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10 Ways to Increase Comment Numbers on Your Blog

Inspired by the fact that Failpix gets no comments posted on individual the HILARIOUS pictures it contains, I found a good list of 10 Ways to Increase Comment Numbers on Your Blog.
1. Invite Comments - I notice that when I specifically invite comments that people leave them in higher numbers than when I don’t. To [...]


Site Income Report for November 2008

Revenue was down in November.  First, here’s the Paid Internships (my autoblogging site) update:
Paid Internships: November 2008

5,456 page impressions
315 clicks
$10.21 eCPM (amount each page impression is worth)
$55.68 revenue

AdSense for October: Down to $582.70 from $700.21
After hitting an all-time high in October, the economy finally caught up with AdSense, at least on my sites. [...]


Site Income Report for October 2008

This post is way overdue, but the good news is that I set an all time high for revenue in October.
First up, a quick update on Paid Internships, the autoblogging site I set up a few months back that is populated by an RSS feed from Internweb.com. This site is on an upward trend [...]


New Blog: FAILpix.net

In mid-November, I started a new blog, failpix.net.  I wanted a “funny pictures” blog; something that would bring in a lot of repeat visitors, earn a few bucks, and be fun to maintain.   Images and videos featuring cats, dogs, drunk people and idiots doing stupid things — that is the essence of what failpix is.
I [...]


DotCom Tales: Vantagenet and Freepolls.com

My first successful venture was co-founding Vantagenet in 1997. I had JAWSmovie.com up and running and I wanted to add a forum to the site. My business partner and I wrote some forum software and decided to offer it to any webmaster that wanted it for free. We hosted the forums on our [...]