WP TagAds is a new way to display ads on your WordPress blog. WP TagAds is an advertising solution tailored for WordPress bloggers, ads are displayed based on the post tags you assign to a post in your WordPress blog. This is different then say Google Adsense where the page is crawled then ads are displayed based on the findings.

With WP TagAds you are served eBay products based the keywords you assign to a post. Don’t like the ads your are seeing, just change the keywords around a little to get the ads you are looking for.

Ads are displayed via a sidebar widget that is included in the plugin and you can place the widget where you like inside your template. You will need a eBay Campaign ID to start making money. A eBay Campaign ID is issued to you free by the eBay Partner Network.

See it action here (top right)

According to the StatCounter blog (more here) there are some problems in the PayPal kingdom. It seems that following an update on PayPal’s web site few issues where reported with the service (confirmed by PayPal and some reported to be solved). However, StatCounter claim that more issues arose:

The Paypal Handling Cart feature completely broke down

Cross border payments could not be made as the drop down country list did not work

Customers have been flooded with hundreds of duplicate subscription emails from Paypal

Payments from Paypal are no longer associated with the relevant subscriptions

Some customers have been and are being DOUBLE BILLED by Paypal

Merchants have not been receiving instant payment notifications or failure notifications

Merchants/customers are unable to cancel subscriptions

But the main concern was, in StatCounter opinion, is that PayPal did not acknowledge or offer any assistance. They could not get a response fro PayPal via email, phone or any other means of communication. They added that many StatCounter customers did not receive their invoices and some might have been double billed.

I have been using PayPal for some years now and never had any issues with them. If what StatCounter claim is true I see this issue with great concern. the worst thing a company could do is leave their customers in dark and not supply any information and updates.

Content Pay by Zong allows you to monetize your blog content using Premium text messaging. Your reader sends a text message using his mobile phone and he receives a code that gives him access to your content for a determined duration.

Here is the clickable image that appear for paid content:

and  the window’s information which tell the user how to pay and get access to the content:

The issues with PayPal was published on the company forum:

As for now, payments are sent to publishers using on of the founders PayPal accounts.

There is also an importer that you can paste in any older AdSense for Content code and convert it to the new AdSense unit code. You will then be able to manage your settings from the Manage Ads page directly.