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Whypark Page Rank Update - PR3 In 2 Months
2007-10-27 05:25:00
Go figure, I post an update about my Whypark site, and Google decides to update page ranks today as well. The Whypark test site I'm using made PR3, and comparison my blog only hit PR2. I personally don't care either way, but many ad networks only work with sites with a minimum page rank value still so have a parked domain with page rank just means more revenue options.In my previous post I also mentioned that I was only getting about 1 visitor a month to the Whypark site. This just goes to show you that page rank value has no value or connection to actual website traffic.
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Whypark Review Day 45 - Sluggish Month So Far
2007-10-27 00:28:00
Today is about a month and a half after Google indexed my Whypark site. Here's easy links to the previous posts:Whypark Review & Trial Day 1Whypark Review Day 15Whypark Review Day 19Whypark Review Day 30According to Google's Webmaster tools I have about 1500 pages indexed. Traffic to the site this month has been relatively slow, about 1 visitor/day at the moment. Overall from the site itself I've made a little less than $5.00 so far from Adsense. It did help a little bit that I added an Adsense Video as part of a Business news video page. It makes having the plain article site have a little more color, esp. I've been thinking instead of just the video page link, that none of the visitors seem to notice, I should just add the video unit to all article pages. I have a lot to learn about ad placement still. Lately there seems to be more, and more templates that are similar to Whypark. However the downside to them is that you have to have a host company which usually inc...
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Need Blog Traffic? Heres 15 Free Tips to Get It
2007-10-25 18:46:00
While Content is still king when it comes to getting traffic. If you don't tell anyone about your content no one will ever find out to spread the word about it. It is a not so little known secret that bringing in traffic ultimately results in readers, and sales. So these are a few methods that I am using or plan to use for my site to get more traffic.Submit to Search Engines - Its free, and it can bring in a hefty amount of traffic. Google & Yahoo are two major ones, if your site isn't indexed submit to them here and here. The best thing about search engine traffic is that it is targeted traffic, meaning the people who come from this method is looking for what you got to read, show or sell. Optimize your site for these search engines by using your keywordsSubmit to Directories - While a good directory can send you traffic, getting links via this method builds up your backlinks, which eventually push up your rankings in searches. Higher ranking in searches means more tra...
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Cashcrate Revisited - Getting Paid Again
2007-10-24 04:08:00
About a month ago I wrote up a review on Cash Crate , and followed it up with a payout report a few days later. Well I'm pleased to announce that I was finally able to reach payout again this month. Due to soo many people going on vacation at my full time job, I've had to scale back the time for doing alot of these offers so when CashCrate sends me a check next month it won't be as large. This month will only be about $10.60 so far, bring my CashCrate total to $30.65 so far.I have to be honest though I wasn't intending on completing any offers this month due to work load, but as I had received an e-mail from CashCrate notifying me that one of my referrals had reached payout. Thus entitling me to a $3.00 bonus, along with earning 20% of their earnings. So when I logged into my account I already had $5.00+ sitting there without me doing a thing($3.00 bonus + 20% of $10 = $5.00). Well this made it really easy to do a few offers to get that extra $5.00, and whammo here I am w...
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Yieldbuild to Help Adsense Users Increase Their Earnings
2007-10-22 05:18:00
Techcrunch recently posted an article about a new program that is still in beta called YieldBuild. What is it exactly? Its a computer algorithm to "automatically optimize your site?s ad spots with the most profitable combination of ad layout, style, and network". Also the program isn't just for Adsense users, but includes people who advertise via Yahoo Publisher Network, and Ebay adContext accounts as well. How does this relate to me making money online? Basically its the lazy man's advertising network, and needless to say an idea that I absolutely love. This program itself would give bloggers or other webmasters, who are still new to advertising placements, the ability to monetize their sites better. It also allows webmasters who don't update their layouts often a little change of scenery in ad placements. The idea is that as your readers get used to your ad placements, your ad revenue goes down as they learn to skip over your ads without reading them anymore. With chang...
