Money Making Weekly Report - Week 51

I'm now at week 51 of my Money Making Mission. The aim being to try and make money using only free blogs and without any capital outlay.

It's been a great week! This is mainly thanks to my Celebrity Insider blog which had 46,511 visitors over the last seven days. On the money front I did well and the new addition to my Money Making Portfolio, Voxant, helped with this.

Below are money making programs I am currently promoting - in alphabetical order, with a few comments.

AdSense $740.29
A good week. Extra visitors = extra money!

Amazon UK £5.58 ($11.16)
The context links seem to be working okay as regards getting clicks. Still not getting the orders though. There was one this week with a grand commission of 11p (22c).

As I mentioned last week a lot of the problem, as far as making money is concerned, is that my links are for Amazon UK and a lot of my visitors are from USA and the rest of the world - who are unlikely to place an order on a UK website. Not sure quite what to do about this.

AuctionAds $30.13
Not over happy with AuctionAds. I was still getting blank spaces early last week so in a fit of pique I removed them completely from most of my blogs. I can't stand to see spaces that should be filled - makes the blogs look uncared for! I'll put some ads on again during the week and see if this has now been corrected.

Convergence Inc $156.60 (over 18's only)
Again didn't promote this last week. Adult only products. They provide a free website - providing you can find a way to market it. Not suitable, for example, on this blog. They pay out on time and also small amounts. I've had checks sent to me as low as $3.50.

DIY Dating £72.99 ($145.25)
DIY also offer a free dating website with choice of designs and content plus use of their massive database. Has possibilities.

FriendFinderGroup $715.76
I'm not doing quite as well with FriendFinder recently, perhaps because my efforts are being directed elsewhere. It's a well run affiliate program though. Over 20 websites to promote ranging from Christian and Jewish friendship to Adults and Bondage! Caters for most interests.

Helium $14.07
I haven't had the time to do anything with this.

myLot $60.11
Haven't been on their website over the last week, again haven't had the time.

PayPerPost $320.83
Still going well for me plus the payments have been made on time i.e. exactly 30 days from first publishing the sponsored posts.

Sexy Ads $322.73 (over 18's only)
A well run, efficient affiliate program - if suitable for your blog!

Tradedoubler £2.38 ($4.76)
Have just joined this. Similar system to Commission Junction but Europe based. Will write more on this in the future.

Voxant $114.49
Good start, joined last Monday. I wrote a follow up post here.

You Gov £55.00 ($110.00)
Genuine survey company - they want more panel members in UK, USA and the Middle East. Get paid for completing surveys and polls.

Miscellaneous $616.65
From such things as links, sponsored blogs, adverts etc.

Total $3899.22

I've also made money from Commission Junction, Cashlinkr, Daytipper, but no longer promote these.

That's it for another week!

Good luck,
Mike.

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Successful Networking For The Home Business Entrepreneur

Social networking is one of the essentials for making money online, or for any other sort of home based business. It's also extremely useful if you are still thinking about starting a money making venture. As is often said, 'it's who you know and not necessarily what you know' that helps with success.

There are lots of social networking websites about now but they have a broad spectrum of interests - teens to celebs to just about anything. Sure it might be possible to make a few good contacts but there will be a lot of dross to wade through before you do.

But what if you could join, for free, a social networking site where the emphasis is on business.

And better still, what if you could set up your own business profile and have free advertising, free classifieds and free networking. It sounds almost too good to be true. An entrepreneurs dream!

DirectMATCHES can provide all of this and more besides. They have an eight year record of success in this field and have over 65,000 members.

For anyone with a home-based business, or thinking of starting one, DirectMATCHES can help you achieve improved results.

DirectMATCHES has been set up with the business person in mind.

KeyWords: Some You Win And Some You Lose

Rob over at Make Money Fa$t wrote an interesting post about how he can rank well on Google for certain keywords and then, after 8 or 9 days, they tend to disappear from view.

He put this down to the article, containing the keywords, going off of his front page.

I have noticed something similar to this myself.

I think the answer is to do a follow up post on the same subject, using the same keywords, and this often reactivates Google's interest - though this may be mainly because it is once more on the blog's front page.

I try to find time to look regularly at the keywords that have done well, in producing referrals, and then use them again to reinforce their stature. This appears to work.

It depends on what the keywords are. Some have a short shelf life. If, for example, you write about a celebrity they can be hot for a while and then everyone loses interest.

While something is hot it's the time to do several posts on the same subject. There is usually a different angle that you can hone in on. This usually helps to obtain a higher position in the rankings.

