If you've been actively following your AdSense progress lately, then you will have noticed that Google has made quite a few changes in the Payments and Accounts Settings pages in your account. This is because Google has made efforts to improve its Payments systems, which are now more flexible, and offer a lot more benefits to the users. This initiative comes right after Google's plan to update the Terms of Service for all products under Google.

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Do you own a blog? If so, then you're among the 10% or so of the world's internet population that blogs. As many as a 250 Million blogs (possibly more) were known to exist in 2012, and the pace this number is growing at is astounding. But not everyone who blogs is worth their salt, and comparing this huge number of blogs to the blogs that are actually creating their own, original and unique content, we're only left with a handful. This is not to say that most blogs are useless and are only generating 'noise' on the internet. But many are. If you are blogging, then you should carefully evaluate yourself, and see whether you're not making any of the mistakes listed below. Because if you are, then frankly speaking, you're just wasting your time, and don't deserve to be blogging.

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The Genesis Framework is beaten by none when it comes to power and flexibility, and in many ways can be the best solution for your WordPress site. But the learning curve associated with the Genesis Framework could be steep, especially for beginners, and it might be hard to find the right customizations for your site. Here's a great one though. Ever noticed how when you search your site for some content, and and no results were found, Genesis always displays the same boring "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria" message? Today, we'll teach you to customize this text, add HTML styles and more to liven up your search results pages when no results were found.

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Google is one of the largest search providers, and almost every website that has a search widget is using Google Search to power the widget. This is especially true for blogs, since users site search on blogs more often than on websites. Finding out what users are searching for before landing on your website is extremely important. But so is finding what users are searching for within your site. The former can easily be gathered through Google Analytics, but what about the letter? You can use the Google Site Search tool to find out what people are entering in your WordPress search widgets.

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While browsing the web on your smartphone, have you ever felt the need to open up an app associated with the website you're on, and look for something in that app? For example, if I am on an eBook reading website, I might need to add a book ID given on the website in the reader app, or I might need to see a list of places on a map-reading app. Switching context from webpages over to applications can be annoying, and might not always give you what you wanted. To help address this issue, Google has announced a big addition to Google Search - App Indexing, which will help searchers look for information within mobile apps just like they would on websites!

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The concept of searching for content online using mobile devices is steadily on the rise, primarily due to the vast plethora of mobile devices and tablets now readily available in the market. They really seem to be advancing the cause, and more and more people are buying and using them. So how are these evolving trends changing things, and how does it effect you as a website owner? Previously, we have looked at various ways to optimize your sites for mobile devices. And there are more than one way to handle this problem. So what solution is the best for delivering content to mobile devices?

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Aah! At last! Just when we thought we would be stuck with the ridiculously long (and insane!) Google Plus profile URLs forever, Google finally announces a much anticipated feature on its social network; customizable profile URLs. Yes, that's right! It's time to join the Google Plus username bandwagon, because you can now get rid of those rusty old and chunky profile URLs, and get a nice Google Plus username and URL for your profile! Let's take a look at how you can create a personalized URL for your Google Plus profile!

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