Dave and Jay - Crazy Web Entrepreneurs

This isn’t really related to our business per se, but a general business principle when dealing with people.
I went boxing day shopping on the 26th, because everywhere had crazy deals going on. I probably spent more than i should’ve but I’ll just tighten up the draw strings a bit over the next few months.
On my […]

As Dave posted we are planning on a major gear up for 2007, in some ways I have to admit I am a little skitish going in espically after the rough ride Google has been giving us the past few months both with a suspected month of smart pricing and following it up this month […]

Jason and I have decided that what’s really needed to take this business from the “hobby” level to the “job” level is a commitment to the amount of time spent on it. So we’re taking a bit of a step of faith and will be committing two days of the week as a work day […]

With the mightly Google hammer having just struck down our favorite adsense technique we are desperately in search of another adsense strategy which can if not replicate the same CTR rate at least keep our business viable and strong..
As usual Dave and I take wildly different approaches to this problem, Dave has always been the […]

So upon doing some testing, an Adsense layout with just images isn’t all that bad. Don’t get me wrong it doesn’t have a CTR as high as the rate we got with images near the adsense but it’s still at a workable % so I’m pretty happy about that.

Well folks its offical… Not that many would really say they are suprised but Google has begun cracking down on sites using the old image beside the adsense trick sending out vague template emails seemingly at random…
Why are they doing this ? I don’t know.. On one side they claim to be looking out for […]

Now that we’ve recouped Novembers earnings drop the emotional element that existed in October is starting to play a major role in the business at least from my perspective…
We currently have 1 major hurdle left to jump before this business becomes more then just a hobby and that is Google’s dislike of our adsense integration.. […]

I find it rather funny that the minute Dave gets excited about monetizing a site which has been getting 35-45 thousand visitors a month for awhile now suddenly its traffic drops from 1500-1600/day to 800/day… Oh wait I own half of that site to…. ahhh crap

So I’m continuing in my quest to earn something out of the traffic on our Myspace Layout site, because it does geta good chunk of  traffic and it’s just costing us bandwidth at the moment. Casale media turned us down, I’m not really sure why…we didn’t get an explanation. So I consulted John Chow’s handy […]

I logged in this evening to see Dave had posted about our recent upsurge in earnings.. Granted we’re only 4 days into this upswing but it does seem promising.. Our CTR seems to be dropping but our CPM is VERY close to our previous earnings so I’ll be crossing my fingers.
In other news our private […]