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Why to Integrate Twitter / Facebook with Gmail

2010-02-16T05:54:00.000-08:00

Many bloggers around the world are crying for the privacy breach the Gmail has brought in especially the women about her ex-husband. We wanted to do a small analysis of why we would like to integrate Twitter / Facebook with Gmail Buzz.

1. Gmail Buzz is new and you would not have all your contacts stored as friends in Gmail and would require an external list of friends which Twitter / Facebook can provide.

2. Like Twitter Gmail Buzz is bond to grow faster than the baby in neighborhood and when it is big you would require tons of people who are following you.

3. Google is developing buzz and you would soon know that they have all their privacy features ready to share it with the world.

Gmail Buzz is not so bad in their approach. Google always came out with the invitation model for new launches but don’t why Gmail buzz was exempted.

Anyways Happy buzzing

You can learn on how to integrate twitter and Facebook with gmaill buzz.

Via Urbanread.com

Adsense is free and So is our Widget

2008-04-12T23:56:00.000-07:00

As you can see we have released our new ireadnews widget.With this compact widget what you get is a thousand pages Adsense advertising for free. Yes you heard it right once the widget is placed on your blog for every visitor that clicks on the news story you can approximately get your Adsense ad on thousand news pages.

The widget is completely free and so is Adsense.

Urbanread introduces YouTube Search

2008-03-22T18:38:00.000-07:00

Urbanread introduces Youtube Search:
Youtube search service from Urbanread is something we always wanted to do that is search videos with ease and offcourse watch them.Youtube has grown with ten fold now and their millions of videos posted are saying billion of words (Ok dont start multiplying) .We have launched this service for our visitors who are also Youtube fans .Hope you enjoy it.

What is AdManager?
Going forward on the Google Adsense front which we always cover, after the acquisition of DoubleClick the first thing Google did was to release out AdManager and this was done presumed to be done to accommodate the thousands of clients who have come to Google.The service will allow its users to manage its ad inventory.If you were a DoubleClick customer you would have heard of "Revenue Center" and AdManager is something close to it.

Inside AdSense: Introducing Google Ad Manager

Urbanread - New static Widget

2007-11-02T22:17:00.000-07:00

Get the new Urbanread static widget which brings the fixed number of stories from urbanread network and enables you to show them on your blog visitors in a more fashinable way.The widget sizes are simple and faster to load and more over instantly generating Adsense revenue.A glimpse of the urbanread static widget is below.

The widget was tested with Microsoft Internet explorer 5+ and Firefox and seems to be working fine with them.The above picture was captured on Firefox.(Thanks Erich for doing so).

Going straight to the Google Adsense site, they have added a new tab to your account page.The tab is a complete beneficial if you are searching for resources related to the Adsense.The tab is named "Resources" and contains direct links to the resources that Google has created for Adsense references.To read the blog post announcing this click here.One of the link under the tab is the success stories of publishers who make huge money with Adsense.

eCPM-Effective Cost Per impressions in thousands

2007-06-10T05:33:00.000-07:00

Any publishers who has been getting a valuable amount of revenue from Adsense would advocate that at some point of time he tried to rise the eCPM value for his website.So some of you who aren't aware of the term.I will just do the basics and hint on how to improve that.

The effective cost-per-thousand impressions (eCPM) is a useful way to compare revenue across different channels and advertising programs.It is calculated by dividing total earnings by the number of impressions in thousands.For example:

One of the best ways to improve the eCPM value is to see that the ads appearing on your site or blog are not of those of the MFA sites.I have published the list of MFA sites.Google has been trying to ban all the sites that list in those category. It is best on your side to add the sites to your competitive filter.

The next technique to increase the eCPM is to make your Adsense ads more and more visible.For this I dont think there is specific idea or formula but try making your ads embeded well in the content and bring them near the header of the web page.At urbanread we place our partner ads below the title and its the exact space where they are more visible.

Urbanread is colorfull

2007-06-02T22:55:00.000-07:00

In the space of web design the colors on your website or blog definitely help the owners to express the thought of their mind in a more powerfull way.Colors tend to set the mood of your visitor and they tend to influence the browsing habit of your visitor too.

For some industires the light and more of white colors are the perfect blend and for some the darker colors stand to be the best advantage for your visitor.On the front, the websites main intention is to hold back the visitor attention and increase loyalty.When you spend long hours to write good content for your website please remember to research on what backgrounds are best for your website.

When we tend to make Urbanread better for your blog or site we thoought it would be better
to add colors to it too so go ahead and get the urbanread colored widget.

If you have any comments about urbanread color combination please feel free to tell us here.

The latest on the Adsense is that "Google is happy about the publishers honesty telling them they have accidently clicked on their ads and they answer the question on how to best handle this situation."

