Chitika, tools and stuff

by Sapphire (November 8, 2005)

Couple of random things to note today. One is that Chitika seems to be performing pretty well, so I added it to another site. Part of my income is coming from a referral (thanks, whoever you are!) and part is coming from straight clicks on my site. I know you’re supposed to shove the ads right into the blog entries, and maybe I should try that, but to me as a reader, it’s off-putting and irritating. Am I weird? I would never click something while in the middle of reading an article.

And am I the only person who’s had over 1,000 clicks to MaxBounty campaigns and not a dime of revenue? I know people who make payout pretty much monthly with those guys, but I think it’s all a case of MB having merchants that really fit their sites (which are quite different from any of mine, appealing to a totally different audience). Maybe it’s something I’m doing wrong. Hmm.

I’ve been looking for some cool tools, and apparently I’m suffering once again from my DaVinci-esque “visionary ahead of her time” karma: what I’m looking for doesn’t exist. :theatrical sigh: Of course, where my resemblence to DaVinci ends is: he coulda just built it himself. My main pursuit at the moment is some kind of script that will read all of my domain’s pages and extract the outbound links in clickable form, so I can just go down a list and visit all of them, making sure they’re things I want to link to. This would be SO helpful for directories and whatnot. It’s one thing to run a check to make sure none of your links are dead: but how do you know the page hasn’t been redirected to a porn site since you last checked?

If I find anything, I will definitely let you guys know. I did find one program (not free) that scans all your outbounds and compiles a non-clickable list of them with their pageranks, but as far as I can tell, any automated pagerank script is against Google’s TOS. Besides, I’ve seen some obviously spammy sites have decent pagerank, so I want to be a little more vigilant than that. I’ve also found a few sites that’ll scan each page of your site individually and compile a list of links, but it’s actually quicker to just do it myself, page by page.

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