08.13.08
Posted in $1 Journey at 12:30 am by Rusty Jordan
There are many ways of getting traffic to your site but one of the ways I have recently learned that is the most valuable is Search Engine Traffic. This type of traffic is “free” and slow but it has provided the best of me. One both my blogs, when people search keywords that are in my blog articles they get picked up and a lot of the time gets put on the first or second page of Google. As time goes though they start going down in rank. Anyway I have found that this is giving me the best results over all my traffic, from all sorts of efforts.
So moral of the story, write good articles, add tags, and ping google, yahoo, and whatever else you think will like your site.
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08.01.08
Posted in $1 Journey at 4:41 pm by Rusty Jordan
Ok lately I have generated $35 through my passive advertising with revolutionary money exchange (more can be read on this in the Profitable Activities to the right). Through my advertising page for this I have also generated a few leads.
Also through Commission Junction I have generated $15.60, in commission from offering great deals on my freebie blog. And finally 62 cents from Adbrite ads running on my blog.
Over the past few weeks I have been working on building up 2 blogs, one is a personal blog which has a steady daily reader base of 15 and growing. The second is my freebie items blog which typically only has 4 to 5 people come in a day, but it is bringing in people from search engines. I am working on building these blogs for paid to post ad networks, which typically takes 30 days of blogging to join one.
To get the search engine traffic I submitted my blogs to the search engines and then used pingo o matic to let other directories know when I have updated them.
I just thought I would give a basic overview since it seems that I have lost a few of my recent posts here.
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07.24.08
Posted in $1 Journey at 6:37 pm by Rusty Jordan
Ok I have not really been marketing my blogs lately due to other issues but I did check my back office and noticed that I was pulling in visitors from search engines and was in the top 10 for most of the searches on my freebie blog. I really have not spent very much time at all on my freebie blog and it has pulled in $0.52 cents so far. :o) Not much but it is growing. Plus in 2 more weeks I will be able to join a paid to post network who will pay nice money for me to post. This is what I am looking for to start bringing in some money that I can then use for later efforts.
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07.18.08
Posted in $1 Journey at 8:51 pm by Rusty Jordan
So the past few days I have really not been doing a whole lot of marketing of my sites. I originally was using autopinger.com to get the word out but the site has now been down for a few days so I am using pingomatic.com until I can find a better one.
Over the past week I have learned that my personal blog is bringing in more traffic than my freebie blog. But my freebie blog is getting ranked pretty high in the search engines on a few topics right off which is bringing me quality traffic already. Just some more good posts in it and I will be bringing in a lot more search engine traffic.
To really build my traffic up I need to post comments on other peoples blogs (spread my links in the signature) as well as a few more places. As time goes by they will be getting more and more traffic. But I have learned that traffic from my personal blog does flow over to my freebie as well. This weekend when I have time I will be reading up on getting some free blog traffic to help grow my sites.
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Posted in $1 Journey at 12:33 am by Rusty Jordan
I just want to make it known that my blog: thefreebie.blogspot.com has successfully made it to the top ten for one of the free items I promoted. Moral of the story is write good articles and ping and you can move up fast. Granted it is not a highly searched item but still it is bringing in traffic from Google. Now just think if I was selling something on the blog through an affiliate program.
Just thought I would brag a little.
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07.16.08
Posted in $1 Journey at 4:17 am by Rusty Jordan
I am running 2 different blogs for this project right now and I have learned that the blog about me is actually getting a lot more traffic than the freebie blog. Though the freebie blog is getting residual traffic from the one about me, it is not getting the traffic like the other.
My goal is not so much making money off of ads but more likely us my blogs to do sponsored posts. Just by picking through a few of the Paid Per Posts programs there are some people making over a $1000 so far this month, that means they will be hitting $2000 by the end. Just think if you run multiple blogs you could make a lot more. My goal though is to just make $300 a month through these programs and then use that income to build a residual income through other affiliate programs. We will see how it goes.
Looking for content for your blog? With blogger they have a feature called BlogThis! It allows you to instantly blog about a site without having to log in. It is a great tool so that you can quickly add a lot of content without having to keep on going back and forth. Add as you go.
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07.14.08
Posted in $1 Journey at 2:17 am by Rusty Jordan
Today I have started my second blog, Mr. House Spouse. This blog is basically a record of my life raising my children from home. I am still thinking about what I want the third one if I do a third one to be about. I currently already have five blogs that I write and really do not want the extra weight on my shoulders so I may just stick with two for now.
This blog is a simple blog that I can spend just 15 to 30 minutes a day updating. It may not be the top notch blog but it is one that is simple to day for anyone. Every one of us have something unique in our lives just find it and write about it. It is like a reality TV show but written instead. If you cannot come up with something then write a story about a fictional character. I know Sci-Fi blogs are pretty interesting (Capt. Log Star Date….. :o).
I have also spent some time today quickly glancing over some blog e-books and sites to get tips and ideas of how to go about profiting from these blogs easily and I hope to share this with you in the near future.
