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.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Internet Money Makers Carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Google Adsense - 10 Months On

2007-12-23T07:06:00.001Z

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

2007-12-15T07:01:00.000Z

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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I'm Back

2007-12-13T20:40:00.000Z

It's been 10 whole months since I last posted on this blog, but I haven't abandoned it completely, I've been keeping an eye on it. I stopped posting because of family and work commitments, I got a new position at work and at home my little girl has been taking up more of my time. I'd like to keep this blog going so I've decided to start posting again, not like before and posting every day, but maybe once or twice a week.

Even though I haven't posted for 10 months I've still been getting regular cheques from both Google and Friend Finder (more details of this in a future post) and I'm getting at least as much traffic as when I was posting regularly and promoting the blog. I'm hoping that when I start posting again my traffic will increase to more than ever before. My next post will be a report of my earnings and traffic over the past 10 months.

I'll also be visiting all my old favourite blogs again so expect a visit soon.

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JCM's Blog Take 2

2007-02-13T21:18:00.000Z

My Rent My Blog tenant this week is JCM's Blog again if you didn't visit him the last time please drop by this time and leave a comment saying who sent you.

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Internet Money Makers Carnival 10th Edition

2007-02-12T20:34:00.000Z

Welcome to the 10th edition of internet money makers carnival, I hope you find the following articles useful.

Vahid Chaychi presents Your Website Has More Capacity. Just Discover it! posted at Internet and Search Engine Marketing, saying, "Most webmasters and bloggers make money through selling their own or others products and also through some other resources like Google Adsense. This is good but your website can make much more than this with the current traffic and condition it has."

Chuck Russell presents AGLOCO Growing STRONG! posted at Make Money Online.

Daryl W.T. Lau presents Make Money Sharing Your Videos posted at How to Earn Money Blogging - Make Money Blog Resource.

Jigsaw hc presents Get Paid to Review my Posts? posted at Jigsaw hc's Rants & Reviews, saying, "Quick way for you and your blog readers to make some money."

The Probabilist presents Why You’re Obliged to Make Money from Your Blog posted at The Probabilist . com.

Will Chen presents How to complain and get a good result posted at Wisebread.

emigre presents 10 notes to earn money online by blogging - Part 1 posted at emigre, saying, "Get all the info to make money online by blogging whether you are just starting or looking for more opportunities to make extra cash with a list of viable paid blogging sites."

Silicon Valley Blogger presents My Money Report: Business On Track posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "Find out how my business is doing with this report!"

Bryan C. Fleming presents Week 6: Interest Paid – Million-Dollar Savings Club posted at Bryan C. Fleming.

Mark Abrahams presents Google Adwords Promotion Secrets That Will Explode Your Income posted at Build A Home Internet Business.

steven aitchison presents Increasing Google Adsense earnings by 400% posted at Change your thoughts.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet money makers carnival using the carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on the blog carnival index page.

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Week 20 Results

2007-02-11T20:11:00.000Z

Here are my results for week 20.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 620 Down 111
Unique Visitors: 420 Down 77
Returning Visitors: 51 Down 32

Total Page View for Last 20 Weeks: 12,777
Total Unique Visitors for Last 20 Weeks: 8,469

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Blog Carnival: 16
Technorati: 14
Mike's Money Making Mission: 14
del.icio.us: 13
MyBlogLog: 11

Visits from search engines this week: 161

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense(aff.): $52.99 (approx. £26.69) Up £2.10
Adbrite(aff.): $17.03 (approx. £8.58) Up £0.77
Friend Finder(aff.): $4.00 (approx. £2.02) Up £0.60
Ciao(aff.): £15.35 No Change
Blogsvertise(aff.): $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot(aff.): $3.52 (approx. £1.77) Up £0.10
Pay Per Post(aff.): $13.00 (approx. £6.63) No Change

Grand Total: £128.03 Up £3.57

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JCM's Blog

2007-02-09T17:08:00.000Z

A warm welcome to my latest tenant JCM's Blog, a personal blog about art, blogging and other things. Please pay this relatively new blog a visit and leave a comment.

Internet Money Makers Carnival 9th Edition

2007-02-05T22:38:00.000Z

Welcome to the 9th edition of internet money makers carnival.

makingourway presents Personal Finance Blogs and Lemmings - what do they have in common? posted at makingourway, saying, "Personal finance bloggers need to exercise their critical faculty when deciding what mony making ventures to pursue in the blog-o-sphere. Here are thoughts on considering exactly who's giving you advice."

John presents Make Money with Stocks: 100% Possibility posted at OhCash.com, saying, "Being a trader is what everyone wants to be. Seems easy and the cash is great. However, most people have the wrong mindset and techniques when it comes to stocks."

Millennium Mommy presents What Is Guerrilla Marketing Anyway? posted at Priscilla Ortiz - Journal to Prosperity, Path to Freedom Inc..

Mark Abrahams presents Ways To Make Money Online And Generate Avalanches Of Cash posted at Internet Affiliate Marketing Secrets.

veryLegal presents Can You Submit Tips For Money? veryLegal: Investing Trends and Advice, Internet Marketing and Adsense posted at veryLegal, saying, "Brief overview on how to submit tips formoney and why it might be better than posting/blogging for money."

Matthew Paulson presents The Myth of Residual Income posted at Getting Green.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents My Money Report: Chaos Reigns posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "I continue to chart the progress of my money related projects."

H.S. Ayoub presents Want Higher AdSense Click Values? Post Earlier in the Day posted at ProBlogger Blog Tips.

Bryan C. Fleming presents Bryan C. Fleming » Million Dollar Savings Club Update: Week 5 posted at Bryan C. Fleming.

supermom_in_ny presents ClickBank, PayPal Payments and Weight Loss! posted at Getting Out of Debt.

Joseph presents Adsense Marketing and Secrets posted at Make Money Blogging.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet money makers carnival using the carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Week 19 Results

2007-02-03T22:00:00.000Z

Here are my results for week 19.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 731 Up 5
Unique Visitors: 497 Up 11
Returning Visitors: 83 Down 4

Total Page View for Last 19 Weeks: 12,157
Total Unique Visitors for Last 19 Weeks: 8,049

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Technorati: 28
Blog Carnival: 28
Mike's Money Making Mission: 13
del.icio.us: 12
MyBlogLog: 12

Visits from search engines this week: 171

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense(aff.): $48.21 (approx. £24.59) Up £3.04
Adbrite(aff.): $15.31 (approx. £7.81) Up £1.75
Friend Finder(aff.): $2.79 (approx. £1.42) Up £0.04
Ciao(aff.): £15.35 Up £1.14
Blogsvertise(aff.): $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot(aff.): $3.27 (approx. £1.67) Up £0.33
Pay Per Post(aff.): $13.00 (approx. £6.63) New

Grand Total: £124.46 Up £12.93

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How to make $100 on the Internet Podcast

2007-01-29T19:53:00.000Z

Last week I did an email interview with Troy Story owner of the blog How to make $100 on the Internet, the interview was about how I use this blog to make money. Troy used those emails and the services of a friend to create a podcast of the interview with his friend pretending to me and Troy interviewing him reading my answers. To listen to the podcast and the interview click here. I would like to thank troy for taking an interest in my blog and my quest, thanks Troy.

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Pay Per Post

2007-01-29T16:00:00.000Z

Two weeks ago I signed up with Pay Per Post(aff.), a site similar to Blogsvertise(aff.) and Blogitive in that they pay you for writing posts about sites that they specify. It took about a week and a half to approve my blog, but when they did there were plenty of opportunities available. I've already completed 2 posts for them for a total of $13, this will be paid into my Paypal account in 30 days. I'm not going to do a full review here because in the next day or so I plan on writing an article to compare the three paid to post sites that I use. I can say however that so far Pay Per Post(aff.) seems pretty good and well worth giving a go.

Internet Money Makers Carnival 8th Edition

2007-01-29T07:38:00.000Z

Welcome to the 8th edition of internet money makers carnival and as usual we have a great bunch of articles to get your teeth into.

Matthew presents This is NOT a sponsored post. posted at Blog About Your Blog, saying, "The age of “sponsored posts” is upon us. The blogging world is changing, google adsense and affiliate programs aren’t cutting for the average blogger."

Phil B. presents Another Fundamental Flaw with Online Advertisement « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, "Imagine for a moment, you are reading an interesting article or watching a cool video on the Internet for free. That’s not hard to imagine, since you are doing it now. Now imagine that you want to give thanks to the provider for the content that you just saw, so you intentionally click on an advertisement on that webpage."

Joseph presents What is passive residual income? posted at penny pinching.

laura211 presents 11 Websites That Pay You To Write posted at My Journey to One Million Dollars, saying, "This is my most popular post so far so I thought I'd submit it to your carnival. Thanks for taking the time to host such a great carnival. -Laura"

Stefanie presents Let's Make Some Money with Posts! posted at Random Encounter of We, saying, "Easy and quick way to make some fast cash by posting on your blog."

