Google's landing page quality score is meant to algorithmically eliminate low quality and obvious spam sites from the AdWords advertising platform by making it unaffordable. The new update puts pressure on advertisers to develop search engine friendly landing pages with readable content. But even among those who have developed spider-friendly pages, this update has stirred a lot of anger..

A common function built into many weblog tools is ping, no I'm not talking about the common network tool for testing to see if a network node is running and available. This ping is for letting websites know that your weblog has been updated.

There are many ping servers available to send ping notifications to, most notably VeriSign's Weblogs.com server, but there others like Yahoo's blogs, and Google's new blogsearch engine.

Pinging is something that every site owner should know about. New search engines that spider weblog content and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are gaining in popularity...