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Sunday, July 29, 2007
So sleeeeepy
I have had a breakthrough on the matter of usable readable SEO content on my girlie sites. The traditional problem with girlie sites is you give them a bio and that's really all. The simple fact is, nobody came to a site full of half naked girls for words of any kind, you are totally wasting your time with that crap.
So, instead, I intend to put a humorous spin on the articles, similar to some of the goofy crap I did at Helium. Basically just crazy off the wall ''celeb reporting'' almost like Dave Barry on crack or something suitably insane. Whatever, it's sleepy time for me.
So, instead, I intend to put a humorous spin on the articles, similar to some of the goofy crap I did at Helium. Basically just crazy off the wall ''celeb reporting'' almost like Dave Barry on crack or something suitably insane. Whatever, it's sleepy time for me.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Writing articles for pay at GetAFreelancer.com
Writing articles for pay at GetAFreelancer.com. Not getting rich but I hooked up with a full time job that gives me 7500 to 10,000 words per day at .o1 per day. Basically $100 for 10,000 word, provided I get assigned 10,000 words in one day.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
CashCrate ReadersPaid and Treasure Troopers
CashCrate ReadersPaid and Treasure Troopers
While I have a link to CashCrate on my MoneyMan blog, I don't actually use it to make money. The fact is, you click... and click... and click... and get money for it. Can you make money at it? Yes, you can. CashCrate is the only one I have really used enough to have an opinion, but, yes, you really can make money at it. Pretty good money, too.
But it sucks. Hard. I have said time and again, the best way to make money online is to manufacture your own product or service and use the web to sell that product. Products and services such as artwork, jewelry, writing, or whatever talents you might have can easily be sold online if you have a little website promo skills. Only after you have decided you can't do any of that, or can't sell it to a global market, then you have to deal with things like Treasure Troopers. While I have little but derision for such programs, people like Amy Bass, over at MyDebtFreeGoal.com, have done quite well with CashCrate and ReadersPaid, making in excess of $2,000 a month in some cases, with all their efforts combined.
The real problem as I see it, is that using the programs themselves to click through what is, essentially, junk mail, is so aggravating I would rather stab myself for quarters at the local fair. The reason I think CashCrate and Treasure Troopers works so well for Amy is that she has a passle of young'uns and has to keep them occupied or otherwise do mommy stuff. Which is completely alien to me, but suffice to say that I'm pretty sure you have to watch them so they don't break anything, or eat all your food. Or start freebasing. So she is generally just kinda stuck there, I'm guessing.
So, if one were to eschew the graces of CashCrate, ReadersPaid, Treasure Troopers and the like, how then to earn cash on the web? If one has no marketable talents, then there is a problem. My problem, actually, as I am still working towards bringing in a full time income from the web. So far, my strategy breaks down like this.
Little bit of change I get off of the various celebrity and lingerie blogs that I blog about. Nothing much, but I hope to increase the exposure of all the blogs, and the blog about blogs and blogging. Eventually, I hope to squeeze out about $50 a day from all the blogs. That's a good goal and I think I can make that happen without too much trouble. But I also have the chore of replacing a lot of the 'placeholder' content from some of the cheesier blogs. Some posts are just strings of keyphrases, Google baiting, if you will. But, nonetheless, I think I can hit $50 a day within a year or so.
Writing. I love to write. I will write anything about anything. Blogs are great, but blogging won't pay like a real job, so there is the freelance writing resources all over the web. The real problem with article writing and the like is all the research that goes into it. I tend to get caught up in the data and I wind up taking too long on the articles to really earn good money. My real love is fiction and humor. Especially humor. You can expect to see some humorous writing to pop up on some of the celeb and girlie blogs very soon.
Along with paid freelance work there is Helium, Constant Content, Associated Content, and so forth. They all pay a little, but not really all that well. I hope to eventually earn around $100 a day with all the various writing gigs, as I can write fairly quickly, and people seem to think I write okay. Me am good English talker.
