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	<title type="text">Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; AdSense</title>
	<subtitle type="text">News and views from a Software Architect and Web Entrepreneur on Java, PHP and Web 2.0 Technologies.</subtitle>

	<updated>2009-10-11T17:57:52Z</updated>
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			<name>Bureau News</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google draws upon expertise in search advertising to sell more visual marketing messages]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-09-18T08:31:39Z</updated>
		<published>2009-09-18T04:03:15Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Adwords" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Information Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Microsoft" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Yahoo" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="California" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Computing And Information Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Mountain View" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="North America" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="San Francisco" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="United States" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google injects search savvy into display ad system
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. is counting on the crown jewel of its online advertising empire to burnish a diamond in the rough.

Hoping to take an even bigger bite out of ad budgets, Google has melded the technology powering its lucrative search marketing network with a system that [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google Adsense FAQ EURO Reports for Publishers from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=9798</id>
		<updated>2009-05-22T15:35:54Z</updated>
		<published>2009-05-22T15:35:54Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google adsense faq EURO" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google adsense FAQ for people from France Germany italy netherlands spain" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google adsense FAQ for publishers" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google adsense faqs" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Since introducing reports of Euros for publishers located in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain, The buzz of inquiry was building up with numerous unanswered questions about this launch. For publishers in these regions, Google adsense has addressed some of the key concerns today with a newsletters. As we got this FAQ from Google, [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google Adsense Finally Increases Competitive Link Filter Limit to 500!]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=7300</id>
		<updated>2009-04-08T20:07:04Z</updated>
		<published>2009-04-08T20:05:48Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="adsense link filter for google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="competitive link filter" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google adsense competitive link filter" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On a rather unceremonious way, Google has increased the Competitive link Filter for Google Adsense to 500. They haven't gone official about it as yet. If you are into Google adsense, you must be excited by now and for those who don't know about it, Google AdSense provides the functionality to block specific ads from [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How to make millions of dollars by blogging]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-make-millions-of-dollars-by-blogging/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=7137</id>
		<updated>2009-04-04T23:06:50Z</updated>
		<published>2009-04-04T21:45:23Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Humor" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="India" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Claim" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="get rich quick" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="make millions by blogging" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It is simple, really. The technique described here is so simple that you won't be able to believe your ears. I have been observing it over the years and soon realized it is a great money making technique to follow. I now present you the greatest money making technique online in 5 simple steps and [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>4</thr:total>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google Retires AdSense Video Units]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=6827</id>
		<updated>2009-03-28T11:14:34Z</updated>
		<published>2009-03-28T08:47:45Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google Video" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Just now I received the email from Inside AdSense team announcing "sunsetting" (nice use) of video units features. Let's hear it in their own words:
As you may know, we frequently review our products and features to ensure their effectiveness. After reviewing our AdSense video units feature, which allows you to show YouTube content and ads [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google AdSense Displays New Interactive Ad Type: Better or Worse?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-displays-new-interactive-ad-type-better-or-worse/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=5941</id>
		<updated>2009-03-09T10:56:14Z</updated>
		<published>2009-03-09T10:50:48Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Taragana" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google AdSense is showing a very interesting and highly interactive new ad type on our site. For example, the ad shown on the left is from one of our pages (click on the image to view it) where it shows popular hobbies in India along with a Google search box which is presumably usable.Wait, there [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google AdSense aplogizes for lowering revenue]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-aplogizes-for-lowering-revenue/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=5936</id>
		<updated>2009-03-07T11:34:46Z</updated>
		<published>2009-03-07T11:34:46Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Yesterday, for around 10 hours, Google AdSense served  less relevant contextually-targeted ads instead of regular context sensitive ads, thereby lowering revenue for many sites for the day. Unfortunately Google will not be adjusting it manually to compensate you for the loss either. In the words of Arlene Lee from AdSense:
We wanted to let you [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google Adsense Brings out Expandable Ads -Your Take?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-brings-out-expandable-ads/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=5821</id>
		<updated>2009-03-05T14:52:07Z</updated>
		<published>2009-03-05T14:52:07Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="adsense expandable ad" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google Adsense has come out with a new concept as expandable ads, a new type of ad that can appear on your pages. Expandable ads are rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of the ad unit, following a user-initiated action. This creates more real estate for the ad, allowing for more [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Will Google Ban Me if I Accidentally Click on their Ads on My Site?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/will-google-ban-me-if-i-accidentally-click-on-their-ads-on-my-site/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=5312</id>
		<updated>2009-02-24T15:46:03Z</updated>
		<published>2009-02-24T15:44:48Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Information Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="adsense ban" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="google adsense policy" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Are you a budding web admin or a blogger? The all important Google God is of prime importance and consideration if you wish to earn from your blog ads. They are almost the sole source of income for you when you are starting.  So better not to offend them. And anyway, many complain that Google [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Is Google in Trouble?]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2944</id>
		<updated>2008-10-20T02:56:39Z</updated>
		<published>2008-10-18T04:09:12Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Enterprise Software and Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Social Networking" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdWords" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Expense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdWords" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Justice" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Say" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="TechCrunch" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[This might come as a surprise to you in light of their recent Q3 results in which they beat forecasts by 31% increase in revenue. However let's look at the clear and omnious signs that even Google is not recession proof and may be in more trouble than you realize.
A million servers and counting&#8230; The [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google AdSense Changes Its Own Rule for ImDB?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-changes-its-own-rule-for-imdb/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2793</id>
		<updated>2008-09-03T19:02:00Z</updated>
		<published>2008-09-03T19:00:45Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="SEO" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I don't get Google AdSense. Last year with great fanfare they announced making the text of the ad non-linkable while keeping the title and URL linkable. This lead to immediate loss of huge revenue by publishers worldwide. And yet they are glaringly violating their own rules for ImDB.

