Archive : Make money

John Mark Walker, Hyperic’s community lead, has an interesting take on whether Google deserves to be loved or loathed for its open-source community outreach. John Mark is in the former camp and, increasingly, so am I. Google is the Teflon open-source company, contributing selectively and strategically…and...

As noted by ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan, Armstrong emphasized that the dip in paid clicks was intentional–part of a strategic plan designed to deliver better, more-precisely targeted ads. Thus, the market anxiety that hit Google’s stock was, well, unjustified. After ComScore reported a recent...

Commission’s decision in place, Google announced on Tuesday that it has formally closed its merger with DoubleClick. European antitrust regulators on Tuesday approved Google’s $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick, paving the way for a blockbuster deal in Internet search and publisher-based advertising...

The topic of traffic exchanges always provokes heated debates among people who swear by it and those who have tried it and failed. Having tried TEs a number of years ago, I gave up after spending too much time surfing on them and not seeing the results I wanted. However, the root of the problem wasn’t...

I read a few posts in the blogosphere about people complaining that after the Chitika earnings audit yesterday, their actual earnings were much lower than the unaudited earnings. I saw a reduction of 26.3% myself. That’s terrible. It means that 25 cents out of every dollar was from an invalid click. It...

First off, the truth about Google Arbitrage is simply this - it doesn’t work anymore. You are at risk of getting your AdSense account disabled if you attempt it now. I still see a lot of people searching for this topic so I thought I’d write a post about it to give it some closure. What Is It? Google...

Here’s an interesting news snippet (Note added 9/18/04: this article is no longer available but there is another interesting interview found here) about companies using blogs to make money. I think that blogs are great for small business owners and also for those who are just getting started to feel...

Ever wonder why the your Google Adsense ads don’t make good sense at all. In this article I will teach you about section targeting to insure that your Google Ads match up with the content of your web pages. What is section targeting? Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text...