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2008-11-01T02:00:00.002-07:00

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AV Music Morpher Gold

2008-11-01T02:00:00.001-07:00

Advanced music editing software includes MP3 player, audio recorder, voice pitch and voice timbre changer, tempo and beat morpher, effect mixer, voice remover, voice extractor, audio wave editor, mp3 converter, CD ripper and burner, CD cover creator.

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Easy Music Composer

2008-11-01T01:59:00.000-07:00

Easy Music Composer Free is a tool that makes music easily.
You can compose a song automatically.
You can compose a song by inputting notes.
You can use many convenient functions prepared for composition.
Easy Music Composer Free is claimed by the author to be Freeware and free to use.

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Drive Rescue

2008-11-01T01:58:00.004-07:00

Drive Rescue can find any lost and deleted data on your drive (e.g. hard disk) even if the partition table is lost or the hard disk has been quick-formatted.
Drive Rescue is claimed by the author to be Freeware and free to use.

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NTFS Undelete

2008-11-01T01:58:00.003-07:00

When you delete a file, its content physically remains intact on the media, but the occupied space becomes marked as free. Next file saved to the disk may overwrite the contents of the deleted file.
It is very important to make sure that no application writes to the drive or partition where deleted file is located since every new file (even a small one) may overwrite the deleted file.
NTFS Undelete is free software that allows you to recover deleted files. It recovers files directly from hard drive, and it will work even if you empty Recycle Bin.
When you delete a file, its content physically remains intact on the media, but the occupied space becomes marked as free. Next file saved to the disk may overwrite the contents of the deleted file.
It is very important to make sure that no application writes to the drive or partition where deleted file is located since every new file (even a small one) may overwrite the deleted file.

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Tera Copy

2008-11-01T01:58:00.001-07:00

TeraCopy is a free utility designed to copy/move files faster and more secure. Can resume broken file transfers. TeraCopy skips bad files during copy and even shows the skipped files at the end of files transfer. Calculates files CRC checksum on the fly to speed up source and target files comparsion. Seamless integration with Windows Explorer allows you to keep working with files as usual.

TeraCopy is claimed by the author to be Freeware and free to use.

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R-Linux

2008-11-01T01:57:00.002-07:00

R-Linux is a data recovery and undelete utility for Ext2FS (Linux) file system. File recovery after power failure, system crash, virus infection or partition was reformatted, even for the different file system. Creates image file an entire disk, partition or its part. Such drive image can be processed like regular disks. Localized names support. Recovered files can be saved on any (including network) disks accessible by the host OS.

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AVIRA Antivirus Desktop Update Package - FREE DOWNLOAD

2008-11-01T01:57:00.001-07:00

AVIRA Antivirus Desktop Update Package is claimed by the author to be Freeware and free to use.
This is an easy-to-use update package, which wraps up the update files for the scan engine and the virus definitions file. Their installation will be automatic, by means of a Windows Installer.
Update AVIRA Desktop for Windows with latest virus definitions and scan engine, helping you to stay protected even when you do not access the Internet on a daily basis.

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Free Spyware Vanisher - Spyware Removal

2008-11-01T01:56:00.002-07:00

Find and Remove Spyware / Adware others can't for FREE. With Spyware Vanisher "RV", we guarantee to remove all your Spyware and Adware infections, including all HomePage Hi-Jacks (About.Blank) - CWS, and help protect you against future attacks. Remove and Prevent Infections. Built in Backup Restore System - Our software is Safe to use. HomePage Hi-Jacker Protection and Stop Popups. Download Spyware Vanisher Now and Get Protected for FREE.

Free Spyware Vanisher - Spyware Removal is claimed by the author to be Freeware and free to use.
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ScreenHunter 4.0 Free

2008-11-01T01:56:00.001-07:00

ScreenHunter 4.0 Free is a completely free screen capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. Main features, * Rectangle area * Any window * Full screen * Timed capture * Mouse pointer * Support Print Screen key * Zoombox for easy capture * Automatic naming and save to files. * Save as good quality JPEG, BMP and GIF * Clipboard * Small memory usage * System tray * Easy hotkey setup * No expiry date and free distribution

ScreenHunter 4.0 Free is claimed by the author to be Freeware and free to use.