One of our first blogger is happy.

2007-05-22T09:06:00.000-07:00

When Adsense team announced on their blog that they are going to offer ads in the Catalan language it was not another news for us but instead it was addon for urbanread because one of our first widget users was a blogger in this language and we were able to send him a happy note today.

Anyway thanks Adsense team.

To read the post visit.
Inside AdSense: AdSense for content launches in Catalan

The week which passed and Charity Clicks.

2007-05-20T10:20:00.000-07:00

The last week was very exciting at urbanread office for two reasons.One the referral system was live and working fine and secondly we got a new tag in the social community as "Adsense Sharing Widget".For this two reasons we were at work and there were some nicely crafted post cards at our desks to greet us for the nice work we were doing.

Anyway Google Adsense team released a new notice against the Charity Clicks.Which means you cannot announce to your blog or site users that the money you earn from Adsense is donated partly or completely to any charity on the other hand you can always donate it silently.

Must do atleast after you join urbanread.

2007-05-12T23:53:00.000-07:00

One of the first thing we would request you to do atleast after you join urbanread is to block the ads from this site which are popularly know as Made For Adsense sites which contribute to lower rates for your Adsense clicks.The below list gives the MFA sites

all-free-info.com
be-healthy.net
best-download-sites.com
best-healthcare.info
best4sites.net
best8sites.org
bestphonesites.net
chosenresult.com
click-here-4-best.info
cohit.com
dailyseek.net
dbmoz.net
dbmoz.org
digg4it.com
download-it-free.com
downtown-internet.com
e-kazaam.com
e-softwaresource.com
findinfotoday.com
finditonline.ws
findmoreinfo.com
finest4.com
focus77.com
freshhunt.com
getbestinfo.com
go-2-shop.co.uk
go-4-best.com
he4lth.com
health-answers.org
healthquestlinks.com
hot4sites.com
info-on.biz
info-zap.com
info.com
infobeagle.com
infoforyourhealth.com
infoscouts.com
instant-free-info.com
leapfinder.com
maximuminformation.com
oninformation.com
op10-web-hosting.com
pricetool.com
searchguide.biz
sneakyprograms.com
soft4kids.com
top-3-sites.com
top-rated-mp3-sites.com
top10-web-hosting.com
top10mostexpensive.com
top8sites.com
toptensites.org
10-bestsites.com
25-topsites.com
50webs.com
7-topsites.com
8-topsites.com
8-topwebsites.com
8bestsites.com
8topsites.com
9topsites.com
ad2006.com

Referral Ready

2007-05-04T23:57:00.000-07:00

The whole last week urbanread team (Yes including Adam ) was busy putting things ready for the referral system to work and empower our users who want to recommend urbanread to their friends and readers on their blog.

The concept of referral on urbanread originated from the fact of adding that extra zing to the urbanread widget.Adding your profits does not seem to harder this days its becoming easy and urbanread is also working i this direction.

Now urbanread will enable our users to provide latest news on their site or blog with referring oppotunities also.

To know the urbanread referral details

View all the various formats available.

*Adam is the Promotional Manager at Urbanread.

We support push button publishing

2007-03-07T10:04:00.000-08:00

One of the new feature on urbanread is allowing our members to add urbanread to their blogger.com blog with just a push of a button.Our engineers sat down to prepare a
document for helping the bloggers around the world to add urbanread widget to their blogs but
unfortunately instead of preparing a document they gave this funtionality.We are pleased with what our colleagues have done and yes we are chasing them ....to prepare the document...Can anybody tell me where is Adam anyway?

Google Confirms Our Existence is Right!

2007-03-02T23:23:00.000-08:00

There was very obvious query from one of our newly joined customers about our program being valid in the eyes of google and so we had to reach out to google adsense them whether the urbanread setup was correct and for the response (see the below image) we got a green signal and I hope you are wishing us luck.Thanks for that.

New place to show your ads

2007-02-19T09:12:00.000-08:00

We have been advised by many adsense experts who constantly kept telling was to move our partner google adsense ads from down to somewhere which derives more value for our partners.Which started with below the post but the page seem to be getting crowdy and then at last we settled for just below the title which seems to be the best place where you can get the readers attention.
We have taken this decision in view of what we thought would be the best interest for our partners.If you are not satisfied with this decision.You are always welcome to speak and you always know ....we are hearing you at feedback{AT}urbanread.com.

To know where we are placing our ads...Please refer the image below.

Welcome to urbanread!

2007-02-16T08:32:00.000-08:00

urbanread blog was initiated to keep the people who know us or want to know about us, informed about what is happening at the top of our head.

At the start let me tell you one thing for sure we are hearing you and this is the place we will let you know, what we want to communicate.

If you have suggestions for our blog, please send them to feedback[AT]urbanread.com