Posted in Google on Jan 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Google stock is down significantly in the last couple days of trading, along with the market as a whole. Google is reporting earnings soon and has been growing at an impressive pace each quarter but there is now some doubt about the company’s earnings going forward.
Specifically there has been a lot of talk that Adsense [...]
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 Google on Dec 19th, 2007 No Comments »
In Google’s attempt to diversify its business outside of search they recently announced an ambitious effort to develop cheap renewable energy in part to offset their own massive electricity needs to power one of the world’s largest computer systems.
Google wants to build a 1.6 Megawatt solar panel array to help power its Mountain View California [...]
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 Google, Internet on Dec 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Many people (including me) thought it was crazy when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $750 Million buyout offer last year. At the time, analysts were saying that Zuckerberg and Co. were seeking around $2 Billion for the company - or about four times as much as MySpace was purchased for by News Corp [...]
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 Google, Making Money on Nov 24th, 2007 No Comments »
During the Black Friday madness and the increased traffic to this blog because of posts listing specific consumer product model information, I noticed a dramatic increase in earnings from Kontera. I am inclined to believe that the increased CTR and EPC is due to the Kontera links for the various holiday products that everyone is [...]
