John Chow on How to Make Money Blogging


One of my favorite blogs to read is John Chow’s http://www.johnchow.com/. The content is always fresh and John is never afraid to share his secrets, especially in relation to making money through blogging.

John Chow has recently released a FREE eBook in which he shares numerous methods on how he got from making $0 to over $10,000/month with blogging. Download it HERE.


Here are some of the main sections covered in this 59 page eBoook:

  • My Recommended Money Makers
  • Beginner’s Blogging Tips
  • Must Have WordPress Stuff
  • Pumping out Content
  • Monetize your Blog
  • Google Optimization
  • Promotion Ideas
  • My Story

Link to John Chow’s eBook:
http://www.johnchow.com/book/make-money-online.pdf

Enhance Usability with Eye Tracking

If you’re interested in truly understanding how visitors interact with your site then I recommend using Eye Tracking. The results from Eye Tracking can really help you improve the usability of your website and can help answer numerous questions:


  • How visitors use your site?
  • How easy is your site to use?
  • What features/advertising are visitors glancing right over?
  • How effective are your landing pages?
  • How will users react to a new design?
  • Are users reading your messaging on your site and on search engine results pages?

After data is collected with Eye Tracking you can generate a heat map (similar to the one above) which shows the areas on a web page where visitors’ eyes spent the most time gazing. If you’re interested in using Eye Tracking on your website, search marketing Firm, Enquiro, has become a leader in providing usability testing through their Eye Tracking Panels.

Below is a video of an actual eye tracking session being done on the home page of Enquiro.com. In the video you can totally see where users are scanning and what parts of the website they find interesting. Go to Enquiro’s Eye Tracking page to find out more information.

Link to Video

May – The Month for Acquisitions

There were numerous partnerships and acquisitions in the month of May, which included a lot of dollars changing hands. Let’s look at some of the major deals that went down this past month

Google and Microsoft seem to be positioning themselves strategically in order to keep up with each other in the war for Internet dominance. I expect to see this trend of acquisitions continuing strong into the summer.

Do leave a comment if I have missed any major partnerships or purchases.