My quest to make money on the internet

Hosting with justhost.com

2009-10-26T06:39:00.004Z

As you can see from my recent post Personal Blog Update I have started a new Wordpress blog on my own domain name martinwsmith.co.uk which I have hosted with justhost.com. I would like to do a quick review of their services and introduce their affiliate program. All prices here are in GBP but justhost.com offer their services in the US, Canada, Australia and across Europe and you will be charged in your local currency.

justhost.com

justhost.com's basic service starts from £2.95/month upto 6.95/month depending on how long you pay for in advance, if you pay for 3 years hosting up front you pay the equivalent of £2.95/month(£106.20). If you pay for 3 years you also get your domain name for free and there are no setup fees. The less time you pay for upfront the more the monthly charge is, but these charges are still very reasonable, I paid for 6 months at £5.95/month plus £5,95 for my domain (£41.65 in total). When my hosting comes up for renewal I think I will go for 3 years as this is the most cost effective.

What do you get?

Below is a list of some of the features you get no matter how much you pay:

£75 worth of Marketing Credits (Google Adwords etc.)
Unlimited Disk Space
Unlimited Transfer
Unlimited Domains
Unlimited Sub-domains
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited MySQL Databases
Easy Install Script Library (Scripted installs of Wordpress, PHPWiki etc)
Easy to use control Panel
Lots more.

Getting setup with an account was a breeze, I was up and running in no time. justhost.com also have a large number of video tutorials to help you get started with the features they offer and how to use the Control Panel. Once I had my account I transferred my Wordpress.com blog to my new host very quickly, it was all very easy. I am very happy with my choice of host, a lot of other hosts I looked at limited the amount of disk space and transfer bandwidth allocated to you at a higher price. I highly recommend justhost.com to anyone looking to host their own website/blog/forum etc.

justhost.com Affiliate Program

After experiencing justhost.com's services first hand I was happy to join their affiliate program, they offer $60 for every referral that signs up for an account. This is a great deal, not only do I get a great host but just by recommending a product that I like I can make money too. Like any affiliate program justhost.com have the usual banner and link ads to help you promote them. Payments can be by cheque or Paypal, I haven't recieved any payments yet so I can't say anything about that yet, but I will post an update sometime on how it's going.

Personal Blog Update

2009-10-25T11:12:00.004Z

I've now purchased the martinwsmith.co.uk domain name and moved my personal blog to http://blog.martinwsmith.co.uk. There's going to be a lot happening soon, I'm going to have a new personal website as well as a website for my own Company and my blogs are going to be seeing some more action too. So stay tuned..

Announcing New Blog

2009-10-18T07:25:00.003Z

Yesterday I setup my new Personal Blog, it can be found here. It has nothing to do with money making, its not even monetized at all, it's just a place to record my thoughts and ideas. There's nothing much there at the moment just a short introduction, but I've got lots of post in mind.

Fell free to drop by and say hello.

rssHugger, Just Another Feed Directory?

2008-02-04T06:00:00.000Z

In the never ending quest to promote blog and feed I've registered with rssHugger, another feed directory.

What makes this one special that I'm dedicating a whole post to it? To be honest, I'm not sure at the moment, it just looks like a feed directory like any other, you can search for topics, there is a list of the most recently added and a Top 100. Pretty standard stuff really, the only reason I'm writing a post about it at all is that is part of the registration process, you either have to pay $20 dollars to add your blog or write a post about it. I chose to write the post, at the end of the day it costs me nothing, they get another backlink and a plug.

Once I've written this post and published it, I can then go and add this blog to the directory, this then gives me my own page with links to my posts and feed subscription. I will write an update to this post once my page is up and running.

$20 in FREE Clicks from Bidvertiser

2008-01-30T18:00:00.000Z

If you fancy a bit of free advertising for your blog or website then Bidvertiser are offering $20 worth of free clicks when you sign up. There is no obligation to spend anymore than this, upon sign up you will be asked for your credit card details but you will only be charged if you go over the $20. You can have your ads placed on hundreds of sites in less than 10 minutes for free, just click here.

Poll Result - What do you think of the new look?

2008-01-30T09:56:00.000Z

Not exactly an overwhelming response to the poll, 10 people liked the new look and 2 people didn't care, with over 2,000 visitors in the past week, that's less than 1% response rate.

Photo by MarilynJane

Thank you to those that did respond even if it's just to say you didn't care. I'll try to make the next poll a bit more interesting and hopefully I'll get a few more responses.

