MobileTracker.net - Another Money Making Blog
Author: Hock
10
Oct
I read this article in Fortune about Jon Gales whose blog MobileTracker.net earns more than $5,000 per month from Google AdSense. This from a kid who is 19 and still in college. The site has been in existence for about a year and a half and gets over 200,000 visitors per month. That’s pretty good stats.
I checked the blog just now and noticed that Adsense ads has been replaced with Chitika mini malls. However, if you look at the archives, you’ll still see the AdSense ads. Take note of the color scheme for the ads. The title and text match the color of the post title and body and the URL is just a lighter shade of blue. The layout integrates the ads to make them look like part of the posts. This is a common strategy for AdSense publishers, i.e. making ads blend into the rest of the page content.
Check out his other blogs: Carbwire, GoogleRumors.
Carbwire is PR6 and has 1,210 backlinks in Google. Mobiletracker is also PR6 and has 1,790 backlinks in Google.
Also, the list of media mentions for MobileTracker and Carbwire is impressive.
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5 Responses for "MobileTracker.net - Another Money Making Blog"
Thanks for the plug. I have a few things to note though:
1) That article is about a year old so that stats are all different (I’m older, not in school right now, the site’s a year older, ad income has increased, etc).
2) I have not replaced AdSense for anything, on the front page I am trying out the MiniMalls because the front page of any site is usually not a very good spot for AdSense. It’s not targeted. There’s only a few thousand impressions on the front page on any given day anyway, a small portion of traffic.
3) The list of media mentions for MobileTracker is long because of the time put into it. I go to events, meet the people etc. On my desk right now there are five or six phones that I’m in the process of reviewing. It’s not a job that anyone could do, but when it comes down to it I love phones and I really enjoy what I do. Luckily it happens to be lucrative.
4) Making people register to contact you is bad usability. At least put up a contact form.
Thanks for stopping by. I’m glad that your ad income has increased. It looks like you’ve put in a lot of hard work into both your blogs. By the way, I enforced the user registration to reduce the amount of comment spam.
I’m all about not having spam, but forcing people to register is a great way to not get comments. I only registered because I couldn’t find another way to contact you. If you had a contact form (like I have on MobileTracker) you don’t have to worry about spam bots picking up your email address. And if you turn on comment moderation you won’t have to worry about comment spam making it to the public site.
I recently turned on comments at MobileTracker and haven’t had many spam problems. I do a few behind the scene things to stop potential spammers, but also watch the comments very closely. In a month and a half or so of comments (roughly 600 individual comments) I’ve only had to delete a few.
Thanks for your suggestions, Jon. I’ll turn on comments and monitor it to see how it goes.
I’m glad that your ad income has increased. It looks like you’ve put in a lot of hard work into both your blogs. By the way, I enforced the user registration to reduce the amount of comment spam.
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