Over the last few days, several people have asked me about Google Adwords and how to run an ad campaign for their blog there.
Adwords is a very complicated beast, and a comprehensive guide is well beyond the scope of this blog, but I thought I’d get together a few tips for those of you [...]

Money Blogger continues to grow at a rate far beyond what I had expected. We’re only 5 weeks old, but we’re on course for well over 100 subscribers and $200 revenue this month.
But looking at all the graphs got me thinking - what do I want from Money Blogger?
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll [...]

It’s been a few days since Google changed the clickability of AdSense ads, and I was wondering what changes (if any) people are seeing?
After a small blip upwards for a day, my CTR (click through rate) across all my sites has settled down to around 1.5%. Before the change, it was around 1.8%, and [...]

WidgetBucks, who until today were featured quite prominently on Money Blogger, have just changed their payment policy.
Now, ad networks changes their terms and conditions all the time, but the WidgetBucks change is the most mindblowingly stupid idea I’ve ever heard:
From now on, publishers will only be paid for trafffic from the US and [...]

Darren Rowse is reporting that Google AdSense ads are about to become “less clickable”.
Currently, a reader can click anywhere on an AdSense block and it will be registered, but with the changes, only the title and URL of ads will clickable.
The idea is that this will dramatically cut down on accidental ad clicks, saving [...]

It’s been a couple of weeks since I talked about Blogrush - that little widget in the bottom right margin.
As I said last time, I wasn’t entirely convinced by Blogrush - and many people (myself included) have been reporting very low click-through rates with it.
But now I’ve been running the widget for a couple [...]

It may sound a little odd to say “Know what it is you’re writing about”, but understanding your niche goes much, much further than that.
Your niche goes well beyond the subject matter of your blog. It’s the landscape that surrounds it. It’s encompasses other blogs and bloggers who talk about the same things, readers [...]

So I just had an interesting discussion with Sylvia about this article.
The article lists a few blogs featured in a recent Business Week article and speculates on how much money they make.
But we weren’t so much talking about the article itself, as the comments. Comments like:
“I hope I can make money like that with [...]