Comments on: Your Spinoff Services Will Beat The Ad Dollars http://tdhedengren.com/blog/your-spinoff-services-will-beat-the-ad-dollars/ The portfolio of Thord Daniel Hedengren Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:29:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TDH http://tdhedengren.com/blog/your-spinoff-services-will-beat-the-ad-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-388 TDH Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:02:14 +0000 http://tdhedengren.com/?p=316#comment-388 I don't know about satisfying, but fair perhaps? Personally, I think the whole Google-centric is a bit scary, and the businesses relying on Google search results (or any other similar for that matter) are very vulnerable to me. I don’t know about satisfying, but fair perhaps? Personally, I think the whole Google-centric is a bit scary, and the businesses relying on Google search results (or any other similar for that matter) are very vulnerable to me.

]]> By: John Evans (Syntagma) http://tdhedengren.com/blog/your-spinoff-services-will-beat-the-ad-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-386 John Evans (Syntagma) Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:10:06 +0000 http://tdhedengren.com/?p=316#comment-386 Before the Google hit on blog PRs it was possible to run a series of niche blogs with text link ads and make a decent living from them. Now it's more difficult but still possible. It's satisfying to see Google's own income dropping, partly because of this, and their share price losing 40pc. Before the Google hit on blog PRs it was possible to run a series of niche blogs with text link ads and make a decent living from them. Now it’s more difficult but still possible.

It’s satisfying to see Google’s own income dropping, partly because of this, and their share price losing 40pc.

]]> By: TDH http://tdhedengren.com/blog/your-spinoff-services-will-beat-the-ad-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-387 TDH Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:40:14 +0000 http://tdhedengren.com/?p=316#comment-387 That's another thing. When will bloggers understand that direct sales is the only way to make serious money off ads? Yes, yes, I know all about that it is hard to sell ads, but I'll tell you, putting yet another crappy affiliate program in there isn't time well spent either. If you've got the niche, you've got a lot of possible advertisers. Sure, it's not big money unless you're a big player, but then again neither is Adsense or affiliate stuff. Then again not all of us are sales people, and it is hard to find people to perform that service for you. That’s another thing. When will bloggers understand that direct sales is the only way to make serious money off ads? Yes, yes, I know all about that it is hard to sell ads, but I’ll tell you, putting yet another crappy affiliate program in there isn’t time well spent either. If you’ve got the niche, you’ve got a lot of possible advertisers. Sure, it’s not big money unless you’re a big player, but then again neither is Adsense or affiliate stuff.

Then again not all of us are sales people, and it is hard to find people to perform that service for you.

]]> By: John Evans (Syntagma) http://tdhedengren.com/blog/your-spinoff-services-will-beat-the-ad-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-389 John Evans (Syntagma) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:20:28 +0000 http://tdhedengren.com/?p=316#comment-389 True. Google has all but killed ads on sites/blogs with less than 500k pageviews a month. I live comfortably off my network but most value comes from a handful of sites and it certainly wouldn't support the kind of operation run by b5 -- with the help of a few VC millions, of course. The old SEO + ads model is finished for most blogs now. To really succeed you need a readership that attracts brand ads not direct-response ones, and that's a lot of PVs. True. Google has all but killed ads on sites/blogs with less than 500k pageviews a month. I live comfortably off my network but most value comes from a handful of sites and it certainly wouldn’t support the kind of operation run by b5 — with the help of a few VC millions, of course.

The old SEO + ads model is finished for most blogs now. To really succeed you need a readership that attracts brand ads not direct-response ones, and that’s a lot of PVs.

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