Ron Mertens’ blog

It’s been a while since I posted here… but don’t worry – I’m still alive.  Busy, but alive.  Abigail is still taking up most of our time. She’s growing nicely (well, not a lot, weight wise) and getting more fun by the day. Now it’s mostly saying “Abba” to everything and everyone (pointing randomly at [...]

I’ve started a new blog – one for Metalgrass. So anyone looking for updates on AdSense, AdSenseLog and the web sites, will most likely find it there… Enjoy!

There’s a new boy in town – Google Knol. The knol (as in knowledge) is a wikipedia of experts. Anyone can write a knol on subjects that he knows about (for experts…). I gave it a try, and written a knol about OLED, and about AdSense. Check it out, it’s rather cool (and while you’re [...]

Check out this nice blog post about AdSenseLog.
“So now I’m refocusing on content sites and with some of them focusing on CPC rather than CPA, AdSenseLog will be a central tool in my decision-making process.”
Interestingly he found out about it in a Facebook Ad – guess my ads there are paying off.

My latest toolbar (yeah, another one) is one for AdSense publishers. This one is more interesting than the last ones, because I actually coded a component in there to display your latest AdSense stats. A mini AdSenseLog, which is free… It turned out pretty cool I think
AdSense Toolbar

Google made some changes to their web site, and I had to change AdSenseLog. Luckily it only took a couple of hours, and I released the new version.

Hey.
A lot of people have asked me recently for help about writing web pages. From actually writing it, to hosting, domain name choosing, how to make money, AdSense, how to attract visitors and more.
So after a few long discussions about the same issues, I decided to write some simple guides. And here they are -
http://www.ronmertens.com/guides/webPage/
I [...]

I’ve updated the Metalgrass site. A few graphical changes, and some text-copy change. I’ve also started to write a “Metalgrass blog”. Please tell me what you think!
So I expect that all technical-metalgrass-adsense issues will now be written in the Metalgrass blog. If you want to stay updated, please start reading that blog as well.
http://www.metalgrass.com/blog

I finished development of AdSenseLog v4.5.0…
I have added a new feature… I don’t want to discuss it yet (hush hush), but it’s already in beta testing with a few clients. I hope they’ll give me good feedback.
Another thing I have added is a short survey when people uninstall the software. I find that I have [...]

I finally finished working on my current 5 sites.
OLED-Info has been updated to a CMS system (drupal). This was a lot of work (mainly to convert the old data), but it’s been worth it. Traffic has gone up, and page views has a doubled. Revenue has also doubled, more or less. I’ve got in touch [...]