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Proxy Plus

2008-11-01T01:55:00.002-07:00

Firewall, proxy and mail server for Windows9x/NT gives the complete solution of shared access to Internet from LAN. Version for 3 users is absolutelly free.

Firewall increases security by separating LAN from the Internet
Disc cache with advanced manageability
Mail server with intranet mail capability
Automatic sorting of incoming messages
Automatic dialing/hanging-up of a switched telephone line
Support of synchronous and asynchronous dedicated line
WWW server for intranet
Management of all functions via a WWW interface
Lifetime free upgrade, free e-mail support
Full function 3-user free version, 31-days unlimited trial free version

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KatMouse - Mouse Tools

2008-11-01T01:55:00.001-07:00

The prime purpose of the KatMouse utility is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling. Moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is the default on Windows OSes). Another feature involves the wheel button. Since the wheel button is not consistently used in Windows, KatMouse can use it for a kind of task switching: with a click of the wheel button you can push a window to the buttom of the stack of windows that is your desktop, making a recovered window the active window. Note: KatMouse does not work together with Logitech Mouseware.

For one thing, you can scroll with the wheel button :-).
If your using KatMouse wheel button functionality, you can scroll most windows page wise by holding the wheel button over the window and clicking the left (up) or right (down) mouse button. If you hold the left or right mouse button, you'll get continuous, accelerating pagewise scrolling.

To push a window to the stack bottom, just click with the wheel button on the window (double click on 'always on top' windows). This works even while dragging something with the mouse (i.e. copying files from one explorer to another). You can change the push button to be one the extended buttons of newer 5-button mice.
To raise that window again, click and hold the wheel button on it for some time. This will raise the window to the top, but will not trigger any other action (i.e. clicking with the left mouse button on a window just to raise it again could click a button/link or move the cursor or other unintended things).

In the KatMouse properties dialog (available by right clicking on the KatMouse tray icon and clicking Settings ) you can choose individual wheel scroll settings for applications and windows. In the Applications tab, choose the applications executable file in the file dialog and set the desired scroll width by double clicking on the new entry in the list (screen shot ). After that all windows of this application will not scroll with the default scroll width, but with the individualized settings you made.

The same applies to the Classes tab: Here you can select the kind of window (its class) to customize (drag the crosshair to the window). If the chosen window does not behave correctly you can disable the 'Window has wheel scrolling support' checkbox in its settings dialog. This will force KatMouse to use a different, possibly less efficient approach to scrolling the window.
Try this if KatMouse does not properly scroll a window. On the other hand, enable the checkbox if scrolling is slow.

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Arles Download Manager

2008-11-01T01:54:00.002-07:00

Arles Download Manager is a simple and more efficient, portable download manager (unzip and click to use). Special support to RapidShare Premium Download at the maximum velocity possible with your connection. Lix.in protection links resolve capacity, Google and YouTube videos easy download.

The simpler and more efficient download manager until now. Portable Version, only 200kb, just click and use.
Special support to RapidShare Premium Download at the maximum velocity possible with your connection.
Lix.in protection links resolve capacity. Google and YouTube videos easy download.

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YouTube Downloader+

2008-11-01T01:54:00.001-07:00

YouTube Downloader+ is a powerful and easy to use application that will help you to download your favorite videos from YouTube. The program offers a unique feature that makes it possible to extract video files names from the YouTube website. Other features are: multiple downloads during one program session, easy to use graphical user interface and html format download report. The application is platform-independent and runs in Windows, Linux and MacOS.

