Articles Written by:    RANDY CHARLES MORIN     

How to Blog

Writing lengthy article once week is not the only part of blogging. I have one friend who does this. Every once in a while, I post a comment on his website, agreeing or disagreeing with what he says. The comments go to his moderation queue, which I ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  22 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Cory Doctorow

End of Yahoo!?

My own web stats are a good view into just what happened. My referrers from Yahoo! search peaked above 120,000 per month and recently are hanging out around 5,000 per month. In the same period, my referrers from Google have picked up about 100,000 per ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  15 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Google Inc.

BlogAds Invitation

I saw an old post where you were asking for a blogads invitation.  It seems people sent you invitations.  Could you send an invitation to me?  If you need specs for my site let me know. Sorry, I haven't used blogads in a long time. After I got the ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  2 Apr 2009

Ask.com Double Sucks

Just how bad is ask.com? Even their advertising produces undesired results. For instance, they have a deal with NASCAR where they are major promoter with commercials on TV and their website. On the nascar.com website it suggests the top NASCAR related ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  25 Mar 2009

AdSense Failing

Six months ago, AdSense made up more than half of the revenues on my websites. In February, AdSense made up less than 10% of my revenues. While my websites have grown 10-20% per month, AdSense CPMs have been shrinking just as fast. Now, my direct and ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  24 Mar 2009
Related Topics: AdSense

PayPal Reputation

Today, I notice my PayPal reputation is (69) Verified Buyers. I remember it being this several months ago and possibly more than a year. Lately (for months), I've had more than one buyer per day. My reputation should be in the hundreds. I wonder if the ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  24 Mar 2009

Payment Failures

One of my most profitable ways of making money online is offering monthly subscription plans for my websites that provide premium services. The money is automatically withdrawn via PayPal every month. The amounts are usually so small that it's barely ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  20 Feb 2009

Collapsing AdSense CPMs

Of late, I've noticed a sharp decline in my AdSense CPMs. My CPMs all last year fluctuated between $0.50 and $1.00 across all my websites.  Rarely it would dip below $0.50 and rarely would it go above $1.00 for a day. Starting January 4th of this year, ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  11 Feb 2009
Related Topics: AdSense

Grab Networks

I received an email from today, previously known as TheNewsRoom, previously known as Voxant. It states.... Therefore your current contracted terms, including CPM rates for ad impressions and other payment terms, will remain as they are currently ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  4 Feb 2009

100K Pages

Today was the first day that I had 100,000 ad impressions on one website. I've been in the 80k-90k range for quite some time, but the Super Bowl put me thru the top. My average CPM has been down about 20% lately, but my hits are up 20% in the last ...

From RANDY CHARLES MORIN, Besting Adwords,  2 Feb 2009