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Stripe ads are a neat way to extend screen real estate to create additional advertising room. They are extremely popular with high traffic websites and are extremely visible to the website visitor since they are the first thing the visitor sees on the site.
A stripe ad is a strip of highlighted ad adspace right [...]
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Here are some quick thoughts on how you can make more money with you blog/website.
Affiliate Programs
Don’t just join some affiliate program, paste some code and be done with it! You won’t make very much money that way. Affiliate programs are best done when you make a thorough article post on the affiliate product. [...]
Aaron Wall (of SEOBook.com) was kind enough to share his thoughts on my post about the Killer Four Column Layout Strategy. He asked me, “Do you think being that aggressive with ad placement hurts the ability of sites to gain inbound links?”
That question caught me off-guard because I didn’t think the KFCLS was aggressive [...]
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I’m really letting the cat out of the bag on this one. I’ve been using Adsense as a monetization stream for over two years now and one thing that I discovered was how to skyrocket my Adsense click through ratio (CTR) using a very specific web page layout. A web page layout that I really stumbled upon by accident while I was redesigning my own sites. It’s not a page layout I use on any of my sites now because I have different priorities for them than I did before (i.e., maximizing CTR is not one of my priorities at this point). But, if you are solely concerned with CTR on Adsense or similar contextual (or even non-contextual) ads, you should read on…
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Darren posted a great article on how to increase your blog’s RSS subscribers. In a nutshell (you should read the entire post over at Darren’s blog) they are:
Promote your feed prominently (i.e., upfront and above the fold)
Promote your feed with an image (e.g., using all those badges for the various readers out there like [...]
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