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University entrance exams have been the stuff of cram sessions and nightmares for people around the world for centuries. Now, it?s a robot?s turn to sweat.
Researchers in Japan are betting that with a few years of programming, they can outfit a machine with enough artificial intelligence to pass the math section of the country?s equivalent to the SAT and, by 2021, the University of Tokyo?s more demanding entrance exam.
Todai, as university is called, is one of the country?s most prestigious schools. The Todai Robot project was started in 2011 by the National Institute of Informatics to develop a robot that?s able to pass the test in a bid to push the envelope of artificial intelligence. On Monday, Fujitsu Laboratories joined the effort.
While super smart robots are already in the offing, as demonstrated by IBM's trivia champ Watson on the game show "Jeopardy" in 2011, the skills required to pass the math test present a unique set of challenges, according to Fujitsu.
To solve these problems, a robot must first be able to convert the problem text, which reads in natural language ? (think: A train leaves Tokyo at 8:30 in the morning going 120 miles per hour ? ) ? into a form that a computer program can execute.?
More than just analyzing words, this task ?involves skillfully integrating mathematical terminology and a high-school level understanding of math. Beyond that, it needs to decide the best way for the computer to solve the problem,? Fujitsu said in a statement.?
To date, the artificial intelligence solves 50 to 60 percent of the entrance exam problems correctly, not nearly well enough to get into university. Fujitsu thinks it can help the project meet its goal.
If the researchers are successful in their efforts, students may no longer need to acquire sophisticated math skills to do well in school. Such artificially intelligent?robots will in a sense be tomorrow?s calculators.
?The hope is that the technologies developed as part of this project will enable anyone to easily use sophisticated mathematical analysis tools, which will lead to solutions for a wide range of real-world problems, and even automation of mathematical analysis and optimization,? Fujitsu said.
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2012) ? The study of an oxygen-sensing bacterial regulatory protein by chemistry researchers at the University of Georgia has provided molecular insight into the oxygen sensing mechanism, which could ultimately lead to a better understanding of the aging process and new treatments for human diseases such cancer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Michael Johnson, a distinguished research professor of chemistry in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and Bo Zhang, a UGA chemistry doctoral candidate, have discovered that the fumarate and nitrate reduction regulatory protein, or FNR, in E. coli senses oxygen by a new type of reversible structural change in an iron-sulfur cluster. The work was carried out in collaboration with Nick Le Brun and coworkers from the University of East Anglia. The results were published Sept. 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Iron-sulfur clusters are abundant biological cofactors that play crucial roles in almost all of fundamental life processes, including respiration, photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, DNA replication and repair. "Everyone has trillions of iron-sulfur clusters associated with enzymes and proteins in their bodies," Johnson said. "The problem is that they readily degrade in the presence of oxygen and other species that are associated with oxidative stress, leading to loss of protein function."
The research conducted at UGA and UEA focused on FNR, which senses the presence of oxygen in the environment and "switches" off and on specific genes in pathogens, such as E. coli, when there is no oxygen present-conditions often found in the human intestinal tract. Oxygen is sensed by FNR via its iron-sulfur cluster-that undergoes conversion from one form to another, smaller one, thereby causing the protein to change shape-the "switch"-and leading to the turning off of genes associated with growth without oxygen.
"E. coli can decide what lifestyle to live, with or without oxygen," said Johnson. "We can't decide to change our need for oxygen, but understanding the mechanisms for reassembly and repair of iron-sulfur clusters in response to oxidative stress is crucial for understanding a host of human diseases as well as the aging process."
By revealing the structure of the oxygen-damaged cluster in FNR and showing that it can be readily repaired by the addition of iron, this research has discovered a major mechanism for the repair of iron-sulfur clusters. Moreover, preliminary results on other iron-sulfur cluster containing enzymes suggest that this type of iron-sulfur cluster oxygen-damage and repair mechanism is widespread in biology.
Bo Zhang, the lead author on paper said that the iron-sulfur cluster switching mechanism in response to oxygen is smart. "They don't panic-they calmly keep their extra sulfurs and wait to be repaired," said Zhang. She said that any medical applications of the research could take 10 to 20 years for development. The next step is to discover how the repair process works in the cell. Johnson and Zhang are currently working on in vitro models to mimic this biological repair process.
