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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 at it, give me a vote!).

Basically several people may write the same Knol (collaborative). The experts can also enjoy the AdSense revenue on the site. There might be several knols for a certain subject (unlike Wikipedia).

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 hope you’ll find them useful!

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 many downloads, and a lot of people do not purchase. Some of them use the free version (if they earn less than 50$), some probably use a crack (yeah…) but some simply decide not to buy. Hopefully I’ll get a few answers, and it might help me make this a better product. I’ve added the survey to the un-installer of version 4.0.1.

Now I have another decision to make - what to do next? I have decided to start a new software project… Stay tuned!

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 with several more OLED companies, and should post some new interviews pretty soon.

U3, Spintronics and ExpressCard have been updated. I’ve made a new template (graphic wise). It looks lame, but it is at least consistent with my main sites, so it’s easier to work with. When/If the traffic will grow, I’ll have someone design the sites with good looking graphics.

Results of all this work? October has been the best month ever (both in AdSense revenue, and in total Metalgrass revenue).

So now I have to decide what to do next. More small sites? Or maybe start working on a larger-scoped project? Or invest even more time in OLED-Info? Not easy decisions.

Check this out - a video review of AdSenseLog. It’s pretty cool!!

It only works in Explorer (well, at least on my desktop, Opera and Firefox didn’t work correctly).

The review also appears in Times on line, and The Sun (!), and other places.

Rather cool.

I’m devoting most of my time now to finish a new version of AdSenseLog. I’m doing a complete re-write, with much better code than before (at least I hope so). I really enjoy it, and hopefully it’ll turn out a better product too.