Archive for the 'Current Methods' Category

Whoops. Don’t do that!

I took the adsense ads off the autoblogs; specifically the Tila Tequila one and the Kim Kardashian ones.
Google doesn’t allow adsense ads on blogs with adult content. And since most people looking for those sites are looking for porn, I could get my adsense license yanked. It’s not making much at the moment, but [...]

Weird Spike Causes Change in Goals

My current goal is $10 in 7 days; my thinking is that I’d go from one buck in one night of passive income to over a buck a night for a week running.
However, some mysterious force has convinced eleven people to order something from Amazon.Com (and no, I can’t tell what site it came from [...]

Focus, Focus, Focus!

After convincing myself that I personally crashed the shared server that the portallane.com site lives on (well, the mysql crashed, anyway ), I turned off some of the logging and the stats programs that I had installed. It was probably for the best, but I’m definately a stats junkie.
So I’ve been updating the [...]

Google Trends

There’s a fascinating tool at google called “Google Trends.” Using it, you can see trending through the weeks or years for random topics.
As you sit and punch keywords into this tool, you can probably find some with cyclical patterns. For instance, the blue line to the right is more cyclical than the red line. [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Enhancements to Our Ebay RSS Blog

Blog, splog, mlog. Yeah, we took it there.
It’s already pulling a bunch of rss feeds from ebay. Taking Plepco’s comments from the original post, we have four changes to make. We’ve already posted some “pages,” and we’ve put our keyword ( “Collecting Figurines” ) in the header and the footer. I’m not sure about [...]