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Bye Bye BlogRush - No Hits For You
2007-10-20 20:29:00
So after accumulating a bit of credits on Blogrush, and only getting maybe 2 hits in return I'll be taking down the widget shortly. I even made them a complementary going away present with my 2nd grade MS paint skills.Here's the latest word about Blogrush's update from the Blogrush Blog:UPDATE: Tuesday, October 16th: We?re experiencing a delay with some minor server issues. We are working on them and will start releasing Phase 2 piece-by-piece very soon. Thanks for your patience.So long, and thank you for all the fish. (from Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy if you didn't catch that.)
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Cash or Charity - For Who Do You Squidoo?
2007-10-17 20:45:00
If you had a chance to build a free website that produced a little bit of money, to who would you give the money to? Squidoo has the option to send your earnings to charity or to collect it for yourself. I'm curious if anyone chooses the charity option?For me well I finally put some use to the Squidoo account that I've had to make a few lenses for myself. So far I made a free mmorpg - Metin 2 page, and a Team Fortress 2 page(yes I love my video games). While for people who've been making pages for a long time they might not be the best looking ones, but for me they are an accomplishment. Its also a nice way for me to practice building up my first landing pages, and seeing what works. Nice thing about Squidoo is that the formatting, or titles etc are already created so all you really need to do is provide the content. Which I should add is pretty easy to set up as they have modules that will let you easily embed YouTube videos, Flikr pictures, or even easy to make link vot...
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Will Widget Bucks Replace Adsense?
2007-10-17 08:26:00
Well I'm always for trying new things, but I am always skeptical about new things. So when I first heard about Widget Bucks I was very weary. I waited a few weeks to see how other people who have tried it. The reports are varied, but someone noted they made about $500 in a day, while other people who have 10k hits/day only made 22 cents. It depends on the type of site that you have (ie auction, book, gadget etc). There seem to be quit alot of people happy with the payout amount compared to Adsense .My blog most likely won't get too many clicks since there is nothing in the Widget Buck list that has anything to do with making money online or with World of Warcraft, but I'll try it anyways. Also since this is a new advertising method there is so far no proof of payments yet. I'll be trolling the threads about more news regarding Widget BucksHowever the good news is if you sign up now you get $25 added to your account which is halfway till the first payout. If your intere...

Sparter's Commission Rate Doubles to 20% - Ouch
2007-10-17 07:08:00
Here's the notification from Spar ter:Since launching earlier this year, Sparter has succeeded in transforming the landscape of trade in virtual goods. As a Sparter seller, you have been a key contributor to this success.We have continually been making changes to meet the needs of our buyers and sellers. Just in the past month we have offered new market pricing charts, seller profile pages displaying your offers (with unique URLs), and alerts that allow buyers to 'subscribe' to their favorite sellers.Today, we want to inform you of other changes we are making to Sparter - changes intended to allow us to stay competitive in attracting more buyers for your offers, and to keep Sparter the safest place to trade.Effective November 1, 2007, Sparter's commission on completed trades will be 20%. In addition, disbursements will now be processed semi-monthly - sellers will be disbursed on the 15th and last day of each month, for sales credited in the previous period. For example, the proce...
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World of Warcraft Character Was Bought for $10,000
2007-10-15 08:38:00
No not my character, though I wish it were me. This news is a little old, but its about a character named Zeuzo from a guild called Method on Sylvanas(EU). After getting both pieces to make The Twin Blades of Azzinoth the account was sold to a person by the name of Shaks. Which was banned by blizzard very shortly afterwards. The story made BBC headlines back in September with an interview of some of the guild members. All I can say is wow, I'm happy making a bucks here and there, but thats a lot of money. It just goes to show you that the virtual economy is alive and well. As long as there are people willing to pay for other people's time to get items, there will always be a market to sell those items. I guess this is one reason I'm sticking to selling gold too since items are alot easier to track, especially ones that only a few people have out of the millions that play World of Warcraft .