Moneywalks presents How to increase your Google PageRank posted at moneywalks.

David presents Top Reasons for Blogging. And Yes, Some People are Getting Rich Doing It posted at Worldwide Success, saying, "Blogging can be a lot of work as many bloggers will attest. And yet, there are hundreds of thousands of people out there blogging every day. So why do people blog? Some do it for the money. In fact, a few people are making a lot of money blogging."

Matthew Paulson presents Saving Money Through Coupon Arbitrage posted at Getting Green.

Corey presents The Struggle to Make Money Blogging posted at myopiniononeverything.com.

Chuck Russell presents AGLOCO; The Next Big Internet Money Maker posted at Make Money Online.

John C Vincent presents Social Bookmarking Secret For Massive Traffic posted at Blogging and Social bookmarking are awesome tools for driving traffic to websites..

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Welcome To Our New Store: Anime Culture! posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "How my first CafePress store came about."

Chuck Russell presents Drive Traffic To Your Site With Comments posted at Make Money Online.

Violeta presents Find out how much money you can make with AGLOCO » All Tips and Tricks posted at All Tips and Tricks.

RobStGeorge presents How to Make the Technorati Top 100,000 in 90 Days posted at The Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under, saying, "We look at ways to make the Technorati Top 100,000 in less than 90 days."

Will Chen presents Can you really make money from taking online surveys? posted at Wisebread.

Stephanie Foster presents What?s the Point? posted at Aspects of Home Business Blog, saying, "A post about not limiting yourself to the next hyped up product or just selling to your fellow internet marketers."

TJP presents How to Invest in AGLOCO posted at Investor Trip.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet money makers carnival using the carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on the blog carnival index page.

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Rizzo Music

2007-01-28T09:01:00.000Z

Please welcome this weeks tenant Rizzo Music, a blog with reviews of music from the 90's and beyond, please take some time and give it a visit.

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Week 18 Results

2007-01-28T07:01:00.000Z

Here are my results for week 18.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 726 Down 23
Unique Visitors: 486 Down 53
Returning Visitors: 87 Up 2

Total Page View for Last 18 Weeks: 11,534
Total Unique Visitors for Last 18 Weeks: 7,602

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Technorati: 26
Mike's Money Making Mission: 23
Blog Carnival: 16
One Old Green Bus: 13
The Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under: 11

Visits from search engines this week: 168

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense(aff.): $42.23 (approx. £21.55) Up £1.59
Adbrite(aff.): $11.88 (approx. £6.06) Up £0.45
Friend Finder(aff.): $2.71 (approx. £1.38) Up £0.03
Ciao(aff.): £14.21 Up £0.56
Blogsvertise(aff.): $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot(aff.): $2.62 (approx. £1.34) Up £0.40
Pay Per Post(aff.): $0.00 New

Grand Total: £111.53 Up £3.03

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Web Hosting With Gate.com

2007-01-26T10:09:00.000Z

If you are thinking of hosting your blog yourself then, one of my affiliate programs, Gate.com is offering 2 months free hosting when you buy an annual package from them. This means you can get proffessional hosting for as little as $99 for a year and there's no set up fee either. To take advantage of this offer please click here.

Review of My Quest @ Soapbox Jury

2007-01-23T19:27:00.000Z

A review of My Quest has been published at Soapbox Jury by Tom Jackson, who I would like to thank for his positive comments and score of 6/10 (it should have been 10/10 but there's no accounting for taste is there). You can read the full review by here.

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AdSense Bush Telegraph Sending Out Wrong Signals

2007-01-22T20:05:00.000Z

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Internet Money Makers Carnival 7th Edition

2007-01-22T08:14:00.000Z

Welcome to the 7th edition of internet money makers carnival.

John presents Steps To Take In Making Money posted at OhCash.com, saying, "What do you have to do exactly to make money? Here is a summary of a few steps towards success."

John presents All about attitude posted at OhCash.com, saying, "It’s all about attitude when it comes to accomplishing your objectives. It will make the difference between success and failure."

John presents Generating income online posted at OhCash.com, saying, "Knowing how it works online before making money is crucial. Here is an article that may guide you."

John presents Job or NO job ?!? posted at OhCash.com, saying, "A job might not be your best option, but getting one doesn’t hurt. Get the pros and cons of each side."

John presents Money opportunities? posted at OhCash.com, saying, "Opportunities are everywhere. Spotting them and taking advantage of them is the key."

John presents Do you have what it takes? posted at OhCash.com, saying, "It takes more than just skills and knowledge to succeed. Get the feel of the inner workings."

John presents What Determines Success? posted at OhCash.com, saying, "Many people are confused when it comes to success. It is a lot more than just money."

John presents Know Your Sacrifices posted at OhCash.com, saying, "Starting a business takes a lot of sacrifices, and everybody knows this. But what exactly are these sacrifices and how to deal with them?"

John presents Are you happy? posted at OhCash.com, saying, "What’s the point of living if you’re not happy? All the cash in the world will not bring you happiness if you don’t know how to live."

kumiko suzuki presents How I Achieved Over 1500 Hits In My First Two Weeks posted at Kumiko's Cash Quest, saying, "6 easy and tested steps to generate traffic!"

Guhan presents Improving a blog´s google page rank - Updated posted at Make money online with internetbazaar tips!, saying, "A list of easy hints to increase google page rank."

Guhan presents Make money by sharing your videos posted at Make money online with internetbazaar tips!, saying, "Make money by sharing your or others videos."

Murad Ali presents Marketing is about Messages; Not Sales. posted at The New Business World.

Vahid Chaychi presents Adsense to Your Bank Account posted at Work at Home Entrepreneurs.

Troy Price presents Episode $10 Shownotes: posted at How to make $100 on the Internet, saying, "Check out my podcast series "

Steve Faber presents How Can I Be a Successful Entrepreneur? posted at DebtBlog.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents My First Ever Money Report posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "This article discusses how my online endeavors and other financial projects are doing."

Chuck Russell presents A COOL Concept To Make Money posted at Make Money Online.

Will Chen presents A Brief History of Internet Gluttony, or How to Fill Your Mailbox in a Few Simple Steps posted at Wisebread, saying, "Making money online the old fashioned way: Getting stuff for free."

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet money makers carnival using my carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on my blog carnival index page.

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Week 17 Results

2007-01-21T20:07:00.001Z

Here are my results for week 17.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 749 Up 120
Unique Visitors: 539 Up 93
Returning Visitors: 85 Up 7

Total Page View for Last 17 Weeks: 10,808
Total Unique Visitors for Last 17 Weeks: 7,116

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

del.icio.us: 24
Blog Carnival: 19
One Old Green Bus: 19
Mike's Money Making Mission: 18
Technorati: 17

A lot of my traffic is now coming via search engines with 206 visitors this week.

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense: $39.39 (approx. £19.96) Up £3.86
Adbrite: $11.06 (approx. £5.61) Up £0.77
Friend Finder: $2.64 (approx. £1.35) No Change
Ciao: £13.65 No Change
Blogsvertise: $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot: $1.86 (approx. £0.94) Up £0.39

Grand Total: £108.50 Up £5.02

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New York Nitty-Gritty

2007-01-20T19:52:00.000Z

I'd like to extend a warm welcome to my latest tenant New York Nitty-Gritty, a photo blog consisting of guess what? Pictures of New York of course. These aren't holiday snaps, but dramatic, beautiful and professional photos of the New York skyline.

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Google PageRank Finally Achieved

2007-01-17T19:58:00.000Z

There has been a lot of excited talk over the last week or so about a possible Google PageRank update (see this article for more info on PageRank), so I just had to check my own. At first I only checked the homepage and was disappointed to find that this hadn't been assigned any PageRank, but on further investigation I found that some of my individual post pages had. So far I've found about 17 pages with PageRank between 2 and 4, I'm hoping thats not the end of the update and that the PageRank filters up to my homepage.

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Commission Junction Revisited, Revisited

2007-01-16T20:11:00.000Z

In my post Commission Junction Revisited I stated that one of the reasons I wasn't making any money with Commission Junction was that I was trying to promote too many products. To remedy this I have chosen to focus my attention on marketing KeyCompete, see my last post for more details of KeyCompete. For the next month I am going to concentrate my efforts on KeyCompete once the month is up I will review the results and either continue promoting the product or move onto something else. I will of course keep you updated with my progress.

KeyCompete

2007-01-15T09:52:00.000Z

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Internet Money Makers Carnival 6th Edition

2007-01-15T07:59:00.000Z

Welcome to the 6th edition of internet money makers carnival and another bumper crop of money making articles, please enjoy.

Forrest Webber presents One Minute Money (AGLOCO) - Built for a College Student posted at One Minute Money - Built for A College Student.

RobStGeorge presents The Bloggers Octet- 8 Proven Methods to get your Blog Earning! posted at The Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under, saying, "8 no nonsense methods to really extract some cash from your blog site!"

