Archive for: April, 2005
Written on April 29th, 2005 at 12:04 am by Darren Rowse
How Frequently Should You Post?
There is a great podcast over at View from the Isle – The Inaugral Business Blog Roundtable – on the topic of ‘how frequently should you post’ on your blog.
It think its a great idea for a Pocast – in a sense its taking the idea of niche blogging (one theme – Business Blogs) and [...]
Written on April 28th, 2005 at 02:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Text Link Pricing Criteria
Search Engine Journal has a good post on how to work out how much to charge for text ads on your blog. It comes at a perfect time for me as I’ve had a number of emails recently from webmasters asking how much I charge for links. The article suggests the following criteria might be [...]
Written on April 28th, 2005 at 01:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Where’s the Content?
Sometimes its easy to get so carried away with earning money on your blog that your content can become secondary to everything else.
I’ve had (and probably fallen for) this kind of temptation myself – but think its probably the blog and your readers who suffer most for it.
I was just surfing by this blog and [...]
Written on April 28th, 2005 at 10:04 am by Darren Rowse
Why Adsense is Not Suitable for All Blog Topics
One of the most striking things that hit me in my analysis of the 30 most visited blogs at Truth Laid Bear was the small number of blogs using the Adsense program. Only 8 of the 30 (26%) had any Adsense ads on their pages – most instead opting for BlogAds as their income stream [...]
Written on April 28th, 2005 at 08:04 am by Darren Rowse
Google AdSense for RSS running at Weblogs, Inc.
Jason writes that they have been accepted into the testing program of Google Adsense ads in RSS feeds. Lucky things!
I’m not bitter though after my own rejection – sniff sniff. Well not too bitter.
thanks to Mike for the tip
Update: in spotting some of their ads in their Engadget feed I’m wondering about the relevancy of [...]
Written on April 28th, 2005 at 07:04 am by Darren Rowse
Fastclick add Text Ads
Yesterday Google announced it was going into CPM advertising and expanding opportunities for advertisers to use banner ads – today one of the big banner ad providers, Fastclick, add to their website that they are getting into Text Ads.
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Written on April 28th, 2005 at 01:04 am by Darren Rowse
How the Most Highly Visited Blogs Earn Money
update: How to blogs earn money? For more information on this topic check out ProBlogger the Book.
Yesterday I spent the afternoon wading through some of the most highly visited blogs going around at Truth Laid Bear’s Traffic Ranking page which ranks those blogs with Sitemeter statistics. I quite often head over there to keep track [...]
Written on April 27th, 2005 at 08:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Adsense RSS Ad Testing Rejection
I thought I’d try my luck and drop the team at Google’s Adsense an email to ‘offer my services’ as a tester for their RSS ad program. Of course I wasn’t expecting an affirmative response but thought I’d test my birthday luck. The response was to be expected:
Hello Darren,
Thank you for your email. The feature [...]
Written on April 27th, 2005 at 05:04 pm by Darren Rowse
Adsense Ads – Which Position Works Best?
Google have added a heatmap to their Optimization Tips page to give publishers a few clues as to what positions on your site might be best for Adsense Ads (darker colors are best performing positions).
Nice how they designed this in ProBlogger Colours by the way
You’ll notice from the heat map that ads close to content [...]
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