tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20624889789531074372012-01-01T19:26:47.659ZEarn Money online|Work from Homesilver rosenoreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-76432069464970140022011-10-22T03:35:00.012+01:002011-10-22T04:16:19.431+01:00

Well, my hubpages traffic is still holding up at higher than pre-Panda, but it looks like some hubbers have sunk to well below where they were before the sub-domain switch.The whole hubpages thing throws a spanner into a lot of accepted wisdom. One myth was that sub-domains needed to be themed on a topic, and if they consisted of a hodge-podge of different topics Google would punish you. Well,

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-77074070590226364402011-08-12T20:21:00.006+01:002011-08-13T00:11:41.497+01:00

About four weeks ago, hubpages announced that they were experimenting with sub-domains, where they were switching individual hubbers to their own sub-domain on hubpages, with rel=author built into their hubs to identify them as a brand. You could switch there and then, or wait for the mandatory switch on August 10th. I switched immediately. The results? Good. My traffic climbed to pre-panda

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-34692617007517852792011-07-09T17:53:00.003+01:002011-07-09T17:57:26.491+01:00

I was doing an update of my hubpage on the subject, but had so much material that I turned it into an ebook.It's called Search Engine Optimization For Bing and is available from Smashwords for $1.99Click on the book cover below to go to Smashwords:

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-75031576433831926322011-06-29T00:21:00.002+01:002011-06-29T00:49:03.458+01:00

It's been about four months since the Hubpages Ad program was launched. HP had been planning this for a long time, and their launch co-incided with the Panda 1 algo update, but they went ahead anyway.So how has the ad program faired? Well to start with, I was impressed. But over time I have been less so.Here's how the CPM (cost per thousand impressions)worked out for my hubs:Mar 2011 CPM $7.10Apr

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-81917371913462872622011-04-17T14:15:00.013+01:002011-04-17T14:40:50.971+01:00

On the 18th of March, I threw up a new blogspot, Tassimo Coffee Machines, and then sent an article through the Article Ranks system to backlink it.I only sent one article through the system, because I didn't want multiple articles published on the same blogs. When I retrieved the urls of the published artiocles, I bookmarked them thoroughly to ensure that they stayed indexed.Here's the stats so

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-5785630935181115422011-04-06T17:28:00.029+01:002011-04-06T19:30:52.294+01:00

Just to re-cap what's been done so far:March 18th: Set up a brand new blogspot blog on Tassimo Coffee Machines. see Day 1 for how I selected the keywords.I then added content to the site and on March 20th wrote and spun an article which I submitted to Article Ranks. See Days 2-6 for how I went about the spinning process.I set the article to be submitted unlimited times, which simply means that

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-71888359183374685172011-03-19T09:27:00.019Z2011-03-29T14:40:36.958+01:00

Here's what's been accomplished so far (click Day 1 for the first write-up).1. Have increased the content on the site, reviewing two coffee machines so far2. Submitted the first couple of posts from the Tassimo coffee Machine site to Social Monkee, which is a free social bookmarking site that allows you to submit one url a day to 25 different social sites in their system (with three versions of

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-86285819233873221632011-03-18T20:02:00.011Z2011-03-23T16:48:17.816Z

Alex Whalley has announced he is taking part in a 30 day article marketing challenge to see whether article marketing can boost a site up the SERPs post the Panda update.I've decided to try the challenge too, but with two small differences: 1) instead of using UAW, I shall be using Article Ranks for my articles and b) I'm too much of a chicken to point spun articles directly at my domains, so I

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-66844299816722476392011-03-09T14:28:00.002Z2011-03-09T14:43:03.773Z

It's been a while since I updated this blog (too busy with other stuff!). But the new Google Algorithm change combined with the new Hubpages earnings program prompted me to post again, especially as this blog was focused on me making some hubpages.I didn't make many - about 60 in total, before I moved on to more lucrative matters (making my own websites). And I haven't really touched the hubs for

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-849161858391957032010-06-09T13:27:00.003+01:002010-06-09T13:29:06.043+01:00

Not sure what is up with Google, but now I'm experiencing a surge in traffic - many sites that were lingering around the #5/#6 rank are now #2 and even #1. Being in the top three really makes a big difference.I think this is down to the Caffeine update being finished. Hopefully the SERPs should settle down for a bit now, after the excitement of the last couple of months.

