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 [...]

I’m currently testing Kontera on Money Blogger, but it’s one of those things I have a few reservations about.
I’ve been using it on my personal blog for a couple of months and click throughs and revenue are pretty good.
But I just don’t like the look of the ads.
The Kontera ads on this page are [...]

Matt Jones over at BloggingFingers.com got in touch to tell me that he’s just released his first ever e-book: “Blog Monetization Strategies”.

I’ve had a quick read of the book and found it quite a good read. It’s fairly short (a good thing with e-books in my opinion) and I think it’ll be particularly useful [...]

Are pro bloggers really just cheap tricksters?
Well that may be a little harsh, but it’s essentially true. Just about everyone who blogs about how to make money blogging is little more than a street magician. A simple illusionist and nothing more.
Some bloggers even go so far as lying to their readers about how [...]