Google has welcomed paid application from developers in US and UK initially. Developers can submit their applications on the Android Market and charge a fee for users to download and install the app on their Android based mobile phones. Initially the applications would be available to users in the US by the end of next week. Additional countries will be supported later on. Google Checkout will be the payment gateway for these paid apps.

Will the Android Market for paid apps be as successful as Apple’s? We’ll have to wait and watch!

Till now people have used several hacks for downloading videos from YouTube. Now users can download YouTube videos without any of those hacks. YouTube now lets you download some videos free of cost in Mp4 format.

Here’s how you can download a video from YouTube;

1. Search the video you’d like to download.
2. You’ll see a download link under the video’s play bar on the left hand corner. Click on it and you’ll see a Download information bar such as this one below.

3. Click the Download button and your download will start in a moment.

Currently the downloading options are a test for certain US partners. Hopefully the video downloads would be widely available soon.

Not all videos are available for free downloads. However you can purchase some videos if you wish to download them. Once you click on Download Video for these, you’ll be redirected to the Google Checkout payment processing page where you must pay a specific fee before downloading the video from YouTube.

Gmail will now let you perform an undo operation on the send mail function. So if you happen to send a mail and realized you missed something after clicking the send button, there’s a way out. Gmail will now give you five seconds to make up your mind i.e it’ll hold on to your mail for 5 seconds and if you don’t press the undo button it will send your mail.

To start using this feature you need to visit the Settings page and then go to the Gmail Labs page and turn on Undo Mail. Now this feature won’t undo all your pain. You won’t be able to pull off the undo function on mails which have already been sent.

That brings me to a question. Why not? Why not just pull an e-mail back even after it has already been sent and remains unread by the recipient?!

Google recently released the Beta version of it’s web browser Google Chrome. Most of the people are facing a problem while installing Google Chrome 2.0 Beta. The problem is that once you download Chrome using the link on Google’s website it simply downloads the older stable version of the web browser instead of 2.0 beta edition. I have faced the same problem, so here’s the solution.

Google Chrome now comes in three editions. One is the stable edition, the other two are beta and developer versions. You need another program to switch your browser to a different edition.

Here is how you can install Google Chrome 2.0 Beta on your system.

1. If you already have Google Chrome installed on your system then you don’t need to download the entire program all over again. In case you don’t have Google Chrome, not even the stable release, on your computer, download it first.

2. Click here and download the Google Chrome Channel Changer 2.0. It’s 100 KB and it’ll enable you to switch your edition of Google Chrome to the beta version.

3. Once you have downloaded Google Chrome Channel Changer 2.0, open the program. Select the Beta version or the Developer version and click on Update. I’ll recommend you use the Beta version for a stable edition of the browser.

4. Now open Google Chrome and go to the About Google Chrome option from the settings menu. Click on the update link that will appear on this window. It’ll update your Google Chrome to Google Chrome 2.0 Beta.

In case you don’t see any update link or you don’t find that you have been switched to the beta version, wait for sometime, leave the browser on for 5-10 minutes and check again. The auto-update program should update the program for you.

I hope this resolves the issue for many of us. In case you face any further problems, feel free to post them using the comments section below.

So I had a lot of free time and decided to check out some interesting analytics from Google Insights.

Here is what all I came across:

So Pakistan tops the list! Whoa!

Kenya is more curious followed by Trinidad and Tobago. Where are the Indians?

Only a bunch of freaks from US are interested in this one!

Here come the Indians. We’re more scared of the recession. We love our money folks!

Offline Gmail

Now here’s something very useful. Remember those times when you typed a long e-mail and just when you clicked on the send button, you lost the connection. Well Offline Gmail now lets you work on your mail in the offline mode and once you’re connected, your mail is sent. Neat, effective and relevant.

Inserting images

This is one of the most recent additions to Gmail labs. Now you no longer need to rely on crazy workarounds to insert images within your messages. This neat feature lets you insert images seamlessly within your e-mails.

