Makin The Money

I have decided that I’m going to try something that other Make Money Bloggers have done. I’m going to put a few pictures of celebriatyes up and see if my traffic increases. Yes thats what those pictures are on these blogs for, not just for you men to stare at. My first one is Of Angelina Jolie, because I like her, she’s an awesome actress and if I was a guy I would want to sleep with her so she’s first. For the women who read this blog. I will be adding a guy very soon I promise.

Angelina Jolie

The reasion I want to try this is simple, does it really work. Right now I am not doing any advertising for this blog besides entrecard.  I will let you all know if it works at the end of the month.

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So many people talk about page rank. You would think it actually meant something, yes that’s right it doesn’t mean anything. Yes some advertisers use it, but the big names that you want on your website or blog do not care about page rank. What they do care about is how many people actually read your blog or website and click on the links you have. That is what gets them sales, that is what makes them money.

If you have a wordpress blog you need to install the all in one SEO pack. This thing is a lifesaver and makes SEO very easy. You still have to get links and everything for yourself, but if you stop looking at page rank it will be very easy to do. Also if you find out how much competition you have for keywords it will allow you to chose keywords that are not as competitive. Example. My Interior design Blog where I have home decor tips is ranked in the top 100 in both yahoo and Google. Not bad considering it was once in the top 15 in yahoo without me doing any SEO. What I have done though is found that not many people search for interior design tips, but they do search for home decor tips. So I have changed my keywords to fit that topic.

I have been doing this for about 3 weeks. During the last two weeks I have been asked by 3 companies to do reviews for them. This is what brings you traffic and can get you clicks on not only the compines links that asked for the review, but maybe even those affiliate links you have hidden on your site.

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The following is what I was paid in July 2008, this does not include everything I made as for some programs I did not reach payout.

Pay Per Post/ Social Spark: $250

Swat Cash (my last payment, long story): $23.00

Pay U 2 blog: $60

Buy Blog Reviews : $10.50

Sponsored Reviews: $6.50

Mystery Shopping: $300

Total Made: $650

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That was something that I just read from someone trying to make money online. This person has been working hard and was told it was easy and anyone can do it. Well I’m telling you it’s not and not everyone can do it. It takes time hard work and some investment.

Now if your just looking for $50 a month spending money that’s different, but if you really want to make an income you may be able to live off of, now that’s a whole other story. First you have to invest in a domain name, even when doing paid blogging they want you to have your own domain, your own domain means hosting. More money there and once you get the website or blog up and running, well then you have to get people to it which means more money on traffic.

If you go with affiliate marketing, eventually after sometime you will figure out what works for you and what does not. Not everyone is cut out to make money online. Many people can if they learn time is key and you will not become rich over night. Start out small with one or two affiliate programs. When I say this I don’t mean sign up for 2 major programs that have 20 thousand different companies and apply to all of them. I mean apply to the program and only apply to one or two companies, that way you can get your feet wet and get use to affiliate marketing. If you decided to go that route.

Don’t forget I have been where many of you starting out have, check back on my old post and take a look at the links and programs on my sidebar, they are there to help you. I already belong to them and they have worked well for me.

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Yesterday a horrible thing happened to me. On top of losing my pr on everything and anything, my personal blog. I also lost the whole blog! For some reason when I logged in I couldn’t do anything. Well I could do a few things, but I couldn’t write anything and I couldn’t change my sidebar. I also could not update the blog to the new wordpress. So I decided to do a back up and reinstall wordpress. That way it would be upgraded and ready to go. Unfortunately it looks like the backup may not have been a complete backup, even though the plug in said it was. So I’m now spending a lot of time trying to find my old post in searches and so on. This is going to take a while. The bad part is since I do paid blogging I have to get all of the post I have not been paid for up and going first. I’m almost done with that, I think!

I have a new idea, I’m going to have a storage blog, that way if something like this happends again I can do something about it. I’ll probably try to use a free blog that I will import my post into. I’m also going to change my feeds so that they publish the whole thing, not just part of it. Many will tell you to do this so you get visitors to your blog, but if I hadn’t done it I could have just imported my feed and been almost done with everything now. Hopefully you don’t have to go through this, it’s not fun.

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A week ago I went to log into my swat cash account and could not. Now I only maybe did 2 offers over the past month and maybe another 2- 3 the month before that, but apparently something went wrong and I’m banned. Here’s the fun part I have no idea what and they have not messaged me back about it, so I have decided that they really are not worth my time. Part of me is mad, the other understands this is something they must do. The part that bugs me is that I really just don’t know what happened, it may be something that I had no control over. Such as my brothers friends who come over and use the computer. It would just be nice to know what happened. It’s okay though as I am working on my affiliate marketing and hope to make much more with that.

This is one lesson I think most people starting out will learn eventually, not everything goes your way, not everything works out. There are many many things that are out of your control when it comes to making money online. That is why I have more then one way to do things. Luckily I wasn’t making a ton with Swat cash, but if I didn’t have these other programs and websites I would really be screwed.

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I have always said that forums, like my get paid to post forum are great ways to increase your traffic and get the word out about your site or product. There is another new forum out that could really help you to do that. It’s called Firestorm and pretty much it’s there so that members can help other members out in areas that they need help with.

Their slogan is get a firestorm of traffic and it does work. I have not been able to be on as much as I would like to be, but I did get a good increase in Technorati links from them and a few more people following me on twitter.  Right now it’s a small forum, but worth the time as more people will be joining everyday. Like my forum they also allow links in their signatures. So if your looking for back links check both of these forums out.

Many people may tell you that forums are useless for back links, but trust me I have done the research and they are not. I am in the top 15 in yahoo for one blog because of my signature in 3 forums I use. So what do you have to lose, adding a signature takes a few minutes and so does posting a few times a week. There really is no reason not to check this method out.

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One of the most important things that you need to do when trying to make money online is to make sure your website or blog is actually seen by people searching for your topic or product. Many people just search the keywords they have and hope they can find their site. This takes time and can be very annoying if your site is not listed on the first or second page.

There is a better way to check these things the one I like to use is the Fire Fox add on Rank Checker. It gives a ton of information on any site and keyword you choose. My design blog ranks 97th on Google and 11th on Yahoo for interior design tips, I consider that very good considering I hadn’t been targeting that keyword. This blog doesn’t show up for anything. I was expecting that as I also have not done a lot of SEO on this blog either. It’s also a very competitive market and since I’m not trying to make money with this blog I’m not going to stress about advertising it. Hopefully people find it helpful and tell others or link to me.

For my other blogs and my get paid to post forum, traffic is very important. So I am checking to see where I stand and what I can do to improve it. Right now I’m concentrating on my design blog and the keyword interior design tips. I’m also working on my forum with the keywords get paid to post forum, and make money online forum. You have to know what keywords you want in order to even start a good SEO project. Having the Rank Checker tool can really help you do this, that way you can start on words you may already have a good rank in, but not a great rank.

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