Current Events:
1. Created two blogs using www.blogger.com.
2. Added Tracking Code to the HTML to track my visitors - IceRocket.
3. Found Content for my Freebie Blog and scheduled a months worth of work.
4. Added Ads from Bidvertiser and AdBrite to the blog.
5. Submitted to Autopinger.com after each post to get the word out to sites.
6. Preparing Blogs for Paid Per Posts Programs in 30 days from now.
7. Did some Marketing Research for getting the word out.
8. Made $0.01 from my first 3 visitors this morning. :o)
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07.12.08
Posted in $1 Journey at 9:19 pm by Rusty Jordan
One of the most important things is to know how your site or blog is doing. To do this you need to track your visitors and where they come from. With a typical website you have tracking features but with Blogger you do not. So I am using IceRocket - a Blogger Directory and tracking system. First it helps get my blog out in the public and secondly it lets me know if people are actually reading my blog and where they are coming from. This is very helpful in learning how to go about your advertising. To sign up for the blog tracking you can go here: http://tracker.icerocket.com/
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Posted in $1 Journey at 8:53 pm by Rusty Jordan
It is kindof funny that I am monetizing my 3 blogs with ads but not this one. :o) Oh well this one is documentation purposes and if I did put text ads it could look like my numbers are being mixed with this.
Anyway, today I have found 2 ad networks that I will be going with. I have had good results with them in the past so I will be adding them to these blogs plus they have a low payout rate unlike Google Adsense’s $100 min payout rate. The first is AdBrite, for their inline and full page ads. They only have a $5 min payout rate, great for the little guys. This will find keywords and put an ad bubble on them when scrolled over and the full page ad will appear when someone decides to view more pages on my site.
The second is Bidvertiser for the Text box ads. AdBrite provides these as well but the bids for them are typically a lot lower than Bidvertiser. Plus they offer a blog feeder ad tool allowing you to get ads in your RSS (Atom) feed. Bidvertiser also has a low payout rate of $10. I put a two ad box at the top above my posts and a sidebar on the right menu bar.
My next job will be to start marketing my blogs and finding a couple good affiliate programs to add.
Take a look at my blog thefreebie.blogspot.com to see how it is layed out. The AdBrite ads may take up to 24 hours before they will show up.
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Posted in $1 Journey at 5:28 am by Rusty Jordan
Alrighty here it is, here is the new $1 Plan to start generating some income to get things going. I am shooting for at least $300 by the end of the second month. Instead of directly promoting an affiliate program I will be starting 2 to 3 blogs. I will be using www.blogger.com to host them.
I plan to start earning an income using related affiliate programs, a contextual ad network, a regular ad network, and a Paid Per Post type program. I do not expect to make much off of the ad networks starting off nor much through the affiliate program but I thought it would be best to not waste the extra space.
My goal to start with is to spend the first month building a reader base and posting quality content. During this month I also hope to make just a little bit through the affiliate and ad networks but not expecting too much. The second month my focus will be on making at least $100 on each blog through Paid Per Post programs.
I will be reviewing some free info I have obtained on blogging and post what I think is useful. I will also post my marketing methods of getting the word out about my blogs.
Two days ago I decided to put some of the ideas to a test and created my first of three blogs: The Freebie Blog. Everyday or two I will post a quality freebie (not samples or junk like so many freebie sites do), an item that truly has value. My goal is to post a minimum of 15 free offers a month. This will help me qualify for Paid Per Post (PPP) programs after 30 days of blogging. Now I spent just two hours doing some research for this site and have already came up with 19 quality freebies (had to dig a ton though for them :o). With blogger I am able to schedule when I want my post to go up so tonight I will be adding the rest of the post for a month full of posts. Now how great is that. In less than 4 hours I have done my research and my blogging for a whole month.
Now I just got to find a good ad network and affiliate programs to add to the site so I can make some money before I going the PPPs
My next blog I will be writing will be over my life and my third will be over something I am interested in like new technology and science. I will keep track of how each blog does.
And finally the last think I will need to do is figure out how to get the word out about my blogs so that people will come and read them. I have some ideas and will be going over some free resources and post later on.
My ultimate goal is to only spend 1 hour a day on finding content, writing, and advertising all 3 blogs. 3 blogs, 30 hours total, $300 dollars. Not too bad for starters.
Once I start generating some cash I will reinvest it to grow my income and take some of it to start building a residual income so I can eventually stop blogging and have a recurring income coming in month after month.
So a short overview of my plan:
1. Build 3 blogs, one of freebies, one on my life, and one on science and technology.
2. Find content
3. Write a min of 15 posts a month on each
4. Place contextual and traditional ads and affiliate programs
5. Use Paid Per Post Programs
6. Schedule Posts for later times to conserve time.
7. Figure out how to effectively advertise my blogs for more readers.
8. Spend only 1 hour a day.
9. Generate a minimum of $300 for the second month. ($10/hour)
10. Have Fun and Get Paid for it.
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