YouTube Downloader+ from sourceforge.net

Free Download Manager

2008-11-01T01:53:00.004-07:00

FDM is a full-featured download accelerator and manager that allows users to easily download a list of files and entire Web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. It offers users a variety of options to control and schedule downloads, as well as the ability to split individual downloads into several sections in order to increase download speed. FDM is also capable of downloading files from several mirrors, improving overall download efficiency.

Free Download Manager 5,62 Mb

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FileZilla Ftp

2008-11-01T01:53:00.003-07:00

FileZilla, the free FTP solution - both a client and a server are available. FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. Easy to use, supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). Multilingual; Supports resume and transfer of large files > 4GB; Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue; Drag & drop support; Configurable Speed limits; Filename filters; Network configuration wizard. FileZilla is Open Source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
FileZilla 3 on Windows XP

FileZilla 3 on Windows XP

FileZilla 3 on Linux

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Mac OS X

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Launchy 2.0

2008-11-01T01:53:00.001-07:00

Launchy is a free, Open Source, Windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes. Launchy helps you search the web, other sites (Amazon, Wikipedia etc.), check the weather & browse your computer. You can use it to index your Bookmarks & Folders, Music, Pictures, Documents, Custom commands, & more! Launchy Skins and Plug-Ins are available, you can also create/develop your own.

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Program Launcher

2008-11-01T01:52:00.003-07:00

When you often work with several programs simultanously, this program can be useful to you. It can start 5 groups of programs with up to 5 programs in each group, either manually or timer controlled. You can start *.exe files or document files, for which the standard program is started then. You can also specify arguments for the programs to start with. Choose from 50 icons to assign with your groups. Program can be iconized to the system tray. Optional sound signal on timer start.

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Multi Clipboard

2008-11-01T01:52:00.001-07:00

With Multi Clipboard you have access to nine clipboard texts (slots), which you can select either via mouseclick when the program window is active, or via Hotkey "Ctrl + NUMPAD 1.. 9", even if the program is inactive or minimized to the system tray. This copies the selected slot to the Windows clipboard, from which you can paste it into your active application (for instance with Ctrl + V). The hotkey "Ctrl + NUMPAD 0" hides or shows the program window, depending on the previous state. If nine slots are not enough and you need more, you can change to another of three available files.

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XML Address Book

2008-11-01T01:51:00.001-07:00

XML Address Book easy-to-use address book application with all the essential features you really need and without any overhead. You can add any number of entries you like or import them from an Excel file. The table can be rearranged and sorted in any way (by clicking the table headers) and you can add or delete rows to fit your personal needs. All settings are saved to disk automatically. The address file is saved in the XML format. The program can also serve as a birthday planner - you can call a table with all the persons which are celebrating their birthday within the next 30 days, along with the days to go and their age.

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Ear Test / Hearing Test

2008-11-01T01:50:00.002-07:00

The program is designed to give you a quick test of your ear's capabilities to hear all frequencies of the audible spectrum, separately for each ear. You can measure with good accuracy up to which frequency you can hear and compare your result with those of your friends and family. The test result is drawn as a graphcal chart.

The upper frequency limit of the human ears is strongly dependent on a person's age. A child can usually hear frequencies of up to 20,000 Hz (oscillations per second), while for an old person it can be as low as 5,000 Hz and even lower. For a middle-aged person (40 years), a frequency of 14,000 Hz is an average value. Some people can have gaps in their hearing spectrum, due to inner ear injuries - this can also be checked. Due to the lack of calibration, this program cannot replace a medical hearing test. Please be careful when using it with headphones.

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Password Generator

2008-11-01T01:50:00.001-07:00

A useful tool for creating passwords that nobody can guess. Use a mixture of upper/lowercase letters, numbers and a selection of user defined special characters. Generate up to 1000 passwords at a time and save them to a file.