Matthew Paulson presents Quit Sending HP & Lexmark Your Paycheck! Save Money on Printing! posted at Getting Green.

monertize yourblog presents Paris Hilton to promote blog? posted at Monetize Your Blog.

Matthew Paulson presents A Recipe for Financial Disaster posted at Getting Green.

Vahid Chaychi presents The First Step to Start Working From Home posted at Work at Home Entrepreneurs, saying, "Investing can be easily managed from home. There are many people who do it. Learn what is the first step to start working at home."

Murad Ali presents U.S. and Canada Going to Trade War! posted at The New Business World.

John Wesley presents An Easy Way to Get Paid for Something You Already Do posted at Pick the Brain - Wit and Wisdom for Your Inspiration, saying, "Everyone should be doing this. You have nothing to lose!"

Daniel Scocco presents 200 Prefixes and Suffixes for Domain Names posted at Daily Blog Tips.

Yan presents Why Modoshi will beat DealsPlus posted at Pro Bargain Hunter.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents How I Boosted My Woeful Web Traffic posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "Boost your web traffic first so you can make money later."

Bryan C. Fleming presents Million Dollar Savings Club Update: Day 135 posted at Bryan C. Fleming.

Wise Bread presents The Business of eBay posted at Wisebread, saying, "Lynn Cognito shares the secret of how to build a profitable eBay business."

Praveen presents Unix Simplicity: Pay Per Post is great! posted at Unix Simplicity.

Steve Faber presents What's Your Financial New Year's Resolution? posted at DebtBlog.

John presents Money opportunities? posted at OhCash.com, saying, "Try to get a feel of money opportunities available."

Tom Murphy presents Allowing international eBay bidders - yes or no? posted at PGA Auctions, saying, "A number of eBay sellers shy away from International sales.. I don't understand why."

Ruben presents Monetize Your Blog With Chitika eMiniMalls posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Ruben presents Monetize Your Blog with AdBrite posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Ruben presents How to Turn Your Adsense Earning from $10 to $800 a Week: Techniques and Strategy Disclosed posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Ruben presents How Much Money Successful Bloggers Are Making Online? posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Ruben presents How to Possess the Most Active Ingredient for Successful Blogging posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Mark Abrahams presents The Secret Of Choosing A Profitable Affiliate Program posted at Internet Affiliate Marketing Secrets.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet money makers carnival using our carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on my blog carnival index page.

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Week 16 Results

2007-01-14T20:36:00.000Z

Here are my results for week 16.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 629
Unique Visitors: 446
Returning Visitors: 78

Total Page View for Last 16 Weeks: 10,059
Total Unique Visitors for Last 16 Weeks: 6,577

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Mike's Money Making Mission: 19
The Ultimate Make Money Online Blog: 17
Blog About Your Blog: 16
Blog Carnival: 16
del.icio.us: 15

Most of my traffic is now coming via search engines with 166 visitors in the past 2 weeks.

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense: $31.53 (approx. £16.10) Up £0.41
Adbrite: $9.47 (approx. £4.84) Up £0.09
Friend Finder: $2.60 (approx. £1.35) No Change
Ciao: £13.65 No Change
Blogsvertise: $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot: $1.08 (approx. £0.55) Up £0.06

Grand Total: £103.48 Down £15.89

The reason my total has reduced this week is that I have removed some of the survey sites I no longer use and that I will not get the money from as I haven't met the minimum pay out value. Other than that not much money made this week, but I do have some plans that will hopefully change that over the next few weeks.

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100th Post

2007-01-13T09:20:00.000Z

I can't believe it but this is my 100th post on this blog, it seems like no time at all since I started my quest and here I am 4 months later writing post #100. I would like to thank all my loyal readers for your continued support and I hope you continue to read for the next 100 posts.

Thanks
Martin

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Commission Junction Revisited

2007-01-12T15:30:00.000Z

Commission Junction was one of the earliest money making programs that I joined when I first started this blog and so far it hasn't made me a penny. For more information on Commission Junction please see my original post. I believe there are a couple of reasons for this;

Promoting the wrong products
Not having a focused approach to promoting products
Trying to promote too many products

Even though I've yet to make any money from Commission Junction yet, I still think there is potential there. I have been getting clicks they just haven't been converting to leads or sales, to solve this I need to;

Choose a single product to promote instead of many
Choose a product that match the topic of this blog.
Create a plan for marketing this product

So the first thing I have to do is select the best product to promote for this site and that will be my aim for next week. Once I've chosen this product I will create a new plan for marketing it and I will let you know how it goes.

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Freebie Chaser

2007-01-12T12:07:00.000Z

My tenant this week is Freebie Chaser, a blog specialising in finding free stuff on the internet so you don't have to. Please visit this blog by clicking on the thumbnail to the right.

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Internet Money Makers Carnival 5th Edition

2007-01-08T00:18:00.000Z

Welcome to the 5th edition of internet money makers carnival, read and enjoy.

Phil B. presents Online Weekly Ads are Annoying and Too Small « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity.

Gina presents Gina's Tax Articles: Bartering and Taxes posted at Gina's Tax Articles.

Bofia presents It doesn't take hard work to make money posted at Bofia's Blog.

Travis Wright presents The Next Millionaires posted at Cultivate Greatness, saying, "Over the next 10 years, there will be 10 Million NEW millionaires created, will you be one?"

Murad Ali presents "Friday Entrepreneurs: Sarah Deutsch, Pinkleberry Services" posted at The New Marketing World.

Mark Abrahams presents How To Choose A Highly Profitable Niche - Even In A Downward Economy posted at Internet Affiliate Marketing Secrets.

Sam presents eBay Auctions, The famous, the weird and the wealthy. posted at Surfer Sam and Friends.

Murad Ali presents Three (3) Easy Ways to Optimize Your Blog posted at The New Marketing World.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Silicon Valley Blog About Money, Finance, Geek Culture and Cyberspace posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "Here's where I try to monetize my blog, but I've got a loooong way to go!"

larryb presents Wordpress Tactics - Monetize that blog posted at Welcome to Build a Niche, saying, "Use the tactics to monetize your wordpress blog"

Ruben presents Successful Blogger Gets 50,000 Visitors per Month Doing Blog Carnival Submission – Blog Traffic Strategy 10 posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

monertize yourblog presents Text Link Ads now available for Blogger users posted at Monetize Your Blog, saying, "This another another alternative to adsense for blogger.com bloggers."

Yoski presents AGLOCO posted at Stingy Students.

Murad Ali presents Advantages of Advertising on the Internet posted at The New Marketing World.

Little Sean presents Stocks for Long Term Investment posted at Little Sean.

Matthew Paulson presents Why I Don't Buy From Quixtar posted at Getting Green.

Corey presents The Battle With PayPal posted at myopiniononeverything.com.

Adnan presents Teentrepreneur.com - My First Attempt at an AIS posted at Blogtrepreneur.

Ruben presents Monetize Your Blog With Text Link Ads posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Ruben presents Monetize Your Blog with ReviewMe posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Ruben presents Make Money with Affiliate Marketing posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Ruben presents 2 Major Things You Must Do To Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine - The Triage Principle of Successful Blogs posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Ruben presents 5 Explosive Secrets to Boost Your Traffic For Free For Years posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Ruben presents How To Make Your Blog Stand out from 55 Million Others? posted at Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine.

Murad Ali presents Writing an Awesome Sales Letter posted at The New Marketing World.

emigre presents LoudLaunch official launch posted at emigre, saying, "Check out the newest paid blogging site."

Corey presents Web 2.0 posted at myopiniononeverything.com.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet money makers carnival using our carnival submission form.
Past posts and future hosts can be found on my blog carnival index page.

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Week 14 & 15 Results

2007-01-06T17:28:00.000Z

Here are my results for weeks 14 & 15.

Visitor Stats Last 14 Days

Page Views: 1,264
Unique Visitors: 850
Returning Visitors: 102

Total Page View for Last 15 Weeks: 9,430
Total Unique Visitors for Last 15 Weeks: 6,131

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

The Ultimate Make Money Online Blog: 44
Mike's Money Making Mission: 35
del.icio.us: 25
Top Blog Lists: 17
Technorati: 15

Most of my traffic is now coming via search engines with 408 visitors in the past 2 weeks.

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense: $30.27 (approx. £15.69) Up £2.75
Adbrite: $9.16 (approx. £4.75) Up £0.84
Friend Finder: $2.60 (approx. £1.35) Up £0.27
Ciao: £13.65 No Change
Blogsvertise: $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot: $0.94 (approx. £0.49) Up £0.18
Free Fivers: £6.67 No Change
Valued Opinions: £2.50 No Change
Global Test Market: 130 Market Points = $8.90 (approx. £4.78) No Change
Test & Vote: 11840 Points = approx. £2.50 No Change

Grand Total: £119.37 Up £4.04

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First Post of the Year

2007-01-03T20:13:00.000Z

Welcome back to my quest, I hope you all had a good time over Christmas and the New Year and are ready to make some money. I'm going to start off the New Year with a couple of small items.

