Profitable Productive Blogging

I always hear people that aren’t successful saying about those that are, “they are just lucky.” Successful people aren’t just “lucky.” They were prepared and in the right mindset when opportunity presented itself. By associating with and befriending successful people you can learn how to be prepared when your opportunity comes. I have found this relationship to be very true. Not just in the online world but offline as well. Find people that are more successful than you and befriend them. Find out what they do, how they do it, and why they do it. Success rubs off. Knowledge and experience can be gleaned from those you associate with and in doing so many mistakes can be avoided. Milton Berle said that, "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Learning, seeking, taking risks, these are all about creating opportunity and getting yourself prepared. Nate over at Nate Whitehill dot Com recently posted an article on how having the right friends can make all the difference. ...

I have been using Hits4Pay for about a 2 weeks now and have accumulated a bit over 100$. The payout threshold is 25$ so I should be receiving payment in July. Hits4Pay is similar to some of the other paid email programs I participate in like InboxDollars and Sendearnings . Hits4Pay doesn't have all of the cash offers, games, and surveys like the others though. Right now the plan is to use the bulk of my earnings from Hits4Pay as additional funds for my advertising budget. If you click on my Featured Sites button in my navigation menu above you will see some other programs that I use for the same purpose. They are offering $10 free to those that sign up and I have been receiving about 15 paid emails a day from Hits4Pay paying $.02 per email. You can see that without any referrals it would take just under 2 months to reach the threshold for payment. This isn't bad considering you don't have to sign up for any offers, take any surveys, and viewing the emails is very easil...

After seeing many sites with the PayPerPost banners and sponsored posts I decided to check it out and see for myself what all the fuss was about. I joined several weeks ago and have completed several offers, of which this is one, and have found it to be a very good program and an easy way to earn extra income from your blog. One of my keys to profitable productive blogging is to develop multiple income streams and PayPerPost is one such "stream" that is very profitable and doesn't take a ton of time so that you can maintain a high level of productivity. For advertisers PayPerPost is a way for them to tap in to a community of over 28,000 bloggers and reach millions of readers every month. With PayPerPost's blog rating and "postie" ratings an advertiser can target their advertisement to certain criteria and level of blog. When an advertiser posts an opportunity the "posties" from PayPerPost will review, promote and market products, services and w...

Okay I was asked this question and figured that I would post the answer here as I have noticed this same questions other places as well. Changing the time and date of a post is very beneficial in blog organization. By backdating certain posts so that they don't go to your main page in conjunction with the post's "permalink" is a great way to add content to your site like thank you posts for subscriptions, donations, etc. or to create traffic funnels or a series of articles without having all of them clutter the main page. It is also a great way to give new life to an old post. I know there have been times when I have gone back over my posts and realized that I had learned a lot since the original post and it needed updating. After updating the post edit the time and date to be current and it will reappear on your main page. I have seen this really make a difference in traffic to an article. Well enough with the introduction Step 1 Go to your Posting Tab and either Cre...

Well Agloco is finally live and after a few glitches at the start seems to working well. Read a description of what Agloco is and my inital impression and review of Agloco here . Considering they just went live on June 8th I think things are going smoothly. I have been using my viewbar and have hit my max hours for the month. I have noticed that my referals are not surfing quite as much as I am so far. They have initiated the auto-upgrades for the viewbar and it seems to be going well. My viewbar is updated and showing ads and is working great. The upgraded bar integrates well with both Firefox and the new IE. I haven't noticed any slowdown in surfing due to the bar which is nice. I do wish that the ads were a little more relevant to my interests or my surfing habits. Here is what is what Brian Greenwald from Agloco is saying they are working on to improve Agloco and our earnings. The next phase for AGLOCO is the maximizing of Viewbar revenue. This is an important goal, as we ha...

A really good friend of mine Ted Kosmatka is a science fiction author. He has been very successful the last year and is really building momentum in the writing industry. He has had several short stories published in Asimov's Science Fiction and has another one coming out in the September issue coming out around the end of July or first of August. He also has 2 other stories that have been picked up for publication and will be available in the coming months. I decided to do a little experiment to help him build more traffic coming up to the release of his story, The Prophet of Flores , in the upcoming Asimov's . I have added his tag to my ViralTags matrix as the first step. I also would like for many of you to add a link to his site using this link Ted Kosmatka . If anyone deserves to make a living doing what they love Ted does. Let us all get together and give him a bit of a boost in his drive to turn his passion for writing into a lifelong career. I know if you visit his s...

