Thursday 31 July 2008

Sixth Yuwie Random Referral

I've just received my sixth random referral from Yuwie. Initial appearances are showing the referral to be active.

Wednesday 30 July 2008

Qassia Crawled

My web directory has had another crawl done by Qassia, this time generating Q$396.

Sometimes, I'd like to be able to answer comments, or rate the ratings, on bits of intel I publish there, having had two people complain that one of my last bits was an advert. Them considering it to be an advert would suggest, to me anyway, that either they didn't read it, or they don't know what an advert is. It's not an advert if the links you publish are to sites you don't own or get any benefit from. Adding a feature like that would probably be too open to abuse though.

Tuesday 29 July 2008

PlusBux Back Up

PlusBux is now back up. Or, rather, PlusBux v3 is back up. Looks like the downtime was due to an upgrade being carried out, a promising sign.

Saturday 26 July 2008

Second Second Level Yuwie Referral

I've just noticed that I've gained my second Level 2 referral at Yuwie. Given that it's under my most active referral, it's probably another random referral.

Tuesday 22 July 2008

Plusbux Still Down

Plusbux is still down. I checked on another ISP, due to the annoying search redirect my main ISP uses, and it is down. Could be just a server outage, will have to wait and see.

Monday 21 July 2008

Domain Names

If you market on the internet, odds are at some point you're going to need to purchase a domain name. My personal preference is for GoDaddy. I've found them to be possibly the cheapest registrar, as long as you're careful when you buy.

The probable reason they're the cheapest, and why you need to be careful when buying a name, is the number of optional extras they'll try to sell you, all of which add up.

Sunday 20 July 2008

Feed Pinging

I've been trying something new. I have a number of feeds burned at FeedBurner. Now, normally when I update a blog, I ping the feed using Pingates. For those feeds that I've also burned at FeedBurner, I'm also pinging that feed as well, to see - if I can - what difference it makes.

Saturday 19 July 2008

Two More V7N Commissions

It's becoming a really good month for V7N. Another two sales have been made in the last few days. Hope this keeps up.

Friday 18 July 2008

PlusBux Down

PlusBux is currently down, or maybe gone to completely. When I try and visit it, I get redirected to the stupid search results page my ISP is redirecting errors to. Sort of like those companies that buy up domain names on expiry and stick their search pages on.

Thursday 17 July 2008

FeedBurner

FeedBurner is a way of publishing your blog's feed. Simply join FeedBurner, and submit your blog's feed to them. You will then end up with a new feed URL. FeedBurner feeds are formatted so as to be compatible with the major directories. You also get access to a variety of stats that help you analyse your traffic and subscribers, and see where they come from.

Should your feed be popular enough, you may be able to participate in the FeedBurner Ad Network, and either monetize your blog or earn extra money. FeedBurner is now a part of Google.

I have a number of RSS feeds burned using FeedBurner. The one for this blog is http://feeds.feedburner.com/EgdcLtd

Wednesday 16 July 2008

Promoting Your Blog Feed



If you have a blog, it's going to have an XML, Atom, or RSS feed. Mine, for this blog, is http://egdcltd.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Now, one type of place you can promote this is forums. Some forums, for example DigitalPoint and VileSilencer, allow you to add your blog feed to your profile. Others will allow this also. Both of these forums run on vBulletin, so check those out first. Not all blogs are compatible though. Current ones supported, as stated on DP, are Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress and MySpace.

Go into your User Control Panel, and, usually, look for "Edit Options" link. Click this, and where this feature is enabled, you will see a box that allows you to enter your feed URL - see the first picture. Enter your URL there.

Your last post will then be displayed, with a clickable link, under your username, avatar, etc. everytime you post - see second picture.This may drive traffic to your blog from other forum members clicking the link, and, if the forum is popular, can also drive search engine spiders, and thus traffic, there also.

Tuesday 15 July 2008

V7N

Made three sales so far this month with the V7N affiliate program, which is very good. Best month ever in fact. Haven't received the funds yet of course.

Monday 14 July 2008

Flash Games Site

I've added quite a few new games to my Flash Games Site, and the site is ranking in Google. No result yet from the BidVertiser ads yet, still, it's early days as far as the site is concerned.

I've also got quite a number of MoreGamers credits stacked up. Now, I just need to get a banner so I can use them.

Sunday 13 July 2008

Qassia Crawled

Qassia has just crawled my web directory again, this time generating $387 Qassia.

Saturday 12 July 2008

Yuwie Earnings for June

Yuwie earnings for June are now in. A substantial increase in revenue over April and May's earnings, although not as high as March's. This was mostly due to the activity of one random referral. A slightly higher RSR as well.

Friday 11 July 2008

Bux3 Payouts Delayed

Bux3 has posted a notice saying that all payouts are going to be delayed. Annoying, as I should have been receiving my payment from them shortly, according to their ToS.

Payouts are delayed for 30 days until we get all accounts back to normal. We will still payout but they will be slow until the database crash issue is resolved. So please bare with us.

Thursday 10 July 2008

Uquick Payment

Received another payment of $3 from Uquick. This makes the total earned from this program $106.50, so I'd have to say this program is also Recommended.

Wednesday 9 July 2008

10Bux Payment Request


I've today passed the $10 payment threshold at 10Bux and put in a request for payment via AlertPay.

Although I've looked through the ToS, I can't seem to find anything that says how long payments are supposed to take.

Tuesday 8 July 2008

Google AdSense Referrals

I'd recently decided to try using Google's AdSense Referral ads. These ads paid you for each action, rather than per click or per impression, so had the possibility of generating good returns. Then, I received an email from Google saying they were going to discontinue the referrals program during the last week in August. Even though I've read the AdSense blog, I'm still not really sure why they're doing this. Perhaps poor performance?

Monday 7 July 2008

myLot Payment Threshold Passed

I've just passed the $10 myLot payment threshold, again largely due to referral earnings. This means that I will receive a payment from them on or before 15th August. Given that earnings are calculated to the end of July, it's possible quite a bit more money will be added on before then.

Sunday 6 July 2008

Fifth Yuwie Random Referral

Just got my fifth random referral from Yuwie. I seem to be getting them more frequently these days. Looks like keeping signed in to the site whenever I'm online is working.

Saturday 5 July 2008

WeeklyPLRArticles Update

I've been promoting my WeeklyPLRArticles site using Link Referral. So far, it's proving more successful then it was for Yuwie, and new subscribers have been signing up fairly regularly for my GetResponse list.

This is probably because I'm the only one promoting my site, whilst a lot of other people were promoting Yuwie.

Friday 4 July 2008

GetRef Gold Membership Update

I have already got another two referrals in my downline at GetRef from my latest gold membership. No credits earned from either as yet, but it's still early days.

Thursday 3 July 2008

BidVertiser Added to Flash Games Site

I've decided to add BidVertiser ads to my Flash Games Site, replacing the previous Google ones, as a trial. I've replaced all the Google ads, as having two similar programs on the same domain can result in losing your Google account.

Wednesday 2 July 2008

Fourth Yuwie Random Referral

I just received my fourth random referral from Yuwie. They don't appear to have been active as yet though.

Tuesday 1 July 2008

myLot Earnings for June


myLot earnings for June are now in. Total income from referrals and my own earnings were $8.56 and the payout threshold is $10 by the end of the month. Given how close it is to the threshold, I'm pretty sure it will be met by the end of July.