DatMoney Posts I Think Will Help You Make Money Online
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Blogging, Earning Blog, Make money in blogging, Money blog, Money making mission
I was having a discussion the other day with a person that wanted me to help them make money online on their spare time. Of course, that is such a generic topic to explain because there are so many ways to make money online that I didn’t know where to start.
After explaining that there are endless ways to make money online, I just told her to go to DatMoney and read some of my posts. But if someone were to stop here for the first time, you probably wouldn’t see all the great, yet hidden, posts that will help you guys. So, I decided to make a list of posts I think will help you guys more than others.
I mean, there are a bunch of rants and ramblings between these informative posts so they get lost in the mix.
But here are a handful of posts I think will help starters as well as people that have been making money online for quite sometime now.
How much is your site worth? All your site selling points. - If you’re making a site for the purpose to sell, these are the areas you may want to focus on to get the best price for your site.
People’s make money online problem: They don’t know how to monetize – Anyone can get traffic, build links, start a site but a lot of people complain about making money and monetizing. Here is a list of ways to monetize your site.
How I built my niche websites – Looking to build a whole bunch of niche websites as a one-time setup and watch your Adsense earnings increase? Or maybe you want to sell the site after a couple of days? Either way, here is how you would build a niche website.
How to make $100/day with Google Adsense – This post is how I made my first $100/day from Adsense alone and I explain how I did it. Currently, it is password protected but just contact me and I’ll hook you up with the password. But please don’t tell anyone!
Using Google’s Traffic Estimator to Maximize Adsense Earnings – This post talks about how to increase your earnings to target specific keywords to show up on your ads and how to do it.
Make more money with ugly sites – This post focuses on the fact that great design doesn’t always tell it all. If you are paranoid about your site not looking too good, it doesn’t matter, if you do it right you can make more money than you expect!
How to get free content for your blog – This may be unethical to some but I posted it because I know how to do it and it exists. I don’t do it but just incase you guys need to do it for junk Adsense sites, this is a good way.
How I do keyword research – Focusing on search engine traffic is largely based on the keywords and once you find that information out, you should be able to get tons of traffic which equals money in your pockets.
Search engine traffic = more money and RSS Feed subscribers – This post talks about how search engine traffic can make you money and how you can turn your search engine traffic into subscribers, easily.
I think those posts will definitely help you in more ways than one. Of course, there are more posts that will help you on my blog but I didn’t want to list 200+ posts and bore you guys.
If you need any help, let me know!
Are You Writing Too Many Paid Reviews?
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Blogging, Earning Blog, Make money in blogging, Money blog, Money making mission
How many paid reviews are too many paid reviews? That question has been asked a lot since I started blogging and honestly, is there really a true answer?
There are tons of people who despise paid review posts on their favorite blogs, matter of fact, they find that as a turn-off. Since I started blogging, everyone kept telling me to focus on the content and don’t write too many paid reviews because it would take away the quality of the content for your readers.
On the other hand, people need some money in their pockets, right? But are you writing too many paid reviews? Is it going to hurt you more or less? Is the money really worth it?
Well, let me answer some of those questions in my own opinion.
Personally, I don’t mind reading a paid review on a blog that I read regularly but let’s say there should definitely be more regular posts than paid reviews. And if it’s even borderline 50/50, then that is way too many.
Again, I understand you need money and stuff, but is it really worth losing your readership over?
Most people I ask don’t mind a review here and there. When it comes down to it, I asked a bunch of people from various forums and a majority said once a week is a good number. In addition, a few reviews a week would bother them and anything more than that, they would probably unsubscribe to that blog.
So, is the money really worth it? Well, it depends how much you charge. And of course, the price you charge is usually based on how much traffic you get, how many RSS Feed subscribers, etc. If you charge $500/review and write once a week, well, there’s $2,000 extra in your pocket each month.
But if you charge a lot less (which most people do), the quantity is almost not worth it.
Say you charge $10/review but you want to write as many as you possibly can because you need the money. You would need to write 50 just to get $500 and if you write even half that many reviews in a month I can almost guarantee you that you won’t have that readership you worked so hard for.
