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Blog Smarter: A Step-by-step Strategy to Boost Your AdSense Earnings

on Feb 20, 2012
Blog Smarter: A Step-by-step Strategy to Boost Your AdSense EarningsThis guest post is by Daniel Scocco of DailyBlogTips.com. Let’s start with a question: What’s the single most important factor when it comes to making money with Google AdSense? It’s organic traffic (i.e. traffic from Google and other search engines). Here’s a simple example to illustrate the point. Suppose you have an online forum which receives 500,000 unique visitors per month, but 100% of those are coming directly to the forum, either by a bookmark or by typing the URL on their

Halloween Pumpkin: Portal Turret!

on Oct 24, 2011
Halloween Pumpkin: Portal Turret!I made a Portal turret for my Halloween pumpkin! I was trying to think of things to carve: vampire Android? R2-D2? Zoidberg? Then I thought: I could do a character from Portal 2! I was going to carve something like GLaDOS or Wheatley, but then I realized that a portal turret would be perfect:

Mobile App Users Are Willing to Pay to Play

on Jul 6, 2011
Mobile App Users Are Willing to Pay to PlayApparently girls aren’t the only ones who just want to have fun. According to a new report by Nielsen, games are not only the most popular category of apps, but 93% of downloaders are willing to pay for the privilege. As you can see, entertainment of all kinds came in on top, with news at the low end of this scale. Still, 76% represents a nice chunk of change so things are looking pretty sweet for paid app owners.

Kiip Offers Real Rewards for Virtual Success

on Apr 11, 2011
Kiip Offers Real Rewards for Virtual SuccessAccording to Kiip, there are like, a bajillion people playing games on their phones right now, as you read this, a bajillion people launching bird attacks and chasing zombies and missing their bus stop and ignoring everything that’s being said on the company conference call. They’re playing because gaming is an addiction. Our brains are hardwired to get excited over the prospect of conquering a level, climbing to the top of the score chart and receiving a virtual prize.

YouTube and the NBA: Changing the Live Streaming Experience

on Mar 1, 2011
YouTube and the NBA: Changing the Live Streaming ExperienceLast week, word spread across the Internet that Google is in talks with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to live stream games on YouTube (the National Hockey League was also mentioned but league officials recently denied the reports). If a deal is actually reached, this would be a gamechanger for YouTube and would help shape the future of live streaming content on the Web.

Interview: Michael Mindes

on Dec 24, 2010
Interview: Michael Mindes

Michael Mindes is the founder of Tasty Minstrel Games, a relatively new publisher of hobby board games. Despite primarily dealing with a physical product, Michael is actively marketing over the Internet. Michael especially likes email marketing, blogging, and generating organic results on Facebook, and has seen great success in these areas.

Niche Marketing Breakdown

on Dec 8, 2010
Niche Marketing Breakdown

Before jumping into your next ad campaign, or even starting a new web site or blog, take a step back and look at exactly who you are tying to target. We often come up with great ideas for new ad campaigns and site, then start getting excited with our ideas, without looking at the big picture and room for improvement. It’s not enough to target a niche, but it’s now more important than ever to focus on niches within niches.

PR Agency Settles With FTC Over Fake Reviews

on Aug 30, 2010
PR Agency Settles With FTC Over Fake Reviews

Just in case you were wondering there are people out there that are manipulating social media to their advantage. What, you say?! Say it ain’t so! People are always honest when it comes to trying to sell things……right?

Bing Announces Entertainment Upgrades…in a Gazillion Words

on Jun 23, 2010
Bing Announces Entertainment Upgrades…in a Gazillion Words

Bing’s announcements annoy me. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Why do they annoy me? Because if something can be said in 50 words, Bing will figure out how to say it in 5000. A common theme among Bing’s announcements is too much explanation of the features they’re rolling it. It’s like they’re trying to convince us that we’ll like the features. Look, we’ll either like them or not, so just tell us what they are!

Friday Recap: Arcade Edition

on May 23, 2010
Friday Recap: Arcade Edition

Happy Friday, everyone! Thanks for taking time away from your Pac-Man game to stop by! I know it’s kind of addictive, that’s why it’s been popular for 30 years.

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