Anti-terror war to last until terrorists end: Zardari

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday said that the war against terrorism will be taken to its logical end until the absolute elimination of extremists.He said the enduring peace would be established in the country by completely exterminating the militants from the troubled areas.Zardari said government has in focus the relief and rehabilitation of Malakand affectees, adding government will ensure the safe return of all affectees.President Zardari said any reconciliation with the extremists is out of question.

India may face terror threat at West Coast

NEW DELHI: Home Minister P. Chidambaram said on Wednesday that its intelligence agencies have intercepted a likely terror threat to India's west coast."There is an input, that there could be a threat to the west coast. We have, therefore, shared it with (the state governments of) Gujarat, Goa and Maharashtra."But that does not mean that there is an imminent attack," a local news agency quoted Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram, as saying to media in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh's capital Hyderabad.But the minister did not specify which kind of terror threat it could be.India has witnessed its worst terror attack on Mumbai last November, which claimed the lives of over 170 people, including foreign nationals. The attacks exposed the loopholes of the country's maritime security.

Army facing tough choice after NWA ambush

PESHAWAR: The Army high command is required to make a tough choice whether to extend its military operation from South Waziristan to North Waziristan following the provocative attack by the Taliban militants on a military convoy in North Waziristan’s Madakhel area on Sunday despite the existence of a peace accord.The priority for now is South Waziristan where the military campaign against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) head Baitullah Mehsud is gaining momentum. Opening a new front when the armed forces are fighting on a number of fronts including Swat, Buner, Dir Lower, Bajaur, Mohmand, Darra Adamkhel, Orakzai and South Waziristan would over-stretch the military and mix-up its priorities. But the military cannot ignore the deadly ambush on the 250-member convoy in which a significant number of soldiers were killed and injured. A senior government official said such attacks could demoralise the troops if punitive measures aren’t undertaken.This wasn’t the first time that the security forces were targeted by the Hafiz Gul Bahadur-led militants or the peace accord was violated in North Waziristan. There have been quite a few such incidents during the past month or so. There were attacks on military convoys with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), including two last Friday on the Miramshah-Mir Ali road in which four soldiers were killed, and the students of Cadet College, Razmak, located in North Waziristan, were kidnapped by Baitullah’s men in the limits of Frontier Region (FR) Bannu, an area that Hafiz Gul Bahadur considers as part of his tribal fiefdom. There have been suspicions that militants loyal to Hafiz Gul Bahadur cooperated with Baitullah’s fighters while kidnapping the Razmak college cadets and their teachers.But the ambush against the military convoy in Madakhel area on Sunday was both unexpected and provocative. Though the Taliban spokesman Ahmadullah Ahmadi claimed that 60 troops were killed and 15 military vehicles were destroyed in the attack, the Pakistan Army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas conceded the loss of 12 soldiers only. Official sources in Peshawar and Miramshah estimated that the number of soldiers who lost their lives in the ambush was 40 or even more. Among the dead was a colonel, a major and a captain. The sources said the attackers also seized vehicles and arms and ammunition.The ambush was carried out in a narrow gorge that isn’t much different than the Shaoor Tangi, the famous gorge in South Waziristan where freedom-fighters often ambushed British forces and other invaders in the past. People with knowledge of Madakhel area wondered why adequate measures weren’t taken when the military convoy was passing through that treacherous gorge. It isn’t clear if helicopters were in place to provide air cover to the convoy at a time when it was vulnerable to an ambush.More intriguing are reports that intercepts of the militants communicating with each other had been heard three days before the ambush in which they talked about starting attacks against the security forces without formally scrapping their peace accord with the government in North Waziristan. If true, it is strange that even then proper security measures weren’t made for military convoys in the dangerous parts of North Waziristan. Also worth recalling is another such incident in June in which an army rescue party sent to help a military convoy under attack itself was ambushed shortly before sunset while returning to Shakai in South Waziristan. It was felt the rescue party shouldn’t have undertaken the return journey at such inopportune time in an area infested with militants. As a consequence, the rescue party suffered avoidable casualties.It is clear that the peace accord in North Waziristan is finished even if there has been no formal announcement by the militants and the government that it has been scrapped. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur-led Taliban Shura has already issued threats to tribal elders and others to stop interacting with government functionaries and avoid holding jirgas to settle disputes. Aware of the consequences, only one tribal elder, Malik Gulabat Khan, dared to attend the jirga with North Waziristan’s political agent on Monday. Others who came to the jirga, convened to discuss Sunday ambush against the military convoy, were clerics. The clerics’ loyalties, out of necessity, fear or religious affiliation would be with the militants.Though Hafiz Gul Bahadur was angry with the military for carrying out operation against his militant allies in FR Bannu, his spokesman Ahmadi mentioned the continued US drone attacks as the reason for the Taliban ambush on the Pakistan Army convoy in Madakhel area on Sunday. It was thus obvious that the confrontation between the militants and the military in North Waziristan would escalate because the US is unlikely to give up its policy of using drones to target militants’ positions.