Technorati Rank

A good start to the year here as I've beat my target of 50,000, my current rank being 47,488 with 260 links from 69 blogs. I'm not really sure what use this is, but it gives you something to aim for.

New Tenant

My first tenant of the year is my friend Tom Jackson again with his blog YouTube Karaoke please make sure you pay him a visit by clicking on the thumbnail in the right hand sidebar.

Searches and Keywords

When I got back after the New Year I took a look at my stats and found that I had been getting quite a few hits from Google with the keyword MyLot. After doing the search myself I saw that this blog appeared on the first page of the results, which was a bit of a suprise. I've only done one post about MyLot and it's only appeared in a couple of my recent reports so I'm not sure how come I rank so highly for that keyword.

Upcoming Articles

Over the next week or so I will be revisiting some of the methods I've been using for making money and generating traffic and evaluate my results with them so far. After I have evaluated each of these methods I will draw up a plan of action for the coming year for maximising traffic and revenue.

That's all for now, come back tomorrow for my next post.

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Tags: technorati rank, google search, keyword, mylot

Week 13 Results

2006-12-23T21:58:00.000Z

Here are my results for week 13 and the last report of 2006. This will probably be the last post of the year as well, if so let me wish all my readers a very merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Lets all hope next year brings us all greater profits.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 889 Down 40
Unique Visitors: 574 Down 17
Returning Visitors: 97 Down 22

Total Page View for Last 13 Weeks: 8,265
Total Unique Visitors for Last 13 Weeks: 5,344

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Blog Carnival: 34
Mike's Money Making Mission: 23
Top Blog Lists: 18
Technorati: 17
Digg: 13

A slight dip in traffic levels this week, this maybe due to it nearly being Christmas, I know I haven't been on the internet as much this week. My visits via search engines are continuing to go up with 175 visitors this week.

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense: $25.33 (approx. £12.94) Up £1.01
Adbrite: $7.66 (approx. £3.91) Up £1.27
Friend Finder: $2.10 (approx. £1.08) No Change
Ciao: £13.65 No Change
Blogsvertise: $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot: $0.61 (approx. £0.31) Up £0.01
Free Fivers: £6.67 No Change
Valued Opinions: £2.50 No Change
Global Test Market: 130 Market Points = $8.90 (approx. £4.78) No Change
Test & Vote: 11840 Points = approx. £2.50 No Change

Grand Total: £115.33 Up £2.29

A very slow week this week, hopefully next year will be better.

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Tags: blog, results, money, adsense, google, earnings, adbrite, commission junction

Blog of the Year Award

2006-12-23T21:27:00.000Z

Blog About Your Blog is hosting a Blog of the Year Award and is looking for 25 nominations, if you have or know a blog you think is worthy of the title please email ff_n_stuff@yahoo.com. It's just a bit of fun really but the winner will hopefully recieve some extra publicity for their blog as well as a cool $5.

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Tags: blog about your blog, blog of the year, award, nominations

Laura's Book of the Day

2006-12-20T19:42:00.000Z

This weeks new tenant is Laura's Book of the Day, please click on the thumbnail to the right and pay Laura a visit.

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Tags: new tenant, blog explosion, rent my blog

Internet Money Makers Carnival 4th Edition

2006-12-18T21:59:00.000Z

Welcome to the fourth edition of Internet Money Makers Carnival. Now that I have made this carnival a weekly thing there aren't quite as many articles as last time, but still plenty to get your teeth into. There won't be a carnival next week due to Christmas, the next one will be in the new year. Please enjoy the articles.

Stefanie presents Earn Money by Participating in a Discussion Board posted at Random Encounters of We, saying, "myLot is a great site to join to add an extra stream of income."

SirLook Team presents Is It Better to Say ?What is Google? OR ?Who is Google?? posted at wWw SirLook Network.

David presents To Open or not to Open Comments – The Blogger’s Dilemma posted at Worldwide Success, saying, "One of the key decisions every blogger needs to make is whether to keep the comments functionality open or disabled. I can see pros and cons in either approach. It is nice to build a sense of community in your blog and allow people to make comments. Well thought out comments add real value to a blog. But moderating comments and responding takes time away from writing quality content that could be of higher value to readers. Should bloggers allow comments? What do you think?"

Bryan C. Fleming presents Million Dollar Savings Club hits 100 Days! posted at Bryan C. Fleming.

Praveen presents How to Build A Large Volume Ebay Business posted at My Simple Trading System.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Wanted: Ads That Make Sense posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "My experience with AdSense when I first started involved badly targeted ads. So I wrote this piece!"

2 Pennies Earned presents Experiment: Turning a Profit on Ebay posted at 2 Pennies Earned.

Paul presents Increasing your hourly rate in order to get rich posted at Paul, saying, "When it comes to making more money, a lot of people think about working harder or working more. They equate the amount of money you get out with the amount of effort you put in. But this isn't really the case."

Bofia presents High Yield Investment Programs and Investing posted at Bofia's Blog.

Ed presents Feel Clever While Saving Money on Printing posted at Daily Dose of Optimism, saying, "After spending about $200 on toner cartridges in the span of a few months, none of which seemed to quite achieve the 2,000 pages per cartridge as advertised, I began looking into alternative solutions. Here's a great solution I found that I hope you enjoy!"

James D. Brausch presents Conversion Lies posted at jamesbrausch.com.

Julie Alexander presents AGLOCO Pays You To Surf posted at Resources For Making Money On The Net.

RobStGeorge presents Its not that hard to make $100 US Dollars a month part time posted at The Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under, saying, "This week we look at how it is not that hard to make at least $100 US dollars a month."

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet money makers carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Tags: internet money makers carnival, blog carnival.

Week 12 Results

2006-12-16T21:40:00.000Z

Here are my results for week 12.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 929 Up 92
Unique Visitors: 591 Up 48
Returning Visitors: 119 Up 13

Total Page View for Last 12 Weeks: 7,488
Total Unique Visitors for Last 12 Weeks: 4,843

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Top Blog Lists: 23
Mike's Money Making Mission: 22
Technorati: 22
Blog Carnival: 17
MyLot: 17

Traffic levels are their way back up again, I think this is due to the publishing of the carnival, everytime I have published a new edition my traffic levels rise. My visits via search engines are continuing to go up especially from google, with 162 out of 175 search engine visits from google. Top Blog Lists is a new list that I added myself to last week and has provided me with a good number of referrals. Lastly MyLot has also sent me a few visitors too, see my previous article for more details of MyLot.

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense: $23.27 (approx. £11.93) Up £4.15
Adbrite: $5.16 (approx. £2.64) Up £0.07
Friend Finder: $2.10 (approx. £1.08) Up £0.77
Ciao: £13.65 Up £2.01
Blogsvertise: $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) Up £2.58
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot: $0.59 (approx. £0.30) Up £0.09
Free Fivers: £6.67 No Change
Valued Opinions: £2.50 No Change
Global Test Market: 130 Market Points = $8.90 (approx. £4.78) No Change
Test & Vote: 11840 Points = approx. £2.50 No Change

Grand Total: £113.04 Up £7.09

I'm still not raking in the cash but my earnings are going up, especially from Adsense, I've made more from Adsense in the last week than I did the whole of last month. I'm just going to keep plugging away and I will hopefully continue to gradually increase my earnings.

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Tags: blog, results, money, adsense, google, earnings, adbrite, commission junction

Jumping on the MyLot Bandwagon

2006-12-16T08:09:00.000Z

It seems lately that every money making blog I read has a post about how they've joined MyLot, I resisted joining myself for awhile as the returns didn't seem very high. I eventually succumbed and signed up, just to see what all the fuss was about.

What is MyLot?

MyLot is similar to a forum, you start or participate in discussions, unlike most forums though, the discussions can be about any subject. The most important difference between MyLot and forums is that MyLot pay you for contributing.

How much do you get paid?

How much you get paid depends on the quality of the contributions. Nobody except MyLot know exactly how the payments are worked out, but there seems to be some complex algorithm that rewards for quality. What this means is you get paid less or possibly even nothing for simple one word answers, and more for more thorough answers. Although even if the quality of your responses are high the payouts are still small, only a few cents, you have to do a lot of writing to make significant amounts.

You can also make money by referring new members, getting a percentage of what they earn.

Why join?

There are a couple of reasons I can see for joining, and I have listed them below.

If you like to participate in forums and discussions anyway, you may as well get paid something to do it.
Traffic to your website or blog. By adding you site address to your MyLot profile and in your responses (only where appropriate), you will likely generate some extra traffic.
Making money by starting and participating in as many discussions as possible and from referrals.

Conclusion

So far I have only participated in about 20 discussions and only made about $0.50, but after responding to a money making discussion and including my blog address, I did receive an extra 25- 30 hits. I think if you have time and like to participate in lots of discussions this can be a good way of making a few extra quid and maybe even generating some traffic to your own blog or website, but it won't make you a living. Give it a try and see what you think.

