Google Adsense for Parked Domains

December 17th, 2008 IBabel 2 comments

Google are rolling out their Adsense for Domains product, initally in North America but soon to be worldwide.
What is Adsense for Domains?
This allows Adsense publishers to carry Adsense adverts on undeveloped, or parked domains – thus opening up another income stream that can be managed via your Google account.
Publishers will be able to add and [...]

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Domain Development Q&A

December 13th, 2008 IBabel 2 comments

Well – Darrin emailed me with a question, wanting to know what to do with 3 domains he owns. I thought this was a good opportunity for me to give him a few quick ideas, and also for anyone out there in Babel-Land to make any other suggestions.
Darrin has three domains, NO money and wants [...]

Google Friend Connect Hits The Streets

December 9th, 2008 IBabel 3 comments

A few months back, Google announced that they would be releasing a product that would allow easy integration of Social Networking features within websites and Blogs.
As of 4th December the Beta release of FriendConnect has been unveiled – and Google are accepting signups (to go on a wait-List i believe) for a phased roll out of [...]

Newspaper Blogs – A New Traffic Source

December 3rd, 2008 IBabel 1 comment

Here’s a nice little idea for maybe getting a different audience to come to your Blog or Website.
Plenty of News and Newspaper Websites have areas where you can comment on news, but there are a few that actually let you have your own Blog as well.
For example, the Telegraph and the Independent (both are respected [...]

Upgrade Your Wordpress

November 29th, 2008 IBabel 2 comments

A new WP exploit has been reported- and a new release (2.6.5) issued to address it:
“The system does not properly filter HTML code from user-supplied input in the ‘HTTP_HOST’ header parameter before displaying the input. A remote user can submit a specially value to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the target user’s [...]

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Melvin For Sale?

November 27th, 2008 IBabel 3 comments

The Melvin Blog looks to be up for sale:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1127119
From the sale thread:
Details
* Page views/month: 30,000
* Uniques/Month: 7,500
* Technorati Rank/Authority: 50000
* Feed Subscribers: 110+
* Alexa Rank: ~150,000
* Backlinks: 12000+
* Number of posts: 83
* Indexed pages in Google: 165
* Rank On top Make Money Online Blogs: 124
* Traffic Mostly from US and Australia
What’s included in the sale?
The [...]

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Facebook Bid For Twitter Rejected

November 26th, 2008 IBabel 1 comment

Talks over Facebook’s $500m stock offer for Twitter have broken down, partly because Facebook’s ‘paper value’ has probably dropped considerably in recent downturn. For the time being  at least, any deal appears to be dead.
Twitter is the current Web darling, and there is a spate of third-party development going on to produce Twitter related apps and [...]

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DigitalPoint Under Attack?

November 25th, 2008 IBabel 3 comments

For all of you trying and failing to get onto DP Forums the last few days, it appears to be under a concerted flood attack.
It’s basically been down for me for the last 3-4 days – sometimes I can get in but never for more than a minute or two. 
From the chatter on this interweb [...]

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Expansion – a New Internet Babel

November 20th, 2008 IBabel 6 comments

Time for a new approach for Internet Babel.
Look across the ‘mid-range’ MMO/IM Bloggers (and even the ‘top’ Bloggers, as I’ve mentioned before) and you see a lot of the same stuff – the latest affiliate schemes, our ’success’ stories, competitions, so-called ‘black-hat’ rubbish and paid reviews.
IB has been as guilty of that in the past as anyone,and [...]

Google Adsense and Analytics Integration

November 17th, 2008 IBabel 2 comments

Well, it wasn’t a hoax and at last Google have finally introduced a level of integration between Adsense and Analytics.
This is still being rolled out at the moment – I don’t have any details on the rollout process so I’ll just have to wait for my invite but it looks to have some useful features [...]

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