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Google’s open source web browser project released its first baby namely Google Chrome yesterday! The beta version of the new browser is available for free download for all. I took a quick look at the new browser with a lot of enthusiasm and Google, as usual, did not disappoint its end users at all! In fact, I was really wondering why Google waited for such a long time before launching a web browser of their own as their market is always around search and browse.

First impressions

Though the installation file download size is claimed to be 470KB, in reality it took quite some time to actually download and install the product on my Vista laptop. Finally on the disk, it occupied about 65MB of space which is much more than what IE, Firefox or Opera would take. But the bad thing ends there as when I clicked on the quick launch icon it was like I switched on a light bulb. The application load was so amazingly fast! Click Here to Continue Reading

A couple of weeks ago, the team at Performancing launched their newest blog advertising solution by name the PerformancingAds. Performancing has been experimenting around with various Ad services for a couple of years now and hopefully they will make it big this time around. Though I had prepared this review a few days back, I thought waiting until it started showing some results and the following are the findings from the initial trials.

A totally new concept and why?

The PerformancingAds brings in a new concept altogether by merging the traffic needs and monetary aspects of blogs. In other words, it is a solution invented by the bloggers for bloggers. So every aspect from traffic exchanges, appearance of their website and the ad blocks properties themselves have the emphasis of typical blogs’ and bloggers’ needs. Click Here to Continue Reading

Blogging could be a hobby, passion, addiction or routine for bloggers depending on how may months or years they were into blogging. The ability to write continuously could be further influenced by the motivation levels, returns in terms of monetary benefits and goodwill etc.

What is writer’s block?

Wikipedia defines Writer’s block as follows:

Writer’s block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to begin or continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity.

Lack of inspiration or creativity directly translates to not having enough topics Click Here to Continue Reading

Bidvertiser has been the main PPC ad program on this blog ever since my Google account started misbehaving. Initially, my Bidvertiser ads were giving only 7 or 8 cents per click and the click through rate (CTR) was very poor as well when compared to my Google AdSense experience. With a couple month long experiments, though, now I have reached a point where the average CPC is as high as 21 (individual clicks up to $0.48 so far). In this post, I would like to share some tips based on what I did to optimize my Bidvertiser ads.

Improving the CTR (Click-Through-Rate)

It is true that the bidvertiser ads do not look as elegant as their AdSense counter parts. I always thought that the Google AdSense ads somehow entice the readers to click on them where as Bidvertiser stock templates are a little bit repulsive. So our first aim is to fix this problem. Click Here to Continue Reading