Google Looking Into Negative Adsense Ad Blocking By Keywords
      Check out this quote from the forums at Search Engine Watch ‘It seems that Google is researching into allowing Adsense publishers to block ads by keywords, categories, and/or concepts. Currently you can only block ads by specific URL. If they go through with this it could be a great improvement ...more    
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  The Institutionalization of Blogging
      Trevor Cook is writing a fascinating conference paper titled Can blogging retain its revolutionary fervour? Trevor’s thesis is ‘that as the blogosphere matures it will increasingly come to resemble ‘traditional’ media.‘ Its an idea I’ve wondered about myself over the past few months. Some of Trevor’s observations are spot on ...more    
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  More on the BlogAds Survey
      In continuing my last post on the BlogAds survey – I thought I’d make a few other little observations – nothing too profound – just what stood out to me as I read through the result. Probably the more interesting responses for me in this survey were: – 92.1% of ...more    
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  Blogads: reader survey for blog advertising.
      Just running out the door for the day (its a long weekend here) but saw that Blogads have released the results of their reader survey for blog advertising. Looking forward to having a look through their results tonight. Adrants summarizes it as follows: 75% are over 30 75% are men ...more    
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  Bloglines Problems
      Is anyone else having issues with Bloglines today? I logged on this morning only to find that I could not access it at all. I thought maybe they were having issues and waited an hour or two only to find it still timing out. Now 10 hours later I’m still ...more    
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  Google’s AdSense a bonanza for some Web sites
      USA Today has an article on Adsense titled Google’s AdSense a bonanza for some Web sites which has a few interesting snippets that basically talk up the program. Here are a few grabs from it firstly on Chris Pirillo from Lockergnome: ‘Chris Pirillo, who has a following from his former ...more    
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  More Business UnderBloggers added
      I just updated the nominations in the 2005 Business Underblogger Awards. We’re up to 51 nominations so far. In updating the nominations I discovered a few great professional bloggers that I’d never known of before on a really wide range of topics. Check them out and leave your nominations for ...more    
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  Letting others Promote your Blog for you
      Finding readers for your blog can be one of the hardest and most frustrating parts of blogging. You slave over your content, writing witty, clever, insightful, humorous posts and check your stats at the end of your day and barely anyone has taken any notice – it can be downright ...more    
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  Formatting images for SEO
      One of the most commonly known Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips that go around has to do with the way you name and tag the images that you use on your site. Its fairly commonly accepted by most SEO experts that Google not only looks at the text on your ...more    
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