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ShoppingAds (formerly AuctionAds) is a Drupal module for adding shoppingads.com CPA and CPC advertising banners to nodes of selected node types.

Module Features

• Enter ad keywords or let them be added automatically by using the terms associated with a node.
• If terms are used as ad keywords you can limit the number of terms to be used as search terms.
• Restrict terms used as ad keywords to a selected vocabulary.
• Select from 12 Ad formats.
• Support for shoppingads ad campaigns.
• Select the weight to position the ads above or below the content.
• Select whether to display ads in full view and or teaser view.
• Select the node types you want ads to be displayed.
• Enter color values for border, background, heading, description and links.
• Select the ad style or attitude.
• Specify whether to open ad links in new windows.

Cloning web applications that are popular in America is en vogue in Germany. One example is yigg.de, which apparently is a Digg clone. The similar name is embarrassing enough, but originally they owned the domain digg.de. Digg was probably not very happy about that and forced them to change their name, but not the concept.

I tried yigg in the beginning of 2007 to check out how much traffic a yigg front page story generates. At that time it was about 100 referrers on the day the story was shown on the front page, which is nothing compared to Digg.

Google recently penalized link networks and web sites that sell or buy links by decreasing their PageRanks. To be more precise: sites that sell or buy links on their own or via link brokers such as Text Link Ads. These methods of link marketing do not comply with Google's Webmaster Guidelines, in contrast to buying Google AdWords or integrating Google AdSense on your site.

To get rid of Google's own ugly paid link advertising, that often points to useless spammy looking sites you can use the following methods discussed in this article:

Are you sick of annoying ads that take up large parts of the screen, pop up, under or anywhere else, move around, blink and flash? You want to learn how to create ads that rock with a few lines of simple JavaScript and PHP code? Then let me show you how.

I am sure this is true, though linkbait genius John Chow doesn't rank for make money online on Google any more. Even when searching for John Chow his site doesn't show up on the first result page, I haven't looked at the second.

I read his blog earlier this year for a few weeks, and I think it's somehow surprising that Google took so long to ban his site, maybe his AdSense revenue was so high that Google was afraid of loosing too much money.