http://www.techarchives.net Technology, web programming, blogging, and advertising Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:59:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.techarchives.net/2006/08/04/donate-to-charity-via-google-gdonate/ 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 ... http://www.techarchives.net/2006/08/04/contextual-advertising-now-available-to-amazon-associates-the-omakase-links-program/ 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 ... http://www.techarchives.net/2006/04/06/adwords-referrals-refer-new-customers/ Well Chris has put together a nice post. Some good advice to those who blog to "pay the rent". It reminded me of something a high school football coach once rattled off one day after practice... # Distractions - there is always something more interesting to do. Reward yourself ... http://www.techarchives.net/2006/04/06/tired-of-blogging/ Funny video of a boy punching his brother. http://www.techarchives.net/2006/04/01/funny-video-of-the-day/ The Official Google Blog was hacked this morning. Or so it appeared when I logged into Bloglines. Here's what I saw for their blog this morning. Google, fix your blog pleeasssee! <3 (P.S. Just t... By trey Google, fix your blog pleeasssee! <3 (P.S. Just to clear things up, I'm not associated ... http://www.techarchives.net/2006/03/28/google-blogger-hacked/ Ever wanted to automate your bartending for home parties. This guy has the perfect solution. A computer and a few water bottles and your on your way. The worlds first automatic bar. "The idea of the automated bar originally came from a website I stumbled across about a ... http://www.techarchives.net/2006/03/27/automatic-bar/ 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 ... http://www.techarchives.net/2006/03/25/highest-paying-adsense-keywords/ 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 ... http://www.techarchives.net/2006/03/14/adsense-and-performancing/ Adsense will put the highest paying ads in the advertising blocks highest on the page.  The idea is readers will see the higher ads first and be more likely to click on them.  This is fine for some sites and content.  However it doesn't work for all publishers.  The first ... http://www.techarchives.net/2006/03/12/adsense-getting-the-best-pay-for-your-clicks/