I just started running BlogHer CPM ads on Project B-2 Bomber, and I think this is the revenue source that site has been looking for since day one. As you may recall, that site’s in a tight niche that’s not overwhelmingly attractive to every advertiser, but it gets 15k visitors per month and is growing [...]

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I don’t know what the problem is, but this summer my subdomains keep winking out and then coming back online. It happens on more than one host: they’ll be working fine, then suddenly I get “cannot find server” errors for one subdomain or another on a site that’s otherwise working fine.
This is really hitting Project [...]

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I exchanged some emails with my Azoogle account manager. I got a good explanation as to why I was getting clicks on campaigns I hadn’t signde up for (international visitors get redirected to those when they’re in countries that can’t participate in the offer I signed up for). I also got some reasonable suggestions about [...]

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Every month I get 600+ clicks at Azoogle.Every month I earn not one penny - never, ever have I earned a thing.Every month, I see clicks in my account on ads I would never have installed on a site. (ETA: my account manager informs me this is because international visitors are sometimes redirected to other [...]

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And I thought I was having a bad week, net-wise.
Google accidentally deletes own blog as spam
Not surprisingly, the news comes from Yahoo. Let’s all join them in pointing, laughing and enjoying a sense of momentary superiority!

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Yesterday was a nightmare.
Most of my blogs were working just fine. This one and B-2 worked fine for users - the problem was I couldn’t log into the Wordpress admin at all (strangely, the subdomain blogs on B-2 would still let me log in). I did lots of things to try to fix it, from [...]

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I did some assessing this weekend, and here’s what I came up with.
Project Mai Tai has some real potential. So does B-2 Bomber. So, I suspect, does this other project I’ve not even started on, but been wanting to for a while, which I’m going to call Project Sunshine. Also, I’m in talks with a [...]

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ETA: the “second method” I mention for blocking referral spammers may have caused my site some problems. Read about it here.
The second method I outlined for blocking referral spammers from your site seems to be working perfectly. No need to block IPs that might be spoofed or have decent visitors to send. Just a simple [...]

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ETA: this method for blocking referral spammers may have caused my site some problems. Read about it here.
The approach of blocking IPs to keep out the barrage of referral spammers hitting some of my sites lately had mixed results. So I found another method which I’m trying. It looks foolproof, but I’ll report in a [...]

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I’m not a big fan of blocking IPs from my sites, but when you get hundreds of referral spams from a handful of sites, all with very similar IPs, and all strictly containing domains that look suspicious, I resort to IP Deny.
I’m currently getting a ton of poker and gambling referral spams to B-2 Bomber [...]

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