On his blog, Tim explains why rotating YPN and Adsense ads can be a bad idea, at least if you make them rotate them more often than every few hours or so. I’ve never attempted myself to do that, but it’s always a good thing to keep such little tricks in mind—if only because they…
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Chitika’s Mini-Malls Reviewed at ProBlogger
During the past few weeks, Darren Rowse has been beta-testing a new ads format for Chitika’s mini-malls. It seems so far like an interesting revenue, albeit still in its first stage, and thus lacking certain tracking functions useful to properly analyze and optimize one’s ads placement. As a little “bonus”, you can also check Rachel’s…
YPN: New Ad Category Targeting
Jenstar reports that Yahoo! Publisher Network has now added a new ad category targeting feature for publishers, this in order, of course, to create tighter ad targeting. Here’s what YPN says about this feature, too: In addition to the contextually-matched ads that Yahoo! serves, Ad Targeting enables you to target your visitors with ads based…
AdSense vs Yahoo! Publisher Network
Search Engine Roundtable links to a forum post about comparing the benefits generated by AdSense and YPN ads: I run Adsense and YPN on the homepage of my main site interchangeably to test which is better (equal pageviews at the end of the day, same weights). Both ad networks are both on target, although Adsense…
Using Affiliate Programs
Because affiliate programs can be a good way of adding interesting revenue to a blog, I thought that the recent post Darren Rowse made at ProBlogger (definitely an excellent blog) would be worth a little exposure here. 10 good tips for using affiliate programs is in my opinion a good review, not too lengthy but…
AdSense Optimization: Case Study at ProBlogger
Well, Darren Rowse doesn’t offer this to anyone, that is—only to Jeff Jarvis. I however feel that it’s a great, great post he makes here, since a lot of us bloggers who’re trying their hand at AdSense (or plan to) probably fall in this category of “not placing our ads efficiently enough”. So what can…
Insight on Amazon Affiliates Program
This is a program I’m using myself on two of my blogs. While it doesn’t add as near revenue as, say, AdSense blocks, it can be an interesting feature to peruse—with the added bonus that, when used properly, it can actually enhance your posts through clever use of images (book covers…), rather than just look…
How To Avoid AdSense Account Cancellation
Even though this is already contained in the AdSense terms and policies themselves, it seems that many people don’t read them carefully enough at times (yes, this includes me as well, I’m a champ for that). This is why JenSense has put up an article about how to ensure your AdSense account won’t be cancelled:…
AdSense Official Blog
Rumor had it for quite some time, and it wasn’t a mystery that the URL was somehow “reserved”. Well, the veil is now lifted: Inside AdSense has gone live. Of course, the blog being brand new, there isn’t much on it yet. Let’s hope that we’ll however soon see posts and useful tips flourish on…
Simple AdSense Tips
“Simple” as in “written in a very clear way”, not as in “simplistic. The Record Card has just added a list of 16 solid tips that proove to be pretty useful to anyone starting out with AdSense. If the confirmed AdSense user probably knows them all already, the starting one can no doubt make much…