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Bidvertiser, a possible alternative to Adsense

2008-01-29T09:11:00.000Z

With so many people these days having their Adsense accounts closed for little or no fathomable reason, I thought it prudent to look for an alternative, just in case this happens to me.

The first alternative I'm trying at the moment is Bidvertiser. Bidvertiser have 3 programs you can can use, Advertiser, Publisher and Referral.

Advertiser Program

The advertiser program is for placing your own ads on other peoples sites, this works on a bidding system, I haven't looked into this much as I currently have no plans to advertise this blog through them.

Publisher Program

The publisher program allows you to display ad boxes of various sizes and shape on your site, they look a lot like Adsense ad boxes. Adsense and Bidvertiser differ in that Bidvertiser ads are not contextual, they are not related to the content of your site but are bidded on by advertisers.

Listed here are some pros and cons to this method of displaying ads as I see them:

Pros

The price-per-click you get is based on the quality and popularity of your website. The more popular and appealing your site is, the higher price-per-click you will get.
Sites with little content or Flash sites will benefit more from this.
You can approve or deny the ads that are shown.

Cons

Ads aren't as targeted to content, if you have keyword rich content this will not matter.
To make the ads more targeted takes more effort as you will have to approve or deny ads.
Bidvertiser is not used as widely by advertisers as Adsense.

As well as ads on your site you can also add Bidvertiser ads to your RSS Feed, this gives you a further avenue for monetization.

Referral Program

The referral program allows you to refer both publishers and advertisers, below are the payment levels:

When a user signs as an advertiser and first spends $10, we'll credit your account with $5. When that same advertiser spends $50, you will be credited with an additional $20.
When a user signs as a publisher and first earns $10, we'll credit your account with $10. When that same publisher earns $50, you will be credited with an additional $40.

Conclusion

Signing up to Bidvertiser was simple and was approved straight away and I had the ad units setup with in a matter of minutes. Adding ads to my RSS Feed was also a breeze, setting up took very little time.

Its too early to tell yet whether or not Bidvertiser can really be an alternative to Adsense, I'm going to use them for a month or two to see what happens and make a decision then whether to keep them or not.

Get $20 in FREE Clicks to Advertise Here!

Guest Post - Pay Per Click

2008-01-27T15:42:00.000Z

This is a guest post courtesy of Turn One Pound into One Million.

There are a huge amount of Pay Per Click sites on the web at the moment. Many of them new and quite a few older ones. It is very easy and pretty cheap to set up your own site as you can buy the code or even buy a fully set up site for a relatively cheap price. The thing is that if you want to earn money as a member of these sites you need to be able to choose one which is going to pay you, going to be around for a long time and not rip you off. When choosing a site I would give you the following advice:

1. If your friends use this type of sites join the ones they have been paid by
2. Join up as a free member to start with - do not pay to upgrade or buy referrals until you are happy that the site is a good one
3. Do not join too many at once as you will not be able to keep on top of them all.

I joined about 5 of these sites to start with and used them for a month. I then discarded the ones that were not earning me much money, either because there was not the opportunity to earn much or because the amount available to earn was very small. I ten joined a few more. I kept doing this and have managed to have a group of sites which I feel happy with and most of which have paid me. Below is my 'top five'

1. Bux.to
2. Adbux
3. Clixsense
4. Wordlinx
5. Linkgrand

These are not in my order of preference. They have all paid me apart from the bottom one where I used my earnings to buy advertising credits. Clixsense pays by cheque (in US dollars) and the others pay by Paypal. However, it seems that Paypal may be stopping PTC sites using them soon and if this happens it seems that many will be switching to Alertpay, we will have to wait and see what happens over the next few weeks.

To earn money on these sites you have to click a link or banner and view it for up to 30 seconds. This can earn you anything from $0.03 to $0.01 and sometimes on Clixsense you can get more. All sites offer the option to upgrade where you can get more advertisements and possibly make more money per 'click'. They also tend to sell referrals. Referrals can be very useful as you can usually earn a percentage of what they earn. Some sites offer 100% and some members earn so much from their referrals that they do not actually click many of the links themselves but just rely on their referrals doing it for them. There are mixed feelings as to whether it is best to buy referrals from the sites themselves or by using sites such as Buyrefs or Getrefs. Personally I have found that the best referrals are friends who have joined up to both support you and earn some money for themselves.

