http://www.vikingblogger.com Monetizing websites - viking style! Thu, 01 May 2008 09:51:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, then it's official. Google launched today their brand new advertising option. Google TV Ads. Long story short this will allows smaller budget advertisers to put their ads on TV. How does it work? Ok, the thing is, first, you'll need a TV commercial. If you don't have one yet, you ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/05/01/want-to-be-on-tv-google-adwords-tv-ads/ So - it looks like big G have started updating the PR for the second time this year. As far as I can see VIkingBlogger.com haven't got an PR yet, wich I find really strange, since we got tons of links pointing our direction. JohnChow got his PR4 back from his ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/04/30/page-rank-updated-how-did-it-go-for-you/ The guy over at 45n5.com have yet again tried to figure out the ongoing price for make money blogs. From his calculation each subscriber you got is now worth $18.42. So, to get the value of you blog you simply do as follows: #Number of subscribers * $18.42 = The value of ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/04/28/vikingblogger-is-worth-149202/ So, yesterday I upgraded the blog to 2.5, and at the same time the wordpress team published the updated version, and now I have to upgrade again to 2.5.1. It's no bigge, since I only have to click a link, but still. :) So, the 2.5.1 does include some important bug ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/04/26/a-day-early-251-is-here/ So, then I finally pushed the button, and the blog is now 2.5. I have actually updated a couple minor blogs that I run, so I'm already fairly familiar with the new admin interface, and I must say, I'm impressed! Anyway, this post wasn't meant for just a "Hey, I have ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/04/25/i-have-upgraded-the-blog-with-one-click/ This is really a cool improvement on Adsense from Google. As you might already know, people using Adwords to advertise can target spesific sites where they want to advertise. Before you didn't know if you had any advertiser targeting your site, and even more important, you didn't have any authority ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/04/24/google-introducing-the-ad-review-center/ So, i thought it could be cool with a little update regarding this blog again. As you already know I don't have enough time to spend on it as I would like to, but it's not dead yet. ;) As far as traffic goes, I don't have any numbers to brag ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/04/18/we-arent-dead-yet/ Found a interesting post over at Shoe today regarding an eBay action. Apparently some guy are selling his Twitter account with almost 1.500 followers. And guess what, the bid is now over $500. That makes each followers worth aprox 33 cents. (Hey, my account is worth almost $2.50 then! :P) The ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/04/13/buy-yourself-an-account-with-1500-followers-on-twitter/ Just a quick post today. I logged into my Entrecard account today, and was kinda shocked to see that it costed 2048ec/day to advertise on VikingBlogger. Usually the price is around 15ec. (I don't drop anymore) I guessed it had to be a bug, so I checked the marketplace, and saw ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/04/08/entrecard-bugs-262144ec-for-one-day/ I logged in my analytics account today, to check the stats on my sites, and saw a new line added to the dashboard. Now you can choose to display the chart for either per day, week or month. This way you can easily check which week or month that did ... http://www.vikingblogger.com/2008/04/04/new-function-in-google-analytics/