Adsense Ad Bug!

I wrote to Adsense about a bug in their new adsense ads for displaying multiple color backgrounds. It seems when enabled on a web property, the ad comes out in black! Adsense support quickly came back to confirm that there was a bug that was causing the black background in an ad to appear when […]

Google keyword tool:Why the difference in values?

I had my staff use http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal to estimate the average cost per click of selected keywords. I myself used my adwords accounts and used this https://adwords.google.com/select/main. While both tools are from google, I have found that the average cost per click of the same keyword is higher (by about 200-300%) when compared with the values […]

Error using Adsense Multi Palette

The idea is tempting. To combat ad blindness, we rotate the color of the ad banner. Google Adsense allows this throught the use of the multiple palette option. I enabled this by choosing up to four color palettes and then embedding the new code into one of my sites. The problem is, where the google […]

Analytics Shootout Results

Eric Enge’s article on analytics is spot on in putting light on why different analytics packages, produces differing results. Eric is the President of Stone Temple Consulting. He is also a founder in Moving Traffic Incorporated, the publisher of Custom Search Guide, a directory of Google Custom Search Engines, and City Town Info, a site […]

Publicly Open Analytics

I stumbled upon this site: QuantCast that comes close to what i wanted to have for some of my sites, as i had blogged on “Google Analytics Wishlist“