Archive for October, 2007

You can help me reach my target!

Jon Leger sent me another exciting email with tips on how to earn my dollar a day ( or a buck a night ).
He sent some horrible, horrible untargeted traffic to a landing page and made over an 8.85% conversion rate. He made over 300 dollars from this one idea. The program is [...]

Something Fascinating I “Discovered”

The “Adsense Deluxe” Plugin doesn’t have to be just adsense.
You can use it to substitute other ads in ( or probably whatever; an image, a header, whatever ) into your text. So I’m currently using it on Tila Tequila Fan Site to present an allposters ad. Because in the template I’m using, other [...]

Watch Out for the Dip in the Road

Seven day earnings have dipped a little; a few days in a row, I made absolutely no money. However, I’ve applied to a new affiliate program and have started up two new websites that are aimed at making some good money.
First, I’ve got some blogs going on over at Portal Lane, which is a domain [...]

Scrapped and Rebuilding

I scrapped the Ebay RSS site for a couple of reasons.
First and foremost, I’ve been uncomfortable with just taking the ebay output and sticking it onto the blog. Secondly, it just wasn’t earning enough money. And third, it’s kind of “black hattish,” and I don’t want to threaten my adsense account.
So it’s down, and I’ll [...]

Hot Damn!

I made a buck tonight.
I made forty cents at commission junction ( my first ever commission junction commission, I might add ) and managed to hit over sixty cents in adsense!
I’m jazzed. One night, One buck.
Ok, now my new goal is Ten Dollars in Seven Days. I’m on track, more or less, [...]

PPC Conversion rates and you

Here’s some simple math to help you determine how much you should cap the payment for links.
First, you’ll need to just let your campaign run for a few days to determine a conversion factor. Conversion factors depend on a lot of things, and are beyond the scope of this post. But for this math, you [...]

Do I ever give up?

We have a couple of affiliate sites that are also not making any money. A buck a night? Never seen one. Looking at the sites, they both have zero pagerank on all the pages. And if I try to pay for some link loving through google adwords, then the links come in at about a [...]

More retooling

Maybe I misunderstood something. I’ve gone back through the blackhole seo stuff (below) and I think I’m getting a better idea for it. I’m using my 1and1 account, which is a throwaway account, for this creation.

Find this post: Follow Up to Automated Links
Instead of using the weblogs.com shortChanges.xml file, I’m trying a search on a [...]

Revamped Collectible Figurines

If it’s not working, then I should try something new and exciting. Or something.
step 2: if it’s not working, try revamping.
The Collectible Figurines rss blog has been alive for about a week and I’m (say it with me) still buckless. I’ve reworked it to cover “Department 56 collectibles, which is a subset that I’ve actually [...]

Stupid Noob Tricks

Over the past two days I’ve made a few fundemental changes to the back-end processing of the Collectible Figurines site. First, I slashed the number of feeds I’m syndicating from approximately 25 to three. I’ve axed all the “sub keywords” and am just focusing on “collectible figurines.”
I’m running a version of wordpress (2.4-bleeding) that [...]