I have decided to do a little test here by eliminating the NoFollow attribute on comments using the Lucia’s Linky Love plugin. I am hoping this will bring more people to the blog and foster some more discussion Another potential benefit to eliminating the NoFollow on comments is increased linking to the site and will increase the PageRank of Shaun [...]

I have added a new advertising option on Shaun Carter dot Com, and removed a few others. Due to low earnings I have removed Kontera and the Peel Away ad. I thought they just cluttered up the site and they didn’t bring in much in the way of revenue. The new Performancing ads widget is working on the sidebar and [...]

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We have passed the 100 comments mark here at Shaun Carter dot Com. Although this blog isn’t designed to be highly commented on, it is nice to see that there are some good words pouring in from some readers. Things have been picking up for me outside of this blog as I start a new job and get used to [...]

In the last few days, Shaun Carter dot Com has seen a surge in traffic coming from several Wall Street Journal Online stories relating to E*Trade. It turns out the Journal picked up two of my posts and linked to them from these two articles in the blogs section at the end of the story. This publicity is a welcome [...]

One of the thing that many web publishers struggle with is monetization of every visitor to visit their blog or website. For many, the only option has been pay per click ads which only reward the publisher when a visitor actually clicks the advertisement. There are CPM (cost per thousand) advertising programs out there that will pay you per impression [...]

I completely missed the fact that the Katt Williams Hustlin video post was the 200th for Shaun Carter dot Com. I purchased this domain and began blogging as a way to talk about whatever I wanted and keep my writing skills sharp while waiting to go back to college. This blog started in April 2007 and has had its share [...]

I have begun utilizing a service called payperpost and have been quite happy with them. PPP is a great way to monetize your blog in addition to the typical adsense and kontera ads. In case you haven’t noticed, there is now a link at the end of every post that will let you get paid to review Shaun Carter dot [...]

I’m not sure if it is just effecting this blog or if earnings are down across the Internet during the month of December. I haven’t been noticing slow traffic, but CTR is down considerably and thus total earnings. I am in the process of expanding my online earnings out of just this blog and my Credit Card comparison site. I [...]

I have just begun utilizing AdsBlackList.com to help optimize Google Adsense by eliminating low paying ads from the ones that get displayed on my pages. ABL is a free and paid service that will list all of the Made For Adsense and Low Cost Per Click pages for your particular niche and allow you to input those address into the [...]