If you would like more information about how to earn money online please take a look at my blog : Turn One Pound into One Million Thank you.

Not another flaming post about Entrecard

2008-01-26T09:00:00.000Z

Yes it is. Everybody must have heard about Entrecard by now, it's the latest thing to grab the blogosphere, if you haven't then rather than explain it again myself read this article on ProBlogger.

Do you know what Entrecard is all about now?

Excellent then lets begin. The reason why I haven't written an explanation of what Entrecard is and what it does, is because there are already 100s if not 1000s of posts on this subject already and I wanted this post to be about my experience of Entrecard.

What has Entrecard done for me?

I joined Entrecard about 11 days ago and in that time I've had 187 unique visitors, 153 from the Entrecard website itself and 34 via Entrecard ads placed on other blogs. That's only 17 unique visitors a day but when your only getting 140+ visitors a day anyway this is a significant number. You can see from my stats below that I get repeat visitors as the number of cards dropped is greater than the number of unique visitors, I sometimes get the same visitors everyday.

The downside to this is that according to Google Analytics the bounce rate for these visitors is 94%, this suggests the visitors are just dropping their cards and leaving. Now, ofcourse this could be because they don't like my blog and are immediatley leaving to find a better site or this is just a general trend of Entrecard. I've always said in the past though that all traffic is good traffic, if out of 187 visitors only one subscribes to my feed, reads my other posts or signs up for an affiliate program through me then I'm happy with that.

Personally speaking when I visit a blog with an Entrecard widget I try to at least read some of the posts and even comment where approriate and I have something to say before I dop my card. One of the great things about Entrecard is that through it I have found some really good blogs that I have subscribed to their feed and go back to read their latest posts, dropping a card is just a bonus.

Let me know what you think of Entrecard have you experienced the same thing as me are visitors just dropping and leaving or are they staying and reading. Maybe I can learn something from this, maybe I need to do something to make my content more engaging to minimize the bouncing.

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Calling All Bloggers

2008-01-25T17:19:00.000Z

To make this blog a bit more interesting and diverse, I'm looking for some guest posters to write some posts about making money, internet marketing, blogging or social networking. I want an original piece, it does't matter how long it is, it just needs to be interesting and helpful to other bloggers. In return for a post you will get a one way link from within the post and on the sidebar, there will be no need to link back to me, you can also have your logo inside the post.

If your interested in becoming a guest poster please send an email to westen30 at martinsquest2makemoneyonline.com.

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How I Halved my RSS Subscriber Count Over a Couple of Days

2008-01-25T08:47:00.000Z

It seems I wrote too soon, if you haven't read my previous post on How I doubled my RSS Subscriber Count Over night, I can tell you that on sunday night I submitted my feed to over 40 Feed Directories, the following day I had doubled my subscribers. Today however, my subscriber count has almost halved to just above what it was on Sunday, the count has gradually dropped to this over the last few days. I'm not sure why it spiked like that or why it has now dropped back down, it maybe because people subscribed and then realised they weren't interested in the content and unsubscribed I'm not sure.

Have any of you tried submitting to all those directories? Did you have an increase in your subscriber account? Did you then get the drop or did you manage to sustain the increase?

Please leave a comment if you can answer any of these questions, let me know your exeriences or if you have any tips for on increasing subscribers.

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Probably the biggest mistake in the world, ever!

2008-01-24T06:56:00.000Z

Ok, the title is a bit of an exageration, but, if you read yesterdays post you will already know that I seem to have lost a lot of visitors from the Search Engines, after writing that post I decided to make it worse. I've now moved my blog from the blogspot.com domain to a custom domain name, which probably pretty much puts me back to square one in terms of Pagerank and Search Engine Rankings. I really don't know what I was thinking I'm now going to have to try and re-establish back links, resubmit the new domain to directories, I'm going to have to redo all the work I did 18 months ago. In the long run though I'm hoping all the changes I've made to the blog will eventually pay off.

Can I please ask anybody who reads this that has an existing link to http://westen30.blogspot.com on their blog please change it to the new address http://www.martinsquest2makemoneyonline.com, would be very grateful.

Aggh, I've lost all my Search Engine Visitors!

