AdSense has been my big money maker the past couple of months, but for no reason other than it was what I had on the site that got Dugg. Granted, if I’d had AdBrite instead of AdSense on it, I’d have earned less. AdSense is not a bad earner.

But after a couple of days, suddenly all I was getting was three ad units full of that flat stomach ad, or the get rid … READ MORE

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UPDATE: if you respond to the email that says your feeds moved over successfully, Google does actually get back to you several days later with an email that indicates they’re reading the emails and getting to them as they can, but are overwhelmed at the moment. This might be the best way to make sure your problems are known to them. But do please search the forums to see if your problems are already known, … READ MORE

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Suddenly, Google is sending two of my best site a heap more traffic. Is anyone else seeing this?

I thought I was getting a lot of search visits throughout last month, but I wasn’t sure until the Thanksgiving holidays drove away Stumblers and the others who send me little storms of traffic now and again. Suddenly, all my visits were coming from search engines (mostly Google), and my traffic levels stayed steady despite the holidays. My … READ MORE

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There are actually times when Google does your site more harm than good. Unless all you’re concerned about is traffic.

A couple of months ago, I switched domains for Project B-2 Bomber. At first, the traffic stayed high, then it dropped from 20-25k  per month down to about 13k. Reason: Google had kept the PR on the main page, but dumped all the internal PR. They went from sending me 10k hits a month to … READ MORE

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I haven’t posted on ChillyCool in weeks, yet stats and feedreader subscriptions are up. Glad someone’s enjoying is…? I have no idea why that site does as well as it does (which is not well at all, I’m just saying it should be even worse).

I haven’t been posting as regularly as I like on Project Mai Tai because moving to a new apartment consumed my life for a few weeks there. But it … READ MORE

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I’ve got a bunch of article reprint sites and used to make several hundred from text link ads, back before Google went on a rampage about that. During Google’s rampage, a curious thing happened: this site, one of those reprint sites, and one other site got their visible PR zeroed out. I eventually took paid links off this one and the other one and requested PR back (and got it). But the reprint site, I … READ MORE

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I was looking for a better option than SEDO for earning some money from my parked domains, and came to the following conclusions:

SEDO works because it forces people to exit the page, which they sometimes do by clicking an ad.
If that’s not working for your particular site, or you’re concerned about the domain building some pagerank for later on, the best thing to do is create a mini-blog, stick ads on it and submit it … READ MORE

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I’ve got some sites that contain nothing but reprint articles. I used to fill them up with those free articles where you have to link back to someone’s size, but recently I’ve started replacing all those with PLR articles. They aren’t unique, but they’re better articles (mostly - you still have to watch them). It’s still basically an MFA type site (I don’t use AdSense on them, but they are definitely made to generate aff … READ MORE

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Once again, proof that not everyone is buying links for Google juice - I just sold a nofollow link ad via LinkWorth on a site that has about 60 feedreaders and under 5,000 uniques per month, but is good for someone trying to brand their stuff. The link sold for $40, of which I’ll keep $20.

This whole nofollow thing really is stupid. But as long as we can make money from text link … READ MORE

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I wonder exactly how much bandwidth will be taken up by the gazillion trillion “rel=no-follow” code bits Google’s recent link crap has spawned? Talk about the mountain coming to Mohammed.

Now back to our regularly scheduled ban on Google chatter.

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