Adsense Buddy is one of these simple adsense tools that lets you make nice little graphs out of your adsense data. It also monitors your revenue and gives you daily info on what you’re making.

Since there are so few good adsense trackers around, I decided to give Adsense Buddy a shot.

Privacy be gone

When you initially install it, Adsense Buddy asks you to register using your email address. Fair enough. But once they’ve checked your email, they prompt you for something more personal–adsense login and password. Once I entered these in, I got a notice from my firewall manager.

It seems adsense buddy was trying to connect to another site. Interestingly, this site was not google. When I denied the first site, it tried to connect to a second site. I checked the IP addresses of both these sites and lo and behold:neither are google adsense.

Selling out

It looks to me as though Adsense buddy is collecting users’ information by passing data through to their servers. I could be wrong, they could just be checking your email for validity, but it shouldn’t be going to two external sites first. They could be passing on anything from your email address to your password to your adsense stats. (more…)

As far as webmaster tools and resources go, FeedBurner is pretty awesome. Manage your stats, see your subscribers, maximize your audience and more.

Feedburner is worth it

I’m a bit of a control freak when it comes to me website–I feel a need to have everything done in house. You can imagine my hesitation to start using feedburner. I have to admit though, it has cut my work down and made everything a lot easier

Protect your content

One thing feedburner might do is lower your traffic and encourage readers to see your site on feedburner instead of your domain. This is easy to stop: Just optimize your feed and disable browser friendly option. This will make sure anyone who suscribes will either read through RSS or come straight to your site. (more…)