Month: November 2007

Adding Google Adsense to RGV-Life.com

Today, I bit the bullet and added the premium service to RGV-Life.com that allows me to add my own Google Adsense code to the site. I’ve seen an increase in traffic and have started gaining members. I’m still doing the majority of the posts, but there are some tentative posts by some of the members. The important thing is that there is traffic.

The downside is that the privilege of adding your own adsense code costs a little less than $20/month. This means that I need a crapload of traffic and clicks to make it worthwhile. The good news is that the regional nature of the site makes the ads highly targeted. So, many of the ads I’ve seen are very relevant to the overall theme of the sight and the topics of the individual posts. I’ll try it out for this month while I am out selling ads to local businesses. If I can line up local advertisers, then I will drop the google ads and promote the more profitable banner ads. It’s all experimental at this point.

Launching LifeCast Channel

I was reading my RSS feeds via Google Reader and Feedhub when I came across this post by the Scobelizer. The post was about NewTeeVee on Mogulus.

As I’ve mentioned before, I try to cybersquat my own name on all the new websites out there because I’ve come to realize that, as misspelled as my name is, there are other Shaines out there. Suffice it to say that I signed up to Mogulus with my own channel.

Mogulus really struck a chord with me. I seriously love this site. I wrote a post titled “How To Kill Facebook” a while back. The idea was that one could create a personal channel for all content in the same site. Imagine all your flickr photos, videos, posts, and all sorts of content on the same site. Wouldn’t that be awesome. Instead of travelling to 7 different sites to see all my creations, why not just visit this one? Mogulus gets me closer to that ideal. Every time you visit my channel, there should be something new, so long as I continue to add more content. In any case, there aren’t 50 links to click to view my videos. With Mogulus, there is only one link, with content that changes according to the automated queue. It would be rare for you to see the same thing twice on the same link with little involvement by me.

I am finally getting my personal channel rather than links to 50 sites. Thanks to Mogulus and other sites that distribute my content back to my blog, I may very well have my central content location. I am seriously excited.