Well the buzz keeps building on LinkBidr. Not real sure yet exactly what it is or how it will work. Let me know what your ideas are about it. I came across this LinkBidr site and it seems pretty interesting. I went ahead and signed up since they are giving 10$ for free, on the launch day of 06/25/07, to the first 100 people that sign up. The last time I checked only 29 spots were left. Here is their description of what they are. Linkbidr allows you to promote anything on the web at theprice you set - never pay for impressions or clicks again. This seems like it could be a nice alternative to keyword advertising. Well I guess we will all find out on 06/25/07. I doubt it lives up to the hype though; seems like things never do. What are your thoughts on what this is and how it is going to work? Leave a comment. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Do you like the site? Get more insider information by subscribing to my newsletter! or clicking the links below to sub...

After a lot of consideration and conversations with some other bloggers I decided to give viraltags one more go. The first round of viraltags was somewhat successful as my Technorati ranking increased quite a bit, as did my alexa ranking. I found that one of the major benefits to me from all of this has been the discovery of many new and interesting blogs I would have never found. Thanks to all of you who participated in the first matrix and to all of you who will in this one. After this matrix is full that's it. GET IN WHILE YOU CAN! ==== Copy and Paste below this line ==== Instructions: Important Update - Please read here ! 1.) Copy and paste (for those of you using blogger post in the compose tab, not the edit html tab, of your post editor) the matrix of “ViralTags” below. 2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “Viral Tags” in the matrix with your anchor text of choice with your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable...

UPDATE: Okay here is the New Post on how to Update your Site's Thumbnail Image in Technorati UPDATE: Technorati is changing the way the thumbnail images on the site are done. They will no longer be using the Alexa images. This method with still obviously work to change your Alexa thumbnail though. Stay tuned for an updated post with the new Technorati thumbnail information. After browsing around technorati and visiting many sites, I noticed that quite a few were drastically different from the thumbnail image shown at technorati. I knew that my thumbnail was outdated and it bothered me a bit every time I saw it. So I decided to figure out why this was occuring and how to change it. Now this may seem like a small detail to you, but I do feel it can make an impact on traffic. If this was a problem for you and my fix below helps you out let me know. Well here is what I found. I have been trying to boost my Alexa ranking and so have been visiting Alexa on a regular basis lately. I notic...

For those of you who have sites with lots of images I would recommend adding Enhanced image search to your site. You will need to go over to Google Webmaster Tools and if you haven't already register and then add your sites. Once you have your site(s) added click on the link to the right that says verify. Do this for each site you add. Once your site is verfied click on the link that says Manage http://www.yoursiteurl.com. This will bring up the summary page for the url selected. Click on the Diagnostic tab. This will bring up your diagnostic tools. At the bottom of the left menu you will see a link for Enhanced Image Search. Follow this link to bring up your Enhanced Image Search options. Select that you would like ot enable enhanced image search and click ok. There you go now your site is set for Enhanced Image Search. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Do you like the site? Get more insider information by subscribing to my newsletter!

==== Copy and Paste below this line ==== Instructions: Important Update - Please read here ! 1.) Copy and paste (for those of you using blogger post in the compose tab, not the edit html tab, of your post editor) the matrix of “ViralTags” below courtesy of Founders Cafe ( to support Jimmy’s quest of launching his own Internet Startup with a shoestring budget, please consider subscribing to his Full RSS Feed to see his triumphs and struggles in real time ). 2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “Viral Tags” in the matrix with your anchor text of choice with your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable. 3.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their “Viral Tags”, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Tag’s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your “Viral Tags” below. 4.) Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this ...

... reviews make great blog posts. We mustn't forget though, that for bloggers, reviews aren't only a novel answer to the perpetual conundrum of “what shall I write about today?” but also a cool way to attract readers. Lots of people want to know if the new U2 record (for example) is any good, so why not write to cater for an audience that’s already there? read more | digg story

I stumbled upon Jay's blog Online Opportunity, which is a blog about make money online , quite a while back and it was an instant favorite of mine. Since I am always looking for opportunities to make money online this site has been very helpful. I noticed several weeks ago that he was running a 100$ contest for the best review, see the post and rules here , and was planning on writing this review several days ago. I have been extremely busy and just hadn't got to it yet. Today I was over at a B Money Savvy , a site ran by a friend of mine(i figured a plug for you was in order Lori) and noticed she had beat me to it and written a review of Jay's site. Well that combined with the looming deadline prompted me to finally give you, my readers, the review and take advantage of Jay's contest offer. Thanks Jay and here is your review! Jay, like many of us, has noticed the fact that many online opportunities require a certain amount of money up front for it and then more ofte...

