Comments on: My Online Earnings for April 2007 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/ Sharing my 'Net life bits Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:25:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: 45n5 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-493 45n5 Sat, 05 May 2007 14:10:59 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-493 congrats on the upswing in earnings ;-) congrats on the upswing in earnings ;-)

]]> By: Hans http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-494 Hans Sat, 05 May 2007 14:42:10 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-494 I tried having some good sponsors on my blog through text-link ads but still none. For this, I lowered my rates to as lows as $20 per month. Perhaps it's because TLA display high-rates blogs first :( I tried having some good sponsors on my blog through text-link ads but still none. For this, I lowered my rates to as lows as $20 per month. Perhaps it’s because TLA display high-rates blogs first :(

]]> By: Staska http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-497 Staska Sat, 05 May 2007 15:35:20 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-497 Thanks Mark. You did pretty well yourself this month too :) Thanks Mark. You did pretty well yourself this month too :)

]]> By: Shane http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-498 Shane Sat, 05 May 2007 15:59:44 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-498 Have you tried Amazon's affiliate program? Just got an email from them yesterday pushing their cellphone offerings, and the nice thing about Amazon is that once you send someone over there, you get commissions on <i>everything</i> they buy, not just what they clicked over on. You might also want to try <a href="http://www.auctionads.com/" rel="nofollow">AuctionAds</a> or <a href="http://togo.ebay.com/" rel="nofollow">eBay to Go</a> (or both). (Check out <a href="http://ebaytogo.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">this blog</a> for a cool way to use eBay to Go.) There are obviously a lot of cellphones on eBay, so this might be a good option, too. Have you tried Amazon’s affiliate program? Just got an email from them yesterday pushing their cellphone offerings, and the nice thing about Amazon is that once you send someone over there, you get commissions on everything they buy, not just what they clicked over on.

You might also want to try AuctionAds or eBay to Go (or both). (Check out this blog for a cool way to use eBay to Go.) There are obviously a lot of cellphones on eBay, so this might be a good option, too.

]]> By: Staska http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-499 Staska Sat, 05 May 2007 16:12:37 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-499 If you are talking about Blogosqure blog, there's no wonder that you did not get any sponsors earlier. You had a new PR 0 blog with unimpressive Alexa rank. But now that you've got your blog to PR4 and quite good Alexa rank this should change soon. I would actually wait until Alexa get's below 100 000. You are moving in the right directions and with recent traffic spikes should get there pretty soon. Then I would manually update my TLA Alexa ranking and ask for the price increase. I think the low price not always helps to sell links. Just look how many blogs are selling links for $20 and how many for $100. And on which page you show up in the default price ranked list. Also now, that you have a PR4 blog with OK Alexa and Technorati ranks, Review Me can be an interesting option. Blogs about blogging category is quite good for them. If you are talking about Blogosqure blog, there’s no wonder that you did not get any sponsors earlier. You had a new PR 0 blog with unimpressive Alexa rank.

But now that you’ve got your blog to PR4 and quite good Alexa rank this should change soon. I would actually wait until Alexa get’s below 100 000. You are moving in the right directions and with recent traffic spikes should get there pretty soon.

Then I would manually update my TLA Alexa ranking and ask for the price increase.

I think the low price not always helps to sell links. Just look how many blogs are selling links for $20 and how many for $100. And on which page you show up in the default price ranked list.

Also now, that you have a PR4 blog with OK Alexa and Technorati ranks, Review Me can be an interesting option. Blogs about blogging category is quite good for them.

]]> By: derek http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-504 derek Sun, 06 May 2007 06:50:15 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-504 Staska, grats on the increased earnings in April. It will be interesting to see how May performs after making a few tweaks to try and resolve the drop in Adsense/Chitika. TLA is a great resource for bloggers and has the potential to be a very solid money maker. The blog I have it on is a PR4 and Alexa is still improving, although I lost two advertisers recently but then sold my first private ad placement. Best to you for May! Staska, grats on the increased earnings in April. It will be interesting to see how May performs after making a few tweaks to try and resolve the drop in Adsense/Chitika.

TLA is a great resource for bloggers and has the potential to be a very solid money maker. The blog I have it on is a PR4 and Alexa is still improving, although I lost two advertisers recently but then sold my first private ad placement.

Best to you for May!

]]> By: Staska http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-505 Staska Sun, 06 May 2007 09:37:35 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-505 Yep. TLA is a real good earner so far. But the beginning of May delt a setback for me here. First Google, instead of increasing my Pagerank to PR 6 on my biggest (PR5) blog as I was hoping, dropped it to PR4 instead. And from January I at least doubled, maybe even tripled the number of good quality backlinks to that blog! Then my real big Digg (40K+ pageviews in 24 hrs)from the end of January stopped counting and my Alexa rank dropped from 90K to 120K+ . So now my both key TLA metrics are significantly worse then they were in April. We'll see what that does to TLA earnings Yep. TLA is a real good earner so far. But the beginning of May delt a setback for me here.

First Google, instead of increasing my Pagerank to PR 6 on my biggest (PR5) blog as I was hoping, dropped it to PR4 instead. And from January I at least doubled, maybe even tripled the number of good quality backlinks to that blog!

Then my real big Digg (40K+ pageviews in 24 hrs)from the end of January stopped counting and my Alexa rank dropped from 90K to 120K+ .

So now my both key TLA metrics are significantly worse then they were in April. We’ll see what that does to TLA earnings

]]> By: derek http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-507 derek Sun, 06 May 2007 13:39:50 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-507 It seems there were quite a few surprises in this latest PR update. My newest blog went from PR0 to PR4 while my more established blog only went from PR3 to PR4, which I am still happy with but had hoped for more. I'm looking forward to your May update. It seems there were quite a few surprises in this latest PR update. My newest blog went from PR0 to PR4 while my more established blog only went from PR3 to PR4, which I am still happy with but had hoped for more.

I’m looking forward to your May update.

]]> By: Staska http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-514 Staska Mon, 07 May 2007 20:50:11 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/05/05/my-online-earnings-for-april-2007/#comment-514 Sorry, Shane,your comment got lost in moderation for a while (I have a filter to automatically put the posts with more then 2 links there) :oops: Yeah I tried Amazon some. I have their Omakase Links links on my cellphone blogs and I am trying to take advantage of their latest offer. But it didn't really worked so far (my total amazon earnings for more the 6 months are something under $10. Same with the Auction ads. I tried them, but removed after 6 weeks, when 1200+ clicks netted me something like $10. Sorry, Shane,your comment got lost in moderation for a while (I have a filter to automatically put the posts with more then 2 links there) :oops:

Yeah I tried Amazon some. I have their Omakase Links links on my cellphone blogs and I am trying to take advantage of their latest offer. But it didn’t really worked so far (my total amazon earnings for more the 6 months are something under $10.

Same with the Auction ads. I tried them, but removed after 6 weeks, when 1200+ clicks netted me something like $10.

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