YPN has just announced that they are going to use paypal for payments. Additionally publishers who opt in will enjoy a reduced payment threshold, from $100 to just $50.

I think those are great news for YPN publishers, and I wish Google will follow them. Of course this sounds more like a dream as Google wants to promote their checkout service, so I guess if they will want to respond to this they will probably use their system to send payments.

Chitika announced today their new program, Chitika Linx which is a program that looks similar to kontera and inteliTXT.

If you don’t know how these ads work, think of a text link that whenever you put your mouse over it an advertisement pops out. From my experience those ads seem to have very high CTRs so I guess this will be a great alternative to use when it becomes public. By the way this type of advertisement is accepted by Google’s adsense TOS so we will be able to use it in pages that have google ads.

Can’t wait until the program goes live You can also check what problogger wrote about that here.

Here are some links of interest for today :

• Google buys FeedBurner for $100 million. Expect more earnings from adsense
• Can you write a song? Be sure to join the SEO lyric contest. The prize is $1000
• A new blogger community (like mybloglog) is borned, Blog Catalog. Feel free to join our community

As a internet marketer, or as a web developer/designer socializing with people that share the same interests can only be good for you. I usually visit webmaster forums to get ideas or discuss ideas I have with other people. After all we can’t know everything, right?

Bellow is a list of webmaster related forums that you can use :

General webmaster forums

Here are forums that have discussions related to any aspect of the internet business (web marketing, seo, web development, web design, etc.)

1. Webdigity webmaster community
2. DaniWeb
3. ABestWeb
4. Computer Forum
5. eBizBoards.com
6. Total Web Talk
7. Cre8asite Forums
8. Geek Valley
9. Geek Valley
10. HTMLForums
11. Master Of The Web Forums
12. Newbie Developer Webmaster Forums
13. Open Directory Project Public Forum
14. Sell Some Stuff Webmaster Forum
15. Singapore WebMaster Forum
16. SiteOwnersForums
17. SitePointForums
18. Talk Freelance
19. Tech Support Board
20. techies.co.za
21. TutorialForums
22. w3Exchange.com
23. watoti
24. Web Design Talk
25. Webmaster Bin
26. Webmastery
27. Ozzu
28. Webmaster-Talk
29. WebmasterForum

Graphic design forums

1. Stylegala
2. Graphic Design Forum
3. All Graphic Design
4. Adobe Support Forums
5. Wet Canvas
6. Deviant Art
7. GGSociety
8. Forum 4 Designers
9. ClanTemplates Forums
10. Flash Kit Community
11. 3D Buzz
12. Yaxay
13. Design Talk Board
14. GDF(Graphic Design Forum)
15. Graphics.com Forums
16. Designers Talk

Web hosting forums

1. BrowseHosts.com Web Hosting Directory Forums
2. Guru Lounge Hosting Community
3. HostHideout
4. HostingDiscussion.com
5. HostProfessor-Forum.com
6. Talk About Hosting
7. Web Host Forum
8. WebHosting Marketplace
9. WebHostingTalk

Programming Forums

1. DreaminCode
2. ASP Free
3. DevShed Forums
4. PHPBuilder
5. DB Forums
6. Sun Java Forums
7. VB Forums(Visual Basic)
8. Code Guru
9. Were Here
10. PHPAddict
11. Coder Forums
12. Zend Forums(php)
13. CodeWalkers

Promotion Forums

1. Marketing Chat Forums
2. GeekVillage Forums
3. GetHighForums
4. LinkOp

Search Engine Forums

1. TIP - UK Base SEO Forum
2. High Rankings SEO Forum
3. SearchEngineForums
4. SEO Chat
5. Seo Forum
6. WebmasterWorld

Domain Name Forums

1. DNForum
2. Domain Name Forums
3. WebmasterAds
4. XSNames
5. Tidget
6. Domain Forums

Affiliate Marketing Forums

1. ABestWeb
2. Warrior Forum - ugly but useful
3. 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums
4. WickedFire
5. Revenue Source
6. eWealth
7. Associate Programs
8. Affiliates4U
9. ClickBank Success Forums
10. Earners Forum

Forums for Forum Administrators

1. AdminFusion
2. The Admin Zone

Hope that list is good for you. If I missed any forum please post a comment

That’s a new way for Google to help publishers, the web seminars (webinars)

So next week(Wednesday, May 16th at 10:30am PDT) google will host an internet seminar for adsense, in which you can enroll here.

The topics of this seminar include :

• Using channels to track your ad performance
• Optimizing your ad placement, design, and layout
• Noticing trends and making proactive improvements to your site
• Keeping your account in good standing

More information can be found on the adsense blog.