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health under award number GM62524.
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Jim Vavrek's temporary work contract was cut short when his employer switched vendors. He spoke about his career while at home with his dog, Vincent, after his last scheduled day of work.
By Allison Linn, NBC News
Jim Vavrek has experienced a lot of firsts in the last few years, and that has not been a good thing.
There was the first time he had his water shut off because he couldn?t pay the bill, and the first time he looked into applying for food stamps because he didn?t know how he could afford to eat.
And there was the first time he realized that despite insurance coverage, he still owed thousands of dollars from his late wife?s short fight with cancer ? bills he could not afford to pay.
?It?s amazing how fast everything happens,? Vavrek, 50, mused recently, as he drove from his job in New Brunswick, N.J., to his home in Point Pleasant, N.J.
The commute was about to become a memory ? Vavrek had just learned that he was going to lose the $13-an-hour contract job he?d landed about a year and a half ago. It had been a big financial step down from when he made $70,000, plus a bonus, several years ago, but at least it was a paycheck.
The?recession and?weak recovery of the past five years have forced many Americans to take a financial step backward, from the security of a middle class life to the struggles of living paycheck to paycheck or among the working poor. ?For many, a series of economic blows? ? a job loss, pay cut, divorce, health care bill or unexpected emergency ? has played a role in pushing them down the economic ladder.
Just as so many individual Americans have taken a step backward, the nation?s cumulative financial well-being also has taken a hit over the past decade.
?By almost any measure of economic well-being, we haven?t made progress,? said Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody?s Analytics.
Real median household income, the midpoint of what American households earn annually, fell 6.4 percent from 2007 to 2010, to $49,445, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data available. The 2011 data will be released this week.
Median household net worth plunged nearly 39 percent over those three years, according to the Federal Reserve?s latest data. A big factor?likely was tumbling home values.
Meanwhile, poverty increased. About 46.2 million Americans, or 15.1 percent of the population, were living in poverty in 2010 as determined by the Census Bureau, an increase of 2.6 percentage points from 2007. That data also will be updated this week.
The changes have meant that more people have had to turn to government aid. About 44.7 million people participated in the SNAP program, commonly referred to as food stamps, last year, up from 26.3 million in 2007.
Not surprisingly, many people feel worse off, and are upset about it. A study from the Pew Research Center found that four in 10 people who identify themselves as middle class say they are in worse shape financially than before the recession began in late 2007. ?Another Pew study released this year found that two-thirds of Americans see strong or very strong conflict between rich and poor Americans, a big increase over just a few years earlier.
The nation?s economy was officially in recession from December 2007 to June 2009, but the recovery since than has been painfully slow.
?Even though we?ve started to dig ourselves out of that economic hole that we got ourselves into, we?re still a long way from getting out of it,? Zandi said.
Many people who are struggling?now?never imagined they?d be in a position where they would need help with something as basic as buying food.
Related:?Do you feel like you are falling down the economic ladder? We want to hear from you
Michael Scarbrough, 47, made a six-figure salary for years,?selling heavy construction equipment in the Atlanta area. Sales dried up in early 2009 as the housing and commercial construction market plummeted.
That?s when the family?s finances slowly began to slip. He and his wife, who have a 6-year-old son, lost their 3,200-square-foot home, their Hummer, their Corvette and most other vestiges of their more affluent life. They eventually were forced to turn to food stamps and government?subsidized housing.
These days, his wife works full-time for a big retailer. He?s brokered the sale of just one piece of heavy equipment so far this year and expects their annual combined income will be less than $30,000.
?I?ve had to struggle to get by before, but never where I?ve had loss on this scale,? he said. ?It?s been a drastic change.?
A job loss, cut in pay or reduction in hours typically marks the beginning of falling down the economic ladder, but for some the problems have been compounded by big, unexpected expenses or debt.
In general, many Americans got a better handle on their debt after the recession hit. But ?households in the $25,000 to $50,000 income range remain in a much more precarious situation,?Zandi said.
