Thanks to posts here on WLTC and around the blogosphere, the topic of “sponsored themes” is at the top of everyone’s minds. I thought this would be a good time to share my thoughts on the ramifications of sponsored themes, and what it means for our community. For those who are new to the topic, in the past yew years a market has developed around advertisers that pay money to websites to have plain-text links back to their properties so they can rank better in search engines like Google for the text in those links. At some point the people gaming Google realized instead of buying links from dozens of individual sites, they could pay theme authors to bundle their links with their download and get hundreds or thousands of sites with their link for a small fraction of the cost. This is politely referred to as “theme sponsorship.” Sometimes […]
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10 Killer Post Ideas: Some very good thoughts on killer posts on your blog. However, most of this is aimed at the tech/marketing type blogger and not the casual weekend blogger.
[Continue Reading...]Text Link Ads Calculator Figure out exactly how much you could be making from putting up Text Link Ads on your website/blog. (Not an affiliate link)
[Continue Reading...]BlogAds 2006 Blog Reader Survey Some interesting results and then some interesting commentary and comparisons on those results. Thanks BlogHerald
[Continue Reading...]WP Plugin: PMetrics (update) The Performancing Metrics plugin for WordPress has had some updates worth mentioning including new sidebar widgets. Thanks Dave.
[Continue Reading...]Discovering the Hidden Details in Your Blog Some important things to remember while looking at your blogs’ metrics and some useful tips on how to use this information to get more out of your blog. This tidbit caught my eye … you need to aim to get your best content up every day before the bulk of your visitors arrive
[Continue Reading...]WP plugin: Performancing Metrics Plugin For those who can use plugins on their WordPress blog, I’ve made a plugin for integrating the script so you don’t have to touch your template files. on implementing the Performancing Metrics tracking script.
[Continue Reading...]Performancing Metrics After having tried Google Analytics for a while (and having removed them) I have installed the newly released Performancing Metrics to give it a quick try. Check out some of the new features including (possibly) cool bitsof information such as Adsense clicks. The presentation seems a lot more lucid and easy to access/understand than Google, but then again, my account has no data so far. Expect a review soon. PS: For all those scratching your heads … The stats update hourly, so give it a couple of hours and then check again.
[Continue Reading...]Blog advertising is a prickly slope. I have dabbled in this poison for almost as long as I have blogged. Most of my adventures have been less than satisfactory and I have made just enough money to help me host my blogs and services. I recently decided to give Text-Link-Ads a try. I really like it so far. This mode of advertising works much better than contextual advertising for sites such as mine. Text-Link-Ads are easy to setup and their customer service is excellent. There have been some bugs and discrepancies while they upgraded their systems and changed things around but these have always been resolved to my satisfaction without my interference. Patrick Gavin knows what customer service and a customer based business model is all about. I love to promote and help businesses that I like. Text-Link-Ads offers a good product, are very easy to deal with and can […]
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