Archive | June, 2007

Finally i bought a car

Posted on 28 June 2007

Yesterday i’ve been out of town to buy a car, a 2006 Ford Focus Hatchback and i was very happy. But my country’s laws suck so i have a lot of trouble with the documents, i have to get back to the town i got it from to the mayoralty and then to the one […]

New adsense features: Corner styles

Posted on 27 June 2007

Google Adsense now offers the possibility to the user to choose from three corner styles: square corners, slightly rounded corners and very rounded corners. The new option can be found in the “Adsense Setup” tab from the Google Adsense account.
Google has done some improvements lately to improve the look of ads, but the CPC rate […]

Chitika is trying to expand

Posted on 26 June 2007

The so called “blog dollars” company is trying to expand and has announced both through a press release and on their blog that they are looking to acquire blog networks. The company states that it has ads placed on 12,000 blogs that generate over 1 billion monthly impressions and they want to grow bigger by […]

Try harder

Posted on 15 June 2007

Last Friday i went to a restaurant and it happened that a girl i was with knew the owner and i spoke with him. He came from a family that couldn’t offer him everything that he wanted, so he had to grab it by himself. Usually, people like him get a usual job, with a […]

Yahoo redesigned search results pages

Posted on 10 June 2007

Yahoo has redesigned it’s search engine results pages and it seems to look much better, web 2.0 style, with AJAX and modern functions. See for yourself here.

Live.com grabs more of the search engine market ?

Posted on 10 June 2007

Relying on Alexa’s stats, Live.com’s traffic has considerably increased in the last year and it seems like it will soon reach Yahoo and Google. But if we look at mostly used search engines stats, it didn’t grow much, so Alexa is wrong or the users are using Live.com for everything else, excepting searching the web […]

Recommended wordpress plugins

Posted on 10 June 2007

Wordpress is a plugin-based blogging software and there are thousands of plugins available for it. But not all are really useful, so i will recommend you the ones i’m using and i really need.
1. Akismet is a preinstalled plugin and it protects you against spam. It is not 100% perfect, but almost. It sometimes tags […]

Logoree.ro - for romanian fellows

Posted on 10 June 2007

A new romanian website has been released by a romanian fellow, that lets it’s user share with others what they are doing at the moment they are writing. The users can share crazy ideas, their boredom, if they are at work, for example or everything they want.
So, romanians, visit Logoree.ro and let other find out […]

How to be a successful webmaster - part 2: Branding

Posted on 07 June 2007

The brand is very important for your readers, because it will make them return on your website, talk about it and will keep it in mind. But it isn’t quite easy to brand yourself, being composed of more parts, like the domain name, website title, your name or nickname, logo and website design.
Name or nickname
This […]

Google Adsense news

Posted on 07 June 2007

Google Adsense has made an improvement and is preparing us another one. Now we can place ads on password protected pages, too.
Here is what you have to do to place Adsense on password protected pages:

Log into Sitemaps using your AdSense login. You must be using your AdSense login in order for any changes you […]