Darrell Glaskin, deputy director of the Center for Health Disparities Solutions at Johns Hopkins University, said medical expenses can be an especially big problem for people who are already making low wages. That?s because even if you have insurance, a 20 percent co-pay for something like a broken arm can still mean you don?t have enough money to make your car payment that month.

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Vavrek takes his dog Vincent out for his daily walk.
Meanwhile, some programs that help people with medical needs have faced budget cuts.
?Has this current recession made things worse? Yeah, in the sense that there are more people in need, and the resources to provide for them have not increased and, in fact, in some cases they have declined,? he said.
Vavrek, the New Jersey man, found out in late 2007 that his wife of five years was ill with cancer.?By August 2008 she had died.
The couple had insurance, but the co-pays for treatment and medicine still added up to thousands of dollars in debt, some of which he put on credit cards. He still has at least $7,000 left to pay off, and even now he said he occasionally gets new bills addressed to his wife.
About a year after his wife?s death,?he lost his job working in information technology for a large media company. From there, he worked a string of jobs in sales and retail before landing a?contract IT job. He recently lost that too.
In such a weak economy, it?s not uncommon for someone who loses a job to take one that pays less. A government survey of workers who were displaced between January 2009 and December 2011 showed that out of the three million people who lost a full-time job they?d held for more than three years and found a new one, fewer than half were making as much as they once had.
Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, said that?s been an especially big problem in the past few years, because jobs have been so scarce.
?If you lost your job in 1999, you were pretty much able to find a job that was similar to the one you lost,? she said. ?But right now, if you lost your job in the Great Recession or its aftermath, you just got slammed in your wages.?
Vavrek has held on to his house but struggled with other bills. A low point came when he arrived home one day and found his toilet wouldn?t flush. It turned out his water had been shut off because he hadn?t paid the bill.
?I?m 50 years old and I?ve never, ever had a utility shut off on me, and that was devastating,? he said.
He had to borrow money from his mother to get it turned back on.
He has sold his SUV and cut out movies, eating out and trips to regular stores. Instead, he relies on a dollar store and discount grocers. He keeps the lights off when he can and even turns the coffee maker off as soon as his coffee is finished brewing to save on his electric bill.
He had already applied for food stamps before he even discovered he was going to lose his job. It?s something he never thought he would do.
The sudden change in financial circumstances has left many people living a kind of economic double life, where they still have the material things they purchased when times were better but struggle to pay other bills.
Lynne Hackaday has the exact same job as a medical transcriptionist that she?s held for years. But while she once brought home more than $70,000 a year, the same work now nets no more than $25,000 a year.
Hackaday?s reimbursement rate has plummeted as her field has become more automated and faced increased competition from workers in other countries. She?s looked at working for other companies but said the lower rate is generally the new norm for the industry now.
Although her situation is extreme, economists say it?s not uncommon to see wages stagnate or decline in such a tough economy.
?Persistent high unemployment hurts wage growth across the board,? Shierholz said. ?Even if you have a job, if your employer knows there?s no outside options for you, they have no incentive to give you wage increases.?
In better times, Hackaday, 60, purchased a $300,000 home in Winston-Salem, N.C., figuring that her salary would more than cover the mortgage. Instead, she and her husband now allocate almost all of his military retirement check just to the monthly mortgage bill.
?The only thing that?s saved us is my husband?s retirement,? she said.
They don?t think they could sell the house because of the weak housing market. But the nice home belies their much more meager existence. They are driving 13-year-old cars they can?t afford to replace and have cut back on everything from eating out to how much they can give at church.
Hackaday had hoped to retire at 66 but now she doubts that will happen. Despite their hardship, she knows they have it better than many people.
?I am grateful that I have a job, even though I make less and less doing the same job,? she said. ?I do try to do my best.?
Although the weak economy has made things particularly tough, for many people the struggles began years before that. Real median household income has fallen 7 percent since 1999, after rising fairly steadily for decades before that. The wealth gap between the richest and poorest Americans also widened during the recession, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
After Roberta Lowther, 56, lost her $50,000-a-year job as an information security analyst in 2003, she moved from Indiana back to her home state of Alabama. She had a long stint of unemployment before she finally found a job working in the state?s children?s rehabilitation program. She likes the work, but it only pays around $22,500.