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-31373994287737752010-06-02T09:52:00.002+01:002010-06-02T10:02:01.901+01:00

Have experienced a set-back in my quest to increase search traffic. The new "Mayday" algorithm change that Google implemented removed some 4800 hits from my sites - mainly long-tails. Oh well, I guess I just need to change strategy and start specifically targetting long-tails.There is also some evidence that they are no longer giving as much weight to signature links from forums - again this is a

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-66936480543699762872010-04-04T12:23:00.003+01:002010-04-04T12:35:29.480+01:00

Well I got 18869 visits across all my sites in March - an increase of 8.2% on Feb, so not bad. Almost all my search engine visits were to my authority blogs (and most of the income came from them too). Authority blogging takes a lot of time, especially if you are doing it all by yourself, with no spinning or outsourcing, plus a good quantity of research is thrown in, to make the posts valuable.

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-14454968259404433092010-03-02T18:47:00.004Z2010-03-02T19:24:53.644Z

Well, pageviews are now up to 17439 for February - this is a 2.6% increase over the last month. I guess that's not bad as Feb had three fewer days than Jan. But it looks like I'm going to have to get used to 2.5%-3% monthly improvements unless I can think of a way to speed things up.I've started to go back at look at hubs and other things I created last year with a view to backlinking them. But

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-16209112495252146582010-02-03T11:19:00.002Z2010-02-03T11:26:30.751Z

Well traffic for January was 16988, a mere 3% rise on December's traffic. I guess that's partly because some of the Christmas traffic on certain sites has dropped off, but also partly because for the first two weeks of the month I didn't really achieve much.Have decided to step things up this month. I am still mainly building Squidoo lenses (because it is easier to put affiliate links on them for

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-12609112317869017232010-01-14T23:38:00.004Z2010-01-14T23:46:29.043Z

I don't know if it's just me, but things have really slowed down this year. It might be down to the unusual snowy weather we've been having which just makes you want to lie in bed and watch old movies.Anyway, it's time to lay out my goals for this coming year. The big thing I learnt in 2009 was that the key to making money wasn't really keyword selection or using this or that whizzy keyword tool

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-10618552403162135122010-01-03T18:47:00.004Z2010-01-03T19:10:45.481Z

The old saying that competition improves you is true. It's actually fun having a competitor whom you are pitting your wits against, plus you learn lots in the process. Just to recap, I had a competitor move into one of my niches, where I had a Squidoo lens getting 200 hits a day and a steady stream of affiliate sales. In this niche there are essentially four main keywords, about seventeen major

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-2968519696340979412009-10-28T15:42:00.003Z2009-10-28T16:14:41.654Z

I have a Squidoo lens, which I set up in late August, and which gets traffic of around 200 hits a day and makes a steady income from affiliate sales. A few weeks ago, a competitor moved into the niche, using a dot com domain and one of the main keywords in the domain name. Their contact page actually tells you the name of the SEO company that is behind the site, with a link to the SEO firm, which

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-65456057967423748002009-10-03T15:23:00.002+01:002009-10-03T15:36:23.448+01:00

Well I haven't built any more hubpages - that's stalled. Instead I'm working on my Squidoo lenses and my authority site.The authority site now has 146 pages, all lovingly written by me, and it's all indexed, which is good. After initially trying Adsense on it, I've monetised it with affiliate products instead (as they pay rather better). In order to make it a proper authority site, I need to

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-67442241756518833222009-09-15T14:36:00.002+01:002009-09-15T15:02:59.643+01:00

It's clear that making money online depends on a certain volume of traffic, and there are two ways to get this volume - either set up thousands of pages that each get a tiny amount of traffic, or set up about a hundred pages that each get a large amount of traffic.At first glance the second strategy looks a lot harder than the first. It's not easy to get a thousand hits a month to each hubpage

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-44306181597057050812009-09-12T11:47:00.009+01:002009-09-15T15:04:33.063+01:00

