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Feedburner Adsense

Fernando Hal — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:58:14 +0000

If you are an Adsense publisher looking to add additional income source, try look into Adsense For Feeds. No, it won’t increase your Adsense in any significant way, but to some at least is better than none.

What is AdSense for feeds?

AdSense for feeds allows web publishers to earn by placing targeted Google ads in their feeds. AdSense for feeds works the way the rest of the AdSense program works: by delivering ads that are relevant to your content and your readers.

Like other AdSense ads, feed ads can be paid in two ways: by click, or by impression. Feed ads can also be targeted in two ways.

* contextually targeted to the content in your feed
* targeted by advertisers to your specific feed when you set up an ad placement

You can control the frequency, appearance, and positioning of Google ads in your feeds. The ad size is automatically determined based on where your feed is appearing.

Steps to setup Feedburner Adsense

To display Google Adsense advertisements in your feed, first make sure that your feed is served via Feedburner and your Feedburner account login is the same as your Adsense login.
Login to your Adsense account .
Open Adsense Setup tab. Open Adsense For Feeds.

Google AdSense For Feedburner
There will be some options for you to customize your Feedburner Adsense ads. Most of the time, the default options is adequate for us. Click “Save” once you are satisfied.

Feedburner Adsense Options
Done. Wait for some 10 minutes, then check your Feedburner feed for ads.

Adsense in Feedburner

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Reddit is Good

Fernando Hal — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:17:11 +0000

Over 300 visits for 8 down votes. How much better can it be?

Go, try reddit.

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List Of Google-certified Advertisement Networks

Fernando Hal — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:52:30 +0000

Here is the list of Google-certified advertisement networks integrated in Google Adsense programme at this moment. According to Google there will be more advertisement networks added gradually in the next few months.

For updated list, check out the section of “Allow and Block Google Certified Ad Networks” in
Google Adsense account -> Adsense Setup – > Ad Review Center

List Of Google-certified Advertisement Networks Integrated In Google Adsense, ordered alphabetically.

[X+1]
AccountNow, Inc.
Acxiom Corporation
Ad Pepper
Adchemy
Adconion Media Group
Adpepper Germany
AdReady
Adtegrity.com
Advertise.com
Aggregate Knowledge
Announce Media
AOL Inc
AppNexus
Atrinsic
AudienceScience Inc.
Bizo
Brand.net
BrightRoll
Chitika
ClickDistrict NL
Collective Media
Cossette Communications
CPM Advisors, Inc
Criteo Europe
Criteo UK
Criteo US
Cyberplex, Inc
Dapper Inc.
DataXu
Datran Media
Dedicated Media
Didit
Dotomi
DQ&A
DSNR
EchoSearch
Efficient Frontier, Inc.
Epic Advertising
FetchBack
Goodway Group
HTTPool
Hurra Germany
Infectious Media
Innovation Interactive
InterCLICK
Invite Media
LucidMedia
MaxPoint Interactive
Media Innovation Group
Media6Degrees
MediaMath
Mediaplex
Mexad
Mixpo
Mpire
NetSeer Inc.
NextAction
OpenX Technologies
OpinMind
OwnerIQ, Inc.
Pennyweb, Inc. (DBA Ybrant Digital)
People Media, Inc
Pinnacle Dream Media
Pulse 360
Quantcast Corporation
QuinStreet, Inc.
Radius Marketing Inc.
Red Aril, Inc.
Redux Media Inc.
Reply! Inc.
ReTargeter
RichRelevance, Inc.
Rocket Fuel Inc.
Semantic Sugar, Inc.
ShareThis, Inc.
Sooth Software Corporation (dba AdBuyer.com)
Specific Media
Spongecell
Struq Limited
TellApart
Teracent Corporation
The Exchange Lab
Traffic Marketplace
Triggit
Turn
ValueClick International Ltd
ValueClick, Inc.
Veremedia
VivaKi
Xtend Global Media LTD

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Adsense Now Integrates Third Party Ads Network

Fernando Hal — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:32:55 +0000

Google Adsense Team has announced in Inside Adsense blog that Adsense will start accepting and integrating ads from third party advertisement network.

We don’t know yet which ads network will be included, according to Google the first batch will only accept ads from North America and Canada based advertisement network. It is on invitation basis only. So if you are running your own ads network, you might not be able to integrate your ads into Adsense programme yet.

