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Archive for February 2005

February 28th, 2005

Can Anyone Compete With Gawker or Weblogs, Inc.?

When it comes to blog empires there are only two names in the mix: Gawker Media and Weblogs, Inc.. However, there are thousands of individuals out there with delusions (might be the wrong word) of making a living from their blogs. Is it possible for an individual to start another blogging network that can go […]

By Paul -- 8 comments

February 28th, 2005

AdSense Revenue Sharing

On almost all of my sites now I have implemented a system of AdSense revenue sharing that allows the authors to make as much money as they put into the site. On more than one occassion I have been asked how this was implemented so I figured I might as well show you since it […]

By Paul -- 15 comments

February 27th, 2005

Did the move work? Again.

Judging by these results I think it did. All the content pages are now indexed along with a couple of the store pages. Lesson to be learned here:

Buy expired domains with caution.

Now I know.

By Paul -- 7 comments

February 23rd, 2005

Amazon Stores Update

Back in January I wrote about my failure to check on some of my Amazon stores and because of this I lost a significant amount of money because they were no longer working. In all honesty I figured I was toast because Google probably got tired (we like to talk about Google like it’s a […]

By Paul -- 7 comments

February 23rd, 2005

Making a Living Off of AdSense Part II

In the first part I gave a general overview of how you should approach a site that is based solely on AdSense revenue. In this part I would like to go over the steps you can take to get started on your new AdSense site.
First let me dispel the myth that you should go looking […]

By Paul -- 12 comments

February 22nd, 2005

Did the move work?

1300 pages of Big Money Tips indexed
1 page of Work Boxers indexed

So why even bother changing domains if Google did have Big Money Tips indexed you are asking yourself (at least I am guessing you are)? Well if you notice 99% of the sites indexed are from the store (which has the wrong title…whoops) and […]

By Paul -- 10 comments

February 21st, 2005

Making a Living Off of AdSense

Is it possible? At the moment it certainly is. I say at the moment because you never know what advertisers or Google have up their sleeve in the future. What I do here is go over some of my thoughts on how to create sites that live off of AdSense.
Myths

Domain Names matter. Maybe back in […]

By Paul -- 10 comments

February 17th, 2005

Google Dropping Blogs?

Has anyone else noticed a bad trend going on? I mean the fact that you are getting less and less traffic from Google to your blogs? I have noticed it and it seems a couple of other bloggers have as well.
I went to DigitalPoint and used their fine collection of Webmaster tools to see how […]

By Paul -- 16 comments

February 14th, 2005

Help Me Get a New Domain

I have a backlog or articles waiting to be published (like the details and reasoning behind selling the Vault), but there is a slight problem. When I bought the domain Big Money Tips it was an expired domain. I figured it would take Google some time to index it and possibly get it out of […]

By Paul -- 27 comments