With the increase in ad blocking, many bloggers and website owners are turning to different business models in order to generate an income from their content. One popular route is to charge people directly for reading your articles. There are different ways to do this. One way is to divide …
More and more internet users are blocking ads in order to “improve” their online experience. This is something that will greatly affect most website owners at some point in the future. Last week, I tackled the issue of blocking ads in my post “Blocking Internet Ads is Ethical, But So …
The act of blocking advertisements online is not new. People have been using ad-blocking scripts for years to stop advertisements being displayed when they browse the web. The question is: Is this ethical? The BBC posed this question last week in an article entitled “Is it ethical to block adverts …
Love them or loathe them; Pop ups are one of the most effective ways of converting your visitors to subscribers. I have tried several solutions in the past. The last popup plugin I used actively on all my websites was Pippity, however I found it to be very buggy. The …
Brave markets its browser as improving speed, security and privacy. Their browser incorporates ad-blocking functionality to prevent disable advertisements and trackers. Whilst I do support security and privacy, I cannot recommend anyone to use their browser. Unfair to Website Owners The marketing team from Brave approached me a year or …
I first launched KevinMuldoon.com in 2002. At that point, I had been working online for a few years. Buying my name ensured that I held the domain name for my name and brand, however for the first few years I just used it as a CV type website which advised …
Elmedia Player is a free video player for Mac that works with the majority of audio and video formats on the market. The player works with AVI, FLV, SWF, MP4, WMV, MOV, MP3, DAT, FLAC, M4V, MPG, DivX and MKV files. It was developed by Eltima Software; who are the …
Advertising remains one of the key ways of monetising a website. This is particularly true for content websites that increase profits by increasing page views. Apart from widgets, the core version of WordPress does not give you any functionality to integrate banners and track advertising on your website. Thankfully, there …
WP File Download is a feature packed WordPress file manager solution from JoomUnited. It allows you to upload files to your website and categorise them. You can then display files and categories of files to website visitors in a user-friendly AJAX powered directory. It has a lot of great features …
An email list means big business for organizations. In fact, it’s not only a beautiful way to get people back to your online store, blog or forum, but if you have enough people on the list it serves as a way to show off your social credibility. Telling people that your …