Bidvertiser and Adsense - An unfair comparison?

I have been running both Adsense and Bidvertiser (aff) ads on Monetize Your Blog now for a while. The money earned from adsense has been nothing to write home about, but the money from Bidvertiser has been dismal. Not one single click - no money earned at all! It doesn’t get much […]

Digital Point Keyword Tracker

If you like to dabble in a little amateur SEO (Search Engine Optimization) then the Keyword Tracker tool from Digital Point is very good. Keyword Tracker is a free tool which allows you to track search engine statistics for a number of your websites at once. The statistics tracked at Keyword Tracker are:

Keywords […]

Live Pagerank Google PR Tool

While I was checking my Google Page Rank after reading the PR Update rumor on the forums at Digital Point, I came across a useful tool for checking page rank.
The tool is called Live Pagerank (oddly enough). You simply enter the url of your blog (or other website) and click on the Get Live […]

Is there a Google Page Rank Update Underway

There is a rumor circulating that there is a Google Page Rank Update in progress. I first read about it in a post at Digital Point Forums.
Now I’m not normally one to perpetuate rumors and I know there have been rumors circulating for a while, but this time people are offering examples of where […]

BlogHop Blog Directory

In the last week or so, I have started getting some traffic from a blog directory called BlogHop. I submitted Monetize Your Blog to BlogHop about 3 weeks ago, then forgot about it. As I neglected to make a note of it at the time, I haven’t blogged about it before.
BlogHop looks a […]

Paris Hilton to promote blog?

Could you use Paris Hilton to promote your blog? For example, would it be possible to draw some tenuous link between a celebrity like Paris Hilton and the subject of making money from blogging?
This idea first occurred to me today when I read a post entitled 2006 Google Analytic ShoeMoney.com Statistics on Shoemoney’s blog. […]

Inglish

And now for something completely different…

To “europe-anise” English :The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted […]

Write About Us and get a free link

One of the first steps when trying to make money from your blog is to try and gain a reasonable amount of traffic. Here at Monetize Your Blog, that is what I have been trying to do. Inbound links from other websites are crucial in getting visitors to your blog.
Write About Us is […]

Why does my position in Google change so much

A few weeks ago, I noticed that I had started getting some traffic from google. When I looked into it further, I found that I ranked in the top ten (on the first page) for one of my keyword combinations (read more about the Google Rankings tool I used to find my ranking). […]

How to measure your inbound links

From what I know about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), inbound links are very important if you want a high ranking in the search engines. So, how do you know how many inbound links you have?
Google have an option where you can use
link:url
to find all links to a particular website. However, this does not […]

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