Author Archives for Allen
My Best Earner
After a forced hiatus I’m slowly getting back into my normal routine and hopefully the new features for March should be up soon. Today I want to talk about something everybody has been asking about: my best earner.
Over the last 3 months I’ve been reading a lot of questions and even complaints in the comments […]
Now Hosted on A VPS
5 days after paying $500 for my new VPS from Media Temple, I finally get my sites up and working on their server. The damage done to me by the recent downtime is significant and not everything is working perfectly so far; the funny thing is - I may be moving again in less than […]
I Hate Dreamhost
One of the golden rules in blogging is to never get too emotionally involved, it usually leads to nothing but trouble.
But I’m going to break that rule because I’m about to go literally insane at the moment, and you know the reason. I guess I’m now learning what I’ve been told many times: You get […]
Domaining (UPDATED)
I promised March would be an even more exciting and interesting month here at AlleNation, and even though a leap into the domain market wasn’t planned, I found myself spending about $180 on 5 domain names since the beginning of the month.
When you first hear about someone spending “so much” on domain names you’d probably […]
Getting the Most Out of Paid Reviews
In this post we continue the series about paid reviews, it will give you no less than 12 tips on getting the most out of your reviews, whether they’re paid or not. Read the first two posts in this series before trying to grasp this one:
JohnChow.com Review - The Verdict
Should You Buy A Blog Review?
March Forward
The fact February only has 28 days didn’t help my Adsense averages, but instead of whining about this and about the fact that Dreamhost was down for a whole day and loading extremely slow (have you noticed it?) for the next last 5 days, I’m putting together a recovery plan to perform better in March.
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Should You Buy A Blog Review?
In the first post of this series I took John Chow’s review of my blog as a case study, my verdict was that the review was well worth the $100 I paid. After that post a lot of people were asking if it’s worth the current price - $250. Well, let’s see.
Before I you we […]
JohnChow.com Review - The Verdict
Some 20 days after I’ve been reviewed by request at John Chow Dot Com, I think it’s time to release a much awaited verdict. This post will actually kick off our next series, which will talk about blogging reviews: whether you need or should get one, and if you do - how to make the […]
3 Ways to Expand Your Potential Reader Base
Finding the right niche is often about finding the right audience, the audience you can connect, inspire or just feed with news and information from that topic.
Regardless of how well you’re currently doing with your own audience, expanding your potential reader base can only benefit you, delivering whatever kind of value freely to as many […]
Success May Only Seem Instant
I recently sat with a journalist for an interview about my online businesses, he asked me to bring some paper and statistics that may be worth a mention. One of the things I brought with me to the meeting was my Adsense earnings spreadsheet for 2006 and 2007, including a graph.
When the guy took a […]


