All Posts Tagged With: "Problogging"
Improve Adsense CTR - Remove Blog Ads
I have an informal partnership with a few blogs, including gHacks, which is run by Martin. A few weeks ago Martin mentioned that he’d improved his CTR by removing all the ‘blog’ related ads that Google tend to display, funnily enough, on blogs.
Last week I finally got around to adding Martin’s list and the [...]
Songbird MP3 Player Beta Coming This Week - Will It Better iTunes?
Songbird are going to launch their beta MP3 player this week, they are just working on the latest set of customisations.
Songbird is based on Firefox and has been created by the team behind Winamp 5 and Y! Music Engine. I really hope that they live up to their promise of delivering new innovative features. [...]
Double AdSense CTR - Use Section Targetting
I’ve read lots of articles on SEO but none of the changes that I’ve made have had the same impact on my CTR as implementing Section Targetting. I added Section Targetting two days ago based on the advice of Matt Cutts from Google and already my CTR rates are up 50%. It will [...]
15Dec2005 | Everton | 12 comments | ContinuedEssential Reading: SEO & Adsense Optimisation Tips From….Google
Finally some SEO advice that can be validated. There are so many ‘experts’ on the subject of SEO that I’m never sure if changes I’ve made are having a positive or negative effect on my rankings.
Well, these tips are definitely bankers as they came out in an interview Matt Cutts, a senior Google engineer [...]
Restoring Old Webpages
Suhasw spotted that one of my old posts has disappeared off my blog. This has happened a few times to me for no apparent reason and it made me think - is there any way of viewing old versions of webpages?
I know that Google operates a cache, but this is no good to me as [...]
More than one iTunes user? Download Libra iTunes library
Lifehacker are promoting an essential iTunes app for shared computers. Libra allows you to manage more than one iTunes music library on one machine by creating, renaming, deleting and activating different libraries, including playlists and preferences.
This is handy if you have a family machine or if you share a computer as each user can [...]
Will We Ever See Free WiFi in the UK?
Engadget reports that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin wants to build a free city-wide WiFi network within a year. San Francisco has also invited tenders for developing a city-wide WiFi network from potential bidders including Google.
These stories, together with a post over the weekend by Scobie about his experiences in London and the lack of [...]
Creating a Google Sitemap - Worth The Investment?
I’ve read a lot of posts about the launch of Google Sitemaps, but I haven’t seen anything in the aftermath confirming if they have had a positive impact on a site’s traffic or not.
For those of you who don’t know what a Google Sitemap is, it is an XML map of a site which [...]
Chitika To Launch Local eMiniMall Ads
Darren Rowse reports that Chitika is on the verge of launching local UK ads, with other European countries to follow, which will hopefully help CTR rates as UK consumers are more likely to click on UK ads.
Does anyone know if the UK ads will be displayed if Chitika spots a UK IP address or will [...]
Songbird - iTunes Beater?
AMCP, one of my new blog discoveries have unearthed a new Media Player designed to rival iTunes called Songbird. Songbird is based on Firefox and has been created by the team behind Winamp 5 and Y! Music Engine.
Although it looks a lot like iTunes (nothing wrong with that) it does offer some notable UI [...]




