In an email from Google I was told "Google AdSense is excited to announce the introduction of expanded language support for AdSense publishers. This expansion includes dedicated email support and account pages in French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. New applications for the AdSense program may be submitted in any of these five languages or in English, and AdSense ad code can be placed on pages with content in any of these languages, provided that those pages comply with our program policies and Terms and Conditions."

Its not a new keyword tool, but I figure I should point out good things here and there to make my blog have different news than "every other SEO blog."

While server logs are one of the best ways to verify top placement you can also check your keyword placement using tools such as the one provided by Digital Point.

It requires the use of a free Google API license code, but is efficient for checking keyword ranking changes of a bunch of sites/pages quickly.

New Google Beta Program for book search is released. The new Google technology is nowhere near as comprehensive as that provided by Amazon. Read more from SearchEngineWatch.

By far and away this is my favorite discussion list on the web. I believe it is against the terms of service for me to post stuff from the list, but I hope it is ok to post my own post.

Andrew Goodman (I search moderator) is one of my favorite people in the search engine marketing field, and last week he had a compelling 2,800 word post about the recent Google algorithm shift. I find Marketing Wonk has good stuff every day. If you would like you can subscribe to I search for less than $10 a month.
Here was my response to his amazing post:
I got thinking about it, and Google is actually better in my own eyes for the change they made. I have been playing on the web less than a year and I was already up to #6 for "search engine marketing."

I know a decent amount, but there are tons more people who have seen major shifts in the past, with tons more experience. Any company that relies on a third party to decide the fate of their own best interests is not positioning itself correctly.

In that statement I am talking about how

1.) It was extremely easy to manipulate Google
2.) Google now relies on DMOZ
3.) some people hire SEO firms who rely exclusively on Google

Many people leave themselves completely ignorant to the internet where there are communities that would eat up their knowledge if they just shared a bit of it. My own website was not getting a ton of traffic, but as I lost one of my best key words my traffic actually went up. I wrote articles about the change to the Google algorithm as I learned about it. I got tons of feedback and got to help a bunch of people.

The internet makes testing very easy. It also made making profits and laziness very easy. In the end it just depends on which sandwich we choose to throw in
our lunchbox! (peanut butter is the best)

aaron wall
http://www.searchmarketing.info

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No, second best. Tuna is the best.

Time recently came out with a new article called Search And Destroy which I did not enjoy.

In my eyes it was apparent the writers knew nothing about search. Listed are a couple quotes which show what I am talking about.

"Should they be allowed to push the websites of their own businesses to the top of the stack? Could a search engine suppress the website of a political party with which its CEO disagreed?"

If it was know that this was happening people would quit using the search engine. Politics are frequently fed by greedy companies who can afford to waste money anyway...as noted on this very site yesterday. The largest drug companies have already started to control ads anyway.

"But when the competition gets stiff and Page has to answer to his shareholders, integrity may be a luxury Google can no longer afford."

I certainly think it will be hard to balance, but there is no way that going public will imediately cause them to loose all of their business ideals which made them a success.