Now, it’s easier than ever to have websites up and running. You can just setup a blog at blogger.com for free. Or you can spend some $20 to buy a domain name, get a cheap web hosting and install free ready-made scripts like Wordpress, phpbb, oscommerce, joomla, etc. Some web hosting sites even made the […]

It is bound to happen one day. As click-fraud issues mounting up, AdSense is moving towards affiliate marketing style, introducing cost-per-action ads.
David Jackson of SeekingAlpha reports that Google is inviting a selected group of AdSense webmasters to test out the new “Cost-Per-Action” (CPA) ads. Quoting reprint of Google’s mail:
How do I get paid?
You get paid […]

With Google rolling out Google Checkout (known also as GBuy, Google Purchase, or Google Wallet ) next week, one question lingers. Will Google integrate Checkout to AdSense payment?
Publishers has long requested Google to add Paypal as a payment option for AdSense, in addition to the cheque or direct bank transfer option currently available. The answer […]

It sure seems like easy money nowadays. You register for a free account at blogger, copy good contents from other sites, put in AdSense code, and there you go earning money from other people’s content.
Are you doing that? Proud of that? Let me tell you something. Your days are numbered. I mean your AdSense days. […]

Last week, Seth Jayson writes about how Google is killing the Internet. The Motley Fool article has sparked up the discussion and catch attention of many in the Net.
TechDirt writes about it, Scott Karp says that Google is killing Internet’s economics of content, Dave Winer thinks it is changing the world in a right […]

Before the dust even settled down on Google Video Ads, TechShout reports to have spotted new AdSense ads format.
In the latest AdSense ad format three regular text ads are placed on the top and right below them running are the adlink ad units. These new ad formats were seen in Medium Rectangle (300 x 250) […]

Guillaume wrote about ADS-click, the latest in the game of Pay-Per-Click advertising.
ADS-click offers automated contextually targeted advertising similar to the ones from Google (AdWords and AdSense) or Yahoo ( Yahoo Search Marketing / Overture and Yahoo Publisher Network). But unlike AdSense or YPN, this do-it-yourself solution let you to keep the most/ all of the […]

Still thinking to cheat AdSense? Stop that. It will never bring you anywhere. You might pull it off with smaller ads network, but definitely not with Google. Here are some detection methods they might use. At the very least, they have the resources to do so.
IP Address
If the AdSense click is originated from the same […]

JanSense wrote about AdImpact’s implementation of AdSense ads. It places an AdSense ad unit in a floating yellow image that looks very much like a Post-It note. As the user scrolls, the ad floats down the screen, in the same ad position. AdImpact claims this implementation increase conversion (click-rate) by 300%.
Personally, I never likes […]

More often than not, a great deal of efforts is put to write articles. Doesn’t it just piss you off when you see them appear on other sites without your knowledge?
I don’t mind if they quote a portion of it, and link it back to the original article. In fact, I’ll even encourage that. Call […]