I’ve been limbering up for the start of the weekly ‘Pimp My Blog‘ series which starts on Monday (click here to submit your site), and trying to remember all the tricks and tweaks I’ve used over the last 18 months. Here are ten ways in which you can improve your adsense CPMs and CTRs.

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Matthew who installed APC for me has finally cracked (I think) what was causing my site problems over the last two weeks. It looks like over the last two weeks I’ve been under a massive site attack, receiving around 350 spams a minute, that was overloading my server. We think what was happening [...]

I think I’ve found the culprit as the site seems a lot healthier now. I’ve disabled the Reader Posts plugin, which was showing what posts were just read by other users. I think what was happening was that because of the high load my site was under, the list of posts generated by [...]

One of the bloggers that I follow, Russell Beattie, has not only decided to stop accepting comments from readers, but he has even gone as far as to delete all old comments.
Whilst I have to respect his wishes, I can’t imagine ever doing the same on Connected Internet. One of the reasons I’m hooked [...]

Kevin Burton over at Feedblog has written an interesting post about how Google, Yahoo and Microsoft employees are making serious money blogging about their jobs i.e. they get the scoops before anyone else.
He also makes an interesting point that most internal PR teams are quite poor at generating online coverage. I have to say [...]