Update: The list of supported ads network can be found in Google Adsense ad review center. There are large and small advertisement networks alike. The bigger names include Chitika, ValueClick Media, Advertise.com and AOL Inc.

What are the implications of this?
- There will be more ads competing for ad space, and most likely means higher earning for publishers
- On the other side of the coin, it means higher ads expenses for Adwords advertiser targeting content network
- You might need to review ads network in your Adsense account to ensure their suitability for your website
- This might signal that Google Adsense has received too much pageviews than what it can sells

Here is an email from Google regarding this:

Hi,

We have launched a new capability in AdSense allowing Google-certified ad networks compete directly within AdSense, which means that advertisers from these third-party networks will be able to compete with AdWords advertisers to show on the Google Content Network.

These new capabilities will automatically be enabled for your account, and you’ll see a new section in your Ad Review Center where you can allow or block specific ad networks or all networks except AdWords. Please note that we’ll gradually be adding new ad networks to AdSense accounts over the next few months, so you won’t see any immediate impact on your ads or your earnings.

To ensure the quality of the ads that appear on AdSense publisher websites, Google will certify all participating ad networks for adherence to our standards for user privacy, ad quality, and speed. Some participating ad networks use targeting methods similar to Google’s interest-based advertising to show more relevant ads to users on the sites they visit. These ad networks won’t be permitted to collect data from your site for the purpose of subsequent interest-based advertising, but we’ll allow networks that comply with user privacy guidelines to show ads using these tools. Publishers can opt out of user interest targeting from these ad networks, and Google has changed our requirements for third-party ad serving to reflect this.

We are currently only accepting ads from Google-certified ad networks in North America and Europe, but we will make this feature available to ad networks in additional parts of the world in the future.

To learn more and manage the ad networks appearing on your pages, visit the AdSense Help Center at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=13522 and visit our blog post at http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-certified-ad-networks-now.html.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

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Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

What do you think?

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20 Sites That ALWAYS Make It To Digg Front-Page

Fernando Hal — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:42:13 +0000

Getting on front page of Digg is a nightmare and dream comes true for any webmaster. It will bring in tens of thousands of visitors, enough to crash unprepared servers. It is however not an easy task, probable only about 1 in a 1000 submission made it. There are however some sites that seems to always manage to reach Digg front page at any given day, sometimes with even more than one front-page story in a single day. Here are some that we caught wind of.

Image Hosting

Here is the undisputed king of image hosting. The clean-cut design and fuss-free image uploading, plus the great track record of availability makes imgur easily stands out from the competition.

Humor Sites

Good sense of humor always seems to manage to get a good place in Digg, probably since most of the Diggers are too young to be serious. Well, anyway. Here are the sites that always get Dugg for good and not so good humors.

Money

Eventhough there are myriads of websites about money management out there, there is only one site that consistently make it to Digg front-page. Love it or hate it.

News

While Digg is about empowering netizen journalism, maintream news from mainstream media also does make it. There are the most popular news sites in Digg.

Technology

Undeniably, the Diggers are among the most technology-inclined and gadget hungry crowds there are. Needless to say, some of the most popular sites at Digg are technology blogs.

Stick Figure Cartoon

This is another category where there is no competition. Xkcd rules over any other stick-figure cartoon sites, or any cartoon sites for that matter, in Digg.

Science

Diggers aren’t always about play and fun. Many of them happen to be among the brightest people in this planet too. Little surprise that science is popular here.

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Free Wordpress Email Subscription via Feedburner

Fernando Hal — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:46:41 +0000

Now, if you are serious in building your blog, you got to be serious about promoting the blog, as well as retaining the blog visitors. While RSS feed allows us a convenient way to keep track of what’s happening in blogs that we read, there are still people who aren’t so comfortable in subscribing via RSS, or somehow just prefer the old-fashioned way of receiving notification via email.

Feedburner, that great feed syndication service you have been using, actually do provide this service of emailing your subscriber of the updates too. Here is what you need to do to offer email subscription for your visitors via Feedburner.

