Category Archives: Featured
Feb 22, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Featured, Monetization
BuySellAds, an exemplary ad marketplace that I joined a few weeks ago, has just come out of private beta. You can now join the ad network and sell banner space without having to be approved into their closed beta program like before. So if you’re looking to monetize your website effectively, without alienating your users, now is the time to sign up and try out BSA.
BuySellAds makes it easy to sell banner ads of all sizes on your website. They make it easy for advertisers to find you, and they handle all the dirty work that cuts into the time that would be better spent working on your site. Your ads appear in a directory alongside noteables like NETTUTS, PSDTUTS, CSS Elite, and of course, Webmaster-Source.
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Feb 4
One way to give your site a boost is to advertise. Chances are, you probably already know of some options to do so, but are they good ones? If you’re on a budget, what are the best places to advertise? Personally, I don’t think…
Jan 9
Thaya Kareeson from Omninoggin recently pointed me in the direction of a site called AdBlock.org, a site that seems to have a similar view of of ad blockers as my own. Adblocking software is a response to abusive activity by advertisers. It’s the continuation…
Jan 4
I would like to formally announce my latest WordPress plugin today. Behold Favorites Menu Manager. When WordPress 2.7 launched, a small menu was added to the upper-right corner of the Admin. This menu was referred to as a Favorite Actions menu. The menu, by…
Jan 1
Happy new year! It’s 2009 now, and we’re heading into what will hopefully be another great year of Webmaster-Source. 2008 was a big year for Webmaster-Source. The site grew significantly, started making some decent money, and I released two WordPress plugins and started using…
Dec 28
One of Firefox’s more popular extensions is AdBlock Plus, an add-on that can stop ads from showing as you browse the web. There are two ways to use it. You can selectively kill ads that are so annoying that you can’t stand them (e.g.…
Dec 22
WordPress 2.7 introduced a little menu in the upper right corner of the backend. By default it includes commonly-used links, such as the New Post and Comments Management pages. It’s a neat idea, but the developers didn’t give the average user an easy way…
Dec 13
Welcome to the fifth iteration of Webmaster-Source.com! As you may have noticed, the latest redesign has been completed and is now up for everyone to see. The new design is a lot less…bland than the previous. At the same time, though, it’s a lot…
Nov 26
Have you ever put together a cool script or page on your own, and then wanted to integrate it into WordPress so it would have the same look and feel as the rest of your site? Maybe you have a custom survey you put…
Nov 7
Do you know what one of the hardest things to get right in a blog, and one of the most critical? (Not to mention one of the most overlooked…) Archives. Every post you write is stored in the database permanently, and is always accessible…
