Money Making Weekly Report - Week 36

I'm now at week 36 of my Money Making Mission. The aim being to try and earn money, using only free blogs and without any capital outlay.

The programs marked with a * are those that have shown an increase this week.

I think the figures below are self explanatory. All sums are cumulative for the thirty-six weeks.

Money
AdSense $250.63*
Amazon UK £3.07*
You Gov £31.00*
FriendFinderGroup $573.76*
Advertising Revenue £36.40 + $144.64
Convergence Inc = $142.60 (over 18's only)
Sexy Ads $287.76 (over 18's only)
DIY Dating £45.60
Helium $10.07*
myLot $56.16*
PayPerPost $40.02*
Cashlinkr $4.50
Daytipper$3.00

I have removed Commission Junction and Adbrite from my list, though the money received has been included in my totals.

As there are two currencies (USA and UK) involved the totals amount to the equivalent of:
UK£1033.08 or US$1859.55

Moving on now to the where the blog's visitors arrive from.

Search Engine Referrals
What a week! Went throught the 1000 search engine referral barrier for the first time - that's an average of over 150 a day. As usual Google were top but it's good to see a few of the other search engines now picking up the blog. The figures below for this blog only and are cumulative.

Google - 8753 (+1010 on week)
Technorati - 269 (+4)
AOL - 209 (+39)
MSN - 115 (+3)
Yahoo - 55 (+3)
Live.com - 28 (+2)
Dogpile - 5 (+2)
Metacrawler - 2 (0)
Alta Vista - 2 (0)
Virgilio.it - 2 (0)
Webcrawler -1 (0)
HotBot - 1 (0)
My Way -1 (0)
Search .com - 1 (+1)

Sub total 9444 (+1064)
Google Blog Search - 427 (+5)
Search.Blogger - 193 (+1)
Total 10064 (+1070)

Referrals From Blog Directories. Cumulative figures.
After success with search engine referrals it's pretty much as usual with the Blog Directories. They are not exactly successful in sending traffic, though a couple more have joined the list this week. Figures below for 2007 only, to see 2006 figures see Weekly Report 14.

Bloglines - 49 (0 on week)
Blog Show Off - 35 (0)
My Blog Directory 33 (+2)
King Of The Blogs - 21 (0)
Blog Hub - 17 (0)
Brit Blog - 18 (0)
Top Lists - 18 (0)
Blog Hub - 16 (0)
World Blog Collection - 13 (+1)
Finding Blog - 12 (0)
Fuel My Blog - 10 (0)
Bestest Blog - 5 (0)
eMarketing Blogs - 4 (0)
World Top Blogs - 3 (0)
Blogdup - 3 (0)
Top Blogs 2 (+2)
Grokodile - 1 (0)
Other Directories, about 40 more - nil

Other Referrals
These are the top ten blogs sending traffic to this blog. Actually I have had to make it a top eleven this week as three have made equal referrals.

My thanks, however, go to everyone who has exchanged links with me or has kindly put a link on their blog - it is appreciated very much. Please see their links in the side column under Interesting Blogs, why not click on a few, you never know what you might find.

Mike's Top Ten Blog Referrers
Kumiko's Cash Quest 321 (+6 for week)
Blog AboutYour Blog 278 (+3)
The Million Dollar Experiment 254 (3)
The Gospel According To Rhys 151 (0)
JCM's RPG Art 142 (0)
Rate My Blog 79 (+1)
Money Money Money 78 (+1)
Hipsterpad 77 (0)
doshdosh 74 (+3)
Web-Dosh 74 (+12)
Active Duty Military Money and Matters 74 (+10)

Miscellaneous referrals from all over the place, top ones this week are: Technorati, myLot, Klik.Us, MyBlogLog and 1000000 Links.

I think that covers my week. I hope that by publishing this information, over the weeks to come, it may be of a help to other readers. To see any back reports please click here.

Best wishes,
Mike.

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Celebrity Watch: In today's Celebrity Insider Kate Price Says 'No To Safe Sex' plus Charley Uchea is crying again and there's also a photo of Charley Uchea topless in the swimming pool. Mind you, Charley Uchea often cries! Read why this time.

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.