Archive for August, 2005

Lost Your Adsense Check? No Problem.

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

The question of “what to do in case of losing your million $$ Adsense check?” came up in a forum post at DigitalPoint. The answer, aparently is very simple. Alph wrote:

I’ve had a check get lost in the mail. You have to wait 30 days from issue date, then contact them and they will issue […]

Yahoo’s Ad System Down

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Yahoo! is aparently having some problems with their ad system. It’s been reported that their site is currently down and has been down for the past 3 days.
After a weekend upgrade, Yahoo’s search engine ad system first slowed to a crawl, and then went belly up on Monday, preventing marketers from making changes to their […]

Get Your Blog on MSNBC’s Newsbot List

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

SEO Weblog points out for a list of MSNBC’s news sources, crawled to provide news to both MSN news and MSNBC’s news.
If you are not yet on the list, do not underestimate your blog and submit your feed here for inclusion. I cannot even imagine how much traffic one can get being mentioned on one […]

7 Mistakes for your First Week Blogging

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

An interesting post made by Thirty Stories Up named 7 Mistakes for your First Week Blogging lists some of the most common mistakes made by bloggers during their first week of blogging.
It lists:
Day 1: Don’t launch until you have a theme
Day 2: Don’t skip entries
Day 3: Don’t obsess over your stats
Day 4: Proofread!
Day 5: Make […]

Not (Yet) a Pro-Blogger

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

Okay, to the title of this blog is slightly misleading, I am not a Pro-Blogger, not yet at least, nor do I claim to be, not yet at least. However, I am taking my first steps in a long journey to being a Pro-Blogger.
About me:
I started my web career 5 years ago (in 2000), I […]

Jensense.com Talking YPN & AdSense

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

Earlier this week WebmasterRadio featured an interview with Jan of JanSense.com which covered Adsense and the new YPN network.
Darren, posted about the show and includes a bit of pointers named during the show:

Jen said that EPC (earnings per click) is higher than Adsense - probably due to lack of publishers at present.
Both CTR and […]

BlogSmith a New Blog Platform From Weblogs Inc

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc. had announced yesterday that the blog software, which he had developed especially for the Weblogs Inc. network is going on the market.
BlogSmith LLC is to be headed by Gordon Gold, President of Rising Tide Studios/Silicon Alley Reporter and the founder of UPOC and will compete directly against Six Apart […]

Blogger Plugin for MSWord

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Blogger had just introduces a new plugin and toolbar for MSWord, allowing bloggers to blog directly from MSWord.
Now you can use Blogger right within Microsoft® Word. Just download and install the Blogger for Word add-in and a Blogger toolbar will be added to Word allowing you to:
* Publish to your blog
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