So I was going through my inbox a few days back, and came across a very unusual question - the kind people don't usually worry about. A dear follower asked whether earning money online (through blogging etc.) was haram (prohibited is Islam) or not. The question has so many implications that we decided to make a blog post about it, since it not only applies to our Muslim fellows, but to our brethren in the whole blogging community, since it's a question of blogging ethics, and not just religion.

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So, another year has passed, and we've entered a whole new, more promising one. We find ourselves yet again asking the question that we ask each year - can you still make money blogging in this year? A question that, no doubt, will prickle the interest of many a bloggers, especially new ones or those aspiring to become one. So, can you really make money blogging in 2014?

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Google often tends to treat links on a page seriously. The number of outbound links on a page can, negatively or positively, effect the overall standing of your page – this much we vaguely know from experience. But how exactly does Google see the links on your page? We've talked a lot about inbound links to a page, but not much about outbound ones. So today, let’s investigate the limitations on the number of outbound hyperlinks you have on your webpages.

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Yesterday, we posted an article about link spam, and what is the easiest way to recover from it. While we're on the topic, we might as well turn towards another related problem, one which we have addressed periodically over the comments section, but never formally - comments with links in them, and how they're seen by Google. We see a lot of comments with links, both relevant and otherwise, so I figured it'd be a good idea to make things clear and easier to understand for our beloved readers in light of a video posted by Google's Matt Cutts on the topic.

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Websites often get hit by Google algorithm updates such as Panda and Penguin. Webmasters usually are clueless about what went wrong. But more often than not, such penalties are caused by link spam. It's not uncommon for a website to have at least some bad link profile, because cheap, buy-able links were pretty hot until Google's major algorithmic changes such as the Panda. Now removing this bad link profile and recovering from a link penalty is not an easy task, and many sites struggle with the process. Well here's an easy way to get Google's attention and get your bad link profile removed, along with getting your site rescued from a link penalty.

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The internet of today is filled with content. More content is added every day than can be possibly read. But to be frankly honest, not all the content that is published is original - far from it. Duplicate content effects on the search rankings on a web page - but how much effect does it actually have? A lot of bloggers and website owners ask this question every day, concerned by the content they've (necessarily or otherwise) copied, or has been copied from them. Today, we'll try to answer this question in light of advice from Google itself.

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So you're randomly searching Google, click on a couple links maybe, and suddenly, poof! Page Not Found! 404s popping up randomly are pretty annoying, especially if you were hoping to find something useful there. Content on the internet changes and updates frequently, especially old content. So it's helpful to have search results for it updated quickly. To help user-friendliness on the internet, Google has introduced a new URL removal tool which makes it easier to request updates based on changes on third-party websites.

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