Online Money

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 […]

Technorati Relaunches
Technorati have just relaunched with a renewed focus on bloggers.There’s a number of changes - firstly a new front page (which isn’t showing to me at their homepage yet for me) with news aggregation - like TechMeme. They call it the ‘Percolator’ as it shows what’s been ‘percolating’ in the blogosphere. There’s also category pages […]

AdSense Reporting Enhancements Due Soon
The official AdSense blog have just published two interesting snippets of information.1. Those publishers who use AdSense for Search have a report available to them that shows data on what people use the search field to search for. They will stop tracking data on these reports that are older than 1 year. If you use […]

WidgetBucks to Serve CPM Ads to Non North American Traffic
WidgetBucks have announced that they will begin to serve CPM based ads to traffic that isn’t from the US or Canada (starting early in December).This comes in the wake of them previously stopping international traffic from seeing their ads - something that caused many publishers to stop using them. The announcement on their blog doesn’t […]