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The Google Content Network is another name for the Google Adsense. It is basically a contextual advertising solution to web publishers. When I first used Google Adwords 3 years ago to promote affiliate products, I had no idea what Google Content Network is. If you have used Google Adwords before, you will notice this list of options:


I first started out with the content network ticked. I then saw I'm having a lot of ad impressions. However, the conversion was poor and I lost some money over the process. As I said, I was still new at it, I made a mistake but I learned through it. Eventhough I don't use pay per click advertising anymore, I wish I can play around with it again once I've regain what I've lost over the years.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then you should better watch this 7 minutes Webinar. If you already know about it, it doesn't hurt to re-learn what you have know. Maybe you've missed out a point or two. Anyway, enjoy the show:

Labels: Adsense, Contextual Advertising

The thing I like about self hosted Wordpress Blog is the ability to edit the source code for its presentation. Below is a visual form of how to add Adsense into a single. Just find:



Using Blogger Blogs however is not as straight forward as your self hosted Wordpress blog. Still, there are ways to do it and it is just a matter or trial and error plus some further testing that we can achieve it. I like to do things visually so this is a screenshot of this blog on a single post before adding Adsense:


Moving ahead with modifying our Blogger template, this is where you should add your Adsense code into your Blogger template for your single post display (warning: make sure you save your current template somewhere just in case if something goes wrong):



Normally you could not preview the end result, anyway just Save Template Changes and click on the View Blog tab. So, the end result would look more or less like this:



In summary, the key thing to search for is to put the Adsense code in between <BlogItemCommentsEnabled>..</BlogItemCommentsEnabled> . Test, test and test your blog display. By the way, if you numerously test your Adsense display, make sure you control the amount of impression the page make and don't click on your own ads or you'll get in trouble. Just a friendly reminder there.

Labels: Adsense, Coding

YvoSchaap came out with an interesting questions and answers after doing some quantitative data analysis from a raw data obtained from Alexa. Some interesting questions that catched my interest is:

1. Is porn dominating the web?
2. Is China taking over the web?
3. Is it true that Yahoo and MSN are more used than Google?
4. Why do I always see 'ads by Gooooogle'?

To Read more about it head over to '8 questions about the web you always wanted answers to'.

Labels: interesting info, web info

If you love CSS and use it every single day for your web designing or authoring, this piece of sheet would be very useful and should be printed out and be hanged on the wall. I would certainly have it on my wall once I can find a wall of course.



Code well my friends..

Labels: css cheat sheet