Adsense, or ads in general, are not the only way to turn your blogging into a profit. Here are a few sites I’ve come across recently which give bloggers a leg up in earning some cash from their blogging content, whether writing or photography, and even indirectly from their own skills. Have a good conversational […]

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Here are some of my blogging milestones for Jul 2006:

Sat July 15: I cracked 50+ posts in a single week for the first time. This includes the 29-30 posts I get paid to write weekly, as well as posts for my own sites and those I’ve been invited to write. Not all of these posts […]

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Looking for additional ways to monetize your websites/ weblogs? Consider the Text Link Ads network. I’ve been reading good things about around the blogosphere about TLA, so I decided to check them out.
Text Link Ads network is compatible with contextual advertising such as Google Adsense or YPN (Yahoo! Publisher’s Network), so TLA will not violate […]

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Here are some of my blogging milestones for Jun 2006:
Jun 1: Yet another writing opportunity cropped up, but nothing definite yet.
Jun 3: Thanks to a couple of recent posts on a high-traffic site that I was invited to blog for, I cracked 850 pg views today. Most of it was on that site. My own […]

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Here are some milestones for May 2006, for my collection of weblogs and Squidoo lenses:

May 4: Squidoo reports that I have earnings of US$0.52, minus my fixed-percentage donations to charity, resulting in a total of US$0.44 into my pocket, paid via Paypal. Actually, that’s not bad considering that it took me far longer to make […]

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In the past year, I’ve only bought two Google Adsense-related information products:
(1) Joel Comm’s first edition book. Most of the info in there is available for free, but spread out all over the Internet. If you want it in a handy place, and you’re a relative beginner, it’s not bad. For me, there was only […]

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Here are some milestones for April 2006, for my collection of weblogs. There weren’t many, so I actually forgot to post this on May 1st.

Apr 23 - It’s Apr 22 when I’m writing this, but Apr 23 marks the 1-year point since I first installed Google AdSense on my hubsite, Chameleon Integration.

That site has undergone […]

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Here are some milestones for the month of March 2006, for the Chameleon Integration/ Blogspinner mini-network of blogs:

Traffic: About 5 wks after hitting 300 pg views the first time, I hit it again on Mar 15. I came close several times before, which is a good sign. The MMA (Multiple Moving Average) graphs show a […]

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A visitor asked, via a search engine query, for a guide to Google AdSense revenue sharing on the Drupal blogging platform. I’m answering a much more general question: how to share blog ad revenue.
There are two parts to this question:

What percentage revenue share do you give out?
How do you set up your blogging platform to […]

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From Google’s AdSense Glossary, here is their definition of eCPM:
Effective CPM - Cost per 1000 impressions. From a publisher’s perspective, CPM is a useful way to compare revenue across different channels and advertising programs. It is calculated by dividing total earnings by the number of impressions in thousands. For example, if a publisher earned $180 […]

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