http://www.usefultalk.com Let's talk about making money online, monetizing, domaining, marketing, buying & selling online, blogging, CMS, web development and technology Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:09:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't know about you, but I didn't make 1 cent from the Google AdSense Referral program. So, when I got the email today from Google about retiring their AdSense Referral program I was not surprised a bit. In case you did not get this email from Google, here you go: http://www.usefultalk.com/adsense-and-adwords/we-are-retiring-adsense-referrals-finally Recently I had to setup a Drupal website (Drupal 5.7) that needed to display pages with a location and a Google map. I could achieve that by editing node.tpl.php but I wanted to use Views and Panels instead.. Here are the instructions on how to get your Gmap view to ... http://www.usefultalk.com/cms-wikis/mashup-of-gmap-into-your-drupal-website As if paying for increasingly pricey Google Ads wasn't enough, yet again Google has announced a new policy change that will likely prevent you and me from getting the top Ad spots through their AdWords program. For a long time, the Internet has acted as a leveling force where one person ... http://www.usefultalk.com/adsense-and-adwords/a-new-google-adwords-policy-change-will-affect-you If you're like me and use Google analytics for all your domain names, you may have noticed some irregularities a couple weeks ago. Google Analytics is one of the best free tools that Google has, I have about 15 websites being tracked by Analytics and I love it. Not to worry ... http://www.usefultalk.com/miscellaneous/google-analytics-lost-data-late-april Moniker.com is currently holding a domain name auction that started on May 23rd. One of the domains is Israel.com, with the highest starting bid in the group at $5.5 million. Some of the million-dollar and up domains include pay.com, yachts.com, AffiliateProgram.com, and Portfolios.com. Moniker CEO Monte Cahn expects to see these ... http://www.usefultalk.com/domain-names-profit/israelcom-starting-at-55-mil Over March and April, I mad $12.52 from my cash-parked domain names. Most of the money came from a domain name that used to be an online retail store that I owned. As the April numbers show, the income from that URL have gone down. Probably because people have noticed that ... http://www.usefultalk.com/cash-parking/my-godaddy-cash-parked-domains-update The term Page Rank is well known amongst savvy website owners. Page Rank, PageRank, or PR all refer to the same thing and are usually associated with the Google search engine. Google is not the only search engine that utilizes Page Rank algorithms. However, the term 'PageRank' is ... http://www.usefultalk.com/search-engines/website-page-rank-101 This is the seventh article in a series I called "Blog Profit". These articles outline strategies that every blogger looking at making cash from their blogs must know. These articles are a good starting point. While I wont grab your hand and walk you down the path of making money ... http://www.usefultalk.com/blogging/blog-profit-simply-ask-for-money I know, it's been over a week since I posted here. Thanks to all my readers who continue to visit my blog, I appreciate your visits and love it when you leave comments. Sorry for the absence, I've been overwhelmed with 2 things, the first being preparing my tax return (hint: ... http://www.usefultalk.com/about/im-alive This is the sixth article in a series of articles called Blog Profit. These articles outline crucial information that every person who is seriously looking at generating income from their blogs must know. These articles are a good starting point but definitely not the answer to all questions. In this ... http://www.usefultalk.com/blogging/blog-profit-make-money-selling-with-the-shopping-cart-wordpress-plug-ins I've been buying domain names for 6 years. Recently, like many other investors, I jumped over to the dot ASIA domains band wagon. I purchased some 20 ASIA domains about 3 months ago and waited for the dot Asia registry to contact me. I thought they would've liked to ... http://www.usefultalk.com/domain-names-profit/asia-domain-names-are-for-big-players-only-not-you-and-me A Mashup is a newer term, usually associated with web 2.0 that basically refers to the action of combining data from 2 or more sources into one web application. Google API makes it easy to mashup Google maps and other services into your website. Wordtracker, a commonly used keyword tool that ... http://www.usefultalk.com/marketing-publicize-your-website-be-found/find-your-perfect-niche-free-wordtracker-and-gtrends-mashup Sometimes I spent 3 hours writing and researching for a blog article. The least time it takes me to write an article is 20 minutes, and I probably have gone 3+ hours on some articles. How much time do you spend? Wouldn't it be a shame to not have anyone ... http://www.usefultalk.com/blogging/get-back-links-every-time-you-post-a-blog-article