Digging My Blog

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 found was the following: The text reads: We've noticed...

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 with Snap and others. Now AdBrite is giving us...

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 for 2008, global advertising spending is expected...

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 product, site, or service that I write about or...

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 into the various advertising networks and opportunities...

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 who beat me to the bunch by about 7 months. In...

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 and interact with your customers directly. You...

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 is testing (and now offering) an advertising...

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 Google has developed, they also offer a very good...

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 experience and level of success with each one". That...

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 networks in addition to Adsense on my site. I wondered...

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 a few of them because of past experience in the arena...

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 I'm at least not losing money. Google says that...