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Tags: mylot, make money, generate traffic

Sex Sells

2006-12-14T10:57:00.000Z

Apparantly sex sells, or so I'm told anyway, well if that's the case then I want a bit of the action, to that end I've created my latest blog "Make Money With Sex Ads".

I want to keep this blog clean and family friendly, so I've started a new blog as an experiment to see if I can make money from ads that are more adult in nature. The new blog will be similar to this one as I will be reporting weekly as to my progress and will be writing articles on the sites and services I find for making money with adult content.

Please only visit this site if you are over 18 and you are not offended by explicit material.

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Tags: sex ads, make money

New Tenant

2006-12-12T09:17:00.000Z

This weeks new tenant is the Prize is Right, the tag line reads "The Very Best Prizes, Competitions, & Opportunities for Artists, Actors, Musicians, Writers, Filmmakers, Comedians, Archtects & All Creative Professionals". Please drop by for a visit by clicking on the thumbnail in the right hand sidebar.

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Tags: new tenant, blog explosion, rent my blog

Internet Money Makers Carnival 3rd Edition

2006-12-11T19:53:00.000Z

Welcome to the third edition of Internet Money Makers Carnival. It's been another successful edition with even more submissions than last time but the same high quality. I would just like to thank everybody that submitted an article and I hope this carnival brings you lots traffic.

RobStGeorge presents Sometimes the best blog earners slip under the rad... posted at The Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under, saying, "Google Adsense is not the be all and end all as we find out..."

Addies presents Making Money Online: Mylot Making Money Online Is Easy #4 posted at Making Money Online, saying, "Thanks for starting a new carnival. Regards, Addies."

Joseph presents Make $20 an hour on eBay posted at help with everything.

James D. Brausch presents Writing Articles, Brain Dead Or Not! posted at jamesbrausch.com.

Stefanie presents Are the "make money by taking surveys online" scam... posted at Random Encounters of We, saying, "This is my findings through three years of experience with these survey sites. I have a couple others money making tips of my blog, check it out!"

Jordan presents How to find your cash cow! posted at Build Some Bank!.

jeff sickles presents MAKE THE BIG BUCK$ Surfing the Web from Your Couch posted at Jeff Sickles, saying, "this could be worth looking into for both the tech and non techs out there..."

Stuart McKeown presents Blog SEO » Earn Money Online with Earners Blog a Unique Blogging Project about Online Marketing & Monetization posted at Earners Blog, saying, "Series on how to fully optimize your Blog for the Search Engines in order to increase traffic & pull in more conversions."

supermom_in_ny presents Money4Blogs posted at SuperMom's Reviews and Rants.

lecentre presents How to Exploit Regional Demographics in SEM and SEO posted at Bookworm SEO, saying, "Powerful tips on using geographic data on searchers to improve your CTR, get a higher conversion rate, and improve your rankings in organic search."

Finnegan Lane presents Million Dollar Home Pages Galore! posted at The Digerati Life.

Barbra Sundquist presents Outsmart Credit Card Companies at Their Own Game posted at HomeBusinessWiz.

Chuck Russell presents SEO Copywriting; The Key To Keyword Articles posted at Make Money Online.

Bryan C. Fleming presents Money In The Bank posted at Bryan C. Fleming.

James D. Brausch presents Traffic Lies posted at jamesbrausch.com.

John Hill presents Traffic Geyser posted at Universe Of Success, saying, "Do you want a traffic explosion happening on your website?"

Victor Fam presents Dare To Dream « Towards Better Life posted at Victor Fam.

Victor Fam presents Focus On Create Value posted at Victor Fam.

Victor Fam presents Spreading the Personal Development Pixels posted at Victor Fam.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Money Making Web Traffic: All Your Eyeballs Are Belong To Me posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "Some of the things I first learned as a newbie in the internet money making arena. I first needed to understand a few things to make things work!"

Erik Halvorssen presents A New Business Idea and a Traffic Jam: The Perfect... posted at Make It On Your Own!.

David B. presents How to Save Money when Shopping Online posted at How Do People Get Rich?.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet money makers carnival using the carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on my blog carnival index page.

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Tags: internet money makers carnival, blog carnival

Week 11 Results

2006-12-09T20:08:00.000Z

Here are my results for week 11.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 837 Down 386
Unique Visitors: 543 Down 195
Returning Visitors: 106 Down 55

Total Page View for Last 11 Weeks: 6,658
Total Unique Visitors for Last 11 Weeks: 4,318

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Mike's Money Making Mission: 30
Rhyswynne Toplist: 20
Technorati: 18
Blogger Forum: 14
Digg: 14

I also had 37 direct visitors, meaning they came from another source other than a website or blog, such as a bookmark or a feed and 172 visitors from search engines.

Cumulative Earnings

Google AdSense: $15.21 (approx. £7.78) Up £2.08
Adbrite: $5.03 (approx. £2.57) Up £0.62
Friend Finder: $0.60 (approx. £0.31) New
Ciao: £11.64 No Change
Blogsvertise: $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Blogitive: $10.00 (approx. £5.12) Up £2.58
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
MyLot: $0.42 (approx. £0.21) Up £0.05
Free Fivers: £6.67 No Change
Valued Opinions: £2.50 No Change
Global Test Market: 130 Market Points = $8.90 (approx. £4.78) No Change
Test & Vote: 11840 Points = approx. £2.50 No Change

Grand Total: £105.95 Up £5.64

Traffic levels have decreased slightly this week, I think this is due to not posting as much.

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Blog About Your Blog

2006-12-07T10:35:00.000Z

Blog About Your Blog has been created by PoEt of Fantasy Football n' Stuff to allow other bloggers to contribute articles and promote their own blogs. Joining the team is easy, just send an email to ff_n_stuff@yahoo.com requesting an invitation. Once you receive your invitation and you have logged into the Dashboard you can start writing posts about anything you want. This is a great way of promoting your blog and providing extra backlinks.

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Tags: blog about your blog, blog promotion

Blogitive - Get Paid to Post

2006-12-06T21:55:00.000Z

A couple of weeks ago I was recommended Blogitive by Tom and Rob as being a good way of making extra cash, so as usual I signed up to see what they had to offer.

Blogitive is another pay for posts service similar to Blogsvertise, but instead of waiting for offers to be emailed to you, you login to the Blogitive website and choose from a list of offers. Every time I've logged in there have been between 2 and 5 offers listed, the standard payment for each offer is usually $5. There is no limit to the number of offers you can accept although there must be at least 2 normal posts of at least 50 words between each paid post. Payments are made once a week into a paypal account so you will need to have one setup to get paid. So far I have done one post for them, the post was accepted within minutes of submitting it and I was paid promptly within a week My first impressions of Blogitive have been good there seems to be a good number of offers and they pay quickly. If you have a number of blogs it is possible to make quite a bit of money with them. So far I would definately recommend them as a source of additional income.

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Tags: blogitive, blogsvertise, paid to post

This Weeks Tenant

2006-12-06T21:02:00.000Z

This weeks plug for my latest tenant is a bit late this week as I've been away, but it's better late than never. My tenant is Tom Jackson again but this time its with his other blog Soap Box Jury, a blog with reviews of websites, products and services. Please amke sure you visit his site it's well worth a read and you never know he might even review this blog.

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Tags: blog explosion, rent my blog, tenant

Week 10 Results

2006-12-01T09:26:00.000Z

I'm publishing my results a bit early this week as I'm going away for the weekend, that means no other posts over the weekend. The good news is I already have some new posts in mind for when I get back including:

Link and Blog
Giving MyLot a Try
Blog About Your Blog
Paid Posts with Blogitive

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 1,223 Up 375
Unique Visitors: 738 Up 203
Returning Visitors: 161 Up 40

Total Page View for Last 10 Weeks: 5,776
Total Unique Visitors for Last 10 Weeks: 3,760

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Blog Carnival: 55
Mike's Money Making Mission: 48
The Million Dollar Experiment Down Under: 18
Digg: 17
Google Groups: 16

Banner Ad Referrals:

Blog Explosion: 5
Blog Soldiers: 3

I also had 95 direct visitors, meaning they came from another source other than a website or blog, such as a bookmark or a feed and 158 visitors from search engines.

Cumulative Earnings

Free Fivers: £6.67 No Change
Google AdSense: $11.24 (approx. £5.70) Up £0.10
Ciao: £11.64 Up £0.02
Valued Opinions: £2.50 No Change
Global Test Market: 130 Market Points = $8.90 (approx. £4.78) No Change
Test & Vote: 11840 Points = approx. £2.50 No Change
Adbrite: $3.84 (approx. £1.95) Up £0.09
Blogvertise: $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change
Blogitive: $5.00 (approx. £2.54) New
Friend Finder: £0.00 New
MyLot: $0.32 (approx. £0.16) New

Grand Total: £100.31 Up £2.91

Traffic levels have really increased this week with an average of about 100 visitors a day, visitors from the search engines is going up and up. Also my Internet Money Makers Carnival has brought in a lot of traffic, this has been a great success. I'm still not making much money though, but I think I need to be patient.

