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Life is nothing without goals: 2008

Yesterday, I talked with my friend Steven. We’ve been friends for many, many years. However, he has selected a much different path than mine, and we haven’t talked much recently. The main thing that struck me from our conversation is that he doesn’t know what to do with his life. What to spend his time on, what kind…Continue Reading…

AdSense Wide Skyscraper Test Results

Which do you think is better: a wide skyscraper with blue links and no border, or one with red links and a gray border? My testing shows that the blue links and no border outperform the other by 73%. Did you get it right? Here’s another one to test your optimization abilities. Which performs better…Continue Reading…

Google AdSense Image Ads

I just swapped the text ads on the GoogleCommunity.com channel “GCvBGuest2ndLargeRect” for text and image ads. In 2 weeks, I should see how the performance compares. I might be leaving a lot of money on the table! Do you have any experience comparing earnings between Google text ads and image ads? Which earned you more,…Continue Reading…

24 hours of Firefox

I’m currently running Level 3 (Dead-Serious) Explorer Destroyer on this blog. Let’s see how it goes. These are my stats from WP-ShortStat from before the switch (I haven’t had it installed for a long time, but I don’t expect it to have changed much from here): Browser % Browser Version % Crawler/Search Engine Indeterminable 33%…Continue Reading…

Invision Plus now serving AdSense & YPN

Invision Plus is now serving 50% AdSense, 50% YPN — for US visitors only. International users will see AdSense.

Four ad units

I’ve added a link unit to the header, a small button below the title, a small rectangle after the post, and a half banner after the comment box. Let’s see what happens.