After several years in beta test, Google has just launched the much anticipated ‘AdSense for Feeds’. When you next visit the Setup tab in your AdSense account, you’ll notice a new ‘AdSense for Feeds’ option.
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WidgetBucks has introduced pre-designed and custom ad skins for their well-known WidgetBucks widgets. Publishers have two choices - choose from a gallery of over 125 pre-designed skins to apply to new and existing ad widgets or use the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) tools to add their own unique look-and-feel to ad widgets
The gallery of off-the-shelf skins map closely to WidgetBucks’ product categories, including entertainment (Batman, celebrities), tech and electronics (iPhone, GPS devices, XM Radio), fashion (handbags, flip flips), sports and outdoors (basketball, baseball), video games (Halo), and more. They are can be applied to six IAB standard sizes. The new skins only show up on WidgetBucks’ CPC widgets. CPM display ads will run without the new designs.
DIY design tools include two basic applications — MS Paint and Notepad, both standard on PCs (one Mac Paint equivalent is open-source software Seashore). These tools give publishers powerful customization ability to enable very integrated look-and-feel delivery of their WidgetBucks ad units on their sites.
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WidgetBucks has just announced that is expanding its CPC (cost-per-click) network for Western European traffic. Starting July 15th, when publishers serve WidgetBucks ad widgets on their sites, visitors based in the UK will see a short-duration CPM display ad followed by a CPC shopping widget featuring UK-based merchants and products listed in British pounds.
The CPM/CPC hybrid ad gives publishers two revenue streams from the same ad widget instance. Before today, only CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) ads were served to visitors outside the U.S. and Canada. Additional Western European countries, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden will come online over the next two weeks.
Changes to publishers reports will be seamless. In addition to current CPM impressions, additional impressions will automatically be added into CPC roll-up and daily totals, as well as resulting revenue. At this time, WidgetBucks is not breaking out CPC impressions and earnings by country. You’ll have to track that via the site URL.
It’s not just for blogging anymore! With static frontpage options and easy-to-setup permalinks, WordPress is a great choice for CMS sites.
Watch the video, see the changes below, and then upgrade!
Amazon.com has introduced Bill Me Later®; an alternate way to pay for Amazon.com orders without using credit card.
Instant approval is available when first choosing the Bill Me Later® option during a purchase1. You simply enter your birthday, the last 4 digits of your Social Security Number, and then accept the terms. For future purchases on Amazon.com, you just select Bill Me Later® on the payment page to complete your purchase.
Orders are shipped as usual; then you receive a bill from Bill Me Later® in the mail. You can choose to pay in full or over time (finance charges apply if paid over time).
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Here’s a preview of the soon to be released WordPress for iPhone application from the team at Automattic. The new application will let you blog and edit articles on your iPhone. It supports WordPress.com blogs as well as self-hosted WordPress blogs running version 2.5.1 or newer.
The application is necessary because blogging using only the iPhone’s Safari browser is nearly impossible because of the keyboard layout. The ability to insert photos into posts directly from the iPhone camera will come in very handy.
The WordPress for iPhone application is Open Source and will be available from the iPhone App store for free.
ASE Adnet is a new CPC ad network that is a direct competitor to TTZ Media. What’s the same? The ads look remarkably similar to TTZ Media Ads. What’s different? ASE Adnet is using a percentage based system rather than the tiered EPC structure offered by TTZ Media. The ASE Adnet system opens the door for higher (and lower) earnings per click.
Here are the key features:
ASE Adnet has another big advantage over TTZ Media - a completely customizable ad layout via an Advanced Ad Code Generator. You can make ads of any size, using any colors, and placing different parts of the ad - like the product price, image, and store - in different places within the ad box. All you need is a little bit of CSS knowledge. If you don’t know CSS, you can always use the Simple Ad Code Generator.
