Earners Blog

I recently went through and updated the Sites I Visit section of WageRank to reflect the blogs that are in my RSS Reader at the moment. Every few weeks I like to reassess the blogs I read and make sure they are all providing relevant information that I’m not getting anywhere else. I’m always looking for good blogs to add (I’m still waiting for my RSS Reader to recommend some) so if you know of any glaring omissions, please let me know.

One of the latest additions to the list is Earners Blog. I noticed that he’s holding a review contest where the blogs who enter get a free link and being the link whore that I am, I couldn’t resist.

The reason why I keep Earners Blog in my RSS Reader is because Stuart tells it like it is. Like me, he tries to keep his readers informed of what he is currently working on and, more importantly, what is and isn’t making him money.

Here are a few recent articles that I’ve read and personally used to make money:

Using RSS Feeds For Backlinks
1 cent Clicks From Adwords
Make Money From Dedicated Affiliate Sites

If you like these articles, there are many more just like them.

This wouldn’t be a good review if I didn’t point out at least one negative quality. The Adsense placement is a little too “in your face” for me. I know that the Earners Blog target audience (SEOs and other people in online marketing) are very likely to have ad blindness to ads in the sidebar or at the bottom of posts, but putting the ads in the center of the content is also enough to turn many potential readers away. I wonder how many of the articles at Earners Blog would have done better at quick-to-label-sites-as-spam services like digg if the ads weren’t smack in the middle of the content?

If you can get passed the ad-placement, Earners Blog offers quality information for anyone interested in online marketing. I would recommend subscribing to the feed if you don’t already.

Posted in Other Blogs by cdc on February 22nd, 2007

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Comment by Stuart

2007-02-27 20:30:03

I’ve actually been thinking about removing the ads altogether but they earn some decent pocket change for beer

Thanks for the criticism I’ve toned them down a bit for now.

Stu

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