Posts Tagged ‘webmasters’

A NOTICE

I have had quite a few brick-bats and flames that rant against my intention on monetizing my blog. They think it’s greedy, selfish, even evil. Now how is that?

Money is important, everyone knows that. It pays for my internet connection, my computer maintenance, electricity- anything that I require to blog and sustain it on the internet. So I just figured that the blog should pay for it’s own running. I am giving my most precious thing to it, my time. 

Then I have seen, bloggers who put a small ad box at the corner of their page, they half-heartedly commit to the necessity of monetizing their blog. I suggest either you put-it-all or don’t do it at all. Moreover, I consider that the advertisements that might come up on this page atleast one of them has got to be of your interest. Now if I had ads about something irrelevant, then your criticising would be accounted for. 

I always maintain a personal connection to my readers, like I am doing now and they must understand that earning money is not bad and doing it through a blog is not bad at all. Simply because blogging is almost full-time for most people. Considering that one has to convert his passion into bread.  

A quality blog can never run purely for the want of money, the real passion and the efforts are always transparent to the readers. I believe in this fact and that is the main reason why you may want to read this blog again because you find that, it’s not only about the advertisements. Ads are just hanging out with you, they are not affecting your browsing quality. It might even help you someday.

Impact of Recession On Webmasters

As we usher into the new year with the weights of recession still heavy on our backs from 2008 I still wonder whether it was the right time for me to start a blog. But a blog is perhaps one of those things that are recession-proof. A lot like the entertainment industry, even with the movie tickets priced at a premium the movie halls were packed for the film ‘Ghajini’ an Aamir Khan starrer. This is Indian film industry- Bollywood, it is just for the information of my readers from abroad, who may not be aware.

However, rendering of online services has seen a downturn. As far as the affiliate advertisers are concerned, such as myself, the onslaught of recession is clearly visible in the Adsense dashboard as the advertisers get stingy on their pays per click, not that they were any less stingy earlier but they have beat themselves this new year.

An affiliate advertiser owning the  website Sportz Forumz, the owner claims, “I usually get my cheque by new year but this time, the way things are going it looks like it may take a lot more to make things look up.”

Apart from that the webmasters are also slashing their advertising prices for private advertisers with the slackening demand for space on popular home pages. Charging almost $600 a month for a 250X250 banner to be put on her webpage earlier, now Sanndra has reduced it to a little short of $300. 

During recession time I indeed find the Domino effect rather amusing to watch and the way the cookie crumbles.