Many publishers place images near their AdSense Ads to increase CTR (click through rate). Some believe that placing a visible line separating Ads and the image should be fine, while others argue that this method could get publishers banned.

The AdSense team has finally made it clear about their policy on images near Ads. Google asks publishers not to line up images and Ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the Ads. You are not allowed to do it even if you put a line between the image and the Ad.

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I have wondered many times on how hard it will be to get my blog to be one of the Top 100 Favorited Blogs in Technorati.

My curiosity increased when I saw a porn site on the 16th position of the Top 100 Favorited Blogs. So I thought if they can get that far, why can’t I?

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According to the Technorati-Powered widget created by Terry Ng, I am an A-List Blogger. The widget calculates links to your blog in the last 6 months and you get to be an A-list Blogger if you have 500 or more blogs linking to your blog.

With 540 links in the last 180 days, Technorati places www.johntp.com in the very high authority group. That makes you a A-List Blogger!

Ofcourse this is just a fun tool for Bloggers

A few hours back when I visited Digg, I found it to be showing a message that it was undergoing a redesign and will be adding some new features. Just now I visited Digg again and saw it’s new design.

Digg is launching several new features this morning that signal a strategic shift in the company’s all news focus to date. They’ve added a podcasting content area, enhanced the video area and are signaling that new content areas are coming as well. Among the changes, users will now be able to consume audio and video content directly on Digg. Another key feature addition is the launch of “Top 10 Stories,” which is a quick view of the ten hottest stories on Digg at any given time.

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My PC keeps giving me various problems and kept me offline again for days. So I bought a new PC using my AdSense Earnings.

The sad part is that I got the new PC with a few viruses and I had a tough time removing them as I did not have an Anti-Virus installed and the virus kept restarting my PC frequently

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StumbleUpon is a browser toolbar that let’s you discover websites, videos, pictures, etc according to your interests. It has been such a hit that they are launching a separate site for video referral called StumbleVideo.

Just like StumbleUpon, StumbleVideo will let you find interesting videos but without a browser toolbar, i.e, it works within the browser itself.

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Many publishers found AdSense testing a new type of “Ads by Google”. These are some of the screenshots taken by the members of DigitalPoint Forums:

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Currently 22 people have favorited JohnTP.com to their Technorati Favorites. I am looking forward to increase this by offering an exchange, i.e, I am willing to favorite your blog if you favorite mine.

You may also favorite the blogs of other readers here if they are interested.

Start by favoriting JohnTP.com by clicking here and then put your blog’s link in comments so that I can return the favor. Ofcourse I will be checking if you have favorited me, so please do mention your Technorati username too.

Update: Please don’t forget to mention your Technorati username, Blog’s URL and Tags with which I should favorite your blog.

Update 2: You may start a post like this on your blog too, but don’t forget to give me some link love on that post

Note: Comments have been disabled on this post as this was just an experiment. Read this post for more info.

The image on the left is a picture of Pierce Brosnan that I edited via a new service called PikiPimp that I found via TechCrunch.

PikiPimp let’s you upload your picture and drag and drop objects such as glasses, hats, eyes, wigs, etc on to it. You can then perform actions like rotating and flipping and then preview and save your final image.

The service is fun and easy to use. Don’t forget to share your images edited via PikiPimp with me

Readers Post is a plugin for WordPress that can list out the recent posts read by your blog visitors. It can also show the number of visits a post has had and the most viewed posts of your blog.

The plugin “Readers_Post” shows for each post how often it was visited. So it works as a posts-based counter. You can generate something like “This post was read by 40 people until now” under each post of your WordPress blog.Secondly you can display the most recent posts that were read by other visitors and the most visited posts of all time.The visits is counted in a seperate table, so an update of WordPress causes no trouble. The visits of the SiteAdmin will not be counted

To install, just upload the plugin to your wp-content/plugins/ directory and activate the plugin. Then use the code the author has given.

Rating: 3/5

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