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Six of the best: Recommended Reads
Six sites to make your feedreader happy
Summer has always been somewhat of a quiet time on the blogging front, with folk jetting off on holiday and enjoying the sunshine - anything other than being cooped up indoors writing. [read more...]
Balancing AdSense with User Experience
Happy users + effective monetisation?
I've been spending some time recently optimising the advertising here on Modern Life, and I've been trying a number of approaches to increase earnings while maximising user experience. It's a tricky balancing act, as effective ads are generally more obtrusive ones. Is there an effective way to keep both effective adverts and happy users? [read more...]
How To Get A Six Figure Blogging Income
In just a few simple & logical steps...
Blogging is easy; it’s the getting rich whilst doing it that’s difficult. Fear not, though, as here’s everything you need to know in one simple (and logical) diagram. [read more...]
Ethical Blogging 101
On what can be deemed acceptable, and otherwise.
Blogging is an area that can be fraught with legal and ethic issues - in many ways these reflect the way journalism is affected by ethics and the law, but with blogging there's one significant difference - anybody may start a blog on just about any topic. The barriers to entry normally associated with the press are effectively gone - and passionate folk now have near absolute free reign to write whatever and however they please. [read more...]
Test Driving Text Link Ads
For fun and profit
The service offered by Text Link Ads is a little different to other advertising solutions - rather than pay per action, click or impression, payouts are based on an allotted value per month for a text link placed on a given site. [read more...]
AdCalc: PPC Estimation tool
Predict your Adsense/YPN/et al. potential with this neat web tool.
If you’re a PPC publisher, using a service such as Google Adsense or the Yahoo! Partner Network, if you take it at least half seriously you’re most likely a chronic statistics addict – I know I am! But what to do when you’re up to date on today’s stats? Why, you can make some earning projections, of course – and my new tool (largely created for my own benefit) can help. [read more...]
Modern Life is no longer updated.
After a long hiatus due to increased working commitment, lack of inspiration, and unclear goals: I've decided not to rekindle this blog but to start anew in more fertile soil. Modern Life will remain online as-is for the forseeable future.
I'm now posting at my new blog, User Interfaced.




