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PPC Advertising For Lazy Bloggers

Okay...It isn't just for lazy bloggers...

How many of you have wanted to run a PPC advertising campaign for your blog or other online or offline venture, but you didn't know how to begin? Were you afraid of sinking a lot of money into an ad campaign with limited return? Well there is a company that offers a solution. You can connect your blog or any other business with readers and customers looking for your information, products, and services.

A company called NetworkSolutions has a new program called PerformanceClicks! It is basically a one-stop website promotion solution for any small business from blogging to landscaping. They will do all the work for you. They will research keywords, analyze your website, create your ad copy, purchase keywords and report on your campaign.

You can choose from two types of affordable, fully-managed pay per click marketing plans based on your budget and needs. They have pre-packaged plans that start from $125 a month all the way up to fully customized packages that include custom landing pages, daily monitoring to maximize your return, local business ads on google maps and more.

The pre-packaged Performance Clicks - Guaranteed option is designed to send traffic to your site and to allow you to try out PPC advertising without laying out huge up front expenses. You purchase just the amount of clicks you want to send to your Web site on a monthly basis and the traffic is guaranteed. Now just to note so there is no confusion that guarantee is after 3 months. Which if you ever have run a ppc campaign makes sense. It does take a bit of time to refine and maximize a campaign.

They do offer the fully customizable packages that start at $400. These aren't a bad option for mid level blogs which already have a decent following but are looking to take it up a notch. The $400 might seem a bit steep but if you are monetizing your blog you should see a pretty good return. Overall I think the packages are a pretty good option for those of you looking to get your feet wet in the ocean of PPC advertising.

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Exchange Blog Posts With Smorty

Smorty is a blog advertising network along the lines of PayPerPost but with a bit of SocialSpark thrown in. I have used Smorty in the past for a few posts on some of my various blogs and really liked the payment setup as well as how they handled the posting requirements. The biggest drawback for me at the time was the community was small and the opps were limited. Because of this I gravitated to PPP and other mediums for earnings through posting and links.

During this time PayPerPost became IZEA and launched SocialSpark. Well Smorty is not just sitting around being passed by SocialSpark and PayPerPost. They have launched a great new option for Smorty members. Smorty has a new Post Exchange Program that is growing the Smorty community to become stronger by helping each other. It aims to build a strong and ongoing inbound link structure and increase your online traffic. It is completely free to use and all approved blogs can participate. Post exchange works on a point based system. For every post you write, a different blogger can write a post for you in return. Exchange as many posts as you can until you have used up your chosen category of bloggers. For every post you write, a post will be written for you by a different blogger, one for one.

This is very similar to the sparks on SocialSpark. You don't get paid for the post but you do get to help out a fellow blogger in the process. If you haven't had a chance to check out Smorty you should stop over and give them a shot.

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Free Ways To Market Your Online Business Offline

I just wanted to share a few free or low cost ideas on ways to market your online ventures offline. Many bloggers overlook the benefits of promoting offline as well. If you can implement some offline marketing strategies with little or no money that is even better. If you are trying to make money online you certainly don't want to be spending large sums of money offline it just isn't practical for the return you get.

Free Offline Marketing Method #1

Do a Google search for customized ink pens, customized promotional items, or something along those lines. You will obviously get a ton of results. Just start clicking on some of the results focusing on sites that offer free samples, or that have a print catalog. In my experience you have the best luck with those. Remember you want free! Okay now that you have found a few go ahead and register with the site. You want them to send you their catalog in the mail. The reason why is that every month or so they also send free samples of featured items from pens to calendars. The cool thing about most of them is that the samples sent are imprinted with your business details. Voila free marketing materials. If you do this for several you can build up quite a nice collection of pens and such. Now granted I have actually ordered a few small lots of customized pens to market various business, but I receive anywhere from 5-10 customized promotional items a month. Passing these along to folks is a great way to garner new visitors to your site and to spark conversation about what you are doing.

Free Offline Marketing Method #2

You may have heard of VistaPrint and their free business card offers, but did you know VistaPrint offers a wide array of printing services including, business cards, checks, rubber stamps, announcements, return address labels, and car magnets! You can customize all of their products to your liking! Getting some of their basic business cards made up for your blog is a great offline marketing tool. You can pass them out to friends and family or to people you meet. See the last one on the list? It is that time of year and if you or a child are graduating getting some free announcements is a great deal. If you are interested in the free stuff here are some things VistaPrint does offer for free.

