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Blogging tips #16: Making money from your blog – AdSense: which ads? And where?
(NOTE: this is part of the “Blogging tips” series) At last, the long awaited (I hope) part 16! Google AdSense offers many ad formats: big, small, horizontal, vertical, with or without images… so,...
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“Making money from blogging takes time”
From ProBlogger, another great post: Making money from blogging takes time. It’s something I’ve also mentioned before: blogging for money is not a “get rich quick” scheme. It’s hard work, and takes...
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Blogging: some design / ad placement changes
I’ve just finished making some changes to my blogs, including this one. See if you can spot them (assuming you’ve been there before, of course ). Can’t spot them? Here they are: removed the borders...
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“What to do when your Google traffic disappears”
Looks like a big coincidence, doesn’t it? After I mentioned my drastic drop in hits from Google in my gaming blog, Darren from ProBlogger makes a brilliant post called “What to do when your Google...
View ArticleAdSense tip: Using AdWords to find keywords
Eric Giguere has a great tip at his blog: Plumb AdWords for keywords. He shows a quick and easy way for publishers to use AdWords (which is for advertisers) to find high-paying keywords to use in your...
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Making money with niche websites
I’ve just found an article at My Blogging Tips called “How To Make Money Online Using Niche Content Websites“. The author’s suggestion is not related to blogs at all – instead, he suggests discovering...
View ArticleAn AdSense Case Study
Eric Giguere of An AdSense Blog: Make Easy Money with Google has been doing an AdSense case study from some time now, which I’ve found quite interesting. Basically, he’s been creating a small site...
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First check from AdSense…
Less than 3 months of blogging… In the Google Sandbox (which means virtually no visits from Google searches)… and I still have a day job. Not a fortune, but I’ve just been able to pay the recent...
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AdSense and delays in re-adapting to context
If you read this blog regularly (and if you don’t, why not? ), you’re probably aware that, in the last few days, I’ve made a few changes around here, such as adding the sidebar to individual posts,...
View ArticleBlogging tips #23: Making money from your blog: Change your ads
(NOTE: this is part of the “Blogging tips” series) This is a point I’ve already made in several past posts (that sounds weird…), but it’s so relevant and so often ignored or even unknown, that it...
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One of "making money from the Internet"’s best kept secrets
It’s amazing that this thing has been posted in at least two places (this blog is one of them), and I’ve seen nothing, anywhere, coming from it. No blog entries. No discussions. Not even comments...
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Blogging and AdSense quick tip
Don’t include the word “blog” in your blog’s title, unless it’s about blogging. You may have noticed that this site is back to simply “The Tlog” (which is neutral and doesn’t affect what Google will...
View ArticleEric Giguere: using different directories to test AdSense ads’ relevance
Eric has a recent post in which, talking about the completion of his Invisible Fence case study (very interesting reading, by the way – I’ve mentioned it before), he also mentions a nice trick: using...
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Eric Giguere: testing ads’ relevance in blog posts
Following my comment on his post (it’s always nice to serve as an inspiration for someone more successful than ourselves ), Eric has a new post in which he offers a trick to use temporary URLs to test...
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Inside AdSense: Blogtimize!
Inside AdSense, the official AdSense blog, has a new AdSense optimization tips for bloggers post. Nothing there is rocket science, and there are no surprises there for regular readers of the Blogging...
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AdSense tip: randomizing ads
No, this isn’t my “brilliant idea” – Chris Garrett of Performancing mentioned it first. But, while he gives a PHP example on how to get a simple random number, I’ll go a bit further… The idea, as...
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More on randomizing ads
“I believe in coincidence. Coincidences happen every day. But I don’t trust coincidences.” – Garak, “Star Trek – Deep Space 9″ Just a couple of days after my randomizing ads tip, Darren Rowse mentions...
View ArticleAdSense: is anyone targeting your site?
Inside AdSense, the official AdSense blog, has a post called “Advanced site targeting and referrals reporting“, which explains how to see whether any advertisers are targeting your site. Using...
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Inside AdSense: changing channels
No, I’m not implying that they read this blog. But their newest article, “Channels are made for changing“, reads a lot like part 23 of the Blogging Tips series: “Change your ads“. You can even go a...
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Eric Giguere: the Single Page AdSense Site
Eric has an intriguing post called The Single Page AdSense Site. It’s, in a way, an even simpler variant of Making Money with Niche Websites, and it’s something I’d be doing in spades if I wasn’t such...
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