Google announced its quarterly results earlier today.

Google reported a rise in profits in the first quarter as it saw the benefits of a shift to online advertising from traditional media. Google reported that its online advertising rose 17 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier.

Shows just how strong Google is as a company and the potential of the internet to grow and sustain quality advertising sites. Its amazing that Google is still able to grow albeit at a slower rate, in the UK we have seen a big decline in advertising activities across the board.

We have had a good experience with both Google’s adwords and adsense programs and strongly recommend them both to authors who are not yet signed up.

We just added Google Friend Connect to this blog, its a new feature that Google has just launched, it offers the ability to attract more visitors as account users of Google, Yahoo and MSN can easily add themselves as friends.

The coding is very simply, so we implemented and will report back on the progress.

We are pleased to see that we continue to top the search results for many popular phrases in the UK search, US results are consistently page #1 but not always the top slot. 1 out of 13,600,000 results is pretty good going and we happy about it.

A major promotional campaign is planned for 2009 and we are determined to build further on our already good results.