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YPN Ads Placement Advice

May 12, 2006 · Filed Under Contextual Advertising · Comment 

Yahoo YPN posted their finding on how blog readers eye movement when it comes to reading the content, some what opposite from what Google Adsense team’s finding.

Yahoo YPN Ads Placament

They suggest using vertical skyscrapers to the right of content follow by a rectangular box content advertisement. Unlike Google Adsense, the main placement for ads would be point 3, instead of the header section.

Each site is different, and each publisher has different goals,” Margaret notes. “Publishers should experiment with different placement, layouts, Reporting Categories and Ad Targeting combinations to achieve the best outcome.

I guess the biggest difference is if you are a first-time visitor to a site or a regular reader. First-time visitors have to scan everything for navigation, I would say that if you have lots of first time visitor, the above ads placement would work very well.

Source : ProBlogger

Lonely Girl Blogger Template

May 10, 2006 · Filed Under Blogger Templates · 34 Comments 

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Lonely Girl Blogger Template

Chitika Ads Supported Countries

May 10, 2006 · Filed Under Contextual Advertising · 1 Comment 

If you’re a Chitika ads publisher and your earning is very low, chances are your main traffic is not from the countries listed below:

Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States.

LiewCF made a query on the list of supported countries by Chitika. Unlike Adsense, you don’t get paid for each clicks made by net surfer that don’t originate from the countries listed above. Now, if you happen to have Chitika Mall ads displayed on your blog and your CTR is low, analyze your traffic and optimize the ads accordingly. For example if your site is mainly about game console and your primary traffic is from Japan, the games featured on your Chitika Malls should be of PlayStation.

For your information, Chitika is a contextual advertising company that display mini tab ads on your blog, they are unlike Google Adsense, you’re able to choose what type of product to be display according to your liking.

K2 Blogger Template

May 9, 2006 · Filed Under Blogger Templates · 182 Comments 

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K2 Blogger Template


Version History
09th May 2006 - Release
10th May 2006 - Added google search bar
22th May 2006 - Fixed comment error, thanks ijhack for the help.
23th May 2006 - Tab error fixed
07th June 2006 - Reduce Comment Font Size
08th June 2006 - Remove Javascript Comment, Enable Default Comment System
11th June 2006 - Increase “comment” font size

Simple Blogger Template

May 9, 2006 · Filed Under Blogger Templates · 8 Comments 

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Simple Blogger Template

Western Civilisation Style Master CSS Editor

May 9, 2006 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

western civilisation style master

Western Civilisation’s has just released their newiest Style Master 4.5, after giving it a try, I would say it is worth the money spend buying it. Its a fantastic product, build from scratch for begineers in html and CSS. It is easy to master and has an excellent hands-on tutorial included, and the user-intuitive interface.

Contextual Advertising Software Adsense Preview

May 8, 2006 · Filed Under Contextual Advertising · Comment 

Amit Agarwal is a professional Blogger and founder of Digital Inspiration, a business weblog consulting company. He created a cool web tool that enable user to preview the type of Adsense ads that would appear on their blog. Surf to Contextual Advertising Software and give it a try if you’re curious about the type of ads that is going to appear. Below is a screenshot of the web.

Contextual Advertising Software adsense preview

Unlike other ads preview tool, Contextual Advertising Software enable you to preview various ads from different contextual advertising company, for example YPN and Chitika malls., and there is a side by side comparison, which is good if you’re wondering which ads would be better suited for that particular post.

Most Popular Free Blogging Platform

May 7, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · 2 Comments 

Which is the most popular free blogging platform among bloggers? According to Technorati, blogspot has a 44% of overall market share follow by MSN with 23%. Based on the Technorati queries part of their study, it seems that the most commonly-used blogging platforms are:

blogspot 44%
msn 23%
livejournal 8%
aol 1%
splinder 1%
20six 1%
typepad 1%
blog 1%
fc2 1%
hatena 1%

Surprisingly MSN has a 23% market share, maybe it is due to its user friendly interface but overall the design is not flexible, you’re not allowed to insert codes (adsense) and it seems that every msn space user has the exact layout - boring and dull. I would highly recommend blogspot as the first choice, mainly because of its flexibility and it belongs to Google.

blogging platform market share

If wordpress and other paid blogging platform like Movable Type are taken into consideration, Blogspot still hold the first spot with a command of 35%. Although Wordpress has a mere 2% market share, they are made of mainly hardcore bloggers, which is why there are so many wordpress templates available while blogspot user has a limited choice of templates to choose from.

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