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Yahoo Publisher Network NOW DOING DIRECT DEPOSIT

May 20, 2006

OMG this is outstanding news… I been HATING having my Yahoo checks come via standard mail. Dear Jeremy, We’ve just made receiving your Yahoo! Publisher Network earnings quicker and easier than ever, with the introduction of a Direct Deposit option for all publisher accounts. As with our pay-by-check option, you’ll still need to accrue at [...]

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The $10,000.00 experiment with ppc Part 1

April 8, 2006

The background: I have been working on this post off and on for a long time. It was really hard to write. I want to talk about my experience but at the same time I want to be in compliance with all TOS so please consider all numbers I mention not as fact. Also please [...]

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Yahoo Search Marketing taking some notes from MSN AdCenter Pilot; Will Google follow?

February 23, 2006

Reading Search Engine RoundTable today I spotted this: According to an email received by a member of SEW forums, Yahoo will no longer allow bidding on brand keywords by non-brand owners. This is certainly big news, as bidding on competition brand names has long caused outrage by companies that find other organizations bidding on their [...]

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How do you run Google Adsense AND Yahoo! YPN on the same page?

February 1, 2006

I guess when you are as big as youtube.com the standard tos does not apply Notice adsense at the top and ypn on the right

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Lucky or smart?

January 7, 2006

I had a person email me the other day and ask if I was lucky or smart. I get asked that a lot. Usually by people who never actually have observed me work. They know I work from home and make a decent income so they figure its luck. I actually had my step-mother-in-law (wife’s [...]

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Adsense YPN auto rotation with optimization

January 2, 2006

It seems as though I almost need to hire a full time manager to monitor the CPM value of some of my major sites Then switch accourding to what is paying out the best. Especially when the difference could be thousands per day. Yahoo and Google are pretty close CPM wise for me on average [...]

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Azoogleads getting ready to launch Adsense alternative

December 23, 2005

I was contacted today by one of AzoogleAds co-founders about a new product the are going to launch very soon to publishers. As many of you know I have been critical of Azoogleads in the past but it seems like that might have been a revamping time for them and I have been very happy [...]

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When Google decides your no longer of value

December 20, 2005

One of my sites has been ranking #2 for 3 MILLION overture term (means there is 3 million or more searches done according to Overture). It also ranked for many 6 figure overture terms and was getting tons of traffic from Google for various phrases. Then I switched from Google AdSense to the Yahoo Publisher [...]

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Google Advertising On Yahoo Publisher Network

November 4, 2005

As I was reading Jensense, site by Jenstar, Shoemoney dubed “Queen of Contextual Advertising”, I noticed that Google ads on her YPN! So wait… Google pays yahoo to bring people to there site using YPN. Maybe they are just targeting Jensense ? Click the thumbnail to see the full screenshot.

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Adsense CPM for the win

October 20, 2005

Google adsense lately has been offering Adwords publishers some nice tools like CPM targeting. What is CPM targeting? Its when a Adwords advertiser specifically targets your website. This is great news for people who make quality content websites. I have noticed a huge increase in CPM since this was implemented. This is really bad news [...]

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Code to rotate easily between adsense and ypn

September 12, 2005

A few webmasters have recently been talking about rotating google and yahoo ads on the same page. I wrote a VERY simple php script to do this. You just need 2 text files. One of them called adsense.txt which contains your adsense code and the other called YPN.txt which contains your YPN code. The reason [...]

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Yahoo! ads back to normal

September 11, 2005

It seems like the YPN has got there stuff back together. Game on.

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Havokfest Fairfax – strippers, beer, and computer stuff

September 8, 2005

Sept 22-25 I will be at Havokfest in Fairfax, VA. This is my first time going to Havokfest but with a combination of strippers, beer, and computers how can you go wrong? If you want havokfest gear to wear around like you went you can get it here P.S. Please stop emailing me and asking [...]

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Yahoo Publisher Network First Month

September 7, 2005

I have loved Google adsense and have been a adsense publisher for 18 months now but when I was accepted to participate in the Yahoo Publisher Network August first I thought I would switch over about 20% of my impressions and see how it stacked up. I rotated my YPN code about 1/5 of the [...]

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5 Ways To Generate Revenue For Your Website

May 14, 2005

Subscriptions – This is what I feel is my stable income and so I try to keep focused on providing a service people want and need I have many sites which offer subscriptions and almost all of them are donationware or contributionware. I never offer a specific product, service, or support. Instead its completely 100% [...]

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