Keep in mind, no readership = no paid reviews. Companies want you to sell their product to your readers but if you have none then why would they purchase one from you? And of course a domino affect takes place because then you would charge less, either that, you keep the same pricing you had and get 0 opportunities.
So, are paid reviews and the money worth it? Yes. But you have to keep a balance because if you lose your readership then you also lose that money.
Don’t forget that!
SocialSpark Massive Update
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Blogging, Blogging tips, Earning Blog, Make money in blogging, Money blog, Money making mission
Looks like SocialSpark is going through a big revamp from the visual part to money making ways for its users. Here’s the outline so far
Redesigned Homepage: SocialSpark site now looks much cleaner and loads faster on my Firefox 2. Ha yes I refuse to upgrade to Firefox 3, it’s much more memory intensive
More opportunities for affiliates: A new affiliate marketplace for bloggers. Cost Per Action (CPA) Opportunities where advertisers can control ROI while bloggers are paid for sales or signups
Premium Blogs: SocialSparks have segregation of blogs it seems. They want a mix of large, medium, low traffic blog to cater to all advertisers. Of course the popular blogs get all the better opportunity I reckon
Automated Reviews: A new project that will enhance the reviewing process. No other details released
Well if you want to get bitch slapped by Google, go ahead and signup with SocialSpark
Post from: Sha Money Maker
WordPress v2.6.3 - Security Fix
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Blogging, Blogging tips, Earning Blog, Make money in blogging, Money blog, Money making mission
A small update in terms of security fix for v2.6 legacy. I reckon the last of it before v2.7 is rolled out in November. Get your v2.6.3 upgrade
A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download right now. If you don’t want to download the whole release to get the security fix, you can download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.
1. wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
2. wp-includes/version.php
Post from: Sha Money Maker
WordPress v2.6.3 - Security Fix
NameCheap Coupon Codes
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Blogging, Blogging tips, Earning Blog, Make money in blogging, Money blog, Money making mission
Coupon codes are webmasters best friend. I’ve saved over hundreds of dollar probably over the years by using online coupons alone. Well I’m a NameCheap member, so here’s the latest coupons they’ve send over to me
- OCTNEWS : Get $8.88 Renewals and Registrations
- OCTNEWS : Web hosting 25% of the regular price and any re-seller package for 30% off
- TRANSCHEAP : Transfer most domains for just $6.99
Post from: Sha Money Maker
WPDesigner Former Owner Refunds Member
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Blogging, Blogging tips, Earning Blog, Make money in blogging, Money blog, Money making mission
To be a ’successful’ blogger online, you need blogging values. Yes there is such a thing.
Blogging values are very much evident from how a person write their entries, respond to comments and revert to feedback. It all boils down to each individual person right.
Remember WPDesigner which was sold for some US$65,000 back in March. The owner ‘Small Potato’ or Tung Do decides to sell his successful theme site after he wanted some time-off and just travel.
Well it just so happen he just opened a members only site where members can access to 12 premium themes for just $5 yearly just around the same time he was about to sell his site. There were only 4 themes only on offer, and its up to the new owner to continue the work right.
Fast forward 6 months later, the new owner left WPDesigner untouched for reason unknown, with the $400 monthly hosting fees still being paid regularly.
So now Small Potato is back, and did the right thing by refunding the members of the $5 fee.
Swell … that’s a nice thing to do, even if it isn’t his to do. WPDesigner new owner it seems has M.I.A.
via source
Post from: Sha Money Maker
WPDesigner Former Owner Refunds Member
Plugins You Need For Blogging
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Blogging, Blogging tips, Earning Blog, Make money in blogging, Money blog, Money making mission
Over the years I’ve tried and tested many WordPress plugins. They come and go, but I’ve found out over the years that I used these plugins the most. I have them set aside for future use every time I set up a new blog. Makes my life much easier.
Of course you might differ on my choice of plugins and mention there’s much more better ones out there. If I’m missing any, just feedback to me
Without further ado, here’s my list of plugins
- Adsense Deluxe - Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts.
