Archive for January, 2010
These two days I got really puzzled with Google Adsense. My page impressions were really high but apparently no clicks were registered on my page for the adsense. I wonder what went wrong. So ended up I started researching over the internet about Google Adsense click not registered. This was when I chanced upon this new tool called statcounter.com
This is a real time tool that shows you where visitors came into the site from and where they exited the site to. One of the really useful things about this is the fact that they could help track if someone actually clicked on the links in your adsense. This does provide a counter as to whether Google Adsense if just simply faking your click rates.
I would not have changed upon this site had I not found my adsense revenue to be suspiciously non-existant
I came across this very goood and informative article on online advertising revenue streams and hence copied and paste the whole thing here for personal references
Google AdSense is the most popular contextual advertising network currently available on the internet. Many webmasters and bloggers earn money through this service. It’s available for anyone completely for free, AdSense is supported internationally – wherever you are!
But, unfortunately, many users simply can’t join this service – since Google don’t want to approve their requests. Also, many bloggers and webmasters are banned from Google AdSense, because they have broke Google’s terms. Once you get banned from Google AdSense – it’s very hard to re-enable your request!
Fortunately, there are many similar contextual advertising networks available for free. Of course, all of them allows you to earn money per click, like Google AdSense do.
6 Google AdSense Alternatives
1.) Clicksor – Clicksor is very good and quality Google AdSense alternative. Allowing you many advertisement types at good click-through-rate. Allowing you to use Contextual and many other ad types that are not supported by Google. (read review)
2.) AdBrite – One of the oldest and most popular advertising networks on the net. Advertising through AdBrite gives your visitors opportunity to buy advertisements on your sites easily. In other way, giving you related contextual ads to earn money through. (read review)
3.) Bidvertiser – Bidvertiser is professional contextual advertising network. Offers you only contextual and feed advertisements. Very similar to Google AdSense. Giving you opportunity to earn money by displaying related textual ads on your site. (read review)
4.) Chitika – Chitika is founded in 2003. It is the leading blog advertising company with a network of thousands of blogs and websites and hundreds of name brand advertisers and merchants. Offers you to earn money by using many ad techniques and options. (read review)
5.) Text Link Ads – This service is not actually contextual advertising service. TLA allows you to earn money by selling text and inline text advertisements on your site or blog. Choose price and sell textual advertisements on your site with this service. (read review)
6.) Yahoo! Publisher Network – Yahoo are currently playing catch up to Google and are trying to release their own context sensitive advertising service. This promises to be an excellent alternative to Google Adsense but in reality is likely to be a simple copy with the same restrictive terms and conditions as Google, including $100 minimums on payouts. Right now it’s not available internationally.
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Recently I started working on Things To Do Singapore again.
Apparently the javascript libraries were getting quite thick and this was affecting the loading of the interface.
There is the use of the following :
- Xajax Library
- Jquery Library
- Google friends Connect Api
- Facebook Connect Api
- SWFUpload Library
After much observation I realised the SWFUpload Library sometimes takes too long to load and fails as well causing the whole interface to fail loading at time seriously affecting usability of the site. Perhaps this might be to cause of the high bounce rate I observer from my Google Analytics of 80%.
I spent this morning thinking how to go about solving this problem and this was the method I came to
Javascript library should be classify into two groups as critical and non-critical to user experience.
The Xajax Library, jQuery library are considered critical to user experience
The Google Friends Connect library as well as the Facebook Connect library are not often employed. though these two library are too tightly integrated with the core achitecture. Perhaps it was a bad design choice.
SWFUpload is not often used by other users and hence rarely employed.
Having done the proper classification, I next work on loading the SWFUpload asynchronously after the other library and interface has loaded. This in face drastically reduced improved useer experience. It reduced user waiting time as well as at the same time reduced the error rate of the loading interface.
This was how I did it.
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
loadScript(”http://thingstodosingapore.com/swfupload/swfupload.js”);
loadScript(”http://thingstodosingapore.com/swfupload/swfupload.queue.js”);
loadScript(”http://thingstodosingapore.com/swfupload/fileprogress.js”);
loadScript(”http://thingstodosingapore.com/swfupload/handlers.js”);
//alert(”swf loaded”);
});
function loadScript(sScriptSrc) {
var oHead = document.getElementById(’head’);
var oScript = document.createElement(’script’);
oScript.type = ‘text/javascript’;
oScript.src = sScriptSrc;
oHead.appendChild(oScript);
}