Dec 04, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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There are three ways to earn money through Internet.
- Advertising
- Selling and promoting products and services of others
- Selling your own products and services
Each of these ways have the potential to make you full-time income or add another income stream for your Internet business. None of the ways rules the others out, so always think about ways to add additional ways to earn money to your business. At least test the different ways out. After you’ve found what works the best for you, you can re-think your strategy and start concentrating on the ways that are most profitable for you.
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Jun 12, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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As of 11:23AM EST on June 2nd 2009, Chitika crossed the 50,000 publisher mark. Since the launch of Chitika | Premium last May (about 13 months ago), the Chitika network has more than doubled (an almost 170% increase) from around 18,000 pubs to today’s momentous 50,000+
Do You Have Chitika Ads on Your Blog?
50000 other bloggers and websites think you should have!
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Jun 12, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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WARNING! This is installation guide for those who run on private servers or have otherwise access to their php installation and can increase the memory limit to a level where OpenX can confortably run (For techies: php.ini memory_limit must be at 128Mb).
It is possible to install your own php instead of using the one that shared hosting offers, but if you do that, you are responsible for maintaining that php with upgrades and other maintenance. It is not difficult, but it requires a bit of knowledge and isn’t worth the trouble, because at the point you actually benefit from self-hosted OpenX ad server, you probably have your own private server already or multiple even, and can even dedicate one server fully to act as ad server.
If you want to test and use OpenX, I suggest you get a free account and sign up for OpenX Hosted, which has and you don’t have to worry about installations and maintenance of the OpenX itself, but can concentrate on managing your advertising.
Benefits of Having Your Own OpenX ad server
Not much really, unless you have a lot of blogs and websites and you want to manage all the advertising from one interface (and in this case, you can easily have dedicated, private ad server).
Self-hosted OpenX offers you access to the OpenX API of your own server (you know, the advanced stuff), manage all your blog advertising from that one server and of course deliver as many ad impressions as your server can handle..
OpenX Hosted can show up to 100 Million ad impressions per month for free, which is plenty for most blogs. When you reach that level of advertising, you can get your own private server and pay someone to take care of the self-hosted OpenX installations :)
But now, if you need your own ad server or having your own OpenX Server would just make you feel cool, I’ll show you how to install one!
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Jun 07, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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They say that you shouldn’t write about making money online if you’re not making any money online. I say, shut it. I’m writing about making money if I feel like writing and sharing my experiences.
You know, the first rule of Fight Blog Club, you DO write about blogging and making money and the second rule, you DO WRITE even more.
So here’s the thing, most bloggers don’t make any money from their blogs. I’m not one of those bloggers, because I have made 1 dollar 88 cents from Google AdSense during the 4 or so years I’ve been blogging. And I haven’t even tried, and still I made money, it’s quite amazing if you ask me. As a clarification, that’s $1.88 all time! It’s not like I have monthly income here yet.. All this was more and less when I had my blog(s) at blogspot.
This is my all time Google AdSense earnings up to the end of May 2009. One Dollar and 88 cents.
That’s one hundred million percent more than those bloggers are making who make none! It’s all about positivity and working hard, so I’m planning to double my earnings during this summer, wish me luck!
Here comes the revelation, I’m 100% sure you can do this too.
How I Made One Dollar and 88 Cents ($1.88) With Google AdSense!
- I wrote posts to my blog
- I created Google AdSense Account
- I generated Google AdSense ad code
- I placed the AdSense code to my blog
- Repeated couple of times for different placements on my blog
That’s quite easy isn’t it? Check out my quick and easy guide if you need additional info: How To Get Google AdSense and Display Ads on Your WordPress Blog.
I bet you can do that too and I think you’re gonna love it! Getting paid for doing what you do anyway is like the best thing in the world. But I hope you do hell of a lot better than I do. You know, more than one dollar…
But you and I have a starting point right there. I think I gotta be reading some of these (you can too if you like):
How are you doing? Better than me? Not getting much? Have any plans on making more? Please tell me too.
May 28, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Want to display certain ads only on certain categories or tags? This quick guide will show you how to do that, for example show banner ads based on category.
If you have blog with different categories, you might consider customizing the advertising shown on posts in spesific category or categories or posts with certain tags. And it doesn’t have to be advertising, you can show different links on different categories and tags.
For example you can:
- Show links to different themes and plugins on your “WordPress” tagged posts, and
- Amazon.com Associates cookbook links on your “Cooking” category.
- Or just display your best posts in the “Fishing” category.
- etc.
The possibilites are endless, so you can do whatever you can show anything you want and need to show, based on the tags or categories of the posts.
I wanted to do this, because many of the readers who come in and check some of my World of Warcraft material, or EVE Online posts, are not necessary interested in the WordPress content. And if I write about advertising on a blog and how to utilize a plugin to do it, that gamer just wanting to know how to powerlevel mining on the new alt character, most likely does not want info on latest WordPress Premium Themes or such. So I wanted to customize the advertising, extra content and links I show on different posts.
First, I utilized the “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin” to show the related links, so that was easy and does superb job at providing the related post links.
But getting spesific advertising in those posts wasn’t hard either..
If you have the same kind of situation, and want to display advertising or special links based on the categories or tags of your posts, I’ll show you a quick way to achieve that. You do have to dig into your WordPress theme php-files, or find a plugin to insert the code, but it’s really simple…
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May 28, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Managing your advertising, affiliate links and banners can be load of work if you do too much manually. You should set tracking of links, track the number of times the ads are displayed, test different banners, etc. Fortunately, there are many plugins to WordPress that do all this for you.
In this article, I present the one plugin, AdRotate, that I’m currently testing in this blog. I’ll tell you:
- What the AdRotate plugin is
- Examples on how you can use this plugin for many different purposes
- Step-by-step tutorial to set up ads with AdRotate, AdRotate 101 if you will, with screenshots
AdRotate is free plugin under GPL license, so you don’t have to pay anything for it. And with this guide, you can set it up in matter of minutes + the time you use to set the ads up and set the placements for the ad groups you create. After that, you just have to watch and AdRotate displays your ads, at random if you configured it that way, and track clicks to boot – so you can focus on writing or whatever aspect of blogging you enjoy the most.
Like said, I’m test running the plugin at the monent and from what I’ve seen so far, I like it. I wanted to share these experiences with you, so if you want to find out more, read on…
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