Monday, September 11th, 2006

BlogHer Ad Network Opens Up

I ranted a bit when BlogHer launched their ad network for women in early May this year - citing the multitude of newly launched ad networks rushing to grab a share of online advertising dollars.
Now that I think about it, that rant probably wasn’t very fair, so here’s me being objective on BlogHer’s recent […]

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Managing Multiple Chitika eMinimalls Ads in WordPress

I’d wager that a substantial percentage of product bloggers have learnt the power of Chitika eMinimalls (aff link) over the past year or so - perhaps even to the extent that their eMinimalls revenue exceeds AdSense on some of their product blogs.
So, it shouldn’t be surprising to find bloggers who want to place multiple […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

AdSense Search Results on Your Own Blog (Not Working for Me)

I’m not sure if you’ve heard it yet, but Google is now allowing the search results of your AdSense search boxes to open in a page on your own blog. But even after following the official instructions in the AdSense Help Center, I can’t get it to work on this blog. I’m getting a blank […]

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Text Link Ads: Domain Spam? Black Hat SEO?

During the blog monetization session over at the currently-running WordCamp 2006, Kevin Burton of TailRank raised (yet again) the issue of Text Link Ads (aff link) being a form of domain spam, a.k.a. black hat SEO.
This issue isn’t new, and seems to repeat itself in yearly cycles, but for those who’re new to it, […]

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

More “Hidden” AdSense Ads

Sneaky, or rather, creative means of blending AdSense adverts are commonplace. We’ve seen our fair share of them here, with this hidden link unit (or rather, used to be) being one example.
Here’s yet another creative piece of ad placement, courtesy of WorkBoxers:

As usual, whether this sort of placement adheres to Google AdSense’s Terms of Service […]

Friday, July 28th, 2006

BlogKits - A Disappointing First Look

BlogKits, one of the two blog-centric Cost Per Action (CPA) ad networks we looked at last week, released a small list of merchants and offers available two days back. Did I mention small?
I’m feeling a bit underwhelmed by the offers that are being showcased at the moment (just six), with a couple of them involving […]