Archive for September, 2009
Blogging to the Bank 3.0 review
One of my major problems in trying to make money is taking action. I get overloaded with information. I get excited about the possibilities of making good money. Then I sit and do nothing. Fail.
Well today I was texting back and forth with my friend who just stepped into the world of blogging for the first time. She had set up a blog about her journey losing weight on Blogger. I was trying to explain to her how she would make money with Adsense but unfortunately, she wasn’t quite getting it.
I also texted her about a middle aged woman who created CooksRecipe.com. This woman makes between $10k-$40k off that one site. Fricken amazing! I’d be stoked making $1k a month LOL. I took a look at that site and it wasn’t a mind blowing website. It wasn’t ugly. It had pictures of meals and links to the categories. I checked out a few recipe pages and it only had the recipe, a few banners and good ole Adsense.
So it renewed my interest in the handful of sites that I have. The landscaping one has to wait until my husband gets his license. It’s pretty much going to be a portfolio with contact info. No adsense. The personalization is sort of on the back burner until I can get my lazy ass into gear and draw artwork that will be suitable for sale. The adult site isn’t acceptable to Adsense due to its adult content. The bay area site is also on the back burner until I’m ready to tackle a monstrous content site.
So that left me with my personal blog, this site, my mafia wars site, the unschooling site and that’s about it.
I opened up Blogging to the Bank 3.0 which is the latest ebook by Rob Benwell.
After the intro, he quickly talks about the 3 biggest changes in big money blogging. Funny to say, he only stated 2 out of 3. Oooops. Next he talked about the “5 blogging commandents of 2009“.
Next Rob talks about market research. This is usually where my eyes glaze over and I get real bored. Why? Because either I get bored or what they talk about is way over my head… or both. I did appreciate that he dropped a link to a website which allows you to make free keyword searches. You type in a keyword and it will list other keywords and phrases that are relevant.
Step 2 discusses hosting and domains. I pretty much skipped over this step because I’ve had domains and hosting of my own for many years. I also glazed over when Rob explained how to install a blog for the noobs. I already knew how to do that.
But I took that moment to go over to my active blogs and do basic SEO. Yes. Lazy. I know. Thanks for reminding me, Rob.
That’s where step 4 came in: Optimizing the blog. I learned something about permalinks which I implemented in almost all my blogs.
I’m not big on writing all kinds of informative articles. Which is why plr and free article directories are great for that. Unfortunately, 2 of my blogs focus on topics that are rarely if ever seen in the directories. Poop. More work for me.
Step 6 discusses promotion and backlinks. That requires a good amount of work and patience that I rarely have. Then Rob talks about using web 2.0 strategies to get your blog more traffic.
Overall good book.
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Blogs and Adsense
So a friend of mine mentioned that she was thinking of starting a weight loss blog. My assumption is that she is going to blog about her personal experiences from losing weight. I thought that was a great idea. I suggested that she either use WordPress or Blogger because they both offer blogs for free. I’ve actually used both a long time ago and I think they’re great for beginners.
That got me thinking about my own sites. I used to have over 30 domains, most of which catered to the adult industry. I was an adult webmaster that promoted porn for 7+ years. It wasn’t something that I was proud of because I couldn’t show my family what I did for a living and I sure as hell couldn’t work on my projects with my kids in the same room. So now I only have one adult blog that I rarely maintain, but small checks come in once in awhile.
When I dropped all my adult domains, I had my family blog, the unschooling website, this domain which I’ve had forever, and a domain for my husband’s future landscaping business. The latter has yet to be developed.
After a lot of thinking on different occasions, I bought one for my personalization business, another to turn into an events/info/news hub site for the bay area, and domain that will eventually be used as a repository for my toons. My love of toons and drawing them have been reborn once again.
Currently, all domains that I have are using the WordPress platform because it’s free, easy to use, and you can download all kinds of templates and plugins to make it more useful and cool looking. I’ve recently started using Artisteer which is a great software that makes creating new WordPress templates really easy to build. And the best part about the Artisteer software is that you can use it to create templates to sell to the general public. The only stipulation is that you can’t use the images or graphics contained in Artisteer if you plan to sell the templates that you create. You have to use your own. No big deal here.
So most of my sites have Adsense implemented into them with the tips that I read from Adsense experts. Funny, I don’t remember their names. But whatever. My adult blog has no Adsense on it because it would be a direct violation of their TOS. That’s fine. I’m promoting and adult program anyway.
I checked my stats earlier today after I talked to my friend about her blog. I used to make a little over $100 a month from Adsense and the money would get direct deposited into my account. But that was a long time ago. Lots of things had been going on over the past several years that have prevented me from focusing on blogs and adsense. It’s called Life and information overload. Damn those gurus and their constant need to produce more and more products on how to make money. The information overload has gotten me at a dead stand still.
So I checked my stats and it says that I’ve made a little over $60 since my last payment. LOL. I haven’t received a payment from Google in a year or so. I can’t remember. Well I have $40 left to go before I can receive my next payment. If I can make $60 per day from Adsense, that would be progress for me. That would mean an extra $1800 a month to help with bills and groceries. I know hubby would greatly appreciate that. I could think of several bills that could be paid with that money. Maybe that will be my new goal? $60 a day from Adsense. It’s a realistic goal.
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