I recently came across this site on my hunt for more homebusiness knowledge: PowerHomeBiz.com. It looks to be interesting site, so check it out.

I liked this tip from this article:

12. Blogs monetized by ads. One low-cost way of earning money from home is by starting a blog and monetizing it via advertising. Blogs, or web blogs, are commentaries, opinions or information that uses a dated log format. The key to a successful blog is to write about topics where advertisers abound, and those are usually topics that bring in visitors looking for ways to spend money. Instead of writing about personal musings, the commercially successful blogs are those that are able to generate a wide audience, and depending on the advertising programs implemented, with users that are responsive to ads.

Read How to Make Money from Blogs.

But, it is NOT a get rich fast scheme. You need to put some work and effort also into it…

I got hold of today a simple, but very easy to use PHP-script that randomly displays blocks of text. You have to embed the text or link or code you need to show directly in the code, but that’s easy. Just look at the code below.

< ?
//set the urls
$urls = array(
'- Insert text/link/code here -',
'- Insert text/link/code here -');
 
srand(time());
 
//set the number in (rand()%3); for however many links there are
$random = (rand()%2);
echo ("$urls[$random]");
?>

Just picked this article up today. Look to be a great article filled with tips on how to get people to join membership sites. So now we know.

Need a PHP-script to do the job for free…? Try Joomla and some of it’s many plugins.

Article marketing is a good start to gain more visitors to your blog/forum/webshop. Just write a article that corresponds to your niche or theme for the blog or forum. If you do moviereviews on your blog, write some good article on how to save money on movies. If you blog about cooking and recipes, write some articles on cooking. The articles will spread over the net and give you backlinks to your blog or forum or webshop.

So how do I start doing this…?

Start by reading the first post in these forumthreads below:
- Article Marketing 101
- Article Marketing 102 (deleted…?)
The best advice I have ever seen so far.

Here comes the different sizes in pixles of the banner ads:

• Banners and Buttons
• 728 x 90 – Leaderboard banner ad
• 468 x 60 – Full horizontal banner
• 234 x 60 – Half banner
• 125 x 125 – Square button
• 120 x 240 – Vertical banner
• 120 x 90 – Button
• 120 x 60 – Button
• 88 x 31 – Micro button
• Rectangles and Pop-Ups
• 300 x 250 – Medium rectangle
• 250 x 250 – Square pop-up
• 240 x 400 – Vertical rectangle
• 336 x 280 – Large rectangle
• 180 x 150 – Rectangle
• 425 x 600 – Extra large rectangle
• 425 x 500 – Extra large rectangle
• 425 x 425 – Extra large rectangle
• Skyscrapers (Vertical banner ads)
• 160 x 600 - Wide skyscraper
• 120 x 600 – Skyscraper
• 300 x 600 - Half page ad

See the grapics representation of the banner ad sizes here.