How do I come to this conclusion? Well, I was updating my hubpage on Google Caffeine, which I wrote on 12th August when Google first told the world about their new "next generation" engine nicknamed Caffeine. Briefly, Caffeine is not really a change to Google's algorithm (though some slight differences appear), it's really a change in structure of the index itself. This is really important, as

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-44549424558270106772009-09-09T15:46:00.003+01:002009-09-09T16:16:52.506+01:00

I keep a spreadsheet to track all my online work (I use Open Office, which is an open source product that is free to download)The spreadsheet is organised with one sheet per niche, with each page detailing all the properties in that niche, and a master page that pulls in info each month from the sheets to help me see which niche is profitable.Well the surprise is that the "most profitable" niche

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-24204707287626452332009-09-05T13:16:00.003+01:002009-09-05T13:37:32.197+01:00

The reason I've been building hubpages really slowly is that I've become sidetracked with creating Squidoo lenses for Affiliate Marketing.Squidoo is great in my opinion. As long as you stay away from the usual hot topics (weight loss, anything advertised on Clickbank), and concentrate on actual physical products that are sold by mainstream brands who have their affiliates listed on Commission

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-68575569972517147792009-08-31T15:01:00.002+01:002009-08-31T15:04:39.688+01:00

Part of my experiments with money making was to try to diversify the advertisers I used.So I put Adbrite on this blog and also on another niche blog, and left it there for three months.My conclusion: Adbrite is rubbish. The ads served up are so inappropriate, no-one would ever click on them. eg they were putting hideous weight loss picture ads on this blog which is about making money. So I've

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-26987338572852008242009-08-19T16:29:00.003+01:002009-08-19T16:37:59.719+01:00

One thing I'm doing that is different this time is putting Amazon modules onto my hubs.So far I've made one Amazon sale from a hub from the first challenge, and none from any of the hubs in this challenge. I was about to throw my hands up and say that Amazon is a waste of time when I read a post by Ed Dale which says that you should make no decisions about a niche, website or affiliate product

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-26961068906929614782009-08-07T20:27:00.002+01:002009-08-07T20:33:41.599+01:00

Well it's just over a week into the second hubpage challenge. No earnings yet for the new hubs, but we are on day 8 and last time earnings didn't come till day 9.The hub building is going faster this time. Have made ten hubs so far, most commercial, but I couldn't resist doing a self-indulgent list hub for the tenth one called List of the best SEO blogs, just cause I felt like sharing. Will make

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-531521208744037262009-08-01T16:59:00.004+01:002009-08-01T17:08:15.349+01:00

I am taking part in the second hubpage challenge. This one is more flexible - you start when you want, and you complete 30 hubs in 30 days.I started yesterday and have built four hubs so far - see my hub on Making money with the Hubpages Challenge, for progress on this challenge.It will be interesting to see how I progress as I know so much more than when I did the last challenge. Last time it

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-27667103046881410252009-07-16T11:59:00.005+01:002009-07-16T22:27:05.339+01:00

It's now just over four months since I started this blog and project to earn money online. It's been an interesting experience with some things failing and others doing not so badly. Let's look at the detail.FailuresStarting with the stuff that didn't work. Kontera was rubbish in my experience. The links looked bad on the hubs, hardly anyone clicked, and the clicks amounted to under $5 a month,

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-53945907014373073412009-07-07T12:48:00.004+01:002009-07-07T13:40:22.509+01:00

I was going through my Adsense stats and discovered that only 48% of my hubs had made some money (however small). 52% of the hubs I've made have produced nothing at all.The question is what to do about the non-performing hubs. Should I just shrug, write them off and move on, or should I try to tweak them to see if they can be made to produce income? My inclination is to tweak, since I've invested

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-85371223361973814252009-06-29T11:35:00.002+01:002009-06-29T11:52:09.561+01:00

I was browsing through the "hot" hubs on the Hubpages site when I wondered if the hubs listed on that page got any particular boost from it. It turns out they do. The hot hub pages (and "latest" and "best" hub pages) carry page rank of their own. Here's the pagerank of these pages@Hot hubs page 1 - PageRank 5Hot hubs page 2 - Pagerank 4Hot hubs page 3 - Pagerank 0Latest hubs page 1 - Pagerank

