Posted in Blogging on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
I completely missed the fact that the Katt Williams Hustlin video post was the 200th for Shaun Carter dot Com. I purchased this domain and began blogging as a way to talk about whatever I wanted and keep my writing skills sharp while waiting to go back to college.
This blog started in April 2007 and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Making Money on Jan 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I have begun utilizing a service called payperpost and have been quite happy with them. PPP is a great way to monetize your blog in addition to the typical adsense and kontera ads.
In case you haven’t noticed, there is now a link at the end of every post that will let you get paid to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google, Making Money on Dec 31st, 2007 No Comments »
I’m not sure if it is just effecting this blog or if earnings are down across the Internet during the month of December. I haven’t been noticing slow traffic, but CTR is down considerably and thus total earnings.
I am in the process of expanding my online earnings out of just this blog and my Credit [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google, Making Money on Dec 21st, 2007 3 Comments »
I have just begun utilizing AdsBlackList.com to help optimize Google Adsense by eliminating low paying ads from the ones that get displayed on my pages. ABL is a free and paid service that will list all of the Made For Adsense and Low Cost Per Click pages for your particular niche and allow you to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google on Dec 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Following up on my previous post about commenting your way to a higher PageRank, I would like to share an amusing and informative tool I came across today.
SmartPageRank offers a free online tool to analyze several statistics about your website. Some of the metrics you can analyze include PageRank from up to 67 Google datacenters, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google on Dec 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
JohnCow.com, that parody blog of a popular Internet entrepreneur had a post recently about a free product called Comment Kahuna. This software helps you uncover blogs with high PageRank and do-follow enabled comments.
Leaving do-follow comments has long been used as a means of increasing your own site’s PR. The only problem has been in finding [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google, Internet, Making Money on Dec 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
During the process of updating the blog I have redone the Google Adsense code and noticed a new feature that will make the lives of web publishers a whole lot easier. That feature is called “Manage Ads‘ and enables publishers to change the ad parameters on their website without altering a single line of code!
Once [...]
Posted in Blogging on Dec 16th, 2007 No Comments »
I decided to shake things up around here and launch a new Wordpress theme for Shaun Carter dot Com. I found this new theme, which is called Mr. Techie, at FreeWPThemes.net. It is a three column rather than the two column Mistylook theme I was using before and while it looks rather empty right now, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google, Making Money on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I have touched previously on the topic of blogging income and whether it should be categorized as active or passive. I’ve done somewhat of a case study of this phenomenon over the past couple of weeks when I haven’t been posting any new content because I was quite ill.
Traffic has held quite steady at around [...]
Posted in Blogging, Making Money on Dec 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
The month of November saw some great increases in traffic, due to my coverage of Black Friday 2007. Stats were up almost across the board and earnings more than doubled from October.
Stats:
Unique Visitors - 7,350
Total Pageviews - 10,537
Alexa Rank - 360,952
Technorati Rank - 194,358
Technorati Authority - 41
RSS Subscribers - 41 (Peak 50)
The website that [...]
