Heading East

My wife and I have decided to take a break so we are off on a road trip for about 15 days. Leaving our town and heading east.

Will 'see' you when we get back.

As per usual, when we take a holiday, there will be no computers or phones etc. It's tough!

Good luck,
Mike

Shoes Make Money!

I've been experimenting with various Amazon adverts to see which ones perform the best. I've never really done that well with this affiliate program. I get a few sales and make a bit a commission, but nothing too exciting.

One of the ads I tried was for their Endless.com store. Without much enthusiasm I plonked a header advert for this on one of my celebrity blogs.

Much too my surprise it's done exceedingly well.

The products are shoes and handbags, so they may not be suitable for all blogs, but they seem to appeal to celebrity fans.

Endless.com was set up by Amazon as (to quote them), "...an exciting shoe and handbag shopping experience. Endless.com is dedicated to providing the best prices, selection, and overall experience. With free overnight shipping, free return shipping, 100% price guarantee."

Now what I didn't realise, even when I put the ad on my celeb blog, was that the commission for sales is 15%, as opposed to Amazon's normal 4%. This obviously makes a big difference. Looking at my stats today I've just had $328.15 worth of orders which has given me $49.22 commission. If that continued I could make a decent amount every month.

The sales I've had, throughout August, have all been for shoes and not handbags.

I thought I'd just pass on the information as it might be useful to Amazon affiliates and earn you a few dollars. If you think, that is, your blog readers might be into shoes - but, come to think of it, isn't everyone into shoes?

Good luck,
Mike

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Promote Your Blog And Make Money With She Told Me

Here's a website where you can promote your blogs, Squidoo lenses, websites and so on, plus make a bit of money with AdSense.

The site I'm talking about is She Told Me.

Okay, it may not be completely original. You will no doubt have seen similar style sites but the advantage with this one is that it is reasonably new and has the potential to make some extra money with AdSense.

Once signed up, it only takes a few minutes - and it's free, of course - you can then start to submit links to She Told Me - your own and also other websites you come across that may be of interest to others.

There is a familiar pattern whereby you can vote up (or down) links and stories that have been submitted.

One major advantage, I haven't mentioned, is that with every link you submit your own link, to your main blog or website, will also shown. So if you submit enough stuff of interest you could have lots of links pointing at your blog / website.

How To Make Money From AdSense With She Told Me.

For every story / link that you submit a page is created and on this page will be your own AdSense ad block, with your AdSense ID number. You therefore earn money this way, but there is more.

You can also introduce others to She Told Me. For doing so, and to quote the website, for every member you introduce ...

You will have your AdSense ID displayed on every content pages this member submits, 100% of the time, for life! Even if this new member doesn't have an AdSense account!

In theory this could eventually add up to a healthy chunk of revenue.

The nitty gritty. Will She Told Me send visitors to your site? Will it earn you any money?

The honest answer is: I don't know for sure.

I've only just joined myself, so time will answer these questions. I will, of course, be updating you how I get on in the future.

In the meantime I can't see any downside to joining and having a go. It's still reasonably unknown. The 5th top referring user, for example, has only introduced 8 new members.

Sometimes you have to have a go at new things and get in early. If they work you could have a head start and do okay. If, say She Told Me, doesn't make you any money at the very least you'll have a few links pointing at your blog or website. This in turn could send you traffic.

Good luck,
Mike.

Just Like With Elvis Dead Blogs Make Money

Elvis Presley is the top earning dead celeb. He, or rather his beneficiaries, rake in over $50 million a year. Charles Schulz the cartoonist, also deceased, still makes millions of dollars.

"So what's that got to do with blogging?" you may ask.

Probably not too much, but imagine if you had some 'dead blogs' which still make you money. You'd no doubt be pretty pleased, especially as you are alive and well!

I have several dead blogs that make me money. Okay, not millions - far from it - but they help to top up my blogging income.

Elvis, and those top earning dead celebs, have steady revenue streams from work they created when in their prime.

If we bloggers can create things of value within blogs - even dead blogs - then there is money to be made.

By something of value I mean something that people will want to search for. This could be information, a 'how to' article, photos, images or absolutely anything.

If people will search for it, on the search engines, then it is of value and should be monetised.

With my own 'dead blogs' I still pay them some attention now and again. If you couldn't buy Elvis music, photos, memorabilia then there would be no income. So his music isn't allowed to die, it's updated, re-mastered and so on and even promoted.

It's the same with dead blogs. If they have something of value update them occasionally, change the ads and so on. This doesn't have to take long but it keeps the dead blog alive - just as the Elvis memory is kept alive.

In fact, at times, it's an idea to actually create some dead blogs intentionally. If you come across anything 'of value' put it on the Internet. It could just make you an income for years to come.

Good luck,
Mike


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Make Money With A Banner Exchange Program

There are many ways to promote your blog or products for free on the Internet.

One way is by joining a banner exchange program.

These programs work as you would expect. In other words by running banner ads on your blog you will be able to have your ads published on other blogs / websites in exchange.

Most of these run on a like for like basis. Some, for example, offer points for every page impression on your blog and these will allow your ads to run on other blogs for the same amount of impressions. This makes a fair exchange.

Normally everything is done automatically by placing a supplied HTML code on your blog - and that's it.

An example of a website offering this service is NEObanners and, with their free service, there are statistics so you know how many banner impressions you have had etc.

If you need to make simple banners I often use Banner Fans where you can knock up a banner, of varying sizes, in a few minutes - well you can once you get the hang of it. If you sign up with them they will also store your banners together with the relevant HTML.

We all need to promote to make money and, if we can do it for free, so much the better.

Good luck,
Mike.

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