Interviewed by Google

December 22nd, 2008

Today I was interviewed by Google.  It was from the press team, specifically the Adsense press team.  They basically wanted to ask about how I got started, how I plan to proceed, how Google has helped me, etc.  It was for their “success stories” page.  So I may potentially be on there sometime soon.  It [...]

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Beginning an Adwords Campaign - Tip #1

December 20th, 2008

When building a PPC campaign with Adwords, it can be frustrating making it work. My first tip is this:
Make sure your ads are approved. Google reviews ads that are posted, and if your ad doesn’t comply, it will be disapproved. You may not even noticed that it is disapproved until you actually go [...]

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Google Adsense/Analytics Integration, and Ad Manager Updates

December 18th, 2008

Today I was pleasantly surprised to finally have my Adsense account hooked up to my Analytics account. A couple months ago, Google announced that they would allow certain users to merge their Adsense and Analytics accounts to make the better of their ad performance. Today, mine was activated. I haven’t had the [...]

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Using Google Calendar to Manage Ads

November 15th, 2008

I noticed that I would often place direct ad sales on various parts of my webpage and then I would forget when to take them down since I had so many.  I then thought of simply using Google Calendar to manage my ads.
Whenever I place an ad, I simply create an event in my calendar [...]

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New : Google Video Chat in Google Chat

November 14th, 2008

Google just came out with an awesome video chat that goes along with the already popular Google Chat.
Check out all the details and the demo video here.
Enjoy.

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Increased Google Rank

November 10th, 2008

A little over a week ago, I mentioned how one of my sites was ‘de-ranked’ from Google.  The site in particular was making a decent amount of advertising money from Adsense.  The earnings dropped by around 70% once the search engine traffic went away, since the SE traffic was a large portion of the site.
Since [...]

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vBulletin Forum and SEO Techniques

November 6th, 2008

I have ran several large forums over the last several years, many of which have been powered by vBulletin. Here I will provide some tips in regards to search engine optimization, and getting traffic to the forum.
Firstly, I think vBSEO is a joke. vBSEO is software you can buy which basically rewrites all [...]

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My All-time Adsense Earnings

November 2nd, 2008

Here is a capture of my Adsense earnings since I started using it awhile back.  It isn’t much, but it is definitely something to work off of:

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Search Engine De-Ranking - Google

November 1st, 2008

One of my sites that has been ranked #1 in Google for a certain phrase for the last 2 years was de-ranked by around 15 slots a couple days ago. I really had no idea why this would be, but it did have a pretty big impact on the traffic to the site. [...]

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A note from Google Adsense

October 30th, 2008

I received this email from Google about 30 minutes ago. I’m assuming it is sent out to all publishers. But it’s nice to see an update from Google regarding the economy:
“Dear Publisher,
We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers. During these difficult [...]

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