As you might have noticed, Marcus Hochstadt finished his contest a few days ago and many people could start collecting their prizes. Congratulations to all winners of course, especially Dette who won adspace on my blog, so please pay her a visit!

I won a few prizes, another page at onebuckwiki.com so bringing that to a total of three pages after I won in the contest on theuniversitykid.com a few weeks ago.

Life is Sweet!

In my post on the contest, I was hoping to win a copy of Manifest a Miracle by Gary Evans and guess what…. I did win that prize as well… ROFL.

In a short email exchange about the prize, I mentioned I had been hoping to win and Gary answered me I already seemed to be pretty good at deliberating manifestations.

I thought about that comment for a while and it made a little click.

I have been reading quite a bit about “The Secret” in the last year and must say a lot of things have manifested themselves over that course of time. All little things though, like for example cars pulling out whenever I was looking for a parkingspace, little prizes I wanted to win actually ended up in my possession, things I really wanted to happen, happened and the list goes on.

But like I said last week, it is about time to start dreaming bigger, and make bigger dreams happen. In case you think now that I believe things will just show up whenever I dream about them, it takes a bit more than that.

I feel it is also about taking the steps needed in order to achieve what you want, so I wanted to point you to a recent post about World Linking Day, especially to the last bit, and I quote:

“One of the most important skills you can learn is shutting out all of the distractions to focus your link building efforts. In all reality you should be spending 80-90% of your time on link building anyway. I’m guessing that for most people, it’s more like 5%. If you aren’t getting results, that’s why.”

I am off getting some more results, and declare this month to be my Linking Month

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A few weeks ago, Alex from Net Entrepreneur wrote an article about using Adsense on a site related to the MMO. What he said is that people in MMO have become blind to ads and normally won´t click on them (although Griz is proving otherwise with his MMO blog and gives many reasons why it can work, all throughout his blog).

There is one point Alex makes though, which probably indicates the difference between Adsense working well or not at all, and that is the type of traffic you get and how they arrived at your site. He suggested to manually put in adsense ads, only on specific pages that started picking up on organic traffic, arriving at a certain page through a search engine, looking for specific information.
I thought that was a pretty cool idea if you are only running a few sites and you can spend quite some time on checking all your stats and tweaking and twitching every single page to “perfection”… but what happens if you are running many different pages, 20, … 30, …. 50, …. 100 or even more?

Well, it looks like I found that answer when opening up my inbox this morning and found a post by Court, How to Show Ads to Search Engine Traffic. (BTW… congrats on breaking the 3000 RSS mark!)

Court has found a plugin for wordpress, making it possible to select which type of traffic sees adsense ads. For example, you can set up your blog in a way that only traffic coming from searchengines will see Adsense ads, while visitors coming from social sites, entrecard, regular visitors who have bookmarked your blog etc, won´t see the ads at all, therefore probably increasing your CTR and thus in the long run getting more revenue per click.

Could this be the answer?

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