Text Link Ads, which I wrote about yesterday (More about text link ads) and a couple of months ago (Monetizing your site with text-link-ads), has a new service called Feedvertising, which I had a tiny bit of input into regarding RSS and Atom web feed formats. (You can learn more about RSS at my RSS […]

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Daniel at Bloggerskills talks about the effect the brand new Google PageRank update has had on his sites. I wrote about page rank changes back in February, but there has been at least one other update since then, excluding the one on Sep 29th. I haven’t noticed any significant changes yet, but it’s only been […]

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In July, I blogged a bit about Text Link Ads (affil link), yet another way to earn revenue from your website. The best part is that it is compatible with contextual ads such as Google Adsense. Reports have been that sites that don’t necessarily do well with contextual advertising sometimes do very well TLA ads.
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Performancing Exchange
If you still haven’t checked out the bloggers-for-hire job board at Performancing Exchange, you should. Maybe I’m biased, since I’m one of the moderators, but there really have been a diversity of interesting paid blogging gigs. Exchange also has listings for blogs for sale and services wanted (web design, templates, etc.) All listings must […]

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Here are some of my blogging milestones for Aug 2006:

Tue Aug 1: I bought my first blog, and with no money down. I can’t reveal all the details, but I already write for the blog. My cost is a certain amount of future cash, as well as a bit of webmastering/ organic SEO/ copywriting  work. […]

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[Beginners] Are you a blogger running Google Adsense on your website(s)? If you haven’t already done so, you should seriously consider linking your Adsense account to your bank chequing (checking for Americans) account. It means you get your money nearly immediately after Google “pays” out, instead of waiting weeks.
For example, I just checked my bank […]

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If you define a “problogger” as being someone who makes the their entire income from blogging, then I’ve finally become a problogger. A couple of weeks back, I got my first payment that exceeded the monthly earnings of my previous part-time job. [I’ve been freelancing for several years now, since the recession of late 2001, […]

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If you read this blog (or have stumbled across it) and don’t know about Performancing, get your digital butt over there. Nick and Chris and the Performancing boys have set up two new sections: Exchange and the Exchange blog. The first section is aimed at helping bloggers find blogging jobs or for publishers to sell […]

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Pat McCarthy of Conversion Rater has a great ten-point list of options for monetizing your weblog and your blogging. I’m summarizing the list below in point-form, and adding a bit of commentary later. There are other opportunities for monetizing your skills as well. Here are Pat’s 10 points:

Contextual advertising
Display advertising
Targeted advertising
Text link advertising
Affiliate links
Selling your […]

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[beginner-intermediate bloggers] It’s funny how some people talk about making $150/mth on their weblog as if there was no effort put in. Now, I’m not putting down the amount - it’s fine, maybe even great for a young weblog. Rather, I’m pointing out that what’s probably more important is the Return On Investment, or ROI, […]

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