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This is Broken: Amazon Email
I got an email from Amazon a couple of days ago. Normally I don't pay any attention to advertising emails, but since it was Amazon I thought that I would take a look. There might be a new book they recommend that wasn't on my radar screen yet. What I...
Add Flair to your photos, too.
We ad text ads to our blogs with Google Adsense; we add links to Digg, Del.icio.us, and Dot Net Kicks to our posts with FeedBurner FeedFlare; we place ads in our RSS feeds with FeedBurner, Pheedo, or AdBlendr; we do mouseover popups of links and keywords...
Online Advertising is Growing
Daniel of Daily Blog Tips posted "Online Advertising is Booming" last week and pointed to an article on Reuters titled "Ads on Web to overtake radio by 2008" . The article says that internet advertising will account for 8% of the worlds advertising spending...
Advertising Disclaimer
As you can plainly see I make use of various forms of advertising on this site. In some cases I may be paid for clickthroughs or actions taken by you on those sites (sign ups, ordering products, etc.). I do not have an advertising affiliation with every...
Add an Advertising Disclaimer to your site
Over on my TheBestWebStuff blog I recently added an Advertising Disclaimer to the main navigation of the site. I felt that since I had recently added RSS ads, banner ads, text ads, and I would soon be venturing into paid reviews as part of my research...
Adding Ads to your Community Server RSS Feed
Update (3/28/07): source code posted here . Update (4/3/07): I did not realize until today that Keyvan Nayyeri had already created something similar, SyndicationAds, as part of the Community Server MVP's Alabaster CS Module Package . Shout out to Keyvan...
Another business lesson from Pheedo
A few days ago Jason Alexander posted that one of the founders of BlueDot.us had responded to an email he sent to their customer service, saying that he was thoroughly impressed. Jason's exact quote was: Let that be a business lesson for everyone: reader...
Adding Ads to your RSS Feed
Just a quick post before I go off to bed early tonight - the Cincinnati-Dayton Code Camp is tomorrow and I need to be there early to help setup. This post follows along with my recent interest in web-based advertising . I noticed a while back that FeedBurner...
Affiliate Network Reviews
In a previous post I listed out all the ad and affiliate networks and services that I could find. Since then I continue to add more to the list. In that post I also said that "it would make an interesting exercise to try all of them and report on the...
Affiliate Networks: Quick Review of Google Adsense
Google's Adsense is definitely the king of the road. Just do a quick count of what you see on serious bloggers' sites or just about any site for that matter and you'll see what I mean. The Basics Along with search services and the myriad of other tools...
Building an Ad Management System - Step 1
No, I'm not starting another project and I'm not starting another blog series. First I had a problem/question/idea , then I did a little research , and now I'm just doing a little prototyping to see what's feasible. I would like to use ads from other...
How many ad networks/services are there?
Following my last post where I questioned the value of building an ad engine for my own purposes, I began doing a little research on the different ad networks/services to figure out what it would take to support the more well known services. I knew of...
Managing Ads
I'm sure that you know that I have some Google Adsense ads on this site. I don't use them too much here because I don't want them to be too obtrusive, but I figure if the couple of dollars that they provide a month will pay for this site's hosting then...