I get a few emails from time to time from friends who are starting out in the blogging world asking me how I’ve gone with setting up my blog and bringing in traffic and all that sort of stuff, so I figured I would actually write an article about what I’ve done and that way I can direct people to it and hopefully they’ll find it a useful... (more...)
One thing that I had discovered is that it’s quite easy to get a blog up and running, it’s quite easy to bring in regular traffic, it’s quite easy to write content and keep things fresh, BUT it’s not that easy to make money out of it. (more…) Read More →
Well January 2008 has officially come and gone, it really baffles me where the time goes these days. Our lifestyles are just so fast and furious that days, weeks, months just fly by us in the blink of an eye. (more…) Read More →
Earlier this month I published an article on Bidvertiser when they went live with their public beta that allowed you to monetize your RSS feed. There were a lot of complaints from people who tried Bidvertiser’s RSS advertising as basically you couldn’t convert all your Feedburner subscribers over, and you essentially had to publish a new... (more...)
Earlier today my Google RSS Reader received an updated entry from John Chow’s blog called Successful Blogging - 5 Tips for Writing With Confidence which was a guest post by seopher.com’s Steven York. Lately John’s had a lot of guest bloggers, of course this is great for their blogs as they’re probably picking up a lot of extra... (more...)
Affiliate programs, pay per click advertising, direct advert sales, and whatever other thing you’ve tried to monetize your blog with is about to become OBSOLETE! Simple as that! Kind of worrying hey? You’re probably like me and have spent plenty of time over at John Chow, as well as many other ‘making money online’ websites,... (more...)
I get a bunch of emails daily asking me questions on how I’ve monetized my blog and whether or not certain advertising services have worked for me or not so I figured I’d start a monthly report on what I’ve made and where I’ve made it from, I’ll even include some pretty graphs too. So stay tuned later this month, probably... (more...)
So you wanna make money online like me? Hahah.. Well actually, I make bugger all as I haven’t really optimized my advertising yet to get it really working for me, not to mention that not many people actually click my advertising. Anyway, the following video from Don Vandervort gives you some good tips on how he got Google’s Adsense working... (more...)
So, you’ve started a blog but no one is looking at it. You’ve got your site looking all sweet and cool, you’re writing some reasonably good content, you’ve optimized your tags and categories to try and rank well in Google, you’ve setup a bunch of monetization streams to generate some revenue from hits and clicks, but nothing... (more...)