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Plug Your Company: Now making $2k/month - thenokiablog.com
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hello, i'm mark from http://thenokiablog.com - a blog with reviews, news, tips, guides on anything Nokia
my blog's been slowly increasing in ad revenue and I just recently hit the $2,000 point last month! Looking forward to increase a little more.
The Nokia Blog -
- CommentAuthorBurnerSports.com
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2008
Congratulations!!!! It's always nice to hear a success story!
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That's awesome - congrats!
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Solid, I am a huge mobile phone fanatic as anyone here will tell you!
Nokia makes some awesome products, I recently got my hands on a N95-4 and it is one solid phone.
Nice blog, congrats on the revenue!
I am a Young Go Getter! -
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CommentAuthorFuseFusion
- CommentTimeMay 28th 2008
Thats awesome dude...
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That's pretty good going and seems like it will only grow in time. You obviously put the effort in and it's paying off, congrats!
I doodle at Cartoonistblog.com -
Wow I'm impressed, especially since I don't see any glaring advertisements on the landing page. Great job.
How long have you had the blog? How long did it take to get to this point? Tell us the back story :)
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Congratulations, and would love to know the back story too...
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Hi everyone, thanks for the comments! Back story... hmm.. I started October '06, just re-blogging news from other sources but making sure my SEO stuff is on point (put alts in images, titles in hrefs, meta tags in headers, title must have nokia keywords, etc). I only used adsense ads and probably made around $100-$200 per month with most of the visitors coming from google searches.
When I decided to write more original posts, Nokia's PR started contacting me and sent me to trips for product launches. They also started sending me the latest phones for review (but have to return them eventually of course). So far they flew me off to LA, Finland, and Barcelona. I'm from New York. This was the most incredible part.
After that things just started going up. Traffic is up. I rearranged my theme to complement ads.
I no longer just use adsense. I have combo of adsense, chitika, 2 CPM network ads, 1 affiliate network ads, and the biggest moneymaker is selling direct ads.
The Nokia Blog -
Wow, firstly welcome Mark.
Secondly, that's such a great story, even better that you got noticed by Nokia. Selling direct ads is really great, and in case you havn't heard of it, I would definitely recommend OIOPublisher (my aff. link) to manage your advertising space - that's saved me a lot of time recently.
Other that that look forward to seeing you around here, hopefully you can write a guest post about your successes.
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Great story. Your blog has a good theme too, it's not like mobile devices will become obsolete in a year leaving you to start a new blog. Congrats and all the best down the road.
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How important was changing your theme to one that was gave your ads a more prominent place on your site?
Did you use one of the premium news themes and have it modified?
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@letutor changing my theme to one that gave ads better position was the turning point in how much I'm making right now.
I used a theme from solostream.com and modified it myself.
The Nokia Blog -
Have you tested different ad placements with that design?
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Is most of your income from adsense or affiliate sales? -
adsense is only 25% of my income. The rest are divided thru direct ads, CPM ads, Chitika, and affiliates.
The Nokia Blog -
Who is the best cpm ad provider or the one you use? Seems a lot people use Chitika. I'm going to have to try them out.
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I use Tribal Fusion as 1st tier and Valueclick as 2nd tier for CPM ads. Tribal is the one that pays the most for CPM.
The Nokia Blog -
that's awesome, what traffic does your site gets?
The Business Loans Expert. -
Now it's time for you to make a 2nd blog about blackberry or something like that and double your money.
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Blackberry already has a few big sites dedicated to the, like www.crackberry.com
I am a Young Go Getter! -
There is always room for more. I wouldn't shy away from any market because it has competition.
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Of course, what I am pointing out is to research what the players in that industry are doing right now so you are prepared.
I am a Young Go Getter!
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