Some keywords do in fact stick for a considerable period but I find it difficult to distinguish between those which do and those that don't. With this blog some of my top keywords this month include Zlio, Konnie Huq and myLot which I haven't written about for ages.

It's a strange game, this blogging business!

Good luck,
Mike

P.S. It's my Money Making Weekly Report tomorrow.

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Money Made With News Feeds

On Monday I wrote a post Making Money With News Feeds. I said that I had just joined the Voxant Newsroom as a trial to it possibly making money.

I thought I'd report back today as it has gone quite well so far. As you will see from the stats below, for the period from Monday afternoon (when I joined) until 8 a.m. this morning, I have made $63.35.

This exceeds what I would make from say AdSense for the same roughly two-and-a-half day period.

On initial appearances, therefore, Voxant looks promising providing:

(a) You have quite high traffic to your blog.

(b) You are willing to have the video newsfeed on your blog so that they will run instantly when someone opens your page. As an example I have this running now on this blog, though it will not happen once the original post disappears from the front page. I'm using Voxant mainly for my celebrity blogs.

As you will see from the stats shown as yet I've had little response from others embedding material that has been run on my blogs - but it's early days so far.

If you compare Voxant to something like AuctionAds there is only one winner. This month with AuctionAds I have had 71,060 page impressions and just 47 clicks giving me only $7.97 earnings.

Good luck,
Mike.

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Instant Hypnosis For Wealth & Success

I guess as this is a money making blog most of us want to make money!

Have you ever thought that perhaps hypnosis could help you with this? Well a website called Instant-Hypnosis have produced hypnosis sessions that are available for instant download. Titles include: You can Create Wealth, Be A Money Magnet, Sales Success and so on.

Instant-Hypnosis isn't, however, just about money they have over 300 self hypnosis sessions available. These cover almost everything you could imagine from Self Improvement and Business Success to Good Health and Pain relief.

Whatever part of your life you might want to improve there is most likely a hypnosis session to download instantly - this even includes sex related issues.

Pop along to their Instant-Hypnosis website and view all of the 300+ sessions available.

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Save Money On GHD Hair Straighteners

Okay I don't know much about hair straighteners! Though I am a little more knowledgeable since reading since reading the beautysleuth article Which GHD Hair Straighteners Are For You?

No, I don't use them but my wife does. What I do know about is trying to save money - it's as good as making it - and if you want ghd hair straighteners there are big savings to be made at beautysleuth, sometimes as much as £45.05 on the recommended retail price.

beautysleuth also have other products for hair, makeup, skin, bath and a selection for us men as well. There's even an article on how to 'Defy Your Skin's Age' - my wife reckons I should read this!

beautysleuth say they are 'dedicated to bringing you the best in beauty' and have grown to become one of the UK's favourite hair and beauty websites. Give them a try.

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8 Ways To Get More Referrals From Yahoo

Last week I wrote a post Concentrate On The Top Four Search Engines, these being Google (52.7% of searches),Yahoo (20.2%), MSN/Live (13.3%) and AOL (5.5%).

A lot has been written about getting referrals from Google but I have also come across an excellent article about How To Optimize For Yahoo.

The author, Ross Dunn, suggests the following. I would recommend, however, that you read the full article to gain all of the points in more detail.

1. Title Tag: Keep the title tag as short as 5 small-medium sized words and include one complete incidence of your keyphrase. Yahoo! blatantly favours sites that include the keyphrase in the title tag.

2. Meta Description Tag: Start with key phrase and then produce a short 15–18 small-medium sized word sentence clearly describing your site.

3. Meta Keyword Tag: Yahoo still considers the keyword tag so it cannot hurt to include it. The max size of a keyword tag should be 250 characters – comma-delimited. Do not over repeat words; no more than 3 repetitions of a single word within the tag.

4. Keywords In URL: Yahoo rewards keyword-based filenames a small amount.

5. Headings: Use the page’s keyphrase within a Heading 1 tag to further enhance the visibility of the keyphrase on the page.

6. Use Alt For Images: The "Alt" text must not provide information that is already written on the website. "Alt" text is supposed to provide a clear and concise description of what the image is. Fortunately this means that adding an incidence of the keyphrase, or a portion of the keyphrase, is totally appropriate which can add slightly more credibility to your page score when Yahoo’s crawler indexes the page.

7. Inline Links: In the midst of your page it is beneficial to include links to related pages from related content.

8. Links: When building links for Yahoo concentrate on quality not quantity.

The above is a simplified list - read the full article. There is also lots of other good SEO advice on the website.

Good luck,
Mike.

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