Recharging My Batteries
I think I mentioned before that I’m involved in some things in the real world this month, and not doing much lens building, or other writing for that matter. Actually, I think this is the first week in a couple of years that I’ve yet to write anything at all except my blogs. I decided to spend my “spare” time to recharge versus writing. Kind of nice actually!
My affiliate sales have shown a jump this month which should more than make up for a mediocre month on Squidoo.
For those of you who aren’t on Tagfoot, I will mention an AdSense tip that we were given there. I can’t testify as to how effective it is, but we were advised that increasing font size on our AdSense ads increases clicks. If you go to your AdSense account (My Account tab) and scroll down to Ad Display Preference you can change it to “large”. I’ve done this and I can say my AdSense for the past 4 days is twice what it had been, but again it’s only been 4 days and even if that’s significant, I have no idea if the larger font is the cause. But there you have it.
I know many Squidoo members in the past several weeks have received e-mails from a site called RedGage. I know there’s been discussion in the forum about this spam. Indeed, I agree it’s spam. On the other hand, I checked it out and am currently using it to decide for myself what I think. So far, so good. They have a nice tutorial to guide you, and they’ve promptly responded to requests for help. The community seems good so far, and much of the writing I’ve seen is actually very good. They pay you for page views. To me there’s little to lose. I simply bookmark/upload my existing blogs, articles, lenses, hubs, etc. and try to earn a few extra cents on the work I’ve already done. I don’t have to run around the web looking for other interesting content, they only want me to submit my own. I’m fairly accustomed to getting legit. business offers along with all of the spam in my inbox so I guess I’m less alarmed by their overly enthusiastic marketing method. (I’ve given them my direct feedback about the spam) Anyway, that’s my input as to what I’ve found so far.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Thanks for the ADsense tip. I am currently “watching” RedGage but must admit my view is coloured by the fact that they have been Spamming to get people on board.
Thank you also for the lovely comment you made about me on the Zut Radio lens – I was very touched.
June 24th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Yes, the decision to e-mail people was not a good one. I know they responded to my feedback and said they put a stop to the practice. I think others have done likewise.
June 24th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I got a couple emails from them too. Not a good way to make a first impression. The flashing “You’re the 999,999th customer click here!” type ads on the page don’t help either.
Interested to read your analysis after you’ve used it a while.