- Akismet - Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
- All in One SEO Pack - Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
- Audio player - Highly configurable single track mp3 player.
- Bannage - Bans commentors by IP, username, email, or URI.
- Brian’s Threaded Comments - This gives you threaded comments and a ‘wandering’ comment form.
- Bunny’s Technorati Tags - Allows easy addition to a post of a space-separated list of tags which can be displayed with adequate Technorati links in the template.
- Customizable Post Listings - Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner.
- Email Immunizer - Protect email addresses and mailto links on your blog from email harvesters.
- FeedBurner FeedSmith - Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
- Feed Count - Displays the number of subscriber to your Feedburner account (without that ugly feedburner chicklet).
- flickrRSS - Allows you to integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site.
- Get Recent Comments - Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar.
- Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
- Math Comment Spam Protection - Asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot.
- Most Commented - Retrieves a list of the posts with the most comments. Modified for Last X days.
- MyAvatars - This plugin allows you to add MyBlogLog.com avatars to Wordpress comments.
- Organizer - Organizer is a simple plugin to view and manage your upload folder files.
- Pagebar2 - Adds an advanced page navigation to Wordpress.
- Page Peel - Adds page peel advertisement on your blog.
- Permalink Redirect - Permalink Redirect ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the permalink. Otherwise, a 301 redirect will be issued.
- PJW Page Excerpt - Allows you to edit excerpts for Pages.
- Redirection - A redirection manager.
- Related Posts - Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
- RSS Footer - Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.
- runPHP - Allows you to put PHP code into a post and have it eval()’d.
- Simple Trackback Validation - Eliminates spam trackbacks by (1) checking if the IP address of the trackback sender is equal to the IP address of the webserver the trackback URL is referring to and (2) by retrieving the web page located at the URL used in the trackback and checking if the page contains a link to your blog.
- SimpleTwitter - A plug-in to show the last twitter tweet for a user.
- Sociable - Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites.
- SRG Clean Archives - This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar.
- Subscribe To Comments - Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
- Top 10 posts, Views per post - Show Top 10 posts on your blog and count visits per post.
- WeatherIcon - Shows the current weather conditions by querying the NOAA website.
- Wordpress Download Monitor - Manage downloads on your site, view and show hits, and output in posts.
- Wordpress Duplicate Content Cure - Duplicate content cure is a very simple, yet effective SEO plugin that prevents search engines from indexing wordpress pages that contain duplicate content, like archives and category pages.
- Wordpress Mobile - Makes your blog work well on mobile phones! Lets you post to your blog from your mobile! Makes you money with Google AdSense for Mobile and AdMob.
- WordPress Password - Requires any visitor to a Wordpress post/page to know the password to access the site.
- WP-ContactForm - WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post.
- WP-Polls - Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page.
- WP-Post-Banners - WP-Post-Banners is wordpress plugin that can mine your Wordpress and generate ‘featured’ section for your site using the found items.
- WP-PostRatings - Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
- WP-PostViews - Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.
- WP Super Cache - Very fast caching module for WordPress.
- WWW Redirect - Redirects variations of identical domain requests to a consistent uri (i.e. http://abc.com to http://www.abc.com)
Post from: Sha Money Maker
Sign Up With WidgetBucks And Get $25
Oct 27, 2008 Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging, Money making mission
As regular readers may know I haven’t really been one of WidgetBucks biggest fans but if this program does interest you now is the time to join.
Why?
Because it’s their first birthday and, if you sign up, you’ll get $25 - and free money is always nice!
Of course there are conditions. I’ll let them explain, this is what they say:
“To celebrate our first anniversary, we’re reinstating our sign-up bonus that we offered during the first three months for all new publishers: $25 bonus when your account reaches $50.”
But be quick as the bonus is only applicable, as I understand it, to new affiliates for the month of October.
Okay, let me give my honest opinion about Widget Bucks.
On the plus side I have received $172.21 from them and this was all paid on schedule, no problems in this direction. I’ve also got another $32.54 in the kitty - payments are made by PayPal once $50 is achieved.
So that’s okay.
What I did previously find though was that:
(1) Some of the widgets slowed down the loading of my blogs.
