Generating Revenue

Below are links to articles posted in Generating Revenue.

A Review of Booksurge

On my plate of ways to further monetize my literature site has been plans to publish actual books. In one case I’m having a writer work on original content for a book that is encyclopedic in scope. In the other cases I’m publishing in book format the same work I publish in digital format. For […]

Another Two Excellent Google Blog Posts

There was another excellent post at Google Webmaster Central today that tells all about duplicate content. It is so uncommon to get such straightforward information from Google that this is definitely worth a read. Additionally they answer the question about what TLD to use when targeting a specific country for search, I always intuitively thought […]

Paid Blog Posts

Andrew at WebPublishingBlog has come out strongly against Pay for Post services, so have many others in this industry. I’m not one of them. One thing Rush Limbaugh does with his endorsements on his radio show is only accept sponsors that he actually recommends. He’ll find a product he likes, and go and ask them […]

Valueclick Acquires Shopping.net

This’ll be a quick post. It was announced today that Valueclick would acquire Shopping.net for 13.3 million. Valueclick estimates Shopping.net to contribute 2 million in profit to it’s business. Two things I want to mention here are: 1. So much for those people trying to value large established sites as something ridiculous like 12 months […]

Amazon Beta Content Links Program

Amazon is launching another beta content links program. I say another because they have already been experimenting in contextual text links with their successful (I assume, I can’t see how it couldn’t be successful) Omakase program Dear Amazon Associate: Are you looking for additional revenue streams to monetize your content? Are you interested in providing […]

Christmas Came Early

Back in July I published one of the most in depth articles I’ve ever written. The article, A Publisher’s Guide to Contextual PPC Ad Optimization, takes a close look at how you can optimize your publishing earnings by tweaking the appearance and placement of ads from Google Adsense, YPN, or the like. At the end […]

A Publisher’s Guide to Contextual PPC Ad Optimization

I’ve just published my long worked-on article on optimizating Adsense, YPN, & similar ads. It is one of the longest articles I’ve ever written and easily the longest I’ve ever read on the topic. Read it, and if you like it please link to it or recommend it to others. A Publisher’s Guide to Contextual […]

When Will Ad Networks Learn?

One of the things that makes Adsense successful is that they do not include traffic requirements. One of the reasons Adsense has been such a boon to publishers is that it allows them to profit off of sites that are too small to get into other ad networks. Small sites are not necessarily bad, just […]

Amazon Sense? Amazon Omakase?

When I was blogging for SitePoint I broke the news about “Amazon Sense” or rather Amazon wanting to compete with Adsense with a similar program, it got like a billion trackbacks and I really wish I had broke the news here instead. I had been contacted about joining a beta program for testing ads which […]

The PageRank Possibilities of an In-House Affiliate Program

If you run your own affiliate program there is an amazing potential you are missing out on. Tracking free affiliate URLs. This is not a new concept, one I remember first hearing in 2001. However it isn’t commonly discussed and so many of you might not have thought of this before. I used to give […]

Top of page...