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Tags: blog, results, money, adsense, google, earnings, adbrite, commission junction

Adult Friend Finder Affiliate Program

2006-11-29T11:23:00.000Z

I was reading some of my favourite blogs yesterday and I came across a post at Mike's Money Making Mission about how he's made good money with the Adult Friend Finder Affiliate Program. As progress has been slow lately in the money making department I thought I'd give it a go myself. I've signed up and put a couple of banners in the left hand sidebar, I've tried to keep the ads clean though, as I want this to be a family friendly blog.

I will let you know what happens, I won't be pushing this product too much so I probably won't make anything from it, we'll just have to wait and see.

Update: You can now see how I did with Adult Friend Finder in this post Adult Friend Finder - 10 Months On

If you found this post interesting, then please consider subscribing to my RSS Feed, you can also receive updates via e-mail.

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Tags: adult friend finder, affiliate program

MyBlogLog

2006-11-28T13:50:00.000Z

In an attempt to drive yet more traffic to this blog I signed up with MyBlogLog, a free online community for bloggers. I took this from their about page:

"MyBlogLog is launching this new Communities service to empower authors and readers to operate at the same level. For the first time, everyone who reads a web site or blog can learn about and engage with one another, and in the process take the conversation to a whole new level.
Readers can become friends with other people who read your favorite blogs. See what else they're reading. Check out their MySpace and Friendster profiles and view their Flickr photostreams. Authors can learn more about their readers individually and as a group. What do they like and what are they ignoring? What are they reading elsewhere on the Web?
MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part."

I signed up to MyBlogLog about a week ago and through it I have found some interesting blogs, more importantly people have found mine. It hasn't as yet significantly increased levels of traffic to my blog, but I think as more people join my community and I join others it will. To date I have received about 30 referrals from MyBlogLog, but I expect this to increase as I get involved in the communities.

Other benefits of MyBlogLog are widgets that can be added to your blog, including recent visitors box that shows the pictures of the 5 most recent community member visitors (you can see this at the bottom of the right hand sidebar) and top 5 links on your blog. MyBlogLog also offers basic site stats which can also be upgraded for a fee, messaging and contact managment.

Give MyBlogLog a try it's free unless you want the upgraded stats, so there's nothing to lose, but you might gain some more visitors though.

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Tags: mybloglog, community, widgets

Internet Money Makers Carnival 2nd Edition

2006-11-27T20:59:00.000Z

Welcome to the November 28, 2006 2nd edition of the Internet Money Makers Carnival.

Kevin presents Why You Should Promote Residual Affiliate Programs posted at Tips on: Search Engine Marketing, Web Hosting, Web Site Design, Email Marketing, Work at Home.

Praveen presents posted at My Simple Trading System.

Paul presents How to deal with information overload posted at Paul, saying, "A couple of people have sent emails asking me to write about information overload. It seems that a lot of you are drowning in data at the moment, and need some sort of direction about which way to swim. I've thought about it for a bit, and here's my conclusion."

Internet

Azmi Mufti presents Get Non-Reciprocal Links Without Asking for Them for FREE posted at Azmi M..

John Hill presents How To Make Money From Your New Blog posted at Universe Of Success.

Finnegan Lane presents People And Things That Earn More Than My AdSense Account posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "Hi, the Title may be wrong on this submission. It should say this correct title: "People And Things That Earn More Than My AdSense Account" but it could give you instead the description of my blog. So hopefully you will be able to use my post with the corrected title. I found that sometimes the submission won't take an edited title."

Sarakastic presents Paid Surveys & PTR Review posted at Fibromyalgia Experiment, saying, "I never make mistakes because I'm Sara. However, if I did, this would be one of them."

Benjamin Yoskovitz presents The Best Way of Making Money on a Blog is Through Sponsorship posted at Instigator Blog, saying, "An article about how to make money from sponsorships and why they're the best way of making money through a blog."

David presents The Art of Successful Blogging posted at Worldwide Success, saying, "Since the launch of the Worldwide Success site a month ago I have done quite a bit of research about what it takes to be a successful blogger. During my research I have run into many successful blogs and have found several interesting articles about what it takes to be successful in the bloggosfere. I though I would share the most interesting ones with you and let the experts speak for themselves."

Julien Raby presents Ten ways to create innovative blog content ideas posted at AdContented - How to monetize your Website, saying, "With the Web and especially the blogosphere getting crowded these days, it’s getting more and more difficult to create really unique and useful content. Or at least, it gets harder to obtain strong visibility for it. So in order to be successful on the Web, it’s been said many times that you should focus on creating really good content. So here are my top ten sources to generate fresh blog content ideas."

Money

Azmi Mufti presents Finally! My $1,400+ Payment for October from AdSense posted at Azmi M..

Mister Juggles presents Kim Jong-il, Mini-Baller posted at Long or Short Capital.

Bryan C. Fleming presents How to Set up Your Automatic Savings Account posted at Bryan C. Fleming.

Joe Cerny presents Build a Money Making Website With Your Kids posted at Finance-4-Kids, saying, "Article with focus on developing a money making website run by kids. Listed resources can help anyone build a money making website."

Erik Halvorssen presents The Impulse posted at Make It On Your Own!.

Jason Thomas presents Seven Secrets Of Success posted at Effortless Office.

Azmi Mufti presents Double, Triple, or Even Quadruple your AdSense Earnings, Guaranteed! posted at Azmi M..

fedor presents YOU and FOREX posted at forexblog.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Internet Money Makers Carnival using the carnival submission form. Past posts and future carnivals can be found on the blog carnival index page.

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Tags: internet money makers carnival, blog carnival.

Weekly Reports

2006-11-27T09:59:00.000Z

Here you will find a list of all weekly reports and will be updated each time a new one is added.

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Internet Money Makers Blog Carnival - Reminder

2006-11-27T08:14:00.000Z

Please remember that the 2nd edition of the Internet Money Makers Carnival will be published tomorrow, so there isn't long left to get your entries in. Submit your articles now by clicking here.

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Tags: blog, carnival, money

Week 9 Results

2006-11-25T08:23:00.000Z

Here are my results for last week.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 848 Up 146
Unique Visitors: 535 Up 48
Returning Visitors: 121 Down 12

Total Page View for Last 9 Weeks: 4,802
Total Unique Visitors for Last 9 Weeks: 3,167

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Mike's Money Making Mission: 47
The Million Dollar Experiment Down Under: 29
Blogger Forum: 19
Rhyswynne Toplist: 17
Fantasy Football N' Stuff: 14

Banner Ad Referrals:

Blog Explosion: 12
Blog Soldiers: 5

I also had 85 direct visitors, meaning they came from another source other than a website or blog, such as a bookmark or a feed and 109 visitors from search engines.

Cumulative Earnings

Free Fivers: £6.67 No Change
Google AdSense: $10.83 (approx. £5.60) Up £1.20
Ciao: £11.62 No Change
Valued Opinions: £2.50 No Change
Global Test Market: 130 Market Points = $8.90 (approx. £4.78) No Change
Test & Vote: 11840 Points = approx. £2.50 No Change
Adbrite: $3.60 (approx. £1.86) Up £1.01
Blogvertise: $22.50 (approx. £11.87) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change

Grand Total: £97.40 Up £2.21

Traffic levels are still going up with a lot of it coming from search engines. I'm still only making small amounts of money, so I need to rethink my advertising strategy.

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Tags: blog, results, money, adsense, google, earnings, adbrite, commission junction

Attack of the Spammer

2006-11-24T19:55:00.000Z

Today I seem to be getting hit by a spammer he goes by the name of Scott Arthur Edwards (probably not his real name), he has so far today left about 25 comments, the same 3 comments repeated over again. All the comments are asking people to visit 1 site or another that he probably gets paid for. I've had to spend ages deleting them all, a waste of my time and a waste of his time too. I've been to his blog and left a comment politly asking him to stop the comments but he has continued regardless. I noticed when I left the comment he has moderation turned on so I don't suppose it will ever make it on to the page. I am now going to have to turn my moderation on for a while until he gets bored, I turned this off ages ago because I wanted people to be able to comment freely and not have to wait to see their comment appear.

Hopefully he will see this and stop, but I don't suppose he even reads the posts on here.

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Tags: spam, spammer, attack

This Weeks New Tenant

2006-11-24T09:11:00.000Z

My tenant for this weeks Rent My Blog is Tom Jackson, who just happens to be one of my link partners as well. Tom's blog is regularly updated and well worth a read to visit Tom please click on the thumbnail in the right hand sidebar.

Oh and he's also from the same neck of the woods as my finance so he's got to be a good guy.

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Tags: rent my blog, tenant, tom jackson

New Band - 84mm

2006-11-23T21:46:00.000Z

I just wanted to write quick note to publicize my friend's son's band 84mm, they're only 13 and 14, but they're really good. This is from they're website.