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Multiple Choice

2008-11-01T01:49:00.003-07:00

Make up your own Quiz Show! Answer questions while picking the correct one among three or four available answers. The program comes with quite a lot of quiz files, which were kindly sent to me by several authors, but you can easily create your own! Text and background colors can be changed for every file. In the end you can review which questions you answered correctly and which you didn't. Easy and intuitively to use.

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Test Screens

2008-11-01T01:49:00.001-07:00

Eight different testmodes, some with submodes. Test your monitor for sharpness, moiré, geometry, convergence, high voltage supply stability, brightness, color quality and more. Adjusts to any given resolution (even odd ones, like 1280x1024). Comes with a tutorial text. You can step through the screens with ENTER and "hold" the auto changing screens in the submodes with SPACE.

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Basic Organic Search Engine Optimization Defined

2008-07-12T18:53:00.001-07:00

There is a lot of talk nowadays about Search Engine Optimization, but not so much about

Organic Search Engine Optimization itself. So what exactly is Organic SEO?
Organic Search Engine Optimization is just like ordinary Search Engine Optimization in that it is the process of optimizing the design of your website so that search results using keywords in search engines will rank your website higher in the non-paid listings. Organic Search Engine Optimization (also called Natural Search Engine Optimization) however, also has a slight difference from ordinary Search Engine Optimization in certain aspects but the main focus is to work towards getting the best ranking in Natural or Organic search results (SERPs).

For instance, Organic Search Engine Optimization requires your SEO team to evaluate your website thoroughly to see how best to optimize your website’s potential.

The SEO team will then try to identify any technical issues which can bar your site from being indexed properly during the Organic Search Engine Optimization process.

Organic Search Engine Optimization also requires detailed keyword analysis to be done so your Organic Search Engine Optimization team can produce a list of appropriate keywords and phrases that can be used for your website.

Keyword analysis should require real information about the function, products and services offered at your website, stay aligned with your goals for marketing your website, and try to get the best Organic Search Engine Optimization impact on the search engines and end users. Some Organic Search Engine Optimization specialists will give you a list of target keywords and phrases that have been ranked as to how popularly use each is by Internet searchers.
It has been found that to get the best search engine rankings, Organic Search Engine Optimization should rely on effective and efficient organization of the website, with content selected by your Organic Search Engine Optimization team so that keywords and phrases will not look ridiculous when used in the website content.

Organic SEO starts with selecting the right Title and Meta tags, creation of on-page text with emphasis on content and layout, and then followed by insertion of internal links of the various web pages of your website.

If these are followed by your Organic Search Engine Optimization team, keyword relevance and correct page formatting will increase.
Organic Search Engine Optimization also requires manual submissions of your website to directories and search engines. This helps assure you – the client – that Organic Search Engine Optimization will meet the special demands, regulations, and legal requirements of every search engine that is contacted by your Organic Search Engine Optimization team.
Your Organic Search Engine Optimization team must rely on ethical link building techniques, not only to safeguard the security of your search engine rankings but also to allow your website descriptions to be placed under the right directory categories. Ethical Organic Search Engine Optimization link building will also help your website use only the correct resource web sites.

Does Organic Search Engine Optimization end here? Actually, no, your Organic Search Engine Optimization team must constantly track search engine submissions so that they can tweak and amend your website if needed to provide the best results for you. Organic Search Engine Optimization also requires that the team document their monitoring activities so you yourself know what is happening all the time.
It would be helpful if your Organic SEO team can track the numbers of visitors your site generates, to make it more convenient for you.

After all, you need to concentrate on running your organization and/or business so Organic Search Engine Optimization Otherwise, why outsource this function? should be a separate endeavor that others should do for you.

Organic Search Engine Optimization aims to help you bring in more visitors than you were getting before, so that your potential sales will be maximized in the process. But you need to avoid illicit practices and favor Organic Search Engine Optimization

1) illicit marketing practices do not reflect well on you or the SEO team you hired.