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-72126384538503586492009-06-20T16:00:00.005+01:002009-06-20T16:31:58.427+01:00

Have found an absolutely brilliant free Keyword tool from Microsoft called Detecting Commercial IntentionHere's what the tool looks like (click image to enlarge):All you do is type in an URL or keyword (be sure to click the buttons at the bottom to say whether you are checking a website or keyword) and then press Go. It then calculates whether it thinks it is a commercial keyword or not.In my

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-51508004343511514852009-06-17T04:53:00.004+01:002009-06-17T05:08:28.677+01:00

I was checking the backlinks in Google for one of my Hubpages, and found that they counted my Hubpage Profile page as a backlink. It made me pause to think. How was this profile page sufficient to propel my hubpages up the SERPS?The answer is through the forum. Every time you post in the forum, you leave a link behind to your hubpage profile. The more links, the more powerful your Hubpage profile

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-1403060219685521802009-06-14T15:06:00.004+01:002009-06-14T15:23:07.039+01:00

As mentioned before, am anxious to try out more than one method of earning online, just in case something goes wrong with an income channel.On the platform front, I have had success with Hubpages. I have abandoned Google Knols because their ad placement is so poor it's unlikely anyone would ever click on one (see here for the post about my Knol experiment). I have also opened an account with

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-79946249697495495962009-06-13T17:50:00.003+01:002009-06-13T19:17:18.857+01:00

In the end I didn't manage to make my 30 hubs - only made 17. These 17 hubs produced $11.77 in Adsense income.Looking closely at the results, all the income came from just 7 hubs. Clearly only some niches have readers inclined to click ads - the others attract readers too savvy to click ads at all. Of the hubs that got clicks, some got low value clicks, but the click rate was high, while others

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-25632871494822113382009-05-31T12:15:00.003+01:002009-05-31T12:47:08.740+01:00

I have been trying to build backlinks to my hubpages with a commenting strategy - I seek out blogs in the same niche as the hubpage I am promoting, and then leave a comment, using a keyword as my "name" and my hub URL as the link. It's time consuming and laborious, and no doubt the professionals will be shaking their head at the time I'm wasting.Anyway, I was checking on a backlink checker to see

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-65979489044761630942009-05-25T17:15:00.007+01:002009-05-25T23:43:31.637+01:00

One of the downsides with weekends and bank holiday Mondays is that traffic is down and no-one clicks ads (most people seem to surf from work). Therefore logging into my Adsense to check how things are going is very frustrating.I have thought perhaps I should diversify my income a little. So far I've tried one money making platform (Hubpages) and two advertising methods (Adsense which works, and

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-16032819453228550722009-05-24T19:23:00.006+01:002009-05-24T21:55:02.072+01:00

It's two weeks since I started the Hubpage challenge, and the hub creation is going slowly. Have only made 8 hubs as part of this challenge and will therefore need to make another 22 hubs in the next two weeks. I have been trying to build some backlinks though, through a commenting strategy (where I anchor my link in the comment to a keyword), but it's slow going.What I've found is that when I

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-41738070648371519302009-05-18T11:14:00.003+01:002009-05-18T11:26:37.613+01:00

Well, I have managed to build four hubs so far:- How to make money online fast- How to settle credit card debt- All about Argentinian wines- What to do if you are in negative equityWhat I've learnt so far: The hubs which I built some backlinks commenting on blogs are in the search results. The ones I simply published appeared briefly in the SERPS but then disappeared. What I will do is try to add

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-56007927505306626372009-05-11T18:31:00.009+01:002009-05-18T11:14:56.058+01:00

Hubpages are running a challenge to make 100 Hubs in 30 days starting Monday May 11th 2009 (today), in an experiment to see how much money can be made in that time.It certainly sounds intriguing. I have been concentrating on promoting my three hubs, but perhaps it might be interesting to see what happens when I try for volume. I'm not sure I can write that many good hubs, but I can certainly try

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-50652369733672428872009-04-28T18:16:00.009+01:002009-04-28T19:12:48.910+01:00

