Over the last few months I’ve been running adsense on a wide variety of sites with varying degrees of success. I have been using adsense since the program first launched, but I’ve been using it on a wider variety of sites over the last few months.
One thing I have noticed is that although higher levels of traffic help it is not the deciding factor.
Has anyone else noticed similar trends?
A possible explanation is the topics themselves which give higher payouts per keyword.. but even then that would not explain the overall results, as I don’t have any sites or pages that lend themselves to the really high paying keywords
Things I have noticed:
Forums do not pay out as well as normal pages
Blending pays dividends
Adsense for search does not work (at least for me)
Text links are more popular than I would have thought even when it is blatantly obvious that they are not part of the site’s navigation
The competitive filter may take hours to update

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I was brought up in a household where newspapers were bought and read regularly. Nowadays I usually buy at least one Sunday newspaper, while I read a certain amount of news online.
Whenever there is a big news story you can expect bloggers to reference “authorative” sources, such as newspapers, be they Irish or international. However the reverse is not true. Irish newspapers do not seem to care about the blogging community.
Earlier today I came across a post on Frank Michlick’s blog which referenced the Washington Post. The Washington Post, in turn, embeds a little box into the article:

Not only do they track which blogs are talking about the article they also encourage you to bookmark it using delicio.us
Now why can’t Irish newspapers do the same thing?
Considering that most of them sell advertising space on their sites, wouldn’t it be a good thing if they were able to generate more traffic?

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I’ve just made available a few desktop wallpapers with Blacknight branding
We were getting them done for the office pcs anyway, so I thought I’d give them away also…

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While doing some a random search on Amazon today I found this book
There isn’t a lot of information about it, but according to the publishers, it will have enough so that:

• Readers will learn how to get the most out of their blogs and Web sites using the advanced power of WorldPress 2.
• Provides complete instructions for installing, using, and customizing WordPress for beginning and intermediate users.

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A lot has been written about optimising blogs for maximum revenue. I’ve reviewed a couple of WordPress themes that may be of interest.

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Bank of Ireland’s online banking service has been targetted by a phishing attack.
In common with many of the previous phishing attacks against Irish financial institutions the fraudsters fall down on the cultural issues by their misspelling of the month “April” (they used “Aprill”)
The phish site itself (http://www.365online.com.cg1-bin.com/BankofIreland/banking.html ) is quite simple and asks you to enter ALL of your details before redirecting you to the BOI main site!
Hopefully the site will be taken down quickly

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The ICT Expo is on next Thursday and Friday in the RDS. I’ll be there on the Friday for most of the day, as I am giving a talk in the afternoon on Open Source software in the enterprise.
If you’re going to be around during the day let me know

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I just installed one of the nightly builds on a new blog and it all works perfectly. No issues with permalinks. No weirdness with templates (at least not with the ones I’ve tried so far). No strange things with posts.
The new features that will be included in the upcoming release are not going to be groundbreaking, but they will improve some areas.
I haven’t been keeping up with the wp-testers list, but from some basic initial testing it looks like they’ve sped up quite a bit of the code, so the page I am currently viewing (for editing a new post) should render in about half the time.

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Ken has setup a Frappr group for Irish Linux users (aka ILUGers)
Nice idea

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Frank Michlick, in his most recent article, explains the concept of “traffic testing” domains:

A list of domain names is registered for a period from 1-5 days and then deleted again if the amount of traffic (or income) has not reached a certain threshold. Some of the testers will display a ‘parked page’ with PPC advertising and some of them will just display an empty page during the testing period.

So which domains are they testing this with? Previously owned ones seems to be the answer.
So if you let your domain get deleted and it has traffic, then you can kiss it goodbye …….

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