A few people have asked me where I got all the information for the Search Engine Optimization for Bloggers series of posts. It’s a difficult question to answer really – there is no one source that I can name. Rather the knowledge has slowly been accumulating (and continues to do ...more

Just to keep things in perspective Jason Calacanis posts that Weblogs Inc is getting close to the number of dollars earned in a day that would take them to earning $1 million in a year. He reports that they broke their previous record for a day’s earnings with Adsense and ...more

Well after a couple of days away speaking on a conference (where I could only access the web via dial up for a few minutes per day) I’m back home to survey my blog’s status. I always seem to time my going away for a few days (or longer) to ...more

Today’s online edition (I don’t think it’s in the print editions) of the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers have featured an article of me Living high on the blog (also here). In it they largely talk about how I came to earn a living from blogging and have a ...more

A few tips on how to use ecto to make your blog more public and profitable.

The latest news on the WordPress Spamming Saga is that Google has reindexed their site to give it a page rank of 0 out of 10 – effectively removing it from their index at least in the short term. It seems that Yahoo has done likewise. Along side this WordPress ...more

WordPress have been coming under a little scrutiny in the past 24 hours by Waxy.org who have questioned their hosting of 120,000 articles on their site on a variety of topics provided by a third party on some high paying keywords. You can check out some examples of these pages ...more

Google have also launched a new form of text advertising today – Adsense Ad Links where by readers of your pages are offered a list of topics that are relevant to your page which they can click to find relevant ads for that topic. Its a pretty interesting system that ...more

What kind of site does it take to make enough to live off with Google Adsense? This is a question that has been asked over at WebmasterWorld – Adsense Forum. It is actually a question that has sparked quite a long and interesting discussion (120 replies so far – and ...more