Written on April 22nd, 2006 at 03:04 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense adds More Custom Reports?

Adsense 6 comments

Another AdSense change (or at least I think it is) is that they seem to have added to the number of allowable ‘custom reports’. I’ve not seen any announcement of this but today I have the option to add new reports and the last time I checked (a week or so ago) I’d reached my […]

Written on April 22nd, 2006 at 01:04 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense add Site Flavoured Search

Adsense 7 comments

Also announced by AdSense today on their What’s New page is a new search feature - Site-Flavoured Search which allows you to ‘provide search that is tailored to your site’s topics and themes’.

The AdSense team go on to explain that you won’t notice any visible changes to your search features on your blog but over […]

Written on April 22nd, 2006 at 01:04 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Expand Rectangle Image Ad Options

Adsense 3 comments

AdSense have expanded the number of ad formats that you can now have image ads in by allowing the Square (250 X 250) and Large Rectangle (336 X 280) formats to now have image ads in addition to the text ads that they were limited to previously. They’re yet to update this information on their […]

Written on April 22nd, 2006 at 10:04 am by Darren Rowse

Yutter · RSS/Blog Subscription Service

Blogging Tools and Services 5 comments

The last couple of months have seen a load of new blog tools on the market to help bloggers send out their RSS feed via email and today I heard about another one - Yutter · RSS/Blog Subscription Service.

Their site doesn’t give you a load of information without signing up first but it seems to […]

Written on April 21st, 2006 at 10:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Send Your Readers Deeper Into Your Blog

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 6 comments

Liz over at Successful Blog has started up a new page on her blog for New Bloggers. It’s a useful collection of her posts on topics relevant for newbies.

It’s also a good example of creating a page that draws first time readers deeper into your blog. It can be done on any blog regardless of […]

Written on April 21st, 2006 at 06:04 pm by Darren Rowse

The Changing Web

Pro Blogging News 5 comments

Steve writes a good post reflecting upon the transient nature of the web.

I’m constantly amazed by how fast things in our world are changing - particularly in the space I spend so much time ‘the web’.

Just three and a half years ago all I ever did online was chat on IRC chat rooms, search for […]

Written on April 21st, 2006 at 03:04 pm by Darren Rowse

Yahoo! Publisher Network Blog

Yahoo Publishing Network 0 comments

Another older piece of news that I missed while away last week:
YPN have launched a blog for their YPN publishers.

Give publishers – you folks – a voice in the evolution of the Yahoo! Publisher Network and its products.
Build a place where you can come and learn about the latest updates and enhancements to the Network
Showcase […]

Written on April 21st, 2006 at 09:04 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense Announce Text Links for Referrals

Adsense 4 comments

AdSense have just announced something that a lot of publishers were calling for after the launch of their Referral system - the ability to use text links for referrals. Up to this point they’ve only allowed publisher to use graphic links/buttons to send traffic to them but now text links are allowed.

Before you get too […]

Written on April 21st, 2006 at 09:04 am by Darren Rowse

Digg Deception

Pro Blogging News 12 comments

There’s lots of buzz around today over Suspicious Digging, Digg Corruption and Digg Fraud.

Unfortunately when a site has the combination of loads of traffic and user generated content there will always be people around trying to abuse the system. A lot of the debate is around Digg’s responsibility and the tension that they face between […]