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The idea of passive income is obviously one that many people strive for - and it’s a term that I’ve heard used many times to describe online income streams - including blogging. Unfortunately I wouldn’t use the term passive income to describe blogging for money.
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I’m often asked about how Google and search engines work. One key question is: how does Google know what parts of a website the site owner wants to have show up in search results? Can publishers specify that some parts of the site should be private and non-searchable? The good news is that those who publish on the web have a lot of control over which pages should appear in search results.
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Are you using Google Adsense to monetize your blog or website ? Is your Adsense implementation effective enough to bring in more revenue than just pocket-money. If the answer is no, here are some optimization suggestions for you. (more…)

The biggest fear I hear over and over again is that people do not want to upgrade because they are afraid their WordPress Plugin won’t work. This is a good example of how important WordPress Plugins are to our WordPress blogs, as well as how dependent we’ve become on them.
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We wanted to give a quick update about "Googlebombs." By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return commentary, discussions, and articles about the Googlebombs instead. The actual scale of this change is pretty small (there are under a hundred well-known Googlebombs), but if you’d like to get more details about this topic, read on.
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From Blog Ads to IntelliTXT to Google AdSense to ReviewMe, there’s a bountiful array of ad revenue streams for smalltime bloggers and site publishers. Enter yet another: AdVolcano. The online ad marketplace aims to complement the growing auto-ad options; in fact, it’s using some of those similar services to promote itself.
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As I ventured into the wonderful world of making some money online, there have been a lot of coverage on Google Adsense and how for so many webmasters it is the most recommended source of revenue for the past few years since its inception. Being a person who always prefers to take the road most traveled and proven, I’ve implemented Adsense to all my blogs as well.
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One part of the recent Wikipedia rel=nofollow hullabaloo which didn’t get enough play, in my opinion, was Shelley Powers’ suggestion that Google remove Wikipedia from their search results entirely, and perhaps add them as a sidebar to every search. This would certainly cause much rejoicing amongst SEO professionals who fight with Wikipedia for top billing on almost every worthwhile search phrase, but what would the discussion be like if Matt Cutts and a bunch of Googlers sat round a table and jawed it over?
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I know, it’s a ballsy headline, but I’m tired of hearing all of the script kiddies on Digg scoff at Wordpress, blaming it for sites crashing from the “Digg Effect.” Drupal, Movable Type and others all have similar problems, but there’s a lot of people saying you should never Digg a Wordpress site because it will always crash. Wordpress needs a little tweaking, but for the most part, it’s the server configuration that is to blame. Maybe the new release of Wordpress will improve on some of the caching issues, but from what I can tell, it mostly improves on aspects of Wordpress that I don’t use anyway (draft saving, image handling, modules, etc.).
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We all know that the power of Google is omnipresent, right? That’s a given. Zillions of people search Google.com googillions of times a day, creating search engine-driven traffic to sites and blogs the world over. That many millions of dollars exchange hands due to these actions, via Google Adwords and Adsense and advertising on referral websites, is a mysterious thing and a fountain of wealth for those who get it right.
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Apparently, advertisers are avoiding advertising blog networks and using Google to advertise on leading blogs. We noticed a number of brands were appearing on PSFK’s site that hadn’t been bought through our rep, Federated Media - and when we looked into it, we found that the advertisers had booked Google AdSense ads that run in rotation in the unsold inventory. What the advertisers are doing are buying site specific Google ads: in other words, they say ‘run this ad on this site’ to Google.
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This article is written to highlight that your AdSense revenues could be hijacked, quiet easily too and my main aim here is to suggest ways to stop it happening. I do not condone this. It’s not acceptable behaviour from any responsible web practitioner. Putting the theory here in to practice in the real world would be an outright breach of Google AdSense TOS. Don’t do it but do protect yourself from what dark forces could be up to.
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Linkbaiting is one of the oldest tricks in the book, as SEOs would say. But the problem is getting big today because social bookmarkers and social news sites are being gamed for linklove’s sake. Take DIGG, for example. I’ve been noticing blogs that mostly publish made-for-DIGG headlines and articles.
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Microsoft last week invited its top advertisers to Redmond to dazzle them with the latest and greatest bits of its adCenter advertising platform and emerging projects from its adCenter Labs (adLabs) testing grounds. A new release of adCenter is expected in the next 2 months, with many of the new features resulting from testing and customer feedback collected through adLabs. The update will contain some small usability fixes, and mark a pilot release of Microsoft Content Ads, the new contextually-targeted ad program that shows text ads on sites on Microsoft-owned sites.
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First though, it’s notable to point at the progress the entire WordPress community has made in the last year since 2.0 was released. Many things, such as themes, have been improved upon. For instance, theme authors can take advantage (and now do!) of screenshot.png, a screenshot image that can be included in a theme folder that provides a visual representation of what the theme is. This ability was implemented in 2.0 but since most themes were designed for WordPress 1.5 at the time, most themes did not have this feature implemented.
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