Here’s an update on the previous post about AdSense changing their AdSense/AdWords referral payment system. It’s looking like a promising two tiered system. More reports are coming in now that different AdSense offices around the world are confirming changes in their referrals payments. Here’s the translation of a response from ...more

So in your quest for blogging awesomeness, you may have had a chance to reflect on things and ask yourself a few questions. What can I do to grow my blog? Should I try that next marketing trick? What will my next post be about? How does Darren produce as ...more

It looks like AdSense might be changing their payment structure for their AdSense and AdWords referrals. After a tip from a reader I just logged into my account and saw that today I have XX conversions for my AdSense referrals for a total of $XXX and X conversions for AdWords ...more

Warning – Tangent Ahead Today is Australia Day here in Australia (a public holiday). As part of this annual celebration – when we eat a lot of BBQ lamb (BBQ), play backyard cricket and watch the Tennis and Cricket (could the Aussies have demoralized the English any more?) – a ...more

Chitika have added new sizes to their ShopCloud$ ad unit (read my intro to them here).They now not only come in a 468×180 size ad but also: • 300×250 • 250×250 • 160×600 • 160×160 • 120×600

It’s time for another earnings update on AdSense referrals. It’s now been almost a year since they were introduced (I think it was 4 November 2005) and so we’ve all had plenty of opportunity to test them. Referrals are Google’s first venture into CPA (cost per action) advertising and I’m ...more

Chitika have announced a new product today – ShopCloud$ You can see an example of it below – but basically it is a tag cloud that highlights ‘hot products’ as well as a search box with an AJAX option that suggests products as people add letters into the search field. ...more

Non weekend readers might have missed the fact that this weekend I’m celebrating my 2nd birthday here at ProBlogger with a ‘Chicken-a-thon’. Yes I’m blogging for Chickens in the hope of raising some money for Charity. You can read about the project here. So far donations total $240AU ($180US) and ...more

I’m getting lots of great feedback today (as well as 80 more entries) in the How to… group writing project. Check out this comment from one participant who got 60,000 visitors to his post as a result of the project (which started a Diggalanche)! The reason I started these projects ...more