A new release of Wordpress 2.3 was shipped last night. One of the features it sports is:
Our new update notification lets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to our new api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you what the latest and greatest is you can use.
Google’s deal with News Corp. (NWS) guarantees $900 million over three years for the right to sell AdSense and provide search on MySpace and the other Fox Interactive Media properties (IGN, Fox Sports and now Photobucket.) Although it still hasn’t been formally signed, it started kicking in last year, and is now expected to account for half of MySpace’s growth this year.
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What is the first thing you would do if you accidentally clicked your own Adsense ads that are displayed on your website? As an honest Adsense publisher, you are likely to send an email to Google Adsense support with the URL of the web page where you clicked your own ads and probably the reason (like the mouse was so sluggish).
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Google has been has been intently focused on click fraud for years, but has done a piss-poor job of communicating this. Its communications strategy has effectively been to say, "Click fraud’s not a problem, third-party auditors like ClickForensics don’t know what they’re talking about, and if you don’t just take our word for it we’re not going to bother to explain ourselves." Finally, however, the company appears to have gotten as wise about this communications challenge as it has about others.
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If you run a popular, information-rich website or blog, you can earn money from the growing online advertising market. You don’t even need to approach advertisers. Simply run pay-per-click ads provided by search engines such as Google and Yahoo on your website. You’ll earn money every time a visitor clicks on an ad. Google AdSense is one such way of monetising your site.
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There are about 6.6 billion people in the world and about half that many mobile phone subscriptions. Better still, ad blocking on mobile handsets isn’t an issue. At least not yet. Publishers of Web sites designed for viewing on mobile phones now have the option to make some money through Google (GOOG)’s AdSense program. Google on Tuesday announced the availability of AdSense for Mobile, its service for placing contextual ads with mobile Web content.
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Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in 1979 and again with ReplayTV in 2001. Tomorrow’s legal fight may be over Web browser add-ons that let people avoid advertisements. These add-ons are growing in functionality and popularity, which has led legal experts surveyed this week by CNET News.com to speculate about when the first lawsuit will be filed.
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Given that most of Google’s $13 billion in revenue comes from clicks on ads, you would think the words "click fraud" would inspire fear in Shuman Ghosemajumder, the company’s senior product manager and resident click-fraud czar. But the problem–publishers who inflate pay-per-click ad fees with automatic clicking software–doesn’t fluster Ghosemajumder or other Googlers.
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Q:I’m thinking of starting a blog and am curious about selling advertising on it. Do bloggers make much money from ads? How would I go about selling ads on my site? I have a full-time job, so I don’t need to make a living off of this, but it would be great to bring in a few extra bucks.
A: From a business point of view, there are two reasons to start a blog. One is as a marketing tool to bring exposure, credibility and clientele to an existing business - for instance, using a blog about gardening to promote a local plant nursery.
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Yahoo Inc announced on Wednesday an exclusive partnership with Bebo to manage display advertising on the social networking Web site in Britain and Ireland, giving it access to more than 11 million sought-after users. The two groups said under the agreement Yahoo would sell the majority of the display and video advertising on Bebo, the UK and Ireland’s most popular social networking site. The site has an estimated 11.6 million users in the two countries and 38 million users worldwide.
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Google is being sued in an Australian court for "potentially misleading consumers," reports News.com.au. At issue are the sponsored ad spots Google sells at the top of some search results above the first organic result. The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) alleges that Google has encouraged deceptive practices among businesses by selling the advertising in that top position on its search results pages, while telling consumers that its results are organic.
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There was a time when companies could simply boot up a Web site and their content would immediately begin showing up in various search engines. For better or worse, those days are long gone. To have content displayed, corporations need to understand what the search engines are looking for and then provide it to them. If one company does not want to do that, a competitor certainly will.
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It is so easy to make money with a blog. Whether the purpose of your blog is to get traffic to your sales page or to sell affiliate products or to get Adsense clicks, getting your blog onto the first page of Google can be done quickly and easily. Using the following quick tips you could get listed on the first page of Google for some keywords within a month or two, depending on how competitive your niche is.
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Like it or not, many blogs survive thanks to Google AdSense - a fact that’s leading some to debate the use of ad blocking software. However, implementing and tweaking AdSense ads on a Wordpress blog can be tedious. We’ve gathered 17 Wordpress plugins which help you implement, control and overview AdSense ads on your blog. (more…)
If you log into your AdSense console now, you’ll see that a new section called Allowed Sites has been added to the AdSense Setup tab, right after the competitive ad filter…The allowed sites feature is something for which AdSense publishers have long been clamoring, the ability to give Google the list of sites on which they’re displaying ads.
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