Monetizing

I Have Finally Upgraded to WordPress and Semiologic Pro 5.0
Its been sometime since my last post. Vacations and some other necessary diversions have occupied an inordinate amount of my time. But all is well and I have finally upgraded this website to Semiologic Pro 5.0 with the included tweaked version of WordPress 2.3.1. (…)

Adsense Competitive Ads Filter
I am a retired Land Surveyor and I have a Land Surveying website set up wth Adsense Ads running in the right sidebar. I have recently noticed a few 7 and 10 cent clicks, so decided to see who was advertising on my site. (…)

Importance of Page Position in Google Search
I was reading a post on another blog where the author was bragging that she had achieved a page one listing when one of her key words was used to initiate the search. Checking out her claim, her site was listed at number 5 in a field of 12500 pages containing her search term. (…)

Internet Marketers - A Clarification
My post of a few days ago where I was critical of Internet Marketers has invoked some criticism, and upon review from the prospective of a reader, deserves some clarification. My comment should have been more specifically leveled to those people who create splogs, using other bloggers material for the sole purpose of monitizing using Adsense or YPN. While there are certainly other actions which I do not approve, the splogger was my main target
I consider myself an Internet marketer, and like the majority of Internet marketeers, do not use scraped material for my posts. So the previously posted article does not apply to them, or to me. I am sorry for any misunderstanding and welcome your comments. (…)

Working with Internet Marketers
Kickass Web Design has a post about working for Internet Marketers where they state:

These are the people who think they’re going to get rich off the Internet by creating sites full of affiliate links, reprinted articles written by others (who also call themselves “internet marketers”) and huge blocks of Adsense ads cunningly designed so that it’s almost impossible to distinguish the ads from “real” links. (…)