Category Archives: Monetization
Mar 11, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Monetization
Google is experimenting with a new ad format that is being run on select publishers’ sites in North America and Europe. The ever-annoying expanding ads. However, it seems that they may have gotten them right, unlike other networks.
We’re excited to introduce to you expandable ads, a new type of ad that can appear on your pages. Expandable ads are rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of the ad unit, following a user-initiated action. This creates more real estate for the ad, allowing for more interaction from interested users. For instance, expandable ads may stream a movie trailer, show video game clips, or display various views of an item for sale.
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Feb 23
Devlounge has a short article with the basics on how to monetize a blog without creating a horrifying mess and driving people away. We’ve all seen it: websites and blogs that offer up great content suddenly becoming littered with ads. Sometimes it happens overnight-…
Feb 22
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…
Jan 15
Thaya Kareeson, maker of the useful WP Greet Box Plugin, has just released Anti-AdBlock, a WordPress plugin that detects if the user is running the AdBlock Plus extension for Firefox and displays a message “humbly asking them to support your website by turning off…
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…
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 8
Technorati’s ad network, Technorati Engage, has arrived, albeit in beta form. They already have a catalog of A-List blogs on board, and a few major advertisers buying ads, and now the network is open to anybody with a viable blog. Once you’re approved into…
Sep 9
What’s your opinion on “background ads”? They often come up on sites like IMDB and GameSpot, or on other sites with fixed layouts, replacing the normal background image with an ad that seems to have the website floating on top of it. Do you…
Aug 28
How do you monetize your blog? Are you an AdSense maniac or an affiliate fanatic? Do you direct-sell ad space to advertisers like I do on Webmaster-Source? Or are you part of a marketplace like BuySellAds, or a network like Casale Media or Doubleclick?…
Aug 19
Prolific plugin author Joost de Valk has put together a WordPress plugin that’s simple in function and insanely useful. Are you a member of Amazon Associates? Amazon’s widely-used affiliate program can be an effective way to monetize a blog, especially if the blog publishes…
