Darren Rowse

In a big week of changes to contextual advertising Jen posts that Yahoo! are now adding dynamic image ads to their contextual advertising line (original source of information). Things are certainly hotting up in terms of competition between Yahoo and Google in advertising – hopefully publishers will be the winners).

A couple of days ago I looked at How the Most Highly Visited Blogs Earn Money and then yesterday I reflected upon why only 8 of the 30 I analysed use Adsense as an income stream. Over the next few days I’m going to take a quick look at some ...more

There is a great podcast over at View from the Isle – The Inaugral Business Blog Roundtable – on the topic of ‘how frequently should you post’ on your blog. It think its a great idea for a Pocast – in a sense its taking the idea of niche blogging ...more

Search Engine Journal has a good post on how to work out how much to charge for text ads on your blog. It comes at a perfect time for me as I’ve had a number of emails recently from webmasters asking how much I charge for links. The article suggests ...more

Sometimes its easy to get so carried away with earning money on your blog that your content can become secondary to everything else. I’ve had (and probably fallen for) this kind of temptation myself – but think its probably the blog and your readers who suffer most for it. I ...more

One of the most striking things that hit me in my analysis of the 30 most visited blogs at Truth Laid Bear was the small number of blogs using the Adsense program. Only 8 of the 30 (26%) had any Adsense ads on their pages – most instead opting for ...more

Jason writes that they have been accepted into the testing program of Google Adsense ads in RSS feeds. Lucky things! I’m not bitter though after my own rejection – sniff sniff. Well not too bitter. thanks to Mike for the tip Update: in spotting some of their ads in their ...more

Yesterday Google announced it was going into CPM advertising and expanding opportunities for advertisers to use banner ads – today one of the big banner ad providers, Fastclick, add to their website that they are getting into Text Ads. Found via Thread Watch

update: How to blogs earn money? For more information on this topic check out ProBlogger the Book. Yesterday I spent the afternoon wading through some of the most highly visited blogs going around at Truth Laid Bear’s Traffic Ranking page which ranks those blogs with Sitemeter statistics. I quite often ...more