http://journeytogetpaid.com One Blogger Chases The Dream Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:27:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Picture from here Fifty thousand to eighty thousand, that's how many people will have read my main blog by the end of the year.   To me that seems huge.  Some guy (almost said kid) from a small midwestern town having that many readers.     That's also just my main blog and not ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/08/27/50k-80k/ Picture from here The biggest waste - er maintenance period time I use is maintaining blogs.   This may seem trivial if you run one blog, but if you do 7-8 like I do it can reach a pain threshhold.  Recently I wrote on my main blog about the issues of coming ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/08/25/maintaining-multiple-blogs/ So it seems that someone read my ironkey review that I did and made a purchase through Amazon.co, this generated me referral money.  Granted it's not much and at the current rate I'm years off of living on blogging full time, but it's a start. http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/07/29/i-made-my-first-amazon-referral-this-week/ Picture from here I've noticed an interesting trend lately.  It seems while I get 80-90% of my hits during the average work day time, almost all of my Adsense clicks I receive are clicked in the evening hours.   I had written early about studies that show only 1% of the people ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/07/14/do-people-click-more-ads-in-the-evening/ Why do you blog?   Are you hear to make a quick buck?   If you have investors in you then you stand to make an immediate living in it.     For the ones that aren't making their dream income, do you continue writing for the hope of eventually getting a pay day?   ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/05/07/boom-bust-bloggers/ $1.29, Yes this is about the the journey to get paid.  It is quite a journey.  I won't be falling back on blogging as a full time career anytime soon.   I didn't think I would make much and honestly I never thought I would make anything.   As I come up ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/04/14/my-total-earnings-after-4-months-of-advertising/ Google is all about consolidation of data, there whole mantra is behind it.  They have released oodles and oodles of services that I utilize (yes I'm a google whore - there I said it), but only minimal correlation between the tools other then a common login.   Many of their tools ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/04/11/googles-next-service-should-be-google-reporting/ Yesterday on my main blog I wrote a quip on my battle for the search term "creeva" in google and how many hits it brings back.  It flucuates up and down and was more of a joke then anything.   However I started thinking about it a little more deeply last ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/04/10/does-data-portability-hurt-you-in-google/ While I've been playing with 2.5 on Creeva's World 2.0 for a little over a week now I haven't really dug into the rest of my blogs and managed to upgrade them yet.   Journey to get paid is the first I'm playing with outside of my main blog. I need to ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/04/07/journey-to-get-paid-upgraded-to-wordpress-25/ This Week We've Discussed a Few things: Real world expectations on click through advertising - Click Through Advertising - The Evil Truth Other ways of getting advertisers are available - A Reader’s Interesting Strategy on Getting Online Advertisers How to protect your Social Security Number from Online Advertisers - How To Never ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/02/08/journey-to-get-paids-week-in-review-02082008/ So you have your own blog but it's something such as creeva.blogspot.com or creeva.wordpress.com, Both of these are acceptable, but if you read my previous about brand management you'll know that building your audience to your personal brand can help get you a larger following. Do I need a domain ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/02/07/choosing-a-domain-name-can-be-heart-wretching/ Any of you that have researched and delved into the world of online advertising to any extent have learned that most of these companies require you to give them your social security number. You may wonder why you have to do this and the answer is quite simple, they ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/02/06/how-to-never-give-advertisers-your-social-security-number/ One of our reader's (rs - or Tom as he's known non-virtually) read and commented on the article I wrote yesterday about click through advertising. It seems rs is considering a run for a bit of the advertising dollar but has learned through my article that click through traffic ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/02/05/a-readers-interesting-strategy-on-getting-online-advertisers/ I'm Going to Be Rich....Not!! While all of us would hope that click through advertising would pay for our home on the beach, for most of us that doesn't seem to be true. I've been using Adsense for about 4 months now and so far the whopping total I have ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/02/04/click-through-advertising-the-evil-truth/ Journey To Get Paid wants to bring you into the world of brand management. Now the first thing to know as a blogger that you are your brand.   Whatever you do positive or negative effects your brand in tremendous ways.   It also effects your SEO in a way also, ... http://journeytogetpaid.com/2008/01/23/brand-management-branding-yourself/