So you’ve decided to monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, and you’ve chosen an affiliate network that’s right for you, your blog topic, and your audience. And that affiliate network offers you all kinds of “creatives” you can use to promote products and services that you’re willing to stand behind. There text links, and banner, and widgets oh my. Now the question that remains is “what are you going to do with all of it?”
It’s easy to pack your blog full of ads, but that’s necessarily going to roll over…
I was reading an interview featuring Markus Frind of PlentyofFish.com. Mr. Frind’s site is the world’s largest online dating website. According to published reports, Markus pulls in over $10,000 to $20,000 a day from Google AdSense alone. His overall income is $5 million to $10 million a year.
Plentyof Fish.com is one of the ugliest sites online. It looks like a newbie web designer threw it up, got it operational and turned his interest to something else.So, why then is it so successful? The site’s success is not by accident, which…
Buying, selling and flipping websites has become incredibly popular over the last few years. I first starting trading websites around 2002 but it’s much more common now than it was then.
The Sitepoint Marketplace and the Digital Point Site Room are the two places I check most regularly though there are dozens of other great web development related forums with trading areas but those are the ones I usually check first before the likes of DnForum and NamePros.
Over the years I’ve noticed that success breeds imitation. Template affiliate stores were all the rage at…
Last week, I covered how to monetize your blog with affiliate marketing. Of course, that just begged the questions: What should a blogger look for in an affiliate network?
Now, affiliate marketing is a business model that emerged long before blogs ever existed, and it evolved to help the merchant make sales. Helping webmasters make money was only an incentive to help merchants make those sales.
The result was that affiliate webmasters built websites that were more oriented toward promoting products. User experience (UE) was only an afterthought — i.e. make the…
I logged into Text Link Ads tonight and noticed that they have upgraded their design and moved things around a little.
As you can see from the image below, the navigation has been greatly improved.
One of the first things I noticed was that their old tools section has been removed, you know, the page which had the blog juice and text link ad calculator. They had removed the Text Link calculator after all the problems with Google etc so I assume this is why this whole section has been removed. I…
