http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/fighting-fraud-online-taking-google.html

It’s important to thoroughly check the product, service or company you are promoting.

Here’s some names you might be familiar with that are in Google’s bad books:

Names to be wary of: Google Adwork, Google ATM, Google Biz Kit, Google Cash, Earn Google Cash Kit, Google Fortune, Google Marketing Kit, Google Profits, The Home Business Kit for Google, Google StartUp Kit, and Google Works.
Source: The Official Google Blog

Another interesting article from Google Adwords Support about disabled accounts:

https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164786

Specifically what Google doesn’t like include:

* Data collection sites that offer free items, etc., in order to collect private information
* Arbitrage sites without relevant and original content that are designed for the purpose of showing ads
* Affiliate sites without relevant and original content that are designed to drive traffic to another site with a different domain
* “Get-rich quick” sites
* Malware sites that install software on a visitor’s computer
* Poor comparison shopping or travel sites whose primary purpose is to send users to other shopping/travel comparison sites, rather than to provide useful content or additional search functionality
Source: Google Adwords Support

In addition to this it is important that all internet marketers promoting their own products or products of others in the United States become familiar with the FTC’s guidelines for advertising.

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/guides/guides.shtm

In short Google and the FTC are making us internet marketers aware of our responsibilities, whether you like it or not, and ensure that any products or services you promote don’t infringe trademarks or copyrights, are not scams, and will not provide your website visitors with a poor or harmful user experience. That means do your due diligence first and check out any company and their products or services before you decide to promote them to others.

Hope this helps and let me know if you have any other information to add to this.

The popular font used online for good readibility is the Arial family of fonts. And that is what I wanted to be used on this blog.

Remedy please? Well it ended up being easy to change. Now the Cutline Theme does not have any easy to use interface to change parameters like text styles as some more recent themes. However I could get access to the css stylesheet to edit the fonts.

I am not a css expert by a long shot. But when you look at any stylesheet it is easy to find and change any parameter in WordPress’ Appearance, Editor. By the way I’m using WordPress version 2.8 at the time of writing.

So first step was to find any font attributes in the stylesheet. Thats easy with my FireFox browser. I just hit Ctrl+F and enter “font”.

What I found as the default font family was:

font: 62.5% Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;

Each time I found this text I replaced it with:

font: 62.5% Arial, Helvetica, Geneva;

Notice that I kept the 62.5% resizing attribute as I found it. I also got to sort out the double spacing between lines.

Now my blog is far easier to read. Don’t you think?

I chose it because it not only post my latest Twitter updates in the sidebar, but I can also submit my Tweet from the sidebar, or Tweet a new blog post. This WordPress plugin is easily activated by adding the Twitter Tools widget to my sidebar, and updating the settings page.

This is my first test of trying to Tweet a blog post. So fingers crossed it works. Let’s see.