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		<title>Online Advertising Slowing Down. What Should You Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>azwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a niche blog using blogspot, which I only update about 2-3 times a month. It&#8217;s not making much, but the income is consistent and the fact I don&#8217;t need to update it frequently makes that blog very special. However there&#8217;s a problem lately. Traffic and CTR are consistent, but earnings have come down [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a niche blog using blogspot, which I only update about 2-3 times a month. It&#8217;s not making much, but the income is consistent and the fact I don&#8217;t need to update it frequently makes that blog very special. However there&#8217;s a problem lately. Traffic and CTR are consistent, <strong>but earnings have come down by almost half.</strong> Income (Dec 08 &#8211; Jan09) coming from direct advertising is affected too.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-346" title="paypal-january-2009" src="http://azwan.my/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/paypal-january-2009.jpg" alt="paypal-january-2009" width="550" height="332" /></p>
<p>Looks like problems in the real world has started to affect the virtual world (and almost everyone). Read <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/16/online-ad-growth-grinds-to-a-halt/" rel='nofollow'>TechCrunch</a>.</p>
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<p>The US is in a recession. Germany, Europe&#8217;s biggest economy, is in a recession. Same goes to Singapore and Japan. Although <a href="http://azwan.my/ooooo/" rel='nofollow'>Malaysia is not</a> (yet), but the problem at the other parts of the world will affect us eventually.</p>
<p>Advertisers are reducing their online advertising budgets and consumers are also spending less to <strong>save more money</strong> which will make us, the people that are  making money with blogs, get lesser. As a part time blogger, who is also <strong>making money</strong> on the internet, these are the few steps I&#8217;m taking so that when everything is back to normal, I&#8217;ll make more.</p>
<p>I am going to (in sequence) :</p>
<ul>
<li>Start to increase the <strong>traffic</strong> to my sites further. By at least 50% by year end.</li>
<li>Make more <strong>money from links</strong>.  Will negotiate further to sell from post with high PR rather than from sidebar only. Use a broker rather than direct. I know Google will not like this (<a href="http://amanz.my/2008/12/inlinks-adakah-ianya-beretika/" rel='nofollow'>some people even call it unethical</a>). To me it is still advertisement.</li>
<li>Increase <strong>affiliate marketing income</strong>.</li>
<li>Start using <a href="http://plr.dbmaya.com/" target="_blank" rel='nofollow'><strong>Private Label Articles</strong></a>.</li>
<li>Open up more<strong> advertising space</strong>, but without turning my blogs into brothels.</li>
<li>Try new <strong>advertising network</strong>. See whether there are others that can complement the current ones that are already making money.</li>
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<p><strong>What about you?</strong></p>
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		<title>Inlinks &#8211; New From Text-Link-Ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>azwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got an email from TLA recently about the launching of InLinks. Looks like selling links from your sidebar, header or footer no longer works. Maybe Google&#8217;s algorithms are able to detect all that, that made them move to selling links from your posts&#8217; contents. With the links embedded into the content of the page, it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Got an email from <a href="http://azwan.my/go.php?m=TLA" rel='nofollow'>TLA </a>recently about the launching of <a href="http://azwan.my/go.php?m=InLinks" rel='nofollow'>InLinks</a>. Looks like <a href="http://azwan.my/google-page-rank-update/" rel='nofollow'>selling links from your sidebar</a>, header or footer no longer works. Maybe Google&#8217;s algorithms are able to detect all that, that made them move to selling links from your posts&#8217; contents. With the links embedded into the content of the page, it might be difficult for Google to detect them, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that Google will not be able to.</p>
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<p>I just registered my other blog. I mentioned earlier that the other blog will be used for my experiment. Let see whether it can sell or not <img src='http://azwan.my/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I;ll post about it later.</p>
<p>Anyway, there&#8217;s a promotion currently running at InLinks. They are offering $100 of InLinks to your site for just $1. That&#8217;s $99 of free links.</p>
<p>All you need to do is to <a href="http://azwan.my/go.php?m=InLinks" rel='nofollow'>click here and enter the coupon code <strong>100free</strong></a> at checkout. </p>
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