I have done it! I am ranked number 1 on Technorati! Yes, it took a while, but John Chow dot Com has finally hit the number 1 spot. It’s too bad Technorati still refuses to put me in their official Top 100 list. Reality Check Time OK, I’m not really ranked one 1 on Technorati (I’m really ranked 47). However, […]
Read MoreKontera Technology I got an email from my Kontera rep. He said that I have helped over 1,300 publishers discover Kontera ContentLink, which is good. However, many publishers are not giving it a chance, which is bad. The problem is they either hate what they see after just 1 hour of using us, or they’re not up to speed on […]
Read MoreI received an email from Tyler Cruz about comments made on my blog using his name. It seems someone is going around pretending to be him and making lude and rude comments to make Tyler look bad. One of my ‘haters’ is apparently spoofing at me in your comments. Take a look at Comment Signatures – Yay or Nay for […]
Read MoreAccording to a recent case study by the University of Texas and Chitika, the top 50,000 blogs on the Internet generated $500 million in ad revenue last year. That sounds all well and good but I think the methodology to come up with the $500 million number is questionable. Chitika took their 12,000 publishers, found their Technorati ranking and how […]
Read MoreA huge congrats goes out to Mercedes Lopez for winning the John Chow dot Com BlueFur 24″ LCD monitor giveaway! Mercedes was drawn from nearly 300 entries! I have sent an email to Mercedes. All he has to do is reply to the email to claim his prize. Thanks to everyone for entering. I still have the contest to win […]
Read MoreAffiliate sales is this blog’s biggest moneymaker, accounting for $4,344.82 of last month’s $12,406.76 blog income. Many readers have emailed me asking which affiliate program was making me the most money. I deal with affiliate programs the same way I deal with blog advertising – use as many as you can while still providing a good user experience. Currently, I […]
Read MoreIt’s the start of a new month and that means it’s time for the highly anticipated blog income report. Way back in September 2006, which seems like forever in Internet time but it’s really only 10 months, I made the decision to use this blog as a monetization case study. I wanted to see if it was really possible to […]
Read MoreHow do you feel about commentators leaving their signature in their comments? Most commentators on this blog don’t leave a signature because their blog or web site is already linked in their name. I can understand why a signature is needed for a forum but is it really needed for a blog? For those reader who like to end their […]
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