Cheers guys for all of the suggestions and ideas that you came up with on my post earlier this week about monetarising my site.

I love the idea of the subscription to a secret behind the scenes world of DaveN, but this will need some thought to provide the best value for money to the members… plus some extra coding.

In the mean time I am going to ditch the adsense and offer up the real estate on my site for sale to any willing sponsors. This will be on a monthly basis, on a highest bid basis.. The space can either be sold off in one lump or in upto 4 slots.

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To me the biggest mistake an SEO company can make is linking back to themselves with or without hidden links.. But almost as bad is using “seo” for the folder you are going to start your work flow in..

OK lets Play…….

http://www.google.com/search?q=allinurl:seo/+reductil&filter=0
http://www.google.com/search?q=allinurl:seo/+currys.co.uk&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&filter=0
http://www.google.com/search?q=allinurl:seo/+maplin&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&filter=0

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=allinurl%3Aseo%2F+dvd+player

DaveN

So we were looking for some hosting in the states for one of our sites, and we were frustrated that all the AdWords on Google.com were geotargeted to our UK IP address. So, I came up with dirty little hack to get the pages we wanted via one of our US servers, without the need to mess around with my browser settings.

You need:

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1. A domain that you can add wildcard DNS entries to
2. An Apache hosting account that will accept a wildcard ServerAlias in the VHost directive. Or IP-based hosting would do it.
3. .htaccess support

Traffic Equalizer the sales letter I hate apart from the

Get Your Copy Of “Traffic Equalizer” Now For Only $147 aff link
You can download it right now — even if it’s 2:00 a.m.! — that kills me

hehehe I love that ! really I do .. anyway the point about this post, well I made $28,000 in one month off this product before the footprint got out that was a different time, well guess what I downloaded Traffic Equalizer Version 3 changed the footprint, released a few sites and made $347 in 3 days lol. maybe the good times are back lol

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Ok, in the last year I have run

a) my own ad system
b) link to my own sites
c) links to friends sites
d) adsense

so what should I do next and what options are open to me ..

Adbrite well that’s Interstitial I didn’t like that
Text Links Ads or TextLinkBrokers or something like that, but Matt doesn’t like that

I want to find a way to make money off my blog so give me some ideas, I Hate the fact it just sits here getting 1000′s of people a day and not making any money from it .. or do I just take site sponsors or sell the site off ..

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eBay link So who’s gonna win it .. maybe I will have a punt

DaveN

In rush to catch my plane home I was getting my papers ready to fly when my suitcase started to fall over, so in a blinking of an eye a shot a hand to save it …

well one finger made a brave attempt to hold on to it ..

DaveN

Ok i don’t do this often .. and I know I should so he is what was discussed..

Mikkel Reported back from RIMC 2006 – on-line marketing conference on Iceland
- Big thanks to Nordic eMarketing and Kristjan Mar and Andy Atkins

Microsoft will stay in China
- Last week Microsoft said they would consider leaving, this week they are staying
the theme here was money, money, money it counts more than morals and democratic values

FF 2.0 – and no AdWords
- http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/archives/2006/11/03/firefox-20-and-google-problems/
yep we discussed how the div’s in google.com serps where overlapping the adwords and not allowing you to click on the ads

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