13 militants, seven civilians killed in Khyber

LANDIKOTAL/BARA: Security forces on Monday claimed to have killed at least 13 suspected militants in attacks on their hideouts in Bazaar Zakhakhel area of Landikotal, Khyber Agency, while seven members of a family were killed and four others injured when an artillery shell struck a Hujra in Sra Shaga area in Jamrud Tehsil.Security forces shelled the suspected militant hideouts in Kobikhel area of Bazaar Zakhakhel, FC sources said. At least 13 militants were killed and few others were injured, the FC sources claimed but without giving the names of the dead militants.Independent sources said three of the slain persons were guests. The villagers at Kobikhel denied the presence of the militants in the area and said that all the slain persons were local residents.Meanwhile, acting on a tip-off, security forces shelled the suspected hideouts of the militants in the mountainous Chora area with artillery from Forte Slope Camp in Bara Tehsil. One of the shells hit the house of Aqal Jan in Sra Shaga area, killing seven persons, including three children, and injuring four others of his family.The dead included head of the family Aqal Jan, his three cousins Didar Khan, Minat Khan, Sifat Khan and three children, whose names could not be ascertained. Four other members of the family were also seriously injured in the incident.Soon after the incident, the people of the nearby area rushed to the spot and retrieved the bodies and injured from the rubbles. The injured persons were rushed to the nearby hospital where their condition was stated to be critical.Official sources said that the Chora area was shelled as security forces had credible information about the presence of militants in the area. They said that a total of 12 artillery shells were fired that landed in different places in Chora and one hit the Hujra of Aqal Jan in Sra Shaga area.

8 killed, jets kept pounding South Waziristan

WANA: At least eight militants were killed and two of their hideouts demolished as the security forces jets kept pounding South Waziristan, while two security personnel were also martyred and three injured in militants’ attack on FC Camp.

Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the militants in South Waziristan has entered into the third week now, while the heavy guns and jet fighters of the security forces continued pounding the militants’ hideouts overnight.

Sources said that eight militants were killed and two hideouts demolished last night in jet fighters’ bombings at Sam, Langarkhel and other areas of Mehsud tribes. Gunship helicopters targeted militants’ hideouts at Shah Alam areas also, where some deaths feared.

On the other hand, militants attacked FC Fort at Tanai near Wana firing mortar shells. Sources said that two security personnel were martyred and three injured in the onslaught. One of the injured is said to be in critical condition.

Following the attack, security forces targeted suspected hideouts of the militants, but no report of loss of life was received.

AdSense CPM Drops as Impressions Increase

One of the most intriguing statistics for me is that my effective AdSense CPM drops as the number of impressions rise.

It's frustrating, actually, because you want some predictability with your earnings. You'd like to know that if you earn "x dollars" with 1,000 impressions, you can earn "xx dollars" with 10,000 impressions.

I'd love to provide a graph from my own statistics to illustrate it for you, but AdSense's terms of service prevent me from disclosing that information.

It's not just AdSense, actually. It works this way for me with any advertising network or affiliate marketing program.

My explanation for this is that as your traffic increases, it becomes more diverse.

For starters, one of the primary causes of traffic increase is having published more pages. The more pages you publish, the more search engine food you create. Effectively, it's a like fisherman casting a wider net, catching more of the fish he wants, but also getting more fish he doesn't want.

The best way to guard against that, is to keep your focus on your primary audience, by writing articles whose keywords and filenames are optimized for that audience. That can be hard to do, because when you've written your 100th article, it's harder to find more stuff to write about.

Another reason for the increasing diversity of your audience, is that they're coming in from more places. When you write a compelling article, people tend to e-mail it to their friends, or post a link to it from a message board, or even blog about it on their own blogs. And when they do this, it's often for slightly different reasons than what you intended.

For example, if you write an article about how a blogger made a thousand bucks in one day using AdSense, one guy might e-mail it to his buddies because the photograph of the blogger shows she has big boobies.

Another nagging problem is Google's Image Search. Assuming you're putting images in your blog posts, people will eventually find those images through Google Image Search, and that will produce page views.

What can you do to help monetize this diverse traffic?



For all those page views created by Google Image Search, find an ad network that will pay "per impression" intead of "per click", and place one of their banners somewhere.


