See Video here of the 2 million dollar employees holiday party.

Google made an announcement about AdSense for domains extension to all publishers on 11 December. This would means that all the AdSense publishers will be allowed to displayed AdSense ads on their undeveloped domains to generate extra AdSense revenue. Anyone that owns one or more domain names that left unused (have no website built in) can apply for this program.

To get started, check out their setup instructions, and visit the Help Center for more information.

ContextWeb

ContextAd provides a dramatic increase in click throughs, resulting in higher effective CPMs. Matching the most appropriate spots to the most appropriate advertisers translates into the ability to better manage and sell inventory. Additionally, the technology’s unique ability to bridge keyword and category targeting means it can access new inventory that publishers can offer advertisers, creating entirely new revenue streams. These factors represent critical competitive and economic differentiators in the rapidly evolving contextual advertising category.

• Monetize your existing inventory. Create new inventory.
• Customize creative to suit the look and feel of your site.
• Online reports show you real-time revenue. Access them online 24/7.
• Business terms are fair and transparent.
• Sign up is easy. Start using ContextAd within minutes.

• Adsense by Google - The biggest and the most profitable publisher’s program.
• Adlandpro -
• Adbrite - Best alternative for adsense and next in popularity.
• Chitika - Best alternative for adsense and next in popularity.
• Bidvertiser - Another alternative for adsense with same ad lay-out.
• Clicksor - Pays up to 85% to it’s publishers.
• Advertising.com - One of the biggest and pioneer in publishers advertising network.
• 24/7 Real Media - Advertiser and publisher program. Best for american audience.
• Burst Media - Another program paying in CPM
• Commission Junction - One of the biggest advertiser and affiliate network available wordwide.
• Knoodle - pays upto 50% of ad revenue.
• Linkshare - Another big affiliate network for publishers.
• Valueclick - Another great program best for bloggers.
• Yahoo Publisher Network -  Not available worldwide.
• Widget Bucks - Not available worldwide.
• MSN Adcenter - Microsoft-own publisher network. Still in beta stage.

We’re giving away 1 of this year’s hottest phones, along with $400 cash in this Adsense+Chitika | Premium placement contest!

Since one of the best ways to earn the most revenue is by using AdSense and Chitika | Premium together on the same page, we thought we would hold a contest to see who has the best AdSense + Chitika | Premium setup.

What do you mean by AdSense + Chitika | Premium setup?
We mean anywhere on your site where you are running AdSense and Chitika | Premium on the same page. For example - look at this screenshot:

What are the Prizes?
There are 3 prizes:
GRAND PRIZE - Winner will receive their choice of:

• Google/T-Mobile G1 Android phone
• Blackberry Storm
• Apple iPhone 3G 8Gb

RUNNERS UP - 2 runners up will receive $200 each

More information here

Top 10 fastest-rising queries on Google during 2008.

Sarah Palin
Beijing 2008
Facebook login
Tuenti
Heath Ledger
Obama
Nasza Klasa
Wer Kennt Wen
Euro 2008
Jonas Brothers

Most searched in the UK.

Facebook

BBC

YouTube

eBay

Games

News

Hotmail

Bebo

Yahoo

Jobs

11 ways to promote your website

1. Social Bookmarking
2. Post in newsgroups
3. Press releases
4. Email to VIPs
5. Article submission
6. Reciprocal Links
7. Forum Posting
8. Directory submission
9. Word of mouth
10. Post ads to free classifieds
11. Blogging

Some of the world’s most popular websites have been penalised by Google in what may be the first round of a wider battle about how much power the search firm wields over the internet.

The Washington Post, Engadget - the popular gadget blog - and Forbes, the business publication, are among the sites to have had their Google rankings lowered after they were found to be embedding ‘paid for’ links on their pages - a practice the search company is keen to stamp out.

Google said it had lowered several sites’ PageRank - a mark it gives them out of 10 which is supposed to reflect how useful they are - where they had been found to be receiving money in return for linking to sites so that the latter could in turn perform better in search queries.

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