Comics. I have a boatload of comics I plan to sell on eBay, or through a comics blog. I haven't even begun, but I will begin scanning and uploading photos to the blog today. Once I have them all blogged I will attempt to sell the entire collection in one shot, at a cutrate price. If I have to, I will sell them one at a time, or in smaller lots, but I really hate doing it that way. Not what you would call fulltime income, but every little bit helps.
Artwork/webcomic blog. This is the area I have really been slacking in. I want to sell commissioned art as well as ad space on the webcomic blog, similar to what JCM has done on his blogs. I have very little finished work so far, but that will change very soon, as I will begin scripting within the next few days. The plot and most of the storyline are complete. I only need to flesh out a few characters and I'm ready for the art. I will most likely run several comics on the one blog, or link them all to one blog, whatever. I really want to do a funny comic strip, and I have some ideas about another, campy blaxploitation action thing. Shhhh! It's still a secret.
And then you have the blank space at the bottom of the page. Yeah, I ran out of ideas, which is where I'm at right now. Some ideas are submissions to offline publications via the web, magazines and newspapers and the like. I have also considered building a website to promote my vinyl siding business, but the fact that I'm regionally based hampers the effectiveness of a website.
And the well has run dry. I will be thinking of new schemes while I scan my comics. I might also superglue the caps lock buton so it won't move. Why do you need that anyway? Who in the world is out there ing the caps lock key?
While I have a link to CashCrate on my MoneyMan blog, I don't actually use it to make money. The fact is, you click... and click... and click... and get money for it. Can you make money at it? Yes, you can. CashCrate is the only one I have really used enough to have an opinion, but, yes, you really can make money at it. Pretty good money, too.
But it sucks. Hard. I have said time and again, the best way to make money online is to manufacture your own product or service and use the web to sell that product. Products and services such as artwork, jewelry, writing, or whatever talents you might have can easily be sold online if you have a little website promo skills. Only after you have decided you can't do any of that, or can't sell it to a global market, then you have to deal with things like Treasure Troopers. While I have little but derision for such programs, people like Amy Bass, over at MyDebtFreeGoal.com, have done quite well with CashCrate and ReadersPaid, making in excess of $2,000 a month in some cases, with all their efforts combined.
The real problem as I see it, is that using the programs themselves to click through what is, essentially, junk mail, is so aggravating I would rather stab myself for quarters at the local fair. The reason I think CashCrate and Treasure Troopers works so well for Amy is that she has a passle of young'uns and has to keep them occupied or otherwise do mommy stuff. Which is completely alien to me, but suffice to say that I'm pretty sure you have to watch them so they don't break anything, or eat all your food. Or start freebasing. So she is generally just kinda stuck there, I'm guessing.
So, if one were to eschew the graces of CashCrate, ReadersPaid, Treasure Troopers and the like, how then to earn cash on the web? If one has no marketable talents, then there is a problem. My problem, actually, as I am still working towards bringing in a full time income from the web. So far, my strategy breaks down like this.
Little bit of change I get off of the various celebrity and lingerie blogs that I blog about. Nothing much, but I hope to increase the exposure of all the blogs, and the blog about blogs and blogging. Eventually, I hope to squeeze out about $50 a day from all the blogs. That's a good goal and I think I can make that happen without too much trouble. But I also have the chore of replacing a lot of the 'placeholder' content from some of the cheesier blogs. Some posts are just strings of keyphrases, Google baiting, if you will. But, nonetheless, I think I can hit $50 a day within a year or so.
Writing. I love to write. I will write anything about anything. Blogs are great, but blogging won't pay like a real job, so there is the freelance writing resources all over the web. The real problem with article writing and the like is all the research that goes into it. I tend to get caught up in the data and I wind up taking too long on the articles to really earn good money. My real love is fiction and humor. Especially humor. You can expect to see some humorous writing to pop up on some of the celeb and girlie blogs very soon.
Along with paid freelance work there is Helium, Constant Content, Associated Content, and so forth. They all pay a little, but not really all that well. I hope to eventually earn around $100 a day with all the various writing gigs, as I can write fairly quickly, and people seem to think I write okay. Me am good English talker.
