Some publishers want to use “free” to draw traffic. Free linking over the web remains a big item in content circles as more major media companies come to value unpaid traffic. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) named a “free content” editor to extend efforts to feed free news links to bloggers, and the new paid…
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Weblogs Inc. Hits $2,000 Per Day in AdSense
Weblogs Inc. has broken the $2,000 per day barrier in AdSense revenue, reports Jason Calacanis. These guys definitely deserve a hat tip. It was just April 7th when they broke the $1,000 per day barrier. Now, just a few short months later, they’ve doubled that. Calacanis reports: It took us just over seven months (from…
Chris Pirillo Goes Full-Text
I’ve been reading Chris Pirillo’s blog for a while now. More recently, I finally grokked RSS and have been using Bloglines in a major way. FeedDemon is great, but I browse the web on at least three computers. (Home Desktop, Laptop, & My Work PC) Bloglines makes it easy to read your feeds from anywhere…
The most popular things to buy online…
Affiliating with various on-line merchants is a good idea. Linking to specific, pre-chosen products is an even better idea. (e.g., If your blog is about dogs, and you’re an Amazon affiliate, link to a dog-grooming book now and then.) And maybe even better than chosing a product yourself is finding out what people most like…
How to Make Your AdSense Ads More Relevant
I recently picked up a tip from genius blogger and Google employee Biz Stone‘s recent book Who Let the Blogs Out? : A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs. The book offers an abundance of essential blogging tips and a few pointers about how to use Google’s AdSense most effectively. What caught my eye…