Google AdSense: Forum optimization study

We are currently working to improve the performance of Google ads on forum
sites and would like to invite you to participate in our forums
optimization study. Participation in the study will include the option for
you to customize your AdSense code to rotate through several positions in
your forums in order to find the best performing position(s). If you are
comfortable with modifying your forum code, you can also extend the
rotation to another targeting option we are beta testing for forums.

found it here:
http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/showthread.php?t=929

Great news for my forum on RockaRolla.gr

Article submission

Here is a list of article submission sites found them here:

http://www.aracontent.com/
http://articleresponder.com/
http://businessknowhow.com/newsletter/articleguidelines.htm
http://cerebuswebmaster.com/onsite/articles/submit_article.html
http://freezinesite.com/articles.cgi?action=add
http://goarticles.com/ulogin.html

http://opportunityupdate.com/articles
http://www.theallineed.com/submit-articles.htm
http://thewhir.com/find/articlecentral/suggest.asp
http://top7business.com/submit/
http://www.1st-in-articles.com/
http://www.addme.com/nlsubmit.htm
http://www.advertisingknowhow.com/
http://www.allnetarticles.com/
http://www.amazines.com/
http://www.aracontent.com/
http://www.articlecentral.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/article_submission.shtml
http://www.articlehub.com/
http://www.articles911.com/
http://www.articletrades.com/
http://www.articlewarehouse.com/
http://www.authorconnection.com/
http://www.boconline.com/sub-art.htm
http://www.business-dynamics.com/resource_library/index.html
http://www.businesstoolchest.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.bytesworth.com/articles
http://www.cerebuswebmaster.com/onsite/articles.html
http://www.certificate.net/wwio/ideas.shtml
http://www.clickforcontent.com/
http://www.clickforcontent.com/cgi-bin/epro/print.pl
http://www.clickz.com/
http://www.connectionteam.com/
http://www.connectionteam.com/submit.html
http://www.digital-women.com/submitarticle.htm
http://www.dime-co.com/articlesub.html
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.expertarticles.com/
http://www.ezine-writer.com.au/
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.ezinetrendz.com/
http://www.family-content.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/submit.asp
http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/submitarticle.asp
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.hitsnclicks.com/contributors
http://www.holisticjunction.com/
http://www.home-business-directory.com/addarticle.htm
http://www.howtoadvice.com/Submit
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/writers.cfm
http://www.learningfolder.com/submitarticle.aspx
http://www.linksnoop.com/
http://www.mailbiz.com/
http://www.makingprofit.com/
http://www.marcommwise.com/
http://www.marketing-seek.com/
http://www.marketing-seek.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.mastersyndicator.com/
http://www.maxebook.com/
http://www.netterweb.com/articles
http://www.netterweb.com/articles/articlesubmit.htm
http://www.opportunityupdate.com/doorwaytosubmit.html
http://www.parentclicks.com/
http://www.powerhomebiz.com/termsofuse/articlesubmission.htm
http://www.profitpage.com/articles.htm
http://www.readycontent.com/
http://www.selfgrowth.com/
http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php
http://www.submityourarticle.com/
http://www.theallineed.com/submit-articles.htm
http://www.thephantomwriters.com/
http://www.top7business.com/
http://www.topica.com/lists/freeezinecontent
http://www.upromote.com/newsletter/submit.html
http://www.vectorcentral.com/
http://www.vectorcentral.com/articles-form.html
http://www.web-source.net/articlesub.htm
http://www.webmasterarticles.net/
http://www.webmasterslibrary.com/submit.shtml
http://www.womans-net.com/
http://www.work911.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.zinos.com/cool/zinos/submitarticle.html
http://www.zongoo.com/

Targeted ads on phpBB forums

In order to avoid ads about phpBB and open source related ads, we're gonna remove from target the Header and the footer of the forum.

You have to make some changes on overal_footer.tpl, overal_header.tpl and viewtopic_body.tpl.

Time: 5 minutes
Diffuculty: Low

Targeted ads on phpBB forums

Joining CO-OP Advertising network

An hour ago I joined DigitalPoint CO-OP Advertising Network with my funny stuff site www.gelio.gr!

I got a 552 weight and start pointing to Sitekeepers blog in order to get some traffic!

If anyone wants to help Sitekeepers, join CO-OP under me:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/?s=20089

New name for mambo

A new name for our project has been chosen.

The new name will be officially announced on Thursday September 1st, 18:00GMT.

1 day, 21 hours, 24 minutes

In order to give those of you with existing *mambo and mambo* domains the opportunity to continue with *newname and newname* we will be providing early notification of the new name.

Those of you with 'mambo' domains that want to receive early notification can fill out the form below.

By completing this form you are agreeing that you will NOT register any newname* or *newname domain that you do not already own the mambo variant of before the public annoucnement of the newname.

Please Note, this form is ONLY for those with mambo domain names that need to secure the appropriate new name version (eg mambohut.com).