2008-01-23T08:01:00.000Z

Checking out my stats this morning on Google Analytics I found that I've had a drastic drop in visitors from the search engines. I think this is since I put on the new template, when I deployed it I had forgotten to copy across my keyword and description meta tags and the Google Webmaster Tools verification code, so I think Google had stopped indexing my site properly. I have now fixed this so I hope I get my ranking in the search engines back, up until recently I was appearing on the first page of Google for the search term "make money on the internet". This could be a very costly mistake in terms of traffic and Adsense clicks, I have no idea how long it will take to reappear in the searches if I will at all.

I had been wondering why my traffic figures weren't going up as much as I thought they should I have been doing a lot of promotion lately and I was getting visitors from lots of other sources.

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Building Interactivity into a Blog

2008-01-22T10:00:00.000Z

I want to make this blog a bit more interactive, by that I mean more reader involvement, I want the readers of this blog to interact with it in some way, but I don't know what to do. I've added a weekly poll to the sidebar, this is pretty boring I know, but it was all I could think of, please do vote on this weeks question though even if it's to say "I don't care".

So, what else can I do? I'm going to ask for your help in this, what can I do to make this blog more interactive? If you have any suggestions please put them in a comment to this post, I'll even throw in 50 Entrecard Credits for the best suggestion. I know 50 credits isn't much with all these contests offering 1000s of credits around, but you don't have to write a post about this or subscribe to my feed, all I'm asking for are some suggestions.

Get those thinking caps on guys.

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How I Doubled my RSS Subscriber Count Over Night

2008-01-21T12:08:00.000Z

Let me say first of all that I only had 50 subscribers yesterday to start with, so what I did will probably only really make a difference to those people who only have a small number of subscribers. If you've already got 1000's of subscribers I don't think this will make much difference to you, you're certainly not going to double your count like I have.

So what did I do to pull this amazing feat off? Well something really simple actually, I just submitted my feed to over 40 Feed Directories, it took about 45 minutes to work down the list, but if this is the result it was time well spent. I'm hoping that this is just the beginning and that the count will continue to grow.

Why didn't I do this before? I'd already submitted my blog address to probablly 100's of directories in the past, and to be honest they didn't seem to do anything for my traffic at all. I never thought of submitting my feed to directories before this, I just thought it would be a waste of time, but after reading an article on another blog about this I thought I'd give it a try. Unfortunately I can't remember which blog I read the article on as I would have provided a link to it.

This isn't just a bug in Feedburner is it? I've been reading quite a few posts lately about people who have said that Feedburner has been reporting in thier counters exagerated subscriber figures, but this was few days ago and I believe the problem has been fixed. I believe that the new count is correct, I've looked at the Feedburner stats and the figures seem to add up. I may well be writing a post tomorrow though saying that my count has dropped back down to 50, I hope not.

Update: 4 days after writing this post my subscriber count fell back down to nearly what it was before this, to read all about it click here.

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Monetization Strategy - Update

2008-01-20T12:43:00.000Z

Only a day after I posted my monetization strategy and there's already been a spanner put in the works. I attempted to implement Kontera's ContentLink inline ads yesterday, I copied the supplied code into the suggested place in my template and my whole layout got screwed up. I've tried droping the code in different places in the template, but it doesn't appear to make any difference, I think this is because I'm not using a standard template anymore. I'm going to continue to try and fix the problem myself, but I'm also going to contact Kontera for some help.

I still think inline ads are worth trying, so if I can't get ContentLink to work, I might give Adbrite another shot or look for a different inline ads provider. If anyone has any recommendations on this front please drop me a comment.

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Monetization Strategy

2008-01-19T06:09:00.000Z

As I mentioned in my Time for a Change post, I felt I needed to come up with some kind of plan for how I'm going to monetize the new look blog and this is it. As I see there are ? main areas to consider for monetizing my blog, contextual text links and banners ads, affiliate ads, inline ads and direct banner ads. I'm now going to look at each one individually.

Contextual Text Links and Banner Ads

By this ofcourse I mean Google Adsense, there are other companies that offer the same sort of advertising, but I'm already making money with them, so I want to leave this part alone. Over the next few weeks I'm going to play around with ad unit placement to see what gives me the best click-thru rate.

Affiliate Ads

To begin with I will be promoting 2 affiliate programs through 125x125 ads placed in one of the sidebars under the title "Affiliates". The 2 programs that I will be using are Adult Friend Finder and 888.com, I'm already making good money from Adult Friend Finder so I will continue to push that and as online gambling is so popular these days I think 888.com has good potential. I'm also on the lookout for a third program to promote alongside the other 2, I will then concentrate on just these for a month and see how they perform. If after a month any of them fail to perform I will start to look for alternatives.

