As i mentioned before in my story, I would like to quit my full time job by 2010, and earn my living from blogging and internet projects. As i pay $1000 to Mortgage fee each and every month, i have to build a steady income business from blogging in order to survive.

For this purpose, i have just launched my Adverti

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The latest post by Vic on monitorizing a local niche site broken down into a few easy steps. Moniterization of this type of site can be frustrating as normal practices are often not fruitful. a few suggestions he offers are:

1 - Do LOCAL advertising (ie for local restaurants and businesses)

2 - post-date k

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Is Text Link Ads giving up?
I have screenshots that show what may be the end of paid text links as we know it.
A favorite advertiser with many bloggers, TLA is currently showing some crazy results in their ad calculator. The link ad calculator us

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I decided to invest sometime this week in another project and its getting close to an official launch. I needed some work done that I didn't have the time or the talent to do. I came away from my experience with Banners Mall extremely impressed. Long gone for me is the time spent trying to turn myself into a Photoshop guru,

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I’m talking, not even enough each month to pay my hosting fees.

It has always been a huge frustration to me, in fact I’ve really come to hate AdSense. Why does everyone else say they make so much money from just running AdSense on their website o

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Wooow… This must be the most lucky day in my blogging life. John Chow (Yes, John Chow the famous blogger from johnchow.com) has bought a small advertising spot on my very new blog (i-make-money-on-facebook.com).

Thanks a lot John, I really appreciate your support.
The ad will last for 24 hours, and the following is a screenshot for my blo

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This is my third and final installment in the "Big Honkin' Ad" series. In this edition I describe my placement strategy for these ads. Included in this discussion are looks at using rotating versus static ads, placing ads inline with content, sidebar ad placement strategies and theme selection, the problems with header and footer ads and m

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Not content with slapping down blogs for selling links and writing paid reviews, Google have turned their chilling radar-eye on self-hosted Wordpress blogs that dare to use the "DoFollow" plugin. They obviously see this as simply another form of gaming the system by website owners to boost their own page rank with backlinks. True to form, h

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Did you ever wonder how people make so much money online? It's called exposure. It's called name recognition. There's a complete psychology to it and being seen nude online doesn't hurt your chances of making money.

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In this article I take a look at using blog post as landing pages and what you should do to insure a smooth landing by search engine visitors for both niche blogs and social/ flagship blogs. I also discuss the bounce rate of sites and how a high bounce rate may not actually be bad news for even a flagship blog. Read more to fin

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Lots of people think that it's expensive to advertise on John Chow dot com - but it's not! Although you'll need over $500 to buy some of his advertising space, there's a secret way where you can pick up ads on his site for just $5!

I use thi

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Do you have a dead blog or unused domain just sitting there, doing nothing, earning nothing? Have you considered using Google Video Units as a way to improve their monetization? What do you think of the idea? I put this into action with an old dead

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What's a webmaster to do now that Google is penalizing sites for buying and selling text links? Maybe the answer is to seek for new ways to sell text links without getting noticed. Here's how you can make it look natural and escape the scrutiny of the search engines. This should benefit both the buyers and sellers of ads. As a buyer, you'l

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That's right, I just won Monika Mundell's "Shake It Up Competition!" She was running it over on her blog, The Writers Manifesto for the month of November.

The funny thing is, I had no idea that I'd won it until I happened to look in on her blog today and saw her video of the

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Should you or shouldn't you put Adsense on your blog? While it's upto you, Google of course would be happy to let you put Adsense blocks all over your blog, but should you? I'll tell you ten things that will make you stop and think about it!

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This is the second part of my "Big Honkin' Ads" series. In this one, I'm discussing how I selected and continue to select the ads to use in my "Big Honkin' Ads" campaigns. This article takes a look at things like: picking complementary offers rather than what everyone else is using, what to expect on conversions from different types of

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Blogging for money has become a million dollar business, top bloggers make thousands of dollars each month for paid reviews and displaying ads on their sites. Selling ads slowly turned from a way to pay server costs using adsense to a full time job marketing products for many bloggers.

This post takes a look at how top bloggers display ads

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