Open Source Matters

10-year online anniversary party

Anniversary Party. Free registration codes, competitions, t-shirts, games, photos and many more on http://my.opera.com/community/party/

SURPRISE!!! Free registration codes

Party favors: Get a free Opera registration code by clicking the "go free" button below. We're giving away registration codes for as long as the party lasts!

Opera t-shirts

Promote Opera by wearing the exclusive 10th anniversary t-shirt. Available for a limited time only so act now!

You know you want one...

Anniversary competition

Share your birthday wishes with Opera and win a prize! Use your imagination - the more creative the better. Write a poem, haiku, a story, draw a picture or just something fun. Our 100 favorite submissions will be shared with the Opera community and the winners will receive a super-cool Opera t-shirt!

Note that attachments must be 3MB or less. If your submission is larger than 3MB, please contact us using the inquiry button below. Submissions are due Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.

Photos from the anniversary party

See the faces behind the browser and check out the video and photos from Opera's 10th anniversary party in Oslo, Norway. The video requires the XViD codec.

Browse photos

Play games!

Play one of these fantastic PopCap games! (requires the PopCap plugin)

Play games

and more on http://my.opera.com/community/party/

Grow Your Amazon Revenue with AzAdz

AzAdz is a Fast, FREE and Easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display Amazon unobtrusive product ads on their website's content pages and earn money.

The ads can be categorized by Channels (Products Category) and so you can display only "Electronics" or "Books" ad and so are always related to what you want your users to looking for on your site. If you want to display specific keyword based products than, we do have a facility for you as well, where in your can specify Keyword and a matching Category, and you would get ads based on your criteria. You'll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages. AzAdz is the program that can give you amazon product revenue from each page on your websiteΡwith a minimal investment in time and no additional resources.

Important: AzAdz is not Affiliated or have any concern with Amazon.com

Visit AzAdz

Selling sitewide text links on www.enJoy.gr

powered by linkvendor:

Google	MSN	Yahoo	Ask	Alexa
Links	1.240	1.532	13.600	4	186.512
Pages	567	496	839	1	1.64s
	PR

unique visitors: 350 per day (awstats)
pages: 2500 per day(awstats)
new pages per month: 100

content's description: entertainment guide (music, cinema, pc games, clubbing, theatre, books)
outbound links: 12
slots: 3
price: 12$ per month, 60$ per 6 months
pagerank: 4

Ip to Country

I found an ip to country PHP function on www.freestuff.gr and i would like to share with you.

[code] //What country
/**
* @return void
* @param integer $ip The IP of the visitor
* @desc Searches the server and gets the country code suplied to this ip.
*/
function country(){
$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$nextServer = "whois.ripe.net";
if($nextServer){
$buffer = "";
if(! $sock = fsockopen($nextServer, 43, &$num, &$error, 10)){
unset($sock);
}
else{
fputs($sock, "$ip\n");
while (!feof($sock))
$buffer .= fgets($sock, 10240);
fclose($sock);
}
}
$buffer = str_replace(" ", " ", $buffer);
$msg = nl2br($buffer);
$posun = strpos ($msg, "0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255");
if ($posun>0){
$rest="unknown";
$msg=" ";
}
$posus = strpos ($msg, "Florida");
if ($posus>0){
$rest="US";
$msg="US";
}else{
$pos = strpos ($msg, "country:");
if ($pos>0){
$rest = substr ($msg, $pos+44, 2);
}
$rest=str_replace(" ", "", $rest);
}
$this->country=$rest;
}[/code]

Google Talk

They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world.

Google Talk is in beta and requires a Gmail username and password.

Google talk: http://www.google.com/talk/

10 great blog directories

SynBlog.com - Blog Directory
Pagerank: 4 , Reciprosal link required, mail confirm
All Blogs
Pagerank: 0
Bulletize
Pagerank: 4
Blogbib
Pagerank: 0
Dir Blogflux
Pagerank: 0
Blogsweat
Pagerank: 0 , editor's choice

and some RSS feeds directories which supports atom.xml

2rss
Pagerank: 7, reciprosal link required
Everyfeed
Pagerank: 5
Feed Directory
Pagerank: 6, editor's choice
Read a blog

Happy submitions

AdSense update!

Save time by creating custom reports

We've added one-click access to your favorite advanced reports! You can now save report settings for up to 10 reports, so that you can quickly access the same report at any time from your Custom Reports list on the Overview page.

More channels!

If you weren't sure how you were going to track the performance of all of your new pages, your worries are over! We've increased the number of AdSense channels available to you, up to 200 active channels at any one time. Use your extra channels to compare the performance of your different ad units, of various page layouts, or to track the results of your optimization experiments.

If you'd like to learn more about channels, check out the Channels section of the AdSense Support site.

Find out what your visitors are looking for with AdSense for search

Wondering what your users are searching for on your site? There's now an AdSense for search Top Queries report that will let you do just that. This new report shows you what your users are looking for, by listing the 25 most common searches conducted through your AdSense for search boxes. Use this report to identify additional topics to add to your site, or to keep track of your most sought-after information. Visit our support center to learn more about AdSense for search.

