My Cow-vertising Results
Most of you probably know that I started advertising with the Cow (johncow.com) 14 days ago. I purchased two post-level 250×300 spots out of 10 that he was selling, at a cost of $150 for 30 days. Since this was my first-ever attempt at advertising the blog I was not really sure what to expect.
The first few days I was a bit disappointed with the CTR and amount of traffic I was getting from the ads, I think because I expected a sudden flood of vistors - but as I thought about it more I realized that this was not a Read more
My First Attempt At Advertising
Today I started my first-ever paid advertising campaign for the blog - as a matter of fact many of you have probably arrived here via that advertisement (if you did, leave a comment so I know if I’m getting my money’s worth!). I’ve waffled back and forth on whether I should advertise the blog or not for a long time but after seeing the extra free traffic that BlogRush brought me I thought, WTF, why not?
Why would I advertise a blog that has no advertisements itself, and generates NO income?
My website, GrownUpGeek.com already earns about $6k/month, and has Read more
The Worst Adsense Ad Ever ?
I came across this Adwords ad today and decided it must be, by far, the worst Adwords/Adsense ad I’ve ever seen.
I don’t use Adwords much because i prefer free traffic, but on those times that I did use it, I always at least proof-read the damn thing. Let this be a lesson to us all on how NOT to create an Adwords campaign.
Would you click on a tard-looking ad like this?
BlogRush: How I Accidentally Get More Impressions
Just like everyone else this weekend I signed up for BlogRush in eager anticipation of the flood of traffic it would bring. After reading more about BlogRush though, I realized that because my blog does not get nearly as much traffic as the really, really big guys, I probably would not get very many impressions/clicks from it. However I was pleasantly surprised today when I started seeing significant traffic with the BlogRush referrer on it, but I was puzzled at how I could be generating so many impressions.
How I am able to generate so many BlogRush impressions:
As I was pouring through my logs scratching my head trying to figure out why I was getting so much traffic from BlogRush it hit me: I have a page over at the main site that ranks between #2 and #5 (it changes day-to-day) for the search term “make money on the internet“, and gets a lot of traffic. Saturday I updated that page with information about BlogRush, but instead of taking the time to take a screenshot and make a JPG of the BlogRush Widget, I just pasted the actual code from my blog right onto that page. The result of my laziness? Instant thousands of impressions being recorded to my BlogRush account! I’m sure the guys at BlogRush will eventually fix this by making sure that domain on pages with the BlogRush widget match the domain listed in our account settings, but until then, if you have a website that gets a lot of traffic that is independent from your blog, throw your widget code on it and drum-up a few extra impressions.
If you came to this page via BlogRush, then it works!
