Today Google search team announced a new update for the search engine algorithm. As their claim, the new algorithm is targeted at those webspam and encourage people to deliver high quality website and valuable content. As a result, my main earning sites are ranked out of top 30, which means I am almost out of this search game. The latest google analytics data is not updated yet. But I think it will drop a little. I get the news about this new google search algorithm update at around 2pm April 24. I estimate that the traffic of today, 24 April 2012, will drop by 50% or more.
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Back To Flex Application Development
This week I am gonna come back and do some Flex applications. I still think that the technology is just a tool to make our life happy no matter how advanced the technology is. Some friends of mine always talk to me about new technologies or new program languages. And I am also very happy to listen and I wish I have time to learn and try these new stuffs. But still, my philosophy of programming is using the most efficient tool to solve the current problem.
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Add Admob To Your Android Apps With SDK 4.3.1
Latest Update: Add AdMob with Google Play Service
Last time, I released a post for “Add Google Admob in Android Application“. And I got a feedback today about this admob android tutorial. The example code and that demo application doesn’t work any more. Then I checked my Admob account and found out that app’s Status is red, which mean my app is inactive. If the app works well, the status color should be green. And some of my apps status also show green color with exclamation mark, which means my app is idle (Your site was previously active but has not sent an ad request in the previous 72 hours).
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Rank 1st is Not The Good Choice For Passive Income
I have made a top position travel for last three month, and it finished yesterday. All my sites dropped from the first position in Google search rank. And my income had a significantly reduced. I just hit the $1k target with Adsense sites once and everything changed so fast. If ranking No.1 is a short time success, then it is time to think how to make a passive income site for long time.
Make An Admob to Google Adsense Transition
Today, I get an email from Google Admob Ads developers email listing. One friend mentioned that the Google Admob for smartphone web will transition to Google Adsense. I think this is a good news for Website monetization management. But it will also cause some problems for those people who monetize their flash implemented iphone and android application. If you have tried to put Admob ads in flash based iphone or android application, you will know that the actual Admob ads is not built in the applications. Ads part is host on an empty html page which has only Admob html ads code. So to show the Admob ads in appliation, we will implement a StageWebView which can load html page to show the ads. This implementation looks quite ok from that time to now. But after the transition from Admob to Google Adsense, I doubt if this way will still work, or it will bring some risk to your monetization applications.
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