I recently added a second web proxy to my network, Rasta Proxy. The other proxy in my network is Unblock YouTube dot Com. I am growing my network more slowly than most and try to build up traffic and SEO before moving onto the next one. So far, Unblock YouTube is doing well as it is ranking #2 on Google [...]

In a surprise announcement today, Microsoft has offered to purchase Yahoo for $44.6 Billion. If Yahoo’s board approves it will be the largest acquisition in Microsoft history. The $31 per share offer marked a 62% premium for the stock. Yahoo has been struggling of late to compete with online search giant Google, which is suffering from slower profit growth itself. [...]

For the first time in Google’s three and a half year history, quarterly earnings missed analysts estimates. I saw the potential for this scenario during a post I made in January because of the program changes Google made that I feel would adversely affect profitability. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google shares drop under $500 in trading Friday. The reputation [...]

Google stock is down significantly in the last couple days of trading, along with the market as a whole. Google is reporting earnings soon and has been growing at an impressive pace each quarter but there is now some doubt about the company’s earnings going forward. Specifically there has been a lot of talk that Adsense revenue for web publishers [...]

I’m not sure if it is just effecting this blog or if earnings are down across the Internet during the month of December. I haven’t been noticing slow traffic, but CTR is down considerably and thus total earnings. I am in the process of expanding my online earnings out of just this blog and my Credit Card comparison site. I [...]

I have just begun utilizing AdsBlackList.com to help optimize Google Adsense by eliminating low paying ads from the ones that get displayed on my pages. ABL is a free and paid service that will list all of the Made For Adsense and Low Cost Per Click pages for your particular niche and allow you to input those address into the [...]

In Google’s attempt to diversify its business outside of search they recently announced an ambitious effort to develop cheap renewable energy in part to offset their own massive electricity needs to power one of the world’s largest computer systems. Google wants to build a 1.6 Megawatt solar panel array to help power its Mountain View California headquarters. This is a [...]

Following up on my previous post about commenting your way to a higher PageRank, I would like to share an amusing and informative tool I came across today. SmartPageRank offers a free online tool to analyze several statistics about your website. Some of the metrics you can analyze include PageRank from up to 67 Google datacenters, age of your domain, [...]

JohnCow.com, that parody blog of a popular Internet entrepreneur had a post recently about a free product called Comment Kahuna. This software helps you uncover blogs with high PageRank and do-follow enabled comments. Leaving do-follow comments has long been used as a means of increasing your own site’s PR. The only problem has been in finding these blogs that will [...]

During the process of updating the blog I have redone the Google Adsense code and noticed a new feature that will make the lives of web publishers a whole lot easier. That feature is called “Manage Ads‘ and enables publishers to change the ad parameters on their website without altering a single line of code! Once the Adsense code is [...]