June 14, 2010
Pay-per-click advertising through services like Google Adsense can make your blog profitable, but it usually isn’t the most efficient way to bring in money from a blog. The problem with pay-per-click is that the payout for each click is simply too low. The advertisement you show may be for a product which cost hundreds or [...]
November 8, 2009
As some of you may know, if you regularly read MUO, I’m currently in the process of building a really big blog that’s due to launch in December. Last week I sat down and took out the plan I had made for the site to update it. One such section of the plan was monetizing [...]
November 7, 2009
We all know some of the well known URL-shortening services such as TinyURL or Twitter’s own Bit.ly. MakeUseOf has also profiled many other URL shorteners in the past. But one of the drawbacks of using one of those URL-shortening services is that the links you’re firing out by email, blog post or Twitter stream to [...]
December 22, 2008
When it comes to shortening a long URL, most people will think of TinyURL or one of the hundreds of other URL shortening sites. Most, if not all, of these sites take a long URL and generate a short URL based on their domain name. For example, if you use TinyURL to shorten the long [...]
November 25, 2008
We all know about Google Adsense and the contextual power that it offers. Meaning that you don’t have to do anything except insert the code and it will automatically determine the content of your page and serve relevant advertisements. This is fine for websites with a wide variety of content that don’t really have the time to [...]
November 5, 2008
Do you ever talk about new music or movies that just came out? Do you review books that are flying off the shelves? If so, there’s probably at least some percentage of your readers who buy those things on Amazon after hearing you talk about them. It’s time to get your cut of the profits! [...]