Keep up to date with AdSense

We're excited to let you know about the new AdSense Blog. It's an outlet for our AdSense specialists to share their knowledge of the product, and to announce new features or events. Check back periodically at adsense.blogspot.com to see what's new in the world of AdSense.

Optimizing your ad formats

To increase monetization on your site and improve the relevance of ads, AdSense now varies the number of text ads that appear in a given ad unit. In cases where we determine that increasing the size of the most relevant ads will improve performance, we'll drop the lowest-performing ad or ads and expand the remaining ones to fill the entire unit.

Showing fewer ads works to your advantage, allowing the better-performing ads to draw more user attention and click-throughs. Google AdSense technology will automatically determine the optimal number of ads to display on any page and will only show fewer ads when doing so will make you more money!

original post on: AdSense Support

Google IM Coming Wednesday?

The NYT piece says:
Google executives say they plan to unveil on Wednesday a "communications tool" that is potentially a clear step beyond the company's search-related business focus.

While executives would not disclose what the new software tool might be, Google has long been expected to introduce an instant messaging service to compete with services offered by America Online, Yahoo and MSN from Microsoft
Not very impressive screenshot! I don't think i will move on "GIM".

Windows Internet Explorer 7: new logo

Microsoft redesigned logo and icon for Windows Internet explorer 7.

IE blog says:
As you can see, the new “e” has more modern look, and the edges are a bit darker so the icon stands out better against different backgrounds. We liked the gold ring too since it brings in new energy and helps the icon pop a bit more than the old one.

selling text links

Hey there,

i'm selling sitewide text links on www.rockarolla.gr and www.rockarolla.net only for 12$/month or 30$/3 months (20% discount)

info
pagerank: 4
Google
pages: 145.000
backlinks: 1260
Yahoo
pages: 8520
backlinks: 14100
Anchor text
max: 3
chars max: 40
payment: via paypal
visitors: 1300 per day
pages: 14.000 per day

Pagerank Prediction

Surfing on digitalpoint, i found a great post about a new online tool!

Pagerank Prediction!

This tool does what it says, it predicts your future Google PageRank.

How to use this tool

1. Enter the exact website address of the page you want to check the prediction for into the text box. (eg. www.iwebtool.com/tools)

You can enter up to 10 different websites to check the prediction for. After entering the first address, press Enter and enter a new address on the new line.

2. Click the "Check!" button

The results will provide a prediction of the future PageRank however this should not be considered true.

I tested it and took a printscreen for you



Pagerank Prediction

4 days online

4 days online and Sitekeepers.blogspot.com has already been indexed by msn and yahoo!

I used linkvendor analysis/linkpop tool and the results are quite good!

Search engine || Pages || Backlinks
Google || 0 || 0
Yahoo || 1 || 19
MSN || 2 || 9
Ask || 0 || 0

Yesterday also, I had my first income from adsense ( 0,5$ - party time )!

Adsense notifier

I have a firefox extension for you.

Adsense notifier will help you to spend less time refreshing your Adsense stats every hour.
All stats (impressions, clicks, eCPM, CTR, $) show up in the right of your bottom status bar and automaticaly updated every 20 minutes.

Download

Developer Comments:
***************
Thank you to everyone who has submitted language packs. Please contact me if you are willing to help add any of the following to Adsense Notifier: An icon to replace the 'Adsense:' text on the statusbar, An audible notifier for when money increases, any additional languages (I currently have en-US, es-ES, fr-FR, ja-JP, it-IT, pl-PL, and tr-TR)
***************

If you find Adsense Notifier useful, please consider linking to http://code.mincus.com from your site. I am also looking for users to help translate Adsense Notifier into the languages supported by Google. Please contact me if you are interested in providing a translation of Adsense Notifier.

Thanks and I hope you enjoy the extension! Just passed 10K downloads! Thanks for all the praise!

Cool Directory

I have registered a new domain for a directory and I hope it will bump up my Adsense revenue and help increase Pagerank of my other sites.

more info soon!

Mozilla goes commercial

On August 3rd, Mozilla foundation launched a subsidiary company named Mozilla Corporation in order to make profit. Also it will take on the responsibility to promote and distribute Firefox, Thunderbird and the other Mozilla's open source projects.

Fortunately, Firefox and Thunderbird will remain free products based on open source code.

more information: mozilla.org/reorganization/

10 free great directories to submit your url

When you start a new website, the first thing you have to do is to make back links.
An easy way is to submit your url to some good PR directories.


All-blogs
Kingbloom Blog directory
Beginner's World
AlldotNet
Linketeria
Absolute Directory
Kwik Gobling
UU Directory - needs email verification
Iozzo - european sites only, but PR6 index
VXBox

Aviva Web Directory

Happy submiting ;)

Google lanches referral program

Earn $20 for each advertiser or publisher you refer. Sounds good ah?

Firstly, you have to be approved by google stuff. Then you place a referral google ref link on your site. In order to get the 20 bucks, you rererred publisher have to earn more than 75$ and advertiser to spend more than 20$.

You need 5 referrers to get a check (>100$)

Join the google referral program