A Web Entrepreneur's Journal

No new article for REA article this week. Instead, I’ve added some design elements to the site, including a favicon, a banner and a set of icons that goes along with each heading.

This month I’ve begun work on a new book project. For now, I will call it the Handbook of Peak Everything, or HOPE for short. This book will summarize a number of challenges facing humanity in the years ahead on the global level, and attempt to provide solutions to them. The problems will be those [...]

Last week I joined the YouTube Partnership Program. The income from this partnership has now started to show so I want to share the statistics I’ve gathered so far. First I need to clear up a few things stated previously regarding the program. When joining the program YouTube says they pay mostly for views (CPM) [...]

It has been four month since I last went through the ranking and page view statistics for my sites. Last time was in August of this year. Let’s start with the page views. Compared with four months ago, each site has gain a significant amount of traffic. Not surprisingly, PVT gained the most with 6000 [...]

Today I was accepted into the YouTube Partnership Program, which allows me to earn money through ads on YouTube. I applied to this program in the beginning of 2011, but at the time PVT’s channel wasn’t popular enough to be accepted. You can only apply once to the program, so if you’ve applied and been [...]

In an attempt to further increase the exposure of my books, I’ve now published them to Google Books. This is a free service that leverages the power of Google to help people find your books. A book published to Google Books will be searchable not only on Google Books, but also on Google Search. This [...]

Click-through rate (CTR) is one of the three factors that determine how much money a website will generate. The other two factors are page impressions and average cost per click. In essence, every monetization strategy – whether ads, affiliate links or product/services – requires visitors to click through one or more links. In this post [...]

For the past week I’ve been working at promoting my books better through my sites. The books are now visible on the frontpage of Siforia. I’ve also enlarged the sidebar book ad over at PVT, similar to how the books appear on HOS and PWM. Finally, I’ve added a sidebar book ad here on WEJ [...]

The copyright infringement issue last week, where some of my YouTube videos had been reuploaded to YouTube and MediaFire, has now been resolved. MediaFire responded promtly and in 4 days time they removed not only the files, but also the account of the perpetrator. YouTube’s Copyright Complaint Form took a few more days to process. [...]