Rishi Modi has posted a list of the “Top 600 Highest Paying Adsense for September 2007” on 4rum.info. As one would expect, the top keywords were related loans, credits, financing, mortages, insurance and mesothelioma.
Here are the top 20, with their CPC: Continue reading
Posted in Google Adsense, Keywords
If you’ve been wanting to give your blog the Web 2.0 look without hiring a graphic designer or without worrying about image editing software, then you will be glad to know that there are four online image-manipulation tools that will enable you to create Web 2.0-ish background stripes, reflection logos and images, tabs, backgrounds and tartans.
Here is a list of four free online tools: Continue reading
Posted in Blog Design
If you’ve been overwhelmed by the make-money-online-by-blogging parade, chances are you’ve overlooked other ways to earn money off the Internet.
Blogs may be great, but you may want to consider these “10 Websites You Should Have”: Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
New to WidgetBucks? Here are 10 things you need to know about. Continue reading
Ads suck. Ours don’t.
With that catchphrase, a new pay-per-click affiliate program has been launched to provide web publishers and bloggers another way to monetize content and traffic — Widget Bucks.
WidgetBucks offers contextual, interactive shopping widgets powered by MerchSense, Mpire‘s patent-pending contextual algorithm engine. It detects and analyzes the content of your website or blog to determine what product offers are most relevant to your audience.
Signing up takes less than a minute. Submit your email, password, check the confirmation link, then you’re brought to your “My Widgets” admin page. (see below)
$25 Bonus and Payouts
When you sign-up with WidgetBucks, you’ll automatically receive a $25 bonus into your account. Minimum payout is minimum of $50.
How do you make money from Widget Bucks?
You earn money each time someone clicks on a WidgetBucks ad widget on your site, also called pay-per-click, or PPC. You can also earn money by referring people to WidgetBucks.
DEMO
Below is a demo of WidgetBucks with the MerchSense (contextual) option turned on. The widget is served by javascript. You can embed it is single blog posts, on your homepage, or sidebar.
Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Monetization, Pay Per Click
1and1, the giant domain registrar known for its cheap domain registration rates, has announced that it was raising its fees by a dollar in order to stay competitive.
“It has become necessary for us o increase the rates for some domains due to price increases by the major domain registries,” 1and1 said in an email sent to clients this morning.
For domain renewals and orders as of November 2, 2007, the following domain
rates will apply:* .com, .net, .us, .org, .info, .name domains will be increased from $5.99
to $6.99 per year
Despite the increase, I still find 1and 1 cheaper than other popular registrars like, say Godaddy, which charges $9.99 per year (except .info).
1and1 also offers free private registration which other registrars normally charges for an additional fee.
Posted in Blog Domain Names
TMZ Shop, the online store of the popular TMZ.com celebrity blog, has opened its affiliate program through Commission Junction.
Having a bad weave day? TMZ’s got you covered. Get their official baseball cap at TMZShop.com
The TMZShop.com affiliate program gives you the tools to sell clothing, mugs and more featuring the latest celebrity blunders. The program pays 7 to 10 percent commissions. To be paid commissions, the customer you referred must complete an online purchase within our shopping cart within 45 days.
Foxtons, a real estate listing service in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area known for its low commissions, has announced it is closing its operations because of the natjonwide housing slump. While other agencies charged as much as 6-percent commission on sales, Foxtons only charges 4 percent. With such low profits, it would have to sell a large quantity of inventory to stay in business; but with home sales going on a downturn, its business model is in a bad time.
The company will let go 350 of its 380 employees and work on a skeleton staff as it slowly cleans out its inventory of 4,000 plus listings.
Foxtons has recently gone on a huge advertising splash, spending close to $12 million a year on television, radio and billboard ads. It even used buses, bus shelters and subway platform ads to attract customers.
Its agents go around on company-owned Mini Coopers emblazoned with the Foxtons logo.
Posted in Business
A two-month old blog about blogging is now up on sale on eBay.
Andrew, the blogger at TheInternetExperiment, says the blog has potential but he simply doesn’t have the time anymore. Although he did not announce the auction/sale of his blog, his latest blog post says he’s been very busy lately. The blog started on July 10, 2007.
Says Andrew in the auction [auction link here]:
I started this blog as an experiment. The original purpose was for me to document my online money making experience. The blog has done pretty well for itself, for only being 2 months old… The site has a lot of potential but I simply don’t have the time anymore.
Latest blog stats shows around 120 uniques and 350 page views a day, with 30 RSS subscribers. It’s current Technorati Authority is 59. It has a total of 1247 backlinks [according to Googleizer.com]. Minimum bid is $199.
BloggingProfits.com wishes Andrew well in his future internet experiments, and good luck with the auction. He put in a lot of effort in his two-month blog, as shown by the impressive stats.
Running even one blog takes a lot of time, taking into factor the additional social networking you have to do.
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