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If you think about the possible irony of choosing wine as a subject for a review. .. Or maybe I'm reading too much into the possible meanings ... In either case Damien spotted this rather interesting promotion of wine via the blogging community. Even a couple of days ago the offer was only open to UK bloggers, but now they've expanded it to include Ireland :) I've requested a … [Read more...] about In Vino Veritas

Google offers a wide range of specific data catalogues including web pages, maps, shops, news and images. As the Google empire expands their selection of special search services has expanded. … [Read more...] about Improved Google

Statistics can be a funny thing. Depending on how you interpret them you can use or abuse them to either make a point or disprove an argument. When the statistics contain information on spending trends then you can be sure that marketing types' ears will prick up: "He said money?" A new survey published by ComScore will probably get its fair share of attention from the media … [Read more...] about Blog Visitors spend more?

In recent weeks there has been a lot of excitement among Adsense publishers who had discovered that placing images above their adsense ads was increasing clickthroughs. From Google's point of view more clicks should equal more revenue, however it seems that Google is not entirely happy about this. If the images are placed in such a way as to give the impression that they are … [Read more...] about Increasing Your Click rate? Don’t fall foul of Google

Have you seen the PSAs that Google push out when there are no relevant ads? If Google cannot match ads to your site's content you end up displaying non-paying Public Service Ads. Eric Giguere points out a new service that is designed specifically to fill those gaps: AlternateURL.com which introduces its benefits as: Most online ad programs, including Google, will sometimes show … [Read more...] about Maximising Adsense – no more PSAs