In 2007, she went back to school. But even after earning a college degree, Lowther still hasn?t been able to find a better-paying job.
She cashed out her 401(k) and ended up filing for bankruptcy, and she still struggles to pay her monthly bills. Luckily her husband, who is nearly 70, is getting a pension. That brings their combined income up to around $60,000.
?Had he not been in my life, I don?t know what would have happened,? she said. ?I often wonder about that. Would my faith have been strong enough to get me through this??
Many people who have taken a financial step backward wonder if they will ever work their way back up the financial ladder. Zandi, the Moody?s economist, is optimistic that in the coming decade, jobs will slowly return, wages will once again rise and people will start to make up lost ground.
?It?s been a very wrenching decade, but we?ve been doing a lot of hard lifting and I think the economy?s fundamentals are in much better shape,? Zandi said.
Still, he conceded, ?It?s hard to see it. Most people don?t.?
How do you think the economy will be doing a year from now?
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2012) ? UCLA stem cell researchers have found that a gene therapy regimen can safely restore immune systems to children with so-called "Bubble Boy" disease, a life threatening condition that if left untreated can be fatal within one to two years.
In the 11-year study, researchers were able to test two therapy regimens for 10 children with ADA-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). During the study, they refined their approach to include a light dose of chemotherapy to help remove many of the blood stem cells in the bone marrow that are not creating an enzyme called adenosine deaminase (ADA), which is critical for the production and survival of healthy white blood cells, said study senior Dr. Donald Kohn, a professor of pediatrics and of microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics in Life Sciences and a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA.
The refined gene therapy and chemotherapy regimen proved superior to the other method tested in the study, restoring immune function to three of the six children who received it, Kohn said. Going forward, an even further refined regimen using a different type of virus delivery system will be studied in the next phase of the study, which already has enrolled eight of the 10 patients needed.
The study appears Aug. 30 in the advance online issue of the peer-reviewed journal Blood.
"We were very happy that in the human trials we were able to see a benefit in the patients after we modified the protocol," Kohn said. "Doctors treating ADA-deficient SCID have had too few options for too long, and we hope this will provide them with an efficient and effective treatment for this devastating disease."
Children born with SCID, an inherited immunodeficiency, are generally diagnosed at about six months. They are extremely vulnerable to infectious diseases and don't grow well. Chronic diarrhea, ear infections, recurrent pneumonia and profuse oral candidiasis commonly occur in these children. SCID cases occur in about 1 of 100,000 births
Currently, the only treatment for ADA-deficient SCID calls for injecting the patients twice a week with the necessary enzyme, Kohn said, a life-long process that is very expensive and often doesn't return the immune system to optimal levels. These patients also can undergo bone marrow transplants from matched siblings, but matches can be very rare.
About 15 percent of all SCID patients are ADA-deficient. Kohn and his team used a virus delivery system that he had developed in his lab in the 1990s to restore the gene that produces the missing enzyme necessary for a healthy immune system. To date, about 40 children with SCID have received gene therapy in clinical trials around the world, Kohn said.
Two slightly different viral vectors were tested in the study, each modified to deliver healthy ADA genes into the bone marrow cells of the patients so the needed enzyme could be produced and make up for the cells that don't have the gene. Four of the 10 patients in the study remained on their enzyme replacement therapy during the gene therapy study. There were no side effects, but their immune systems were not sufficiently restored, Kohn said.
In the next six patients, the enzyme therapy was stopped and a small dose of chemotherapy was given before starting the gene therapy to deplete the ADA-deficient stem cells in their bone marrow. Of those patients, half had their immune systems restored. The human findings confirmed another study, also published recently in Blood by Kohn and UCLA colleague Dr. Denise Carbonaro-Sarracino, which tested the techniques in parallel, using a mouse model of ADA-deficient SCID.
