Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Blogging| The Web| Web Performance| Work
3 Sep 2008Since I downloaded and started using Chrome yesterday, I have had to rediscover the world of online advertising. Using Firefox and Adblock Plus for nearly three years has shielded from their existence for the most part.
Stephen Noble, in a post on the Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals, seems to discover that Chrome will be [...]
In: smp
6 Oct 2005So, Jeremy turned me on to Chitika this morning, hence the new ads you see.
Turns out that their offices are less than 10 minutes from my house.
Heh.
We will see what the head-to-head comparison between Chitika and AdSense will be.
In: smp
24 Jun 2005I should explain that. I am no longer inserting the blog traffic into my Web server log database. The amount of crap was getting ridiculous, and taking up too much space.
By doing this, I reduced about 50 days of logs from 450,000 rows to 81,000 rows, a better representation of the traffic that my other [...]
In: smp
27 May 2005Just got my happy rejection letter from Google AdSense saying that I don’t qualify for the Feeds Beta.
Couldn’t be happier! Ad-free feeds will continue!
In: smp
25 Apr 2005It’s official: DoubleClick is going private. [here and here]
This will be very interesting, especially as DoubleClick starts to feel the heat from AdSense and Yahoo! and any number of other small players.
I wonder if DoubleClick will be releasing an AdSense product, or if they will focus on their current market?
alarm:clock
The Street
Yes, I have gone with the crazy basic WP-like theme on the blog.
There are some issues with the AdSense locations, and I will need to tweak that a bit, but I like it!
Comments Welcome.
In: Life
4 Mar 2005Today has not been a good day in our house.
Samantha flamed someone from the Canadian Revenue Agency who called us looking for money that they already have in their possession…to the tune of $45K (CDN). They have had our money tied up for a year. And there is little chance that we will see it [...]
In: smp
2 Mar 2005Hmmm…Geek News has a very “open kimono” response to Google on the AutoLink function, raising all of the issues we have had on the back of our minds. [here]
The one about compensation for clicks that drive traffic to Google sites is a good one; like AdSense in reverse.
Maybe it’s time for a few key sites [...]
The Loss of Blogging Voice, or Why I removed the Ads from my Blog
In: Blogging| Commentary| The Web| Web analytics| advertising| analytics| branding| reputation| social media
11 Aug 2009I have had advertising on my blog for as long as I can remember. Except for the period of time when I hosted the site at Wordpress.com, I have always had AdSense, Chitika, or some other ad services content being contextually presented to my visitors.
Frankly, I found having ads up on my site extremely hypocritical, [...]