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New Blog Design On The Way
2007-11-20 22:42:00
I just want to let you know that I´m currently working on my blog template. I felt that the current design isn´t the best and I must admit, I never really liked it. You can see my current progress on a testblog I created just for my work. I´ve done this because I can test out new features without changing my original layout, so I have kind of a backup if something goes wrong. I hope I´ll finish those changes within the next days and I´m sure you´ll see when the new blog design is online.Regards,Querblogger
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Drive Traffic to Your Blog with BlogCatalog
2007-11-19 21:13:00
If you want to become successful with your blog, you need people that do actually read all your posts (and sometimes you weird thoughts ;-). In other words, you need to drive traffic to your blog, not only because that you want readers for it, but also because you can monetize your content better. Traffic is like the holy grail, especially if you want to make money online. Most adverts that show up on your blog rely on either page impressions or click through rates, the more visitors you have, the better those adverts perform and bring you money.Because this blog is still very young, I don´t have the best traffic rates yet (I usually get around 30 to 40 unique visitors each day). Most of my visitors come from the free traffic exchange called Linkreferral, directly followed by Google Search and some backlinks from comments I posted on other blogs. Although I´m very happy with the actual traffic rates, I think there´s room for more. Therefore I searched for some new ways for giving...
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Google Adsense Ban Update
2007-11-19 20:48:00
In my last post I mentioned that I mailed Google for giving me answers about why my Adsense account got deactivated. Today I received a response. And I must say, I´m not really happy with it. The answer was short and a bit "meaningless", they said "...my account involves a risk to our Adwords customers...". That´s all?! They didn´t gave me a single reason for the ban from their Adsense program.I won´t go any deeper into the details here, I just want to point out that I´ll stay independent from Google Adsense anyway, because there are plenty of other blog monetizing services out there. But feel free to give me some comments, especially if you got banned too. I really would like to know if there were other people having the same "problems" with Google Adsense.See you later!Querblogger
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A Nice Google Adwords Coupon
2007-11-18 20:55:00
Over one week ago I got banned from Google Adsense without knowing the real reasons for this. I assumed it was because of using the traffic exchange Linkreferral, but til today I´m not sure if this was really the cause for that ban. I´ve sent Google an email asking them what where the reasons for banning me, but til today I haven´t received a response (it´s no problem so far because for the moment I have other ways for monetizing my blog).Yesterday I cleared my letter-box and found a really big envelope with 6 colored letters on it. It was from Google! So far I never got a mail from Google, so it kept me wondering what it would be. I opened the letter and found a coupon with following phrase on it: "Here is more traffic inside!".They actually sent me an Google Adwords coupon worth 50€ (around $73)! I immediately remembered the phrase "Here is more traffic inside!" and thought about the reasons for banning my Adsense account. Hehe, it seems I now know the real reasons for my ...
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Short Update
2007-11-16 23:38:00
As mentioned in the article about legal safety, I´ve just added my Terms Of Service and the Disclosure Policy. My contact informations (some info about me) will follow. You can find the links on the top right side of my blog (just under my full Feedburner feed)!Regards,Querblogger
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Terms Of Service (TOS)
2007-11-16 23:16:00
1. Terms By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this web site are protected by applicable copyright and trade mark law.2. Use License Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on The Making Money Experiment's web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not: modify or copy the materials; use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial); attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on The Making Money Experiment's web site; remove a...
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Disclosure Policy
2007-11-16 23:14:00
This policy is valid from 16 November 2007 This blog is a personal blog written and edited by Peter Leitsch (Querblogger). For questions about this blog, please contact netzfischer [at] gmail [dot] com. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content. The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blo...
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Some Legal Safety
2007-11-16 22:49:00
This shouldn´t be a post about making money online, it´s more about some legal issues that I need to work on within my blog. You wonder what I´m talking about? No problem, I´ll explain it.The first thing I´ll have to integrate into my blog will be some kind of Disclosure Policy. I´ve seen this on many blogs including the one from my friend Midwest. I feel I´ll need this by myself, not only because of helping my readers to understand what my blog is all about, but also because of some legal issues. In Germany, where I´m from, there are some laws that force me to provide some kind of disclosure policy.The second thing will be a Contact Information (or an about page if you will). I have to add this mainly because of some german laws (if I won´t add these information, I may even have to pay a penality). So I´ll write some short "about me" to safeguard against any legal problems. But it´ll probably be more helpful to my readers to let them know who I really am.The third and la...
