Archives for the ‘Making Money’ Category

Something’s wrong with Widgetbucks

By fiLi • Oct 15th, 2007 • Category: Making Money

Widgetbucks is the latest trend in making money online. Techcrunch reported, and other bloggers like Problogger, Quickonlinetips, Mashable and John Chow followed.
Bloggers have already complained about the fact that Widgetbucks includes an outoing link to their site with their widget, E.G.

<a href="http://www.widgetbucks.com" target="_blank">WidgetBucks - Trend Watch - WidgetBucks.com</a>

… and that they don’t reveal how much actually [...]



Doing Adsense right : Increase Adsense income by placing less Adsense ads

By fiLi • Oct 11th, 2007 • Category: Making Money

For small to medium size bloggers and website builders Adsense is a wonderful source of revenue. All it takes is a few simple steps -  

Select the ad type you want to display, Place the code given on your website, and Optimize things a little to get better targeted ads. 
But, somehow, most [...]



Website Google Search results within your Drupal site

By fiLi • Feb 28th, 2007 • Category: Drupal, Making Money

I’ve played around with how to integrate Google Search results for the Drupal installations within the Drupal site, and finally found the right posts on how to make that happen in Drupal.
This is an extremely useful feature for two reasons :

Builtin Drupal search is very heavy on database and query resources and this allows giving [...]



The quick guide on how to optimize your Adsense ads

By fiLi • Feb 3rd, 2007 • Category: Making Money

Optimizing the Adsense ads is important in order to maximize profit, and although the basic optimization methods are very easy to implement I still see many of my colleagues who do not follow them. This post will include a quick review of the most basic optimization steps. I take no responsibility for the information provided [...]



Adsense Beautifier for Drupal

By fiLi • Jan 18th, 2007 • Category: Drupal, Making Money

Want to increase click rate for your Adsense ads? Wordpress users have been using the Adsense beautifier, and this is also implemented on this site. Since I run a few Drupal communities with Adsense, I thought I’d port that tweak to Drupal.
The concept is based on putting some sort of rotating colorful icons next to [...]