Superstars

Stars in Gmail let me distinguish important mail from the rest of the junk. Superstars lets me prioritize the starred mail so I know where to go first.

Custom keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts help save time. Having custom keyboard shortcuts is the cherry on the cake. It’s heaven for people like me who find it hard to get used to shortcuts someone else defines for me. I’ll be my own boss!

Mouse Gestures

This feature kind of gives me the impression that we’re just a few steps away from a mail slave kind of an e-mail client where we could just blink our eyes and tell the client to read out the mail, go to the next conversation and so on. Mouse gestures lets you navigate through your mails using pre-defined mouse gestures.

Old Snakey

Bored of mails? Sick of spam? Here’s a little old-school game right inside Gmail. Play Old Snakey and hit boredom right on the face.

Advanced IMAP Controls

Choose labels you want to show off, turn on and off a lot of extra features. Very useful.

Mail Goggles

I found it inappropriate the very first time I heard about it. Now I keep this to safeguard myself against mood swings. Very useful in case you’re committed to work or a partner.

Multiple Inboxes

It’s like having multiple girlfriends. Even if you can’t afford multiple partners in real life, enjoy multiple free inboxes within Gmail. Organize your email more efficiently.

Add any gadget by URL

Now this is infinity. Enables you to add any gadget by entering it’s URL. Neat.

I was just taking a look around digg.com and found a handy wee tool to generate FavIcons. I’m a big fan of these, they’re a nice finishing touch to a well designed website.

I’ve been using IconEdit Pro, v6 and it does the job well, although I note from the site that they’re up to v7+.

So, I trialled this online version and was very impressed.

It even comes with the snippet of code to put on your pages. Ofcourse if you’re using Mambo or any other content management system it would pay to check where the existing FavIcon is sitting and just replace the file. Most of them come with one.

Almost every internet freak who is interested in music, audio or listening to free online radiois mostly aware of Last.fm. Last.fm is a free online radio with loads of music and was free for a long time. Recently they announced that users outside US, UK and Germany need to pay a subscription fee of $3 to listen to online radio. This is a bad news for music lovers online and here I have provided a way to hack last.fm.

61. If you blog, Darren has some tips for you.

62. Inside AdSense is official AdSense blog, where you can find latest developments about AdSense.

63. You can get help of other AdSense pulishers at AdSense Help Group.

64. If you are serious about making money from AdSense, get Joel’s AdSense Secrets.

65. Don’t put too many ad blocks on your site. Find out the highest CTR block and remove the others. Few clicks on the 1$ ads are better than many clicks on the 3-cent-ads.

66. Experiment, experiment, and experiment. You can never stop trying for new ad format. Even if you think you can’t improve anymore, one slight change might increase your earning significantly.

67. Remove the “Advertise on this site” from your AdSense block until your site is big enough to attract real advertisers. This will help to clear off many MFA (made-for-adsense) sites. You can disable it from AdSense account setting.

68. Use AdSense Preview Tool to test the ads that will appear on your site. You can click on ads in the AdSense preview tool, as the advertisers are not charged from it.

69. AdSense uses geo-location to deliver advertisement. So, what you see on your site might not be what your visitors see. Use AdSense Preview Tool to view your AdSense advertisement displayed for visitors from other places.

70. Use AdSense Competitive Ads Filter to remove scrapper sites ads. Scrapper sites are sites without real content. They are either link farms, content theft, or meta search engine.

71. Use AdSense Competitive Ads Filter to remove irrelevant ads.

72. AdsBlackList.com have good list of URLs to block. Try it.

73. Try variations of AdSense colors, format, position on different pages to make it more unpredictable for your visitors.

74. Learn some CSS.

75. If you are putting multiple ads block on your website: put most clicked block to appear first in the HTML. Higher position in HTML = higher paying ads. You can do this using CSS.

76. Try to put contents on different subject topics. If it can draw visitors, write more on that topic.

77. If you have dynamic pages, use htaccess rewrite rule to make it appear as static, e.g. http://www.hundredtips.com/100-google-adsense-tips.html instead of http://www.hundredtips.com/?p=6.