One of Kohn's clinical trial patients enrolled in the first study was a baby boy diagnosed with ADA-deficient SCID at age 10 months. The boy had multiple infections, pneumonia, and persistent diarrhea and was not able to gain weight. He received the enzyme replacement treatment for three to four months, but did not improve and joined the gene therapy study in 2008. Today, that boy, who lives with his family in Arizona, is a thriving 5-year-old.
"You would never know he had been so sick," Kohn said. "It's a very promising response."
The boy's younger sister, also born with ADA-deficient SCID, was diagnosed at age four months and is enrolled in the second phase of the study. She's also doing well, Kohn said. In fact, it appears that children who are diagnosed and treated younger seem to do better.
The study was funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Orphan Product Development award (1P50 HL54850 and RO1 FD003005).
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I bought 2 lifetime memberships, one is because I was looking for a contextual widget to display clickbank products without having to work a lot after the initial installation.. Then the other is because it provides very useful data about the products available for sales on clickbank. I mean data useful for clickbank affiliates so they don't have to much trial and errors to do..

I put this one first because it is the first I've bought a lifetime membership for, but not only. Because it provides several different widgets that you can put on your site / blog to show clickbank products, and also because extra effort is done on the title and description + photos of each products, while others mostly rely on Clickbank's XML data feed and it simply doesn't work because many vendors don't bother to provide an alternate version of their product description. So with other services you end up displaying clickbank products with text written for affiliates, not for buyers! You're hardly going to make a sale that way, or maybe just one in a month if you display the widget thousands of times and one visitor click on the product's ad anyway, despite the strange looking description!
Also, cbproads provides you with a fully-featured storefront also called clickbank mall or cb mall.. So it's basically the full catalog of clickbank products that the visitor can browse by categories and with an internal search engine.. Apart from the photo + rewritten descriptions, the bonus of cbproads's storefronts over other service is that they also provide NICHE STOREFRONTS, which means nice looking websites displaying only a subset of the clickbank catalog, for instance only products about tattoo products, or about weightloss products, with a nice related header.. There are also other things, but you should find out by yourself and don't bother taking a free membership where you share the sales 50/50 with the owner, since you're going to use it and it is so cheap, buy the lifetime membership like I did. I never signed up before, I knew I would use it and the other membership plans make no sense, I knew I wasn't going to TRY IT, but USE IT!
Now cbengine I bought it a week after cbproads.. So obviously it wasn't because of the contextual ads they also offer at CBEngine, because I think cbproads does a better job at it. On CBEngine it is pretty standard contextual widget, with titles and description direct from clickbank's XML data feed and no image.. But that's like every other apart from cbproads so it's not a problem..
No, the reason why I bought the lifetime membership for cbengine, and here again without ever signing up before, even if they do offer a 7 days or 15 days trial, because I'm not going to try and see if I like it.. I KNOW I'll be using it daily or as long as I'll use clickbank.. So the lifetime membership was a no-brainer from the start.
Did I say why I bought it? Well it is because it is a tool better than the clickbank marketplace, because they have been up since 2004 and have kept records of all products variations (top shakers and movers) in all aspects, like gravity and other things. Plus they alert you about vendors who don't play the game by the rules, like accepting payment via paypal without going through the clickbank order process and stealing affiliates.. Well I have no time to play with those cheaters, it's better to know about that before you even open their sales page and investigate, so that you don't even bother to..
Also CBEngine has a nice interface, very professional with no bullshit (cluttering?) and only the datas.
Plus they offer other things, I won't mention them you can simply go there and check for yourself, because if you're serious about affiliate marketing and clickbank, you'll get a lifetime membership, or perhaps a trial account to test the water if you're not like me. For me it was easy to see that cbengine made sense as part of my toolkit. I'm quite new in affiliate marketing in the sense that I started to focus 100% on it after I got banned from adsense (9 years old account) only a few weeks ago. But I've had amazon, clickbank and whatnot affiliate accounts for a long time, have made sales and sometimes a lot when I was lucky to get a lot of traffic on a page and by luck happened to look for a product related to that page..
But with adsense earnings being so high I allowed myself to be lazy and didn't want to spend time looking for products to promote, I was that lazy..