Inline Ads

Inline ads are ads that popup when you hover over certain keywords on a page. I've already tried this before with Adbrite, with quite poor results, this may have been down to Adbrite not serving any quality ads. This time I'm going to use Kontera's ContentLink ads instead and see how they perform, as I said before I will give it a try for a month, if the ads don't perform well I will remove them.

Direct Banner Ads

At the moment I don't feel I get enough traffic that I can sell space directly to advertisers so for the time being I'm going to put a "Featured Ads" heading in the sidebar with a number of 125x125 banners from Commision Juntion, 888.com and Adult Friend Finder. I've also signed up with Project Wonderful to give them a try, I'm currently waiting for them to approve my blog. Project Wonderful apparently offer advertisers the opportunity to bid for ad space on your blog, I've heard some good reports about them so I'll give it a try.

One thing that I'm going to stop doing is putting big banners ads at the end of posts, as it makes the site look cluttered and unappealing and they don't perfom that well anyway. Once I've implemented all these things I'm going to watch very closely over the next few months, what performs and what doesn't, if something doesn't perform well it will be removed.

Well, that's the plan, I'm now going to start putting the ads into place, I will let you know how it goes.

New Look

2008-01-18T12:46:00.000Z

I haven't wasted any time, I've just bit the bullet and implemented a new template courtesy of Jackbook.com, I hope everyone agrees that it's an improvement on the old one. I've stripped the advertising right down for the time being concentrating mainly on Adsense, I will leave it like this until I come up with a solid advertising strategy. I want this new look to be part of a complete re-branding, so I will be designing some new banners to advertise the site once I've come up with promotions plan.

I hope you like the new look, let me know what you think by leaving me a comment.

Time for a Change

2008-01-18T06:07:00.000Z

I recently wrote an article for Blog About Your Blog about how this blog still made money and increased the number of visitors to it while being inactive for a period of 10 months. Last night I realised that for all intents and purposes this blog is still inactive, since I started writing on here again last month I've written 7 posts, all of which are just filler. There is not 1 post written since I came back of any real value to anyone, this blog has become stale with no new content worth reading, even the old posts are out of date now.

Things have changed in the world of blogging and making money from blogs, there are hundred of new programs out there for bloggers to make money and there is no information about them here. I look at the likes of Mike and his blog and I realise how far behind I've fallen. Mike and I started blogging around about the same time, our weekly reports always coincided but Mike has kept going, he writes good quality posts every day and he's kept his blog fresh by giving it a new look and not using the standard templates. Even though we started at the same time we are worlds apart now, Mike has a successful and interesting blog, where as mine has become stale and boring. You only have to look at my stats to see that even though traffic has increased, nobody stays for long, they take a brief look and then there off to find something more interesting, the only saving grace is that quite often they click on ad on they're way out that makes me a few cents.

This may all sound like self pity, but it's not I have just come to the realization that if I really do want to make this blog successful and I really do want to make money from it, then I'm going to have to put some effort into it. So, what am I going to do about it? Well, the way I see it there are 4 areas that need attention, looks, content, advertising and promotion, not necessarily in that order though.

Looks

This blog needs a new look, it looks very dated, it wasn't exactly cutting edge when I started but when I look at some of the other blogs around at the moment, this blog really does look bad. So, I'm on the lookout for a new template. I've already started looking and I've even been trying a few templates out, I hope to choose one and implement it by the end of next week.

Content

The quality of posts on this blog lately has been really poor, this is something that I really need to work on. When I first started this blog I was always writing posts about the new things that I had tried to either get more visitors or some new money making scheme, I used to write posts that attempted at least to help others make money too. From now on I'm going to try and focus on writing better quality posts, I'm going to go back to writing about new affiliate programs and ways of building traffic again.

Advertising

I need to come up with a new advertising strategy, in the past I have just put any old advertising on this site with no real thought put into it. When I do the redesign of the site I'm also going to rethink things like the type of ads I'm going to display, ad placement, what products to promote and who I'm going to affiliate myself with. When I come up with a new strategy I will post it here.

Promotion

I need to start promoting this blog again, I'm not sure how yet, but I need to re-brand this blog first, it needs to be brought up to date so that when I come to promote it, new visitors won't be put off by what I have now. I need to attract visitors that are going to stay and read the content and that are going to come back time and again. I'm not going to do any promotion of this blog until it has been revamped. Again this is something that needs a strategy rather than just plowing into it without thought, like I said about advertising once I've come up with a strategy I will post it.

