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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 [...]

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 material [...]

..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 [...]

A Review of Booksurge

On my plate of ways to further monetize my literature site has been plans to publish actual books. In one case I’m having a writer work on original content for a book that is encyclopedic in scope. In the other cases I’m publishing in book format the same work I publish in digital format.
For [...]

Another Two Excellent Google Blog Posts

There was another excellent post at Google Webmaster Central today that tells all about duplicate content. It is so uncommon to get such straightforward information from Google that this is definitely worth a read.
Additionally they answer the question about what TLD to use when targeting a specific country for search, I always intuitively [...]

Paid Blog Posts

Andrew at WebPublishingBlog has come out strongly against Pay for Post services, so have many others in this industry. I’m not one of them.
One thing Rush Limbaugh does with his endorsements on his radio show is only accept sponsors that he actually recommends. He’ll find a product he likes, and go and ask them to [...]

Valueclick Acquires Shopping.net

This’ll be a quick post.
It was announced today that Valueclick would acquire Shopping.net for 13.3 million. Valueclick estimates Shopping.net to contribute 2 million in profit to it’s business.
Two things I want to mention here are:
1. So much for those people trying to value large established sites as something ridiculous like 12 months of profit. [...]

Amazon Beta Content Links Program

Amazon is launching another beta content links program. I say another because they have already been experimenting in contextual text links with their successful (I assume, I can’t see how it couldn’t be successful) Omakase program

Dear Amazon Associate:
Are you looking for additional revenue streams to monetize your content? Are you interested in providing [...]

Christmas Came Early

Back in July I published one of the most in depth articles I’ve ever written. The article, A Publisher’s Guide to Contextual PPC Ad Optimization, takes a close look at how you can optimize your publishing earnings by tweaking the appearance and placement of ads from Google Adsense, YPN, or the like.
At the end of [...]

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