A few weeks ago I noticed that I’d started earning regular money through affiliate links on one of my other blogs - Chocablog.
After looking into it a bit further, the reason became obvious. Easter was approaching and people were looking to buy Easter eggs online. A lot of the pages on Chocablog have good [...]

Interested in getting your name on Money Blogger and making a bit of cash at the same time?
I’m looking for guest bloggers who are interested in blogging for Money Blogger, and (unlike some!) I’m prepared to pay for good, original content.
If you’re interested, write a post that would be useful to Money Blogger readers [...]

Coinciding with Google closing the acquisition of rarely used ad network DoubleClick, today they announced the launch of a new Ad Manager service.
Google Ad Manager allows you to serve, rotate and target ads from AdSense, other ad networks and your own ads. It’s basically a cut down version of what Double Click offers larger [...]

This isn’t strictly on topic for Money Blogger, but I wanted to tell you about a friend’s new blog; Can’t Backspace.
It’s a bit different from most blogs in that it’s hand written.
That may not be great for SEO, but if you think of it more as an online comic then it makes a lot [...]

In a post last week, I suggested some of the most respected pro bloggers may be “cheap tricksters” and compared them to street magicians. Talented ‘performers’ whose real skill is in making you believe they have some kind of secret.
This week, I want to give some specific examples and name names!
But before I do, [...]

You may recall that only last week I posted that I was testing Kontera.
Well, today I’ve taken the decision to remove them from Money Blogger.
I really don’t like removing potential sources of revenue, but Kontera just had to go. Here’s the main reasons behind my decision:

The Javascript was slowing down page loading times [...]

February was a much better month than January. As I suspected, things picked up quite nicely after the quiet holiday period. So here’s the stats:
Subscribers:
393
Revenue:
Text-Link-Ads: $134.69
AdSense: $85.72
Other affiiliate revenue: $10.85
(Total: $231.26)
Costs:
Advertising: $120
As with previous months, Text-Link-Ads is my biggest earner. Subscriber numbers didn’t go up quite as much as I would have liked, but [...]