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rssHugger, Just Another Feed Directory?
2008-02-04 07:00:00
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.
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My blog sucks and other musings
2008-02-02 07:12:00
Yes, you heard me right, MY BLOG SUCKS, and I know what you're thinking, your're thinking, YES IT DOES. And your right it does, it absolutley stinks, you're also probably thinking, how have you only just realised this?Well, actually I realised this a little while back, but I've just carried on sucking anyway regardless. Below is a list of reasons that I feel this blog sucks, please feel free to respond with others.Boring and unoriginal contentUninteresting to look atPoorley written postsLack of imaginationThe only visitors I'm getting at the moment are from EntrecardThe blog offers no discernable valueThe biggest mistake I've made with this blog is starting it again, I'm getting less visitors and making less money now that I've started posting again than when I had left it for 10 months. Part of this is due to the changes in template and the domain name, this really killed my traffic from search engines. Prior to this I was getting 100 -150 visitors a day from search engines...
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$20 in FREE Clicks from Bidvertiser
2008-01-30 19:00:00
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.var bdv_ref_pid=110746;var bdv_ref_type='i';var bdv_ref_option='a';var bdv_ref_eb='0';var bdv_ref_gif_id='ref_125x125_red';var bdv_ref_width=125;var bdv_ref_height=125;
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Poll Result - What do you think of the new look?
2008-01-30 10:56:00
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.If you would like to stay up to date with the latest goings on here at My quest to make money on the internet, then you can subscribe to my feed through your favourite feed reader or via email.
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Bidvertiser, a possible alternative to Adsense
2008-01-29 10:11:00
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 ProgramThe 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 ProgramThe 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:ProsThe price-per-click you get is based on the quality ...
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Guest Post - Pay Per Click
2008-01-27 16:42:00
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 by2. 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 one3. 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 mone...
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Not another flaming post about Entrecard
2008-01-26 10:00:00
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 eve...
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Calling All Bloggers
2008-01-25 18:19:00
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.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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How I Halved my RSS Subscriber Count Over a Couple of Days
2008-01-25 09:47:00
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.If you found this post interesting, then please consider subscribi...
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Probably the biggest mistake in the world, ever!
2008-01-24 07:56:00
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.c om, would be very grateful.
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Aggh, I've lost all my Search Engine Visitors!
2008-01-23 09:01:00
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.If you found this post interesting, then please consider subscribing to my RSS Feed...
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Building Interactivity into a Blog
2008-01-22 11:00:00
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.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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Building Interactivity into a Blog
2008-01-22 11:00:00
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.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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How I Doubled my RSS Subscriber Count Over Night
2008-01-21 13:08:00
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 rea...
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How I Doubled my RSS Subscriber Count Over Night
2008-01-21 13:08:00
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 rea...
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Monetization Strategy - Update
2008-01-20 13:43:00
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.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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Monetization Strategy - Update
2008-01-20 13:43:00
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.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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Monetization Strategy
2008-01-19 07:09:00
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 AdsBy 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 AdsTo 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 continu...
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Monetization Strategy
2008-01-19 07:09:00
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 AdsBy 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 AdsTo 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 continu...
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New Look
2008-01-18 13:46:00
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.

New Look
2008-01-18 13:46:00
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
2008-01-18 07:07:00
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...
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Time for a Change
2008-01-18 07:07:00
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...
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Friend Finder - 10 Months On
2008-01-14 13:26:00
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.
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Friend Finder - 10 Months On
2008-01-14 13:26:00
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.Advertisement:
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Looking for Link Partners
2008-01-12 07:57:00
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 thanksMartin
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Looking for Link Partners
2008-01-12 07:57:00
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 thanksMartinAdvertisement:
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Launch of my new blog
2008-01-07 22:38:00
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).
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Launch of my new blog
2008-01-07 22:38:00
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).
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Internet Money Makers Carnival - January Edition
2008-01-04 21:52:00
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 ...