Dorm Room Biz » monitizing websites http://www.dorm-room-biz.com Helping Young Entrepreneurs Grow Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:36:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Resources About Selling Ads on Your Website or Blog http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/2009/02/19/resources-about-selling-ads-on-your-website-or-blog/ http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/2009/02/19/resources-about-selling-ads-on-your-website-or-blog/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:19:49 +0000 Chris http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/?p=1089 Over the weekend there was a bunch of sites posting about selling advertising space on your website or blog. A lot of it was great information, so I recommend you check it out. In case you missed some of it, I’ve linked up a few of the articles that I enjoyed below that have great suggestions about attracting and retaining advertisers on your blog.

5 Ways To Make An Empty Ad Slot on Your Blog Work for You on ProBlogger.net

7 Reasons Not to Have Empty Ad Spots On Your Blog on ProBlogger.net

Sold My Advertising, Now What? on Retire@21

Finding Your First Advertisers For Your Blog on Retire@21

5 Ways to find Direct Advertisers for your Blog on ProBlogger.net

If you are looking for an affordable and easy way to manage ads on your blog or website, I suggest checking out OIO Publisher. OIO Publisher is a plugin that I have used on some other sites of mine and will be implementing on the new release of Dorm Room Biz.

]]> http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/2009/02/19/resources-about-selling-ads-on-your-website-or-blog/feed/ 2 Should you show your Categories and Archives within your sidebar? http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/2008/07/12/should-you-show-your-categories-and-archives-within-your-sidebar/ http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/2008/07/12/should-you-show-your-categories-and-archives-within-your-sidebar/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:00:04 +0000 Chris http://www.dorm-room-biz.com/?p=444 I’m working on a top secret thingamajig and have a question for you all. Plus I am thinking about shortening up the sidebar for Dorm Room Biz some. So, do you feel it is necessary to show your Categories section and Archives sections on your sidebar or somewhere on the main layout of your blog?

I currently have the archives area shown because it was a requirement for a couple different paid review websites that I use, however, as month after month passes, it gets so long! I either want to get rid of it or figure out how to shorten it to say maybe the last 5 months only.

The other area I am thinking about knocking off is the categories section. Do you use it? I know for me, if I was looking for something specific I would do a search on the website rather than utilize the categories on the sidebar. Now having the categories is good for when you want to link from a post to another area of your site (say a whole topic of posts such as business ideas or monetizing websites), but this is also a long list that as time goes on, will probably only get longer.

What do you guys think? Keep them, loose them, or keep one or the other?

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