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I've recently decided to try Auction Ads. Since my Adsense and YPN numbers have been horrible lately. I gotta try something. I've heard people say they made some pretty decent income from Auction Ads. I'll let you know. I plan on testing for 3 months on several sites. The great thing is you can run these ads alongside your Adsense or YPN ads because they are not contextual.  read more »

I’m at the point where I need to start investing some money back into my sites. So I pose the question if you had $500 to spend on your blog, how would you spend it?

AdWords comes to mind first. But it’s a blog, I don’t think adwords is effective on a blog. I’ve always let my blogs grow organically. Yeah, I’ll trade links and do submissions, etc. But good ol fashion SEO seems to pay off.

I’m sure you’re thinking…hire a designer! Oh, no no no. Not for me. I’m of the school that ugly sites out perform the pretty ones. Just like Rock, the ugly bands rock the hardest.  read more »

Amazon has released their new beta program called Omakase Links. Omakase is the Japanese word for “leave it up to us.” It’s just a fancy way of saying contextual advertising.

I’m always leary of contextual advertising. Adsense does a great job of serving relevant ads, however Yahoo! seems to serve non relevant ads, and the same ads in each ad block. Really tough to make a buck if it’s not relevant.  read more »

Well I’m finally home from Ad Tech in Chicago. It was an interesting trip. Not as many geeks as I had hoped. But I did learn a few things.

The main thing I noticed about Ad Tech was it was a lot of suit and tie guys. A lot of guys who are in advertising. And it seemed like all the booths at the trade shows were looking for advertisers and didn’t really care about us publishers.  read more »

Well, after an eight hour drive from Minneapolis, we arrived at the Sheraton. My father and I came together. We’re splitting everything.

The Sheraton in Chicago is beautiful. I was pretty impressed. But for $260 a night, it better be nice.

We took a walk down to Navy Pier and then went to Blackies for dinner.

Finally when I got back to the room, we decided to geek out a little before bed. I was shocked to find out that the Sheraton’s high speed connection was 12.95 a day! After paying $260 a night, it should be freee. Very lame. Thank god for my Treo.  read more »

AdMoolah did I nice post about sites where an Adsense publisher can use their own Adsense IDs to earn money.

Pretty interesting stuff. They go into detail on each site. If you’re looking for other ways to increase your Adsense, check out some of their suggestions.

When setting up your blog, don’t rule out these:

Blogads
Adbrite
Fast Click
Chitika
Click Bank
Link Synergy
Performics
Commission Junction
Azoogle

Don’t rely solely on Adsense. There are other good advertising programs out there, you just have to find the ones that are right for your site.