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Here is a news story about making money with blogs. The money is from advertising and advertiser are beginning to realized that blog audience are highly targeted. Some blogs became so successfull that the owner sold them off and very likely made money ( a lot I believe) from the sales. One example is Weblogs Inc which was sold to AOL for a cool $25 million.

However from all the examples mentioned, it is not easy money and takes a lot of hard work. Nevertheless blogs are a new medium reaching the audience and investors are taking notice of and willing to buy over or advertise in them. This off course is good news to all blog owners.

Read more at Money.CNN.COM

Business 2.0: Blogging for Dollars - September 1, 2006

(Business 2.0) — Michael Arrington is a partying kind of guy. While showing off his home in Atherton, Calif., he boasts about how he crammed 500 people into his one-acre backyard at a bash in February. Then there are the official parties, like the one he threw in mid-August at August Capital, a nearby venture firm. Arrington posted an open invitation on his website at 3 a.m. By sunrise, all 500 spots were taken; the onslaught of traffic crashed his site. “I knew it would be fast,” says Arrington, who houses so many out-of-towners in his ranch home that he often isn’t sure who’s crashing on which mattress on which floor in which room.

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Further to my post on the unusual CTR, I received Google’s reply. The reply is standard, in it they thanked me for informing them and that they had taken note of the problem.

It is more than two weeks now since I deactivated Adsense Ads in this site and I am reactivating my adsense ads today. I am starting by activating the adsense plugins. I included this time Chitika Ads. The categories available in Chitika are not so relevant to the content of this blog so I use the special offers hoping that the offers would catch some ones interest . Anyway will still need to constantly monitored for any unusual activity in this blog.

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Below is a story I received in an email. I do not know if it is true or not but the morale of the story is

“Never underestimate your Clients’ Complaint, no matter how funny it might seem! ”

Here is the story:-

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A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:

‘This is the second time I have written to you, and I don’t blame you for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night, but the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we’ve eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It’s also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem…..

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