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By Les Scammell, February 20, 2008 11:56 pm

How I Quadrupled My Blog Income is quite a statement – yet it is true. I have tried many different ad units on this site. I have tried Adsense with little luck. I have also tried some of the other pay-per-click ads like Widgetbucks – all to no avail. Text link ads don’t work – I do not have a high enough PR nor do I get high traffic.

Not only that, at one stage I had accounts with six or seven different advertisers and that meant six or seven different ad units on my page. Keeping track of each of these accounts can be time consuming and a little dis-heartening when they are only incrementing by cents each day. With Adsense there were days when I didn’t get a click – not even enough traffic to get a token couple of cents for impressions. Continue reading 'How I Quadrupled My Blog Income'»

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By Les Scammell, February 20, 2008 12:25 am

I will start today’s post with a quick apology. For those who thought that my statements from yesterday regarding the traffic received from each ad placement was derogatory – the contrary was the situation. All blogs mentioned in my previous post were mentioned because I thought they delivered good traffic. As a realist getting a quota of 3 or 4 to 1 is in my opinion pretty good. If spend 400 credits and get 100 visitors – I am satisfied. On too today’s post.

I have mixed feelings about Entre Card and at present I am in two minds whether or not to continue using it. First, I do not have the time to go card swapping all day. At present, whilst I am receiving a good price for my ad spot – I know that will not last long and the credits will run out. Continue reading 'Entre Card – A Radical Blog Review – Part III'»