I’ve been using Google AdSense for over 4 years now, and during that time I’ve earned over $50,000 from it.
But for the past couple of years, I’ve never really recommended it to other people.
My main issue has always been a lack of transparency from Google. Publishers don’t know what percentage of revenue they’re getting [...]

I’ve mentioned the value of running competitions a couple of times already, but I just wanted to share the results of the Chocablog competition that’s just finished.
The competition ran for a couple of weeks, with entrants having to subscribe to the email version of Chocablog’s RSS feed, then fill out a tie-breaker.
In the two-week [...]

Taymar over at MMORPG-INFO just asked me an interesting question about one of the blogs she subscribed to:

“I subscribed to a website the other day and within 48 hours I’d received 150 posts. This is obviously well and beyond what I am willing to read.
Looking on their site (and clicking all their feed buttons) [...]

Most people know about the dangers of installing software from untrusted sources, but you might not be in the same mindset when downloading themes or plugins for your blog.
One of the great things about Wordpress is that there’s a huge number of themes, widgets and plugins available. But the problem is, every single one [...]

I’ve said from the start of this project that I think increasing subscriber numbers is going to be the key to long term profitability on this blog.
With that in mind, I’ve concentrated been concentrating on getting new subscribers in, and I’ve been using Feedburner to track growth.
I’m pleased to say that we passed the [...]

I’ve mentioned Problogger many times on this blog because it’s such a fabulous resource for bloggers.
But this week, one post stood out for me for entirely the wrong reasons.
“Nip Problems in the Bud with a TOS Page” was a guest post by David Hobby which suggested that the best way to stop potential problems [...]

November may have been our first full month of blogging, but I’m particularly pleased with how well Money Blogger did:
Subscribers:
140
Revenue:
AdSense: $72
Affiliates: $117
Total: $189
Costs:
Competition: $100
Advertising: $75
Total: $175
So we’re in profit, and we’re rapidly approaching 150 subscribers after less than 2 months blogging. Compare that to October’s stats.
You’ll notice that I’m still investing pretty much all [...]