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Infolinks Trial

July 9, 2011

I’m sure that you’ve probably noticed the little underlining under some of the text in the message posts.  It’s pretty hard to ignore, isn’t it?  I’m experimenting with an advertising platform called Infolinks, which specializes in monetizing blogs by delivering relevant advertisements based on the content on the page.  In many ways this is similar [...]

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Google Strikes Again

September 15, 2010

Google Adsense does not like small blogs!  Plain and simple.  It amazes me that there is no real alternative to Adsense.  Yes, if you search for alternatives, you will find some… but none of these are as good as Google claims to be (on paper).  I dabbled with AdBrite last year, and I might end [...]

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Playing with Ads Again

August 22, 2010

You may have noticed the sudden inclusion of advertising again on the blog.  I’m still not convinced that it’s the way to go, but I’m playing around with it, trying out different things.  Placement is key.  By default I had it running down the bottom right, but I don’t think that anyone even scrolls down [...]

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Would You Like to Buy Me a Hot Chocolate?

June 11, 2009

You may have noticed a tiny little coffee cup icon at the bottom of this post. I read about an interesting little plug-in that I’m testing out. It’s called “Buy me a beer”, but since I don’t drink beer, there is an option to change it to a “cafe” as well. I don’t drink coffee [...]

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