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Logged into my Google AdSense account, and got a surprise when I hit the setup tab. Instead of the usual options, I saw an addition, AdSense for Feeds, as you can see below. I clicked on it and was taken to a page where I could customize the ad unit. However, the eagerness and anticipation [...]

SiteMeter, the web metrics tracking service, seems to be having big time problems today. When I first logged in to SiteMeter using IE, the page refused to load, then did so partly, before returning an error. I didn’t think too much of it, and simply checked my stats using FireFox.

Got a mail from the Google Adsense team a while ago, which said they were retiring their AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August. They’re now offering a new alternative, called the Google Affiliate Network, aka DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network redux, which will seek to target users located in the United States.

One of the most useful WordPress plugins ever, the All in one SEO Pack plugin was abandoned by it’s creator uberdose recently, so I was pleasantly surprised to find an update available while browsing through my plugins. The WordPress directory lists the new author as hallsofmontezuma, who has also developed some other plugins as you can [...]

Automattic has released WordPress 2.5 ! By the way, along with the changes in the entire design and navigation of the software, even the WordPress site has undergone a transformation.  

One of the main concerns for AdSense publishers resident in India is receiving timely payments, AND not having to pay too high bank charges. The AdSense blog has a few tips to ensure less heartburn, not only in getting the checks, but also saving on bank charges. Two of the really useful ones are;

Yahoo’s MyBlogLog, a blogging community service provider, has banned one of the users, Jeremy Schoemaker, aka Shoemoney, from their site after he had posted about flaws in MyBlogLog’s service. He showed how someone could easily pose as another MyBlogLog user when visiting other websites. Schoemaker published a trick on his site with details on how to [...]