Archive for the 'Make money with Blogs' Category

AdSense policy changes means a lot of work for some publishers

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

AdSense have again made tweaks to their Online Program Policy.  Some of these changes are good, some are going to mean a lot of extra work for existing publishers.
The Good:
Referrals - You can now have two referral links (or images) per referral product.  For a blog this means that you could have, for example, a [...]

Does the AdSense Beautifier break AdSense terms and conditions?

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Does using the AdSense Beautifier break AdSense terms and conditions?  This plugin can give you a significant boost in clicks but can using it get you kicked off the scheme?
In a word, yes.  Late last year Google clarified their position on the use of images to draw attention to ads.  Now images cannot be lined [...]

Guy Kawasaki’s first year of blogging

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

On Jan 1st Guy Kawasaki reviewed his first year of blogging.  It’s an interesting read:

2,436,117 page views for an average of approximately 6,200/day.
262 posts generated 6,961 comments and 1,937 trackbacks. That’s 25 comments/post and 7 trackbacks/post.
21,000 people receive RSS feeds via Feedburner and 1,457 receive emails via FeedBlitz.
Total advertising revenue: approximately $3,350 = $1.39 cpm. [...]

Is every blog a potential moneymaker?

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Is every blog that’s out there on the Internet a potential pot of gold waiting for the owner to realize it and slap some ads on it? 
No.  If only it were that simple!
The truth is that there’s a huge gulf between a blog that’s got the potential of making a few bucks a month [...]

To make money from your blog you need to be confident!

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

It seems that everyone wants to make money from a blog nowadays (it’s a .com craze for the masses) and Steve Pavlina has posted what I think is an excellent article on how to make money from blogging.
This article by Steve is a monster article (like most articles he writes) and having read it a [...]