Text Link Ads

I signed up for an account at Text Link Ads today (I read about Text Link Ads over at problogger.net). Text Link Ads appears to be a similar product to Google’s adsense. I know I already use adsense, but I figure I want to try as many things as possible to see what […]

Site Traffic with Google Analytics

It struck me today that I don’t yet have any way of tracking whether anyone is visiting this weblog. So I set out to discover how to track (at a minimum) how many visitors there are to my site. Hopefully there will be more detailed infomation available. Also, I did not want […]

Monetize Your Blog submitted to Google

I have submitted this weblog for inclusion in the Google search engine. The url to submit a new site can be found here.
Google says there is no guarantee the site will appear on Google, or if it does how long it will take.
From the small amount of research I have done so far, it […]

Adsense Approved

Well, as promised, 2 days after my application for Adsense, I received a response. All that remained was to actually add the advertisements to my blog.
To do this I went to Template, Page Elements then selected Add a Page Element and chose Adsense as the type of element. You can choose from a […]

Signing up for Adsense

Quite by accident, I noticed a Quick Cash advertisement at the bottom of the www.blogger.com home page. It said:
With our new AdSense tool, it’s now easier than ever to make money by blogging.

So I surfed over to www.adsense.com to find out what AdSense was all about. According to the main page:
Google […]

Big List of Blog Search Engines

Found a list of Blog Search Engines at Ari Paparo Dot Com.
It is a page which lists search engines which specialize in weblogs. Most have a link which you can use to register your blog. I am working through and submitting this blog to some of the more likely looking search engines on […]

Setting up my blog

As I mentioned in a previous post, there really wasn’t much involved in setting up this blog. I already had the subject matter for the blog. It was just a matter of finding somewhare to put it. When I first started my investigations into blogging I searched google for “free blogging” and […]

What’s all this then???

How did all of this come about?
A colleague of mine was explaining the concept of monetizing a blog the other day. I have to admit to not being terribly web-savvy and while I knew what a blog was, I didn’t know much more. I was intrigued at the idea of earning money from […]

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