Watch out for the new My quest to make money on the internet coming soon to a web browser near you.

Friend Finder - 10 Months On

2008-01-14T12:26:00.000Z

In the time that I've been away from blogging one of my most successful affiliate programs has been the Friend Finder Network or more specifically Adult Friend Finder, so far I've made a total of $818. Of that I've actually been paid $705 (approx. £350), most of that has been becuase of 1 referred affiliate who himself has made over $7000. If you have an adult blog or website I can highly recommend Adult Friend Finder as they have a lot of different sites that can be promoted with lots of marketing material. Friend Finder also have different payout options, per click, per order and a percentage program, the affiliate I mentioned earlier is on per order and has referred 440 members.

You can see my original post about Adult Friend Finder here.

Looking for Link Partners

2008-01-12T06:57:00.001Z

This week I launched my new blog Martin's Personal Development Blog and I am now seeking link partners for it. If you have or know someone who has a personal development blog I would be very interested in exchanging links, if you would too the please visit my blog and leave a comment on this post with your blog's address.

Many thanks
Martin

Launch of my new blog

2008-01-07T21:38:00.000Z

Today is the day that I launched my latest blog "Martin's Personal Development Blog", catchy name huh? This will be a diary of my progress on my journey of self improvement, I hope to write a new post every day so please check regularly for updates (if your interested ofcourse).

Internet Money Makers Carnival - January Edition

2008-01-04T20:52:00.001Z

Welcome to the January 4, 2008 edition of the Internet Money Makers Carnival. There are lots of great articles here about making money that'll kepp you busy for awhile, enjoy.

Daniel Scocco presents Paid Blogging Market Review posted at Daily Blog Tips.

Vahid Chaychi presents Adsense Revenue Model - A Complementary Legitimate Income posted at Weboma.com, saying, "Although Adsense revenue is dropped for many webmasters but it is still one of the most important income resources for websites. You just need to learn to maximize the profit you will make from Adsense."

Chuck Russell presents Do You Agloco? posted at Make Money With AGLOCO.

Eric Brown presents SEO Myth - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Complicated posted at SEO TIPS 4 U Blog.

eric martin presents Yahoo lounches Yahoo pipes beta posted at SEO BLOG.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Top 20 Dumbest Business Ideas That Made Millions…Or Not! posted at The Digerati Life.

Walt presents No Plan B! posted at Walt Nation!.

Money Online presents Quality Content posted at Money Online, saying, "Everybody says that you should have good quality content on your blog, but there is a lot of ambiguity regarding what exactly “quality content” is. The main purpose of it is to make your visitors spend some time on your blog, enjoy it and come back again to check for updates. There is no “recipe” for producing it, but there are some factors that you must keep in mind when writing."

kumiko suzuki presents How To Make Money Online Uploading Videos - The Ultimate Guide posted at Make Money Online at Kumiko's Cash Quest, saying, "Thousands of dollars can be made uploading videos!"

Steve Messall presents The Quest Begins posted at QuestForAMillion.net.

Beno Varghese presents Get paid to review posts on this site! posted at Beno Varghese dot-com.

kumiko suzuki presents 6 Lessons Britney Spears Can Teach You About Blogging posted at Make Money Online at Kumiko's Cash Quest.

Stephanie Foster presents Blog Promotion Basics posted at Aspects of Home Business Blog, saying, "Some of the basic ways you can start building traffic to your blog."

Alan presents Risk Taking - Living life to the fullest posted at Made to Be Great.

Praveen presents Review of "The Rich Jerk" - Get It Free, Plus $1 posted at My Simple Trading System.

AlexBAMO presents Cross Analysis Of Agloco & SlashMySearch posted at Blog About Money Online - How To Make Money At Home.

Johnny_Cash presents Top 10 signs of blog addiction posted at Making money on the web.

Jigsaw hc presents Top Traffic Exchange Site for Blogs posted at Rants & Reviews.

supermom_in_ny presents Paid to Read Sites: Free Traffic and Advertising! posted at Getting Out of Debt.

Michael Anuzis presents Understanding the Long Tail Business Model posted at Empowering People Through Information.

Susan Velez presents I Reached My Goal! posted at The Secret To Life.

Ted Demopoulos presents How to Sell Your Stuff via Amazon posted at Blogging for Business.

