For all the those out there who keep logging in to AdSense multiple times a day, here is a nifty Firefox addon that will make your life easier. Instead of logging into your account multiple times a day to check in your stats, your earnings and key metrics are reported and updated all day in your Firefox status bar, with this Firefox addon. Features Common reporting time periods (today, yesterday… Continue reading

If you sucked at making money from your websites, now try making money through mobile applications. AdSense has now rolled out their new service which will allow mobile application developers to show off AdSense ads on their applications and possibly make revenue out of it. At the moment, applications for Android and iPhone are supported.The program is now in beta and you can apply for it here. Google ads will… Continue reading

I was talking to a client lately, who suggested that I remove the AdSense ads from DSB. It makes your site looks cheap – He said. Hmm…That’s an interesting point. In fact, DSB does not run on AdSense nor the revenues is any good to call it a credible, sustainable source of revenue. It’s around 3-5 hundreds a month, which I believe is negligible for the space it occupies and… Continue reading

This one is from experience. Sometimes, when I come across that blog I never saw, I tend to dig up it’s metrics. You know when you are on a successful blog right? Within just a few seconds of your visit, you can identify if this is an MFA, a passion blog or a high value traffic one. And believe me digging into the metrics can really help and appearances can… Continue reading

Vineesha Malkani, through a post today at the official Adsense blog announced that some publishers have the privilege of enjoying AdSense and their Analytics accounts integrated, from today on. Now, that means more in depth reports and page by page analysis of your AdSense reports. For instance, what pages gave you more clicks on the square ad ? And what pages did well for the rectangle ad etc? I haven’t… Continue reading

Back to basics now. Article submission might be one of those oldest methods webmasters still rely on for link building methods – unfortunately. But are they really working? Do they give you backlinks, and if at all they do, how much of that time and energy you spent actually get converted to “authority”? That would raise more questions than answers.Well, just to make sure all of us on the same… Continue reading

This is for all the AdSense lovers out there, who have their blogging network thriving on AdSense.There are situations when your much earned traffic does not really pay off on AdSense right? Like for instance, imagine you had 10,000 page views on a day and another day you have 5,000 page views.1,000 clicks were made on each day, but you made more revenue on the second day compared to the… Continue reading

Interesting & Creative uses of Google Custom SearchThe Google team has a snap shot of all the “creative uses” of Google Custom Search listed.Google News is now available in TamilGoogle news is spreading out to more regional languages, Tamil is the new and latest addition.Information on running many sites on AdSense and dealing with Google TOSGoogle team has detailed info on how to manage and report with your AdSense account… Continue reading

Okay, this goes out to all those who want to get some quick increase in their subscriptions. No, we are not talking about the recent feedburner hack, but a genuine one that’s likely to work.Now, this “trick” (if you can call it one) will not give you subscribers out of nowhere. That is, if you have a blog, that’s got pathetic traffic, then this is not for you. This will… Continue reading

Someone who doesn’t want his name published asked me this question –

What are different ways to earn with different type of advertisements for an average blogger, and would like to know what are other sources of income for an average blogger other than advertisements.

Average blogger here means who does not have large amount of traffic coming on his site and also who is not popular… Continue reading

This is no exaggeration. A true story I’d like to share with you, probably you’ll have something to take back home.

I had launched a new website this April 12, related to the IPL chennai super kings. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a cricket team in the Indian Premier League and I support them. I had started this website just because I had to… Continue reading

AdSense is indeed a fine tool to generate some cool cash online. The problem with many young bloggers is that they simply don’t use the AdSense units to optimal use. By optimal use I mean, getting the maximum from the ads using the least resources.

Many bloggers end up just adding the AdSense codes and just earn a few bucks from it even though there is good traffic. The… Continue reading

There was this interesting thread on Sitepoint forums, where a travel blog was advertised as for sale. It’s PR 6, so I thought I may buy it and headed to the details. Found that the site is www.richardsturner.com and immediately dropped the idea.
Okay, that was a fast forward of what really happened. Let me unfold the story.
Sitepoint is a great place to buy and sell online properties. If… Continue reading

Okay, I have to be cool. And I’m ready for it.

From some of the readers emails, I’ve learned that there are quite some things that are not looking good on the blog. Like for instance there was a friend who said he doesn’t like the green color on the header. Another reader said he likes it very much and the color combo is really cool.

As a… Continue reading

I used to blog because I never did write diaries or took notes and it was comfortable doing the same on the PC with notepad (Yuck!) .
Well, trying to say that everyone has a different and unique reason to blog. After all what is it that motivates you to sit in  front of the PC and type rapidly entering all those random thoughts into bullet points? There’s got the be… Continue reading