“Offering Email Subscriptions to your self-hosted WordPress blog

FeedBurner also offers our Email Subscription service, which uses your feed to send an update once each day that you make new post(s) to your blog. If you want to offer a link to subscribe to these email updates to your readers, visit and activate the Email Subscriptions service on the Publicize tab for your feed. Then, copy the “Subscription Link” code we offer into your blog as a “Text” widget under Presentation > Widgets in the WordPress Dashboard for your site.”

Copy the code and paste it in your sidebar widget.

Here is how it looks like

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Free $75 Google Adwords Trial Coupon

Fernando Hal — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:59:22 +0000

Here is a offer you can’t refuse. Get $75 Google Adwords coupon. You don’t have to wait for email from Google, and don’t have to register at some third party websites.

Free $75 Google Adwords trial coupon.

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Go. Grab it now. Free $75 Google Adwords trial coupon.

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How To Improve Alexa Ranking Quickly

Fernando Hal — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:08:38 +0000

Alexa Ranking is a site ranking assigned by Alexa Internet to measure websites’ popularity. It claims to use a number of factors in deciding the site popularity, but really it depends mainly on usage data collected by the Alexa toolbar.

The higher the ranking is, the smaller number is the rank given. Based on Alexa, Google (Alexa Ranking 1) is the most popular website in the Internet, followed by Yahoo(2), Facebook(3), and Youtube(4).

You can see website ranking in your browser after installing the toolbar or just check it at Alexa website.

How accurate is Alexa Ranking?

In a perfect world, Alexa user base would be a fair statistical sample of the Internet user population, and thus the ranking should be quite accurate in comparing popularity of one site to another.

However, in reality Alexa Ranking is hardly reliable. Alexa ranks sites based on tracking information of users of its Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and from plugins in Firefox. Thus it is greatly dependent on the number of Alexa toolbar installed among the site visitors.

Websites targeted to webmasters and web designers generally do better in Alexa Ranking compared to websites in other niche, e.g. food or pregnancy. That is largely because webmasters are more willing to install the Alexa toolbar to check on the competitors’ Alexa ranking as well as to push up their own website ranking.

Internet users in some countries are also more willing to install the Alexa Toolbar compared to others. I have seen a Singapore website with 10k visitors a day ranked 60k in Alexa, while an Indonesian site with just 1k visitor a day ranked 30k in Alexa.

How To Get Higher Alexa Ranking Easily

Less than a week ago, the 7 day average of Cheatad.com Ranking was 165,534. Today when I checked again, the 7 day average has advanced to 93,963, with yesterday ranking was an even better 67,568.

At 67,568 it means that Cheatad ranks even better than my other website which has 40 times more visitors and 120 times more pageviews. That is absolutely amazing, or ridiculous, depending how you see it.

On the other hand, while that is a bit unexpected, there is really not much surprise here. Alexa Ranking is known to be unreliable, and skewed specially to websites with webmasters visitors.

The main factor of Alexa Ranking calculation is the number of visits by the Alexa toolbar users. Knowing that, it is quite easy to improve Alexa ranking for your website. As long as more of your visitors have Alexa toolbar, your Alexa ranking will shoot up.

Here is the five easy and simple ways to rank higher in Alexa:

1. Install Alexa Toolbar

Download and install Alexa Toolbar. If your browser is Firefox, you can either use the Sparky plugin (official Alexa toolbar for Firefox) or SearchStatus plugin. I personally use Search Status for the other nice functions like ability to highlight nofollow link, calculate keyword density, etc.

2. Encourage Others To Install Alexa Toolbar
This includes your blog readers as well as friends. The point is, it should be easier convert your current regular visitors to use the toolbar rather than getting new visitors that happen to have Alexa toolbar installed.

3. Write About Alexa Ranking
Posting an article about Alexa Ranking is a good way to attract more webmasters to your blog, most of whom have the toolbar installed.

4. Participate In Webmaster Forums
Again, most webmasters have Alexa toolbar installed. When allowed, make sure to include your blog URL in the forum Signature. Some interested webmasters might just click to visit your blog.

5. Reload Your Pages Incessantly
With your Alexa toolbar installed, read back all articles you have written, try different searches, and refresh pages over and over, to increase the pageview count. Even better, set your webpage to auto refresh every 15 seconds.

Well, try them and you will notice your Alexa Ranking shooting up. Of course, you need to make sure you actually have got good contents and good number of visitors too. Otherwise the Alexa rank that you have gained will be short-lived.

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