It’s not always obvious at first glance exactly how a site makes its money. Here’s how ResellerRatings is monetized: shop.resellerratings.com Shopping.com CPC clicks Shopping.com Direct-to-merchant Clicks Ratings data licensing fees Homepage fixed logo 125×50 ads Premium Edge merchant subscriptions Tacoda behavioral data Google Adsense Affiliate CPA promotion links Shop.resellerratings.com CPC Clicks Nearly every page of [ Read More ]
Archive for October, 2007
You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers! Ask me your web business questions or just questions about my background and how I got to where I am. I’ll answer every question as thoroughly as I can and prepare a Q&A format for my an upcoming post. Feel free to post your question as a comment below, [ Read More ]
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digg_url = “http://www.wrevenue.com/2007/10/28/stress-busters-for-fun-and-profit/”; Most business owners work themselves into the ground. If you’re having fun and feeling good, and your life is in balance (i.e. you’re not neglecting family and friends or other responsibilities), then you’re probably not overworked. But if you’re feeling overwhelmed, you’re irritable, sleepy, and work feels like an impossible chore, it’s [ Read More ]
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Most everyone should be familiar with Digg.com – if your blog post or site gets mentioned there and it makes it to the homepage, you’ll get thousands of visitors and backlinks in a flash, so it’s an important site to be aware of for any web business owner. The algortihm that Digg uses to “promote” [ Read More ]
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digg_url = “http://www.digg.com/tech_news/20_Must_Do_s_When_Selling_a_Dot_Com_Business”; I could probably write a book about this but I’m going to touch on the finer points of what to do when someone says “hey, I want to buy your site”, and how not to mess up a good thing. I recently talked to a guy who was pretty hasty with the [ Read More ]
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Which model is better for publishers? Should you use an affiliate link to send traffic to a retailer, hoping that the person buys and earns you 5% of the sale price, or should you run CPC based ads on your site that earn you a cost per click? I can tell you that for ResellerRatings [ Read More ]
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Now I might be biased here given that I own and operate ResellerRatings, a tech shopping and store ratings site, but it’s my opinion that of all the different subjects that you could choose for your blog, forum or other content site, tech shopping offers you the biggest reward. I’ll present my case: Plasma TV’s, [ Read More ]
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With so many “make money online” blogs it seems that people are really into striking it rich and they think that getting rich will make them so very happy. Big houses, fast cars and all that. I did cash out in ’99 when I sold my sites to EarthWeb, Inc., and got quite a windfall [ Read More ]
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After I met with Matt Inman at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose and saw his amazing success with his linkbait quizzes, where he was able to push mingle2.com (now justsayhi.com) up to the #1 ranked position for keyword “online dating” in Google (above Match.com and eHarmony), I started reevaluating my own backlinks, [ Read More ]
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Back in 2002 when I needed to hire developers to revamp ResellerRatings.com, I didn’t have the funds to pay $80,000 developer salaries while the site earned $0. The solution was simple: hire developers solely on a royalties/revenue sharing basis. Granted, you will have to look to find people that are willing to work this way, [ Read More ]
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