Our sister blog, TechSoapBox has put up a post regarding made for adsense sites, also known as just MFA sites, have started to be replaced by MFL sites, or made for linkbait.
A Google search for Made for Adsense incidentally has a Wikipedia entry on scraper sites as the #1 result. Definitely not a popular [...]

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For those that use the Adsense Beautifier plugin for their WordPress blogs, they might find themselves a little disappointed, as Google has changed the rules when it comes to images next to their advertisements.
The two most important points are:
Can I place small images next to my Google ads?
We ask that publishers not line up images [...]

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Steve Rubel is shaking things up with his recent post entitled “The Imminent Demise of the Page View” where he talks about how many large sites are still wrapped up in the idea of page views being a marketable metric. Thanks to AJAX and Flash technologies, users have to load full pages less and less, [...]

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Darren Rowse has posted about increasing Google Adseense advertisement relevancy on his blog Problogger.net.
He looks at things like Section Targeting, Metatags, Keywords, Content, Titles, Sidebars, Pictures and finally Contacting Adsense.
My favourite would have to be Section Targeting:
AdSense acknowledge the problem of irrelevant ads and have come up with a way of helping their ‘bots’ [...]

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Abe Olandres gives a few tips on optimizing your blog if you’re just starting out with AdSense. The guide focuses on the fundamentals and is meant for those bloggers still new to contextual and pay-per-click advertising. Still, it’s a useful reference for those of us with a bit more experience in blog monetization, especially if [...]

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It is always nice to get notices about what is going on with a company that directly effects your income, as Patrick Gavin did by recently sending out an e-mail to Text Link Ads members letting them know they were aquired by MediaWhiz.
He also lets us all know how the changes will effect TLA members [...]

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Jamsi, of Work Boxers, has a post up talking about his recent experiences in link exchanging, and how impersonal some people are when requesting such an exchange.
He points out one that he recently got that is a great example of how not to do it:
To Whom It May Concern:
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Darren over at Problogger, got his first payment from Performancing Partners, a new ad network that has been getting a fair bit of buzz.
He mentions that he only got mid-three figures with the network so far, but I think that’s pretty great for a first month, and while that might be down from other [...]

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If you are one of the few people that is currently using Bloggers new beta version, you can now add Adsense ads to your blog easily using the AdSense widget.

1. First, log into the new version of Blogger with your Google Account. Click on the Layout link next to the blog where you’d like [...]

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Liz Strauss realized something in her recent accidental click on an advertisement: it’s not such a bad thing.
Her first reaction though was somewhat different.
The second the ad came up, I automatically looked away. NO! I’m not an ad clicker. No, no no! I needed out of there right away!
I looked around for a witness to [...]

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John Chow, becoming more and more well known to me over the last while has decided to take the time to compile a list of all the advertising opportunities that a blogger might want to research and be part of.
He not only breaks them up into different categories, but does not use any affiliate links [...]

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On Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense, there is a post about how having too much content can actually cause problems with your adsense ads.
Adsense detects what type of ads to display by analyzing the content on the page for keywords. If you have too much content on your site from varying categories, [...]

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If you are trying to make some money off your blog, it can be very difficult, and sometimes it does not even seem worth the time, effort or sometimes money to make things happen in that respect, but Dumb Little Man has a post up listing over fourty companies, affiliate programs and whatnot that could [...]

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Over on Jensense, and interesting little tech tidbit popped up. It seems Norton Internet Security does not like Google’s new video advertisements, going so far as popping up a medium risk intrusion attempt alert.
This is bad, as some less tech savvy people will think that your site is trying to intrude on their computer, [...]

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ReviewMe is going to be an attempt to try to fix some of the problems associated with other pay-per-post services by making sure that their are two ground rules:
1.) You have to disclose you are being paid for the post.
2.) You don’t have to make the post positive.
While I think disclosure is great, they seem [...]

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