I finally re-wrote my Sarkozy hub, because though it was about President Sarkozy, his many wives and much gossip about them all, the ads served up were dating ads such as "get a thai bride" (!), and clearly people interested in Sarko gossip wouldn't be interested at all in the ads (and hence no clicks).I initially thought the problem was the use of the word "wives" in the title, but changing the

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-17745567191741368542009-04-09T16:52:00.005+01:002009-04-09T17:48:43.202+01:00

Have been reading a very interesting SEO theory blog by Michael Martinez, who said that we should distinguish between the number of searches done by each search engine and the number of individual visitors to the search engines.He wrote an article quoting figures from Quantcast showing that in Dec 2008, there were about 103 million US visitors to Live/Search.msn and 136 million US visitors to

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-92232614704851191602009-04-08T20:46:00.005+01:002009-04-08T20:56:46.535+01:00

Though I put adsense on my Nicholas Sarkozy hubpage, I found I was still getting dating ads. It suddenly dawned on me that it was because I had used the word "wives" in the title. So if I want different ads to show up, I need to think up a new title.Serves me right for writing that hub in the first place! My original plan was to write hubs on things people would Google in a recession, and my get

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-7139958058717134262009-04-05T21:25:00.005+01:002009-04-05T21:30:11.259+01:00

It's been a month since I started this experiment. The good news is that I am starting to get search traffic for my hubs. I'm on the first page of the search results for the keyword, Do It Yourself Debt Management. OK, there is not a lot of search volume for that, but still we have to start somewhere and it's nice to be ranked for something.The bad news is that Kontera isn't really working out.

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-75982318046815362112009-03-22T16:04:00.002Z2009-03-22T16:15:56.115Z

OK. It's two weeks since I started on my project, and I have set up three hubpages - here are the links for those who wish to look at them :-)- How to cure a cold- The Wives of Nicolas Sarkozy- Do it yourself debt managementThe Wives of Nicolas Sarkozy was a minor hit on Reddit (678 hits from them), and all the hubs are starting to get a trickle of hits from the search engines. In particular, the

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-48071978079549170152009-03-18T18:46:00.000Z2009-03-18T20:46:44.264Z

Unlike Google adsense, there seems to be very little information on Kontera keywords, apart from the information on the Kontera blog, which does a post about the top clicked keywords each month. So I thought I'd start from there and go through their blog and find what they have been reporting. The data the blog reports is eccentric: they only start reporting on popular keywords in August 2008,

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-59924995537009649752009-03-16T14:49:00.000Z2009-03-17T16:36:24.645Z

I've just discovered that Kontera require you to make a minimum of $5 a month with them, or they won't roll over the money (i.e. you lose your month's earnings if you are under that). Not sure what I think about that to be honest! It's a bit harsh. Another thing - Hubpages only display your ad 60% of the time (the other 40% they display their own ad ID), plus they don't display them to those

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-21332478572276484552009-03-09T19:44:00.000Z2009-03-10T01:04:14.251Z

After Googling for what seems like hours, I finally came across a decent article that explained how HubPages work.Have decided to sign up, and will use HubPages to test out my theory of writing about coping with debt in a recession (something I know quite a bit about). Hubpages shares ad revenue with members (60% to the member and 40% to them), but I haven't yet figured out whether I have to put

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-70874920856877224782009-03-09T17:45:00.000Z2009-03-09T18:06:19.441Z

I thought I'd start my quest to earn online by Googling the above phrase. The results were mixed to say the least. There was a lot of consensus that healthcare is recession-proof - but you can't do healthcare online on a self-employed basis, especially if you have no healthcare background. The same goes for advice to work for the utilities, police force, military and so on. None can be pursued

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2062488978953107437.post-82613920325076063502009-03-09T17:34:00.000Z2009-03-09T17:43:06.321Z

The interesting thing about this recession is that this is the first one to take place in the internet age. Millions will become self-employed and try to earn online. But is this feasible? Is it possible to make a living in the virtual world when the real world is in such bad shape?Well, this blog diary is going to chart my progress in trying to do just that. Even if I don't make it, it will be a

silver rosenoreply@blogger.com0