The Google AdSense ad on ImDB site has [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Sharing Experience with Google AdSense For Feed]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sharing-experience-with-google-adsense-for-feed/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2775</id>
		<updated>2008-08-29T15:22:30Z</updated>
		<published>2008-08-29T14:41:41Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Marketing" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Yahoo" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense for Feeds" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Feed Advertisement" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Yahoo Publisher Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="YPN" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Please share your experience with Google AdSense for Feeds. My experience is pretty dismal so far. How bad is it?

Let's just say I didn't make exactly zero but very very close and an equally bad CPM after trying it for couple of weeks. Do you have a better experience with Google AdSense for Feeds or [...]]]></summary>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Bug in Google AdSense]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bug-in-google-adsense/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2774</id>
		<updated>2008-08-29T06:42:56Z</updated>
		<published>2008-08-29T06:42:56Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I had Google AdSense running on Health Care blog for a long time. What I didn't notice was that it wasn't making any revenue despite the traffic, and displaying AdSense ads. It wasn't even showing the page impressions, not just not regular channels but also on url channel for the blog!

I found that it contained [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bug-in-google-adsense/#comments" thr:count="3"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bug-in-google-adsense/feed/atom/" thr:count="3"/>
		<thr:total>3</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google Provides Wife Sharing Guide for iPhone 3G Customers!]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-provides-wife-sharing-guide-for-iphone-3g-customers/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2754</id>
		<updated>2008-08-20T08:08:22Z</updated>
		<published>2008-08-20T08:08:22Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Humor" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="iPhone 3G" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Wife Sharing" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bravo Google AdSense! Every day I am losing my faith in Google technologies. How could any context sensitive technology in the whole wide world think wife sharing guide is relevant to people interested in iPhone 3G? I would rather have no ads than ads for wife sharing on my blog.

You may find non-relevant Tribal Fusion [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-provides-wife-sharing-guide-for-iphone-3g-customers/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-provides-wife-sharing-guide-for-iphone-3g-customers/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[My Big Mistake With Google AdSense Section Targeting]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-big-mistake-with-google-adsense-section-targeting/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2735</id>
		<updated>2008-08-14T15:24:15Z</updated>
		<published>2008-08-14T04:03:35Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="SEO" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense Section Targeting" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense Section Targeting" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google is" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Things" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was one of the early adopters of Google AdSense section targeting technology for getting more contextual ads. Almost as soon as it came out I implemented them to highlight the key content of the site (or so I thought) for AdSense. However I made a BIG mistake.

First let's look at the relevant documentation from [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-big-mistake-with-google-adsense-section-targeting/#comments" thr:count="6"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-big-mistake-with-google-adsense-section-targeting/feed/atom/" thr:count="6"/>
		<thr:total>6</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Amazing AdSense Relevance With Context Sensitive Ads]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/amazing-adsense-relevance-with-context-sensitive-ads/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2686</id>
		<updated>2008-07-21T15:01:59Z</updated>
		<published>2008-07-21T15:01:59Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Humor" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="WordPress" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Context Senstive Ads" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am continually amazed at how relevant ads (context sensitive advertisement) AdSense serves on certain articles. Here is a recent example on my post about future WordPress plugins.