I have been using AdBrite for quite some time now and really like their program. They offer inline ads, contextual ads, and active interstitials. AdBrite has been a very successful program for me both as a publisher and as an advertiser. Now AdBrite has begun something that, to my knowledge, is unprecedented in the contextual ad marketplace. They are offering to beat your earnings with other ad publishers or if they can't they will run the other ads for you. I have tried this out and have been very happy. I can place one ad block and know that the ads running in it are earning my the maximum amount possible. You can run ads from your current ad networks within your AdBrite code, and they will always show the ads that earn you the most money. In other words, when they can earn you the most, they will show our ads. When they can't, they will rotate your other ads back in. You can't lose. I have tried this with Bidvertiser and yahoo so far with good success. If you haven't...

1. CONTENT is king. Regularly update the site with posts, links to relevant content, and rss feeds relating to the niche. This will give people a reason to return and help create a sustainable traffic level. 2. Visit other blogs related to yours and post comments with links back to your site. Contact the author and let them know you are linking to their site and ask for them to return the favor. Do this early and often as this will help drive traffic to your site and up your standing in the search engines. Post meaningful comments don't SPAM. 3. After a while static advertisements become "invisible" to regular readers so diversify not only your sites but your advertising. Obviously use adsense but also try BidVertiser. and ElementAds they are really good programs with lower minimum payouts(10$) and they both use paypal. Another one to try would be AdBrite . I also recommend Obeus.com - The Democratic Ads System . With Obeus.com you will need to register with E-Gold a...

EBay Inc. has pulled all of its advertising from Google Inc.'s U.S. network in what is widely seen as punishment for trying to crash eBay's user conference in Boston this week. The move exposes the widening rift between eBay and Google, as they increasingly compete on new products, making a public showdown inevitable, according to analysts. read more | digg story

Update: Check out my latest post on using affiliate marketing and product "buzz" to make money online Boca Java, Rush Limbaugh And Affiliate Marketing . This is a bit off topic but I thought I would share it anyway. I heard an advertisement for Boca Java on the Rush Limbaugh show and, since I love coffee , thought I would give it a try. I ordered their sampler and was very happy. The coffee is probably some of the best coffee I have had. The Surfing Safari flavor was just phenomenal. If your dad loves coffee then check out Boca Java as a unique father's day gift. Or if you love coffee check them out for yourself. You will not be disappointed. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Yours Truly C “has to stand for Chow” Man Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my newsletter! or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites.

If you are looking to get some " FREE " money for advertising, these three sites are for you. You can quickly earn a decent amount to help pad the advertising budget and get your product, affiliate program, or website out there in front of people. These sites are my little secrets that earn a lot of my advertising budget. Site One! Site Two! Site Three! Site Four! Site Five!

Okay here is the question what do Rush Limbaugh , Boca Java , affiliate marketing, and this blog have in common? On the surface nothing but let's examine it a bit more closely. Rush Limbaugh Regardless of whether you agree with his politics you have to admit products he endorses or advertises on his show are wildly successful. Scale? Think Oprah's Book Club and book sales. Probably his impact is bigger. I would have to say that Rush pretty much single handedly put Snapple on the national scene. Boca Java One of the latest products to be endorsed and advertise on the Rush Limbaugh show and my favorite coffee. The coffee is roasted to order and arrives as fresh as coffee can be. The aroma when you open the box is wonderful, and when you grind those beans and brew your fist cup you will see why I love it so much and why Boca Java is also Rush Limbaugh's favorite coffee. Affiliate Marketing With Boca Java Boca Java in conjunction with it's Rush advertising campaig...

I recently joined AGLOCO because of a friend recommended it to me. I am now promoting it to you because I like the idea and I want you to share in what I think will be an exciting new Internet concept. AGLOCO’s story is simple: Do you realize how valuable you are? Advertisers, search providers and online retailers are paying billions to reach you while you surf. How much of that money are you making? NONE! AGLOCO thinks you deserve a piece of the action. AGLOCO collects money from those companies on behalf of its members. (For example, Google currently pays AOL 10 cents for every Google search by an AOL user. And Google still has enough profit to pay $1.6 billion dollars for YouTube, an 18-month old site full of content that YouTube’s users did not get paid for! AGLOCO will work to get its Members their share of this and more. AGLOCO is building a new form of online community that they call an Economic Network. They are not only paying Members their fair share, but they’re building a c...

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I have many times been asked about changing the background of the main page to an image, and also about how to make the content columns transparent so that the background will show through. So here is your answer. You can also use this technique to change the background of just one content column if you prefer. Just follow step two for the content column(sidebar left/right etc)you are wanting to add the background to instead of the main wrapper. PART 1 - Changing background for whole page find this code, or similar, in your template body { background: $bgColor; margin: 0; padding: 0px; font: x-small Verdana, Arial; text-align: center; color: $textColor; font-size/* */:/**/small; font-size: /**/small; } and replace the $bgColor; with url("http://www."url_of_your_image".com); PART 2 - Changing background of specific content column If you are only wanting to change the background of your main column find this code in your template #main-wrapper { width: 484px; margin: 15p...