I mentioned a few posts back that I wanted to try to monetize my blog. Granted, I don’t even get 100 uniques a day (more like 60-70), but I still wanted to see if there is potential. I tried TLA, but they rejected. My next attempt with be good old Google Adsense. After reading The Easiest Way to Add Google Adsense On a Blog, by John Chow, I decided to follow his guide and install Adsense Delux to my blog.

I currently am running a 468×60 ad at the top of every page, followed by a 250×250 ad spot inside every post. I attempted to put a 300×250 ad at the bottom of every post, but for some reason adsense delux doesn’t want to add it and when I tried putting in into the template php, I couldn’t get it aligned. O-well, I think having these two is a good test for now.

I’m not sure how well these ads will perform since most of my readers are returners and won’t click on ads anyways. I get very few traffic from search engines. I will be sure to keep everyone posted on the progress and results.

Found a Designer

I found a designer for my new vbulletin project. I’m not going to reveal who it is just yet. I want to wait until the project is finished. I got a good price (atleast I thought I did) of $200 for a complete custom skin. The guy’s portfolio was amazing, and he has even won Form of the Month on several webmaster sites for his designs. He said it will take about 7 days to complete. I wish it were sooner because I am anxious to get started on my project. In the mean time, I will load all the mods and hacks I want and start creating threads myself.

A New Site!

I took the advice of Marc, one of the guys who comments on my blog, and started a new site. About a month ago he suggested a site idea about a rookie blog. This site won’t be geared towards user generated content. I will write the content myself. Anyways, I decided to make a Rookie Blog, just as he suggested. There are no posts on it yet, but I did put up a header. I think the header needs some work, but it’s a start. I’ll probably write my first post today or tomorrow. Without further adu, I present to you Rookie Spot, the number 1 source for everything Rookies.

I am going to focus on NFL, NBA, and MLB mostly because those are the only sports I follow. I’ll be making posts about performance predictions, top 10s, player updates, mock drafts and more.

I really want to focus my network on just sports sites. So naturally this was the next step. I hope everyone has a great day.

P.S. My birthday is tomorrow!