Archive for August, 2008
Testing out Google Adwords and Microsoft Adcenter
I have around $500 worth of Microsoft Adcenter coupons so I figured I would give them a try for one of my sites. I set it up for the 2nd highest traffic site (Internweb.com), because it has the best click-thru ratio of any of my sites on Adsense, roughly 3.5%. The trick use [...]
Zune Forum Makes 62K for Teen
This is the kind of entrepreneurial spirit I can related to! A California teen grabbed the domain ZuneBoards.com, set up some free forum software and made around $1K a month using Adsense for two years, then listed the site on SitePoint.com and sold it for $62K, for a total take of roughly $86K. His [...]
Adslot.com - Some History
I have owned this domain for many years (before Adsense was invented) and had big plans of starting a text ad business, where you could put “adslots” on your site and sell them, hence the name. It was inspired by the original ads we sold on our website tools network back before the dot com [...]