2) more because:Organic Search Engine Optimization does work when used the right way.
3) Organic Search Engine Optimization does not harm the search engine you will submit your website to, so you have a favorable image with search engines in general, and

4) Organic Search Engine Optimization is part of the use of best practices that have been accepted by most of the Internet world nowadays.

How then do you find an Organic Search Engine Optimization team that you can work with? One way is to look for SEO industry data about who are the best Organic SEO players currently operating online.

Examine the background of the company, and pay close attention to who they cite as their satisfied clients.
You might want to contact these clients yourself discreetly so you can inquire into their Organic Search Engine Optimization experience with that SEO player.

Another way is to ask people you know who have used Organic Search Engine Optimization themselves. Sometimes, the best way to get proper service is through ordinary word-of-mouth advertising from people you trust.

Moe Tamani is a Marketing expert with a leading SEO Firm specializing in Organic Search Engine Optimization .

Source: http://www.seo-1-marketing-services.com

Making the visitors to visit your site repeatedly

2008-07-12T18:53:00.000-07:00

One of the important question you should ask yourself when developing any new business idea or website is this: “How to make the visitors visit my site frequently?”
Determining the answer or solution for this question is essential to become successful in every level.

A long term profit strategy needs a solid knowledge what drives your visitors to return to your website or blog repeatedly, as well as, what makes them want to refer your website to others.

Its nearly impossible to know what every visitors feels about your site. There will be some who find your site useful and others may find it very dull and redundant.

It is difficult to write for some and please everyone. So, what do you do in this situation? If I was in this situation, I’d provise to the masses by producing products or contents which shall receive the most attention.

Below is a simple checklist because as I would like to mention that no method is bullet proof and defensible enough against thousands of new and shifting visitors. User views are constantly shifting as they find more information from your competitors or elsewhere.
1.How does 10 random people feel who have never visited your site?
2.Are your products or services competitive?
3.Is your site populated enough to encourage participation?
4.Have you made navigation and customer value a main focus for your site?
5.What is the quality of your content and product?
6.Are you providing information that are related with yoursearch keywords?
7.Are you providing information that are related with your search keywords?
8.Are you offering online service or tool that cannot be found elsewhere?
9.Are you updating information regularly to fulfill needs of your visitors?
10.Does your website provide a unique theme of service or information?
11.Do you fulfill your promise to the public? Successfully answering these questions would provide you with a higher ability to attract repeated traffic, attention and sales from visitors to your site or blog.

Why Google Adsense Is Reliable

2008-02-02T03:54:00.000-08:00

What is really good about Google is:

It is simple to sign up, create your account, post the ads and let them work.

Their ads matches with your content, hence visitors are attracted towards them. As they are text ads and have appealing and punching lines so they have more chances of hit.

Google Adwords advertisers database have almost all the categories of businesses no matter how unique your content is you will have related ads on your site. If in case

Google unable to provide you targeted ads they will provide you option to display a default ad of your choice.

Google does all the relationship acts with you after you sign up; you don't have to worry about maintaining advertiser relationship.

Google Adsense team ensures that no inappropriate ads display on your pages.
Google gives you tips to improve your earnings.

It also helps you with his analytics details that how many visits were there on your page or ad.

Get targeted ads on your site with Google AdSense

It is well known and for all. Whether you are new or old. Famous or not famous

Google Adsense team is there to help you in any situation. They have their own discussion forum where you can post your questions, and get answers in less then hour or so.

You don’t have to chase advertisers; they come to you..
Ongoing ads, they will never dry up.

Ads automatically adjust with your page content.

And the brand with whom you are advertising “Google”. Name does matter, isn’t it?

No other Advertising programme is as successful as Adsense.

How To Get Started With Google Adsense and Make Adsense Account

2008-02-02T03:18:00.000-08:00

1.Sign up for AdSense

2.Just don't make a site for Adsense sake. Now when you sign up, you have to show Google Adsense your website, weblog on which you will paste Adsense ads. Google Adsense team will visit your site or weblog, if they find copied content, too many advertisements, your site hosted on free hosting services, copied design or anything unethical on your site, they will not approve your Adsense account. So try to be original, and write good content and don't do any unethical term to violate search engine or Adsense team to remove you.

