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This might come early but I’m on GMT+8 here so Happy New Year everyone!!

I hope this is the beginning of an exciting year for all of us.

We’re sorry for the lack of updates within the past week or two. I have just moved to KL and Lee now has a dayjob. We will reorganize our schedule ASAP to pick up on things around here. Until then should you need any help with your website or anything please feel free to contact us.

Since our launch earlier this year, digitalSURGERY.net has been experiencing a rapid growth in visitor traffic which is almost doubling each month. All kinds of people are visiting our site, from webmasters, designers and hosting providers to bloggers and industry professionals. So to celebrate this traffic explosion we decided to launch our Partner Link Exchange Programme, which aims to share this traffic with similar blogs and sites that meet the following conditions:

1. We can only provide the Link Exchange Programme to sites that provide articles, reviews or advice relating to the following - Blogging, Design, Google AdSense, Google Search and other Search Engines, Hosting, Web-Technology, Web-Software and other information relevant to Webmasters and Bloggers.
2. Partners of our Link Exchange Programme are required to display a link back to our site on their front page. Preferably on the main menu options. In return we will provide a link directly to your site under our Partners heading in the left-hand sidebar.
3. We currently only support text-only links under the Link Exchange Programme.
4. The management reserve the right to decline link exchange offers without notice.

These conditions may change without notice. E&OE

Contact us for more details.

Hellooo!! I’m new here to digitalSURGERY and I’d like to introduce you to the quirky, weird, yet intelligent man that I am, Blastafuzix!!!! Today we will be learning about, gasp… “The AdSense Million Dollar Man” Jason Calacanis! And his methods that boosted his revenue. This information was found from an interview he did over at JenSense.

One of the things Jason did was take the borders off his AdSense on all of his pages. The next step was making AdSense links the same color as those in his blogs. Clever move Jason! *High Fives*

Jason was asked why he placed his ad units the way he did, due to the fact it is not generally a high “Click Thru Rate” (CTR) position. His response was due to being sold out of leaderboards.

(A leaderboard is a popular type of banner advertisement. At standard dimensions of 780×90 pixels, a leaderboard is the width of the page and typically lies between the masthead (the title area at the top of a Web page) and content. Leaderboards are thought to offer advertisers a great deal of space in a prominent position without intruding on content.

Internet advertising borrows leaderboard from sports, where it refers to a sign board displaying the rankings of participants currently leading a competition.) on his big blogs, he figured he could slip the thin horizontal banner without it feeling like too much advertising.)

When asked on the best advice he has for a publisher brand new to AdSense, Jason states “I would run four ads per page, take off the borders, and make the links the same color as the links on the blog. I would also make channels

(Channels are a group of blogs focusing on distinct topics topics in a blog which is defined more in detail here

for each position and blog so I could track things better.” It seems to me theres a wealth of information here, pun intended! If your interested in more of this interview, continue on over to JenSense ASAP!!

The domain transfer and host switch took longer than we expected. There were a number of serious problems we had to deal with, but we’re happy to finally announce that we’re transfered over and that dS is sitting on a spanking new server.

We will launch our design and hosting services in the following weeks. Meanwhile we still have a lot of work to do until the rest of our domains are moved over.

Full blogging will resume shortly.

digitalSURGERY will be moving to its own dedicated server during the next few days. So there will be no updates until the move has completed, meanwhile you may notice some interruptions in our service. We anticipate a full and successful transfer within the next 48hrs or so.

Why are we moving servers?

The purpose of this move is so that we can provide our clients with feature rich hosting plans and web design services, that presently we are unable to offer. More details about our new hosting plans and design services after the initial move.

digitalSURGERY is expanding. Stay tuned for updates!

I got an email from one of our readers the other day. Tyler from Longren.org had this to say about Intouch:

I just quit using Intouch because it prevented Blogpulse (maybe others?) from crawling my site.

He might be right you know, because since installing the Intouch plugin here at digitalSURGERY we’ve also noticed the software over at BlogPulse and Google have both stopped crawling this blog. We are going to give it another 24 hours to see if the authors of Intouch get back to us with a fix (we contacted them yesterday), after this period we’ll have no choice but to remove the plugin and amend or delete the original article.

UPDATE: Google HAS indexed digitalSURGERY now and that’s with Intouch running. Maybe this is just a BlogPulse specific bug? We still have an unsolved mystery on our hands

UPDATE 2: I’ve concluded that this problem IS exclusive to BlogPulse at this moment. I disabled Intouch in my own blog and BlogPulse still hadn’t indexed my site almost 3 days later. However, other search engines (the ones that count) have been crawling my blog regularly.

We’ve decided that your feedback is a valuable asset to this blog so starting today we’ve allowed comments throughout this blog. If you see some older posts with comments off please give us some time to enable comments on all of them. We appreciate your readership and we hope that by allowing comments you will start to participate in open discussions of our entries.

Thank you.

The team is in the process of cutting up new ideas on the dS operating table, so please stay tuned and check back soon.