MInTheGap

Many of you have probably heard of PayPerPost, but have you heard of the new service from IZEA called SocialSpark?
The main difference between SocialSpark and PayPerPost is that there is a social network surrounding SocialSpark that is only on the forums of PPP.
So, that means that you have a profile, that you can make [...]

Well, there’s been a few tweaks, but so far the Ad Manager seems to be running smoothly.  As is always the case, bad data in means bad data out.  I had a few cases of some ads not showing images because Performics had urls with two “.”s before the com– “xxx..com/xxx”.  After I fixed [...]

“So, where is he going with all this?”  I hope that’s your question.  Well, what I’m hoping to build is a ad management system for my blogs, and maybe someday for a blog network.  Sure, I could have bought a system, but this has been more educational in terms of technologies, and the up front [...]

So, we talked last post about Randomizing ads– so that you never see the same ad when click on the site.  We also discussed filtering by category, so the ad is a little bit closer to the topic of the post.
This has a lot of benefits, but it also means a little bit of work [...]

When you’re running a blog that covers different topics, you’re rarely going to want to show the same ad every time the page is refreshed– unless it’s something you figure that you’re really good at selling.  Why?  Because every person is different and comes to your blog looking for something different.
To the person that likes [...]