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How I Climbed To 35,459 Monthly Unique Visitors

This post was guest blogged by Juuso of Business Voodoo. In the digital point forums, I wrote a thread titled How my site traffic went from 37 monthly visits to 14,657 monthly unique visits, I really recommend taking a look at it since it’s kind of a “part 1” for this post. Set a bigger goal I had built a […]

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Are You Getting Maximum Dollar For Your Ad Space?

The events of the past few days have really got me thinking about blog monetization in a big way. I wasn’t happy with the Google 300×250 ad so I decided to sell it for $1,000. The person who brought the spot, Ryan Stewart, flipped it for $1,400 and got over 1,000 clicks to his blog from the two days his […]

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Combining Link Love and Featured Articles

This post was guest blogged by Steve of IveTriedThat. They lose money so you don’t have to. All startup blogs share the same two common goals: increase readership and promote valuable content. There are literally hundreds of ways to accomplish these two goals. Here’s one more that will help you accomplish both with just one post. Most blogs normally don’t […]

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Miscellaneous Ramblings for 8-15-2007

Blank Screen In MS Outlook Today I got up to a blank screen in my MS Outlook. All the emails were apparently still there but the inbox was blank for some reason. To make things more strange, some emails showed up when I hit refresh and then disappeared again. Turns out I had a corrupted inbox and had to repair […]

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AndrewTalk – How Not To Do a Blog

What Was He Thinking? Sometimes I wonder what goes through the mind of a blogger when he orders a ReviewMe review from John Chow dot Com. Take for example the case of AndrewTalk. This is a blog about online business. It is presumably own by someone name Andrew. AndrewTalk is a good example on how not to do a blog. […]

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Lies That Are Holding Your Blog Back

Most people don’t make enough money from their blogs to quit their day jobs and blog full time. If this is true for you, then it’s probably one of the following lies that is holding you back. I Just Need to Know How to Do This Most bloggers fall into one of two basic categories – writers and techies. Strong […]

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Congrats To Ryan on The World’s First Ad Flip

Ryan Stewart of eleven21.com has done it! He has successfully flipped the 300×250 ad spot he purchased from me for $1,000. The new owner is Rich4Life.Us (you can see their ad running right now), Rich4Life did try to buy the ad space directly from me but Ryan and Bidvertiser beat them to it. Ryan had his ad running for two […]

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300×250 Ad Stats or Why $1,000 Was a Steal

I thought I would share some stats from the recently sold 300×250 Google ad spot. Since the spot no longer runs Google AdSense, I am under no contract to keep stats about the spot a secret. The 300×250 ad spot was purchased by Ryan Stewart of eleven21.com, who is now trying to flip it for $1,500. After the information I’m […]

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