Two weeks after I was told by Yahoo! Publisher Network that my application was denied, I received another email this morning stating that I had been invited and gave me a signup link. I am thrilled about this. Due to unknown circumstances (I honestly don’t know, I know I never violated TOS), Google randomly deleted my AdSense account. Actually the last two days I’ve been scouring the internet looking for a good contextual advertising for my sites. I was looking mostly into MIVA, Clicksor, and FindItQuick.
I’ve also been playing around with SaltWaterTalk in the background a lot. I’m in the process of designing a MediaWiki skin to use on the site for a fish and corals profile system. This way people can research information about species they may want to keep and if they can’t find something they can add it. So far it’s a challenge, so if anyone knows the ins-and-outs of MediaWiki I’d MUCH appreciate the help. The other thing I’ve been working on is minor ad implementation into the site. Basically I just want a banner at the top and then a single post-level ad unit. I’m using the AdMan plugin right now, but I’m looking at using the OpenAds system along with the WP-Openads plugin (installing as we speak). We’ll see how that goes.
The last thing I’ve been working on is getting some backlinks. This is harder for Google than Yahoo and MSN. In Yahoo! I have something like 3000 links, but in Google I’m not even recognized. This is probably because most of my backlinks so far are through comments on other people’s blogs, which usually have a nofollow tag. So after building links for Yahoo! and MSN this week, I’ll tackle getting a little link authority with Google next week.
Speaking of nofollow tags, at the inspiration of John Chow, I’m going to use the DoFollow plugin on my comments. This means you get free backlinks (and yes, even Google will count them) just by commenting. Hopefully I’ll be able to spark a little activity on this site.
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