by Mark Mason | Feb 19, 2008 | Web Monitization
In February 2008, I had to take a short break from the Niche Super-Site series because I had laser eye surgery — PRK, specifically, not LASIK. I had underestimated how much having my eyes “blasted with high-energy photons” (as I put it at the time)...
by Mark Mason | Feb 16, 2008 | Web Monitization
The final piece of the monetization strategy for HistoryOfElvis.com was Amazon. After setting up eBay affiliates through phpBay, PopShops for Commission Junction products, and AdSense for display ads, I added the Amazon Omakase widget as a fourth revenue stream. Even...
by Mark Mason | Feb 15, 2008 | Web Monitization
AdSense was the third piece of the monetization puzzle for HistoryOfElvis.com, alongside eBay affiliate marketing through phpBay and product affiliate sales through PopShops. In 2008, AdSense was the backbone of nearly every niche site strategy, and for good reason...
by Mark Mason | Feb 14, 2008 | Web Monitization
Back in 2008, I added a PopShops widget to my Elvis Presley niche site as part of my Niche Super-Site case study. PopShops was a service that let you embed product feeds from major affiliate networks — Commission Junction, LinkShare, ShareASale — directly...
by Mark Mason | Feb 13, 2008 | Web Monitization
One of the core principles of the Niche Super-Site project was income diversification. Rather than relying solely on AdSense, I wanted multiple revenue streams flowing through HistoryOfElvis.com. The first affiliate program I added was eBay, using a WordPress plugin...
by Mark Mason | Feb 13, 2008 | Web Monitization
A couple of weeks into the Niche Super-Site project, I checked back on how Google was indexing HistoryOfElvis.com. The results were encouraging: running a site:www.historyofelvis.com search showed that Google had found and indexed multiple pages, including the...
