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I guess the biggest story today is of a Yahoo! Publisher Network outage which apparently lasted for hours. Plus, the usual good tips and stories from Darren Rowse.

» Insular Linking on Blog Networks

11/02/06 04:49 from Blog Tips at ProBlogger

jkOnTheRun has an interesting story on how Blog Networks can get pretty insular with their ’source links’ (ie crediting where they get stories from). The example given is one where the writer (jk) had been credited as being the ..

» Blogging for Beginners - Coming Soon

11/02/06 00:40 from Blog Tips at ProBlogger

Earlier in the week I asked for questions for my upcoming series of posts on Blogging for Beginners. The response was great. For starters the questions asked confirmed that I’d already written articles on the write topics. They also g..

» When Not Posting is a Good Thing for your Blog

10/02/06 15:07 from Blog Tips at ProBlogger

Wayne’s hit the nail on the head with his post Posting desperation: When anything won’t do where he examines a good strategy for beating bloggers block…. Posting Nothing at all. ‘Instead of letting some slipshod mean..

» Gettin’ Creative

10/02/06 15:05 from Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed

I’m usually all numbers and Adsense and affiliate links yada yada yada, if you haven’t figured it out by now (and some people have ) let me spell it out for you: I’m not very creative . But Perfomancing member Cigar Jack is . I’ve put toge..

» YPN ads Down

10/02/06 11:29 from Blog Tips at ProBlogger

I’ve had a couple of readers IM me in the last hour to let me know that YPN ads are down/blank and have been so for ‘hours’. WebmasterWorld Forums also have a discussion on the topic of YPN Blank Ads as does Digital Points..

» Yahoo Publisher Network ads suffer major downtime

10/02/06 11:24 from JenSense - Making Sense of Contextual Advertising

The first news of YPN downtime came on Digital Point at 11:20 PM PST Thursday night. WebmasterWorld reported it an hour later. Members on both forums discussed seeing only blank spaces across all YPN sites (including the YPN ads here). Out..

» Chitika eMiniMall ‘Seasonal Special’ Ads

10/02/06 09:59 from Blog Tips at ProBlogger

It looks like Chitika are getting in on the action with ads focussed upon seasons and holidays with their new ‘Seasonal Special’ type ads (see screen cap below) - kicking off with Valentines Day ads for the next week. Publishers..

» Taming the Feed Beast

10/02/06 05:32 from Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed

We have mentioned a couple of times that we tend to have enormous feed subscriptions , despite our best efforts to keep the numbers manageable. Artem raised the question about how we manage these but no answers were forthcoming so I though..

» Redscowl Bluesingsky (or it is Bluesingsky Redscowl?) revisited

10/02/06 05:29 from An AdSense Blog: Make Easy Money with Google

This is off-topic again, but sort of interesting. Much to my surprise, my redscowl bluesingsky page (formally titled Redscowl Bluesingsky or Redscowl-Bluesingsky? ) has made it to #25 on Google, at least at Googles BigDaddy data center (tr..

» Monetize your blog - new programs to consider

09/02/06 23:30 from blogging help - pro bloggers Arieanna & Ianiv

Not too long ago I signed up for some new ad programs. I got into the zone and signed up for a few: Text Link Ads Sites must be approved Text ads Get listed in their marketplace quickly Earnings: good start AdBrite Text ads Tag your site i..

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I think I’m with Jason Calacanis on this one, this approaches The stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time…

I’m talking about Jakob Nielsen’s post- Search Engines as Leeches on the Web

wherein he says

Search engines extract too much of the Web’s value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create the content. Liberation from search dependency is a strategic imperative for both websites and software vendors.

 Balderdash! Sure, it’s nice to have a faithful readership, but I depend on search traffic: I wouldn’t even bother with my blogs if it weren’t for search traffic. Also, just what is it on Google’s SERPS that they have taken from my sites? My desription line and a few keywords? Damn! Sue!

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When I got home from work today I pushed the button to get my messages from the answering machine as usual. What wasn’t usual was that there was a message from the folks at YPN (Yahoo! Publisher Network), the Google AdSense competitor. They said they noticed I had applied for the YPN beta program, but never followed up and signed up to start using their advertising network. Did they not notice that they were calling outside the U.S. ? You see, participants of the program must have a valid U.S. Social Security or Tax ID number, and web site content that is predominantly in English and targeted at a U.S. user base. Well, I am situated in Canada so I couldn’t sign up.

A humorous side-note to this is that when I found out I couldn’t join, I listed the YPN Invite on eBay. Heck, why not? Back in the day I made a good bit of loot flogging GMail invites on eBay! People were PAYING TO GET AN EMAIL ADDRESS! Anyway, eBay took the auction down so I never learned the true value of the YPN Invite.

Related to this, I see that Problogger Darren Rowse is experimenting with YPN and early reports indicate a lower CTR but higher CPC resulting in similar earnings to AdSense, although it’s really too early to draw any conclusions.

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