While it’s important not to spread oneself thin and try to work on too many projects at once, it’s also important to develop multiple streams of income. One has to find a proper balance between the two. Generating multiple streams of income is not just a wealth-generation strategy, it is also a matter of increased financial security.
A long time ago I stopped displaying Adsense ads on several of my blogs, including this one, because of the types of ads which were showing. On a health-related blog I did not want to advertise drugs and weight-loss fads, and on this blog I did not want to advertise scams or get-rich quick schemes.
Chitika is a great way to add monetization to an existing blog, even if it is already monetized with another program. You can add Chitika ads to your site without worrying crowding too many adds around your content (keep reading to see why I say this).
You may have heard about the recent commotion when Amazon.com and other affiliate networks had to drop all affiliates from certain states. If you lived in North Carolina, Hawaii, or Rhode Island, you might have received a notification from Amazon that you could no longer be their affiliate. For some people this may not seem like a big deal, but for some it is devastating.
If you use Feedburner to manage your RSS Feeds, and to allow people to receive email updates whenever you post on your blog, you might have noticed that the subject line of subscription emails doesn’t tell your readers much about the content of your latest post.
The following are the plugins I use on my WordPress blogs. I don’t use every single plugin on every blog as some are only applicable to certain situations. And having more than the necessary amount of plugins can slow down a blog. An asterisk* beside a plugin name indicates that I consider it an essential [...]
don’t distract, detract from your design, or scream “I’m an Ad!” A general rule which usually works for me is to keep the background color of my ads the same as the background color surrounding them, the text and URL the same color as the text on the page, and the title the same color as the links on the page.
The following are eBooks and training materials which I have personally reviewed recommend (except where otherwise noted). Some are free and some are not free. In some cases you will have to register with your email address, in some cases you will not. Don’t let the word “free” fool you. Some of the free materials [...]
Some of you know, and some of you don’t, that I am a poet. I started writing poetry at the age of four. Some of the poems I “wrote” at that age were better than others (I think I sang the poems, and my mother wrote them, but anyway … ) One of the less [...]
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By Anna on July 29, 2008
Hi – at the moment I’m not promoting the “Pay Per Play” program because it just doesn’t seem to be doing too well. So I am updating this post here. In the field of Internet Marketing I think it is important to be continuously aware of and willing to try new concepts and new ideas. [...]