Free Business Cards
Free Rubber Stamps
Free Sticky Notes
Free Checks
Free Logo Design

In addition to the free stuff VistaPrint offers a wide array of printing services including: business cards, checks, rubber stamps, announcements, and car magnets! You can customize all of their products to your liking! Their premium printing services are very affordable and the service is great. If you have only ever done the free stuff and haven't tried out any of VistaPrint's premium services you really should check them out and you won't be disappointed.

There you go....two ways to get some great offline marketing materials for your blog. The best thing is they are free and customized marketing and promotional items.

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Get Free Marketing Materials

Well, not all of them are free. You may have heard of VistaPrint and their free business card offers, but did you know that they also have some really good deals on premium printing services as well? If you are interested in the free stuff here are some things VistaPrint does offer for free. Getting some of their basic business cards made up for your blog is a great offline marketing tool. You can pass them out to friends and family or to people you meet. See the last one on the list? It is that time of year and if you or a child are graduating getting some free announcements is a great deal.

Free Business Cards
Free Rubber Stamps
Free Sticky Notes
Free Checks
Free Logo Design
Caricature Design
Graduation Announcements

In addition to the free stuff VistaPrint offers a wide array of printing services including: business cards, checks, rubber stamps, announcements, and car magnets! You can customize all of their products to your liking! Their premium printing services are very affordable and the service is great. If you have only ever done the free stuff and haven't tried out any of VistaPrint's premium services you really should check them out and you won't be disappointed.

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You're Back & You Give Us Renuzit ???

Hah, great question. Follow the money.... No really if you don't like the article talk to my "manager" the number is 1-800-382-5968. ;)...

This blog is about making money. It isn't about you liking me. That would be nice, and I'm a likable guy, but still not the point. It isn't even directly about gaining more readers, although that is to a point an indirect necessity. It is, when you get down to it, about the money. I blog from my passion. I write because I have a passionate motivation to make money online instead of working my a-s off for 40 years for some other guy. I have a great job so don't get me wrong but I am working extremely hard to replace it, which is a pretty high mark. I am passionate about my family time and being able to have freedom of location for that time. Therefore I am passionate about making money online. And thus I write from my passion.

I don't ask that you like me or the means to my end. I may not do it like "the other guys" but I make money. This blog makes money. My affiliate campaigns make money, which was quite nice while I was away from blogging a bit lately. This blog made me $1500 in January alone. I do paid posting, I sell ad space, I sell links, I market affiliate programs and every once in a great while my feeble human brain spits out a decent article or two to help out those trying to do the same. So to all of you who question the last article....don't read it...read this one instead...and stay tuned...though you may not like what is coming any more....

To each and everyone of my readers.......THANKS SO MUCH for the time you take to poke around here....

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Got Your RealRank Yet?

For those of you familiar with PayPerPost you have known about RealRank for quite some time. For those of you that aren't RealRank is a new Blog ranking system from Izea the site - IZEARanks.com. I got the email today letting me know the site was live. I stopped by registered my blog and checked everything out. Understand this is a ranking system for blogs and nothing else. In fact they allow users to flag sights that aren't blogs. The downside I see right away is the opt-in facet of the system. There will be sights that choose not to participate because of it's association on some level with PayPerPost, or some other reason.

RealRank according to the site is a "blog ranking system that uses real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on the web. IZEARanks ranks the top blogs in the blogosphere via actual site statistics, not an extrapolation of estimates." There is a very nice graphical chart somewhat remeniscent of Alexa's comparison graphs. You can chart and compare multiple blogs based on RealRank, pageviews, and unique visitors. One nice thing is that a blogger can choose whether or not they want their stats public or private. This doesn't apply to the actual RealRank only to the pageviews and unique vistors stats. I think this will help attract some bloggers that are looking for a bit more privacy.

With the relative ease of gaming Alexa and all the Google PR crap of late it will be nice to see a blog ranking system that actually means something and that is actually based on traffic and visitors and not like PR that Google can just decide to change on a whim because they happen to decide paid links are a bad thing.