Now it's time for a change for the better, before the end of the year I'll be back on tracks but with affiliate programs only, not with adsense (even if I wanted they don't) or other PPC networks, although I keep them on my sites because at the moment I need all the money I can get, but that won't be the case for long!
OK, I'll be straight with you, I put this one in third position because it is on the clickbank marketplace and that's the only reason really.. Otherwise I've looked at it but nothing impressed me. If you know this product and you believe I'm missing something, please tell me, but it doesn't look like there's much to it that cbproads or cbengine don't do already and better..
But anyway I cpy you the text of their sales page, there's nothing in it that caught my attention after having both lifetime membership at cbproads and cbengine:
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You get your own login to the members area so you can generate ClickBank ads that you can place on any website you own.
Your commission is normally around 50-75% per product sold from your ads. This can also include recurring billing products that can earn you a commission every single month.
Our database is updated every single day from the legitimate ClickBank marketplace, not from a database that has about 100 old links like some places, we have ALL of ClickBanks 10,000+ products listed, this is very important as new products are added and removed from the marketplace every single day.
We do not pretend to offer it at a low cost or for free and then make you pay a monthly fee to upgrade, it is a one time only payment.
Your ads will be direct link ads targeted by your own keywords, so you can mix them with your Google AdSense if you require.
Your ads are not displayed as images, they are actual text so that they will add towards the S.E.O of your web page and increase traffic from search engines.
You do not need any technical knowledge at all, as long as you can copy and paste into your web page.
You can choose the exact size of ads you require by title length, description length, word length, ad number, width, height, orientation etc. All done from very simple menus in your members area.
You can choose the look of your ad by font, font colors, font size, border colors and styles. You can even choose the order in which they display, such as most popular, highest earning etc. All done from very simple menus in your members area.
There are no complicated databases for you to set up, in fact it has been designed so that even a child can use it.
You get paid by ClickBank every week for any sales made from your ads.
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Also from now on, I'll list only the different websites I've found when looking for clickbank contextual ads, but I can tell you they're not worth your time.. And I put them in random order, that is the order they are open in my browser tabs..
Oh wait, I've just lied in TOP 3.. That's because I've checked on clickbank marketplace and there it was, CBProSense!
So I'll spend a little more time reviewing it.. First let's copy the part of the sales page where the owner lists the features, we never know what we can find:
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Highly Content Sensitive - unlike other ClickBank contextual systems, CBprosense will fully index your pages to ensure that only the most relevant products are matched to the content around them.
Highly customizable - CBprosense has no set Ad sizes. You can alter almost any aspect of the Ad, like Ad width, height, text & links colors, background color and font face. You can even change the number of products displayed per ad (up to 100 products per ad).
Remotely hosted system - no need to mess around with server scripts.
Product commission level settings - you can specify the minimum commission level required for products to display. Example, if you set the commission level to 50%, products paying less then 50% will not show on your ads.
All links are hard coded with your own encrypted ClickBank affiliate id. The links when clicked open in a new window, the viewer never leaves your site.
The message "Ads by CBprosense..." can be turned off, and if you choose to leave this message on you get to earn 50% in commission for every referral that click this link and signs up with CBprosense. Try doing this with other contextual networks
The option to specify your own keywords on pages that are less then clear. This will bypasses the system's auto content-sensing mechanism and makes CBprosense fully compatible with other contextual networks (Google Adsense for example). The system will then simply pull products according to the keywords you specify, all hard coded with your own ClickBank affiliate ID.
Bullet list type Ads - CBprosense ads look distinctively different to any other contextual networks and are designed to blend much better into your page design.
Search Boxes - compliment your ads by displaying easy to configure CBprosense search boxes. Search results open in a new window, the viewer never leaves your site. All links are hard coded with your own encrypted ClickBank affiliate id.
Access to clicks and impressions reports - so you can fine tune your Ads to perfection.
Ad settings can be modified/customised on a page by page basis.
Extremely flexible, effective and easy to implement system. CBprosense provides you with a unique set of tools to ensure the best click to sale conversions possible .