78. Validate your site HTML and CSS.

79. Break your long articles to few short articles; this way the users are exposed to the ads for more times.

80. Keep each article focused on one topic.

81. Watch your statistics and pay attention to articles that bring in visitors.

82. Write more articles within the subject that attract visitors.

83. Web-savvy visitors are less inclined to click on ads.

84. Have patience. You need time to build the traffic, and to optimize it.

85. Think long-term. Analise what your visitors need, provide value and good experience to visitors.

86. Consider buying websites. If you do it right, you can get back your investment in a relatively short time.

87. Watch your AdSense earning. Notify AdSense Team if you find anything suspicious. Your competitors might try to sabotage your account, or your well-meaning friend keep on clicking on the ads thinking they are helping you.

88. Use Google AdSense section targeting to help AdSense deliver more relevant ads.

89. Use AdSense Alternate Ads in case if AdSense can’t find any relevant ads.

90. Use rotating color ads. It keeps your visitors from getting AdSense blind.

91. Try other contextual advertising networks too. Yahoo Publisher Network is still in beta and only available in U.S., or you can try Clicksor, Bidvertising, etc. Just make sure you don’t put the on the same page with the AdSense.

92. You can put your clickbank, amazon, or other affiliate links on the same page with AdSense. You can also put other advertising network, so long as it is not contextual ads. Try Chitika, and disable the contextual ads option.

93. If you don’t follow the Terms and Conditions, your AdSense account will be disabled and you’ll get banned for life.

94. If you didn’t do anything wrong and your AdSense account is disabled: write them a polite and professional email, be patient and be persistent. Offer them your server logs to prove your innocence.

95. Spread the links to your website: put it on your email signature, put comment on blogs, participate in your niche forums.

96. Promote your articles in social bookmarking sites: del.icio.us, digg, reddit are good start.

97. Provide �Email a Friend� option to visitors.

98. Familiarize yourself with AdSense earning report. It can help you determine where your money is from, and optimize accordingly.

99. Offer newsletters for visitors. It give you chance to get the visitors back regularly.

100. On AdSense support page, you can find almost every information you need about AdSense.

21. Consider signing-up for AdWords and create a mini campaign. It can help you to understand the working of AdSense.
    
    

22. Put your targeted-keyword on Page Title.

23. Repeat the keywords in your content.

24. Learn HTML.

25. Put emphasis around your keywords by using HTML tags like

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    , …, …, e.g. AdSense Tips .

26. Get domain name that contains your targeted keyword.

27. Submit your website to directories for inclusion, e.g. dmoz.org, yahoo directories

28. Submit your URL to search engines for crawling.

29. Create and submit your sitemaps to Google Sitemap (sitemap.xml) and Yahoo (urllist.txt)

30. Google is not the only search engine. Optimize for different engines as well. You are very likely to face less competition than in Google.

31. Invest for original fresh content. Write or pay for contents regularly.

32. Use copyscape.com to find content theft. You invest for your content. Don’t let it be taken by unscrupulous webmasters.

33. Article marketing is one of the best way to deliver traffic to your site. Write and submit articles to article-submission sites. Include short summary and hyperlinks to your website in the author information box.

34. Don’t use objectionable methods to draw visitors to your site; buying traffics, spyware, hidden-texts, page cloaking etc will get your AdSense account terminated.

35. New visitors have higher chance to click on the ads than regular visitors, thus higher CTR (click-through rate).

36. Regular visitors have higher chance to recommend your site to others.

37. Search engines are where most of your new visitors come from. Learn a bit about Search Engine Optimization, or pay people to do it. Doing it yourself will save yourself from troubles created by not-so-honorable SEO (Search Engine Optimizer).

38. Don’t create mirrors. These are sites with different URLs but same contents. It hurts search engine ranking.

39. Its easier to create many websites with low earning than few websites with high earning.

40. Forum generally have high impressions count, but very low CTR.