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New here? If you’d like to be notified of new content, simply subscribe to my RSS feed or sign up for email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Joe Balestrino says, “I had to ask myself this question a few days ago. I’m always working on a project or two, sometimes ten. One thing that concerns me […]
This is a very hot item on the social bookmarking sites at the moment (over 4,000 have saved it at del.icio.us alone), so I figure you might find it useful too. Ben Hunt, who has been a successful web designer and developer for over 10 years, has created, “Web Design from Scratch is for everyone […]
Jensense also seem to agree with my earlier assertion that Google’s “revamping of the color scheme used for default ad units, getting rid of that teal border on all defaults”, suggest that “AdSense thinks the same thing”, i.e. confirmation that borders reduce effectiveness.
AdSense thinks borderless is better
If you are a WordPress user, you may be interested in this plugin, which Jensense mentions, a “cool AdSense Injection script which will automatically insert AdSense into your WordPress blog entry in a different position each page view, reducing the chance of banner blindness on your blog.”
AdSense Injection WordPress plugin prevents banner blindness
Eric Giguere lists several ways that you can avoid being kicked out of the AdSense program for no good reason. Basically, a proactive approach that advises “If you’re in doubt about anything, report it.”, i.e. before Google can get the chance to imagine guilty behaviours.
How AdSense publishers can keep their noses clean
In another post, he […]
UPDATE: As things do change and progress online, the method below can now be greatly improved upon, since I first wrote about it, refering to the tools then available. You still need all three accounts mentioned, but instead of using the Spurl interface to post, get an OnlyWire account (and join the other sites they […]
Will Bontrager’s latest creation, Pro.Rate(tm) gives you another way for your visitors to interact with your blog, site or even store. Or, as Will says, “If it can be published on the web, it can be rated.”
Apart from the fact that “people like that you care what they think”, you’ll get honest feedback when it’s […]
For those who also Spanish, here is a possibly imaginary - though you can certainly imagine getting real satisfaction from carrying it out - way to get revenge on all those telephone solicitors. In this case, the subject was a caller from Telefonica trying to offer a promotion for having an additional phone line installed. […]
One of my favorite things about life is the ability to learn. From a young age my parents instilled in me and my siblings the fact that learning is a privilege that should not be taken lightly. We were never allowed to take school for granted and we were always encouraged to do extra learning. […]
by Tim Knox
I had the honor of speaking this week at a women’s business association luncheon on the topic of entrepreneurship. When I mentioned to my wife the day before that I was speaking to group of women entrepreneurs she asked, “Why on earth would they ask you to speak?”
In her defense, my dear […]