benf wrote: There is always

greg — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:00:44 +0000

benf wrote:

There is always 20 ways to do the same damn thing

As there is usually with anything technical, and seemingly everything electronical, these days.

Second opinions are always good if you are not 100% certain.

benf wrote:

finding the best way for me means looking at the other 19 first!

Or asking people who have already looked at all 20

pr0gr4mm3r wrote: That

greg — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:53:00 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r wrote:

That letmegoogle thing was funny like the first few times...is it so hard to just link to a query? :P

Hear Hear!

(well, apart from it being funny the first few times )

pr0gr4mm3r wrote:

sometimes it's best to get a fresh opinion from an active community. Isn't that what online forums are for?

until 6 billion people each know everything about everything, yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

One man knows web marketing but not coding, another knows coding but not web marketing. On their own they each have a freelance niche, together they have a business!

Basically, i know how i will

benf — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:23:16 +0000

Basically, i know how i will do it, but as pr0gr4mm3r said i just want opinoins of other people to see how they would approach the problem.

There is always 20 ways to do the same damn thing, so finding the best way for me means looking at the other 19 first!

And yes, i have already searched google using basically all the same queries as you have.

As google adsense is a web service it would make sense to design my clone using webservice so i can use any other platform to connect to it. I will deisgn an API that i can connect to and just use AJAX to serialize and de-serialize everything.

SOAP - something else to use; not really clued up but there we go.

Thanks for all the contributions.

If any of the above is incorrect in any way - let me know.

pr0gr4mm3r wrote: It's

decibel.places — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:15:06 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r wrote:

It's impossible to tell when you use tinyurl

yeah, I considered that, unless you sniff the actual URL...

well, I am getting a little bored too, but reserve the right to be ... snotty ... when I want to

maybe TWF admin can make

pr0gr4mm3r — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:29:54 +0000

maybe TWF admin can make letmegooglethatforyou.com links a special color?

It's impossible to tell when you use tinyurl.

99% of the questions can really be researched instead, but sometimes it's best to get a fresh opinion from an active community. Isn't that what online forums are for?

pr0gr4mm3r wrote: is it so

decibel.places — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:27:25 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r wrote:

is it so hard to just link to a query? :P

the point is, for the asker, is it so hard to conduct a search first?

pr0gr4mm3r, you probably don't need to search most of these topics - maybe TWF admin can make letmegooglethatforyou.com links a special color?

That letmegoogle thing was

pr0gr4mm3r — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:26:52 +0000

That letmegoogle thing was funny like the first few times...is it so hard to just link to a query?

You may want to check the

decibel.places — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:09:22 +0000

You may want to check the results of this search

decibel.places wrote: A

Duke Nukem — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:44:48 +0000

decibel.places wrote:

A funny AdSense story, I was optimizing a satellite site for a Beauty Parlor directory, and Google served Funeral Parlor ads... so I added a few more keywords, beauty salon etc, then the ads were appropriate-

They did what!? LMAO Aye Aye Aye

That's a new one.

Hi benf, That sounds like a

decibel.places — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:38:53 +0000

Hi benf,

That sounds like a reasonable approach, perhaps use Soap or Ajax integrated with the JavaScript front end, to serve the appropriate ads for the content.

I devised a method on my site to store all the parts for my various AdSense ads in a central JS file and write them with JS so I can manage them centrally - sort of like CSS for AdSense... does Google advise users to do this yet? I've been out of touch with AdSense for a while.