Now if this is not a bogus message, then it is hot !

Google announced a new product to select publishers today, indicating a move away from their Adsense CPC network.

The new Google advertising program shall be called the Content Referral Network and will pay webmasters when a user completes a specific action – see definition of CPA campaigns

So this differs from Adsense where the only thing necessary for a webmaster to earn money was to have someone click … now they need to buy or fill out a signup form or whatever…

It is easy to fake a click. It is much more difficult to fake a sale.

What does this mean for web publishers?

• the average spam scraper webmaster will have a hard time to get people to by stuff with his non-credible sites
• those with professional visitors, traffic that might be in buying mood could be winners…

[via Monetize]:

when I rambled about the private porno released by Paris Hilton back in 2003 I found it really funny to see how such a rather skiny, unattractive girl was making herself famous by quite objectable ways…

However the last days I found a ton of traffic for Paris hilton sex tapes loaded on my weblog, even taking it down for 2 days (because I had the outage on the weekend and no reasonable alert mechanism in Drupal mysql connect – until yesterday)

Google Sitemaps shows me that keywords that I’d never track for show up with pretty high rankings… and take down the site from time to time.

The first “official” link vaultage selling auction on e-Bay ended at a price of $1306 for 50,000 vaults for 3 months, with a price cap for that same value after 3 months.

Just today I noticed that 2 days ago on the weekend my blog at http://www.marketingfan.com/ with an ugly MYSQL fatal error

I filed a bug with drupal as I believe such fatals should be reported via email and/or SMS pager …

However we are back up again and Drupal didn’t lose it’s charm

Meanwhile you want to read about some gerat reasons for Drupal

Drupal logging – the error target I have on my wishlist there is exactly what could have helped me here…

Flexible Data modelling

Regardless of what Adimpact told on their site, Brian asked them again and the answer is pretty clear

The Domain Research Tool (a.k.a DRT) that I wrote about in January offers a big load of new features, that will improve your domain search experience

Therefore the new public release #22 is a good reason to sum up the new features… and play with them – Lots of cool new features…

Read on…

( note you can still download a free trail of the Domain Research Tool DRT and the MarketingFan promotion price is still active… save over $50 ! )

Starting today you can use the RSS to Google Coop converter hosted at MarketingFan tools.

This tool is hosted here, but was written by Pierre Rouarch’s.

I introduced it just yesterday when researching the options and chances of Google Coop

and – I am happy to anounce a major improvement for that tool to be released soon…

just got the following

[quote]
A revolutionary new adsense delivery system that claims to improve click through rates as much as 300%.
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and when I clicked on it…

WordTracker offers an interesting promotion today…

read on…

In addition to my recent post that Adsense publisher communication still sucks
I want to add that I found a forum dedicated to kicked Adsense publishers .

However, if you scan thru the typical forums like DP , WMW you will find even more people that are pretty turned down by Google! (well 153 pages of posts about getting kicked is QUITE a lot! )