Squeezing More Out
I recall a couple of years ago when I was spending the majority of my time writing articles for sites like ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, and so forth, I would try new sites and quickly abandoned them if they included those text link ads on my posted articles. They were everywhere and I hated the way they made my hard work look like a spammy mess. And, I supposed I didn’t like it that others were benefiting so much from my work, and giving me nothing back while potentially stealing MY traffic. My thoughts on that haven’t changed much but I guess conditioning has made me a bit more tolerant.
Squidoo of course implemented the Infolinks text links ads some time back and I left them enabled. Only because they limited it to 3 on a page and we benefit by revenue sharing. The financial reward for that has been great in my eyes. It may end up being only a couple of dollars per lens each month, but when you multiply that by the number of lenses you have, it can be significant.
Based on the good results on Squidoo, I finally decided to enable the Kontera text ink ads on my Hubpages as well. After a couple of missing e-mails, I think I now have this task completed and should start seeing those text link ads there as well. If there are too many to suite my taste, I can reduce them through the page editor. Gotta love that! Now I just need to see if they bring in anything additional. I’ll let you know in a few months.
My new Hubs over there are on remote cooking thermometers and pocket recorders. We love a remote cooking thermometer we got back a few years ago. It’s great to be able to leave the grill or the kitchen, mingle with guests or continue watching a movie without worrying that you’re going to turn some meat into a brick. The pocket recorders are something I had when I worked for an employer and needed to keep notes and dictate reports. I would have loved to have had one as a student. The digital voice recorders are very portable and have great audio quality.
On Squidoo, I went ahead and created a lens about e-book readers. It’s such a “done” topic, one that everyone has discussed, but I could no longer ignore it on that basis. I put the page together particularly since so many new options are now out there and even more are on the way in the coming months. Luckily, some are pretty affordable. My other new lens is on heavy duty tape dispensers. The ones I’m talking about are the weighted dispensers for your desk. I’ve grown to just hate those cheap little plastic dispensers you buy at the drug store. They’re always misplaced, broken, and you have to use two hands to use them. I inherited one of the heavy duty ones recently, and it’s changed all of that.