If you thought a house was the only reward for Kyle MacDonald’s creative paperclip trading efforts through blogging, think again.
It seems his story has attracted the likes of publishers and producers, with a recent news release confirming that he has landed a book deal with Random House, and a film deal with DreamWorks.
This just […]
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 […]
Blog-centric ad networks aren’t new. We’ve had Blogads for years now (4 years to be exact), and only in May this year, we saw BlogHer launch an ad network aimed at female bloggers. For the big boys (e.g. Boing Boing, Techcrunch, etc.), we have Federated Media.
This isn’t stopping two new ones from popping up though. […]
Most of us bloggers know what Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Network or Chitika eMinimalls are - to the extent that they line our pockets, that is. How many really know anything about how pay-per-click advertising started? What the hell is “Wanamaker waste”, for example?
Why is it that every pundit is predicting online advertising to grow, […]
Okay, maybe the title was a bit of an exaggeration, but really, how often is it that you get a shot at writing for one of the biggest gadget blogs in the world?
There are 3 positions open too: Night time editor and weekend editor over at Engadget Classic, and morning editor over at Engadget […]
Recently, two pieces of good news arrived at my “doorstep” - Bloglines (my first-choice feed reader), that is. As a Malaysian, it was great that:
Commission Junction (CJ) was now accepting Malaysians again, and
Paypal was setting up a regional office in Singapore, which could possibly lead to Malaysians being allowed to withdraw Paypal funds officially.
One wonders […]
Knowing that affiliate marketing has the potential to be a big money earner (or at least, a good way to diversify) in product-based blogs is the first step. The next would be to analyse what “ad” formats work best.
While for conventional contextual ads where the rectangle formats (the large rectangle especially) tend to have […]
Along with the recent Joel Comm saga has been a slew of interesting blog posts, announcements and rumors related to our two favourites, Google Search and Google AdSense:
“Vertical Image” Ads, a.k.a. Image + Text = New Ad FormatGoogle is having an international beta test on its new ad format, where a contextually-relevant image is placed […]