A simple quiz: How many bloggers (using WordPress) are interested in fairness cream?
The only logic could be that AdSense is targetting the female demographic of my blog. Any [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/amazing-adsense-relevance-with-context-sensitive-ads/#comments" thr:count="2"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/amazing-adsense-relevance-with-context-sensitive-ads/feed/atom/" thr:count="2"/>
		<thr:total>2</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How is Amitabh Bachchan&#8217;s Blog Relevant?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-is-amitabh-bachchans-blog-relevant/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2671</id>
		<updated>2008-07-11T02:17:29Z</updated>
		<published>2008-07-11T02:17:29Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am seeing Amitabh Bachchan's blog's AdSense ads on my blog. How is Amitabh's blog relevant to my blog? AdSense quite often does a real poor targeting these days. I am looking forward to move this blog over to alternate ad providers.
]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-is-amitabh-bachchans-blog-relevant/#comments" thr:count="3"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-is-amitabh-bachchans-blog-relevant/feed/atom/" thr:count="3"/>
		<thr:total>3</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Guide: How To Recover Google AdSense Password]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-how-to-recover-google-adsense-password/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2594</id>
		<updated>2008-06-04T03:08:43Z</updated>
		<published>2008-06-04T03:05:07Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense Password Retrieval" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google Accounts" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Recovering Google AdSense password is now relatively easy because of its recent integration with Google Account. I have provided a step-by-step guide to recover your AdSense password for every situation. Save this page for emergency.

Case 1: You remember your AdSense Login (email address) but forgotten your password
Do you have access to the email address used [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-how-to-recover-google-adsense-password/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-how-to-recover-google-adsense-password/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Simple Formulas for Context Sensitive Advertising &amp; PPC Advertising]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-formulas-for-context-sensitive-advertising-ppc-advertising/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2583</id>
		<updated>2008-05-30T09:31:28Z</updated>
		<published>2008-05-30T07:53:24Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdWords" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Cases" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Clicks" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Context Sensitive Advertising" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="CPM" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="CTR" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="eCPM" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Expense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eye" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Fraud" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdWords" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Page Impressions" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="PPC" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[You have commonly heard terms like eCPM, CPM, CTR, Page Impressions, Page Views etc. What do they really mean. How are they related to each other? Let's explore these terms and their relations.

Page Views / Page Impressions
 = Number of pages in your site which were viewed by a human visitor. In Google AdSense or [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-formulas-for-context-sensitive-advertising-ppc-advertising/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-formulas-for-context-sensitive-advertising-ppc-advertising/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google AdSense Increases Electronic Fund Transfer Facility To 27 Countries]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-increases-electronic-fund-transfer-facility-to-27-countries/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=2580</id>
		<updated>2008-05-29T16:53:16Z</updated>
		<published>2008-05-29T16:53:16Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="EFT" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Finland" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="France" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="India" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google AdSense now supports automatic Electronic Fund Transfer to local bank accounts in 27 countries. With EFT, your earnings will be directly deposited into your bank account so won't need to wait for checks to arrive in the mail and clear at the bank. 

Signing-up for EFT simply just involves entering your bank account information, [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-increases-electronic-fund-transfer-facility-to-27-countries/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-increases-electronic-fund-transfer-facility-to-27-countries/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Is SplogSplot (Splog Detection Site) Dead?&#8230; I Hope Not]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/</id>
		<updated>2008-01-20T04:30:44Z</updated>
		<published>2008-01-20T04:30:44Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Vegas" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[SplogSpot is service that keeps track of spam blogs or Splogs. The splogspot spam database can be queried by using the SplogSpot API. A nice idea. Is the service appears to be dead since March 2007?

The recently updated splog dump from SplogSpot has the latest entry from 20th March 2007:
Casino Club Las Vegas - 07:45 [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-splogsplot-splog-detection-site-dead-i-hope-not/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How Google Product / API Pages Can be Spammed]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/</id>
		<updated>2008-01-10T11:17:10Z</updated>
		<published>2008-01-09T16:18:33Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Spam Watch" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google dutifully provides a forum for each product / API they launch. They also graciously decided to display 3 recent articles from their forum on their highly ranked product page. It appears that the forums are not actively monitored by Google staff as they are already being abused for spamming. Here is an example (click [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-google-product-api-pages-can-be-spammed/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google Down!]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-down/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-down/</id>
		<updated>2008-01-08T15:25:58Z</updated>
		<published>2008-01-08T15:25:58Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="GMail" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while  blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

