Google Adsense referrals: weird earnings - New payment model

February 2nd, 2007 by Stefan Juhl

I just logged in to check my Adsense stats and I was surprised when I noticed that I had 2 conversions for Google Adsense. But I was even more surprised to see that I only got paid $10 for them ($5 each). That’s very weird to me since as far as I know it is […] Update: Adsense payment model changed and payments increase: $5 when a user you’ve signed up earns $5 and when the user has earned $100 you’ll get an additional $250.

Posted in Random Stuff, Monetization | 5 Comments »

Krak.dk who’s attacking deep linkers are much worse

January 22nd, 2007 by Stefan Juhl

In the weekend it was reported that Krak.dk demands a $1000 payment from a blogger deep linking to their site. But Krak.dk aren’t exactly saints with their scraped texts and 100.000’s of deep links – including deep links to sites that clearly prohibits it and haven’t granted Krak.dk permission to deep link.

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I got a sneak peek at del.icio.us’s source code

January 19th, 2007 by Stefan Juhl

Making the right request at the right time can sometimes give interesting results. A good example is an hour ago when I got access to parts of del.icio.us’s source code. I bet you’d like to see it!

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Feedburner issue: Is the Firefox subscriber count inflated?

January 9th, 2007 by Stefan Juhl

Are you using Feedburner for feed stats? If you do and if you’re almost jumping up to dance on your desk in happiness of your many subscribers - then don’t read on unless you’re ready to become disappointed! The truth is that Feedburner’s ‘Firefox Live Bookmark’ subscriber count is very inflated.

Posted in Random Stuff, Blogging | 15 Comments »

Missing out on simple features to increase usability

December 28th, 2006 by Stefan Juhl

There are quite a few details and features that will highly increase usability of websites and online services. But often, many miss out on these opportunities to improve the user experience. In the last couple of days I’ve noticed several of such simple features that was “missing”.

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Bored? Check your spam mail subjects…

December 5th, 2006 by Stefan Juhl

Just recently my smtp server was configured so it respond as being busy and tells other servers to try again later. This is a real spam killer since most spam isn’t being sent with real smtp servers. Now I only receive about 30% of the spam mail I got before. As a side effect to […]

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Getting back on track after PubCon in Las Vegas

November 23rd, 2006 by Stefan Juhl

I spent last week in Las Vegas attending PubCon the WebmasterWorld conference. It was an awesome time that I really enjoyed. I got to hang out with some friends I don’t see too often and I met some interesting new people there.
Some of the people I met there was a couple of black hatters that […]

Posted in Random Stuff, Black Hat SEO, White Hat SEO, Link Building / Bait | 1 Comment »

aHosted.com, don’t steal my design!

September 26th, 2006 by Stefan Juhl

So this guy from aHosted doesn’t seem to care about copyrights. At least not when it comes to web design. He stole a design I had a designer do for me. Unfortunately he wasn’t smart enough to avoid it being discovered. What is even worse is that this guy actually offers it to others in […]

Posted in Random Stuff, Legal Issues | 5 Comments »

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