Google’s AdSense is known as one of the best CPC (cost per click) advertising programs on the web. AdSense’s love-child, AdSense Referrals, uses a strictly CPA (cost per action) technique to drive users to Google products. How can AdSense Referrals be used, and more importantly — will you make money with them?
First, let’s take a […]

A new start-up company, booBox, will allow bloggers to sell merchandise from Amazon on there blog. But wait, can’t you already do that with the Amazon Affiliate Program? Yes, but after reading this you’ll be sure to switch.

Brazil-based booBox is still in the beta phase, but will soon release a set of tools for webmasters […]

How do you make monetize a web forum? That’s a question I’ve been trying to solve for ages now. I may have the answer for you.
Forums can be a particularly difficult interface to make a profit from. The key is that a forum needs to be analyzed as a web application instead of an article […]

Your most profitable AdSense formatting and color scheme is going to be the one that blends well with your site, while not being camouflaged. The two biggest mistakes I see with AdSense formatting are:

The ad block is too well disguised with the website’s design
The ad block is so distinguished that it screams “advertisement”

The problem with […]

Many factors will determine how successful your blog is. I have always said content is key. However, the truth is that there is one simple thing your blog needs to be successful.
Inbound links. No matter what your site is about, how search-engine-optimized it is, or how great your posts are, your blog will fail if […]

Despite Microsoft’s usual medicore marketing campaigns, they have a unique commercial that pops out from time to time. I’ve put together four different commercials for Microsoft .NET, Xbox 360, and other Microsoft products. Yea, Microsoft being original. What a concept.

AdSense publishers are always looking for new way to maximize profits. Different keywords will generate different ads, some of which have a huge payout. However, the highest paying keywords don’t always offer the most profit.
For example, the phrase “selling structured settlements” is the highest paying AdSense keyword. However, the topic gets almost zero traffic, making any kind of profit […]

A new advertising trend is catching on: inline contextual sponsored links. IntelliTXT is the primary provider of this hot new service. If you want to make money on the web, this is definetely an article to read.
I’m sure you’ve encountered these advertisements before — a double underlined link that brings up an light box when […]

As a long-time web developer, I have always used AdSense for monetizing because it was the easiest and most efficient way. However, it is definitely not the most profitable route. Let’s examine and compare AdSense to Text-Link-Ads.

AdSense
Google’s marketing service is debatebly the largest ad network. You can get targeted ads on a site of nearly […]

Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan; these Hollywood drama queens are topping the charts in internet traffic and breaking search records for YouTube and Google. What’s up with all the commotion? Is this really want people want to read?

Apparently so. Bloggers are taking full advantage of this spike (ahem) in a curious attempt to draw traffic […]