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Two mistakes made by wannabe website publishers

So many people who want to be profitable website publishers often make the same two mistakes when they first start out. The first major mistake is not trying to think up an original site idea. So many just clone existing sites they know to be popular, Sites that either copy MySpace or provide add-on services […]

Do not fear popunders.

There is anecdotal evidence that popunders are bad for business. It is said, by many, that they turn away users in droves and that you’re losing out on both traffic and links by using them. Well, that just isn’t true. For most of March I turned popunders off on my literature site. Normally there would […]

Google going CPA

As per this blog post Google is officially adding a CPA component to Adsense/Adwords. They of course don’t mention the word “CPA” or “affiliate program” at all, characterizing it instead as an expansion of their Google Pack referrals, but we all know what it is. This could be good, or it could be bad. On […]

Cookie Misconceptions

I was just doing some browsing on my brother’s computer, he uses McAfee and I got to looking into their SiteAdvisor feature, what a load of crap that was. Apparently McAfee relies on the most ignorant of Internet users to review the security of various sites. One that was particularly distasteful was their reviews of […]

Users Hate Interstitials… Right?

I’m a big fan of interstitials. I see them as the ultimate answer in the ad/ad-blocker arms race. Most of the detractors of the format say they are extremely annoying to users and that people will leave your site. Well… I was just doing some datamining of my site statistics and I noticed a very […]

New Type of Adsense Channels

Just a quick heads up for those who do not know. Yesterday Adsense started using a new featured that allows you to define channels as more than just a way for you to keep track of earnings, but also as a way for advertisers to bid on your site. So when doing site targetted ads […]

Adsense Gets Less Restrictive

There was some hullabaloo (is that a word?) with the issue talked about in my most recent blog post. Many saw it as Google trying to be monopolistic and forbidding the use of other contextual ads anywhere on their site. I surmised that maybe it was really there way of being more open because they […]

Adsense Policy Changes

Jensense has a summary of some new Adsense policy changes. The highlights include an explicity forbidding of images next to ads among other things. Of the two biggest changes, the first is a change in regards to copyrighted material. It looks like Adsense is now forbidding their ads be shown in conjunction with any copyrighted […]

..and the Golden Globe winner for best comedy: YPN

The incompetence of YPN reached a new height today. I was one of the thousands of publishers kicked out of YPN for serving ads to international visitors. As I dicussed in the linked to blog post I find it absolutely ridiculous that YPN lacks the resources to implement their own geotargeting system. How do they […]

About Advertising Cycles

This comes up all the time, it gets to a certain time of year and multiple people start posting about how they’re suddenly earning less, and a few of them may incorrectly theorize about the cause of their woes. If this coincidence happened at a place like WebMythWorld it might grow into some sort of […]

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