Every year right about now we round up our blogging activity across Google. Ready? Here goes. This is our 368th post of the year on the main Google blog, which is 23% more than in 2007. In addition to more posts, we are thrilled to know that we have many more readers now — 78% more, to be exact. The number of unique visitors jumped from 6,738,830... ...read the full story
Everyone knows by now that WordPress 2.7 is packed with new features. Now that it’s available (almost 600,000 downloads as I write this!), it’s time to start working on 2.8. There were dozens of things that got tabled during 2.7 due to time constraints, and there are a lot of high-rated features in the Ideas forum, so there are a lot of potential... ...read the full story
Advertisers and publishers are aware of many more ad networks than the few which were part of the panel discussion that I participated in at the DPAC II conference this past October. Why are there so many networks? As an advertiser or as a publisher, should you work with more than one network? Why work with any network? What are the differences between... ...read the full story
Do you use Western Union as your payment method? If so, we’ve just made a couple minor updates that we’d like to let you know about. Expiration date extended We’ve now extended the deadline to pick up your Western Union payments from 35 days to 60 days. If you haven’t picked up your payment within 60 days of issuance, the payment... ...read the full story
By Jean-Baptiste Jung RSS is one of those technologies that are extremely simple yet extremely powerful. Currently, RSS is the de facto standard for blog syndication, and it is used widely in both personal and corporate settings; for example, in blogs. And because a large percentage of these blogs run on WordPress, we’ll cover in this post some... ...read the full story
Google Adsense has been the no. 1 PPC advertising network the world over and many probloggers could make a thounsand dollars a month. However, many of them have stayed away from Adsense as the CTR went down dramatically and private ads sales could survice them rather than adsense. I have been surprised when I saw the biggest cheque of adsense posted... ...read the full story
We’re pleased to share that Google Friend Connect is now available in beta to any webmaster looking to add a “dash of social” to his or her site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by simply copying and pasting a few snippets of code — no advanced coding or technical background required. We know that... ...read the full story
First of all I need to apologize for the problems you have might have experienced with ads either being delayed appearing or being removed from your blog. This was a glitch that was found and solved, but not after some people had frustrations with it. Do let me know if you see the problem appear again! I was brought in to make improvements and I... ...read the full story
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