Place some promotional links in a highly visible place on your website, that link to some of your most popular content. Use heading text like, "Top 5 Most Popular Articles", or, "Top 5 Must Have Tools for Webmasters". If you don't have that stuff, try "Get Laid" and link it to a dating affiliate program.

Blocking Public Service Ads

My home-based website publishing blog, "In Your Web", has a nagging problem of getting a lot of public service ads (PSA) from Google AdSense.

This only happens on the homepage.

The reason is the domain name "inyourweb.com". Considering that keywords in the domain name, directory name, and filename, is a key factor towards determining relevant ads on AdSense, now you see why I get so many public service ads on the homepage. The other pages are ok, because those have more keywords in the filenames.


So the million dollar question is, "Why did I choose such a stupid domain name?"

Well, it wasn't that stupid at the time.

In Your Web was first launched in October 2003. That was only 7 months after Google AdSense was launched (March 2003). At that time, no one understood how AdSense determined relevancy, we were all still trying to figure it out.

I chose the name "In Your Web" because I wanted something that was easily recognizable. I was going after a domain that could be easily branded. Knowing what I know now, I would picked out a domain that had a keyword in it.

Blocking Public Service Ads

You can't force AdSense to display paid ads instead of the public service ad. Remember that the public service ads are displaying because Google can't figure out what else to display.

AdSense does provide some options on how it should handle this situation...


The second option, "Show Non-Google ads from another URL" is perhaps the best choice. It allows you to enter a URL to display ads from another source...


Here's what you do.

First create a new webpage on your server. This webpage should NOT have any of your website's template on it. It should be pure blank. Except, between the BODY tags, paste the advertising code from another advertising network. Make sure that the advertising code will display an ad with the same dimensions you're using with Google Adsense. NOTE: don't center the ad on the page, let it top-left-justify naturally.

Upload this page to your webserver.

Now, enter the URL for this page into the box above.

That's it. When Google decides that it can't find any relevant ads, it will display this instead.

You can also get creative, and instead of pasting code from another advertising service, you can use links for some affiliate programs, or links to some of your other websites.

Blogs with AdSense

Blogs are a great way to build audiences for monetization purposes.

I created the blog you're reading, "Money With AdSense", on August 24, 2007, which is just 30 days ago from today. Already it's starting to pick up some steady traffic.

This steady traffic started occurring about one week after the launch, when Google added pages from this website into its search index. Albeit, the traffic was very small, only 1-2 visitors per day. As of today, Google is now referring about 2-3 visitors per day. Woo Hoo! Big difference!

But before you toss your hand at that, also consider that just three days ago, Yahoo began referring visitors as well. I'm now seeing about 2-3 visitors a day from Yahoo.

So overall, I'm getting about 4-6 visitors a day to this blog from Yahoo and Google combined.

That's pretty good if you consider the following...



It's only been 30 days since the launch of this blog

I spent zero on traffic building.

I spent zero building the website

I spent zero on content (it's all my content)

I spent zero on hosting (it's running on my dedicated server)

The only area I paid money was for domain name registration

Thus far, I've earned very minimal from AdSense, but I have gotten some clicks. Considering the traffic volume, it's easy to understand why. But that's ok, because traffic will grow as I continue to publish more articles.

Remember, the more articles I publish, the more pages I'll have in Google & Yahoo's search index. The more pages in their index, the more likely one of those pages will show up on someone's query.

You can build up a steady income stream with AdSense just by doing what I described above. All I did was launch a blog, pasted AdSense into it, and then just write new articles (in your words), regularly. Traffic will automatically starts coming within days or weeks, and it builds from there.

The key to all of this, is original content.

That is, you have to create the content. You can't republish someone else's article from an article archive site. Google seems to know when it finds an article that exists elsewhere.

In a year's time, you might have hundreds of visitors each day, or thousands, depending on your niche, your SEO efforts, your domain name, and if you can get other sites to link to you.

Blogs have an uncanny way of building up traffic quickly from search engines, as opposed to other types of websites.

Does PageRank Matter for Local SEO?

