August 1, 2010

Revenue Sharing Programs

There are quite a few companies that are now utilizing the idea of revenue sharing to attract visitors. The first website I heard of that did this was Digital point and this practice may account for Digital Point’s growth rate over the past couple of years. The main way most web sites do this is by utilizing Adsense. Basically you put your Adsense code in your account and then you get a percentage of the clicks to your Adsense account.

I just came across another website that has started doing this, but instead of using a forum as Digital Point does, they are using a Social bookmarking type approach. With the popularity of Social sites such as Digg.com on the past couple of years. This ay take off. The site looks fairly new so it may be a good time to get into the stream. As it also works with a referral basis. You can refer people to the site and then receive Adsense impressions on the content they submit too. Seems like an interesting concept. I figure I’ll give it a shot as I’m always submitting my posts to sites such as this purely for the traffic generation aspect, but if I can maybe earn a few pennies at the same time then it may be useful. Here is my referral link if you want to sign up.

Giving Thanks

Well its almost Thanksgiving here in the US and its got me to thinking about what I’m thankful for this year.

First and foremost I’m thankful for my family who support me in so many ways and they even understand when I’m tapping away at the computer until all times of the night. Partly because they do understand I have some goals to obtain and partly because as long as I’m on the machine I don’t think of something else we need to do to the house.

I’m also thankful for this wonderful country that I live in where opportunity is available for anyone who wishes to work for it. I’ve been able to increase my revenue another 10% this year and while its not exactly what I hoped for its decent and helps me to obtain my goals.

I’ve seen a steady increase of traffic to all my sites, including this one which I have not even worked on much during the year. I am pledging to post more next year and bring this site out of the shadows. After all this is my name sake site, it should be the most popular of all my sites, but at this point its not.

Many times we get in a rut and focus too much what we do not have, instead of what we do. While I’m not satisfied with the progress I’ve made in some areas, I have a great life. I live in a lovely house and I have plenty to eat, a nice truck to drive, a huge T.V., Every game system known to man( well really these are my kids, but he lets me play with them when I want). I do okay.

There are a lot of people in the world who don’t even have the basic necessities of life. Its easy to think about what you don’t have, but perhaps you should look around and see what you have. No matter what has went wrong in a life as long as you have a breath of life in you, there is hope. If you focus on the positive then you will achieve your goals. My wife gave me a CD of Joel Olsten a while back and it has really started to have an impact on the way I view the world. To borrow one of Joel’s phrases. You must conceive and believe, before you will receive. So be thankful for what you have and focus on the positive. Its really the only way to live. At least for me it is, you can make up your own mind. So this is my giving thanks post for the things I have been blessed with in this world.

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WordPress Themes

There is a great little post over at Vandelay Website Design that gives 40 tips for building a wordpress theme. I have seen some of the resources before, but there are a few great links that show the nuts and bolts for building WordPress themes. If you are working with WordPress and need to get your head around how to build a new unique theme for your site, then you may want to check it out.