84mm have only been together for 10 months but as you will have already
noticed they are attracting enormous interest from talent scouts within the
music industry, after only 8 gigs in total. They are incredibly tight for their
tender years and deliver jaw dropping storming performances each time they hit a
stage. These boys believe in practicing hard and having fun along the way!.
Their own brand of Power Punk combines catchy sing along choruses with heavy
riffs.... this has met with much approval, the nodding heads and smiling faces
bear testament that the crowds enjoy what they hear and always want more!! The
boys feet are kept firmly on the ground and unlike some young bands they don't
take themselves too seriously. They are under no illusions and at the moment are
simply having Fun with a capital F! and enjoying it enormously....

Check out they're website www.84mm.co.uk, they're definitely going to be the next best thing.

Remember you heard about them here first.

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Tags: band, promote, 84mm

New Layout

2006-11-23T11:17:00.000Z

The other day I was looking at this blog and thinking about how I could make the most of it and I decided it was time to change the layout a bit. The trouble with the default Blogger Templates is that they make the main content very narrow leaving lots of blank space at the sides that could be filled, so I started by widening the content to fill the whole page. I then noticed that my left sidebar was getting really long, so I split it into 2 and created the second sidebar on the right, now it's possible to see both ads and my content links above the fold.

Please let me know what you think of the new layout and if there is anything else that could make it better.

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Tags: template, design, blog, blogger, layout

Online Sports Betting With Totesport

2006-11-22T12:07:00.000Z

I'm not much of a gambler myself, but if you like a bit of a flutter why not give Totesport a try. Totesport are currently offering a free bet of between £5 and £50 when you stake an equivalent amount.

Register now for your free bet.

Tags: totesport, free bet, gambling

My Top Posts / Sitemap

2006-11-21T10:12:00.000Z

Today I thought I'd list my best/favourite posts from this blog, so that new readers can find the more useful posts more easily. I will be putting a permanent link to this post in the sidebar and I will update this post as I add new ones, that way this can act as a kind of sitemap. I hope you find these articles and posts useful.

Text Link Ads - Missing Out on Blogger Blogs

2006-11-20T11:24:00.000Z

A little while ago I signed up with Text Link Ads (aff.) , as I had heard good things about them and that they were a good potential source of income. So I signed up no problem, but when I submitted this blog to have ads placed on it, I received an email saying that my inventory had been declined and listed some reasons ie. the website does not have enough link popularity or the website does not have enough traffic. I decided to email them back to find out exactly what the issue was as I believed that although I wasn't getting masses of traffic I thought it would be enough for this. I received the following reply:

"Blogger is one technology that we do not have a working script for. Our developers are currently working on something but I am not sure when this will be available. That is why the site was declined."

This wasn't mentioned on the submission page and it was only when I had a look on their FAQ that I saw this:

"Unfortunately, unless you have a dedicated hosting account where you publish your Blogger blog, our script will not work."

I think Text Link Ads (aff.) are missing out here as there are a lot of great Blogger hosted blogs out there that could sell a lot of links and make huge profits. It can't be that difficult to write a script that can work on Blogger.

You can of course still be an affiliate and advertise Text Link Ads (aff.) themselves.

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Tags: text link ads, blogger, money, advertising, affiliate

Technorati Rank

2006-11-20T10:22:00.000Z

My Technorati Rank has broken the 100,000 mark, my current rank is now 93,405 (67 links from 35 blogs), the next target is 50,000.

I would just like to thank all those that have linked to my blog so far in getting me to this rank.

Also, please remember to Favorite this blog as well (the button is at the top of the sidebar) if you like this blog as this helps to increase my authority.

Thanks again.
Martin

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Week 8 Results

2006-11-20T09:22:00.000Z

Here are my results for last week.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 702 Up 35
Unique Visitors: 487 Up 5
Returning Visitors: 133 Down 13

Total Page View for Last 8 Weeks: 4,136
Total Unique Visitors for Last 8 Weeks: 2,803

Top 5 Referrees This Week:

Mike's Money Making Mission: 46
Blog Carnival: 29
Rhyswynne Toplist: 23
Technorati: 21
Blogger Forum: 20

Banner Ad Referrals:

Blog Explosion: 15
Blog Soldiers: 3

I also had 71 direct visitors, meaning they came from another source other than a website or blog, such as a bookmark or a feed and 48 visitors from search engines.

Cumulative Earnings

Free Fivers: £6.67 No Change
Google AdSense: $8.33 (approx. £4.40) Up £0.67
Ciao: £11.62 Up £0.67
Valued Opinions: £2.50 No Change
Global Test Market: 130 Market Points = $8.90 (approx. £4.78) No Change
Test & Vote: 11840 Points = approx. £2.50 No Change
Adbrite: $1.62 (approx. £0.85) Up £0.06
Blogvertise: $22.50 (approx. £11.87) Up £5.25
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change

Grand Total: £95.19 Up £6.65

Traffic levels are starting to go up again even though I am no longer using traffic exchanges, I am starting to get quite a lot of hits from search engines now. Again only a small increase in revenues this week, I need to think of some more ways to drive traffic to the site.

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Tags: blog, results, money, adsense, google, earnings, adbrite, commission junction

New Tenant

2006-11-20T09:14:00.000Z

This weeks tenant on Rent My Blog is Pictures From My World, a photo blog with some great photos. Give the site a visit by clicking the thumbnail in the sidebar.

Thanks

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Tags: rent my blog, blog explosion, tenant

My Ebay Experiment - The Results

2006-11-17T10:22:00.000Z

It's been 10 days since I listed my 3 text links on ebay and the auctions have now ended and the results have been rather disappointing. I'm not sure what I really expected to be honest, but I sold 2 of the links for £0.01 each, leaving one unsold. It didn't bring much in the way of traffic either only resulting in 6 referrals from ebay in the whole 10 days. Not exactly a rouring success and seeing as it cost me £0.45 to list the links, I actually made a loss. At the end of the day though it was an experiment and it failed, some of the factors that may have had an effect are, poorly written listings, blog not receiving enough traffic and blog having no pagerank. It might be worth trying this again if this blog ever really takes off and I start getting a lot of traffic and pagerank.

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Tags: ebay, auction, experiment, traffic, money, bid

Internet Money Makers Carnival 1st Edition

2006-11-14T06:45:00.000Z

Welcome to the 1st edition of the Internet Money Makers Carnival. Even though this is only the first edition I've had 14 submissions, I'm really pleased with this, so I'm going to continue doing this carnival once every 2 weeks. Please visit all the links here as they are all really good articles, although some of them are not strictly money making articles, they are worth reading none the less.

I would just like to thank all the people that have submitted articles to this the 1st edition and I hope to see more of your articles in the next edition.

Daniel Scocco presents Is your blog cross-browser compatible? posted at Daily Blog Tips.

RobStGeorge presents Can a Million Dollars be Earned from a Website? posted at The Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under, saying, "Hey Martin, great idea, would love to be part of it. Cheers Rob"

James D. Brausch presents Are You Being A Good Guy Or A Plain Old Procrastinator posted at jamesbrausch.com.

Sanjay Kumar presents Attract more customers by marketing the new PayPal rebate! posted at SimplifyThis, saying, "Leverage the recent PayPal rebate program to generate sales for your own business."

Sushith Mundayadan presents Reasons For Getting Irrelevant Or Off-targeted Goo... posted at Tips To Make Money Online, saying, "Few Reasons for getting off targeted Google adsense ads on your sites and tips to stop them."

Yan Sniim presents Strategy to reach $30 000 in 2 years posted at Money For Medical Study.

emigre presents More online money-making resources posted at emigre, saying, "Thank you."

emigre also presents Multiple Streams of Internet Income posted at emigre, saying, "Thank you."

supermom_in_ny presents Review Me Launch! posted at Getting Out Of Debt.

Bill presents Taxes-Country by Country posted at Ask Uncle Bill, saying, "It's not what you make, it's what you take home."

Shannon Herod presents Turning a business into a business… posted at Internet Marketing.

Phil B. presents Web 2.0 versus AdSense posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, "This week, I had an unintentional experiment with my small blog, Google's AdSense, and Web 2.0, and I would like to know if my results are what everyone else is seeing too."

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of internet money makers carnival using our carnival submission form.
Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Tags: internet money makers carnival, blog carnival

Promote Your Site

2006-11-13T16:19:00.000Z

Promote Your Site is new blog by Manzkee, that allows you to post anything you like to promote your own blog. Membership is by invitation only, to request an invitation please email this address echomixednuts@gmail.com with your blogs details. I've already joined and have written a post promoting this blog, we will see if it brings any additional traffic.

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Tags: promote, blog

Blogsvertise - Pay Per Post

2006-11-12T11:28:00.000Z

I've been signed up with Blogsvertise for a while now and I've just realised that I haven't written about it yet.

What is Blogsvertise?

