Online Advertising for Newbies - SXSW Podcast
April 22, 2008
The session that I participated in as a panelist at SXSW is now available here. It’s a panel so it covers a fair bit of ground and includes information on ad networks, affiliate programs and other topics associated with making money online.
When Google AdSense Doesn’t Provide Relevant Ads On a Blog
April 21, 2008
Six Apart Launch an Ad Network and New Services
April 21, 2008
Tomorrow Six Apart will launch a new ad network, the acquisition of a social media agency and new ’services’.
I’ve published the full press release below but tomorrow Six Apart are going public with some major developments.
The main components of the announcements today:
A New Ad Network - for ‘influential bloggers’ Six Apart will now offer a way to monetize their blogs. They’ve long been selling ads for their own services like Vox so it makes sense to extend this and do it for other ‘VIP’ blogs also. They’re doing so through a partnership with Adify on a revenue share basis with bloggers.
Read more
AdSense Secrets 4.0 Launches
April 19, 2008
Chitika Add Interactive Premium Listing Ads Into the Mix
April 16, 2008
“This new graphic ads service has one goal: maximize your revenue. The Chitika ad on your page will display a relevant and targeted banner/graphic ad on your page only when it makes sense - when it will earn you more revenue. Graphic ads will pay per impression (CPM) and will be shown only when they can earn you more revenue than a CPC-based ad. Our ad targeting system will intelligently find and display relevant graphic (CPM) ads for your pages when appropriate.”Read more
AdSense Introduce Reports for Link Units
April 15, 2008
Making Money as a Side Effect of Blogging (and a New Breed of Blogger)
April 14, 2008
“The best bloggers make money, but mostly as a side effect, not as a direct result of setting out to use a blog to make a profit. It’s just too long a ramp up time, too frustrating and too uncertain to be the best path to make a living.”A few thoughts: Seth’s described my own experience of making money from blogging pretty well. I didn’t set out to do it at all. I blogged for a year before it even crossed my mind and even then it was initially an experiment (just like adding many blogging tools and features was for many of us in those days). Read more
Amazon Associates Program Introduce Carousel Widget
April 12, 2008
Why Do You Write?
April 11, 2008
In this post Muhammad Saleem asks why do you write? Muhammad is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on many social sites. image by mezone
Why Do You Write?
Sounds like an odd question at first, doesn’t it? The reason why you write actually has a big impact on how you write and what you write about, and understand that identifying this reason can actually help you write better and work faster towards achieving that goal. For example, when I first started writing online, I was writing a personal diary of sorts. Since I was writing it more as an outlet for self-expression and not as something for public consumption, the blog didn’t look very pretty, it was unstructured, and I didn’t care much about editing the content or writing regularly. However, when I started writing my first social media blog, I approached the matter very differently. What changed? Read moreExploring Shopzilla [Interview]
April 10, 2008
This CPC (cost per click) ad unit is similar to those used successfully by many with the Chitika program. There’s one live in action at the bottom of this post.
I’ve been getting some good feedback from quite a few ProBlogger readers who have tried the program and am consistently getting good results with them so I approached Shopzilla’s Senior Vice President of Operations and Business Development, David Weinrot, for an interview about the program. He kindly agreed. Here’s our chat about Shopzilla.
Read more
