Entries for July, 2008

Bidvertiser has been the main PPC ad program on this blog ever since my Google account started misbehaving. Initially, my Bidvertiser ads were giving only 7 or 8 cents per click and the click through rate (CTR) was very poor as well when compared to my Google AdSense experience. With a couple month long experiments, though, now I have reached a point where the average CPC is as high as 21 (individual clicks up to $0.48 so far). In this post, I would like to share some tips based on what I did to optimize my Bidvertiser ads.

Improving the CTR (Click-Through-Rate)

It is true that the bidvertiser ads do not look as elegant as their AdSense counter parts. I always thought that the Google AdSense ads somehow entice the readers to click on them where as Bidvertiser stock templates are a little bit repulsive. So our first aim is to fix this problem. Click Here to Continue Reading

We are three months live in the blogosphere now and I am glad to share with you all that we have been assigned a Google Page Rank (PR) of 2. Well, it may not be the greatest achievement yet but something really good to begin with. With some good marketing and link building, we should have done better.

Probably, we might consider changing this blog to DoFollow as this would help a lot of budding bloggers and our readers, who comment here, to achieve better page ranks.

How did other blogs fare?

The following are the latest Google page ranks Click Here to Continue Reading

Whenever I see a new comment or a MyBlogLog visitor on my blog, the very first thing I do is to check out his/her blog. After quickly scanning through a couple of posts there, I head for some nosey activities like checking this blog’s popularity in terms of traffic ranks, feed subscriber count etc. Further I would definitely subscribe to the RSS feed, right then, if the blog is interesting.

Talking about feeds, there are a number of bloggers out there who opt for not displaying their feed count or FeedBurner chicklets for whatever reasons. However, there are a number of ways to see their feed count via some free tools and tricks. I would explain three such methods here Click Here to Continue Reading

It’s been a while since I last talked about a work from home opportunity. Today, while Googling through related topics, I stumbled upon this relatively new concept called eTutors.

Well, online trainers, coaches and tutors are not anything new. But of late, there seems to be a lot of buzz around eTutors and it was claimed to be a $8 billion market last year, in the US alone. And this is one of the most sought after outsourced jobs and Asian countries like India play a bigger role Click Here to Continue Reading