(2) The return on CPM (cost per thousand impressions) for international impressions i.e. non USA is very low. However, in saying this, some widgets are based on a pay per click basis and this, depending on the products, is much better.
You can see what I last wrote about WidgetBucks on my post Money Making Spring Clean. Also note the comment on this from Dean Jutilla of WidgetBucks.
I actually took all of the widgets off my blogs a while back but I’m trying them out again now. I have found that the ones I am using at the moment (see header ad on Celebrity Insider) are loading much quicker now.
There is also a bigger choice of widgets. As well as Shopping ones there are also now ‘Local’ and ‘Travel’ widgets. These come in a variety of sizes.
I’m actually trying out the Local version which, to quote them, gives, ‘relevant, real-time local content, such as weather, gas prices, top local businesses and restaurants.’
I’ll leave it at that but, if you are thinking about joining WidgetBucks, it’s probably a good time to join to get the $25.
Also, as I’m being honest, there is a referral program for introducing new members. It’s not over generous but these are the terms:
“… you will receive a 5 percent referral fee based on the commissions earned by the people you refer. You’ll receive this 5 percent for the full 12 months after the new member joins.”
In other words if you joined and earned $100 I as the referrer would get $5.
And that’s WidgetBucks!
Good luck,
Mike.
How myLot Are Sending Money Making Traffic To My Blog
Oct 27, 2008 Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging, Money making mission
Earlier this month I wrote a post myLot And How To get Traffic. I didn’t expect to write about this again. Today, however, I noticed on my stats that myLot are still sending me referrals even though I haven’t been to their site or joined in any discussions for ages and ages.
Okay, it’s not a massive amount of referrals - 241 this month so far - but I thought it may be of interest.
The referrals are because myLot members can now have their blogs listed on the myLot site. I entered my celebrity blog when I last paid a visit and haven’t really given it a thought since then. But now I’m getting referrals.
By coincidence I just went to myLot to have a look, clicked on the ‘blogs’ tag, and there was my blog listed on the front page, right at the top. It obviously won’t stay there but it does explain why I’m getting the referrals.
Anyway, thought the info may be of use. I’m not saying that it will definitely work for you but my basic premise has always been to list blogs wherever possible, even if it sometimes seems a waste of time. As in life … you never know …
Good luck,
Mike.
P.S. While on this traffic subject the following sites, I have mentioned before, are still sending me referrals. For reference, this month to date: Zimbio - 710; Buzzfeed - 294; Mahalo - 192.
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Make Money With Free Blogs: New Advice
Oct 27, 2008 Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging, Money making mission
It’s always easy and satisfying to write positive things about how my blogs are going. Today, however, I feel I have made a mistake, an error of judgement.
From the very start of my Mike’s Money Making Mission my whole idea was to make money using only free blogs and without any capital outlay. This was what I set out to do and have achieved this to my own satisfaction.
If I was starting out now, with what I have learnt, my mission would be slightly different. I would now set out to make money, still with free blogs but by using minimal capital.
What I would do is immediately purchase a .com address. This can cost as little as $10 but I now feel it is essential. It’s still very little money to ‘gamble’ or ‘invest’.
Why do I say this? Quite simply because someone else has now bought mikesmoneymakingmission.com and will no doubt benefit from my hard work. But it’s my own fault sticking to the blogspot URL.
I stayed with the blogspot address with very good motives. I wanted to show that anyone can make money with free blogs even if they are flat broke. In sticking to my principles, and to my exact mission, I probably haven’t done myself any long term favours.
So I say again. If you are starting a blog get yourself a .com address before someone else grabs it. If you are successful you can always sell this if you get fed up blogging.
I have bought one .com address and that was for my adult celebrity blog CelebTease.com (over 18’s only). I’m getting over 2000 visits per day on this and over 5000 page visits so it equates to quite a profitable blog.
As well as stopping others cashing in your work a .com URL also definitely looks and sounds more professional. It is more likely to impress advertisers and also review purchasers.
But, whatever you do, it is possible to make money with free blogs - proven!
Good luck,
Mike.
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