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November 11th, 2007 at 10:14pm
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We just started our own director at
http://directory.letspromoteit.com
The aim of this project is to provide a new comprehensive directory that is both of use for general users as well as webmasters interested in making money online. Everyone is invited to suggest new links and categories, and we hope for alarge-scale participation. It will also be interesting to see how fast Google and others will index this resource.
By Rainer
October 16th, 2007 at 06:57pm
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Google is actively behind those that do not offer great value to advertisers. I have just seen this news in Google’s AdSense blog:
We’ve recently made a change to help make sure that the conversions generated by referral ads are valid. For some publishers who display referrals for non-Google products, the earnings you receive for the ad may now be less than the maximum referral value displayed for that ad. This is because our system will initially place a restriction on referral earnings as we monitor click and conversion data to determine that the conversions generated are valid. Once this validation period ends, you’ll begin earning the maximum value of the conversions as displayed in your account.
In short, you get penalized for displaying others ads, and a good technical reason is provided 
The issue behind it is even more serious: there are a lot of sites out that that make their living out of riping AdWords advertisers. Those sites have little or no content and trick users into clicking ads, for example by not providing any navigation except the ad links. Google doesn’t like that for a good reason and is actively looking into ways to avoid it. This seems to be the newest step, with a nice financial side-effect for Google.
The bottom line is that it pays to do a quality site with good content.
By Rainer
October 11th, 2007 at 10:10am
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There is an interesting post on making money online with a network of blogs. The idea is quite simple and it also looks like it is not too hard to do. On the other hand, why does it work then? In any case, I find it worth reading and so I blog:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=508563
By Rainer
October 10th, 2007 at 05:44pm
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I have now converted my site to WordPress, so that I have better control over how things work. The best part of it was the extremely easy and powerful import function from blogger. It was a great relief to see all post, including comments, back online here (even though this is a small blog).
What was not preserved were most of the permalinks. For a larger blog, that will probably give a big headache. For this small one here, I’ve just created a couple of redirects.
I have now downloaded and (surprisingly easy) installed an AdSense optimized theme. That was one of the drivers behind my change. I have to say it works well. Of course, there is much room for improvement, but I don’t intend to do everything on one day. It will be interesting to see if there is any impact in regard to the ad clicks (though, again, my volume is probably too low to get useful stats out of it…).
By Rainer
September 27th, 2007 at 11:40am
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Well, the world is changing. In the past two to three years, I’ve spawned of a lot of activities without any real revenue stream (the rsyslog project, for example). But, of course, there are bills that need to be paid. So in an effort to find new ways of funding activities, I have decided to dig deeper into Google AdSense and similar things. I am almost a novice with Adsense, even though I have to admit I know my way around the web quite well. But paid advertising is definitely something new, challenging and, yeah, also interesting.
In this blog, I’ll record what I do and where I fall short. I’ll share tips on what to do best and also what to not do. I’d appreciate comments from fellow webmasters.
By Rainer