Don Xml's Grok This

It has been just over a month since I decided to try to optimize the advertising revenue for this site, and I’d have to say that overall it has been extremely successful.  But, I know that I’m nowhere near being done (my goal is to have Steve Pavlina like growth for 2006).  The optimization has three main parts: Create ...

If you happen to have hit my website recently (instead of reading it thru an RSS Reader) you will notice some changes in the advertising on the site.  When I first started with Google Adsense I just slapped the ads into the pages, not giving much thought towards placement.  After reading up on the different optimization techniques (both ...

A couple months back John Scalzi (my favorite, new, sci-fi author) had a blog post with a picture of his daughter and some of her new “friends”, plush toy Giant Microbes.  The obviously staged, frightened look on her face while looking at the giant microbes was priceless, but John’s comment “I do sometimes wonder ...

In my opinion, there is something fundamentally wrong with people that think that it is alright to sell advertising space on their freely hosted community blog site.  I have absolutely no problem with the community owners selling ads (hey, it costs time and money to host these sites), but when a community member sells ad space (either thru ...

This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen it a while.  Pope John XIII Regional High School in Sparta , NJ told their students to “dismantle their Myspace.com accounts or similar sites with personal profiles and blogs. Defy the order and face suspension”.  Seems as though the Rev. Kieran ...

Seems as though there are lots of folks out there trying to figure out how to make some money using Google's Adsense program, and they are looking to find an Adsense Keyword List.  Rather then going out and doing the same thing, I'm wondering if I can make a little money for my sites buy just writing about the Adsense Keyword List ...

Seeing that Google recently changed their terms of service, and now allows you to publish your GoogleAds earnings, I figure that I have an obligation to the readers of this blog to let you know that I’m now $18.12 richer for adding GoogleAds to my site.  Now, that was about 4 days shy of a month, and I haven’t changed my ...

I finally broke down and added some advertising to my site.  I’ve noticed that a lot of my friends have added them, and I was curious to see what sort of money the ads can bring in.  I really don’t expect to make much (if any), but I might as well give it a shot.  I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on a ...

Yet another of my family has started blogging (my wife started blogging last year on her site, SqlDiva, but does not blog often enough).  I’d like to introduce you to my oldest daughter’s blog OrganizedDrama.  Actually, she has been blogging for a while over on Xanga, and I told her that if she kept up with blogging, and ...

If I didn’t know better I would think that John Scalzi read my mind while summing up the whole “Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays” issue with the post, Merry Christmas, You Godless Jerk.  If you enjoy that post, then definitely go on and read his post on why he teaches his daughter about the religious ideas behind Christmas, ...