I had written a post a couple of days ago where Google Custom Channels data went missing from the reports panel. Google AdSense Blog today announced that the custom channels are back up and running.

I had complained to Google about it and my channels was fixed immediately. So this shows that Google does work in ASAP mode when there are problems :-). Are your channels report showing up fine now? Do let me know.

In all the fiasco that is happening in the past few days, many sites Page Rank has gone down but few of the other sites Page Rank has also gone up. This blog now has a Page Rank of 4. I checked few of my friends blogs and checked that few of them have got a Page Rank update.

Following is the list of sites that got a positive page rank update.

Shankar Ganesh went from 0 - 5 (he deserves it)

Has anyone else got a positive Page Rank. Do let me know your page ranks with your comments.

There have many a times you may have had a great idea but decide to work on a leisurely pace. You build that idea bit by bit and then suddenly read or hear that something similar to your idea got launched today and you still hovering at the 50% mark of completion.

Another such example is that as a blogger you have 10-15 great post ideas and don’t act on it immediately, within a few days someone else has already made a post about it.

If you fall in one of the above two categories welcome to world of think alike people.

Have you been getting spam comments from a site talkf(dot)com? Do you get tons of spam from them? Well if you do you are not the only one, there may be tons of sites that get spam comments from them, I have got 300 spam comments in last two days from them and thanks to Akismet I am safe enough but then, few of them do escape the Akismet web too and land up in your normal comments.

The surprise of all is that Google Search is archiving 50,800 links related to talkf(dot)com, just do a search for talkf(dot)com (replace (dot) with "." without the quotes and you will see it) or else follow this Google Search link and you will see.

For the last couple of days I have been facing a problem with Google AdSense reporting. I use custom channels to track performance of AdSense Ads and make adjustments accordingly to increase both CPM and CTR but for the last couple of days the AdSense reports have not being showing the channels in the main Reports Overview.

The Advanced report too does not show proper channel information. They have not even posted any clarifications about this issue on their AdSense blog. What’s up Google?

There have been lots of the PR drops have been overdone all over the Blogosphere and to which Maki from Dosh Dosh said that Google Page Rank does not matter and having an alternative is the right way to go about it.

Here is a fool proof alternative beyond the nofollow option which will ensure your Google PR does not drop and you keep your advertisers happy with links to them.

Many of us have been waiting for that elusive PR update which would push our PR up, but what happens Google does a U-turn and drops the page rank of most of the top sites. There has been a considerable drop for many sites and this is because they are selling paid links.

I had highlighted the fact that Google is not targeting the sploggers who steal your content but are happy to penalize us. Does this mean the end of Text Link Ads? Well only time will tell, how many will choose between Google AdSense and Text Link Ads.