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Video Ads From Google and You Tube for Adsense Publishers
2007-10-12 07:54:00
A few weeks ago I was reading about Google ads on YouTube. Looks like after a few weeks Google has now made it an option for people who have Google Adsense accounts. I found out about the update from the DP Forums in this thread. Also it looks like the story was in the NY times. Hopefully I can get an example shot below in this post today. I put in key words for that recent Toyota World of Warcraft Commercial which is stirring up a lot of talk in the gaming world.Watch the latest videos on YouTube.comPost Edited: Looks like the test ad didn't show up, and only showing a link to YouTube. I added one to my Money News site here. Looks like it only pulls from some approved videos or YouTube Video publishers. Also the ad unit is quite large in my opinion. There is only 3 different sizes to choose from. I picked the middle size for the Money News site.
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Whypark Day Day 30 - Adsense Revenue Slowing Down?
2007-10-12 07:05:00
Well I have good news, and bad news about my Whypark trial site. The good news is that I now have about 800 pages indexed, with a little bit of extra traffic trickling in. More traffic means more chances for people to click on some ads, which also happened to be part of the good news. However the bad news is that the revenue from each click has gone down significantly compared to September. I got worried about that, and checked around to find out that I wasn't alone. It seems like this month there are many people who are complaining or noticing a substantial drop in Adsense revenue. I have more clicks into this month from the site, but haven't even hit $1. Has anyone else noticed a decrease in Adsense revenue for this month as well? My sites are all too new to make any determination.
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Auctioneer Guide for World of Warcraft
2007-10-10 05:37:00
My regular job has been having me work alot lately so I haven't been pushing any products lately. However, while I've been looking around the web for something to write about, I came across a good Auctioneer Guid e site. Free of ads, and pretty much sums up everything I would have written about the mod. I use this mod daily, and without it I probably would not be here blogging about making ridiculous amounts of gold in World of Warcraft .A couple things I would add about Auctioneer is that it is a memory hog. If your computer is lagging already in the big towns like Orgrimmar I would either a) not install it or b) use it in a less populated auction house accessible city like Thunder Bluff/Darnassus. The mod stores useful data, and after a while the database gets fairly large causing it will slow your computer down eventually.The second thing about the article is its download link. Like all programs to download from the internet, I would advise anyone to download the program fr...
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Its Official - I Made 10,000g Finally on World of Warcraft
2007-10-07 01:13:00
Here's the screen shot folks. My second time around hitting the 10k gold mark (first time was back in April). I would have hit this yesterday if I had actually logged in, but I was feeling a little under the weather. Anyways my next goal will be to break 20k again. I'm still feeling a little under the weather today so I'm sorry, but I'll be logging without a gold making tip today.
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September Totals - 1 Month Anniversary - Link Lovin
2007-10-05 06:49:00
I'm a few days behind, but Money News - My Financial History just hit one months old. While I didn't do as well as I'd hope, I did learn a lot of new things, and I am finding quite a bit of interesting things to read.September Totals: $23.65Sparter: $0 (I mentioned gold prices were low this month, so I opted to save my gold for another time)Cash Crate: $20.45 (check is on its way so I'll take of pic of it when it gets here)Adsense from Whypark: $3.20Also some thanks to Shai for motivation since I started the Whypark site to Just make money online. Now that I've tried that I'll try some other projects. I happened to stumble upon Mike's Money Making Mission, which eventually add my stuff to Zimbio to try as well as add a bunch of new blog directories for some traffic. I hope to make enough money to atleast be able to work from home like Amy eventually.My goals for October? Well if the WoW gold market doesn't go back up then I'll try to hit 20k gold again by the end of Oct...
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World of Warcraft Gold Tip #2 - 7 Days to Riches
2007-10-03 09:50:00
If you've been keeping track of my Sparter earnings for September you've probably noticed that it hasn't moved last month. Like I mentioned in before that the average price per 1000g was down to $50. I'm just playing it like a stock market, and waiting for the prices to go back up. If you want to see Warcraft gold price trends Sparter has a very nice stock market like gold trend graph. Hopefully the prices go back up sometime soon so I can cash in some more.As I wait for the prices to go back up again here's another gold making freebie. Rightfully dubbed 'Time is of the Essence'. This tip is for people who use the auction house a lot.If you haven't already noticed, real life coincides greatly with what happens in the game. If you've participated in raids then you have felt the crunch of school/work then go home raid/sleep. People who watch the auction carefully also pick up on patterns in the market, and I'll break it down into the seven days of the week. The Worl...
