Someone created a new website, the Explorer Destroyer in which they are agressively trying to get people to make the switch to Firefox in pretty unfair ways. They are also making money using Adsense to do this. What they are doing is recruiting people to put up the adsense buttons to get firefox and everytime…
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Ad Spending on Blogs, Podcasts, RSS to Hit $50M in 2006
According to a study conducted by PQ Media, ad spending on blogs, podcasts and RSS will reach $50 million this year. The report found that blog, podcast and RSS advertising are the fastest growing segments of the alternative media industry. Spending on user-generated online media expanded at an aggregate 198.4% to $20.4 million in 2005,…
Images + Adsense = Increased CTR
Placing images next to Adsense ads has successfully increased the Click-through rate on many sites. If you’re using this tactic, though, make sure of one thing: that the image can’t be construed as being part of the ad it’s next to. Let’s say you place an image beside an ad, and the image looks like…
Maximizing Adsense Revenue
WebmasterWorld has a great article on how to maximize your revenue with adsense using smart pricing. The author gives you his top four ways to do just that. For more read the entire article. Increase Adsense (1) Collect relevant information including EPC data, AdWords PPCs, and identify which pages are using SmartPricing the most. (2)…
Apply To Blogotive
Ever heard of blogotive.com? Neither did I until two days ago. Blogotive appears to be a marketplace that puts bloggers and companies together. The twist is instead of slapping up ads that these companies send to you, you get to make the ad to fit your blog and then get paid. There are a few…