Search Engine Optimization as a whole has certain methods and measurements that are understood to measure success. For years, it’s been PageRank. PageRank was a measure of a website’s importance by way of how many authoritative sites linked to it. But what about its importance in Local SEO? This rank created whole employment positions of “link builders” and sites called “link farms.” Exploitations were found. Site bannings commenced. PageRank became this precious commodity like spices of the East Indies. If your site garnered more PageRank, it was bumped up in the ranks and, therefore, more susceptible to being clicked. This practice started making link builders salivate with opportunities and more people hoped for a “reciprocal link” from a prominent site. If you think that this sounds sort of clique-ish, well, you’re not far off. Once people started discovering the “no-follow” tag, all link-heck broke loose. A no-follow tag would not share any PageRank authority to the linked page. Dubbed “link juice,” site owners could link to other sites choosing who to spill PageRank authority to and snub others. Newspapers, magazines and other featured media did this to curb the websites that would benefit from being featured in a story. As you can see this whole PageRank business becomes a popularity contest whether or not the website was of any use to anybody. Even though there are current changes about Page Rank , one thing I like about Local SEO is that it doesn’t really matter. Yes. I wrote that out. I am saying that Local SEO can do without PageRank. Why? Well, quite frankly, you can rank well in Local Search Results without having a website at all . Surprised? Well, you should be! What this is showing us is that as far as Local Search is concerned, there is something mighty different going on in the Local Ranking Algorithm. So what is going on? Well, unless you work at Google, you have to guess. What I like to do is to step back and look at where technology is going and what is being promoted and see how everything fits together. The Big Picture. Once, we use to be a nation of desktop users reading brochure sites. Next, we moved to laptops with bloggers blogging everything. Now, we are on mobile devices texting, twittering and doing more than the desktop could ever do - linking the user to his/her environment with local search and GPS connectivity. Local SEO is about where you are The relevance of a website is not about Page Rank, it’s about where you are physically to your desired need. A website having a Page Rank of 5 but whose store is several miles away from the searcher will not be number 1 over the store that is around the block. Now there are many factors that play into local search results, and I am simplifying it a tad, but the important thing to realize is that in the world of local SEO, the virtual world is being torn away to bring in reality. And that’s a good thing for all of us. Here are some tips to keep in mind: 1. Accept your store front’s proximity. The old real estate saying “location, location, location” is just as true today as it was when the idea of a “main” street was conceived. Be where the people will be. 2. Focus on the keywords that people might type for. Talk in the language of your consumer, not in the language of your trade 3. Encourage people to review your business online. Provide a link on your main page, setup a kiosk-type computer in the store or mention it in your ads. Reviews, good and bad, can make you more visible. Check out The Adventures of SEO Boy: Heroic Feats of Search Engine Optimization at http://www.seoboy.com/ . Copyright © 2008-2009 Hanapin Marketing, LLC.

Twittersphere Ain’t What It Used to Be

A study was released today, conducted by inbound marketing company HubSpot , which looked at 4.5 million Twitter users over a nine month period. The data was gathered by their proprietary Twitter Grader tool and provides more confirmation of what we reported last week following a study conducted by a Harvard MBA candidate and assistant professor : As the tool as grown its usage has not in the same proportion. What in the world does that mean, right? Of course if there are a gazillion people signing up for Twitter accounts and lawsuits being filed over impersonation accounts then it must be that all the world is atwitter with Twitter-itis, correct? HubSpot’s study shows that despite the top line growth in number of accounts the actual usage of Twitter may still rest with the technology crowd that claimed it as their own oh those many years ago (well actually around 3 years ago but in the Internet age that’s like a generation or two). The most shocking difference year over year was that when HubSpot last conducted this study about 80% of those studied had created a bio in their profile. That number in less than a year has dropped to just 24%. What’s that say? Looks like people are signing up in droves but not using the service to its fullest (or even half fullest for that matter). Other data includes: 79.79% failed to provide a homepage URL 68.68% have not specified a location 55.50% are not following anyone 54.88% have never tweeted 52.71% have no followers The graph below shows though that those who are tweeting are taking full advantage of that 140 character limit. Lucky for us since they have so much to say. Other points to ponder include that the vast majority of tweets occur during business hours, many users are located in major metro areas and only 1.44% of tweets are re-tweets. So speculation as to the real worth of Twitter to business can start now. While you’re at it make sure you spend some time wondering if the $500 million offered by Facebook was high or low or just right. As for business applications, they are still there and can be very powerful. In some cases it could just be marketing by presence (better to be there than not) while others, like a Dell or Comcast, can do full on engagement of customers and prospects that falls to the bottom line in revenue or goodwill. None of that opportunity has gone away. What may have changed, however, is the speed of the hype freight train that Biz and the crew are engineering. To put it in search terms it’s a classic case of traffic v. conversions. You can have all the traffic in the world but if it doesn’t turn into business then what have you really accomplished? With Twitter, you can all of the accounts in the world but if the vast majority is not really using the service then what is the real value? That’s why there are no cookie cutter solutions in the Internet space despite what agencies and service providers might say. It is not a “Tweet it and they will come” world, at least not yet.

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