The past few years I have tried out Adbrite on some of my fanfiction community sites. Why? Because their rates on paying were a little more attractive and getting payout was a little faster than Google Adsense. Sometimes it still is depending on placement of the ad, or if a site own is using a
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Why Are You Still Using Blogger?
I know, I know – I love WordPress enough that I am really hardcore about persuading people to using WordPress.org self-hosting, especially for those investing in a domain and hosting. I even recommend it for the free hosting on WordPress.com. I want to ask those using Blogger – why are you still using it? Once
[Continue Reading...]Using Fiverr For Sponsored Tweets
Fiverr has been a good place for people seeking to pay little for a service or goods. It works well for those willing to do those jobs for little money. One of the worthwhile jobs is using Fiverr for monetizing your Twitter social network stream. In other words – create your own version of Sponsored
[Continue Reading...]Vox Closing – Where Will Bloggers Go?
Vox, a blogging community that is owned by Six Apart, the same people who use to own LiveJournal decided to close Vox in what is a quick closing, versus Yahoo!’s gradual close of GeoCities in 2009. Vox plans to phase out their services on September 30, 2010. Vox was known for their free service that
[Continue Reading...]Digging Digg’s Version 4 Upgrade?
Digg has been a wonderful place to social bookmark articles and share with others, but after the Digg version 4 upgrade announced by Kevin Rose on August 25th, there has been an enormous amount of negative responses. The social bookmarking site now allows more emphasis on followers, rather than the merit of articles. Some users
[Continue Reading...]5 Places to Look In An Email To Identify It As Spam or A Hoax
Recently I read Ann Smarty’s article, How to Identify Email Hoaxes and Scams. I have done a lot of work to identify and prevent receiving mail through tweaking my own inbox. Spam Assassin is a great program, but because of people being clever enough to put together programs to mass spam and how they word
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