3.If you get approved you will receive one email from Adsense team that your site is approved and now you can post Adsense ads on your site or blog.

4.Once you get approved you can post from many Adsense code available in Google Adsense. There are many products to choose from.

Adsense For Content: These types of ads display ads that are targeted to your site's unique content.

Adsense For Search: This types of ads allows you to provide Google or your site search to your site visitors, and if by searching from your site visitor goes to Google and click on any pondered links you get paid for it.

Referral Ads: This ad is being given to you when you reach certain amount in your Adsense account.

Google AdSense Tips

2008-02-02T02:42:00.000-08:00

Google just released a Newbie Central for their AdSense program, those ads webmasters can include on their site to earn money for every click on the ad from a visitor (if you're using the program, part of the advertiser budget will go to you, and the other part to Google). I wanted to add some tips from my own experience:

1.Ads can work well in-between other stuff. On a games site of mine, some of the games don't contain ads next to the game area; the AdSense ad will only be shown in-between game rounds. This is the time the visitor is not concentrating on performing a task but might take a small break, and be open to the option of visiting new sites.

2.Put too much emphasis on AdSense and your site may be linked to less. The more available space you dedicate to AdSense on your site, and the less you differentiate between ads and content in your design, the more money you earn with the program, right? Not quite. While pushing the AdSense may result in short-term gains, it might also convince some visitors that the site is too crowded to be worth visiting again. And some of those visitors may also be bloggers or other people who might otherwise help to promote your site with links to it. And the less your site gets linked to, the less traffic it gets, meaning AdSense revenues may go down in the long term.

3.Even if you get huge traffic, the AdSense income from the site is more dependent on the site type and audience. Google targets AdSense ads automatically to the site content. Or at least, it does so ideally – but some types of content fare better than others with this targeting. I noticed for instance that AdSense does better on a games site than on a technology blog. I also heard people say that AdSense does quite good on product oriented blogs; say, one post solely about the iPod; another post solely about Gadget XYZ, and so on.

4.Image ads can be relevant and work for you, but they might also apall some visitors. Google's AdSense program gives you the option to choose between a couple of different ad formats. Two main groups are text ads vs text & image ads. When you choose the latter, Google will deliver what they deem works best for your content (or so one would hope, and it would be in Google's best self-interest to serve you the best possible ad, it seems).

However, Google doesn't really know your layout preferences, and they don't really understand when your audience thinks ads are "too much"; and considering image ads include Flash animations (which you can't disable, once you go for image ads), Flash animations may well push some people away. One thing you can do is to only show image ads in areas where they don't disturb the content, e.g. at the end of posts. Also, you might want to listen to visitor feedback on the ads being served; I received emails before that the blinking ad on this or that site made a person want to leave the site, at which point I blocked the specific advertiser via the AdSense Setup -> Competitive Ad Filter option.

5.Be aware of risks when you change ad layouts too much. I once had a system on the server to randomly differ between various AdSense layouts on the same page. Doing so I was hoping to add some good variety to keep the ads at least somewhat interesting and notable. Shortly after I stopped doing so and simply included a rather big static area for the AdSense to "do what it wants," the AdSense revenues for that site increased. Now, I don't know if this was a coincidence of some sorts, as revenues often go down or up even when you don't do anything, but it might well have been that there was a connection between adding too much homemade randomization, and lowered revenues.

At another time, during the redesign of this blog, I switched from one ad format to another for the end-of-posts AdSense ad space. This, combined with perhaps other layout changes, suddenly cut the ad revenues in half for the blog. It took me some time to realize that I had some ad channels* set up for the specific old layout size, and by changing this I must have kicked out all those advertisers who were pushing their ads through the channel.

*This setting can be found at AdSense Setup -> Channels.