I have just noticed that marapets.com has bought a direct link at my blog via Text Link Ads service. Thanks marapets.com! So what is marapet.com about? Here are the introduction from marapets.com website:
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Just notice something new in the google adsense’s report. The Google content reports and Google search reports are intergrated into a new report called Google Advanced Reports.

Found this interesting article from problogger.net and find that might help you in increase your blog’s traffic:

Three simple actions that doubled my website traffic in 30 days

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1. First, I made the most of Technorati tags. I tagged every key word in each of my posts. Initially I did this manually but them I discovered a WordPress plugin called SimpleTags that made the job a whole lot easier.

   I found that by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and as an added advantage I was getting focused, quality traffic to the site!

2. I leveraged my existing website. I’ve been running my business website for a few years and that was getting modest levels of traffic that was relevant to my blog - so why not try to drive some of that to my new blog! I placed a few FeedBurner headline animator blocks on some of my most popular pages and after a day or so I noticed a significant increase in traffic for 5 minutes worth of work on my part.
3. Finally, I made effective use of trackback links to popular sites. If I commented on a post on another site I would make sure that I set up the appropriate trackback for it. The results from this are varied depending on the site and post that you are linking to but since I liked to comment and interact with the wider blogosphere anyway, it was free traffic!

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What I think…

1. I don’t like tags on my post. I feel that it will drecrease my site’s traffic. When visitors see the tags, they migh click on it. I did get traffic from Technorati but I don’t have any tag on my site. Instead I use the ping service. I make ping to Technorati ’s ping service (http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping) whenever I write a post. You can make this automatically by putting the URL under Wordpress Admin’s Options - Writing - Update Services
2. FeedBurner - yes this might help a bit. Many blogger did this. You can subscribe to FeedBurner and put the feed animator as your signature on your other site and forums
3. Agreed with him. You can have backlinks and traffic for free. But you do not spam other people website. Most people hate that.

For me, the content is the king! When you have good quality of content, search engine and traffic will come to your site automatically and slowly. Keywords are one of the key element, try target more niche keywords instead of general keywords. Please do not over mention the keywords, search engine might think you are spamming with keywords. Put those targeting keyword in page title, keywords (meta tag), title of article and first paragraph of the article. Although some search engines (e.g. Google) do not recognize keywords in meta tags but the is no reason we don’t want to put it in for other search engines.

Hope this will help :)

When I login into my adesense account, I saw a news:

NEW
We’ve added seasonal spirit to our ad units - you now have the option of displaying themed colors and graphics in your ads during holidays and special events. Visit our What’s New page for details.

Adsense is ready for Christmas! Adsense called the new format ads “themed ad units”. They are the ad units that display themed colors and graphics during holidays and special events.

At the Adsense’s Ad Formats page, I only see 160×600 Wide Skyscraper layout is supported. Not sure about others.

What you need to do to activate the themed ad units is go to “My Account”->”Ad Type Preference [edit]” and enable it.

Before this, we have Adsense’s Referral Program. Now, as an adsense publisher we have even more:

1. Firefox referrals are now available internationally!
You can earn up to USD1.00 when someone download and install google toolbar from your Firefox referral link.

2. Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up
It works like adbrite.com or adengage.com where advertiser can buy a ad space directly from you webpage using thier own Adwords account. To customize your own Onsite Advertiser Sign-up:

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Last time we heard about Google had bought Urchin. Urchin used to be a very good traffic analysis software. Now google offer it for its google account users for free. Anyone with a Google account can register it for free.

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Adsense now offer refferal program. You can earn more when your refferal earns.

When a publisher that signed up for AdSense through your referral earns their initial $100.00 and is eligible for payout, we’ll credit your account with $100.00.

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I just received first cheque from Shareasale.com. Shareasale.com is a place where merchants boost thier sales and affiliates earn money from the commission of sales. I joined this program as an affiliate since mid of 2004 and today I received my first cheque from Shareasale.com. The value of cheque is only USD50.47.

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There are many methods which can let you making money online.

As a web publisher you can earn money by having advertisemnts on your websites or selling affiliate products from your websites.

For ordinary internet surfers, there are many programs that you can join and earn money from it. The programs are such as thos “get paid to surf”, “get paid to read email”, “high yield investment programs (hyip in short)” and many more.

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Good news, You can now make Google Adsense’s Ads more targeted! By implementing section targeting, you can suggest section of text to show only related ads. This feature is pretty useful especially for blogs and news sites.

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Wordtracker is a leading keyword research tool. Through a series of simple steps, Wordtracker shows you which are the best keywords to use for the pages on your site.

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This guy claims he earnt $14,653.27 for the month of June, 2005 and total of $140,319.23 earned in 21 months with Adsense. Wow, that’s much and somemore it is only from Adsense! All of his sites are focused on finance and technology.

Anyway, check his post here: WebmasterWorld.

It is always a problem for Adsense publishers that always visit their own websites for testing purpose - Google Adsense will report additional Ad impression. The statistic at Google Adsense’s report becomes inaccurate and might affect the overall earning especially when publisher does a lot of testing on his/her own sites. When impression is increased, page CTR (click through rate) will be decreased and as well as eCPM (effective cost per 1000 impression).

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While browsing some websites, got an update message popup from Firefox … it is an update for Adsense Notifier. Adsense Notifier is a plug-in for firefox that simply shows your adsense stats on the status bar and updates the stats automatically.

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