Make Easy Money With Google And AdSense is one of my favorite sites for reading about AdSense and Google projects in general, and with the Canadian and American dollar hitting parity, I really appreciated their latest post entitled “Google Should Switch To Euros“.
I have posted about the implications in a weak American currency before and […]

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So a friend of mine from Sweden made an interesting but valid point about the American dollar being weak: it is making him less money for the same amount of work. Thord Daniel Hedengren wrote on 901am about the problem in a post entitled “Get that dollar under control, please”
I lost equivalent of a grand […]

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One of my favorite building alexking.org posts has to be the recent one on the monetization of his site. It goes into details on what has worked for him, and what hasn’t, something that will really help some bloggers, and maybe mislead others.
Monetization of a site really varies from site to site, but it is […]

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Aaron Brazell has posted about his attempted Technosailor sale. He didn’t end up selling his blog, but he learned many valuable lessons worth passing on.
Here are a few:

Perceived value is in the eye of the beholder. More specifically, no one values any site more than the owner. This is natural as the owner puts “blood, […]

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Over on the new Workboxers, David Krug has posted his system for making money off of blogs and websites.
He mainly flips them for a profit, which isn’t how I like to see people making money online, but is a reality of the business that sometimes the only way to make any money is in the […]

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A survey by conducted by online advertisement outfit DoubleClick has came up with 30% of the respondents clicking on banner advertisements, but a whopping 60% don’t click, but instead visit the advertiser’s website much later by directly entering the URL.
The finding suggests that consumers prefer to reach sites on their own, rather than by linking […]

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Some people were annoyed that my recent post was about the types of payment for posting, as well as a general overview of what paying for posting is like but not the exact values.
There were two reasons I left amounts out of the post, and they are because I’d receive probably many more negative […]

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If you’re monetizing your blog or blog network using AdSense, it might be a good idea to check whether you’re getting low-paying clicks from made-for-AdSense (MFA) sites. I came across a post on johnchow.com that explains how you lose and MFA sites win from their advertising cheap on your sites. I used to think that […]

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“Is blogging kept alive by office-bound shirkers?” Jeremy Wagstaff asks.
Computing based on a single blog post (not enough time to do a survey for more, I guess; but the post had 250+ comments, which is enough for some statistical analysis), Jeremy comes up with an estimate of the times of the day people have […]

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Darren over at Problogger, got his first payment from Performancing Partners, a new ad network that has been getting a fair bit of buzz.
He mentions that he only got mid-three figures with the network so far, but I think that’s pretty great for a first month, and while that might be down from other […]

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Scholarships around the US has announced a yearly $5,000 scholarship for a blogger in post-secondary in the USA. A pretty sweet sounding deal if they pay up. I guess we will have to wait and see.
If you are interested here are the details:
Are You a Blogger?
We are proud to annouce the launch of The […]

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If you are one of the few people that is currently using Bloggers new beta version, you can now add Adsense ads to your blog easily using the AdSense widget.

1. First, log into the new version of Blogger with your Google Account. Click on the Layout link next to the blog where you’d like […]

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Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting article about how people in the academe view blogs and blogging. Some professors appreciate the value of blogs, citing in particular the community aspect of blogs, the intimacy shared between author and reader, and the immediacy of information sharing. However, some are concerned that the blogosphere is flooded with unverified information […]

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Liz Strauss realized something in her recent accidental click on an advertisement: it’s not such a bad thing.
Her first reaction though was somewhat different.
The second the ad came up, I automatically looked away. NO! I’m not an ad clicker. No, no no! I needed out of there right away!
I looked around for a witness to […]

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John Chow, becoming more and more well known to me over the last while has decided to take the time to compile a list of all the advertising opportunities that a blogger might want to research and be part of.
He not only breaks them up into different categories, but does not use any affiliate links […]

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On Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense, there is a post about how having too much content can actually cause problems with your adsense ads.
Adsense detects what type of ads to display by analyzing the content on the page for keywords. If you have too much content on your site from varying categories, […]

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If you are trying to make some money off your blog, it can be very difficult, and sometimes it does not even seem worth the time, effort or sometimes money to make things happen in that respect, but Dumb Little Man has a post up listing over fourty companies, affiliate programs and whatnot that could […]

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Simply Blog Job Seeker looks at getting your dream job, and it reminded me how people are always wondering how they can become a blogger, and many of the tips listed on the site converts well for getting a job blogging.
They list eleven tips for getting and keeping that dream job, one of which is:
Once […]

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Over on Jensense, and interesting little tech tidbit popped up. It seems Norton Internet Security does not like Google’s new video advertisements, going so far as popping up a medium risk intrusion attempt alert.
This is bad, as some less tech savvy people will think that your site is trying to intrude on their computer, […]

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ReviewMe is going to be an attempt to try to fix some of the problems associated with other pay-per-post services by making sure that their are two ground rules:
1.) You have to disclose you are being paid for the post.
2.) You don’t have to make the post positive.
While I think disclosure is great, they seem […]

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