Selling Text Links to Make Money
What’s everyone’s thoughts on selling text links? I’ve heard around that Google gives you a bit of a dumping for doing it, but I’ve also heard that it can be quite lucrative for well trafficked websites.
I’ve just signed up with TNX.com to see if any of the sites I publish, ie. Cool and Stuff, I’m With The Band and a couple of others about to launch, can command better advertising than the current click based Google Adsense advertising that I’ve used across most of my websites.
As of next month, assuming I start to see some advertising coins, I will start publishing monthly income reports, sort of in the vein of John Chow. Why? Well it’s a bit like the theory that if you act successful, show that you’re successful, and people will believe you are. Confidence without being some sort of show-off twat.
Anyway, I still need to wait for my TNX.com account to be approved and then from there everything should kick into high gear.
Entrecard is broken!
Well it seems as if Entrecard has gone a little bizarro world tonight. I just logged into my account to approve some adverts and what do I see, 512 credits to advertise on my blog! Weird!
The after a little further research it seems like the whole Make Money Online category has gone a little haywire, see the following screencap.
I was thinking about placing an advert on Problogger, John Chow or one of those high-end blogs but well at this rate I’ll be saving up my ECs for the next 30 years or so!
Wonder how long it will take till this is corrected?? Till then, buy some ads on my blog, I’m a total bargain at only 512 ECs!!
The Best of The Week [TWBOTW]
In a week where my RSS subscriptions have been dominated by news and commentary from SXSW I figured this was going to be a difficult TBOTW to put together, in actual fact it’s been very easy as there is still some fantastic content being produced by the ’smaller’ name blogs while all the big guys are at SXSW.
So here’s this weeks The Best of The Week!
11 Must Have Firefox Extensions by Shoemoney - as a Firefox user I’m always looking out for good extensions that will speed up my workflow, there’s a couple of ‘must haves’ in this list.
and why not follow that up with another software one, and I know there’s a fair number of Mac users reading this blog last time I checked Google Analytics
5 Amazing Mac Apps for Getting Things Done by Zen Habits - The ideal for anyone interested in Getting Things Done (more on GTD, and more)– or just being productive and organized, for that matter — is to be able to quickly add things to your to-do lists without interrupting your work; to be able to see what you need to do right now, without worrying about everything else; to be able to organize stuff without too much work.
The Blog Entrepreneur brought us this interesting article on Why Most Bloggers Will Never Succeed at Blogging - You don’t have to spend very much time surfing the blogosphere to deduce that a number of blogs get started and are posted on for a week or two, maybe even a few months, but then go dormant. Another bit of evidence is the sheer number of domains that are available for auction via GoDaddy or the various forums.
Seopher had some interesting things to say in his article on How to get success by authoring multiple blogs that I found pretty interesting as someone who is getting into authoring multiple blogs (I’m With The Band, Medical News Stat!, A Business is Born, Fat Stacks of Cash).
and on the topic of search engine marketing (SEO) Stoney over at Search Engine Guide gave us some insight that I think a lot of people would find useful in his article titled Sometimes Fixing a Site Means Breaking It First
and still on the topic of SEO check out the article on Daily Blog Tips with the tip on how you can Check How Search Engines See Your Website which you should bookmark as a valuable resource any time you do any changes to your website’s SEO! was quietly suprised on how this website shows up.
Last but not least check out Chris G’s Free eBook on Personal Branding written by Ted Demopoulos, why go out and pay a bunch of bucks for quality information you can get for nix, and it is quality information.
Anyway, those are some of the best articles to hit my RSS Reader this week. Hopefully there’s something amongst this lot which will help you out in the future, be sure to Digg and / or Stumble it for future reference, maybe even Subscribe to my RSS feed so that you get this delivered to you each week.
Till next week, Matt
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