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My Best Paying Programs
2007-11-14 19:56:00
Today I want to give you some information on my best paying sites I joined so far. This will probably help you to choose the right money making programs and it will also help me, because I get an overview about my earnings and if those programs are really worth all the work involved in it.I regulary visit all the programs I´ve joined the last month to make some money from them. Sometimes it´s a really time consuming task to click all those advertisings or to write articles and forum posts to make some cents, so it would be nice to see on what programs you should concentrate. So today I checked the statistics from each of these programs to see how much I´ve earned from them and, much more important, to see how much time is involved for doing this.It turned out that especially some of those PTC programs are really time consuming and won´t make you money fast. But you know, I don´t have too much time to complete my personal goal on making 100 bucks until April 1st 2008, so I have ...
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Short Update On Helium.com
2007-11-12 20:46:00
In one post some days ago I mentioned that I published my first article on Helium . The articles deals about some facts and features about the new Google Phone. Today I checked how my article performed so far, I got $0.10 within 4 days only for that one article. Compared to other sites where you can submit your writings for monetizing, it isn´t bad at all, it´s nearly two times more than what I earn on Triond for example (compared to one published article). This is mainly because Helium is much more popular than Triond and therefore generates more traffic to each article published there. More traffic means more ad revenues that you´ll get paid. Yes, I know, 10 Cents doesn´t sound too good, but you must notice that I only published one article so far.I will investigate Helium further while writing more articles there, then I can do some comparisons to Triond. If it turns out that I can make more money on Helium I´ll probably drop writing for Triond.Btw, you may have noticed my fi...
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DiscountClick - Online Marketing Service
2007-11-12 19:31:00
You may know that it could sometimes be really hard to promote your blog or website. I see it by myself, you have to spend several hours each week on promoting your blog and get better search engine rankings. You can do several things like choosing the right keywords, gain backlinks from other websites or web directories, doing search engine optimisation or even some advertising. But what if you don´t have the time to do all those work?The short answer: Use an online marketing service like DiscountClick which will do all the hard work involved in promoting your blog/website.Let me give you a short review. The company actually offers three services from which you can choose from. The first one falls into the search engine category, they offer Search Engine Promotion, SEO Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. Pricings start from $50 and go up to $3000 for the full program (I know those prices aren´t for fresh bloggers like me and you, but if you get successfull with your blog a...
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Blogsvertise - Get Paid for Reviews
2007-11-09 21:30:00
Today I joined Blogsvertise, a really nice website that lets you earn revenues for completing tasks. Those task are actually really simple, all you have to do is to mention a product or service from an advertiser in one of your blog posts and you get paid.I´ll describe it in more detail:The first thing you have to do is to create a free account on Blogsvertise and submit your blog for approval. Your blog will be reviewed by the webmaster. If it gets approved you get the chance on making money (but notice, your blog must have some content on it to get approved). You´ll get tasks send to you via email, they show you a link to a product or service website. All you have to do is to integrate the link given to you 3 times in one of your blog post and mention the product/service (notice, you don´t have to endorse any service/product or review it). Your post should be around 60-100 words and you´ll get around $5- $15 per entry. After completing the task you have to submit your post for...
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Today I got Banned from Google Adsense
2007-11-09 19:56:00
As I read my new mails today I noticed one from Google Adsense . I opened it and, tada, they banned me from their program ;-(The reasons for the banMy first thought was: "What have I done illegally?". I read the whole mail and they stated that I have generated some illegal clicks/impressions from advertisements that show up on my blog. So they had to ban me from my account, because "click fraud" is against their terms of service.My next thought was: "I know where those illegal clicks/impressions come from. Linkreferral!".Yes that´s right. Linkreferral is a traffic exchange program I joined at the end of October. It generates traffic for my blog if I visit other members site and review them. All in all a really nice and free way for driving traffic to your site/blog. But those programs are against the TOS of Google Adsense ! Only "natural" clicks will count legally, but no "sponsored" clicks.What I will do against thisMy answer is that simple: nothing. I won´t do anything against th...
