Olaf just passed the magical mark of rank 100,000 at technorati. Looks like the blogotition is over and I lost big time…
Well actually I am the biggest winner if you look at the details, sure I’m only ranked at position 220,000 and a bit, but considering our starting positions my blog has gained the most (almost 900,000) so I lost $10 to this bet, but got my blog noticed I think!
Here’s a cool concept: buy a link and the price doubles, now if someone else buys for the new price, you get your money back (but you get to keep your link) On the next round you get the same amount you paid again, so you just doubled your money. This is Advertising 2.0 at mmmzr.
The only problem is that the price of the links go up unbelievably fast and will soon hit a point where people will probably not buy anymore. Not a real problem for me though, I’ve doubled my money and actually gotten quite a few visitors from the site! 
First there was site-search, that you can add to your website, to let visitors search your site by using the Google search-engine. This great feature will save you a lot of time, writing a search function for your website.
But what if you want your visitors to be able to find information on other sites as well? Now there is Google co-op which will search all sites you have added to the search-engine. You can now create your own search-engine that is specialized on a certain topic and it will not show all the MFA sites in the results.
What’s even cooler is that you can make a little money with your own search-engine by adding your AdSense code to the result pages!
The Google Webmaster Tools have been enhanced with some great new features. You can now see graphs of Googlebots activity on your website. The graphs show you how many pages the bot read and how many kilobytes of data it downloaded from your site and the average time it took the bot to read the site.
If you see that the bot is using too much of your bandwidth, you can tell it to slow down on your site. If you want more visits from the Googlebot, simply tell it to crawl faster…
Another nice addition is the link counter on the Google Sitemap. For each sitemap you submit you can see how many links the map contains. If you are creating the sitemaps on autopilot, this is a nice feature to check if big G has received what you expected it to receive.
If you’ve been looking for ways to make more money with AdSense you’ve probably come across Michael Cheney’s AdSense Videos. Michael Cheney is one of the top internet marketing gurus around and after being in this business for over 10 years, he makes close to $20K a month just with AdSense!
In his AdSense Videos Michael shares his AdSense strategy and secrets with us. His videos are easy to understand and a lot more fun to watch than reading one of the many AdSense e-books out there.
The AdSense custom channels tracking has been taken to the next level, you can now add more than one custom channel to a single ad unit. With this change you can create better performance statistics for your ads. You could for instance create two custom channels to track the ads displayed in the top of your page and the ones displayed in your side menu, while this type of custom channel use has been available for a long time, you can now also add a second custom channel to your ads so you can track the difference in clicks on different ad colors you are using on the same ad blocks on your site.
Up until now you had to create a custom channel for each ad unit on each page to be able to get a detailed ad performance overview. The multiple custom channel usage lets you create overlapping groups of ads, this will eliminate the need of downloading your AdSense reports and using a different application to create your detailed stats.
Trying to get the most out of the AdSense program I’m often checking my earnings, which can take up some time. Looking for a better way I found a cool Firefox extension today that displays your AdSense earnings right in your browser window: AdSense Notifier
So whenever you’re surfing the web you can see your earnings and with a single click you will be taken to your AdSense account so you can have a look at the details.
Most webhosting accounts come installed with awstats which is a very nice traffic statistics program, but lately I’ve been using Google Analytics more. The only thing I didn’t like on the Google Analytics page was that the number of websites you could track was limited to 10 sites. Going over my website stats I just noticed that this limit is gone now!
If you have a members website, people often sign up and then never return again. Even if they liked your site, they may not return, simply because they forget about your site.
You can get them to visit your site again by simply sending them a reminder, of the existence of your website, in the form of a newsletter. Be sure to make the mail you send out useful, don’t spam your users, they don’t like that. The newsletter could be a short overview of new things that have been added to the site, or other useful information on the same topic.
People are really noticing our Blogotition and 4 of the blogs in the competition are now listed as the top blogs on the web! All but Wineo’s blog are listed on the 43 Best Blogs website, which is a compilation of millions of votes. I guess Wineo is not in the list since he is bribing his readers to help him win the blogotition…
Well actually the 43 Best Blogs list is a list that can be edited by anyone, just visit the site and hit the ‘edit’ button to get yourself listed. While it is quite a cool concept, this is an open invitation to spammers to get their word out… Do us all a favor, if you get to the site and find it full of ring tone links, hit the history button to roll back that last change (and maybe add this blog while your on the edit page 
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