I use Google Ad Manager for showing additional content in one of my sites. It is quite good tool, however there is a significant drawback for it: it has no real handling of CPA and shared revenue based offers. CPM and CPC is everything you get. And sometimes you need Read more…
Google analytics does good job at monitoring pages visited, but what about pages that are not found on your server and thus never displayed? You can get these pages by moving the content around, having errors in your links, getting malformed links from various webmasters (often they are caused by Read more…
I use Google analytics for site visitor monitoring like majority of webmasters today. It is free, reliable and quite good in many of the respects. However, there are couple particular cases where you can screw yourself and analyze its results incorrectly. Here we will discuss one particular problem that is Read more…
A traffic spike might be a joy for marketing department after successful advertising placement or a viral campaign. However, you will not be able to use up that traffic if your website is not loading properly. And that is quite common: no one likes to pay for more hardware than Read more…
RSS and content aggregation was the news distribution format for last couple of years. It successfully replaced newsletters in some of the markets, and I personally think it is much more convenient to subscribe to couple of the news feeds than getting news in my email box. At the moment Read more…
One of my co-workers notified my of quite simple spam trick on content creation. The approach is like this: 1. Take an article about blue widgets from other site. 2. Replace blue with new term, change some facts. 3. Post article as your own. Apparently, this works for the moment. Read more…
Google has just announced its new web based OS development plans. Google Chrome OS – quite good and nice bite into OS market share. However, the result of this will be seen in late 2010 only, and there are some doubts if this will be THE OS or if it Read more…
AntivirusBest is a scam – a parasite designated to capture your attention with multiple popups or fake security center alerts, and then convice you to pay for its full version. It is not different to other rogues from 2009 batch – that is it has no useful capabilities and only Read more…
Yesterday I tweeked my blog’s feeds and looked for a plugin to integrate feedburner seemlesly. This appeared a bit more tricky than thought: Upgrade to wordpress 2.7 made some feedburner plugins inoperable. This includes most popular FeedSmith plugin. Some other Wordpres feed plugins are not working too. I am not Read more…
Contraviro… does this name sounds familiar? Yeah, it is a slight variation of ContraVirus, a rogue active a year ago. It looks like Contra Viro method is timeless : push infections in fake video sites, or add a Trojan present to some crappy shareware. After that, wait push fake security Read more…