Tag Archive: advertising

Adsense Nonsense: Dropping an Ad Service That Has Succumbed to Spams and Splogs

Previously I wrote a piece about my suspicions on a series of websites I think are scams. So what happens? After proofreading my post, I happened to noticed that Google was displaying contextually relevant ad links… to one of the VERY SAME SITES I was writing about and suspected of being a scam. Only me….

A Blogging Contest: Providing Backlinks for Logo Designs and Other Niches

I hate to get sucked into entering yet another blogging contest, especially when they are usually transparent efforts to build backlinks to their sites, but this one was too good to pass up. David Airey is a graphic designer who, oddly enough, specializes in logo and graphic design, and is currently running a contest giving…

The Ultimate Blogger’s Toolbox – More than 80 links to tools and resources to help improve your blogging experience

Inspired by Mashable’s latest streak of publishing insane link lists for their readers (covering images, audio, video, analytics and podcasting), I decided to publish my own personal toolbox for bloggers in general. Enjoy! Analytics This Add This! – Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your blog and subscribe to your feeds. Saves you…

When Adsense Makes No SENSE At All

After putting up Google ads on my blog, I noticed scrolling in Firefox seemed to get choppy when the text ads came into view, but when they weren’t scrolling was smooth as usual. Great, another bug I needed to hunt down. I can just forget about getting any sleep this week. Web design, @#$%! Fortunately…

Making Sense of Adsense and Blogging

For the first time since I started blogging many moons ago, I finally put up Google’s Adsense on my site. This I do, 4 years after its release, with the Internet now completely saturated with these types of ads everywhere you surf, during the worst advertising slump since 2000. I’m brilliant. Oh well. I’m obviously…

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