I ranted a bit when BlogHer launched their ad network for women in early May this year – citing the multitude of newly launched ad networks rushing to grab a share of online advertising dollars.
Now that I think about it, that rant probably wasn’t very fair, so here’s me being objective on BlogHer’s recent [...]

Crazy Egg – a click tracking service with all the fluffy features demanding publishers will love – just launched today. It isn’t the first entry in this space, with a (completely or very much) similar service in clickdensity (available to the public since June), plus semi-similar services in Google Analytics (has a Site Overlay feature, [...]

Performancing has officially launched its latest service, Performancing Exchange (PE), in its quest for world blogosphere domination. Basically, it’s supposed to be “…a classifieds style marketplace for the professional blogging community…” where everything from blog auctions, paid blogging stints, partnerships and services can be advertised.
But for the most part (currently at least), it’s a job [...]

I’m not sure if you’ve heard it yet, but Google is now allowing the search results of your AdSense search boxes to open in a page on your own blog. But even after following the official instructions in the AdSense Help Center, I can’t get it to work on this blog. I’m getting a blank [...]

If you had any doubts at all on the benefits of performing search engine optimisation (SEO) to gain top search engine rankings, the results from informal data analysis on AOL search query data leaked less that a week back will surely convince you otherwise. Why? ‘Cos there’s one heck lot of traffic waiting for you. [...]

… or is it? But whatever it is, I’ve been sucked into the latest viral fad, where for US$1, you can buy an online certificate that says you’re really awesome stuff. blogHelper’s certificate is right here, but you’d be more interested in some of the blogosphere’s bigger fish they’ve managed to catch.
The advantages of parting [...]

If you haven’t already read August 2006’s State of the Blogosphere report (or have no intention to), here’s a short summary:

T’rati hit 50 million tracked blogs in July 2006, a whole 34% more than in the last State of the Blogosphere report in April. This means that the blogosphere is now 100 times larger than [...]

During the blog monetization session over at the currently-running WordCamp 2006, Kevin Burton of TailRank raised (yet again) the issue of Text Link Ads (aff link) being a form of domain spam, a.k.a. black hat SEO.
This issue isn’t new, and seems to repeat itself in yearly cycles, but for those who’re new to it, [...]