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2009 On More Than Scratch The Surface

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Happy New Year to all! A year ago, after looking at my Google Analytics stats for the year, I wrote a post reviewing 2008. I figure I may as well do it again for 2009 and also take the opportunity to explain the direction of this site.

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How To Prevent Smart Pricing – Great Solution

| Created: March 11th, 2009
Adsense Smart Pricing 65 Comments

Some of my most popular posts are those in my make money online series that discuss how to avoid Adsense smart pricing by displaying Adsense only to search engine visitors. Now I’ve found the most complete solution to the problem of smart pricing, over on the Blog associated with RT’s backlinks service Continue reading

Seth Godin May Be Costing You Money

| Created: August 25th, 2008
Adsense Smart Pricing 51 Comments

This morning I noticed an entry on Sphinn highlighting GreyWolf’s Seth Godin Wants to Cheat Advertisers with Fake Clicks post. It discusses Seth Godin’s Ads are the new online tip jar post, which suggests that readers should click ads to reward bloggers for their writing. To quote Seth:

If you like what you’re reading, click an ad to say thanks.

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The Adsense Dilemma (Or How To Make Money)

| Created: January 9th, 2008
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Adsense – some love it, some hate it. It doesn’t work for all sites, but there’s no denying that on the right site, it can make a lot of money.

Most beginners don’t understand what type of site it works well on. They slap Adsense on their blog and expect the cash to come rolling in. Of course, it doesn’t. Why? Because Adsense doesn’t work well on their type of site.

In this article, I explain the underlying principle of Adsense and look at the attributes of sites that are successful with Adsense. Continue reading

Final Thoughts On The PageRank Debacle

| Created: October 31st, 2007
Search Engine Optimisation 22 Comments

Many things have been said about the recent toolbar PageRank update. Most tend to agree that PageRank has lost relevance and that we shouldn’t place too much importance on it. Most of us feel it’s time to move on and stop talking about it. I’ll do that, but not until I’ve had a final say on the matter. Continue reading

StumbleUpon Traffic Brings Record Post Views

| Created: October 15th, 2007
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My Google Reader – Printing Full Text For All Items post has broken all post view records for my site.

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