Reading Time: < 1 minWe got a brand new Target store near us not too long ago. It’s very nice. I’ve been there maybe 4 times, and Kelly has been there a good bit more often. However, neither of us have parked in the underground deck before. Yesterday we were out when a pretty hard thunderstorm began rolling through. […]
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Bad stuff from the China House in Marietta
Reading Time: < 1 minWe had a fun time getting dinner tonight. We ordered a couple of meals from “China House” (about 2 miles away from our house) at around 6:00. We were told “under 45 minutes”. 45 minutes would have been kind of late for us, but we figured it’d be alright. At 6:50, we gave them a […]
The daily pace of AdSense
Reading Time: < 1 minThe last few days aside, AdSense tends to keep a pretty consistent pace for me each day. Over the last month, I’ve tried to keep track of my earnings every 30 minutes throughout the day so I could chart them. On 10 different days I was able to get at least 10 different numbers to […]
You’re not alone – AdSense is WAY behind today
Reading Time: < 1 minMy stats looked decent at 6am (EST), and haven’t moved much since. I just saw a tiny bump a few minutes ago, but that’s about it. You’re probably seeing the same thing. There’s still no official word from the AdSense folks, but the AdWords engineers have spoken. As posted on JenSense and the WMW forums: […]
AdSense and Feedburner getting closer to launch?
Reading Time: < 1 minAs reported by Darren Rowse, it appears that AdSense ads will be finding their way into Feedburner feeds pretty soon. There is a feed (Inhabitat) that is showing some ads. They’re being served as image maps, as opposed to JavaScript, which hopefully will help them work with a wider variety of feed readers. I’ve not […]
A little more about Placement Targeting in AdSense
Reading Time: 2 minA mentioned a few days ago that I attended a brief “webinar” about AdSense Placement Targeting. After the webinar, my first order of business was to start swapping out some of my 336×280 ads and replacing them with 300×250 to see if that helped, as Google indicated that it might. Google has just sent me […]
Google releases Ad Manager
Reading Time: 2 minGoogle has just announced the release of “Ad Manager” (in beta, of course), to help manage your ads. This goes way beyond AdSense. It allows you to manually ad advertisers, add other ad networks, and also integrate AdSense. The system will help pick the highest paying and best performing ads for your site. From the […]
Which Performs Better: 336×280 or 300×250?
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle hosted a 30 minute “webinar” today, with a focus on site targeting — creating ways for advertisers to target areas of your site to advertise on. I’ll probably post about that in a few days when Google releases their summary of the webinar. However, one interesting bit of discussion popped up in the Q&A […]
What message are you sending to your visitors?
Reading Time: 2 minLiberty Hill Church in Canton, GA is an awesome church. I’ve visited for worship a few times, and they are top notch — great preaching and excellent music. If you happen to live in the area, I highly recommend you check them out. However, they’ve done something with their website that I think is a […]
Some good AdSense color tips from Jennifer Slegg
Reading Time: < 1 minJennifer Slegg (often known as “JenSense”) has posted a nice piece about choosing the right “ad title” color for your AdSense ads. She primarily gives two tips: Use “hyperlink blue” (described below), or… Use the main link color on your site She doesn’t mention suggestions for the other parts of the ad, but I’ve found the following works best: Background and border color the […]