New advertiser
March 31, 2006
I have another advertiser who signed up for Linkworth. My income from them is nearly $200 a month!
Adsense continues its downward spiral from January, despite or maybe because of adding a heap of new sites. I have read that a low performing site affects the whole Adsense account.
I have also read that taking the code off low performing pages, can improve earnings, but I don’t know if it is worth the effort. Always optimistic, I am just hoping that things will get better. Or, I can find other good sources of income such as Linkworth and affiliate sales.
Google Analytics Invitation
March 30, 2006
I was too slow to sign up for Google Analytics the first time around, so I missed getting an account.
I just received an email from Google inviting me too join up. I don’t buy any additional statistic packages, so the extra information should be useful.
Top Paying Keywords
March 27, 2006
Found a good post on CyberWyre listing top paying keywords. It looks as though “mesothelioma” is still doing very well. Before you go out and start making a new website around these topics, remember that these are also the most competitive keywords on the internet.
Even if someone clicks on a top paying keyword ad, it doesn’t necessarily mean you will get this much per click. There are other factors which Google seems to take into account.
$54.33 mesothelioma lawyers
$47.79 what is mesothelioma
$47.72 peritoneal mesothelioma
$47.25 consolidate loans
$47.16 refinancing mortgage
$45.55 tax attorney
$41.22 mesothelioma
$38.86 car accident lawyer
$38.68 ameriquest mortgage
$38.03 mortgage refinance
$37.55 refinancing
$35.99 auto accident attorney
$35.52 equity mortgage
$34.34 mesothelioma texas
$34.05 mortgages
$33.80 criminal defense attorney
$33.54 epocrates
$32.95 mesothelioma
$32.08 car accident attorney
$31.60 mortgage refinance
Related posts plugin
March 27, 2006
I have just installed the related posts plugin.
It will be interesting to see if I can get new readers to look over some of my older posts.
It is very easy to install. Just follow the instructions in the readme file.
Web 2.0 site for sale on Sitepoint
March 26, 2006
I have decided to cut down on the number of blogs I am running. My Web2.0discussion site is one that I am least interested in working on, but I believe it has good potential for the right owner.
I have started the auction at $10 with a fairly high BIN (buy it now) price of $500. I am thinking maybe someone can see the potential of the domain.
The listing can viewed here:
What is the point of www
March 21, 2006
I remember reading on webmasterworld a while back on whether you need to use www in website domains.
I think the argument came down to it doesn’t matter whether you use it or not, but you need to keep it consitent through out the site.
I was having a problem with hostels.jp as the internal links all dropped the www but the top level of the site could still be reached at www. I wanted to drop the www completely.
Also the two domains had different page rank, so I wanted to stick with just one style. With a bit of messing around I was able to get it down with the htaccess file using the following code:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^www.hostels.jp
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://hostels.jp/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
It will be interesting to see if this will have any improvement on the site with regards to SEO.
New Directory Site
March 20, 2006
I have been working on a new directory type site the last couple of days.
The site is a directory for flight schools in Australia. You can see the site here:
I am thinking that bidding on aviation type keywords should be relatively high. If I can get some traffic to the site, perhaps I could charge for some featured listings.
I have at least one more idea for a directory site. These types of sites should run themselves, new content is created by people visiting the site leaving me with little much else to do once I have put in the time to set the site up.
Controversial advertising campaigns
March 18, 2006
There is nothing like having a bit of controversy when launching a new advertising campaign.
The new Australia tourism advertisement was banned by Britain’s Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre (BAAC), because it featured a young girl ’swearing’.
The advertisement shows various scenes around Australia and in the final shot a bikini-clad girl asks viewers, “So where the bloody hell are you?”
The BACC’s managing editor Paul Denham said: “Practice, experience and research lead us to avoid including swearing in television advertising.”
By banning the ad, the campaign has become a world news story. I wonder if the producers of the advertisement realized that it would create such a stir.
I know it made me feel like going back to Australia.
If you are not too offended you can see the ad here:
http://www.wherethebloodyhellareyou.com/
Niche website strategy
March 17, 2006
I thank the people for posting comments on my last entry. I must admit, I have no idea if this is the right or wrong way to go.
People often post messages on webmasterworld.com as to whether they should concentrate on one big site or a bunch of mini-sites. My advice is “diversification”. Small sites, big sites, blogs, forums, classifieds, free information, paid information and so on.
I tend to make a site from an idea I have and just go with it. Market research is definitely a good idea and could produce much better results, but I haven’t tried this much.
My strategies are a bit hit and miss, without much thought as to whether a new site will be successful or not. I put up a site, add some content, promote it a little, then sit back for a while to see if I get any good results.
I am usually happy just to get one affiliate sale. If I can get at least one sale, I know that there is definitely potential. I have found checking my sites stats fairly regularly, especially when I have some traffic to the site, so I can know exactly where people coming from and what they are interested in on the site.
This is a rough kind of way I am working. My personality doesn’t cater for working to deadlines or strict plans, but setting goals does definitely help.
Other than my time and the $10 it costs to register a domain, it is pretty much a risk free investment.
A website a week
March 16, 2006
I have been thinking of the feasibility of creating one new website per week. I can’t keep creating blog type websites. It is taking too much of my time updating the existing blogs I have.
It is bad enough thinking of how I have to upgrade my existing blogs to version 2 of WP.
I have started another new website: Designer Corkscrews. I like the design of theme. It is basically just affiliate links to Amazon. I doubt much that it will make money, but in total it only took a couple of hours to put together.
At least than $10 a domain, I only need to earn $11 from it to turn a profit.
