Happy First 5,000 Page Views – Heres to Many More
Happy Holidays to you all. Its been a little more than three months that this blog has been up and running. It looks like today I hit the first 5,000 page view mark. More than half of that has been within the last 3 weeks as I started promoting the blog more. I just wanted to say thank you for those of you who stop by regularly to make this a fun blogging journey for me.
Also want to note for those of you that check on the ongoing Whypark Review I’ve been doing. I will be ending that this month with the final cumulative stats. The reason is that I’ll be using the domain MoneyNe.ws for this blog sometime in the future. Once I figure out the hosting/template design etc. It would be a good time to sign up to Money News by email so you don’t miss any posts when I transition over to wordpress.
Now on to the good stuff! For those of you who use Entrecard stay tuned as I’ll be putting up a contest of sorts for some Entrecard credits in the coming day or so. If you have an idea I should use for a contest entrance besides the usual sign up to my rss or blog about me types leave me a comment. If I use it I’ll give you extra contest entries with a link back to you =).
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Sweet I Earned Money From Squidoo
Remember back in October I wrote about making two pages on Squidoo? Well I just wanted to post an update since I logged in recently just to check how things have been going with those pages.
I had a nice big rush of traffic from Google at the beginning since it was a newly created page, and then the SERP went down slowly no visitors a day after about two weeks or so. That’s the Google engine for you, giving new engines good ranking for a day or so after release. Then sticking it into the infamous sandbox. I don’t blame them though, the site only has nine back links so I’m still surprised that its even getting hits at the moment.
Anyways it looks like Yahoo finally indexed the page recently, and I’m seeing a steady steam of visitors daily from that search engine now for the keyword free 3d mmorpg. The other one I have for Team Fortress due to all the clan sites, and gaming site promotions isn’t fairing well. This stream of people looks like its also pushing the Squidoo rankings back up as well. At its peak in October my Metin 2 site had around a 1400 ranking. This was just from being indexed in Google initially. Until recently I think the site has been sitting in the 25,000th position, but climbing back thanks to Yahoo Search to a currently around 9k. On Google for that term I don’t even show up in the top 50. On Yahoo my site shows up as #4. How you like them Apples now?
Since Squidoo does the payments about a month out I finally get to see what type of money comes in from just having two pages. (well I’m just going to count one since the Team Fortress page doesn’t bring in anything).
A nice sum of [drum roll please]: $2.07
Not bad, for a single page with only 9 backlinks, most of that being my own blog with the rest from my re-syndicated on some splog or rss sites. I think its especially good when the top earning lenses only earn about $10 from Squidoo.(they earn the rest via affiliate advertising) I think I should go back an maybe change a few things on that web page to help it out. And Yes there is an affiliate link on the site for the Metin 2 page I made on Squidoo. Also even if not many people visit the site, I’ve had 363 clicks outgoing clicks logged. Meaning this is a great free site to get pre-sell visitors to your affiliate links. I’ll have to take a look at this site again to make some landing pages for more Clickbank offers I think. Its definitely cheaper than paying for 300 clicks via Adwords.
If you haven’t made a Squidoo lens yet, sign up for one. At the very least to create a nice back link to your website for keywords on Yahoo, that you can’t quite rank well on Google with.
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Lets Pay Scrapers More – Making Money Online Blogs Just Moved to You Tube
We all know that people copy videos, and then upload them to You Tube. Why? So they can put a link to their site for some of the traffic. While they(Google) have tried to keep this down to a minimum, it still occurs on a massive level. The last Mr T commercial for example has 400 of them. When a popular video is released, people download them, and then upload them to You Tube to get some hits. While this is great in making some video advertising viral. It does mean it gets abuse with people ripping off other peoples work. Now the people who upload someone else’s content will get paid even more.
Anyways guess what You Tube just announced a partner program that will let You Tube users get paid for people watching their videos. They haven’t yet released how this was going to happen yet though the TechCrunch article seems to mention adsense ads from the You Tube site. I think they will start making the embedded videos more like the video adsense ads or the Metacafe videos that pop up ads in the actual screen even for embedded ones.
What’s the criteria for joining the program?
You create original videos suitable for online streaming.
You own the copyrights and distribution rights for all audio and video content that you upload — no exceptions.
You regularly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of YouTube users.
You live in the United States or Canada.
Who will this benefit? Video bloggers who already get thousands of hits to their video blogs. Chris Crocker anyone? The people who sneak in camcorders to the movie theaters, especially for hits like the Star Wars trailors.
What is this going to do to the overcrowded making money online blogs? I think we’re going to stop seeing wall of text niche keyword posts, and more video posts like Pam on Shoemoney. Videos while they don’t have a lot of SEO power, will be a lot harder to scrape. Scraper sites that take just the videos, won’t get any keywords from them to get money from adsense either.
What else are we going to see even more now? A major abuse of social networking like Digg, Stumble etc to just get the hit counters up. Don’t we already see this now for sites like Metacafe? Yes we do. Is it going to get a lot worse from here on out if Google doesn’t be careful? Definitely. Now excuse me while I go sign up to this, and buy a camcorder from Amazon.
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World of Warcraft For Russians
Well good news for all the Russians that are currently playing on European or west coast US servers. World of Warcraft is coming to your home town. Blizzard just released a press located here announces the fifth translated version of the game.
Now why is it the the French are involved with this again? First the Van Damme commercial, and now the Russian version press release? Will the Lich King expansion come out for the French first too? What gives Blizzard, I shall fart in your general direction for not even letting putting that info up on the US Wacraft site.
Anyways in other WoW News for the US. The first week of contests winners for Warcraft’s 3 year anniversary was announced here.
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I Won a Contest From Dax Desai
Well I won my first contest ever! I didn’t win first place, but I got third for a prize of 25 Entrecard credits to use for advertising. My thanks goes out to Dax for holding the contest, and letting me get some more credits to place ads on Entrecard. Also it looks like he’s also in the running for the Bloggers Choice Awards under the business blog category. As a thank you please go vote for Dax, and well don’t forget to vote for me too.
For those of you guys who haven’t signed up for Entrecard yet. You should go ahead, and do so now for some nice traffic. Why? Entrecard is holding a contest as well for 2 Free 125 x 125 ad spaces on their blog for a whole month. And all you have to do is write a post about what kind of traffic results you are receiving from them.
What kind of traffic have I received from Entrecard so far? This is a pic from my analytics counter. So far I’ve received 107 visitors from Entrecard over the course of 5 days after joining it. Note this is just traffic from dropping my cards off to various websites. Averaging 30 visitors a day for minimal work is nice free traffic.
The real test will be from when the ads that I purchased start being run to bring in visitors. I’ll update in about two weeks for that since the John Chow ad I bought won’t go into effect for another ten days or so. It will be interesting to see what that brings in. Wish me luck when that happens.
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