHTML and HTML. HTML is the older coding and XHTML is the new generation of HTML. This is the web stanadard set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) they set standards for the internet. This tutorial will use references to W3 quite often, so if you haven’t heard of them till now you might want to consider checking them out and seeing the work they do.

What is Validation?

Validation is a process of checking your documents against a formal Standard, such as guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for HTML and XML-derived Webpages. Consider Validation like Microsoft word for a moment. Imagine you’ve wrote a 5000 words essay and any spelling mistakes made would mark you down for that essay. To make sure this doesn’t happen you would use a spell checker to check grammar and spelling, you could also check it yourself, but a spell checker is more accurate. Validation is like a spell checker it is a precise process and is very reliable. Precise because it deals with languages in the ways browsers work as well as specific machine langauges.

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