I would love to see RealRank rise to the top of blog ranking and really take out Google PR, Alexa, and Technorati. The only way this is going to happen though is for bloggers like you and me to use the RealRank system. I encourage all of my readers to head over to IZEARanks.com and register your blog today.

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Blogging Without Power

Monday night around 11:45ish I was sitting watching some TV, blogging, & chatting with friends when suddenly the whole house went black. I had no power. This lasted for about an hour and then everything returned to normal. I was using my laptop but I had my battery removed so when the power shut off so did the computer. I didn't feel like digging around in the office in the dark to find the battery. It could be so many places depending on the mood I was in when I removed it last. Anyway, this little scenario got me thinking about blogging without power.

I would define power as having control of, authority, or influence over others. How does one define the power of a blog? There are various rankings from Technorati, Alexa, Google, and others as well. What do they mean though? What do they represent and do they give a good indication of the power of a blog? Does a blog that had a PR6 in October last year that now has a PR4 have less power? What about if that same blog now has 1000 more RSS subscribers than it did in October? What if the blog's revenue has increase by 30% in the same span? Does the blog have more power due to the increases in subscriptions and revenue? Does it have less now that its PR is lower?

Lets look again at the definition I put forth for power, "having control of, authority, or influence over others." Would you say the Google PR drop or the increases would have a greater impact on power based on my basic definition? I think the answer to this question seems straight forward, but break down the definition into its parts and have a closer look.

Having control of. Does the blog have control of PR? How about subscriptions and revenue. Google holds the power when it comes to PR and how it wants to determine and award it. The blog holds the power when it comes to controlling content, most variables that drive subscriptions, as well as control over generating revenue. Now what if the blog lost a large portion of search traffic from Google because of the PR drop? This in turn reduces traffic, reducing RSS subscriptions, and reducing revenue. Now who holds the power? A blog owner has control over content, marketing, design, revenue generation and more. He or she holds the power for that blog. Google holds the power over PR and where a result ranks for searched keywords. The blogger then has control over how to position the blog so that it is the least dependent on Google or any other single traffic source as possible. In my opinion the blogger ultimately is the one having control of the blog, Google doesn't hold that much power yet...There is nothing wrong with writing for SEO, but remember who you are writing for. Write exclusively for ranking in Google, or any other search engine for that matter, and you give them the power. Write what you want and what people want to read. Write in your own style and with your own personality, and you hold the power over your blog.

Authority. What defines a blog's authority? It certainly isn't Technorati as it is too easily gamed. What makes a blog authoritative? There are many factors that go into authority. Age of the blog is one, quality of content is another, and of course you have traffic and subscription numbers thrown in as well. Another factor is the background of the author. A person who is already well know in certain circles has authority before even putting finger to key. Conversely a person not well known has a much more difficult time as the experience and network aren't already in place. Authority then really comes from a track record of success and actual life experience. For example, a friend of mine Lori of A Cowboy's Wife, wouldn't have much authority if she was single and living in LA or NY with nary a cowboy in sight. She has been successful because she has authority in the area in which her blog is focused.

Influence over others. This is tied closely with authority. The more authority you have or are perceived to have the more influence you will have over others. Influence is also determined by the style and quality of writing. Just as there are more dynamic and influential speakers, there are more dynamic and influential writers and bloggers. You can have authority on your topic yet not be the most influential. You can be influential without having as much authority as the next guy. Stephen Hawking is one of the most recognizable faces of science and physics specifically and in the eyes of many still today has a large amount of authority. Yet it can be argued that he has not had the greatest actual influence on the physics community over the last 35 years. His authority comes from his visibility and his influence is greater in the lay world than in the physics world. His books and speaking engagements and even to a point his struggle through his disability all contribute to his authority.

Bottom line is that an author holds the control over the content of the blog. The authority for the blog and author comes from a track record of success, actual life experience, and visibility. Influence really comes down to the perceptions people have. The better they perceive you the more weight they give to your opinions - authority - and the more they will allow those opinions to shape their own - influence.

How do you define the power of a blog? What do you think defines a blog's authority? How about influence? How closely do you think authority and influence are tied?