Comics. I have a boatload of comics I plan to sell on eBay, or through a comics blog. I haven't even begun, but I will begin scanning and uploading photos to the blog today. Once I have them all blogged I will attempt to sell the entire collection in one shot, at a cutrate price. If I have to, I will sell them one at a time, or in smaller lots, but I really hate doing it that way. Not what you would call fulltime income, but every little bit helps.
Artwork/webcomic blog. This is the area I have really been slacking in. I want to sell commissioned art as well as ad space on the webcomic blog, similar to what JCM has done on his blogs. I have very little finished work so far, but that will change very soon, as I will begin scripting within the next few days. The plot and most of the storyline are complete. I only need to flesh out a few characters and I'm ready for the art. I will most likely run several comics on the one blog, or link them all to one blog, whatever. I really want to do a funny comic strip, and I have some ideas about another, campy blaxploitation action thing. Shhhh! It's still a secret.
And then you have the blank space at the bottom of the page. Yeah, I ran out of ideas, which is where I'm at right now. Some ideas are submissions to offline publications via the web, magazines and newspapers and the like. I have also considered building a website to promote my vinyl siding business, but the fact that I'm regionally based hampers the effectiveness of a website.
And the well has run dry. I will be thinking of new schemes while I scan my comics. I might also superglue the caps lock buton so it won't move. Why do you need that anyway? Who in the world is out there ing the caps lock key?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The Nuclear Family Webcomic
I have been going back over some of the first blogs I read when I started blogging. I already knew about blogging, but I didn't realize i could make any money with it. Well, the first blog I read was JCM's RPG art blog. Later on, I found his monetized site, and another blog to keep track of it all. Shortly after that, I found Mike's Money Mission, and I have taken a lot of what he has done and used it in my own efforts. Mike is all about diversification, and it shows. He has several sites, including his Madonna Photos site (I kid you not) and a celebrity site. The neat thing about these two blogs is that they are a step by step blueprint of the ups and downs of trying to make some cash on the web. You can actually read a day by day account of the struggles and mistakes these two experienced, and use it to tailor your own efforts.
What I learned by re-reading some of this stuff, is that I really need to concentrate on my artwork, as that seems to be the big moneymaker for JCM. I can draw pretty good, and I would really like to get some work done on The Nuclear Family Webcomic. The story is written, and if you have the time, you can read most of the plot and some character sheets here. I'm definitely going to put more effort into getting some pages up real soon.
Well, back to the grind.
What I learned by re-reading some of this stuff, is that I really need to concentrate on my artwork, as that seems to be the big moneymaker for JCM. I can draw pretty good, and I would really like to get some work done on The Nuclear Family Webcomic. The story is written, and if you have the time, you can read most of the plot and some character sheets here. I'm definitely going to put more effort into getting some pages up real soon.
Well, back to the grind.
Keep on truckin
Spent a lot of time getting the new celeb site up and running. It's all SEO, very little content, but the readers of that type of site don't really care. They just look at the pictures. I'm working on cleaning all the blogs up and giving them a uniform look, with for a few exceptions, like The Nuclear Family Webcomic, which stays with the scratchy rice paper look.
Still drawing a blank on how to produce readable SEO content for all the girlie sites. Hard to report news on amateur live girls, or girls kissing girls, and I hate posting a mile of keywords, it looks really cheesy to me.
Speaking of SEO, I need to put a little TLC into all the blogs and get them all up to snuff. Some of them are just bones still and I know it's costing me in SE traffic. Back to the party.
Still drawing a blank on how to produce readable SEO content for all the girlie sites. Hard to report news on amateur live girls, or girls kissing girls, and I hate posting a mile of keywords, it looks really cheesy to me.
Speaking of SEO, I need to put a little TLC into all the blogs and get them all up to snuff. Some of them are just bones still and I know it's costing me in SE traffic. Back to the party.
HotSexyAnnaNicolePhotosVideosCelebritySex
HotSexyAnnaNicolePhotosVideosCelebritySex
Another Playboy spinoff. Obviously a popular subject on the web, I feel kind of creepy posting pictures of poor deceased Anna Nicole. But I don't mind cashing the checks.
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