If Celebrity Sex Sells Can We Make Money From It?

I suppose I knew it already, but it's a funny old world this blogosphere - or whatever you want to call it.

Take yesterday, for example, I checked some of my stats and what was the biggest link, by far, that readers of MMMM clicked on? Charley Uchea topless!

I shouldn't really be surprised because they - whoever they are - say sex sells. I'd go one step further and say that celebrity sex sells even more.

I've succumbed to this thought and am now trying an experiment with a couple of celebrity blogs to see if they will attract visitors and, more importantly, make money.

I think realism has set in and the fact is that you need something with high traffic to bring in any real cash. Sure I'm making some money, nearly $2000 to date - see last Money Making Weekly Report - but this isn't really worthwhile as far as I'm concerned.

So I'm now, therefore, dabbling in so called celebrities, which is a phenomenon that I don't really understand. Why are people like Paris Hilton in the USA and Kate Price (Jordan) in the UK celebrities? They don't actually have any talent, but it doesn't appear to matter. What they do know is how to sell themselves, and keep in the public eye. This earns them millions. Most odd.

Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. I started these two celebrity blogs (Celebrity Insider and In Praise Of Konnie Huq) two days ago and the interesting thing is that Google is already sending referrals - 66 (now 91 at 14.30 UK 8 June) to one of them - and I haven't done a thing to promote them. It certainly looks, on first appearances, much easier than with money making blogs.

Publishing these two other blogs isn't going to make any difference to this one. They probably won't be long term. Mike's Money Making Mission will carry on as usual.

What I'm interested in is:

Is it possible to start lots of different niche blogs, build them up with say twenty plus posts and then let them run themselves? By this I mean if you splay the blogs with strong keywords will the search engines keep picking them up indefinitely?

If this would work it should be possible to have lots of blogs, all monetised, and bringing in an income without too much effort. It's actually the keywords and tags that are more important than the posts themselves.

I'll have a bash and see what happens out of curiosity.

Good luck,
Mike.


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P.S. I've got to really carry this on a little longer - sorry! Charley Uchea isn't going to be the first housemate evicted from the UK's Big Brother. That distinction will go to either Emily or Shabnan. The bookies got that wrong. Charley Uchea is now the favourite to be the next eviction.

Paris Hilton And Money Making Affiliates

If you want to make money or perhaps meet the next Paris Hilton - that's her bikini clad in the photo - you can through the Friend Finder Group. How's that for blatant use of search engine keywords! But make money, Paris Hilton and Friend Finder work for me.

What I really want to talk about is making money with affiliates and to show you some proof of earnings to verify that it all works in reality. I can't guarantee though that you'll also meet a Paris Hilton look-a-like, but the FriendFinder Group do have over 19 million worldwide members, so you never know.

A lot of bloggers sign up for various affiliate programs but overlook one important aspect. There is good money to be made, not just by selling the service or products, but also from referring new affiliates to the progam.

Here's an example. The figures below show my commission due for introducing others to the Friend Finder Group. As you can see I have over $70 dollars due on the next pay day. This is money purely from referring new affiliates to their website. Money for nothing, in a way. I earn 10% of what my referrals earn.

Now if you combine this with money made from promoting their biggest website, Adult Friend Finder, it adds up to a reasonable amount. Proof of earnings shown below.

As you will see this totals to well over $400. But there is more. I promote several of their 25 websites and my final total of commission amounts to $510.57, which is more that I declare on my Weekly Reports. Again proof below (the figures are a continuation of the form shown above).


And, yes, the Friend Finder Group pay out, and on time. The chart below shows recent checks/cheques they have sent me, again copied from my affiliate pages on their website.


I'm not recommending that you join the Friend Finder Group, though you are most welcome to do so, I just want to emphasise that:

(1) It's possible for small bloggers to make money with affiliate programs, of all kinds, and

(2) It's very worthwhile referring other people to become affiliates. Make sure, though, that the affiliate program concerned does offer some commission for doing this.

There are all sorts of ways to promote affiliate programs and to refer new affiliates. A few ideas:

(a) A post on your own blog about the program. Obvious, but many bloggers only put their ads in their side columns. You have to be pro-active.
(b) Use the forums - some for the products and others for recruiting new affiliates.

(c) Start new blogs, under different names, that concentrate on the products concerned. Even one page blogs can attract visitors if the usual ways of attracting traffic are followed.

(d) Get into the social networking sites. With Squidoo, for example you could have several lenses on different subjects.

There's lots of other things as well that can be done. The important point is to actually do something positive. Plonking a nice ad or banner on a blog is okay, but often this isn't enough. Think up other ways to get visitors to your associated affiliate programs. As I said earlier be pro-active, not passive.

That's enough from me today. This Paris Hilton, what is all of the fuss about her? Whatever it is, she has certainly mastered marketing herself and her name. Lessons to be learnt.

Good luck,
Mike.

Further reading:
Money Making Test: Friend Finder Group.


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