Archive for November, 2007

Google Changes AdSense Linking Structure

 
Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger.net has just pointed out that Google will soon be changing the linking structure of AdSense ads. While previously if any part of the ad was clicked the user would be taken to the advertiser’s page, now users must click on the title of the ad or the URL. The image […]


How Much is a Blog Network Worth?

SplashPress Media, a network of blogs and blogging related products and services, recently had a contest to ask how much a blog network was truly worth. (I was a partial winner of the competition) A few good questions were raised in the debate of how much a blog network should truly sell for.
 In my response, […]


Defensio: Another Way to Kill Spam Comments

 
I use Akismet to try and keep this blog and all other blogs I run free of spam comments, but for those who do not use/like Akismet, Defensio is a similar product that attempts to kill blog spam. One the company’s website, it reports a 99.44% accuracy rate, and can easily be used on Wordpress, Drupal, […]


Blog Reviews - WildlifeWorld

OK, so I want to start a new section here where I will review certain blogs and others can ad their suggestions through comments. Real examples are one of the most effective ways to learn, and so this is what these blog reviews will attempt to do. Our first review will be of WildLifeWorld.info, and […]


Donate Rice to the Hungry

I was browsing the net today and I came across FreeRice.com. It is a website that asks users to answer simple vocabulary questions and for each question a user answers correctly, the website donates 10 grains of rice to the United Nations to help end world hunger. While 10 grains may not be much, with […]