One of the more popular questions I have been asked when helping someone start a blog is where to put ads in order to maximize revenues.  The important thing to remember here is that not every blog is the same, which means that you are going to have to test some different designs and ad [...]

I know there are all kinds of best of lists for WordPress plugins, but I figured I would put together my own. I can vouch for all of these and use them personally on every Wordpress blog that I create. So let’s get down to it:
Advertising
1. Ad Rotator – I like to use [...]

I’m going to try out a new form of advertising with the addition of the Stripe Ad to my sites.  This is the single line of text that is displayed at the top of the site in a nice, clean stripe.
I’ve also thought about using the Stripe Ad as a call to action which will [...]

If you plan to make money blogging then it’s important that you use a quality webhost for your site, but if you are just starting out then you might not have a lot of money to spend on a solution.  However, you don’t have to worry because I’ve found some of the best sites for [...]

If you have a website or a blog then you should know about web analytics.  You can learn a lot about your site, what works, and what doesn’t if you take a look at your stats on a frequent basis.  Most hosting companies provide some kind of stats software, but I recommend adding Google Analytics [...]

If you want to be taken seriously as a blogger then you might want to think about adding a disclaimer page to your site.  The key to the page is to disclose any potential conflict of interest you may have between yourself and what you are writing about. It is our belief that too much [...]

It’s very important for every site owner to have a way for readers to contact them.  If there are visitors who have to spend more than a few seconds looking for a way to get a hold of someone from your site, then you could possibly miss out on a sale, a profitable business relationship, [...]

When a new visitor comes to your site and wants to know what it is about where do you think they turn to?  Hopefully your answer was the “About Us” page, but how up-to-date is yours?  Take a look at some suggestions I have for what to include on this section of your site in [...]

There are several different things you can probably do right now to optimize your site’s advertising and generate more revenue.  The first and most obvious is to get more traffic, but that can take a lot of time and effort to do.  Instead this article is going to focus on how you can make the [...]

A great way to increase interaction with visitors is to have an RSS feed for readers to subscribe to.  The feed is similar to a newsletter in that you can push your content to the reader instead of relying on the visitor to come back to your site for updates.  A lot of blogs also [...]