Does anyone out there have a blog that generates more $$$ with Chitika than AdSense? I’m just wondering because our network has been doing good with AdSense for about a year, until it dropped over the summer and it still hasn’t recovered yet. I’ve done everything I could think of to revive our earnings but nothing’s working so far. So I tried to maximize Chitika a little bit and it seems to be working. It’s nowhere near where AdSense was a few months ago but it’s climbing up pretty good. So I was wondering if anyone has the same experience and if it’s wise to maximize on Chitika more than AdSense when the tide is low like right now.
Let me know your thoughts, and if you have an idea that can help us we’ll be sure to take you out for a beer! 
Believe it or not this blog is a PR5 blog. I never really put much thought to it but since I took on blogging as a world domination plan fulltime profession I’ve harnessed its PR5 magic more than a few times. It’s quite amazing I tell you. Now I’m no expert when it comes to SEO but how else would you explain techfresh.net jumping from PR0 to PR5 in less than a month? peepculture.com was even better at PR6 under the same time frame. I know it may sound like a dream but do you have a better idea? Google PageRank is like rocket science to me but it sure did me favors without having to fully understand it. Maybe I’m delusional but it seems now since we have a network of high PR blogs all our blogs are growing at a substantial rate. But we all need more traffic all the time, don’t we?
Well I came up with an idea. I’m sure I borrowed it from somewhere but I can’t remember now. What if I were to share my PR5 mojo with other people for a small token? I would spread the love with a nice outbound link and people can repay me with a few dollars or a link back. What do you think? No this isn’t an attempt to extort readers or anything, think of it as more of an experiment. If your ranking picks up in a few weeks/months (given you seek other incoming links from other sites too) you can pat me on the back and treat me Starbucks. If not you can stick a finger behind my back and get on with your life.
You know I didn’t mean that.
But anyway I’m more interested in what you guys think, rather than the actual execution of this idea. Would selling links help the blogosphere at large, or would it turn into another petty money scheme?
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw my AdSense report last night. I’m not allowed to reveal the numbers by Google but let’s just say my CTR doubled overnight. It was better than weed or even caffeine I tell you. I couldn’t sleep until it was 5am.
Maybe I am one step closer to that early retirement plan after all!
All right, there’s a lot of room for this online and I’ll tell you a little secret. Relevant images. If you have a very small niche this could work in your favor. It’s not misleading (as opposed to when you implement images on a wide topic blog) and it would only compliment your AdSense ads. There is a fine-line however, so watch your step and make sure you comply with Google’s Policy.
Ding ding ding…
K2 is looking sweet. I’m going to redesign this blog based on K2 and I’m going back to a clean white background. Expect a reboot soon! 
As you all know WordPress generate its pages with matching titles according to the page contents. It uses the wp_title() tag to accomplish this simple task.
Now in search of a better way to boost our pages for search engine optimization, I decided that the original format that comes with WordPress is a little obsolete:
< ?php bloginfo('name'); ?> < ?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive < ?php } ?> < ?php wp_title(); ?>
This prints the blog’s name first, then adds the words “Blog Archive” and finally prints the most crucial part of the equation, the post title.
I decided to print the post title first, so that Google would have the keywords in it indexed first, not last. So here’s what I did:
< ?php wp_title(''); ?>< ?php if ( is_home() ) { } else { ?> - < ?php } ?>< ?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
It’s not rocket science but I believe this will help boost your SEO as Google will find your permalinks and WordPress generated pages with its title first instead of your blog name.
PS: This won’t affect your front page as it doesn’t have any post titles on it.
JErm is a web designer and an ex-9-to-5-er semi-retiring in Bali. He runs a small 
