The most recent Gallup Lifestyle Survey reports that growth in the number of US blog readers was zero, or perhaps even negative. But that probably isn’t as bad as it sounds given that the survey’s results also showed that Americans’ overall online habits haven’t changed much over the past two years.
Then there is the increase […]

If you log into Chitika, you will notice that Chitika is promoting their recent released Category Hints feature. More specifically, they are promoting the Seasonal Specials category and Popular Items category - both of which display the latest and most popular items, by season or by account/network, respectively.
Check out the screenshot below:

But I haven’t found […]

Over at Inside Adsense (the official Adsense blog), a concise explanation of how Ad Rank - a value which is used to determine the order adverts are displayed on your blog - is calculated. Fundamentally, adverts that have the highest Ad Rank will be displayed on your site.
Now, I think it was never a secret […]

AdBlock seems to be a dangerous tool indeed - one that even I have installed. When I talked about how much advertising is too much recently, I might have been jumping the gun entirely as that subject might be a rather worthless one in a couple of years. And you might ask: Why the pessimistic […]

As web publishers, or more specifically, bloggers, we always try to balance advertising and our visitors’ visual (and overall) experience. Too little advertising and you’re not monetizing your blog to the fullest, too much advertising and you’re alienating your visitors. But how much advertising is a lot, and what factors would you use to determine […]

The falling through of The Blog Herald’s sale was hinted to a while back, but only now do we have confirmation of this.
But the end of this phase of TBH’s sale is the beginning of the next:
At this stage we are going to a public auction tomorrow (my time, Monday US Time).
And if the public […]

There have been a large number of posts on this topic in 2005, covering a wide scope. You have ProBlogger on this subject, with the comments section of that post being almost as useful as the original post itself. Darren has his own take on this, with quantity and quality being equally important (at least […]

You just have to check out this Photoshop tutorial over at Performancing, authored by Wayde Christie - the winner of the recent Performancing banner design competition. Why? Because it is an easy-to-understand tutorial on designing an excellent 160 x 160 banner. If you haven’t seen it, here it is:

Simple, professional and elegant are probably the […]