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Google has added more products to the range of referral products for adsense publishers. According to the official adsense blog they have released Picasa and Google Pack. For some odd reason I can only see picasa... or you could go bigger with this one: Thanks to Darren for pointing it out! (as usual you get more options if you set your language to English US) EDIT: For some … [Read more...] about Google Ads More Products

Although I implemented direct links on search.ie quite some time ago I completely forgot to tell anyone about it! If you navigate to any of the detailed pages there is a clean link to the site in question ie. no "nasty" redirect scripts For example, this site is listed under the blogs category and you can see the link / site details here … [Read more...] about Search.ie – Direct Links

If you are running a blog with adsense you may have been plagued by the issue of the "blog" ads ie. all your posts regardless of their content display ads for blogs, bloggers, blog hosting etc. One simple way of stopping that is to remove all reference to the terms in your blog templates. The change may not have an immediate impact, but it will over time … [Read more...] about Improving Adsense Contextual Ads on Blogs

At Jason's recommendation I started using Text Link Ads a couple of weeks ago. I put a couple of links up here and elsewhere and was impressed to make a small sale almost immediately. Today, as it is the first of the month, they sent payments. Although my ad sale only amounted to a couple of dollars they still paid me! With most affiliate / advertising / revenue systems you … [Read more...] about Text Link Ads – Prompt Payments

As regular visitors to my blog have noticed I've changed the theme yet again! I've love to say that this is the theme and that I'll stick with it, but I know as well as you do that I'll probably change it again. Anyhow, as some people were wondering what it was, the theme is called MW It's quite simple, yet has a number of powerful features if, like me, you are hopeless at … [Read more...] about WordPress themes – Again!