Comments on: Making More Money Online With Less Time

By: Josh Carroll

Josh Carroll — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:23:31 +0000

Good information, much appreciated. The only issue is that until you have enough traffic to justify the monthly spend for affiliate programs, it might not be worth it to go that route. Once traffic and potential customers increases it makes sense. Would anyone agree with this?

By: Sold My Advertising, Now What?

Sold My Advertising, Now What? — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:40:22 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:51:13 +0000

Exactly! There is no point having open advertising spots!

By: portable tv

portable tv — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:07:57 +0000

Nice comments on the middleman. Many can’t imagine using them because they take a big cut. But, if you’ve got some empty ad slots, how much are those making you?

By: The Blogger Source

The Blogger Source — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:59:12 +0000

Never really thought about selling multiple months at a time.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:03:00 +0000

Hey – good post.

However one caveat is regarding text-links-ads. Website owners thinking about selling ads through them (and probably similar such services) are taking a chance Google will lower the Page Rank of their site.

Google has come out against selling links and routinely ‘penalizes’ sites selling such ads. The standard result is a lowering or even disappearing of PR, and nullifying the outbound ‘link juice’ from those advertising links. On the plus side, this penalizing doesn’t seem to affect organic rankings and thus traffic of the site showing the ads, but a lower page rank can affect other aspects of the site.

I have one site with text-link-ads that went from a PR 4 main page to a PR 1, whereas another site either stayed the same at PR4 or may have dropped from a 5 to a 4. Although people are still paying for Text Link Ads on both my sites (maybe they don’t confirm the listed PR on the TLA site, since no one changed the fact my one site went from a 4 to a 1) so it doesn’t bother me any.

Just my 2 cents.

By: Funny Junk

Funny Junk — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:15:21 +0000

These are some good ideas that should help me with increasing my revenue. The offering a free review if they keep their subscription for a few months should help increase my amount of advertisers.

By: Gennaro

Gennaro — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:54:11 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I think a lot of people get into blogging for freedom then realize it’s a lot of work. NIce to see a few ways to cut back on hours and increase productivity.

By: Michael Dunlop

Michael Dunlop — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:29:27 +0000

Hello Xscape,

I haven’t had much luck seeking advertisers out apart from using Marketplaces like Sitepoint, have you tried a listing there before?

Todd, it seems to be working very well, when will you be out of Beta? We should do a interview for Retireat21.com

By: todd g @ buysellads.com

todd g @ buysellads.com — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:07:31 +0000

Michael,

I’m glad you are happy with BuySellAds.com! Thanks for the mention! Cheers, Todd