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Free Traffic For Your Website

OK, so you're on a tight budget and you need to build up the traffic to your website? When you build a website, it is very easy to overload your wallet, as the running costs start to escalate. As costs start to snowball out of control, it's now that you realize you need to find free traffic. How? Well, you may think it's impossible, but it's not. You can develop truckloads of free traffic, with the only cost to you being energy, effort and time. If you can commit to this, then you will most certainly get the traffic you desire.

Links

Developing links with other websites is one way to develop traffic to your site. Have a look at sites that are similar in size and compatibility with yours. When you find them, contact the owner and see if they're willing to post a link to your site - make sure you offer to return the favor to them as well. By doing this, both sites will benefit with a boost of traffic and correspondingly help your search rankings. There are also automatic link swapping programs available, however, I would take care when using these, as you need to be aware of where your links are being posted. You most certainly don't want your link to end up on an inappropriate site. In addition, the link routing can also effect the impact you have.

An incredibly easy way to gather links back to your site is to write content (or articles) which can be used on other sites. When you provide content for use on other sites, your link remains with the content, providing a link back to your own site.

This method is especially effective, so make sure you contact article directory websites, social bookmarking sites and any other site that would be willing to link back to your site.

SEO

This is not always a 'free' method. It can actually cost a lot of money to put together an SEO strategy, if you choose to go this way. However, if you can take the time to develop quality content, utilizing suitable keywords, develop a blog which is keyword enhanced, build up your links with other sites, you will find steadily but surely, your visitors will increase, with the flow on effect of climbing up the rankings.

Remember, you need to work with the search engines, creating a strategy that meets with your visitors needs. By doing this your site will develop a strong foundation, that will continue to strengthen and grow well into the future.

Networking

Networking is still a very valid method of building traffic. Obviously, most of your contacts will be online these days, in various forums, groups or boards. But the same process for developing relationships apply, irrespective of whether you're talking with someone in person or chatting with them online. Get involved in some online communities and learn what your competitors and other marketers are doing with their businesses. Online communities are great places to meet other like minded people, find out what's new in the internet marketing world and tell them about what you're doing on your own site. You might even find that your competitors become your customers.

Conclusion

So, can traffic really be free? Well, nothing is really ever for free, it just depends on how you want to pay for it. Should I pay with money? Yes you can pay for it if you have a large budget and funds to spare, but the smart marketer, pays for his traffic with time and effort used to build and develop a quality website, filled with content that visitors will need and use. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you must 'spend money' to 'make money'. If you put your time and effort into these methods, you will be HUGELY surprised at the amount (and speed) of traffic you will develop. Put together a process, stick with it, right to the end and you will see the beauty of free traffic and how it builds a thriving business.

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$1500 January Update - MTD: $770.58

In case you missed it I have set a goal for this blog to earn $1500 in January. When I set this goal it was on January 15th and I had earned a total of $606.33 so far for the month. As you can see I had not yet earned half of my goal yet the month was already half over. I am determined to meet this goal and I wanted to keep everyone updated as to my progress.

I will only give totals through yesterday as I am not done earning yet today! The totals will be through the end of the day Thursday. Without further ado...

Here is where the earnings stand for the month.

Affiliate Sales: $491.05
Paid Posting: $232.14
Contextual Ads: $34.61
Ad/Link Sales: $10.00
Misc: $2.78

Total MTD: $770.58

That is an average of a little over $45 per day so far this month. If I maintained that rate I would fall just a bit short of my goal. Although if you look at the earnings for the 16-17th after I set my goal and started my push the average jumps up to about $82 per day. Counting today the 18th there are 14 days left in the month. I will need to average just a touch over $52 per day to reach my goal.

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Promotional Products To Advertise Your Blog

I have talked a bit about offline advertising for you blog, but today I want to talk about a tool that can be used both offline and on. Promotional items are a proven, effective way to market your blog or website, company, school, service or event. Think of the sites that sell or give away promotional products. You can buy all kinds of Shoemoney merchandise, you can buy a shirt with your Alexa ranking, and there are hundreds of other sites out there that sell or give away promotional products.

You can get your site logo imprinted on all types of promotional items from apparel, to pens, magnets, mouse pads, bags, cups, Promotional Calendars , and much more! Gimmees.com is a site that I have used to order some pens to give to friends, family, and to pass out to folks that ask me what I do. Gimmees.com features high quality, custom imprinted items at very affordable prices. I got some pens they had on sale for $.23 a piece with no setup fee. This is a great price and items like this can be a great tool for offline advertising. You can order larger items and give-aways for your blog or other business that you own.

