http://www.april82.com/blog just another day in april '82 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:53:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In their latest blog entry, the people from Google Webmaster Central announce that they are now officially leaving beta phase. They are also opening their blog for comments in a mission for improved communication with webmasters. http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/14/google-webmaster-central-takes-us-to-next-base-on-valentines-day/ Several AdSense publishers from the United States have reported that they received two so call 1099 forms from Google. Concern was expressed that this might cause misunderstandings with the IRS by implying double income. A recent post on Webmasterworld.com now clarifies this issue. Posted by "AdsenseAdvisor" and reads: Hi everyone, I've consulted to ... http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/13/adsense-duplicate-1099-forms-no-need-to-worry/ I've been using Mozilla Thunderbird for a very long time now and the main reason for me to stick with it was the built-in spam filter which always did a very good job. But one thing always bothered me: As soon as the computer is under a little stress, Thunderbird ... http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/11/thunderbird-2-beta-too-easy-on-spam-emails/ I am kind of surprised that Google sees the need to further clarify the concept of their referral program. But apparently there must've been some misunderstandings with the newly introduced "drawing attention" rule that only applies to referral units (Firefox and Google Pack) and not to regular AdSense ads. In ... http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/09/adsense-referral-policies-clarified-for-the-slow/ Just announced yesterday, it is now no longer to be found in the webmaster tools. Well, it was great as long as it lasted ;-) No, seriously, it's gone again. But from what I've read, the new feature received a warm welcome by many and that may have triggered a backlink ... http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/06/new-google-backlinks-where-did-they-go/ I just got the new De-Phazz newsletter with the tour dates for the upcoming album Days of Twang which will be released on 23. march. I hope this will be just as great a gig as last april, when they were touring with their album Natural Fake. If you happen ... http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/06/new-de-phazz-tour-dates-for-germany-announced/ Google has added a new utility to the Google Webmaster Tools! You can now see all inbound links your site and to all pages. It's a lot more precise than the good old link: search operator as you can see the exact number of inbound links for each page of ... http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/06/cool-new-google-webmaster-toy-who-links-to-me/ I'd like to recommend a Firefox extension to my fellow web developers. It's called CSSViewer and I've used it for quite a while now. When activated, CSSViewer snaps to your cursor and displays a box listing several CSS properties that apply to the website element which is hovered. There are similar ... http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/05/recommending-cssviewer-extension-for-firefox/ Our Google friends have just posted and confirmed the new payment model for Adsense/AdWords referrals. This is what they say Last year we asked you for your feedback on referrals, and one of the issues we heard quite frequently was that it was too difficult to generate revenue with AdSense and ... http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/03/more-details-on-new-adsense-payment-model/ Freshly posted in the official Google Analytics blog, Jeff Gills confirms the afore mentioned delay. This is what he says Google Analytics users, There is a temporary reporting delay within your Google Analytics accounts due to system maintenance. You are still able to log in to accounts and please note that no ... http://www.april82.com/blog/2007/02/03/google-confirms-reporting-delay-in-analytics-blog/