BlogVitamin http://blogvitamin.com A healthy injection for your blog. Sat, 19 May 2007 15:08:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en Bye Bye Made For Adsense Publishers http://blogvitamin.com/bye-bye-made-for-adsense-publishers/ http://blogvitamin.com/bye-bye-made-for-adsense-publishers/#comments Sat, 19 May 2007 15:08:30 +0000 Martin Brinkmann adsense publisherarbitragegoogle adwordsmade for adsensemfa http://blogvitamin.com/bye-bye-made-for-adsense-publishers/ Arbitrage websites, commonly referred to as made for Adsense, are a clever way of exploiting Google’s Adwords and Adsense service. You basically buy low clicks on a multitude of websites and direct them to your own website which has selected texts that guarantee a higher payout per click. A basic example would be for someone to buy clicks for 5 cents on a website about Apple notebooks and direct them to a website that also deals with Apple notebooks optimized for the highest paying keywords. A click on the second website would earn the owner $.50 cents which means that his break even point is when every tenth user who is visiting his site through the Adsense ads on the first site clicks on the ads on the second.

A 10% click through rate is rather unrealistic unless the site is really optimized with Ads and no other links exist on it. Many webmasters hate Made for Adsense sites and ban them using the competitive web filter offered by Google Adsense. Jensense is now reporting that “Google AdSense (is) disabling arbitrage publisher accounts as of June 1st”. There is no word on the exact amount of Adsense account holders who received the official email from Google.

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]]> http://blogvitamin.com/bye-bye-made-for-adsense-publishers/feed/ Yaro’s Top 7 Blog Monetization Methods http://blogvitamin.com/yaros-top-7-blog-monetization-methods/ http://blogvitamin.com/yaros-top-7-blog-monetization-methods/#comments Tue, 15 May 2007 20:27:05 +0000 Martin Brinkmann blog monetizationearn moneymonetizationproblogger http://blogvitamin.com/yaros-top-7-blog-monetization-methods/ We all have dreams when we start our first blog. Some want to become famous, some blog for the fun of it, some for the publicity and others to quit their day job and blog full time. While this might never become reality for most who start blogging some do reach a level of traffic and exposure with their blog that they need to start thinking about ways to monetize their blog.

Yaro, the owner of Entrepreneur’s Journey, posted his top seven blog monetization methods. Let me first list the monetization methods and comment on them afterwards:

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]]> http://blogvitamin.com/yaros-top-7-blog-monetization-methods/feed/ Where should I start reading ? http://blogvitamin.com/where-should-i-start-reading/ http://blogvitamin.com/where-should-i-start-reading/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 20:43:09 +0000 Martin Brinkmann sell websiteswebmaster forumwebmaster helpwebmaster questions http://blogvitamin.com/where-should-i-start-reading/ Everyone who begins something starts with having more questions than answers. How do I do that ? Is that allowed ? Would it be helpful if.. ? This is especially true for bloggers who start their first blog. Making errors at the beginning can have drastic consequences that are not foreseeable at this point. Placing your Google Adsense ads in the wrong place might get you banned from Google which would be a severe blow to the prospect of making money with it.

It basically can be summed up by this: You do need to know what you are doing before you do it. This does not hold true for all aspects of course. You should still make certain decisions before you start pumping out articles like a professional blogger all day. What do you normally do when you have a question ? Right, you visit Google and enter the question hoping that a valid answer comes up.

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]]> http://blogvitamin.com/where-should-i-start-reading/feed/ Monitor your websites uptime http://blogvitamin.com/monitor-your-websites-uptime/ http://blogvitamin.com/monitor-your-websites-uptime/#comments Sat, 12 May 2007 07:35:00 +0000 Martin Brinkmann check websitedowntimemonitor websitemonitor your websitemontasticuptime http://blogvitamin.com/monitor-your-websites-uptime/ How do you normally find out if your website is down ? You either experience it for yourself because you cannot connect to the site or you receive emails from friends or visitors who tell you that it is down. Both ways are not the most reliable. If you just went to bed you will not be able to verify that your website is down and emails can only be send if your email address is known.