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IZEA Realrank Is Now Live

For those of you familiar with PayPerPost you have known about RealRank for quite some time. For those of you that aren't RealRank is a new Blog ranking system from Izea the site - IzeaRank.com. I got the email today letting me know the site was live. I stopped by registered my blog and checked everything out. Understand this is a ranking system for blogs and nothing else. In fact they allow users to flag sights that aren't blogs. The downside I see right away is the opt-in facet of the system. There will be sights that choose not to participate because of it's association on some level with PayPerPost, or some other reason.

RealRank according to the site is a "blog ranking system that uses real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on the web. IZEARanks ranks the top blogs in the blogosphere via actual site statistics, not an extrapolation of estimates." There is a very nice graphical chart somewhat remeniscent of Alexa's comparison graphs. You can chart and compare multiple blogs based on RealRank, pageviews, and unique visitors. One nice thing is that a blogger can choose whether or not they want their stats public or private. This doesn't apply to the actual RealRank only to the pageviews and unique vistors stats. I think this will help attract some bloggers that are looking for a bit more privacy.

With the relative ease of gaming Alexa and all the Google PR crap of late it will be nice to see a blog ranking system that actually means something and that is actually based on traffic and visitors and not like PR that Google can just decide to change on a whim because they happen to decide paid links are a bad thing.

I would love to see RealRank rise to the top of blog ranking and really take out Google PR, Alexa, and Technorati. The only way this is going to happen though is for bloggers like you and me to use the RealRank system. I encourage all of my readers to head over to IzeaRanks.com and register your blog today.

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I Finally Have PR Again

Back in the last PR update I was initially given a PR of 4. That quickly fell to a 3 then a 2 and then during the paid link crap down to a big fat 0. What I think is funny is that my traffic didn't drop, my incoming links didn't drop, yet simply because I had a few paid text links and posts google decided my content was no longer worthy. It didn't bother me too much as yahoo traffic more than filled the small gap left by a drop in google search traffic. It still would have been nice to at least have had some rank though.

Well finally after about 3 months google decided I was once again worthy of PR! I have more content than ever, more incoming links, higher traffic, pretty much all my numbers are up from when I was awarded the PR4. So what do you think google in all of its monopolistic generosity bestowed upon this humble little blog? A very impressive PR1. I'm not complaining, mind you, simply commentating on the latest developements here at PPB. Before I go here is one more big one to google.

Oh and remember if you want to be in google's good PR graces don't include words like PayPerPost, sponsored links, paid links, TextLinkAds, text link ads, paid posting, PayPerPost, paid links, paid ads, paid text links, PayPerPost, TLA, paid text ads, PayPerPost or any other phrases like PayPerPost, paid posting, paid links, paid text link ads, sponsored text link ads, site sponsors and the like. Also as an added benefit to all of your readers and fellow bloggers make sure you follow google's example and nofollow all outgoing links. Oh wait that only applies to bloggers.....

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Do You Do Offline Advertising For Your Blog?

I know quite a few bloggers that think offline advertising is not necessary or simply a waste of money. I beg to differ. I have found that if done in the right way offline advertising can be a very effective tool to drive traffic to your blog. Quite a while back I had some business cards made up for this website and carry several with me at all times. That way if someone asks what I do I can hand them a card and tell them I make a lot of money online with affiliate marketing and blogging. Many times there curiosity is raised and they want to know a bit more. I always will tell them to check out the site, browse and read through some of the articles and then contact me through the site or at the email address on the card. I have gotten several great referrals (one makes me quite a bit each month) for some of my affiliate programs this way.

I also do some direct mail for a few of my affiliate offers and also for my real-estate flipping business. These are usually targeted mailings to specific screened individuals. I have found this to be an effective tool for certain affiliate programs and a great way to build up a contact list for other offers. I talk to a lot of people, that is just my personality, and I will get a surprising number of contacts each month from just this method alone. I usually try and mail each new contact at least one offer in the first 30 days. I do all of this online from printing out address labels to managing contact lists. I have found that you can usually get better deals online for things like address labels, business cards, and direct mailers. I can go to the office store and pay big bucks for a pack of labels and spend my time and more money on my ink to print them or I can just jump online and get some cheap address labels and save a bundle. I don't get near the returns on these types of affiliate direct mail campaigns so I don't want to be shelling out a ton of money on the mailer, the labels, the postage, etc.. I want these to be as inexpensive as possible to maximize my returns.