Google country search sites like google.co.in and google.co.uk are down too.
I don't know what affected Google, but whatever it [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-down/#comments" thr:count="6"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-down/feed/atom/" thr:count="6"/>
		<thr:total>6</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[My 5 AdSense Resolutions For 2008]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-5-adsense-resolutions-for-2008/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-5-adsense-resolutions-for-2008/</id>
		<updated>2008-01-07T16:44:02Z</updated>
		<published>2008-01-07T16:44:02Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In response to Google AdSense teams resolutions for us here are 5 AdSense resolutions I have taken for 2008 wrt. AdSense:

1. Get out of AdSense
AdSense is flaky. I want my business to minimally depend, if at all, upon Google AdSense. I have enough reasons for heartburns without adding AdSense to the mix.
2. Compare it with [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-5-adsense-resolutions-for-2008/#comments" thr:count="1"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-5-adsense-resolutions-for-2008/feed/atom/" thr:count="1"/>
		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Text-Link-Ads New Tips For Beating Google (PageRank Penalty) Asks Bloggers To Sell Their Integrity]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/text-link-ads-new-tips-for-beating-google-pagerank-penalty-asks-bloggers-to-sell-their-integrity/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/text-link-ads-new-tips-for-beating-google-pagerank-penalty-asks-bloggers-to-sell-their-integrity/</id>
		<updated>2007-11-22T13:29:17Z</updated>
		<published>2007-11-22T13:29:17Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Company" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Text-Link-Ads" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Text-Link-Ads upped the ante in their fight against Google (in their effort to help people buy page rank) with the following "tips" for bloggers:

Our advertisers don’t like ad blocks that are titled “Sponsored Links” “Advertisements” “TLA” “Text Link Ads” etc. They prefer no heading but if you do use a heading please consider using an [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/text-link-ads-new-tips-for-beating-google-pagerank-penalty-asks-bloggers-to-sell-their-integrity/#comments" thr:count="11"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/text-link-ads-new-tips-for-beating-google-pagerank-penalty-asks-bloggers-to-sell-their-integrity/feed/atom/" thr:count="11"/>
		<thr:total>11</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How To Detect AdBlock Plus]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-detect-adblock-plus/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-detect-adblock-plus/</id>
		<updated>2008-10-20T00:12:22Z</updated>
		<published>2007-11-12T11:57:20Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Firefox" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Marketing" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Open Source Software" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="JSP" />
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[AdBlock Plus is a controversial Firefox plugin to prevent ads from displaying on web pages. There is a simple procedure to detect (and take appropriate action) AdBlock Plus.

The idea is to dupe itself in thinking that a Javascript is from a well known advertising site like Google AdSense or falkag.net. Here is a code snippet [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-detect-adblock-plus/#comments" thr:count="4"/>
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		<thr:total>4</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[AdSense Rolls Out Simplified Ad Management]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adsense-rolls-out-simplified-ad-management/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adsense-rolls-out-simplified-ad-management/</id>
		<updated>2007-11-20T15:22:22Z</updated>
		<published>2007-11-06T15:04:23Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google is rolling out a much needed and requested feature for AdSense, the ability to tag ad slots and modify them without having to change the ad code. The ad slots can they be modified centrally from your account. Link
]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adsense-rolls-out-simplified-ad-management/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adsense-rolls-out-simplified-ad-management/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Blogging As Knowledge Repository&#8230;]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blogging-as-knowledge-repository/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blogging-as-knowledge-repository/</id>
		<updated>2007-11-05T10:22:02Z</updated>
		<published>2007-11-04T07:05:52Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Friends" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Things" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Travel" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Every blogger has their own reasons for blogging. Many these days do it for the money, other for fame or to keep in touch with their family and friends. I do it for one simple reason&#8230;
I learn lots of things everyday and I forget lot of them too. I don't want to remember topics which [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blogging-as-knowledge-repository/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blogging-as-knowledge-repository/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[AdSense Going Bonkers?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adsense-going-bonkers/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adsense-going-bonkers/</id>
		<updated>2007-11-04T06:37:57Z</updated>
		<published>2007-11-04T06:37:57Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="July 7th" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Travel" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Why" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why in the world I am getting overseas travel insurance ads on my highly technical blog?

