Video Subscription Why Charge

As many of you have noticed I have recently added a Video Subscription area to my site, to access this area a small payment must be made to view the online content. Why is this?

Why would I charge for my video content? Aren't I trying to get as many visitors as possible? Aren't I trying to self promote as my #1 aim with this site?

Yes, but.... 

OMG My Google Page Rank Just Dropped To Zero

I just lost my PageRank, it went from PR4 to PR0, yes PR Zero. Nothing, no value... panic. A google backlink check also showed no incoming links! Holy diapers Batman what is happening? Whaat did I do wrong? Why am I being penalised?

A check on google.com shows me that I still have links (link:http://www.conanstevens.com) and a few quick searches for my top keywords show that I am still in the search index.... Whew... That is good news, even with Pagerank zero I have not been delisted by Google.

Why is this important and what is going on? 

Starting An Online Business - Some Problems To Watch Out For

I just read an interesting article over at Apogee to do with the dangers of starting an online business, and not the usual dangers of cash flow problems, low initial sales that one would expect but instead focuses on the problems of finding someone reliable and competant to set up your initial marketing efforts and concentrates on a few very good points to consider... 

This Weeks Carnival Of Cinema

A Blog Carnival is a collection of posts from various Bloggers about a similar theme. I regularly submit articles to the Carnival Of Cinema and due to the usual host having a baby, I volunteered to host it this week.

So come on inside to find a ton more interesting blogs on cinema... 

Monetize Your Blog - 14 Top Methods - How Many Do You Use?

Monetize a blog. A blog has to be the cheapest, easiest business on earth to set up. So now you have set up and ready to run your new business, exactly how do you monetize a blog.

The secret to monetize a blog is to try each of the following approaches and find what works for your blog and readership base

There are several ways to do this, I will list them all, read through and find the ones that are suitable for you and keep these in mind while writing your articles

Choosing Your Blog Subject And Keywords

Keywords? What are keywords?

These are the words that people type into search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN Search) when looking for information.

The idea here is to find words that relate to your subject matter and use them often in your Blog titles and content. If you choose words that are used often in search engines then you will have more traffic, more traffic = more money. Also you will get better ads from Adsense (or other contextual advertiser) if it can read useful keywords in your content as they ads are keyworded too.

Choosing Your Blog Subject And Keywords

Blog Keywords? What are blog keywords?

These are the words that people who have visited your blog typed into search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN Search) when looking for information.

The idea here is to find popular keywords for your blog that relate to your subject matter and use them in your Blog title and often throughout the content. If you choose keywords that are searched for often in search engines then you will have more traffic to your blog, more traffic = more money. Also you will get more relevant ads from Adsense (or other contextual advertiser) if it can read useful keywords in your blog content as they ads are keyworded too, again this means your blog will monetize better.

The Secret Advantage That Guarantees A Successful Blog

You have your Blog site up and running, now it is time to start writing - or is it?

Not yet, hold up champ, we have a few more questions you need to answer before we go anywhere near that keyboard if you want a successful blog.

There are Millions of Blogs online today, out of all of them why are people going to read yours, and read it repeatedly (and click on your ads hopefully) - How are we going to make it  a successful blog? Relax... I'm going to tell you...

What Do I Need To Start My Own Blog

When you start a Blog there are quiet a few things to look into, a few important decisions to make before you even put pen to paper, or fingers to the keyboard. Get these wrong and you could end up making your Blog a lot harder than it should be. Getting it right will make it much easier to start a blog and keep it running

Especially if you plan on making money from your Blog.

You can easily make over a $100 a month - that's enough to cut your house mortgage duration by a third, and as you gain experience you'll start to make more money.

That's $100 a month from 1 blog, now imagine you had 10 blogs, getting exciting?

What if I tell you that once you build them you can stop working on them and your blogs will still continue to earn more money month after month? Now it starts to get interesting... 

John Chow Shows How To Make Money Online

For the last several months I have been following the rise and rise of John Chows Blog, from its 'humble' beginnings to the now almost $8,000 a month he pulls from it.

Unbelievable, but read on to find out how he does it... 

Google: Adult Sites Banned But Adult Google Ads OK

Hypocrisy runs rife in Google Policies.

"Adult sites" such as Mango Sauce the Thailand Lad-Mag wherein the webmaster mentioned, in passing, Ping Pong shows at Pat Pong - are getting banned from Google Adsense

Yet Google is placing blatently Adult ads on PG13 and G rated websites, look inside to see what trash they put next to my photo, a f'n Male Douche... 

phpAdsNew - review + How It Saved Me From An Affiliate Program

phpAdsNew has now changed it's name to OpenAds.

This phpAdsNew review has been expanded to also be a OpenAds review

I needed a system that I could track for my affiliate programs, banner impressions and banner click throughs, to see which products and which banners my visitors are interested in, to check whether affiliates were scaming me and so I could provide more products and information on what interests my readers.

phpAdsNew (OpenAds)also lets me use text so that I can test effectiveness of different text inputs. Here is a posting from another forum that lets me explain the functionality in detail.... 

Gallery2 vs Coppermine vs everyone - Photo Galleries

Gallery2 vs Coppermine or the others. Over a 3 weeks period of various installs of differing CMS and Blog packages I review in total the top 5 gallery software offerings.

In the end in came down to between Coppermine or Gallery2. Both had good features but in the end I had to choose one. My decision was swayed by two things, what were they?....

Joomla vs 5 others - Why I Chose Joomla as my CMS

 I started my investigation into Blogs and Content Management Systems, in all I installed and tried 6 and review ed of the best known ones.

Over a 3 week period I worked on these full time, 10 hours a day 6.5 days a week, I installed one CMS / Blog after another, tested, filled with content, added photos and reviewed all the features

Dreamhost - New Webhost - 1Tb Bandwidth, More Movies

I have moved web server to dreamhost, if you are looking for a good webhost with massive amounts of bandwidth, heaps of hosting room and an unbeatable price check out Dreamhost