A far better way to monitor the uptime of your website is the free service Montastic. You can add up to 100 addresses that will be checked every ten minutes from two different locations. Whenever a website goes down you receive an email and a new RSS feed entry is generated as well. Once the website is up again you receive another notification.

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]]> http://blogvitamin.com/monitor-your-websites-uptime/feed/ Top 5 SEO plugins for Wordpress http://blogvitamin.com/top-5-seo-plugins-for-wordpress/ http://blogvitamin.com/top-5-seo-plugins-for-wordpress/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 21:53:17 +0000 Mikael Svardh pluginsseowordpress http://blogvitamin.com/top-5-seo-plugins-for-wordpress/ David Culpepper over at PureBlogging has published a nice toplist containing his choice of his Top 5 SEO plugins for Wordpress. But I must say that I don’t agree on his number 1 pick - the The Google Sitemap Generator as Google’s crawlers know Wordpress blogs extremely well and really don’t need a sitemap to find it’s way around. I would pick the SEO Title Tag by Netconcepts as my number 1. Anyway, here’s the full list:

SEO Plugins For Your Wordpress Blog [pureblogging.com]

]]> http://blogvitamin.com/top-5-seo-plugins-for-wordpress/feed/ Blog secrets in free eBook http://blogvitamin.com/blog-secrets-in-free-ebook/ http://blogvitamin.com/blog-secrets-in-free-ebook/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 21:38:50 +0000 Mikael Svardh ebookprobloggertips http://blogvitamin.com/blog-secrets-in-free-ebook/ Chitika is working very closely together with the blogosphere in general and especially with the top tech bloggers making lots of money through their service. Their latest contribution is a free eBook called “Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging” and is written by 30 expert bloggers including Darren Rowse from Problogger, Daniel Scocco from Daily blog tips and Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome. The whole book is 76 pages and contain topics like “Crossing the Chasm to going as a full time blogger”, “Driving traffic using del.icio.us” and “Advertising in the blogosphere”. It’s definitely worth checking out - at least some of the chapters.

Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging” -FREE eBook! [chitika.com]
Direct-link to the pdf: blogbash.pdf [chitika.com]

]]> http://blogvitamin.com/blog-secrets-in-free-ebook/feed/ Blog salaries http://blogvitamin.com/blog-salaries/ http://blogvitamin.com/blog-salaries/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 21:05:42 +0000 Mikael Svardh adsenseearningsmoneyreviewme http://blogvitamin.com/blog-salaries/ Paula Neal Mooney has published a list of blogger and webmaster earnings. It’s quite an interesting list and you also get some good links since she has published a direct link to the source next to the total annual income.

A blogger like Steve Pavlina rakes in about $1000 per day - that’s right - per day. Impressive.

If you have the time, it’s pretty interesting to go through all the source links as most of them contains some good information. John Chow’s post for instance - he makes around $12 000 each month and most of that money isn’t from Google Adsense as most of you probably think. Only 9% of his blog income comes from Google and the bulk, close to 40%, comes from ReviewMe

Paula’s List of Blogger Salaries…Are you on the list?
via [Connected Internet]

]]> http://blogvitamin.com/blog-salaries/feed/ A vitamin injection for your blog… http://blogvitamin.com/a-vitamin-injection-for-your-blog/ http://blogvitamin.com/a-vitamin-injection-for-your-blog/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 22:04:40 +0000 Mikael Svardh BlogVitamin http://blogvitamin.com/a-vitamin-injection-for-your-blog/ BlogVitamin isn’t the most original name for a blog blog, but I think it still describes what I want to accomplish with this blog. I have been running several different blogs for a couple of years, but currently I’m directing most of my attention to Fosfor Gadgets. But, I haven’t had a good place to post about learnings regarding blogging so I decided to start another one and here it is - BlogVitamin.com, a healthy vitamin injection for your blog.

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