Adsense notifier 0.9.6 released

A couple of months ago I noticed that the Adsense notifier down in my status bar was showing all zeros. At the same time Google started using Ajax in the Adsense pages to show reports, and I assumed the two were related. Since the last time there was a problem with the Adsense notifier it [...]

5 Tips For Picking a Forum Topic

So you’re ready to start up a new forum, but have no idea for what the topic needs to be. Here are 5 tips for selecting a topic. 1 – What are your interests?

8 Reasons NOT to start a forum

There are thousands and thousands of web forums out there. My guess is that if you’re reading this you’re at least thinking of starting one if you haven’t already. We hear about the reasons to start a forum (fun, branding, marketing, etc) but it’s difficult to find information on why you shouldn’t start a forum. [...]

AdSense ads less clickable

A change in AdSense is making the clickable areas smaller. While before a click anywhere on the ad would take the visitor to the page advertised and credit the publisher with the click, now only the title and URL are live as shown in the graphic below. My thought is that this change will result [...]

Adsense now supporting rounded corners

You now have a new option when you setup your Adsense ads. The ad blocks can have rounded corners. Original Square Corners New Slightly Rounded Corners New Very Rounded Corners I would imagine it’ll take a few days for statistics to come out on which of these performs the best overall, and like everything else [...]