300% more than Adsense — If you use Adsense to monetize your website, you probably know that the RPMs from Adsense are often terrible. RPM stands for revenue per mille. It’s a measure of how much an ad network will pay you for 1,000 pageviews on your site. On my own niche sites, I was…

Less than you think, but it’s still a huge deal — YouTube Shorts monetization is almost here! Google announced last year that it would begin to share ad revenue with YouTube creators in early 2023. More recently, Google shared that the official start date for YouTube Shorts monetization via ad revenue will be February 1. Creators in the Partner Program will…

It could save the planet — but in some places, it will land you in jail — You’ve heard of recycling. You’ve heard of upcycling. But there’s a hot new eco-trend on the rise: chickencycling. Chickencycling is recycling food scraps by feeding them to chickens instead of composting them or throwing them away. Home chicken keepers have long saved on food costs by giving their flocks food…

And why I use Premium — If you’re considering using software to help edit your writing or improve your communications, you’ve probably heard of Grammarly. I love Grammarly, and I use it every day as a professional writer and journalist. Grammarly Review, from a Professional Writer and Blogger I expected to hate it, but now I can’t live without itdiylifetech.com A lot of people wonder whether Grammarly is free, or whether you need to pay for…

Air purifiers work wonders to reduce the risk — People have been up in arms lately about a surprising object: the gas stove. Millions of American homes have gas stoves. Chefs often prefer them over electric stoves because they are easier to control and provide heat more quickly. …

All good content follows these stages — but you can help your articles along — If you’re new to the world of creating content, the process of getting your articles, blog posts, or Medium stories seen and ranked by search engines like Google can seem mysterious. In reality, though, content follows a predictable life cycle that’s fairly easy to understand and monitor. These days, search…

It didn’t create the impact the company wanted — Amazon announced in an email on January 18, 2022 that it would wind down the AmazonSmile program in approximately one month, on February 20, 2023. The AmazonSmile program had provided donations to charities based on users shopping on Amazon. When users made a purchase through the program, a charity of…

It’s part of a commentary on the physical footprint of the Internet — The Internet feels ephemeral, but in reality, it’s a very physical place. The websites we visit, videos we watch, and Tweets we doomscroll are all sent to us from massive banks of servers in endless data centers. Those servers have a very real physical footprint — and very real environmental…

I expected to hate it, but now I can’t live without it — When I first heard about Grammarly, I expected to hate it. Now, after using it for over a year, I can’t live without it. I’m generally skeptical about AI writing tools. And as a professional writer, the idea of having a robot breathe down my neck as I wrote —…