Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

How to monetize your blog video

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The video below shows an interesting whiteboard discussion between Jeremy of Shoemoney.com and Rand from SEOMoz.org. Jeremy talks about how AdSense is not necessarily the best method for blog monetization and how affiliate marketing and direct ad sales can be much more profitable. He only points out things that ...

How does Google make money from Blogger?

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Someone made a post at the DP forum today asking the following, Google offers lots of services like Blogger, Gmail, Google Docs, Picasa Web etc. i have all those but I have never seen ads being put on any of the pages. I thought Internet companies earn from ads, but how come ...

Blogging top earners

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

BusinessWeek run a special on their website presenting some of the blogsphere's top earners. Many of you will be familiar with many of the blogs profiled which include BoingBoing, Shoemoney, ProBlogger, Kottke, TechCrunch and Gothamist among many others. Some of these blogs earn an earnest $5,000 per month and others ...

FeedBurner is now free for everyone

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

FeedBurner which was recently acquired by Google announced earlier this week that their subscription-based PRO service is now available to everyone free of charge. FeedBurner has always had their RSS and email subscription service free of charge but for a monthly fee, they also offered a PRO version that provided ...

Usable content: What to write about

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

What’s the first thing a visitor to your web site needs to do? What’s the second thing? What must the readers absolutely do before leaving the page: Contact you? Make a purchase? Bookmark the site? In writing, focus on the reader’s tasks first. More than anything else, include a call ...