Aug 17
A new way to make money from yer blog
You know that in recent months I have been doing quite a bit to see if I can make a few schkels from this blog. And it is paying off. Well yet another company is trying to help people make the most out of their blog and its visitors. This time the person doing the program is a MIT-trained computational linguist. I installed it yesterday and it works fine. It is a free service that adds links to the various key phrases on the site (via a mouse-over). It comes up in a window with links to Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Shopping.com, Technorati, craigslist, and many other web sites. The Ontok Highlighter adds links to keyphrases in your website that are highly informative. (Check out their web site for a demo, or generate the code for your blog.)
It is early days yet but it is a pretty good bit of free code. You can choose the colour, background and size of the pop-up to maximise its use and minimise the amount of bother it causes. Anything that aims to maximise the earning potential of any blog is a good thing by my estimation. It also helps that, unlike other similar services, their site is pretty easy to use and navigate round.
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Interesting. I might try that out on Parents Behaving Badly and see how it works. Thanks!
hello- i’m not a fan of the ontok thing…it’s annoying- for example, where you have ‘computational linguist’ i moused over to see if the link lead to maybe an article about the particular person, a photo, a myspace page, but no. it was just an ad. ew!