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Posted on September 1, 2009 - by John
TextLinkAds Review – Make money with links!
Back about – it must be two years ago now, I ran a successful celebrity website. One of the main money makers on this website was ‘text link ads‘. When I launched the website, I was actively seeking a way to monetise it. I did not want to just use a few Google adsense ads, putting all your eggs in the same basket is not a great idea, we all know this!
So I decided to create an account with text link ads. I placed the code on the site under favourite links, and I sort of forgot about it.
In the mean time I was working hard on SEO, getting quality links, and of course most importantly the content. I had completely forgotten about the code. Soon after I got a few links submitted to advertise on my site. Months later I had all ten spots filled every month. Not bad for a celebrity website!
What are text link ads?
It really is as simple as it sounds. A text link; using a keyword – linking to the advertiser’s website.
Why use them?
They are used by advertisers because not only do they get traffic to their website, but they also get SEO kisses from search engines. You, the publisher will love this because it is a hassle free income generator, which is non- intrusive to your visitors and is a nice break from flashing advertisements!
There is one down side to this however, text-link-ads take 50% off the top. So if you are selling at 50USD you end up with 25. This does sound pretty high. But you must also consider how difficult to find these advertisers by yourself! Additionally new websites and websites with low amounts of traffic may find it difficult to enter the program. But there is an affiliate program which accepts new websites.
A tip for if you get signed up, don’t hide away the script which displays the text links the best place I found was in the sidebar, people have paid you for advertisement placement so you need to respect that. Shoving their ads to the bottom of the screen may not result in further adverts placed by them!
If you are interested in text link ads you can sign up . Do you use text link ads? If so feel free to comment below and let us know your experience with them.
Posted on June 20, 2009 - by John
How to send emails securely on gmail
Did you know by default Gmail does not send e-mails over https , although, it does of course use it to log you on to the system.
But you can turn this on, here’s how you do it.
1. Click on settings at the top of your Gmail inbox.
2. Under the general tab scroll to the bottom of the screen to browser connection options.
3. Select https, and click on save.
4. Did it work? You should now always see https in your URL bar!
I know this is simple but you can now securely send emails!
Posted on June 3, 2009 - by John
Bing – Microsoft Search goes live!
We have Bing Off…
We all know Microsoft wants to be Google, it wants to be Google really bad!. Bing.com is a real effort by Microsoft’s search engine people – an effort to be seen as an reliable alternative (wannabe replacement) to Google’s search engine.
Will people be saying “Bing it” instead of “Google it” unlikely, but it is nice to think that someone is trying to give Google a run for their money.
It still needs some work, and is by no means a finished product. I do find it funny that when you search for bing on bing.com the results do not include Bing.com website! But when you search for google on google.com – you know where I am going with this…. right?
Posted on April 7, 2009 - by John
Twitter – Show me the money!
Internet reports are giving word recently that Twitter is in “late stage talks” with Google over a proposed acquisition. It won’t be the first time Google has purchased something which is dominating the internet in recent years, such as YouTube. And interestingly enough like YouTube, Twitter, is also a service which has yet to produce any real monetisation strategy .
Could it be be that a company like Google is seeking to control much of the popular content on the internet, regardless of a company’s future financial ability? Does Google just like to have the most popular sites in its portfolio. Or is that too obvious a statement?
Twitter looks to me like a company which will prove hard to monetise, the only real possibility may be a premium account model where people can have some bonus features for a fee of some sort. Such a model is in use by the Flick.com photo sharing site, owned by Yahoo and seems to be doing nicely.
What makes Twitter such an popular service is that surfers are actively using it for a wide variety of reasons. There is the is the celebrity factor – Those interesting MTV (sorry that’s MTV ONE) celebrities on our screens – the Paris Hilton’s of the world all have accounts, and where these people go there will be a bunch of folks following them, sending Tweets to Paris and hoping that she – Paris Hilton herself will acknowledge their existence. There is the casual user who often gives the cringely horrible updates which often includes terrible tweets that track every moment from lunch updates to the trip to the toilet afterwards!
A more interesting part of Twitter which is tied into its popularity is that many organisations and groups are using the service to push updates and stay in contact with their users! That may be where Twitter can offer the premium services. Interesting Twitter was the first with updates on the new Irish Budget, beating RTE and even blogs with the latest breaking news, from trivial comments on politicians clothes to more serious updates on the budget.
Posted on July 31, 2008 - by John
Cuil – Google’s younger (and sexier?) sister?
The new search engine Cuil looks great, but my search results have been less than satisfactory, but as with anything new (and it should be a beta) there are going to be teething problems. Being the new kid on the block may just be what is needed to shake down the search engine market. Google has had years to perfect their search engine.
I’d love to hear people’s views on this, as far as I know its some Irish folk who set this up. I keep thinking there should be a ‘fada’ on the word Cuil somewhere.
Posted on March 6, 2007 - by John
LinkListing Tuesday
Is Google Holding A Gun To Wikipedia’s Head? An interesting little discussion going on here
And staying on the very same subject
Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD.
Wordpress.com now accommodates people who don’t have blogs
What’s new? Before, people who didn’t have a blog but just an account didn’t have any sort of dashboard so they couldn’t edit their password, get their API key, upload an avatar, track their comments, or any of the other fun stuff you can do under your dashboard.
Some news Blogs in my Irish Blogs List Including:
Posted on January 31, 2007 - by John
LinkListing Wednesday
So, there seems to have been lots happening online when it comes to the blog world. And I missed most of them due to work committments
One of the first interesting piece of news is that Google Reader has what they call a small update, this is something interesting though, you can new view imbedded Youtube videos (as well as other video sites) in your Google Feed Reader, currently this crashes my browser window a bit, but that’s on an old windows PC, I’m sure it works well on my Mac at home.
“We have another small update to Reader regarding video. Reader should now show videos from YouTube and Google Video (and a few other sites) that you have embedded in your blog posts and articlesâ€.
Some people are a little worried about the compatibility of their plugins, and it is a very good idea to check out this list before upgrading to wordpress 2.1.
Gravator – I have noticed stopped working for me for some time (the service that allows you to show commenter’s image beside their comment on your blog) and the reason is simple really, the site/server has been down, but the site says they will be back to full strength soon.
“In addition to the new server architecture, development on Gravatar 2.0 is progressing rapidly and in the coming weeks you’ll see screenshots and news on this site. It’s a very exciting time ahead, once again, thanks for your continuing support!â€
In other relatively interesting news, and I say relative, because I am a Mac user (don’t want to have a conflict of interest here – but Apple rules). But I have noticed that Bill Gates has been saying that Vista (just release in Ireland) has stated that it is the most secure version of windows yet, he would say that of course, but I also noticed that some experts challenge this view “Security experts have thrown doubt on Bill Gates’ claim that Vista is “more secure” than other operating systems.†BBC have it here.
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