I discussed people flipping ads on John Chow’s site a couple of days ago and suggested the whole thing was becoming stale already. Now it looks like the man himself has had enough of people making money off his ads and John has put an end to ad flipping.

From his blog today:

I am putting an end to the ad flipping. Do not purchase an ad if you intend to flip it. I will not change the ad once it’s up. The first few flips were interesting but now it’s getting out of hand. I expect to have all ten slots filled within the next few hours. If you want one, better order it now.

I think this is a good move because there is only so far people can go with ad flipping. Let’s face it, people aren’t going to be able to do anything new with it and if things go on like this, outside advertisers could eventually have a stronghold on John’s own ad blocks. People could potentially continue buying up free ad spots and sell them on. That’s the way it was going.

This isn’t the same as targeting a blog with Adsense ads because this is done directly for profit. Things should start calming down now with all the ad mandness on JohnChow.com

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Shoemoney is a daily read for most bloggers – the dude has more than 10,000 RSS subscribers – but when was the last time you got some decent money-making advice from Shoemoney himself? Every day I log on to his blog and it’s nothing but off-topic ramblings, guest posts and boring snippets. The amount of useful content there has diminished rapidly.

Let’s look at what the most recent posts on Shoemoney have offered us:

• Shoemoney’s life goals
• Calling out DMoz
• Shoemoney’s trip to San Jose
• A Firefox extension
• DMoz extortion
• UFC post
• Another UFC post
• More posts about San Jose
• Guest post
• Guest post somebody copied from a book

And so on!

There hasn’t been anything useful written by Shoemoney for weeks. The most interesting thing recently were the pictures of the lunatic from the Digital Point forums who has tattoos of the DP logo and Shoemoney’s logo. You only have to take one look at the dude to know that something isn’t quite right there.

So what are people reading Shoemoney for? I mean, reading about the guy’s life is cool and all, but he doesn’t seem to do much these days except have his picture taken with people and give seminars.

I’ll admit, some of his guest posts are quite informative, but the last time Shoemoney wrote something related to making money that was worth reading was… well, I’m not sure. Has Shoemoney ever used his blog to write money-making tips?

I still read Shoemoney sometimes but I’m unsure why. His posts are short and all fairly pointless. If he wasn’t a millionaire there would be absolutely no reason to read his blog. It’s not his writing abilities, his storytelling skills or his immense wit that wins people over.

So come on, what is about Shoemoney that has everybody so enthralled?

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Linkworth, who I wrote about a couple of weeks back, have recently updated their control center in a bid to make things easier for people to work out what on earth is going on there. This comes as a welcome relief, but the site is still plagued with confusing names that will likely baffle newcomers.

So what’s in it for me?

Once you’ve got your sites in there, you have a number of ways to make money with your blogs.

Linkads

This is like Text Link Ads. You set a price for sitewide links and links on specific pages. Advertisers then contact you. There is also the option of selling rotating links.

Linkpost

As before, this is like Pay Per Post, except you wait for offers to come in. You set the price for each of your blogs and then advertisers find you. I have been offered posts through Linkpost already, but none of them are worth my time to accept because they are way off topic.

Linkintxt

This is still a cool thing. You sell links based on keywords in your blog posts. It’s not exactly revolutionary, but you get to set the price for each keyword.

Linksura

I didn’t notice this one before they remade the site. Linksura offers “single-url rotating ads”. What that means is that you place a single text link ad somewhere on your blog, and the anchor text changes with every page view, thought the url remains the same.

Linkmura

Another new one. Multi-url rotating ads this time. Both the anchor text and urls rotate. Seems like a bit of a gimmick.

LinkBB

This time you’re getting billboard ads.An advertiser writes a page of content with links that you then publish on your website. This is like Linkpost for people who don’t run blog software. For a blogger it’s not that useful.

Linkpack

This is a way to sell links on multiple blog in package deals. It’s not a bad idea in theory, but I’m unsure why you’d sell multiple links to the same person unless your blogs are about identical topics. It would also mean you make less money.

I’m not particularly impressed with the new Linkworth design because there is still no emphasis on making it clear exactly what is being offered by the company. That aside, there are some decent money making opportunities for bloggers hidden away in there. You earn up to 70% of the revenue you generate, which over time could mount up to a considerable sum.

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