More an more people are browsing the web with mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry’s. A lot of the sites and blogs out there aren’t optimized for being viewed on a small device such as an mobile phone.

People that blog often use Twitter to keep in contact with other bloggers and readers and to bring traffic to the blog. Many people check Twitter using a mobile phone, and therefor it’s important that your site is optimized for them.

Wordpress Makes It Easy

Wordpress is the world leading blogging software, and there is a good reason for that. There is endless supply of plugins that you can use to customize your blog. There are a couple plugins that makes your blog mobile friendly, but in my opinion the plugin Bravenewcode.com have made is the best one out there. The plugin is called WPtouch.

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhone^TM, iPod touch^TM, Android^TM, or BlackBerry Storm^TM touch mobile device.

If you check out VikingBlogger.com in a mobile device now you will see the plugin in action. Here are some screenshots

How To Install WPtouch

It’s really simple to make your blog mobile friendly, and all you really need to do is the following steps:

1. Go to your blog admin. In the meny you will find “Plugins”. Click on “Add New”.
2. Search after WPtouch. Click innstall and activate the plugin.
3. Go to the WPtouch settings page, and check things over. Here you can do some changes like adding your own icon, changing colors etc.You can also add your adsense code. If you would like to track your stats, add your stats code there aswell.

Press “Save Options” and your blog is now iPhone/Android/BlackBerry optimized!

Your Blog Will Be Loading Faster

Not only will it be easier to read your blog on a mobile device using WPtouch, it will also be much faster. The creator of the plugin compared browsing their blog with a regualar theme vs the WPtouch. See the results below:

I have been away from the blogging industry for a while now, and not really sure what blogs that I should be reading. I need to update my reader, and need tips on what blogs I should be following.

At the moment the following “Make Money Online” blogs are in my reader:

Uberaffiliate.com
Johnchow.com
Johncow.com
Myseoblog.net
Problogger.net
Shoemoney.com
Theuniversitykid.com
Tylercruz.com
Winningtheweb.com
Gauherchaudhry.com
Zacjohnson.com
blog.diyseo.com

What other blogs do you recommend? Do you have your own blog that you think I should read? Leave a comment below, I appreciate any tips that I get.

Link love; I promised to plug anyone that where still following this blog, and made a comment in the first  post. The only one that made a comment was Tom from StandOutBlogger.com. Good to see that not everybody have quit blogging.

Since last time I updated this blog regulary social sites like Facebook and Twitter have become really important and popular. Facebook is #2 on alexa and twitter is on a decent #12. This means people use these sites, a lot of people.

So, if you are going to run a blog these days, you should utilize the potential that the sites gives. I have had a twitter account since the start of this blog, but I haven’t really used it. Now I have set up Twitter Tools, which updates my twitter status automatically when I write a new post with a link. I have also added Tweetmeme Button which counts all retweets my posts gets, displays the number + adds a retweet link below. You can see this button in the top left corner of my posts.

For a test period all retweets of my posts will get a trackback in the post itself.

I have made a page on facebook, where users can become fan of the blog. Also, I have added the Share on Facebook button, which will show the amount of times the post have been shared on facebook, and if you click it a pop-up will show, and you can share the post.

So, If you haven’t heard of it yet, Shoemoney have just started up a new product called The Shoemoney System. This is a course that goes over 12 months and the goal is to learn how to make a living on the internet. (with affiliate marketing)

So, Shoemoney is a big name, and he have earned a lot of money on the net, so this should be a great product, right? Well, the thing is that the system is really expensive, in total i costs $2 364. ($197 per month)

Well, I figured out that since he offered a 60 days money back guarantee I diden’t have anything to lose, so I’m currently one of 500 “students” that are taking this course. Shoemoney decided to not take more then 500 students, but you can leave your name on a waiting list if you wish to get contacted when more space are avaliable.

The course is based on video. Each 3 or 4 day he will release a new video. When I first logged in, there wasen’t really any content. Well, there was one video, telling me how to create an Gmail-account. Wow!

Today he released a new video, where he talks about affiliate marketing at a very basic plan. He basically tells you what affiliate marking is. So, still nothing useful.

I can see that the next video will be telling me how to create an affiliate account, and the next one there after will be one called “Behind the Scenes at Epic Advertising/AZN Network”. So basically there will not be any content the next week that I will learn something from.

The third video coming is called “Completing an Affiliate Offer”, and that might be interesting.

What happened to the $2500 in free advertising coupons?

Well, you don’t get the coupons to start with. He said that he will give out the coupons after he have talked about a advertising program. I do actually understand this, since if he was giving out the coupons to start with, people could have just used them, and the used the money back guarantee.

For beginners only?

So far it looks like this system is for people that haven’t done anything with affiliate marketing or anything online before, and it might not be worth the money from my side. I will wait a couple more weeks before I decide if I will use my money back guarantee or not.

Hello.

First of all – is there anybody here?

There is now over 1 year since i last wrote something. In fact last post made was on  December 13th, 2008. It is now January 30th, 2010. Wow. Time flys.

Anyway, I’m still here. My name is still Staale, and I still live in Norway.

I have the last month or so been thinking of starting a new blog in Norwegian talking about seo, blogging, money etc. Basically a Norwegian version of this blog. I have been thinking, and thinking about what domain name I should pick, but really never found one that was available, and good. This made me set my plans on hold.

Today I got a thought, why write in Norwegian when you can reach so much more people writing in English? Well, the biggest reason would be that the competition is really low. In fact there isn’t any. If you got a half decent seo/marketing/money blog in Norwegian you will get readers. On the other hand, there is only about 4.8 million people in Norway. In USA there are over 300 million. Almost all Norwegians do talk and read English, so I will still reach a lot of them if I write in English, if they are interested. Only thing is that I can’t write about local stuff, but thats ok. I think.

