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By: JD Arney . com » Blog Archive » Newspapers love me

JD Arney . com » Blog Archive » Newspapers love me — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:45:08 +0000

[...] I started two celebrity fan sites after reading this at ProBlogger, just as kind of a long term experiment. I had been using K2 as the theme on those two sites, but for some reason lately every time I changed something on the sites the layout would break. So I figured it was time for a new theme, and I chose fLight from Fahlstad.se, a guy who seems to be a pretty talented designer. You can see the theme in action on my sites here: [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:55:55 +0000

Gilad G, thanks for the comments, im glad you can find some inspiration from my work :). Thanks for pointing that out, I should definitely get that link added on the site.

By: Gilad.G

Gilad.G — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:28:15 +0000

Matt, good stuff there, I recently got into similar area of blogging myself, and could find some inspiration in your work.

I visited your Paris Hilton site and could not find a feed link. Subscribers work well for me as well as other bloggers who reference my posts in their blogs. You may want to consider that.

PS. I did eventually find it, but only by typing in the correct address.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:47:25 +0000

@ b. j , lol yeah I remember you, you helped me out on my gallery and things a few years back, very cool to hear that your doing very well with the “blog”, I had no idea you were a problogger reader!.

@ PhiMix, smart pricing is where google reduce the amount of money a click is worth, rather than say $0.40, they would only give you $0.18 or something instead. I think my account was smart priced (reduced value per clicks) because of my poor CTR. You can read more about “smart” pricing here.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/04/19/adsense-smart-pricing-explained/

By: PhiMix

PhiMix — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:52:36 +0000

RXide (#13): Try adding some adsense sections to your site, they really helped optimizing the ads being shown on my site.

What exactely is meant by the term ’smart pricing’ in the post?
‘…as these provided very very low CTR, which I believe lead my account to be ‘Smart Priced’.’

By: b. J.

b. J. — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:36:09 +0000

hey matt, remember me, im so happy ure makin about 1000 a month. im still about 500s with http://www.kanye-west.org (which is also a celeb blog) hope ya doing more and more…

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:18:34 +0000

@ roraz, well the google ad is just two half banners next to each other rather than one banner sized one. The php script is just a simple “random image script” that you can find on google, I think I used: http://photomatt.net/scripts/randomimage , but there are many that do the exact same thing.
Vasia, maybe it’s my host being lame (down) sorry about that :/

RXide, if your Page eCPM is $1, it might be because of a low CTR? I normally average about 3-5%. As far of optimizing what ads show, I use Section Targeting (https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=23168&topic=8441) To get more relevant ad’s to that article or celebrity. I haven’t really done much to get high paying keyword ads to show, as these would be less relevant, and have a lower CTR. I believe google does a good job it’s self at showing the most expensive (& relevant) ads it can in the best place (ad unit with highest CTR).

By: RXide

RXide — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:05:56 +0000

Very inspiring. I run a blog and get about 8K visitors a day and can’t even pull off $8 in adsense revenue per day. How did you manage to optimize what ads go up?

By: gaman

gaman — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:14:16 +0000

Nice write up. About placing images next to Adsense, I find a related post here at Jensense. Apparently some publishers have received compliance warnings about using images, since they are making them appear to be a part of the ad unit

http://www.jensense.com/archives/2005/08/images_above_ad.html

By: Vasia

Vasia — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 06:07:22 +0000

Hi,

All of the mentioned sites are down for me.
What is up?

Thanks.

By: roraz

roraz — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:38:11 +0000

very interesting read, considering im trying to set up a similar site. Some ideas Im definately going to implement

also Matt mentions a php script for adding images to/and splitting up google ads. I have seen this in effect on other sites, and was curious as to where I could get the source for the php script?

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:19:46 +0000

Awesome bro! You are now living the dream!

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:01:23 +0000

I also have had very good luck in the celebrity field, although it is very hard work and there are lots of competition.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:54:29 +0000

Thanks for reading my case study, and for the great comments! I’m very glad that you have all found my story inspiring.
Also cheers to Darren for picking mine :)

By: graywolf

graywolf — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:49:51 +0000

hmm, lots of dupe content there, wonder where you’re getting it from …

By: rols

rols — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:03:36 +0000

very inspiring and informative article Matt. I wish all ur dreams come true.

By: A.H

A.H — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:07:16 +0000

Really inspiring Matt, it’s nice how you stick up with the entertainment field and kinda master it and start making money =)

A.H

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:04:59 +0000

nicely written

By: zamri

zamri — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:44:33 +0000

Really good motivation for me to blog. Really appreciate if you can help me on how to start money blogging.

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 06:08:45 +0000

Cool case study! Inspired to hear of your success…all the best for more :)