Traveling Webmaster

Pay your respects to the guy who blazed the trail that all travel bloggers follow.

How to increase page speed by shedding unneed plugins.

Those ad units do more than make you money.

How I turn copyright violations into backlinks.

In January of 2013 Google made a major change in the formatting of their image search results which gorged the traffic of sites that publish large amounts of photos.

How I make — and don’t make — money from my blogs through advertising.

I’ve been blogging for nine years, and this profession has transformed completely since I began. We’re going back to our roots: old school travel blogging.

Update, 23/01/2013: After submitting an appeal, Adsense re-enabled ad serving to this site. I’m not sure if I’m going to put the ads back up, please read this article and tell me your opinion in the comments below. I received the proverbial pink slip from Google’s Adsense program a few days ago. They notified me [...]

How much money can you make serving Chitika ads on your site? Pretty much none. Seriously, Chitika has to be one of the worst major ad platforms for publishers out there in terms of payouts. In point, you run their ads, send traffic to their clients, and you receive pennies — literally — in return. What [...]