Money Online presents Affiliate marketing for bloggers posted at Money Online.

sergei voitenko presents Anti Supplemental article posted at SEO - Make money online, saying, "my article about avoiding supplemental results"

Sundance presents 25 Tips On How To Create, Market & Earn Money From Your Own Blog posted at Blogging Bucks.

Praveen presents Internet Marketing Lesson - I'll Pay You $2 posted at My Simple Trading System.

Everything Finance presents Earn $300 per signup from your blog posted at Life of a Resident Alien....

Charles Eglinton presents eBay Power Seller posted at AuctionIncome.com - eBay Bidding Tips & Selling Tips, saying, "Is reaching Power Seller status all it’s cracked up to be?..."

Ian Richardson presents Would you like an Ezy way to manage multiple Wordpress Blogs? posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, "While a typical website can take hours to update, a site built around a blog can be updated INSTANTLY and search engines quickly take notice..."

Stephen Dean presents Free A/B Split Test Software posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

www.sitecash.info presents How to shop online and make money doing it posted at sitecash.info, saying, "There are a lot of things that we can do to monetize the time we spend online. However, nothing is probably more fun than buying things that we either want or need and then getting paid for it."

Kenton Newby presents Can You Really Make Money Showing People "How To"? posted at KentonNewby.com, saying, "I had a talk with a family member the other day. He commented that he just didn't understand how you can make money showing someone "how to". Do you have that same blind spot? Let's consider an example and I'll let you do the math and be the judge."

Ed Rivis presents Make Money Blogging. posted at Ed Rivis, saying, "Anyone can make money from blogging. The primary models for money-making blogging activity are: 1-Get paid to advertise third party products and services. 2-Advertise your own products and services. 3-Both of the above. Read more..."

Hill Robertson presents The Joy of an Internet Business posted at Hill Robertson.

Mark Riffey presents Entrepreneurs: Are you fried? Maybe this is why. posted at Business is Personal.

Charles Eglinton presents eBay Seller Contingencies posted at AuctionIncome.com - eBay Bidding Tips & Selling Tips, saying, "Do you have a contingency plan in place? From an ebay auctioneer, yet still relevant..."

Richard Lee presents Ranking Roadmap posted at Richard Lee.

Thomas D. Brownsword presents Business Action Update: December 14, 2007 posted at Business Action Steps.

Stephen Dean presents Copywriting Technique: Blow It Up… posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Tom presents 3 Tips To Traffic With Social Bookmarking posted at The Home Business Archive.

Sagar presents 101 Ways to Monetize Your Blog Without Irritating Your Readers - Inside CRM posted at InsideCRM.

Kingsley Tagbo presents How To Improve Your Skills And Get A Lucrative Job posted at HOW TO LEARN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FAST OR GET A JOB EASILY.

Sagar presents Be Your Own Virtual Assistant: 100 Tools to Keep Yourself Accountable and Organized posted at Bootstrapper.

Mark Riffey presents Is your staff impatient with newbies? posted at Business is Personal.

Ron Ruiz presents A Salute to Entrepreneurs! posted at The Business Ideas-Making Money Blog.

Fred Black presents The Frustration of Trying to Make Money Online posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..

Richard Lee presents Reality: Option 1 or 2? posted at Richard Lee.

Vahid Chaychi presents Is Forex a Suitable Job for Everybody? posted at Weboma.com, saying, "Forex is good job but it is not suitable for everybody. In addition to knowledge and experience, it needs proper mental and psychological situation."

Steve Oliphant presents Saturday - getting things done. posted at Steve Oliphant's Musings.

Hill Robertson presents Turn Your Passion into Your Profit posted at Hill Robertson.

The Little Dough Girl presents Look Ma! I'm adding to my income! posted at The Little Dough Girl, saying, "An article on how to make Cash Crate work for you. Tips and tricks to help you make at least $150 a month very easily."

Terry Dean presents 10 Research Sites You Should Bookmark posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.

Michael Chu presents Better Than Google Adsense posted at Knighty Night's Talk, saying, "Get paid more than a penny for each visitor that goes to your website. Might well be better than Google Adsense."

Jennifer Gervens presents Beyond Freebies posted at The Freebie Diva, saying, "The Freebie Diva is a blog updated daily with links to legitimate free samples on the web. Additionally, separate links are posted to free coupons, by-one-get-one-free offers, and bargains. A special ongoing section on making extra money on the web has just been introduced and contains information on getting started making extra cash on the web through companies that I have personally tried and can vouch for."

