Google’s new image search page

Jan

28

2013

Google have launched a new layout for their image search, they say this one is better for users and webmasters. Personally I think they are on shaky ground here and are pretty much scraping the images from other sites to then present them in a slideshow format to their users. There is a link to ...
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General

Making Money from your Website

Jan

15

2013

At some point, whether you started your site out for fun or set out to create an online business, you are probably going to want to make some money from your website or blog. Whether you are looking to make millions or just cover the cost of your web hosting I hope this article and ...
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Making Money

Adsense reporting delayed

Jan

10

2013

Not sure how widespread this is but this evening my Adsense Performance Reports are giving a message saying: “We’re sorry, some data in this report is delayed, please try again later. There’s no impact to ad serving or payments.” I’ve seen it before but never sure if a problem or just them updating something. I’m ...
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Adsense

Happy New Year!

Jan

9

2013

Well I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. I’m hoping 2013 will be better than 2012 in terms of business, though things here in the UK do not look great. However, most of the revenue from my sites is from the USA….hmmm. Anyway, I’ve added a new resource page called Advertising ...
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What Screen Resolution? 1

Dec

18

2012

When designing a web site one of the big decisions to make is what screen resolution you want to optimise for. I guess the flippant answer is all of them or make a liquid design than will shrink and expand according to the resolution of the user browsing. However, that is often easier said than ...
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Web Design

Google Page Speed and CloudFlare 6

Dec

18

2012

A while ago I experimented with using CloudFlare on a few of my sites. CloudFlare is designed to improve user experience by speeding up how fast your website loads. The company says “give us five minutes and we’ll supercharge your website.” Essentially what these services do is step in-between where your site is hosted and ...
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Web Hosting

Adsense 300×600 restricted to one per page

Dec

13

2012

Adsense, Google’s partly contextual advertising solution for publishers, recently launched their biggest ad size. The 300×600 ad format allows for more of the so called brand-friendly image ads that other advertising networks often offer to advertisers. These are popular due to their size and potential impact on readers, they are pretty hard to miss. However, ...
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Adsense

For the Love or the Money – Starting a Website or Blog

Dec

13

2012

I reckon a lot of people who start websites fall into a couple categories. Folks who are interested in a topic and want to share that knowledge and passion with others and people who want to make money from working on the Web – give up working for the man, that 9-5. Sometimes it’s a ...
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Welcome to Site Scene

Dec

10

2012

My name is James Wray, I’m 39 and I’ve been working online full-time since 2004 and dabbling with sites since 2001. Currently I own or co-own about a dozen sites, the main one being Monsters and Critics, which is an entertainment news and review site. I also have some arcade sites, a tech site and ...
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