Ad rates for big websites decline . The ad rates for big websites have declined over a period of one year, while the rates for small websites have marginally increased.
Compared to the website traffic figures quoted in the above report, my websites are micro and micro micro. But the ad rates I get are 10 [...]
UTV Completes Acquisition Of 76 Percent Stake In IT Nation For Rs. 15 Crores
The websites include Channeltimes, CXOtoday, Enterpriser.in and Techtree.com . Some of these websites are quite popular, I am surprised they were sold so cheap. I suppose it finally depends on the net profit (or loss), not traffic or website design.
I wonder [...]
Google allowing other webmasters to damage your site . Have been a victim of online sabotage for so long, that I have learnt to ignore it. If others cannot predict your future actions, there is little they can do.
Web18 buys In.com - The Whois data shows that the domain data was last updated on Feb 12, 2008 (as of [...]
Blown away - the story of Geosign . One of the things I learnt while working offline – never depend on a single vendor or revenue source. It may be more convenient , but you do not know what will happen in future.
Another relevant post - Domain revenue disappearing - when every thing is fine, it is [...]
Websites on sale, close down
Soon many of these social networking websites will close down. So much much time and money is spent and it all is wasted. If only people had thought about where the money is coming from, instead of following the latest trends.
If it is someone else’s money, you can be careless with it, [...]
Adsense Decreases Does Not Mean I Should Settle For Less . That is the problem dealing with large companies, you are just another number.
I have diversified my revenues to some extent, by this year end Adsense should hopefully be a small part of my total revenues. It is always better to work with smaller companies, you are [...]
Protecting against DDOS attacks
I’ll be spending a lot of time researching DDOS attacks now that my sites are affected, I wonder how much they cost the attacker. My sites are all Web 0.00 so only the forums are offline.
Google clamp down on publisher adsense “so called” minisites . Interesting post, I had guessed this in December, so I have been exploring other options. I first made money online by selling directly to my customers, and they still are willing to pay. Earlier I would do every thing manually which was very time consuming, now I [...]
Threats to the Domain Name Industry
I have spent a lot of time studying the domain industry and find that most revenues seem to be from parking or sales. Parking revenues are from only a few sources and a policy change can adversely affect you.
Last year, I spent a lot of time experimenting to find non-Google, [...]
Vanity portals set cash registers ringing
.in fits in with internet , international , but selling .in domains in India has its pitfalls. I own some .in domain names , yesterday I got a call from Mr XYZ who wanted one of the domains. He claimed to be “a poor student with a limited budget” but [...]