$1M a year in Google Adsense

$1M a year in Google Adsense (or why 2,739 is my favorite number)From the article:If back in September when we started playing with Google Adsense someone told me it would turn into a $1M a year business I would have laughed. A million bucks without a sales person? Give me a break!However, yesterday we broke our $2,100 record with a $2,335 day.

Shopping.com stats

Let's you see what people are shopping for:Shopping.com stats

Simple content can drive traffic

Look at how simple this page is:Strange Things You Likely Didn't KnowHowever, it is an interesting page when you read it. It got picked up by Digg.com and sent a lot of traffic to the site. You can see the spike if you look it up in Alexa.

Looking at other web sites

As discussed in Creating a custom web site, there is a lot to be learned by looking at other web sites for ideas. I found this site interesting: Welcome to The WorldIt is a totally Flash site, which I would not recommend as a general rule because of indexing problems and (in many cases) cost issues. However, it has an unusual but helpful navigation tool that may be useful in other projects, and

Site ideas

Look at these sites for ideas on the "look" of your site: css thesis

Starting a blog

A nice set of tips to keep in mind if you are starting a blog:7 Mistakes for your First Week Blogging

Promoting an idea on the Web

Let's say that you have a new idea that you would like to promote. You want to introduce people to your idea, get comments and see how much the idea spreads. It could be something totally normal (a new way to save the whales) or totally outlandish (a new way to create a perpetual motion machine). If so, then one way to promote the idea is to use the Web.One of the best examples of a

FLIPBOOK!

Fun, interesting idea for a web site:FLIPBOOK!

'Penguins' film is resonant

There was the post several weeks ago entitled Creating a billion dollar idea. It asked the question, "Is there a new franchise that you could start and publish on the Web?" This article shows that one possible answer to that question is penguins: 'Penguins' film poised to be No. 2 U.S. documentaryFrom the article: "Warner Independent Pictures on Friday more than doubled the number of theaters

The mind of a millionaire

This started with one of those uncomfortable airport "experiences", where you end up spending 12 hours on the ground because the airport system is not working. In this case, the problem was a huge line of thunderstorms that stood between where I was and where I was heading.So I was trapped in the airport, and fortunately it had a used book store. One of the books on the shelf was "The Millionaire