For a blogger or an affiliate marketer it is smart to utilize all means available to build your prospect list and to drive traffic to your blog and offer pages. Offline advertising if done right can be a great addition to your traffic building and affiliate sales portfolio.

Do you do offline advertising for your blog or affiliate campaigns? Have you ever made up business cards with your blog name and URL to hand out to people? If so what are some of your experiences?

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Simple Ideas To Generate Blog Traffic

Driving Traffic to your website is most likely all that is on your mind. You have a GREAT product, or all you need to do is send traffic to your affiliate page and BAM their ingenious marketing will turn your traffic into a sale.

Simple? Not Quite.

The Pay-Per-Click method of advertising can cost you a ridiculous amount of money. If you don't do your research on keywords, you're a goner. However, if done right PPC can be the most efficient way to drive traffic to your site.

For those of you who want to put more time into your online business, the BEST way to drive traffic to your site is exactly this. Write ARTICLES in your area of expertise. Submit them to both print and online media that would be interested in your article. For example, an expert internet marketer, would submit his/her articles to the numerous forums or article websites out there. The most important part is NOT to self advertise in your article. Information is key. However ,you should always include your Web site, along with your name and company name at the end of the article. That way prospects are directed to your Web site for more information.

If you have your own personal website, make sure to update your content DAILY, and make sure you have it looked at by a professional in your field. You don't want to be wasting your time trying to get traffic when your site is hurtful to the eye :P

If your promoting an affiliate website, do your best to partner up with the one(s) that have the highest conversion rates.

Research, Research, Research!

Web site publicity is critical for your business, and the time and effort involved will lead to increased traffic to your site. Your efforts may not be visible at first, but believe me, if you learn the right tools and stick with a few things, it WILL PAY OFF.

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2007 Blog In Review

Well another year is in the can and new one is already flying by. Can you believe it is January 2nd already. It seems like the year just started yesterday. I just wanted give you all a year ending review of this blog.

Most Popular Articles

The 12 Links Of Christmas
These articles were pretty much just full of links but the title, and the links, obviously caught people's attention. These were a great year end traffic building and link building series. Day 1 was actually my biggest article of the year with over 1000 visits in just a few short days.

What The F Does The C Stand 4
My first and most successful contest.

The Stripping Aristologist
My second contest and I think the reference to stripping and a big word most people probably didn't know helped this one along.

Boca Java, Rush Limbaugh, And Affiliate Marketing
This is still the article that gets the most search traffic. It is also one of my highest converting affiliate offers for the site.

Hits4Pay Program Review
This has been a great Pay-to-read program for me. This article gets high search traffic and I get good conversions on people signing up. It has been a very successful non-traditional affiliate program as I get paid from them every month.

Feed Failure In 5 Easy Steps
I wrote a bunch of facetious articles around this time.

Your So Vain - Top 10 Reasons John Chow Probably Thinks This Blog Is About Him
My most popular early article. It still brings in some good search numbers.

Profitable Productive Blogging Traffic Numbers

Here is a screenshot of my visitor for the last 30 days. The chart is from Feedburner with Google Analytics overlayed on top. You can see that toward the end of the month there is a divergence between the two. That is the time when I installed the "New" google analytics code. I am thinking of switching back as it doesn't seem to be reporting accurately.

As with all sites my traffic fluctuates quite a bit but has really picked up in November and December. For those two months I am averaging roughly 6500 visits with about 10000 pageviews. For the year from March when I started I have had, according to google, 38,157 visits with 56,336 pageviews. You can see that quite a bit of both is from the last 2 months.

Profitable Productive Blogging Revenue

I don't do really like the practice of reporting revenue numbers though I might change my mind at some point. I do set goals for myself though. I am happy to report that this blog met and surpassed my income goals I had set. My biggest earners for the site were affiliate links, paid posting, ad sales, and contextual ads in that order. Contextual ads has been coming on strong though with the addition of Kontera toward the end of the year. Also I started with NeverBlueAds at the end of the year as well. They offer better payouts, and great customer service, on some of the campaigns I was running through Commission Junction.

