Blogging For Money

Making a blog and earning money from it in my spare 15 minutes a day.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
As the holiday shopping season nears, this is when many sites who are all about physical items like digital cameras, computers, clothing, books, and so on make a lot of their money. I think I read that 80% of the money spent online this year will be spent in the next month and a half. This is due to commission links, where if someone clicks through your link and buys a toy or something, you get something like 5% of the money spent paid to you.

Places to sign up include Linkshare and Commission Junction. You've probably clicked through one of these links at least once, if not just today while browsing for gifts!

Google Is Brilliant.

Thursday, November 17, 2005
No, I'm not another blind-faith Google worshipper. But, you gotta respect their vision. They give away free blogs and hosting to anyone who wants it (including me). I mean, all these blogs are probably sucking up some serious bandwidth. The key is, no ads! Geocities, Tripod, all those other "free" webhosts make you put up ads on your site. Blogger? No ads.

...enter Google Adsense. Now, you put up their ads for them, because you get a cut! Notice that they don't tell you how much of the actual ad revenue they keep. Brilliant, I tell you. When's the last time you went to a Geocities webpage?

Back on the Wagon

Stopped bloggin' for a while. I gave up and put up some Google Ads on my site. I've gotten about 5 bucks total for the last couple months, which has almost paid for the domain name so that's good!

I actually have a Google PageRank of 4 now, which is exciting. I also notice that this blog has a PageRank of 3 too! This basically means that my links "mean" something to the search engine gods, so if I link to someone with the link "Lindsey Lohan Drunk" then when someone searches for that phrase, it is more likely that it will turn up. Very neat. This will inspire me to start posting again!