Archive for April 3rd, 2006

CPM Adsense

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

Monetizing your site is essential, whether it’s by selling, or creating a platform for selling your service, or by direct ads, you have to have a decent ROI for your blog, to justify your time and money.
Many people choose to monetize their site with Google adsense, but it’s tricky.  There are so many myths online, [...]

RSS Subscription Strategies

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

While perusing my own feeds today, I came across this post on Performancing (which is a good site for anyone looking to make money on or with their blog. 
It’s a top ten list for how NOT to keep your RSS readers.

Hardly post and when you do it is to apologise for not posting
- I [...]

Canned Intros

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

One of the easiest ways to save yourself time in podcasting is to create canned intros to build your podcasts easily, without the need for extensive studio time.
I have several podcasts I do in a month.  For each series, I have a canned intro that I created in the beginning.  After my podcast recording is [...]

RSS vs. Atom

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

With so many feed flavors out there, 2 atom and 7+ rss, how do you decide which one you should provide on your blog?
Really, there is much to say about the various formats.  I can pass
along what I’ve learned myself, though I’ll never hold myself up as an
expert on them..  There are certainly people more [...]

Blog Headlines

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

An important question as it relates to blogging…  Should you be writing to draw in your readers OR to  draw in the search engines.
I always defer to the reader here. 
I try to weigh the options and write with my reader first and foremost in my mind.  However, I don’t discount the SEO effectiveness of [...]

Reviewing Feed Readers

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

TechCrunch, a small blog network that packs a big A-list punch, has taken the collassal undertaking of ranking the feedreaders. 
Looking at online readers (bloglines and Rojo ranked best here) and offline readers (desktop readers like Feeddemon and NetNewsWire ranked well here), the articles goes the lengths and really delves deep to completely assess the [...]