Friday, August 25th, 2006

12 Reasons Why AdSense Earnings Rarely Scale with Blog Size

So, your 100-post blog brings in $2 per day. Will it bring in $4 a day once you write another 100 posts? In many cases, especially for medium-sized blogs that have reached a certain degree of stability, probably not. This is often true even if your traffic does double when you double the number of […]

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Split Testing for Bloggers: A Primer

If you read Google’s official guide on performing A/B testing for your AdSense ads earlier this month, you’d probably already have a strong sense of what split testing is. But if that has been your only exposure to it, then I’m afraid that there’s a chance you might have been fooled to believe that split […]

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Winning the Blog Lottery: Picking the Right Numbers

Experienced software entrepreneur, Dharmesh Shah, recently posted a list of 8 “magic” numbers software entrepreneurs should try to strive for when building a startup if they want to win the Web 2.0 “lottery” (think multi-million dollar valuations and acquisitions). And for some reason or another, looking at it prompted me to visualise those numbers in […]

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

How to Setup Chitika ShopLinc on Your Own Domain

If you are among the Chitika eMinimalls (aff link) publishers who have been accepted into the ShopLinc beta programme, I’m pretty sure the first thing you would want to do is to setup your blog or site’s ShopLinc on your own domain, e.g. shop.yourdomain.com.
Chitika does have a FAQ entry for this (which has been […]

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Crazy Egg = Click Tracking + Heat Maps for Your Blog

Crazy Egg - a click tracking service with all the fluffy features demanding publishers will love - just launched today. It isn’t the first entry in this space, with a (completely or very much) similar service in clickdensity (available to the public since June), plus semi-similar services in Google Analytics (has a Site Overlay feature, […]

Monday, August 21st, 2006

How to Make Your Blog PDA-Friendly

After having had to read (and post to) blogs under the strict limitations of a PDA, I’ve finally realised how important it is to make blogs PDA-friendly. “Finally” because I’ve actually read (quite a number of) articles promoting usability for handhelds (and you probably have as well), but never found the drive to conquer sheer […]

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

First Post with Pocket SharpMT

If there is one thing I’ve never (yet) tried to do with my blogs, it is to post to them using a PDA. But that ends today.
With my newly purchased Windows Mobile-powered Dell Axim x51v :), you’re looking at my very first post using Pocket SharpMT - a blogging tool originally created to post […]

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Content is Dead and Resource is King

Damn right. But no, not that definition of “content”. We’re talking about what Brian Clark defines as “…something that simply fills empty space in a receptacle.”
A pity the quote isn’t mine (as you would surely have guessed :)), but the brainchild of Dan Zarella, who states that Teaching (a.k.a. providing a resource) Gets You Links. […]