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Pay It Forward - Blogging Style!

A few days before Christmas I was stumbling around the blogosphere and happened on a blog called Binary Blonde and an article she had written Pay It Forward. I was inspired by the article and commented about it not expecting to be in the "3." I thought it was a great idea and originally was going to post about it at Christmas. I then decided to wait until New Year's Day and start the year off right by spreading some goodwill. Well as it turns out I was in the 3 and have been the recipient of Binary Blonde's Pay It Forward kindness, and so I want to say a heartfelt thanks to her for the article she wrote and for whatever I may be receiving in the coming days. Here is how this concept works.

The first three (3) lucky people to comment on this post will receive a gift from me in the mail. The only thing you have to do in return is post the same concept on your blog and send three (3) people (best if they're[sic] strangers) a gift from you. As far as I know, there aren’t any rules as to when you write your post and how much you spend on the gift. Some people are sending homemade items, and some are purchasing theirs. It doesn’t really matter what you send. Though, as a rule of thumb, I would send something you might like to receive yourself.
Binary Blonde

The only thing I would add is that you in your post you include a link back to the blog you got the idea from as a further token of goodwill. As she did, I promise to those 3 people that comment that I will research your blog and choose something that I feel would be appropriate for you. I won't be doing anything homemade, I'm not crafty in any way, so I will be choosing something from either an off or online store.

One last thing, If I know you in real life, you aren’t eligible for a gift if you comment. Though I think this is a great concept and think you should post about it anyway.

So who is in?

Well I sincerely wish you all a Blessed, Prosperous, and Happy New Year!

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Earthfrisk - A "for real" Great Alternative To Google Search

I know a lot of people that use just google or just yahoo when doing a search. This can limit your results as each engine tends to rank sites differently and therefore your results can vary greatly from one to the other. I know for me, since the google PR drop due to sponsored links, that now my pages rank much higher in yahoo than they used to and lower in google. No one search engine has a monopoly on the "best" results.

EarthFrisk.Org is the worlds first hybrid meta-community search engine. I have to be honest I am just a bit leery on their social ranking procedure, but it has worked well for Digg and others who allow users to "digg" or "bury" sites and combining this with hybrid results of the top search engines will bring a nice balance to the results. I noticed right away that already the searches I did seem to have superior results by combining the very best of Ask, Google, Yahoo and MSN's Live! I did a search on google, yahoo, and ask and visited the top 5 results on each to do a subjective personal judge on relevance. I then search for the same term on EarthFrisk and found that the top 5 were a combination of google and yahoo and 3 spammy sites were not shown. The way Earthfrisk works helps weed out the spam sites.

Another really cool feature beneficial to all of us bloggers is that they also interface with Digg, the undisputed king of social news sites, as well as StumbleUpon, Wikipedia and more. With Earthfrisk results you can really see what others think of sites, services and people with their own comments! Join The community powered search results and make rankings and search engine results a truly people-oriented function no longer dominated by any one company.

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The 12 Links Of Christmas - Christmas Day Spectacular!!

Well Merry Christmas To You All!!!!

I just wanted to give a bit more link love for Christmas and decided today to repost all 12 days of The 12 Links Of Christmas. God bless you all, your families, and your friends on this day. Thank you to all of my readers for making this blog what it is.

The 12 Links Of Christmas

Cman of Profitable Productive Blogging is giving the gift of links this Christmas and decided to make it fun and share the spirit of giving with others. Here is what to do:

Each day from today Friday, December 14 until Tuesday, December 25, link to 12 blogs.
Each day will be twelve different blogs for a total of 144 different links.
What I would hope people would do is to pass along the gift links in the spirit of Christmas giving.
If someone links to you during the 12 Links Of Christmas then do your best to return the favor back to them along with 11 other blogs.
It doesn't matter when you get linked to just start the 12 Links Of Christmas whenever and continue until Christmas. If you don't want to do a post each day just do one 12 Links Of Christmas post linking back to the blog that linked to you and 11 others and be done.
The point is to give and share some linkage this Christmas Season.

Feel free to copy and past the above list for your own post if you would like.

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