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If you are an Adsense publisher you've probably seen the very "helpful" optimization tips in your control panel over the last couple of months. I posted about them a while back, but a thread over on Digital Point got me thinking. What if the poster's theory were correct? According to the poster: Once I removed the sites from the bad filters list, income increased 25% Of course … [Read more...] about The Adsense Optimization Reports

Earlier today I came across one of my posts (verbatim) on someone else's website. The website owner had previously been in contact with me requesting permission to republish my content, which I was not willing to do. They assured me that they would respect my wishes, but they obviously didn't. It also begs the question whether any of the content they are publishing is their own … [Read more...] about Content Theft – What To Do?

I posted a couple of times about my experiments with Amazon's contextual links program. Yesterday I was about to remove them completely from the sites that were still running them, but before doing so I ran a revenue report. Much to my amazement they'd actually resulted in some sales. Admittedly the sales weren't huge, but they were enough to make me think twice about removing … [Read more...] about Amazon Context Ads Actually Work

Agricantus are set to play at Womad in Taormina, Sicily. I was at Womad in Cáceres several years ago and it was absolutely amazing. Now, how can I justify a trip to Sicily in July?? … [Read more...] about Agricantus To Play Womad Taormina

I got a hardcopy of "The DOGS Directory" with this month's issue of Irish Marketing Journal (they actually offer an online version of the magazine as well even if it's not mentioned on their site), however the website that was previously accepting submissions is no longer online. I'd have expected a "definitive" guide to anything online to have an online presence... Weird! … [Read more...] about TheDogs.ie – Where is it??