Category Archives: Blogging

10 Ways To Make Your Blog Professional

If blogging is your profession, then appearance is everything. An employer wouldn’t hire a potential employee if he came dressed in jeans without a tie – but that employee could have been the best employee he would have ever hired. … Continue reading

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Upcoming blog features

I’m looking towards adding new features to my blog to make it more community orientated. For members of EyeOnSilicon.co.uk, I’d like to offer the following: Webmail with POP3 / SMTP – your_address@eyeonsilicon.co.uk Personal Home Page (with RSS feeds) That’s it … Continue reading

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Pros & Cons of AdSense Interest-Based Advertising

Google recently announced interest-based advertising as a new feature for AdSense. They also announced that publishers would need to change their privacy policies – and anything that invokes a change to a privacy policy will be sure to get the … Continue reading

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The characteristics of an ad clicker – AdSense Research

Landed in the middle? Read my first post regarding what kind of persons clicks ads. I’ve been spending some time building my user defined variables in Analytics. At first, I made the mistake of believing you could define multiple variables. … Continue reading

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My Analytics AdSense bug fix worked!

In my previous post, No clicks reported for AdSense in Google Analytics, I provided a fix for a bug in Google’s JavaScript that prevented clicks from being recorded on secondary accounts. I’d just like to let everyone know that my Analytics … Continue reading

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What kind of person clicks ads? – AdSense Research

Something that has bothered me for a long time is this obsession with knowing who is clicking  the advertisements. And when I say who, I am speaking stereotypically. Are clickers in their 20s, 30s, 40s? Male or female? Is there … Continue reading

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No clicks reported for AdSense in Google Analytics

When I first heard that Analytics could work with AdSense, my virtual computer nipples hardened in excitement! At last, I will know what my content is worth! More than a month later, I am still helplessly awaiting this knowledge. AdSense … Continue reading

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Is blogging paying off?

When I started blogging, I wondered how long it’d be before I was earning billions of dollars. Let me tell you, I’ve still got some way to go. Since I really started working on monetising the blog, I’ve earned the … Continue reading

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Make your blog more entertaining with illustration

It’s a rather simple concept – but adding pictures to your blog makes it all the more interesting to read. Finding a good picture can sum up your entire post, encouraging visitors to read on. The picture of the light … Continue reading

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PostLove Update Released

Update 0.1.2 for PostLove has been released. There was a bug in the plugin activation that prevented the PostLove statistics table from being automatically created. You can download PostLove here.

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