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Whypark Day 19 - Type of Searches I'm Ranked Top In
2007-10-01 00:31:00
Its day 19 of the Whypark trial, and I've been checking out Google's webmaster tools to see what type of searches my site ranks in. Also including from Statcounter what type of keywords are showing up to get to my site.So after 19 days of being indexedRank 9: problems filling your car with gasRank 10: succession plans private equityRank 30: what to do when your girlfriend is broke and needs moneyInteresting searches, and I have to note that I'm not sure how they are related to the keywords I put in. I also want to point out that the money that the Adsense revenue shows different keywords from Statcounter.Rank Search#10how much money do car dealers make#10how much should a dealer come off msrp#7www.how much will it cost#8talentdrive scam#?promoting your grocery store#9do i replace the whole toilet#?key to a successful entrepreneurial venturePlease note that these results are from using articles that are pretty broad. If one were to setup a niche site with targeted keyword...
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Whypark Day 15 - My First Dollar Earned From Adsense
2007-09-27 05:37:00
Well today I'm just following up on my post about setting up Whypark on my site. Today is day 15 on the Whypark test, and I can say that I earned my first dollar from it. Google so far has indexed about 100+ pages so far, and still going. I'm not ranked on the first page of any keywords yet, but I picked some pretty broad terms like 'money'.The visitor experience? I have Stat counter installed so I was able to see the what keywords this person came in from. Apparently this visitor found a page that was newly indexed so it ranked fairly high in Google for 'Entrepreneur'. After that the visitor moved on to read about 6 more articles on the website before clicking on an ad to exit the site. Overall time spent on site was about 4 minutes. So far so good, and I hope to be bringing more good news as time goes on.
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CashCrate Payout Reached $10.45
2007-09-21 02:21:00
Just an update on Cash Crate . I joined CashCrate on 9/17/07, and well 3 days later after filling out free offers, and joining different programs I hit the minimum $10 for the payout. $10.45 cents to be exact. They requested my telephone number for verification. Lets see if I get a check next month mailed in to me. I'm still waiting for for more offers to clear pending since I have another $29.55 there. I guess what I really should put up on the side there is how much I actually got confirmed from these companies instead of the pending amounts. I'll fix that today.

Flooding the Warcraft Gold Market Some More
2007-09-20 07:05:00
Yup, right now if you go to Sparter to buy gold the average price for 1000g on my server is about $50. Sucks for me since I usually get to sell it for more. So now my question is should I sell my gold not or just sit back and stock up until the prices go back up. I'm averaging about 300g/day just logging in for about 20-30 minutes for the days that I DO log in to check my auction house sales. For right now I think I'm just going to wait till the next wave of gold farmers get banned for me to sell my stuff. Yes I know its ironic for me to wait for people to get banned when I'm selling gold which can get me banned from the game eventually. =)Anyways a week or so ago I said I was going to create a landing page for World of Warcraft gold guide. So far I've been getting some hits to it, but no actual sales. I think I'm going to rethink or rework the page or maybe tryout one of the other Clickbank guides to sell if this one doesn't do well. If I'm really going to make it fr...
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Cashcrate Review - Not Much Yet But it Helps
2007-09-18 08:00:00
So I have been procrastinating about writing some articles up, and making a landing page to advertise some Clickbank products. I don't know something about writing an official article compared to just blogging just makes it seem harder. Anyways in the midst of trying to figure out what to write the article about I revisited Cash Crate . After the horrible experience of signing up for MediaDollarz, I was very reluctant to join another get paid to complete offers site. This time I made myself ready for the incoming spam though. I created a new account at Hotmail, and used it to sign up with CashCrate. After filling in some details about myself, I found my way to the offers section. This was nicely separated into a cash or point offer section which is sortable by payout amounts as well as 100% free only. Thats the section I chose my offers from, and well after about an hour of filling out applications my balance was a nice pending amount of $11.50. Two of which I are now confirm...
