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Advertising Optimization Update – Dropping Chitka

It has been just over a month since I decided to try to optimize the advertising revenue for this site, and I’d have to say that overall it has been extremely successful. But, I know that I’m nowhere near being done (my goal is to have Steve Read More... Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 4:28 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

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Optimizing For Adsense and Web Based Advertising

If you happen to have hit my website recently (instead of reading it thru an RSS Reader) you will notice some changes in the advertising on the site. When I first started with Google Adsense I just slapped the ads into the pages, not giving much thought Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:43 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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Giant Microbes and Rory Blyth

A couple months back John Scalzi (my favorite, new, sci-fi author) had a blog post with a picture of his daughter and some of her new “friends”, plush toy Giant Microbes . The obviously staged, frightened look on her face while looking at Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 9:51 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

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Community Members Selling Ads on Free Community Blog Sites

In my opinion, there is something fundamentally wrong with people that think that it is alright to sell advertising space on their freely hosted community blog site. I have absolutely no problem with the community owners selling ads (hey, it costs time Read More... Posted Monday, December 05, 2005 10:22 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

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NJ Private High School Bans Blogging

This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen it a while. Pope John XIII Regional High School in Sparta , NJ told their students to “dismantle their Myspace.com accounts or similar sites with personal profiles and blogs. Defy Read More... Posted Monday, October 24, 2005 8:37 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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Searching For an Adsense Keyword List

Seems as though there are lots of folks out there trying to figure out how to make some money using Google's Adsense program, and they are looking to find an Adsense Keyword List. Rather then going out and doing the same thing, I'm wondering if Read More... Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 12:49 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

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Google Ads – Results From First Month

Seeing that Google recently changed their terms of service, and now allows you to publish your GoogleAds earnings, I figure that I have an obligation to the readers of this blog to let you know that I’m now $18.12 richer for adding GoogleAds to Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:25 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

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Now With GoogleAds

I finally broke down and added some advertising to my site. I’ve noticed that a lot of my friends have added them, and I was curious to see what sort of money the ads can bring in. I really don’t expect to make much (if any), but I might as Read More... Posted Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:52 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

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Blogging For College Admissions and Scholarships

Yet another of my family has started blogging (my wife started blogging last year on her site, SqlDiva , but does not blog often enough). I’d like to introduce you to my oldest daughter’s blog OrganizedDrama . Actually, she has been blogging Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:58 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

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Happy Solstice!

If I didn’t know better I would think that John Scalzi read my mind while summing up the whole “Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays” issue with the post, Merry Christmas, You Godless Jerk . If you enjoy that post, then definitely go on and Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:02 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

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Sci-Fi Writer and Blogger - John Scalzi

If you are a sci-fi fan and like Heinlein’s work, you may want to check out a newly published sci-fi book “ Old Man’s War ” by John Scalzi. He has a bunch of other (non-novel type) books, but this is his first published book (he Read More... Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 8:30 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

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My Update Blogroll Now On Bloglines

I've been using Bloglines recently (since I can't install RssBandit on my client machine). I think I finally got all the blogs I read added to it, and I've decided to publish my blogroll . I've only got just over 100 blogs listed. Somehow it feels like Read More... Posted Friday, August 27, 2004 8:15 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

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DonXml.Com Blogging Stats

I’ve published this information previously, but I thought I’d update it for everyone. The idea behind publishing this info is to give other self hosting bloggers some sort of benchmark to compare their stats against. I don’t claim to Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:02 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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Steve Smith – Blogging From Iraq

This is old news for most of the readers who develop using .Net, but I know that there are at least a few of you that may not know of this info. Sometimes I forget about the non-techie readers, and figure that most of my readers already know this stuff, Read More... Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 11:44 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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Friends Don't Let Friends Browse the Internet Campaign

I was thinking about the series of blog campaigns over the weekend to help secure our friends and family's PCs by installing the latest patches, anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, and decided that we shouldn't stop there. So I am creating the Friends Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 6:40 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

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