Monetization

There are two things I'm constantly doing with my niche sites in addition to publishing plenty of content.  They are: Working on increasing revenue per 1,000 visitors; and Increasing trafic. Success with either of those efforts will…

Over the years I've tried many ad optimization services and networks. Some are good, some terrible, some just okay. While not all want to get you signed to an exclusive contract, some will broach the subject.  Some may even urge you to…

Remember the glory days of micro-niche sites circa 2010? Some people made big money with exact match domains and 10 to 30 pages of content promoting products with affiliate links.  While I always published larger sites, I enjoyed some…

This is an ongoing review of Ezoic as I use it to varying degrees across my niche sites over the years.  You'll see this starts with a series of updates so you get an idea of how Ezoic has performed for me over time. UPDATE FEBRUARY 1,…

Every once in a while, especially once you have some website traffic, it's good to crunch some numbers to really see what's going on. Admittedly I'm not the most data oriented niche site publisher. But, I do once in a while like digging…

I've held off publishing this post for a few months to ensure that this revenue stream from Facebook pages wouldn't wane. This revenue stream has been a nice consistent $40 to $100 per day.  That's $1,200 to $3,000 per month.  On average…

Recently I spent quite a bit of time analyzing my Amazon affiliate revenue as well as revenue generated from other merchants via my niche websites. I learned quite a bit with the analysis.  Enough to implement some changes.  Even though…

First off, NEVER, EVER, place arrows pointing to any AdSense ad product.  I did that above because it's an image to make it clear what this post is about. Now to the heart of the matter. Are AdSense link units worth using?  Do they make…

Wow. This Amazon vs. other affiliate merchants analysis I recently did was super helpful for my niche sites. I should have done it a long time ago. The impetus for this analysis was to see how much of a discrepancy there is between…

I seldom buy anything on mobile devices.  I do plenty of research, but don't buy much except for digital course products here and there. I prefer buying on a tablet or desktop.  I like screen space to really make sure I want what I'm…

Sometime in mid-2016 AdSense changed its maximum number of ad units policy. The old policy limited the number of AdSense ads to 3 ad units and 3 link units and 2 search boxes per page. The new policy is "Advertising and other paid…