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Milestones
Posted by Brian
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Well this site has just broke one of its first real milestones. We now I have over 50 RSS readers which I find amazing. The funny thing is though these readers came during a time when I WASN’T updating the site very often, well at least not as often as I would like to update it.
I forget now who first said it, but maybe it is true, you get more readers when you don’t post, but that still just doesn’t seem right to me. I’m sure the increase in readers has something to do with being included in this post by JohnCow
So what is the next goal for BrianVaughan.com? Well, 100 subscribers sounds great, then 200, 400, 800 etc etc. Any time frame I would like to see all this happen in? Well no not really, if it takes me a year, thats cool, one month, thats cool too. I’d keep doing this even if nobody read it, simply because I like doing it.
Don’t forget to join my link meme started in my post Link Love All you have to do is post it up on your site, and do a pingback to the post.
Do you like this post? Want to see me get drunk? Buy me a beer.Link Love
Posted by Brian
A little link love never hurt anyone. This little train starting off over at the Mad Cow’s place has netted me quite a few link backs.
#Start copy here#
The idea is simple: You want readers and you want link backs too because that’s all us bloggers want, it’s more precious than milk for some 
So how does it work?
Simple! You just copy the list down below on your blog, hence creating link backs for your blogging friends and then click the RSS feed link to subscribe to all of them. Then you add yourself and up to 5 other bloggers and their feeds to the end of the list before you publish it on your own blog. Show your friends some link love 
Just imagine if just 10 people would do this and then 10 more after them. That would get your blog 100 extra link backs and 100 extra feed subscribers!
The Original List:
- Subscribe to JohnCowdotCom
- Subscribe to BobmeetsWorld
- Subscribe to LifeisRisky
- Subscribe to TheKingKongBlog
- Subscribe to My New Hustle
- Subscribe to GadgetTastic
- Subscribe to Life of Browie
- Subscribe to Disregard Me
- Subscribe to Everybody Go To
- Subscribe to Brian Vaughan
- Subscribe to Fuery
- Subscribe to Sam Breadstone
The Extended List:
- Subscribe to Recipekid.com
- Subscribe to In Movie reviews
You participated but your not listed yet? Drop us an email, or for a faster listing make sure you trackback this post.
I’m Wooting Off
Posted by Brian
Wooting off? What is this you ask? Well I’ll tell you, no its not some new form of self pleasure, or some new fangled diet or exercise. Its a movement, taking the world of online retailing by storm. Woot Inc operates a website where they sell one item per day, at a highly discounted price. When that item sells out, you have to wait until the next day to see a new item.
Except, NOT today, today is one of the best days of the month, it is a WOOT OFF. When one item sells out, another item is put up right after it. Woot Offs usually last 1 and a half to 2 days. So browse the site and check back often you may even find a “bag of crap” up for grabs.
Do you like this post? Want to see me get drunk? Buy me a beer.Why Aren’t You Using Adsense Yet?
Posted by Brian
So you have been online a few months with your new amazing website. You receive a few hundred visitors a day, and a great community going on over there. However it is starting to take a toll on your bank account keeping the site online, with hosting feeds, domain registration, and some general advertising you have done for the site. So you start to wonder to yourself “Should I be using Google Adsense?”. Let me tell you right here and now, if you are wondering that, the answer is a resounding YES.
Now, you have heard that Adsense isn’t good for your site unless your receiving a bazillion visitors everyday. That simply isn’t true. Will your results be better with a bazillion visitors? Well of course they probably will be, but that doesn’t mean you won’t have success as well. Just because your site isn’t receiving a few thousand unique users every day doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a “nice” income with Adsense.
Now, yes this isn’t an amazing shot of showing a low traffic site making huge amounts of money, but I feel this is going to be more or less the average, if not even a little below it. The screenshot above is of the adsense stats for one of my mini content sites. Its a fan site for a small time band. Now is it making huge amounts of money? No, not really, but looking at the number of impressions its not doing bad. The stats are from July 1st-July17th. Thats a pretty good amount for one small site to make in that time period I feel, it pays for the domain registration and for most of the hosting costs. Isn’t that your goal at first anyways?
The site I used as my example is a site that I never even update, its totally static, so if you use it on your site with new content regularly, and with user participation your results should be much much better.
If you are not using Adsense, you are losing out on potential revenue for yourself, and your website. Think of all the new features you get ad to your site if you had the money? This is your way of making your site better. With the money, use it to make the site bigger, and better, more features for your users. As users are the most important part of any website.
So the question is now, “Why aren’t you already using website for your sites?”.
Feeding the Cow
Posted by Brian
If you have visited the Mad Cow’s website over the past few days you might have noticed an ad running on his site, from me. Now some of you are probably thinking, “Why is he doing this?, What is the point?, Does it work?”. Well let me answer those questions for you.
1. “Why is he doing this”? — Well that is a great question, I over head the Mad Cow talking on another site, asking for ways that he could increase his AdSense earnings since the dairy ads weren’t all that great. So I thought to myself, I can help him out a little with advertising as well as bring a few visitors to mysite, So I went on over to my AdWords account and set up a site targeted ad and set it to target http://johncow.com.
If you don’t have an AdWord account sign up!
2. “What is the point”? — Well this is basically the same question as #1 I just wanted to make it a three question post. But basicly to show some appreciation for what he is doing, he is doing a bang up job. So hopefully it will encourage him to keep up the great work that he is doing.
3. “Does it work”? — Another great question, well the answer is simple.. maybe… Yes it works, Did I get a huge amount of traffic? No I didn’t, I did bring in 25 people that might otherwise not of visited my site. So was it worth it? Yes, yes it was. I killed two birds with one stone, I helped out the Mad Cow, and I got me some new visitors to my site.
All in all, it worked out great for both of us, I even picked up another link in one of his posts Blue Cow Down, so that was another added bonus for me. Here is an image of what the ad looked like on his site, I might in the future re-enable the ad when I have some new better content here, that I think his viewers might enjoy.
