Make Google Love You! Use Ad Sense.

This is strictly nonscientific, but it appears to me that the fastest way to get your site listed is to put Google AdSense ads on it. Mine always seem to appear quickly.

Coincidence? What do you think?

One of my blogs, Art Fun Cheap (http://www.artfuncheap.com) reached a PageRank of 4 in just three weeks. Of course, it also got most of its traffic from Google searches.

Apparently a lot of people were searching for that kind of information. Unfortunately they were not buying affiliate products.

Please comment, especially if you have information and/or a relevant link to share.

Marketing Makes Money? What a Concept!

I'm not sure how many blogs I actually have. They multiply like coat hangers.

I have two other active Blogger blogs and 1.213 zillion self-hosted WordPress blogs. I'm so addicted that I even make blogs for friends.

I started making blogs for marketing, but more often than not they...um...don't really make much money. What money they do make comes from AdSense---except for just enough affiliate sales at the beginning on one of my early blogs, Blog Design Journal (http://www.blogdesignjournal.com), to get one payment from ClickBank.

So I joined a Howie Schwartz challenge, "Who Is the Most Exceptional Marketer?" and I'm going to try to focus on marketing instead of...well...design and fun content.

It's only a 10-day challenge. So neither you nor I have long to wait to find out how this ends on July 9/10.

Meanwhile, you might want to read my snarky remarks about marketing mistakes on one of my other blogs: http://www.marketingsnark.com

And you can follow this project on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/whatmarketing