Posts by Joel Comm

About Joel Comm

Joel is an Internet entrepreneur who has been online for over twenty years. In 1995, he launched WorldVillage.com, a family-friendly portal to the web which enjoys thousands of visitors each day. He is the co-creator of ClassicGames.com, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 1997, and is now known as Yahoo! Games. Joel has launched dozens of web sites, including the popular bargain-hunting shopping site, DealofDay.com, SafetySurf.com and FamilyFirst.com. Joel is the Internet Revenue Expert, speaking and writing on topics that help people make money online. He is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, "The AdSense Code", and Host & Executive Producer of "The Next Internet Millionaire", the world's first competitive Internet reality show. You can find Joel on Twitter: @joelcomm.

Treat Your Competitors As Partners

Even though you want to produce the best content you can — and content that’s better that anyone else’s — you should still be thinking of other people writing about the same topic as potential partners, rather than competitors.

New AdSense Options for Blogger.com Users

It looks like bloggers on Blogger have got a bit of testing to do.

Google has announced on its AdSense blog that it’s now possible place ads between posts on Blogger. In the past, if you wanted to use Blogger’s automated AdSense system, you could only put your units at the top, bottom or side of the page.

Oh My Gosh… It’s Omakase!

It was bound to happen. Amazon has entered the contextual advertising game. In case you haven’t yet heard, Amazon.com’s system is called Omakase. Basically, Omakase places AdSense-style ad units on publishers’ Web pages, serving ads to products in the Amazon …

Innovation – The Secret of Giant Success

Surf the Web for more than about five minutes and you’ll start to recognize a pattern: there are a small number of great sites that do fantastic things… and a very large number of me-too sites that try to make …

Is Your Site Fully Monetized?

I’m very happy with AdSense. Ever since I figured out the strategies to make the most of those ad units, I’ve been thrilled at the income I’ve been seeing. But as far as I’m concerned, revenues are a bit like …

Blogging – AdSense For Beginners

Those of you who have been reading my site JoelComm.com (and that’s all of you, right?) will know that my mom has just started blogging. I’m so proud of her. You can see her blog at www.travelswithsheila.com, and most importantly …

Searching For The Perfect AdSense Site

Ask a writer what the hardest part of writing a book is and you know what he’ll say?

No, not starting…

Stopping.

I have the same feeling whenever I write one of my books. I’m always wondering if I haven’t …

Fancy Owning a Magazine?

One of the strategies for making lots of money with AdSense is so obvious that it rarely gets mentioned: build lots of Web pages.

That’s pretty obvious, right? The more Web pages you have, the more opportunity you’ll have to …

AdSense – From Zero to Hero

I’ve got a brand new case study for you to show just how incredibly
easy it is to get started with AdSense.

The target of my case study?

My mother.

Now lest you think I am going to pick on …

What Images Can You Put Next To Your Ads?

Building a successful AdSense publishing business is very easy. All you have to do is make sure that your users can see your ads… without seeing that they’re looking at ads.

That’s easy, right?

If it was really easy, the …