Darren Rowse has an interesting article on one adsense user’s experience with Multiple AdSense Accounts, never mind that I thought multiple accounts were against the TOS.
It’s interesting, though, that your hobby site with low CTR can negatively impact on your optimised site with high CTR. Either the click is worth something, or it’s not?!!
There’s a discussion thread at DigitalPoint on this and I suspect some people are going to be very disenchanted. As for Smart Pricing - that was new to me but you can find out more. I did find this:
Maximum cost-per-click - The maximum cost-per-click (CPC) an advertiser is willing to pay. Our Discounter automatically reduces this amount so that the actual CPC the advertiser is charged is just one cent more than the minimum necessary to keep his/her ad’s position on the page.
but this doesn’t say anything about one site affecting another.
I’ll keep checking, but right now I have a daughter and homework to oversee 
see also: One poorly converting site can “smart price” an entire AdSense account
I checked in at GoogleBase this morning and found that all of my articles were inactive, bar 3 which had been disapproved (and guess what topic they covered :))
In the past I’ve been able to search and find them, not so today. I renewed my bulk upload and it was instantly accepted.
Problems remain however and Google doesn’t seem to be tackling the issues
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I just saw a forum post asking the difference between -> and => and it’s one of those tricky questions to research, just how can a search engine understand what you’re asking?
Well, luckily the answer is quite simple.
-> is used by objects to set, get or call a method of that object.
Ref: Chapter 18. Classes and Objects (PHP 4)
=> is used by arrays to describe the relationship between the key and the value
Ref: Arrays
Here’s an example of how the -> is used in a class (more…)
Mike Dammann from BlogParty is one of those people with infectious optimism and energy. His blogs are spawned all over the web and I lose track of what, where and why.
BlogParty now seems to be just a blog, with the forum moving back to it’s blogparty.com domain. Lets hope the hosting is more reliable than some of the others used!
So, to try and drum up some attention, he’s offering $250 in a prize draw for bloggers mentioning BlogParty. The only problem is that by blogging about it you’re likely to increase the number of contestants and reduce your chances of being picked. Damn Dammann!
My children have just decided that they want to enter the BMX Nationals at Cambridge this Easter so we had a big flurry to get the qualified as there were only 4 NQM race meets left and we had to do 3! It’s meant two weekends full of travel to races, standing in the heat and dust - and that’s just us! They have to do alot of hard work. (more…)
Well, it would make a lot of sense wouldn’t it?
I’m surprised Maxx & co haven’t smelt the CRC and decided to cash in on their existing, but seemingly idle infrastructure.
3 trains a day on Saturday and Sunday
I’d run 3 trains each weekend day up to Helensville, one early in the morning, one arriving in Helensville in time for lunch and another later in the afternoon. (more…)
I’m not sure I quite “get” GoogleBase just yet - in as much as Google is already indexing my sites so why do I need to submit my content all over again into this system… and who would actually use it to find stuff - surely the standard Google Search Engine is doing a good enough job?
I received my newsletter from the phpClasses today and noticed that there was a tool to make it easier to upload articles and information to GoogleBase so I thought I’d give it a try.
PhpBase
The code is still quite new and there are only a few options but it’s easy enough to extend and use. Documentation is needed and I’m sure it will follow. Given that the author appears to be Spanish I think it’s already pretty good. (more…)
