I did three quick posts on Ping lists (list included), Directory Submissions (list included) and restricting low yielding ads through the competitive ad filter on your Google Adsense panel. The first (ping) and last one (competitive ad filter) certainly work, the one in the middle (directory submissions) I am not sure about. But feel free to try your luck. Here …Read the Rest
The search for incremental traffic – WordPress ping lists for your blog
September 8, 2010
And now finally, the last and final tweak that possibly contributed to the traffic increase. Within your blog setting there is an option to define ping lists. Lists that track blog updates and changes and pass the results on in an incremental fashion. Here is the list that I use. Please feel free to review and tweak it. http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ …Read the Rest
Google Adsense – Increasing your Adsense yield through the Competitive Ad Filter
September 8, 2010
I run a portfolio of four blogs. A collection of online corporate finance courses that goes by the name of Learning Corporate Finance, a personal blog that serves as my blood pressure control device, an oil analyst blog that follows crude oil price movements and startup insights my online mentoring attempt for new entrepreneurs. Earlier on in my Adsense adventure …Read the Rest
Directory Submissions list – a possible tweak to generating more traffic
September 8, 2010
There are hundreds of directory submission lists and directory submission providers. We used one to do a submission for one of our sites and then put an internal resource to repeat the process for the other blogs in our portfolio. This effort was done in a rush towards the end of April and early May. Most directory submissions did not …Read the Rest
Corporate Finance Blog make over immediately generates Google Adsense revenues.
September 6, 2010
Not sure if it was luck, hard work, persistence or all three combined but the immediate impact of the Corporate Finance Blog Make Over yesterday was an immediate jump in Page views and the breaking of the Sunday taboo. Over the last six months, we had never booked a cent of Google Adsense revenues on a Sunday. Last night we …Read the Rest
Corporate Finance Blog gets a make over
September 5, 2010
Learning Corporate Finance, our Corporate Finance course portal started with the simplest of word press themes in February 2010. I had managed to get a crash course in word press management when Awab pointed out that my primary blog had been infested by spam injections that pointed the source on the page to everywhere but where I wanted to go. …Read the Rest
Google Adsense Adventure: Adsense revenue, impressions and clicks analysis for an online education business
September 4, 2010
Here is some additional detail on the review of traffic on the Learning Corporate Finance Portal that I ran a little earlier. I exported a simple dump out of Google Analytics to take a look at earnings and clicks in a given month. The graph below shows Adsense earnings and Adsense clicks on the vertical axis and the number of …Read the Rest
Google Adsense adventure: The search for traffic and adsense revenues continues
September 4, 2010
Figure 1 Corporate Finance Traffic Stats The search for incremental traffic and revenues continues on Learning Corporate Finance, the finance E-education portal I have now been running since early March 2010. First the good news. Apparantely all the directory submission work done in May 2010 has finally started to payoff. Either that or Google has loosened the traffic spigot. Where …Read the Rest
Crude Oil price outlook: Crude oil price watch for next week: sub 70 dollar oil at NYMEX?
August 21, 2010
Earlier this week, I asked if the time was right for Crude Oil to break 74 dollars per barrel on NYMEX and by Friday it was apparent that the time had come to forecast a new low for crude oil prices for next week. Crude broke through 74 US dollars a barrel to trade at 73.46 on Friday at NYMEX. …Read the Rest
Founders at work: Startup founders and entrepreneurs recommended reading list
August 15, 2010
Being a founder is difficult work. It is frustrating at time hopeless and only for a lucky few worthwhile. Sometimes in your darkest moment you need a balance between cheerleading and reality. Other founders who have walked that path and shared that door with you; Other stories with different endings to help you keep you sanity. Jessica Livingston at Y-Combinator …Read the Rest