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Save Money on Whypark if You Are a Clickbank Member
2007-09-15 20:49:00
Reminder regarding the Whypark post I made the other day. If you are a Clickbank member then you can pick up Whypark for yourself to save yourself about $50 bucks. If you?re not a member yet then you can sign up for a Clickbank account, but there?s a catch. To qualify for the 50% commission on the Whypark sale you need to have sales from 5 different states (including you) on other Clickbank Products. As for the trial domain I put up (http://www.Money Ne.ws), Google indexed about 20 pages so far, and still needs to index another few thousand articles. I?ll update more once I start getting search traffic.
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Why Park? Cause Domain Parking is Slow Enough Already
2007-09-12 06:41:00
Tired of your unused domains collecting pennies a month? Try out Whypark. Unlike the traditional domain parking you're actually allowed to send traffic to your domain. Link building, article marketing etc. I would not recommend buying traffic though since all it does is increase visitors from china/middle east that stare at the screen for 7 seconds that never click on anything(I tried it and checked with Google Analytics 100visitors, 0 clicks, 100% bounce rate woo!). With Whypark you don't share you revenue, your in control of what content you put on there. Even the way it looks with custom css layouts etc. Whypark adds relevant articles which basically makes it show up on the search engines so that you have targeted traffic coming to your sites from places like Google/yahoo/Msn. You can apply for Google Adsense as well as set up text link ads once you get your page setup. Why this post about Whypark? Well I have to admit I started looking into making some money online af...
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Click Bank Woes, and World of Warcraft Haunting Me Still
2007-09-07 08:43:00
Well I've been fiddling around with Click Bank , and trying out the Google Adwords method to try for sales. However its not going soo well. I think I need to spend a little more time researching products to sell instead of jumping straight in thinking I'll make some quick money back. I do admit though that jumping into the Adwords/Affliate method is some good education for me though I wish I read up a little more first. I was able to grasp the concept of getting those cheap 4 cent clicks in a few days, getting nice 8% click through rates on the keywords I selected. However the products I picked showed no success. Whats the newbie affiliate PPC lessons I learned from all this?Landing page is everything - You can bring in millions of people via an advertisement, but if the page you bring them to doesn't sell then all that targeted traffic is wasted.You don't need to be the #1 - My click through rates with the highest % was actually in the #7-8 position. People who are shoppi...
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MediaDollarz Review
2007-09-05 02:36:00
Here goes the first trial in making money online that I have gotten to so far. Unfortunately for me it was not a very good experience. After seeing some good reviews about MediaDoll arz.com I decided to try them out. Its a program similar to CashCrate in which you fill out surveys or apply for promotional offers to get money. The good points that brought me there from other people's reviews was that you could get your money within 24hrs via pay pal. However the first thing upon signing up was the message stating that due to recent activities the payouts have now been changed to monthly.Well maybe they are just having a tough month with program abusers. So thinking nothing of this I went on to verify my cell phone. This is a required step to so that you are able to withdraw your earnings via Paypal. Once I entered my number I was promptly called by an automated message server which gave me my verification number. I entered this in, and so far still no verification e-mail, h...
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Welcome to My Money News
2007-09-03 06:24:00
Blogger sure has improved since the last time I have used it some 5 years ago. I was able to get this thing setup in a few minutes. Originally I was going to link this to my site Money News to try and give it a little more traffic, but I had put the site onto domain parking so I can't add a subdomain anymore. Just a quick introduction to who I am, and why I'm putting up a blog.My name is Mitch from the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii. Born and raised here, and well rather bored since all we got is beaches, oceans, and alot of tourists. I'm a father, a whole sale sales person, and an avid video gamer. I'm starting up this blog as a means to try and stop wasting my time gaming, and start earning some extra cash online. So as the very first thing for me to do to get myself out of a game, that I have been playing for the past 4 odd years I've decided to sell my World of Warcraft (WoW) gold.Playing a game for 4 years lets you amass quite a bit of fortunes. You do hear of pe...