Blogsvertise assigns tasks to registered members, emailing them with a website address to talk about in a post on their blog. Just write an entry about the site, you can write whatever you want, you just need to link to the site at least 3 times. You can choose to accept or decline any task assigned to you, there is no obligation to accept.

How much do you get paid?

Assuming the post gets approved you get paid between $5 and $10 dollars per post.

When do you get paid?

You get paid directly into your paypal account for each post after 30 days of the posts approval, there is no minimum payout, so you don't have to wait until you've written a number of posts. If you only write one post you will get paid for that post.

Is it any good?

I've written 3 posts for them so far, I get offered about 1 task a week, so it brings in roughly $5 per week, which at the moment is better than my other schemes. This sort of thing may not be for everyone though as pay per posts may put off some people. I think because this is a blog about making money I can be forgiven for writing a post as an advertisement, readers of other types of blogs may not be as forgiving and maybe put off. It is a good way of earning a few extra dollars but you need make sure that your readership will not be affected by it before considering it for your own blog.

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Tags: blogsvertise, pay per post

Week 7 Results

2006-11-11T17:48:00.000Z

Here are this weeks results.

Visitor Stats Last 7 Days

Page Views: 667 Down 60
Unique Visitors: 482 Down 52
Returning Visitors: 146 Up 26

Total Page View for Last 7 Weeks: 3,474
Total Unique Visitors for Last 7 Weeks: 1,751

Top 5 Referrees:

Mike's Money Making Mission: 35
Blogger Forum: 28
Technorati: 24
Rhyswynne Toplist: 16
Digg: 16

Banner Ad Referrals:

Blog Explosion: 32
Blog Soldiers: 4

I also had 76 direct visitors, meaning they came from another source other than a website or blog, such as a bookmark or a feed and 42 visitors from search engines.

Earnings

Free Fivers: £6.67 No Change
Google AdSense: $7.13 (approx. £3.73) Up £0.21
Ciao: £10.95 Up £2.04
Valued Opinions: £2.50 No Change
Global Test Market: 130 Market Points = $8.90 (approx. £4.78) No Change
Test & Vote: 11840 Points = approx. £2.50 No Change
Adbrite: $1.51 (approx. £0.79) Up £0.02
Blogvertise: $12.50 (approx. £6.62) No Change
Money4Blogs: £50.00 No Change
Commission Junction: £0.00 No Change

Grand Total: £88.54 Up £2.27

Traffic levels are down a bit this week, this is due to not using traffic exchanges anymore for direct referrals. Only a small increase in revenues this week, I need to think of some more ways to drive traffic to the site.

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Tags: blog, results, money, adsense, google, earnings, adbrite, commission junction

Email Subscription Via Feedburner, Technorati Favorites and Bloggers Homepage

2006-11-10T23:50:00.000Z

To my regular readers (I know there's a couple of you), why don't you subscribe to my email feed? You'll receive one email a day, assuming I've posted that day, saving you the trouble of checking for updates, they'll come straight to your inbox. Click here to subscribe to my email feed now, it's easy to do and you can always unsubscribe if you get bored of me.

You could also add me to your Technorati Favorites (using the button in the sidebar), this helps me gain more authority on Technorati and gives you another way to keep up with my latest posts. If you add me to your favorites leave a comment and I will check out your site and maybe add your blog to my favorites.

Lastley for tonight I added my link to Bloggers Homepage on the recommendation of Mike, this has already given me a couple of referrals, check it out.

Thats it for today, look out tomorrow for Week 7 Results.

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Tags: email, subscription, feedburner, technorati, favorite, blogger homepage

My Ebay Experiment

2006-11-10T11:40:00.000Z

The other day I decided to sell some text links on ebay (see sidebar and "Auctioned Links"), just to see what would happen. My thought behind it was that even if they don't sell it might bring in a bit of extra traffic, as I've included a link to this blog in the auction description. What I'm hoping will happen is that firstly people looking for text links on ebay will at least come and look at my site to see if it's suitable (extra traffic) and secondly that I will actually get some bids (make more money). I'm not sure if either of things will happen althoug I have has a couple of visitors from ebay in the last couple of days, maybe towards the end of the auction this will increase. I've also had 2 bids so far but only for £0.01, so I don't think I'm going to be getting a lot for them.

If you fancy a bit of cheap advertising for 90 days then make your bid on the following links, I don't think they will go for much more than a couple of pence.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130045157432&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:UK:31

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130045157549&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:UK:31

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130045157549&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:UK:31

Once the auctions have ended I will let you know how my little experiment goes.

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Tags: ebay, auction, experiment, traffic, money, bid

Time flies when you're having fun

2006-11-09T22:34:00.000Z

On Tuesday my baby girl was 6 months old, I can't believe it where has the time gone before I know it she'll be going to school. I just wanted to share this with everyone being the proud father that I am and it makes a change from money talk.

Google Adsense, Traffic Exchanges and Making it all Work

2006-11-09T09:27:00.000Z

I was inspired to write this article after reading this post from Mike's Money Making Mission, where Mike explains how he has received an e-mail from Google that basically tells him not to use Traffic Exchanges to gain hits to his blog.

In this article I'm going to tell you how I think Traffic Exchanges should be used and when.

What's all the fuss about?

The people at Google Adsense are a bit touchy about what you can and can not do on your website and blog when you display their ad blocks. One of the things they don't like are you using Traffic Exchange Programs like Blog Explosion and Blog Soldiers, they see it as artificially generating page views.

When to use Traffic Exchanges

I still believe that Traffic Exchanges have their place and can be a useful way of getting your site noticed, let me explain. When you first start a blog you are unlikely to be getting much in the way of traffic, so if you are displaying Adsense then you're probably not making very much. You may as well remove Adsense until such time as you've built a steady stream of traffic and this is where Traffic Exchanges come in. Now a lot of people think that Traffic Exchanges are a waste of time because people are just clicking through the sites and not really reading them, just to make credits to show their site. In most cases this is probably true, but if you think of it like TV where most people don't watch the adverts either, but there are some that do. So even if you only catch the attention of 1 or 2 people out of 100, that's still a couple of people who may not have seen your site via other sources. The reason TV advertising is such big business is because it works, if enough people see something the more likely it is that some one will take notice.

Of course Traffic Exchanges should be used along side other means of generating traffic (see my top 6 tips) and once you've built up a sustainable level of traffic via these other means you can them stop using the Traffic Exchanges and add Adsense to your site.

Is that the end for Traffic Exchanges then?

Not necessarily, both Blog Explosion and Blog Soldiers and probably others also offer another service, Banner Ads. Instead of using your credits for getting direct traffic to your site you can use them to buy banner impressions, Blog Explosion offers 36 impressions per credit (to get lots of credits quickly see my article here) and Blog Soldiers offer 20 per credit. Banner impressions don't give you the same level of traffic as the exchanges but it's a good use of those credits and it won't get your Adsense account closed down.

Summary

Use Traffic Exchanges when you have a new blog with very little traffic.
Traffic Exchanges can be useful for getting you noticed, more traffic equals more exposure.
Without lots of traffic it is unlikely you will make any money with Adsense, increase your levels of traffic first.
Don't use Adsense on your pages at the same time as using Traffic Exchanges.
Once you're site is receiving reasonable amounts of traffic from sources other than the Traffic Exchanges (this can take a long time, be patient), stop using them and start placing Adsense on your pages.
Start using your credits for Banner Impressions instead of direct traffic.

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Tags: traffic exchange, google, adsense, blog explosion, blog soldiers, banners, banner impressions

Money 4 Blogs

2006-11-08T13:45:00.000Z

Just a quick post to mention www.money4blogs.com, a nice guy called Mike is offering money to place a small text link on blogs. He's only looking for reasonably established and popular blogs, so don't apply if your blog is brand new. All you have to do is send Mike an email via the link on the site with your blog address and he will assess it and make you an offer. If you accept the offer place the code that he supplies on your page and as soon as the link is verified you will be paid by either cheque or paypal. I placed a link for Mike a few weeks ago and within a few minutes of informing him of the link placement I had been paid into my paypal account. This is a genuine offer that I have personally experienced and I highly recommend you give it a try.

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Tags: money, blog, text link

Internet Money Makers Blog Carnival

2006-11-07T09:57:00.000Z

Question: How do you get more people to read your articles and posts?
Answer: Participate in a Blog Carnival.

Question: What is a Blog Carnival?
Answer: This from blogcarnival.com

"A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic. A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis (e.g. every monday, or on the first of the month). Each edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editors opinions or remarks."

Question: Does this mean you're starting your own Carnival?
Answer: Funny you should ask that, but yes I am.

Question: So what's your Carnival all about and how do I get involved?
Answer: Well, this Carnival is all about sharing your money making articles, submit them here and on Tuesday 14th November I will publish a post with links to your articles.

Question: What's in it for me?
Answer: You get free exposure to your best money making articles, therefore increasing traffic to your site.

If this is successful I will do the same thing once a month, so get submitting.

Thanks

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Tags: blog carnival, money, submit articles, increase traffic

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