Online Money

The Secret Motivations that Drive Your Customers
The following post on the motivations of customers is by Dean Rieck from Direct Creative.Do you understand the motivations of your blog customers?Hold on. Did I just say, “customers”? If you’re like most bloggers, you talk about “subscribers” or “traffic” or “page views.” The term “customers” may not come naturally to you.But if you’re selling […]

New Interactive AdSense Unit with Pictures Spotted
There’s been lots of testing of new ad formats going on at AdSense recently - but this one is really interesting - it’s a much more interactive looking AdSense unit that looks and functions a lot like Chitika’s eMiniMalls and WidgetBucks units.It seems to be called the ‘Google Checkout Gadget’.The ad was seen on a […]

What Have You Done on Your Blog For Christmas?
A few weeks ago I encouraged readers to get their blog ready for Christmas.I’d be interested to hear how people have gone with it.Have you done anything different on your blog this holiday season? Perhaps it’s been posts you’ve written, design elements, getting your ads and affiliate programs optimized - or something else.How have these […]

AdSense Testing New Slider Ads
I’ve just had emails from a number of readers who are reporting seeing a new type of AdSense ad appearing on their blogs - ads with little arrow buttons on them which rotate ads.Here’s how they look (buttons circled):When you click the button the ad ’slides’ up and down. I’ve also seen some where […]

Win a Copy of WordPress for Dummies
Over the next five days I’m going to run a little daily competition here at ProBlogger.The prize - each day from Monday through to Friday I’ll be giving away an autographed copy of WordPress For Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson.I’ve seen some parts of this book already (the full thing is winging it’s way from the […]

Google Release Zeitgeist 2007 Report
One of the things that I enjoy about this time of year is that the search engines release reports on what the most searched for words were during the past 12 months. Google just released their Google Zeitgeist 2007 Report (Yahoo did their one last week).At Google the fastest growing terms globally were:[…]

Why AdSense Might NOT be Best for Your Blog
Yesterday I published a list of reasons why AdSense is an advertising network worth considering if you want to make money blogging.Today, in the interest of balance and fairness, I wanted to share the flipside and point out a few reasons why AdSense might not be best for your blog.Hopefully somewhere between these two posts […]

Why You SHOULD use AdSense on Your Blog
In this post I’ll explore some of the reasons why bloggers should consider using AdSense as a way to make money from blogging.I recently released a video post which explained some of my reasoning for stopping to use AdSense as a means to make money from ProBlogger. The post got a lot of attention - […]

Moved
Just a short note to let those readers who have emailed to ask how our house moving has gone that we’re in our new home successfully.Yesterday (the day we had to be out of our old place and in our new one) was a long day (I started carrying boxes at 7am and stopped carrying […]

Fashion-Incubator: Community Consulting Summary
Hi all — Skellie here. Our first foray into Community Consulting 2.0 has wrapped up. With 65+ insights shared, it’s time to summarize the main recommendations given into an actionable plan for Kathleen’s blog, Fashion-Incubator.If you’re new to the project, you might want to read the Community Consulting launch post and take a look at […]