http://www.monetizetraffic.com Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:49:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As part of my new job, I spent Monday and Tuesday as at Ad-Tech New York meeting with people from all over the online advertising industry. I went through all three floors, and spoke with many of the exhibitors. Some of the exhibitors that I was most interested in ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/companies-that-impressed-me-at-ad-tech/2007/11/ While doing some research on renting out my condo in Charlotte, I found a novel technique for making money from Craigslist.  About once a week, someone posts links for a condo for rent. The person's posts have pictures and a very reasonable price listed. Instead of providing a phone number ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/making-money-from-craigslist-using-domain-parking/2007/09/ Over the last few weeks, I have been working on a new site to make buying existing websites and domains easier. Tonight, I can proudly say that SiteViper 1.0 is now up and ready for action. I was spending a lot of time scanning forums that listed websites for sale. ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/a-better-way-to-buy-websites-siteviper-is-ready-for-action/2007/08/ Over the past few weeks, I have come across a couple tools that have helped me to really crank out my latest project. I can't emphasize how much time these have saved me. Open Source Web Design Templates - From elementary school on, I have been pretty much a failure ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/tools-for-cranking-out-websites/2007/08/ The recent posting of Facebook’s allegedly non-existent advertising rate card provides insight into the company’s monetization strategy. Some of my doubts about Facebook’s ability to monetize their platform were fueled by recent reports of abysmal performance for bulletin advertising (0.04% click through rate). Facebook users are relatively sophisticated, and they just ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/facebook-monetization-strategy/2007/07/ I was signing up for a Photobucket account the other day, and I was quite surprised by their aggresive attempt to monetize new signups. On the registration screen, you are asked to provide your cell phone number. If you enter your cell phone number, a pre-checked bx appears ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/photobuckets-aggressive-monetization-efforts/2007/05/ Some of the details of the .cm domain name monetization scheme have been revealed since my last post on .cm domain names.  Business 2.0 ran a great article about what is going on with the .cm domain space. In my initial post, I detailed how nearly all .cm domain names ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/cm-domain-names-the-truth-is-revealed/2007/05/ Social Networking site Tagged is going through explosive growth, and they have  an interesting growth and monetization strategy. Last week, a techcrunch profile mentioned that they are signing up 350,000 new users per day and generating 1 billion page views per month.  The site's monthly revenue is $600k per month. The ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/monetization-case-study-taggedcom/2007/05/ Have you ever wondered how much of the Adsense revenue you actually receive? According to conference calls for FM Publishing's network publishers (boingboing, metafilter, etc), obtained by Valleywag, the magic number if 43%. The FM Publising business guys claim that Google takes a 15% ad serving fee off the top, ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/google-adsense-revenue-share-revealed/2007/04/ Last week, I was checking my stats for some offers I was promoting via AffiliateFuel, and I noticed that one of my steady performing offers had simply stopped converting. I contacted my affiliate manager immediately and explained to I expected to generate 40 leads with the number of clicks I ... http://www.monetizetraffic.com/affiliatefuel-came-through-for-me/2007/03/