As of today, if you write a good hack or tip for Mac Geekery and have an AdSense account, you can have 75% of the revenue from the article.
Which is to say: you can make money by posting good, popular tips here.
How this works is that the code on the site that displays the ads has been setup in such a fashion that if the author of the page being displayed has an AdSense ID in his profile, then 75% of the page views will display that ID instead of the site ID. If you have AdSense for your own site, just put the code into your profile and then post a good article to the site. If the article is approved, then you can help promote the article and earn some money while you’re at it.
Don’t have a website, or AdSense? That’s okay, it’s a free service from Google. Just use this site’s name when signing up if you don’t already have a site.
Why should I post here? I have a blog.
Yes, but you don’t have our traffic. You’ll make more money here.
And so will you!
Yes, we’re hosting it. However, you’re getting most of it. Think of us as the CafePress of Mac tips, only the pay scale is the other way around.
How does this work?
Get your code from AdSense (it looks like “pub-##########”) and put it into the AdSense section of your account profile.
Now, go add a blog entry. Once you’ve done that, we’ll be notified of a submission and we’ll approve or reject it. If it’s approved, you’ll be emailed a URL to promote (Digg, del.icio.us, your own blog, whatever) and off it goes.
As the page is viewed, the site will include your account code in 75% of the page views, and ours in 25% of them (approximate). All accounting and money handling will be done by Google.
I already have a tip posted here.
Then update your profile. We’ll start inserting your code immediately.
Okay, what kind of stuff do you want?
We would love detailed articles on how to accomplish something useful with the tools that come with the computer (like that live audio one). Next best would be hardware hacking or the use of a non-GUI tool to do something amazing. In short: we want something geeky and useful.
In return, you get (some) fame and (some) fortune. We think it’s fair. What do you think?
I don’t see an “AdSense section of your account profile”.
Now I do; sorry.
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