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Payday Loans online make many rich.

More official inaction: Vehicle title loans, a Vancouver Sun headline today reminded me of the topic that is fascinating to all. The item started as follows: The province is inching closer to regulations that will cap — whether tightly or loosely is anybody’s guess — the maximum interest rate on payday loans.

For quite some time I ran affiliate marketing ads in my feed using the PostPost plugin I developed for Wordpress and Commission Junction advertisements. It wasn’t really a source of any significant revenue, though, perhaps a few dollars a month.

Adsense Video Units are now available for Indian Adsense users

Google Adsense is touting these benefits -

1. Choose categories, individual content providers, or have Google target your site's content.
2. Earn revenue from relevant, user-friendly ads targeted to your site and to the videos being played.
3. Attract and retain users with highly relevant, frequently refreshed video from popular content providers.
4. Customize the color theme and layout of the player to best fit your site.

How do you do this ?

Here is the FAQ on Video Adsense Units to your rescue -

Here are some sample examples of how not to place Adsense ads (ie how not to confuse your site visitor to click on the adsense ad mistakenly)

1. Ads shouldn't be placed under a title or section heading in a way that implies that the ads are not ads.

2. Ads should be easily distinguishable from surrounding content.

In case you missed it, here is the complete round up of YouTube APIs and Tools.

Is it great saying goodbye to Google Adsense Referrals ?

Here are some of the answers regards to Non availability of Google Adsense referrals in future you might be seeking -

When you say ‘AdSense Referrals’ are being retired, does this only mean the program where I refer publishers to AdSense?

No, all referrals will be retired. This applies to referrals for AdWords advertisers, as well as for Google products.

Anybody using Google Adsense Referrals must have received the intimation email regarding discontinuing Google Adsense Referrals. You also have glaring note on your Adsense steup page.

All fine. But today I am seeing this on my Google Adsense Reports display screen

July 2008 Optimization Report

Dear Publisher,

Here is your optimization report for the month of July. After an automatic review of your sites, we think you might be able to improve your monetization using the following tips:

I guess you got this mail…

____________________________________________________________________________________

Hello,

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program.
We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense
Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate
your patience during this transition and here are some alternative
options to consider:

This slide most likely produces moans and groans when I display it in front of my fellow techies. I have to show it, though. There have been very discreet movements on the web in the past. We had Web 0.0 which was basically text and bulletin boards. Remember those days? Waiting for the image to load line by line with your 1200 baud modem! (Yes, I know I’m old!)

Web History

Web 1.0 really became the hoard and control era. AOL (remember ‘enter keyword CHEVY) had a great grip on the net and more and more gateway sites appeared on the Internet. If you wanted someone to find you, it cost you dearly with a banner ad on a regional website.

Digital Inspiration reports that Video Ads with “opt in feature” are visible on the Google Main Page. The ad shows a visual with a “Watch Commercial” link.

[Am hoping that these ads will fetch higher rates for Google since it is served only on-demand when requested by the user.] says Amit.
News & Image Credits : Amit [...]