Talal Masood » google http://www.talalmasood.com/blog Personal Blog - Computer, Internet, Experiments, Reviews Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:09:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Why Google Blocked Pakistani Adsense Accounts? http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/why-google-blocked-pakistani-adsense-accounts-653 http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/why-google-blocked-pakistani-adsense-accounts-653#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:50:39 +0000 Talal Masood http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/?p=653

Everyone in Pakistan is talking about this today. A couple of days back almost 90% (if I am not wrong, because every other person I asked was doomed) of the Google adsense accounts of Pakistani webmasters and publishers were disabled by Google. The only reason they gave was that we were not following the privacy policy and we violated it. I wonder, if every one was violating it? Today came the second wave and the remaining accounts which were saying “Thanks God” are blocked too. Again, the reason is only that we violated their policy. Which policy? NO IDEA!

 

My blogger friends and web masters are now ringing me up, mailing me, messaging me to tell them about some way to get it back or some alternative to Adsense. Well, there are many alternatives but yes I agree not as powerful as as Google Adsense but still we can make out. Hammad Dar a blogger from Pakistan wrote a very good post about alternatives to adsense, so I wont discuss the same things here again. We read a lot about it over Internet, some people talked about Navneet Panda who is the person behind the Google Panda algorithm. Some think, may be its Navneet who did this to Pakistani web masters, because he is an Indian. But I don’t think it is the reason. While writing this post, an other blogger and friend of mine Mansoor Ahmed told me that Google Panda 2.5 is released today. What just comes to my mind now is that it is all because of it. The new algorithm is searching for content on the websites which are genuine and not copy/pasted plus the quality of the post. One more thing that comes to the blogger’s mind is that may be Google is just trying to show its power and giving a reply back to Rehman Malik on his statement that Pakistan could ban Gmail and YouTube. Another story that I heard is, may be because of the current war on terror, America may have asked Google to stop all the dollars flow inside Pakistan. Oh, and there is one more thing which may be offended Google. These days I have seen a lot of advertisements around Internet and newspaper in Pakistan about getting Google Adsense approved accounts. People were selling approved accounts or were charging Rs.2000 to Rs.5000 to get others accounts approved, and also telling them the ways to get multiple accounts.

Well, God knows for now what is the reason behind all this. We were not notified about any clause of privacy policy which was violated. I guess, may be their new policy is “If you are from Pakistan, you are not allowed to be the part of Adsense”. Oh, and don’t forget that all the advertisers on Google Adwords from Pakistan will run away too, because when there will be no place to view them, why would advertisers pay for it?

*UPDATE*

Thanks to Saad Hamid for pointing me out one thing. My article appeared as if I am accusing Google with all these allegations that I mentioned in the paragraph above. I would like to make it clear that, all the things I mentioned are the STORIES THAT I AM HEARING FROM AROUND.

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]]> http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/google-caught-talal-masood-360/feed 3 iShowClips.com my new video sharing website http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/ishowclips-com-my-new-video-sharing-website-317 http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/ishowclips-com-my-new-video-sharing-website-317#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:56:51 +0000 Talal Masood http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/?p=317 iShowClips.comAfter waiting for two months I finally launched my new video sharing website called iShowClips.com. iShowClips is basically a video extraction website where users can upload as well as embed other videos from different video sharing websites like youtube, dailymotion, facebook videos, google videos, veoh, megavideos, and so on. From entirely any website that allows video embedding code, users can get the code and post the video on to iShowClips. I usually share alot of funny videos over the Internet so now I have this place where I can share the videos with rest of the world. Many banned commercials are uploaded on this website too.

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]]> http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/ishowclips-com-my-new-video-sharing-website-317/feed 0 Fixed GLOOMX.com Rss Feed http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/fixed-gloomx-feed-53 http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/fixed-gloomx-feed-53#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:08:41 +0000 Talal Masood http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/?p=53 Today I fixed the GLOOMX.com feed and used it with Feedburner. Now GLOOMX.com Feed is quite better than before and is easily accessable. Now the visitors of GLOOMX can also signup to the automatic update notification email system. As soon as I put anything on the GLOOMX main site the subscribers who signed up will get the email notification of the updates. I strongly recommend all the visitors GLOOMX to signup wo that email subscription so that they can get an email whenever there is an update to the site.

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]]> http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/fixed-gloomx-feed-53/feed 0 Someone finally donated $10 to me http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/someone-finally-donated-10-to-me-12 http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/someone-finally-donated-10-to-me-12#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:15:39 +0000 Talal Masood http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/?p=12 Lol yes this sounds crazy but it is like an achivement for me. People actually started liking me for all the hard work I do over the Internet. I believe in free things so all my websites offer the users to have things for free. And in return I give them the choice if they would like to donate me something, sure they can. So this is the second donation that I got from someone who liked my website. GLOOMX.com is I guess now geniunely getting popular amoung the sub-continent region. I get a good huge traffic from India, though I am a Pakistani but I guess Indians are liking my work alot.

GLOOMX Traffic Report

You see, I got a good number of Direct Traffic on my website. Oh, By the way it decreased since the last time I saw the statistics. Referring websites are getting up this week for me. Well, I would like to thank you all my fans and friends out there for promoting my website GLOOMX so much and for liking my website too. I am trying my hard to get my hands back on some dedicated server so that I can start the MOVIE OF THE WEEK thing again for you. But until I start the direct links again, I would be putting up the movies with even more download mirrors. Now I am going to upload the movies to Rapidshare.com, Megaupload.com, Easy-Share.com, Mediafire.com, Adrive.com, Sendspace.com, DepositFiles.com, Gigaspace.com, and few others may be like sharedzilla, megashares, load.to. But one thing is for sure, I am not going to let you people down :)

At the end, one quick word – After two week I got my final exams so I won’t be this much active during the last two weeks of this Feburary. I appologies for you all in advance! Wish me Best of luck dudes, I really need prayers!

Love you all,
tAALz

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