A few people commented that the Video-Alerts logo is rather nice. It was done by Dollar Logo Design, which I can say I’m very happy with.  The prices are great (starts at 29$, although I recommend the 49$ package which gets you more formats and revisions). They now throw in a free business card design, as well.

You get several design concepts and revisions, it all works pretty well and rather fast too. I got great support from their designer. 

They also have an interesting affiliate program. I get a coupon (3388) - and if you buy and use that coupon, you get 5$ discount, and I get a referral bonus. Nice idea. So be sure to use coupon 3388 if you want to get your logo.

I’m excited to announce a new service by Metalgrass software: Video Alerts.

http://www.video-alerts.com

Video-Alerts is a simple yet powerful service for people who want to get notified when new videos are uploaded to YouTube. We think this can be a great tool for bloggers who wishes to find new videos in their niche first, or anyone, really, who is interested in a subject and wants to follow it on YouTube.

Trialpay is an interesting company. They offer shareware publishers a way to give their software for free - and still get paid. Basically the user can choose to complete an ‘offer from an advertiser, and in exchange he gets the software. The offer can be to fill a survey, to enroll to a new credit-card, etc. It’s an interesting scheme, and we have enabled it on our Square-Off game. Normally it sells for 9.99$, but now it is possible to get it for free using TrialPay.

I’d love to hear what you think!

We’ve just released a new AdSenseLog version. This new version includes a feature that was requested by several users - the ability to ‘expand’ the Channel selector. In case you have many channels, it was difficult to use the small selector (in table and graph reports). Now it’s much easier and quicker.

Download the new version

We just released a quick build (5.2.0 B5) - this fixes some new issues with Google reporting of placement ads - if you experienced problems with your URL channel reporting, this should fix the issue.

Here’s the link to download:

http://www.metalgrass.com/downloads/bin/adsnslog.exe

Karteset 2.1.1 was just released - a minor bug fix where certain cards caused the program to crash.

AdSense alternatives
Most publishers find that AdSense is the easiest and best way to monetize their site. However there are some alternatives today, that are well worth checking out. Two easy to use ones are Chitika, and WidgetBucks. Affiliate networks usually require more ‘work’ - you have to manually choose products, but if you find the right ones for your audience, it might be great. CJ is probably the best known network, and we recommend that you also try PepperJam network which is getting some traction. Finally you might want to check our RevResponse - which is rather unique. These guys offer a choice of online magazines for your readers, within a nice-looking and easy to use banner.

Getting ready for the recession… get cheaper hosting
Most people agree that soon we’ll have some hard times ahead of us. Now is a great time to get ready, and lower your operation costs. One of those is hosting. You might find that switching web hosts might be a good idea (or perhaps talking to your existing one and lowering your cost). We currently use HostGator, which offer cheap hosting, have great support, and they are even ‘green’ which is always a plus.

The new version (5.2.0) adds a new type of emails - HTML mails that include more statistics and even some trend graphs - better than the simple text ones we had so far (don’t worry - you can still get the old mails, or even both).

We have also added small banner ads to the ‘free’ and unregistered version…

Get the new version here

Google’s official AdSense blog (Inside AdSense) posted about the delays in AdSense stats, and GASS.

GASS stands for “Google AdSense Stats Syndrome” - which means that you just have to check your AdSense stats, all the time… Refreshing again and again to see if you earned some more money since the last check.

The first reason to make AdSenseLog was to make these checks easier, and have some software to do it automatically. Since then we added many more tracking and analyzing tools - although one of the major reasons to use the software is to easily stay updated and monitor your account all the time.

AdSenseLog 5.1.0 was just released. This new version includes new ‘total’ reports. These reports combine all of the three AdSense products - Content, Search and Feeds. This means you can now view reports with your total eranings - whether in graphs or tables. We also added the reports split by product. So you can see how your earnings on feeds compare to your earnings on seach, etc.

The new version can be downloaded here.