Comments on: March 08 Earnings

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:32:26 +0000

No problem Mike. I wish there was a way to just whitelist certain emails. I may have a look in the Akismet file when I have the time. It's strange they've not thought to do it. I believe Spam Assassin allows this.

By: Mike Touch

Mike Touch — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:58:56 +0000

It may be the whole 'free ipod touch' thing which they don't like even though my blog is just for general ramblings. I have emailed Akisnet to see what they say. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:09:53 +0000

Yeah Akismet is spam, but it usually goes by certain filters of words plus email addresses reported by WordPress users, not sure why yours is getting trapped as I don't think there's anything wrong on your URL.nnAhh well, just means I need to keep an eye in the Akismet list more often

By: Mike Touch

Mike Touch — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:08:54 +0000

Ah right. Thought this blog was what you were talking about in your earnings post!nnAkismet is a spam thing isn't it? I guess it's because my site is not liked by spam filters. Don't really know how to get round that.nnCheers again.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:01:46 +0000

Mike I don't run ads on this site and the top right one links to a post on this site I have a few affiliate links in my links page. Our income comes from other sites we run. This site is merely my blog behind what we're doing and how well we're doing, with hopefully a bit of helpful info along the way nnOh by the way, I keep having to pull your comments out of Akismet all the time, I'm not moderating you on purpose

By: Mike Touch

Mike Touch — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:14:32 +0000

Sarah I can't even see where the ads are on your site except the one in the top right!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:52:51 +0000

Hey goldfries, good to hear your AdSense is improving. TLA seems to come intermittently, I guess it depends on who's looking and what they're after. I know some people who just seem to sell a lot more on their site compared to one of mine which took about 6 months to get one link on, similar subjects and my site gets a lot more visitors. Price didn't vary much either. Some advertisers just don't look deep enough I guess. Pot luck really.nnFreebies are always cool though

By: goldfries

goldfries — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:58:58 +0000

I've been using TLA for quite a while but I've only 1 ad sale so far – and that's like a pityful $2.25 USD a month – Adsense on the other hand is getting better each month. nnOn the good side, instead of getting $$$ I get nice freebies to play with – much thanks to my blog. The favor from various computer hardware brands does make my life more fun.

By: HB

HB — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:30:59 +0000

Hi Sarah, it was a case of changing the ad format and placement which resulted in the CTR almost doubling overnight – it seems to have stayed at that level which is nice…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:23:54 +0000

Great to hear HB. Increase in visitors or just increase in CPC?nnLook forward to hearing about your experience McCormicky and good luck with the new site