All Entries Tagged With: "adsense"
When Should You Remove Ads From Your Site?
I’ve read many blog posts advising as to when aspiring bloggers should add banners to their sites. In my opinion the advice given in most posts that you should only add adverts once you’ve got an established readership is wrong. A good blog should always be attracting new readers, so why should new readers be [...]
Winning The Lottery
We all know that there are a handful of blogs out there that essentially are printing their own money. The few that come to mind all share one thing in common: in addition to being set up to generate income, they all add value to the internet. No matter how well marketed, nobody’s going to [...]
Increase Adsense Earnings By Making Channels Targetable
After a fairly long absence from blogging, I’ve been working behind the scenes to tidy up my sites so that I can start posting again. I had so much admin to do and emails to reply to, that’s it taken me a week to write my first post!
One email that had lain unread for a [...]
Powerful Blackhat Tips… That Used to Work
Many webmasters gun for the easy way to seize top rank in the search engines. Back in the early 2000s, it was easy to fool google. A few tricks and voila- you’re number 1 in the search rankings. Some such methods worked so well that blackhatters sold of 4 page PDFs for $200 describing these techniques. [...]
Ugly Sites Make Loads of Adsense Income
If you’re a blogger living off Adsense, chances are you’ve tweaked everything from ad colors, placements and sizes. You experimented with heatmaps, placed icons next to ads and even bought Joel Comm’s overpriced adsense books. But yet, your ads just don’t seem to reap the revenues you lust for.
I share your pain. My idea of [...]
Show Me Your Desktop Jeremy Schoemaker
Unfortunately Lisa Brewster didn’t make it into the Mahalo VLOG Idol final, her interview is still here though.
This week it’s Jeremy Schoemaker aka. ShoeMoney’s turn to show us his desktop. It’s almost impossible to describe Shoemoney in a few lines. I’m still going to do it though.
Regular readers of Shoemoney.com know that he lost 240 [...]
AntiLeech WordPress Plugin: Stop RSS Splogs In Their Tracks
There are so many plugins for WordPress, that it’s rare that a new one comes along that I think all WordPress users should install. However I’ve just discovered a new plugin that will help me sleep better at night.
AntiLeech is a WordPress plugin that stops Splogs, i.e. feed scrappers that steal other blogs traffic, [...]
Connected Internet Joins Forbes Business & Finance Blog Network
A few weeks ago I got an email inviting me to join a new ad network from Forbes.com.
The email came at a bad time as I’d just wasted a month or two experimenting with alternative ad networks to see if I could improve upon my Tribal Fusion performance with no success. I also wasn’t keen [...]
Why You Should Keep A Blog Housekeeping Checklist As You Could Be Losing Traffic & Money
Blogging can be fun, particularly if you are somebody like me who likes to constantly fiddle with stuff. The problem with this approach, is that over time you can break things or remove vital tweaks that you included in the past without realising it.
This could not only damage the performance of your site, but [...]
How To Increase Your Adsense CTR by 1% With One Simple Change
Although my performance has dipped over the last couple of months, Google Adsense still remains my number one source of blogging revenue. I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking my ad positions to find the optimal positions, adding section targetting and making the most of smart pricing to maximise my earnings and I thought [...]
WidgetBucks – Worth Considering As An Adsense Alternative
The CPM of the google adsense unit that was below my posts has recently fallen to below the $1.50CPM threshold I have set for banners, so I have removed it.
Removing poorly performing Adsense units quickly is very important, as they will drag down the earnings of your better Adsense units due to Google’s Smart Pricing. [...]
I’ve increased My Adsense eCPM By 50% Using Section Targeting
It’s amazing how sometimes how even when you know better you can forget the most basic things, and you can be your own worst enemy….
This site has been extremely successful making money with Adsense in the past making around $4-4.5k per month. In November my adsense earnings plummeted by around 50%, which I thought [...]
MyBlogEarnings For December 2007
December saw the end of my first full year of trying to make money from this blog. Although December wasn’t a strong month, when I look back at the growth I achieved over 2007 I’m very happy.
If you’re new to the blog my old MyBlogEarnings reports are available, as well as my Guide To [...]
I Hate Being Called A Liar
If there’s one thing I really hate, it’s being called a liar. Particularly by someone who doesn’t know me.
There’s a shameless linkbait post that calls into question whether the online earnings of bloggers that report their earnings, including myself, are genuine. I responded to the post straight away vouching for my own earnings, [...]
MyBlogEarnings For November 2007
If you’re new to the blog my old MyBlogEarnings reports are available, as well as my Guide To Making Money Online With Blogging. The guide is worth checking every month or so, as I update it every couple of weeks or so.
November was a disappointing month for Connected Internet. After a record October, [...]
MyBlogEarnings For October 2007
October most certainly was an interesting month! I don’t think I’ve ever paid so much attention to the site, particularly my SERPS after Google dropped my Page Rank.
I’m hoping that November will be just as interesting as I will have time to try and push my earnings onto the next level.
If you’re new to [...]
Playing 007 With Adwords
Feeling like James Bond? Now you can play web-spy with a cute sounding firm that deals deadly blows to your Adwords competitors.
The cutesy firm in question is GoogSpy. Owned by VelocityScape, Googspy is free, web-based, full featured and allows you unparalleled competitor research. After a recent corporate rebranding, the service now goes by an equally [...]
Even More Ways To Throttle Adsense Silly
In the previous Adsense installment, we discussed rather mild methods to increase your Adsense clickthrough rate. Expect a reasonable $300 to $500 a month boost with those methods- that is, if you don’t go crazy with images and get your account banned.
Let’s turn up the heat and whip out the Gatling Gun for [...]
How To Spend Next to Nothing in Adwords- And Rake In A Profit
Some neophyte bloggers seethed how their Adwords expenditures literally GOBBLED their Adsense / Chitika / Clickbank earnings. I snuck a peek and figured the cause – Generic keywords.
One blogger does camera reviews. He deployed the keywords “Reviews” and “Digicam Reviews” in Adwords panel. He forked out $1000+ a month on Adwords, and earned [...]
MyBlogEarnings For September 2007
One of my work colleagues asked me today if my readers liked me posting my site earnings. I said that I think so, as I think it gives them ideas for increasing their own earnings.
If you’re new to the blog my old MyBlogEarnings reports are available, as well as my Guide To Making Money [...]
