GDonate

Looks just like Google but it’s not. From the About page:

What’s this site about?

This site earns money for charity when you do Google searches.

What do I need to do to contribute?

Conducting your Google searches here is all you need to do. Please help us make this site popular by telling your friends about it.

Which charities benefit?

At the moment the only charities that benefit are the charities here. If gdonate.com gets popular enough we have plans to allow you to save your preferences so benefits can go to the charity you choose.

Are you affiliated with Google?

No, we are not affiliated with Google in anyway.

So how does it work?

The charities are members of the Google Adsense program which pays them directly. Each search doesn’t earn vast sums but lots of searches here by millions of people all over the world will raise some considerable sums directly for the charities.

What do you get out of this?

Nothing, and we have no plans to gain anything later either. This site was setup and maintained as a benevolent gesture and our reward is seeing YOU generate large sums for charity by doing nothing more than conducting your searches here.

Looks like Amazon s coming after Adsense.

With Omakase Amazon has plunged into contextual, content-sensitive advertising itself, which differently than the old Amazon Associate program (where you would select specific books to promote on your pages and received a small commission for each such sale), provides dynamic, “intelligent” product links based on the specific content of your own web page.

Just like Google’s AdSense program, you need to place a snippet of code inside your Web pages to let Amazon scan, read and feed-back the most relevant ads for Amazon titles that are most fitting for your content.

But the major issue here is that most online publishers got as excited about this new announcement as much as they got worried and fearful that the new Omakase program is incompatible with AdSense itself, due to Google legal restrictions in using other competing contextual advertising services next to its.

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Recently AdSense has opened up AdWords refferals to all countries. Now anyone can refer a new customer to AdWords. The payout for an AdWord referral is quite simple.

You’ll earn $20 once the advertiser you’ve referred spends at least $100 with AdWords.

Not too bad at all! Start referring friends and colleagues today.

Just picked up this list from digg.com

Here’s the top 15 keywords if your too lazy to look for yourself.

$54.33 mesothelioma lawyers
$47.79 what is mesothelioma
$47.72 peritoneal mesothelioma
$47.25 consolidate loans
$47.16 refinancing mortgage
$45.55 tax attorney
$41.22 mesothelioma
$38.86 car accident lawyer
$38.68 ameriquest mortgage
$38.03 mortgage refinance
$37.55 refinancing
$35.99 auto accident attorney
$35.52 equity mortgage
$34.34 mesothelioma texas
$34.05 mortgages

Interesting to see mesothelioma and mortgage related terms rate so high. Seems this show how much advertising will make in the long run off folks who are searching for such services.

Performancing released metrics to the public today. This means that any blogger or webmaster can use performancing to track their adsense clicks. Performancing in addition to tracking adsense clicks provides a full range of statistics for analyzing the traffic to and from your blog. It’s super simpler to setup. Just register for a user name, select your blogging tool (Blogger, Drupal, Movable Type, Typepad, or Wordpress), and drop a few lines of code in your footer template. Sit back and wait an hour or two and bingo! you’ll be off and tracking. The adsense tracking support gives you the exact page that an ad was clicked on and shows a “go to www.example.com” in the outbound links. This will give you a complete picture of where your adsense clicks are coming from and more importantly where your clicks are going(something that the adsense channels doesn’t allow you to report today).

There is much to discover in the system, for those that have no patience however (like me…), here’s a quick run down of a few things you should be looking at right away;

* Add multiple blogs - really, add as many as you want. In a couple of weeks, we’ll be able to show you the aggregate data for your entire network also.
* Subscribe to your metrics RSS - the little RSS buttons top right will give you a daily summary of your Metrics
* See Adsense data - Running Adsense? You’ll like this one then, and we plan to improve it, as well as support other ad systems in the future.
* Search Engine Details - Find the Search Engines page, then click on the actual phrase to get drill down data on each search phrase
* The rest you will have to explore, I wouldn’t want to ruin all the fun heh…

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