JohnTP brought this to my attention today. Google have announced that you can now use 3 link units per page with Google Adsense. Previously, publishers were restricted to 1 link unit per page. I’m not sure why google have increased the number of link units but im not complaining!

This should be good news to the majority of adsense publishers, particuarly those who have some spaces available in their ad areas. On the whole i personally find these link units to be very flexible and blend much better with the content around…

I posted about BlogStorm a few days ago. In the last few days i have been using the site to check incoming links and i’m finding myself loving this site more and more each day. It really is an essential site for checking incoming links to your blog.

Yesterday, BlogStorm announced a wordpress plugin which allows you to add your blog’s incoming links graph to the dashboard area of your blogs admin panel. They claim to be adding additional plugins for the tracking service soon so i’ll do my best to keep you…

When i logged on today i quickly realised my server was down again. Unfortunately, my server is with Servstra - great support but a terrible amount of downtime. This has been the last straw and in a few weeks i will be moving to a different hosting company as they have lost me a lot of money with my sites being down in the past. Due to me travelling, i was not in a position to migrate the 70+ sites i have hosted on my server therefore it will have to…

One of the most common mistakes i see in blogs is unrelated advertisements in the sidebar or banner areas. This mistake is causing bloggers to lose out on thousands of dollars in commissions.

The first thing you need to remember about affiliate marketing and making money on the web in general is that advertisements which are targeted perform infinitely better than ones which are not.

What is an unrelated Advertisement?

An unrelated advertisement is simply a text or banner ad which is placed on your blog which has nothing to do with your…

If you’ve recently moved to your first hosting package you may be struggling to get to grips with getting the files you want online. This guide should explain how you upload your blogging files and images online to the webspace you have with your hosting space. If you still have some questions at the end of this guide please let me know and i will clairfy and update this post accordingly

Step 1 - Choose your FTP Client

In this example i will be using Netfile however the steps i will be…