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If the Adsense coverage ratios for a site are pretty poor have any folks found a good alternative to use in place of showing those pesky public service ads/blank space. Obviously, things will be niche dependent to an extent but generally speaking do you use CPM deals to fill in or specific affiliate image links for instance? Any insight would be great.

You should be able to opt-out of the public service ads.

Also, these days Adsense seems more focused on personal targeting that niche targeting - it's long been a sore point of mine that my finance sites are as likely to show dating or slimming ads rather than finance links, though you can block certain categories of ads.

If you're seeing blank spaces, though, I would presume either you've only just put up the ads, or else you may be blocking them somehow?

Quite interesting:
http://support.google.com/news/publisher/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68297

Now just got to figure how to implement this in Wordpress - just been trying a few attempts to populate this automatically with tags and categories outside the loop, but not succeeded so far.

FireFox the browser is getting so bad that I'm on the verge of switching to something else. It hawks so much memory and just eats up the computer. Slow pos.

Agreed - and that Mozilla feel like they are constantly crapping on the same webmasters who evangelised it.

Opera is the browser I keep coming back to and using long term, specially on Linux where there are not too many full featured browsers, but also on OS X and Win 7 too.

Firefox looks like an Opera clone now.

Personally I'm surprised - I've found the Apple walled garden very accomodating - pretty much what you need is already there for you - while Google's Android as very fragmented and disorganised, so you need to put most everything together to get it working anywhere near like an iPhone.

Or have Samsung addressed issues such as iCloud and similar?

Looks like it's now resolve - good.

Anyone else able to login with 123-reg at the moment?

Currently unable to login to my main account with my username/password combo.

Clicked on "forgot password" but nothing come through via email, but might have changed, causing additional problems.

Noticed they have a new login URL - used to be /secure/ but now it's /public/login/

I've got some strong established sites, specifically in general finance, property, insurance, and banking, and know I'm under monetising them.

I feel very bogged down with work at present though, not least because I'm pushing on expanding into a retail niche.

Therefore is there anyone in finance lead generation (mortgages, insurance, property sales, etc etc) who would be interested in talking about a possible team up on a revenue share basis, where I provide the assets and they provide the means of monetisation?

Am not looking for basic affiliate agreements or for SEO purposes - am thinking specifically about lead generation, and how to use for best effect.

Anyone wants to PM for further details of the sites, you're welcome to.

A simple search for "satellite news" using the "pages from the UK" modifier - returns 9 organic listings for BBC.co.uk articles.
http://www.google.co.uk/#q=satellite+news&hl=en&prmd=imvnsu&source=lnt&tbs=ctr:countryUK%7CcountryGB&cr=countryUK%7CcountryGB&sa=X&ei=jFUIUIesCsSm0AWX_K3cBA&ved=0CGAQpwUoAQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=fdad19227ee412ad&biw=1600&bih=760