As I mentioned in a previous entry I’m sick of AdSense so had started to look around for a replacement. After making a few enquiries I came up with AdBrite

Their ads work a little different to Google’s they are not content specific, instead advertisers bid to have their ads included on your page. They also have a funky feature called ‘in-line’ ads, what happens is that you insert a little javascript into your page body and then certain words get a double underline. When you hover over these words little pop up ads appear, quite cool.

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We have visitors staying with us and they make a lot of noise in the bathroom. They also jump around a lot at night and knock things over in the kitchen. This evening they wouldn’t let Nuth go to the toilet without watching her and once or twice they got a bit too close and she screamed. They also like climbing everywhere, hanging from the ceiling and jumping over your head when you least expect it.

They are tree frogs you see, incredible things, you would not believe a frog could climb like a monkey until you see it. They… Continue reading →

A few years ago I was looking around for a CMS to build a site for a gaming clan. After taking a look at all the major contenders I found a PHP-Nuke fork named Dragonfly. It looked good, it had phpBB integrated as the forum solution which was a big bonus. So I installed it and gave it a chance. What followed was a lot of pain, what looked good on the outside was basically a bunch of code hacks, the theme integration was laughable with 3 separate templates needed, one for the main site, one for the forum and… Continue reading →

6 clickthroughs today in the first hour, they earned me $0.28 in total, what use is that? Google have come out with the new ‘smart pricing’ algorithm which put simply means the more clicks you get the less you get paid!?! What the hell?

I think I’m going to start looking around for a new provider, I really cannot make a living at $0.05 a click. I took a look at Yahoo! Search Marketing but they want at least 20 million (yep you read that right) page views a month minimum before they will accept you.

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I’ve been conducting an experiment for the last week, I have set up a site that re-prints public domain articles and allows discussion of them.The only SEO I have done is make sure the title is relevant for each article, there is so much variation in content it would be impossible to optimise for one or two key phrases per page.

The site is getting traffic but it’s getting traffic on some very odd search terms, this must be due to the fact there is one hell of a lot of content, I’m being returned in SERP on stuff other… Continue reading →