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New Article Released On Helium
2007-11-08 20:43:00
Yesterday I told you that I´ve written a new article about the new Googles Phone. I also told you I will submit it on Triond. I´ve done this, but the article was declined by the Triond team because there was an similar article already published (that happens from time to time...).So I searched for another paying publishing site and I found a nice one called Helium . I published my new gPhone article there without any problems. Helium is another nice site where you can write your articles on and get paid for that. It´s a bit different to Triond, because most times you´ll write your articles in channels that already have articles from other people (you write for a specific theme or niche and get a better chance for attracting readers).Helium makes you money from ad revenues, each article you submit will be surrounded with some advertisments (mostly Pay-per-click). When a reader clicks on an ad, you´ll get paid. The minimum payout is $25 and they pay you via Paypal (notice that Tri...
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A New Triond Article is On The Way
2007-11-07 22:08:00
Today I´ve written an article about some facts of the new Google Phone. At the moment I´m waiting for the article to get published on Triond. I hope within the next days it will be published and generate some views (and money!). My last article on 8 uncommon ways for using Google brought me around $0.80 in one week, that wasn´t that great, but I´m very happy about that.The best thing about Triond is, that all my articles I´ve written so far bring me some steady cents each day without doing anything. For this month I got $0.18 so far only from old articles I published earlier. Triond is definitely a good way to make money, if you write quality content it´s very likely that you´ll get some dollars each month. Triond actually pays it´s members (I got paid too), so don´t have fears about it being a scam.I will keep you updated on when my new articles is published!Ciao!Querblogger
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Earn Money From Videos
2007-11-05 20:27:00
Today I will present you three video platforms that will pay you either for sharing videos you like or even for your own creations.Video platforms like Youtube or Google Video have a constantly increasing number of videos in their databases, everyday thousands of new video files are added to those big media hosts. It also seems, that there are many creative people (and also a lot of funny ones) which make quality videos but don´t receive a single cent for all their hard work. Maybe they have choosen the wrong platform for publishing their material? I think a great portion of them don´t really know how to get revenues for sharing their creativity.But it´s definitely possible to earn money with videos. There are some nice video platforms that pay its members for videos they produced themselfes and even for videos from other people (as you´ll see in the last paragraph).Earn Money from Embedded AdvertisementsThe first video sharing website I´ll talk about is Revver. Revver was offi...
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New Tag Cloud Integrated
2007-11-04 22:04:00
I´ve just integrated a new tag cloud, that definitely looks much better than the old tag list (in my opinion). You can find it on the right side bar under my Triond widget. I had to dive a little into my blogger template code, but that wasn´t too hard, especially with the help of this great tutorial.Now I have more room to place nice multi-color blinking banners there ;-) No, just kidding. I really like those tag clouds, they look nice and give a better information about what´s actually hot content. So it may be helpful to you if you want to find your informations at least a bit faster.¡hasta luego!Querblogger
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Blogrush Phase 2
2007-11-03 19:20:00
The last days the Blogrush team rolled out their Phase 2 update on their great blog syndication network. Basically Blogrush is a nice way to drive free trafic to your own blog. All you have to do is placing a widget onto your own blog, you can see mine on the top right side of this blog. Everytime your blog is viewed you´ll get some credits from this widget and those credits will automatically be used to show your blog link on other blogs who also have such a widget.The new Phase 2 offer some new features like a new dashboard and many new categories to place your blog in. The new dashboard features some nice graphs with your visitor statistics, infos about your referral network (you´ll get more credits if you have more referrals) and your last blog post and how often they were syndicated and viewed.All in all it looks incredibly good and it really works, I got visitors from Blogrush (not many because my blog is still too young, I think the traffic rates will rise the more popular ...
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