So, what now? Well, I will try to get this blog up and running again. I see that there is still 57 people on the feedburner count. That’s cool.

Looking at the Feed Stats I really don’t know why I stopped blogging 2 years ago. The amount of subscribers where raising fast, and things looked good. Well, can’t do anything about that now. Have to look forward, and it will be cool to see if I can get this blog up again.

As always, you can subscribe to this blog in many different ways. I will start using my  Twitter account again, and I have just create a brand new page on  Facebook.

(To my old readers; if you are still in the blogging business, write a comment, and leave your url, and I will plug you in a post tomorrow.)

Hi guys. Just a quick update on Wordpress. Version 2.7 is now ready for download, and I have upgraded one of my blogs. So far it looks good, but I haven’t had time to play around with it that much yet. Heres a video explaining the new features. The look of the admin panel is also totaly re-done.

Have you updated your blog? What do you think?

So, then it has been released. Google SearchWiki. The new system that allows you to vote on the sites that get listed in the search results. Here are some features:

• You can vote any search result to the top of the search.

• You can delete any search result, and it will disaper from the search result.

• You can write comments in each search result.

• You can add a new site to the search results and it will be added to the top.

One thing though, the changes you make only affect your own searches. So, the search result for other users will stay the same. But, there is one way to see how the other users have used the SearchWiki. On the footer on each page there is a link called “See all notes for this SearchWiki” clicking on this link will bring you to a page, where the sites with the most “ups” will be displaying on the top page. Kinda like a “digg” version of the search result.

Only For Google Account Users

The “SearchWiki” links, and voting system is only available to signed-in Google users. This means, if your site is used by people that most probably don’t got Google accounts, this wont affect your site at all. Since your visitors won’t see the “SearchWiki” links.

Video Explaining The Deal

Below is a video from Google explaining the the SearchWiki system.

Will This Affect The Regular Search Results?

Well, as I wrote some sentences ago, Google says your voting only will affect your own search results. But, I think, if this system gets good, and not that easy cheatable the voting might get included as a part of the algorithm. But until that, your voting can still make more visitors coming to your or somebody else’s site, because Google got a page where you can see all notes about one search term. That means, on that pages, the sites that got most votes, will be displayed on the top.

Ex. All notes for the term “Games” in Google.

As you can see in the screnshot above the top ranking site now is addictinggames.com and miniclip.com on second place. If you do this search without adding the SearchWiki values miniclip.com will rank above addictinggames.com. Most probably this will not mean that big of a different since, both these sites is so big brands, sp they get the traffic they should anyway. But, whats interesting to see is the number 3 result. “Scolex Games“. That sites grabs the 3. place only by having 3 votes. Scolex Games is no where to be found in the origianl search result, but with only 3 votes, it ranks good in the SearchWiki result. That means, if you get 4 votes, you will be ranking in the third spot for this really high volume search term.

The question is, how many people will be scrolling down on the search page, and click the “All Notes” link, when they can get good result on the first page? In the start it will probably be quite a few, but many of them would be webmasters like you and be. Will this be something for the future?

What do you think about this?

I use Google Analytics to track my stats, and recently they have added some new features to it. The last one they added is called “Advanced Segments”. That allows you to choose up to four different segments to show the graph on your dashboard. You can use some of the default ones, like returning visitors, search visits etc, but you can also make your own custom from what ever stat you want. This is a great thing, but I don’t really like the limit on 4 segments. Wellwell, I guess I can’t get everything.

Now I only waiting on adsense to be integrated into analytics. Then I don’t need anything for christmas!

So, today AdToll sent out a email to all it’s partner and wrote a post in their blog that they have been bought.

We are pleased to announce that we have acquired AdToll.com from Purplex Pty Ltd. Dan & Paul have done a great job building and nourishing AdToll and we intend to continue to provide you the same service and responsiveness. We are a US based corporation with many more resources and we plan to grow the product and provide additional services in time. We will tell you a bit more about us in the coming months. In the meantime, please review the revised Terms of Service.

I did use AdToll on some of my sites before, but found out that it diden’t pay of. However I have found a couple good deals on there as an advertiser. Do you use AdToll?

Btw; Anyone know how much they sold for?

25% of all internett users, or 200 million people are playing online games. For a long time it has been hard to monetize games. Sure, you could put ads on the site where the game are, but the game could still be ripped of the site, and then displayed on another site.

The last couple of years there have been growing up a couple good in-game advertising companies such as “Mochiads” and “GameJacket”. These companies are only focusing on in-game ads, and have been a hit in the industry.

Say hello to Google In-Game Advertising

So, Google wants to be a part of about everything on the Internet, and finally they have started to look at the online game industry. Now they are searching after beta publishers for their new Adsense for Games program. This program makes it easy to display ads in placements you define, such as before a game, after a level, or when the game is over. The Adwords sales persons will sell the in-game ads directly to brand advertisers such as McDonalds and Sony, and there will also be contextually targeted text and image ads based on content and demographic information.

Only for the big guys

As usual only the big boys are eligible to join the beta program. Publishers must have a minimum of 500,000 game plays and have 80% of their traffic from the U.S. or the U.K. Thats a really high percent of US and UK traffic on an arcade site!

A couple of highlighted publishers are Armorgames, ArcadeTown and HeavyGames. All of these sites got an alexa below 5.000 and probably well over 100.000 uniques each day.

Read more about Adsene for Games

Couple videos

Google have made a couple videos to better understand how in-game ads work. Take a look below:

Are you in the online games industry?