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OK, from what I read, first I want to debunk the old myth that adsense forbids other contextual networks.. While it was true at first, it is not the case anymore, I guess they got scare of a monopoly suit or something, so now all they forbid in their favorite vague terms is ads that look like adsense ads.. So changing the colors should be enough, because they hardly invented the title + description + url format.. If they did we would know about it for sure, they would have a patent and would still have their clause about not allowing anything with title + description + url !
Secondly I want to say that I was wrong to overlook CBProSense in the first place, because to my knowledge they are the only ones to offer a service that crawl your pages and serves clickbank ads based on what they think your page is about.. cbproads and cbengine both require that you provide the keywords.. Which is not a problem anyway since I can do it with PHP before sending the html to the visitor.. But I'd like to see how well cbprosense performs this tasks, because it requires web server power.. After it depends for how many members and web pages, how often it crawls your site for updated content, how well it does the semantic guessing, or understanding what the page is about in automated way. This is not an easy task.. So perhaps cbprosense performs well as a truly contextual clickbank ads service.. I don't know, if you do, please let me know I beg you! I'll ask about it on DP forum, but their clickbank subforum is not very active and I'm not (yet) a member of warriorforum.. But I'll make a google search surely others have been talking about cbprosense before today :-)
Also another point caught my attention is that they say their ad format is very flexible, well that's good.. But still they don't talk about having rewritten title and description of clickbank products, and also not having images for products..
Well, I think if I didn't yet have my cbproads and cbengine lifetime memberships I would give them a try.. Also maybe it is free to sign up for a trial.. Well, no... "This service is available by subscription only."
OK, maybe another time after I read more about it than from their sales page..
Now let's go for the rest of the bunch..
At least they're free, but what's the catch?
I suppose nothing except like all other owners, to be able to track which clickbank products are getting clicked the most from their widget, so they have an edge over the competition by having a lot of data about that and being able to identify the products / description which generate interest..
I suppose the owner developped this for himself to use on his own sites and thought why not make a website and offer it for free to get data, if I get too many members or the load on my server is too much I can always make changes to the terms..
So yes, this one is free and claims to let you have 100% of the sales..
That sounds like a good deal for those who are not interested in anything else that cbproads and cbengine have to offer.
MyClickBankAds helps you to:
- Display ClickBank Contextual Ads (Like Google Adsense)
- Make more money
- Add action and interest to your site.
- Bring in more traffic.
- Save you lots of time.
- Make money from deadweight pages.
- Get higher payouts by making 50% to 75% commission ($20-$100 per sale instead of just a few cents).
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........
This one doesn't even have working payment buttons, I should not mention it, but I have it opened in my browser tab.. Well anyway I'll copy you the bullet points part and I'm done with this top, you know which ones I advise you to get..
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Put an end to the frustration of having a website that never makes you any money
Promote products that are already selling every day like hotcakes
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Do you like this top?
Here you go, I've listed quite a few of them, but personally I only bought lifetime membership for the first two, I think it is more than enough. Those products are not about learning how to do something, but they are useful tools when you already know what you'd like to do.
If you'd like me to summarize it for you, if you're not that short of cash to want to get the free one (TOP 4 CBProSense) then I'd recommend you take like me two lifetime memberships, one with cbproads and the other with cbengine.. But depending on your needs, maybe one of them will be enough..
for instance if what you want if good data about the clickbank marketplace and just a simple widget to show contextual ads, then you need only cbengine. On the other hand if clickbank marketplace is enough for you since you've used it a lot already and only need good looking widgets and perhaps also some niche storefronts, then you only need cbproads..
Just another thing before leaving, about wordpress, personally I don't use it, I use drupal, but if you're using it then you might be interested in wp plugins, in that case, cbengine provides you with one with the lifetime membership, or you can buy it separately it's called cbpress.. And cbproads is about to release their own, it will allow to create storefronts on wordpress with the nice title + description + images of the clickbank products, and probably more, but I won't know first hand because I don't plan on using wordpress, drupal is fine for my needs and has served me very well over the years.
If you want to read more about cbproads and cbengine, I have written other stuff since I've started focusing on all things clickbank, that is not so long ago:
Articles about cbproads and cbengine
See you around, and please if you have something to tell me about any of those products, including the cbprosense's contextual capabilities, please do so in the comments, thank you!
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