Vahid Chaychi presents You Need to Make More Money? Why Don?t Start an Online Work at Home Business? posted at Weboma.com.

Ryan presents Being Frugal Sure is Costly posted at Building Millionaire Money Habits, saying, "There are certain things in life that I always believed in paying top dollar for because it will save you money, make you more money, or avoid major headaches. I’m adding web hosting to that list. Here's what you get when you order cheap, poor hosting compared to the best affordable web hosting available."

Keyboard Culture Expert Community presents Conquering the Fear of Promoting Yourself: Part 3 posted at Raleigh Pinskey - Branding Publicity PR, saying, "In her blog at http://keyboard-culture-branding-publicity-pr.com/2007/12/conquering_the_fear_of_promoti.html Keyboard Culture Branding, Publicity and PR Expert and best selling author Raleigh Pinskey asks “Were you told you weren’t smart enough to have a business and not clever enough to be able to promote it? Or, who wants to talk to you? Who wants to buy what you have to sell? Who said you should be successful before your brother or your father? You on Talk Shows? You in Print? Don’t waste your money on media coaching; no one cares what you have to say?” Many people stop short of success in their lives, careers and businesses because they are not able to overcome the fear of promoting themselves. Raleigh Pinskey gives you steps to overcome the fear of promoting yourself and achieve success in her blog articles at http://keyboard-culture-branding-publicity-pr.com/2007/12/conquering_the_fear_of_promoti.html her Keyboard Culture Branding, Publicity and PR blog."

Woody Maxim presents One of the most important questions I've ever been asked posted at Woody Maxim.

Jose DeJesus MD presents Online Business - A Source Of Success For Many posted at Physician Entrepreneur.

Ian Richardson presents Free Methods To Drive Traffic To Your Site posted at Make Everything EzyAs123.

Jim Sansi presents Business Performance And Profit posted at The Kaizen Business.

Christine presents Finding Your Special Talent posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France.

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Google Adsense - 10 Months On

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The story so far...

I started this blog in September 2006 and the first thing I did was signup to Google's Adsense Program(aff.), as this blog is hosted on Google's own Blogger platform this was very easy to do. I was actively blogging and posting nearly every day for 6 months until February 2007, where I ran out of steam and other commitments took up my time and I stopped blogging altogether.

In that first 6 months I made a grand total of $52.99, less than $10 a month, not much really is it.

Fast forward 10 months...

Even though I haven't actively posted on my blog since February, I've kept an eye on it, checking the visitor stats and money making programs every once in a while. Over the last 10 months I've noticed the number of visitors from referrals from other blogs going down but hits from the search engines going up, to the point that I was getting more visitors when I wasn't posting than when I was. My earnings from Adsense and other programs was also going up, in the last 8 months I've received 3 payments and another due at the end of this month from Google, the payments have been for just over $100 every 2 months. This still isn't big money by any means, I'm not going to be able to give up my day job anyway, but it's not bad for doing nothing.

Of course the next question is "How much more money could I have made if I had continued to blog everyday?". I don't know the answer to that, but if I can continue to post again and build up traffic from referrals once again, it would be interesting to see if my earnings increase again.

Results for Weekending 14th December 2007

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Here are my results for weekending 14th December.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 806 Up 186 from 10 months ago
Unique Visitors: 572 Up 152 from 10 months ago

Visits from search engines this week: 544

Despite not posting for 10 months my traffic has actually increased, although most of my traffic now comes via search engines rather than refferals. If I can get my visits from refferals back up again I should get significantly more traffic than 10 months ago.

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense(aff.): $482.88 (approx. £239.62) Up £212.93
Adbrite(aff.): $39.80 (approx. £19.75) Up £11.17 - No longer active
Friend Finder(aff.): $769.21 (approx. £381.70) Up £379.60
Ciao(aff.): £15.35 No Change - No longer active
Blogsvertise(aff.): $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change - No longer active
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) No Change - No longer active
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change - No longer active
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot(aff.): $3.52 (approx. £1.77) Up £0.10 - No longer active
Pay Per Post(aff.): $13.00 (approx. £6.63) No Change - No longer active

Grand Total: £731.81 Up £603.78

Over the coming weeks I will be posting updates on each of the above programs detailing what has worked and what hasn't and what my future plans for this blog will be.

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