Advertisespace wrote an interesting article about The 7 Levels of Revenue for your Blog.
1. (The lowest) Google Adsense
2. Affiliate programs
3. Ad networks
4. Automated Text link Ads
5. Fixed Text link Ads
6. Graphical Banner Ads
7. Fixed Monthly Sponsors
Google has opened their Southeast Asian offices in Singapore which will represent ad sales in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand etc. [Searchenginejournal]
I wonder what benefits it bring to the region Google Adwords and Adsense users; I can only think of cheaper phone calls to the support department at the moment.
The online-money-making community in Southeast Asia doesn’t have a strong bond yet; we don’t see webmaster related gatherings and seminars as often as in USA and some other countries (Australia for example)… Google will have to be pro-active to organize meetings with advertisers and publishers if they want to make the Singapore office a success.
An interesting article from Brian Clark - Do You Have an Enemy? Here’s Why You Need to Find One.
It’s about building rapport… that’s probably why some anti-government blogs are doing so well, because the bloggers and readers have a common enemy aka the government.
I wonder how many readers are still reading this blog… from my stats, not much I guess.
This blog has been running for more some time now, and is heading at no directions. It provides me some good learning curves, and some useful links to others… but the optimization for the blog itself is pretty poor.
The blog is currently PR3; it’s a pretty low Page Rank, but I guess it’s still usable for some monetization methods.
I am going to start sponsored posting on this blog. I have doubts over the past about sponsored posting; but at the current moment… it seemed like a good option to make money from this blog. With the decent archive I have here, I think the sponsors and advertisers would be happy to have their links here as well.
If you are an RSS subscriber for this blog; I will have to apologize in advance for feeding you sponsored post in near future. What I can promise though is that all sponsored post will be relevant to webmaster issues.
Thank you.
Read this article from Wired, about an experiment of buying votes to reach the front page of Digg.
1 out of 10 would work perhaps, but it ain’t cheap.
Darren Rowse compiled a list of reasons why readers unsubscribe from your blogs.
I can certainly feel the main reason of “Too many posts.” I have personally unsubscribed from some blogs that posted a dozen of new articles a day.
“Infrequent posting” however is not my concern… and I am surprise that it’s high on the list. One of the advantage of RSS is that it let me know when a blog is updated and I don’t need to check the blog to see if there are any updates. For me RSS is used to counter the infrequent posting of some blogs.
The major reason that I unsubscribed from a lot of blogs lately is because of the involvement of paid posting services like Payperpost… I just couldn’t stand having an article meant purely as advertising on my RSS reader.
Lorelle puts together a good list of WP plugins which can be used in making money from a Wordpress powered blog.
I’m back from Chinese New Year holiday… and my RSS reader are full of interesting webmaster related links. Here are some of the good articles…
Wordpress 2.0.9 and 2.1.1 released
10 (+5) Requisites for Professional Bloggers
New to Blogging? Here are 5 Mistakes to Avoid
16 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings
Digg Lets Banned Domains Back In
Business 2.0 Magazine’s guide to the hottest Web 2.0 companies
140 Online Business Niches
24 On-site SEO Checkups For Clueless Developers / Marketers