http://ajlcom.instantspot.com Aaron Lynch on web development and other stuff en-us This work is Copyright © 2009 by Progressive Overload RSSVille ColdFusion FeedMaker, version 1.0 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:16:04 GMT http://ajlcom.instantspot.com/blog/2006/12/05/What-is-the-best-way-to-monetize-a-web-site <p> We currently use Google Adsense as our only provider of content driven advertising on the main network site, and all of the member sites (of <a href="http://www.InstantSpot.com">InstantSpot</a> ).&nbsp; And to be honest, the returns are quite dismal.&nbsp; </p> <p> We have been wondering, <em>since we haven&#39;t had tons of time to actually research the topic yet we just wonder :)</em>, if there isn&#39;t some better source of advertising revenue out there? </p> <p> If you know of a better service, and you don&#39;t mind sharing a piece of the pie...what can we do to make a little more dough? </p> <p> Now, the caveat to this...we absolutely <strong>WILL NOT</strong> drown the member sites in advertising...that totally goes against our mission for these people.&nbsp; Hopefully that doesn&#39;t seal our fate to extremely low click through ratios and cpm&#39;s. </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> <hr /> <div align="center"> Get your free <a href="http://www.InstantSpot.com/index.cfm/event/Join">InstantSpot</a> now! </div> Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:25:20 GMT http://ajlcom.instantspot.com/blog/2006/12/05/What-is-the-best-way-to-monetize-a-web-site Advertising http://ajlcom.instantspot.com/blog/2005/11/15/Robots-and-main-page-accessibility On my quest towards e-stardom (aka a relevant and content-rich website), I realized that the navigation towards my older &quot;news items&quot; was somewhat lacking. My solution for this problem was to create a side bar menu that would contain all of the news item titles in descending date order (aka newest first). <br /> <br /> A day or two after this change, I began to notice a positive side-effect to including all of these titles as links on the main page...The robots (spiders) were crawling all through my site! I&#39;m not 100% sure, but I can&#39;t imagine how this increased indexing would hurt my chances of being returned in some search results.<br /> <br /> In a possibly related subject, a Google search for &#39;Aaron Lynch&#39; now returns this page in the top 10 search results (#6 as of this entry) and an MSN search returns <a href="http://www.aaronjlynch.com">www.AaronJLynch.com</a> as #3!<br /> <br /> Does anybody want my autograph? <img src="/fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/wink_smile.gif" alt="" /><br /> <br /> UPDATE 1/25/06: Either Google has changed my ranking somehow, or my switch to BlogCFC&nbsp; has harmed my accessibility somehow. I now turn up on like page 5 or something terrible. Back to the drawing board! Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT http://ajlcom.instantspot.com/blog/2005/11/15/Robots-and-main-page-accessibility SEO