Every time I hear someone’s making great money on AdSense, I get bummed.
See, I don’t like AdSense.  It just turns me off because it has, inadvertently or otherwise, inspired a lot of horrific crap sites that drive me crazy when I’m looking up information.  The truth is, WikiPedia with all its flaws is a better [...]

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This is probably something I was the last to know, but if you use WordPress and you haven’t discovered the joys of UltimateTagWarrior, I highly recommend it.  I’ve used Technorati tagging plugins in the past, and then I found I was getting equal traffic whether I bothered with them or not, so I stopped.  But [...]

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I’m so tired of dealing with unreliable hosting that I decided to consolidate a bunch of sites onto two hosts - I don’t want all my eggs in the exact same basket, so that something will always be up and earning.  This was a fairly simple process, and it would have been pretty quick had [...]

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If ever you want to narrow your web search to blogs, there is a fantastic engine for it: Ice Rocket. Not much more one can say about it, really: it’s just absolutely the Google for blogs, and it includes a lot of online blogging services such as LiveJournal.

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I’m building a new content site, and I know the trick is lots and lots of pages of content, and that means oh-so-much writing. I don’t think I can pump out three decent articles per day on this new site, and keep up with other sites I have to write content for.
My initial idea [...]

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The click fraud scandals continue to grow with an article in BusinessWeek online. It begins with a case study about Martin Fleischman, an entrepreneur who believes he lost $100,000 in advertising revenue to false clicks during the past three years, due to organized clicking via “paid to read” scams. Here’s how it works:
“It’s [...]

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Yeah, okay, I have plenty of ads around here. I am, after all, trying to make a living online.  But all my ads are obviously ads.  I’m not fond of people who substitute Google AdSense for the site menu, thus tricking people who don’t know better into making false clicks for them.  I never would [...]

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I downloaded and read for myself the Death of Adsense report by Scott Boulch that’s been getting talked about on a lot of blogs lately.  For me, a lot will depend on part 2 of the report, which should be available tomorrow.  But it’s one of those things that’s worth reading, if only so you [...]

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Did the title make you think I’d found some?  Oh, hell no.  Not at any price.  It’s just a fantasy I like to drool over from time to time.
Hey, here’s a sort of philosophical Zen question in the form of a math story problem: when you’re in the middle of working on your site, and [...]

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There’s some interesting stuff going on around the web. Since I can’t cover these items as well as other bloggers are doing, I thought I’d just give a link to their articles instead:
A Belgium news service is suing Google for linking to their web pages without paying them for the content. Here in [...]

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