I am not talking about an individual page where I can understand that Google Media bot haven't crawled yet. I am talking about the front page!
The only time I talked about travel insurance was in July 7th. 
The other ad, [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adsense-going-bonkers/#comments" thr:count="3"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adsense-going-bonkers/feed/atom/" thr:count="3"/>
		<thr:total>3</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Guide To AdSense Electronic Fund Transfer]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-to-adsense-electronic-fund-transfer/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-to-adsense-electronic-fund-transfer/</id>
		<updated>2007-09-18T18:14:59Z</updated>
		<published>2007-09-18T18:14:59Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Australia" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="France" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Mexico" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="YPN" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[AdSense supports Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) for direct deposit of you AdSense income in 26 countries. Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) directly deposits into your bank account, in your local currency, to greatly speed up and simplify the payment process. You do not have to take the hassle of submitting your check every month nor do [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-to-adsense-electronic-fund-transfer/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-to-adsense-electronic-fund-transfer/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Free Google AdSense Online Webinar]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-google-adsense-online-webinar/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-google-adsense-online-webinar/</id>
		<updated>2007-09-18T13:53:17Z</updated>
		<published>2007-09-18T13:53:17Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Event: What's New with AdSense Webinar.
Description: 	AdSense support specialists will provide an overview of the latest features in AdSense as well as a refresher on the top support issues every publisher should know.
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:30 pm India Standard Time (Bombay, India) or Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:00 am Pacific Daylight [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-google-adsense-online-webinar/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-google-adsense-online-webinar/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Nielson Ratings Scraps Web Page View Rankings To Accomodate AJAX]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nielson-ratings-scraps-web-page-view-rankings-to-accomodate-ajax/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nielson-ratings-scraps-web-page-view-rankings-to-accomodate-ajax/</id>
		<updated>2007-07-12T16:25:56Z</updated>
		<published>2007-07-11T18:47:27Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Marketing" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="SEO" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Nielson / NetRatings, a leading online measurement service, will scrap rankings based on page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites.

New technologies like AJAX, podcasting &#038; online videos make page views less meaningful. How much time someone spends on the site is more reflective of its popularity than simply page views.
I [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nielson-ratings-scraps-web-page-view-rankings-to-accomodate-ajax/#comments" thr:count="1"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nielson-ratings-scraps-web-page-view-rankings-to-accomodate-ajax/feed/atom/" thr:count="1"/>
		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Why is My Google AdSense eCPM Tanking?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-is-my-google-adsense-ecpm-tanking/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-is-my-google-adsense-ecpm-tanking/</id>
		<updated>2007-07-12T16:28:57Z</updated>
		<published>2007-07-09T20:24:48Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Why" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It appears Google is heavily compensating for my increased traffic with significantly lower eCPM these days. It is about 60% of what it was a month or two back. Why does Google penalize for increased traffic? Any thoughts? Or does it expect us to give the traffic to someone else like YPN for example?

Any ideas?
My [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-is-my-google-adsense-ecpm-tanking/#comments" thr:count="4"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-is-my-google-adsense-ecpm-tanking/feed/atom/" thr:count="4"/>
		<thr:total>4</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google AdSense versus Yahoo Publisher Network: Review]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-versus-yahoo-publisher-network/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-versus-yahoo-publisher-network/</id>
		<updated>2007-07-02T13:31:25Z</updated>
		<published>2007-07-01T18:43:28Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="YPN" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I use both YPN &#038; AdSense. Read below for a summary of my experience with both Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN).

Ad Relevance / Targeting of YPN &#038; AdSense
AdSense provides much more relevant ads than Yahoo publisher network in general. 
However YPN provides publisher the ability to select ad categories for their website. There [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-versus-yahoo-publisher-network/#comments" thr:count="3"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-versus-yahoo-publisher-network/feed/atom/" thr:count="3"/>
		<thr:total>3</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How To Open Google AdSense Spreadsheet Data in Linux]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-open-google-adsense-spreadsheet-data-in-linux/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-open-google-adsense-spreadsheet-data-in-linux/</id>
		<updated>2007-05-16T19:35:43Z</updated>
		<published>2007-05-16T19:35:43Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="AdSense" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Fedora Core 6" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Linux" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Linux Migration" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Open Source Software" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google AdSense allows exporting the data in CSV format, suitable for Microsoft Excel. It doesn't open in Mousepad, Gedit or even in normal spreadsheet programs under Linux. Here's how you can open and use it under Linux.

Open the file in KSpread and choose Unicode ( utf16 ) as its encoding. Also select Tabulator as delimiter [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-open-google-adsense-spreadsheet-data-in-linux/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
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		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
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