I launched a new blog entitled, "Money With AdSense"...

http://www.moneywithadsense.com/

It's pretty clear on what it's about: how to make money using AdSense.

I know there's already glut of these websites around. But I figured, "why not", since I already have a lot of knowledge about this in my noodle. Even if it doesn't make a ton of money for me, it'll still make some money.

The biggest reason why I wanted to get into this is because there's just a lot of people out there still looking to make money from their websites, and they still don't know how to help themselves. I've two people already, who created a website to promote their business, but want to leverage ads to help make a little bit more money.

I've run across several people who make pretty good money teaching people how make money on the Internet. These people are not even experts on AdSense or affiliate marketing. They're just experts at making people think they're experts. It's just insane, and I kept thinking how terribly late for lunch I am.

Free On Ancestry is a new website-weblog hybrid we launched.

For the most part, it's a website that doesn't need to be updated all that much once everything is complete. The site itself is largely complete, with a few more static HTML pages I need to finish.

The site is centered around a blog, found here.

The blog features all of the free content offered by Ancestry.com, our largest affiliate partner. Each free-content page on Ancestry.com is represented as a blog-post on Free On Ancestry. But instead of activating Blogger's built-in archiving system, I created static HTML pages that link to each blog post.

While Free On Ancestry uses affiliate links to link to Ancestry.com's content, it's not expected to earn much affiliate revenue for us. Rather, the site is being built to create buzz and search engine food, with the goal of highlighting our flagship website, Interment.net

Even if Free On Ancestry doesn't live up to its expectations, the site will require almost no on-going maintenance, so we can just let it run forever.

Blog Network Watch posted visitor stats for Shiny Media, saying the network boasted a total of 2.3 million people visiting its websites in the month of November.

Our network of websites hosted a total of 2.56 million people for the same period. Keep in mind that our network includes both blogs and non-blog sites. And this figure only includes visitors downloading our webpages. It doesn't include people who subscribe to our RSS feeds.

But kudos to Shiny Media for growing that quickly in just a span of more than 3 years. By comparison, our oldest website was launched nearly 10 years ago. The people at Shiny Media have figured it out!

According to Kineda's blogebrity calculator, I'm an A-list blogger, by virtue of our Strange New Products blog.

Though, I'm a B-list blogger on some other of our blogs, and a C-list blogger on yet others.

I'm still listed as a C-list blogger on Blogebrity.com (Johnson, Steve), but for DoggieNews.

Kineda's blogebrity calculator is simply a measurement of how many other blogs have linked to your blog within a specific time frame. Blogebrity.com's list is human-edited based on gut-feel, though I'm not sure they're still maintaining it.

But the truth is that if I were to show up at a blog convention, or a blog party, no one would recognize me. In fact, no one really blogs about me by name, rather they refer to me by my blog, "Strange New Products". I'm not really sure that makes me an A-list blogger.

We're changing the focus of our real estate blog from general real estate news, to real estate technology, more specifically, as it relates to using the Internet.

A few reasons caused us to make this change...

1. There are already several blogs on the real estate industry, and all of them excruciatingly boring. We think all people love high-tech, and we're guessing that real estate professionals love high-tech real estate stuff.

2. Real estate agents and brokers using blogs to market their services and properties is really hot right now. We want to use our real estate blog to help them blog better.

3. We need a specific angle to brand ourselves with. As it is now, our real estate blog was not much different than the other hundreds of real estate blogs. So, this will help differentiate us from the rest.