Hit Tail - A disheartening Reminder

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As you can see from Hittail, my top two keyword phrases by a long way are, 'AGLOCO scam' and 'Wealthtoolbox'. If you look closer you will notice that the top 10 keywords are all to do with my referral programs (all of which I promote on this site, apart from Wealthtoolbox which I have doubts about). In a simple, boring sort of a way this is a good thing for me, it means that I am going to get referrals for these programs because lots of people view my posts on them and so they must be well ranked in the search engines. Although from another perspective this is quite disheartening….

When I started this blog at the very end of 2006 my aims were simple, to get referrals for various programs. This however, is no longer the case as I have learned that referral/affiliate programs 'should' be just one aspect of making money online. I have tried (and I still am trying) to make this blog something people actually find useful. My previous articles such as 8 Simple Rules for... Successful Blogging are testament to this. Hittail would suggest that I have failed in a sense, because far fewer people are actually reading them. It is not just Hittail that supports this, but it is obvious, I receive more comments on posts about e.g. AGLOCO or Bestcashrewards and its a fact, I get referrals for them, so why am I complaining??? (I actually don't know)

Anyway, looking at with a more sensible perspective, there is a reason for this and that is because there is far more competition for advice about making money online so it is harder to rank well in the search engines. All in all, the point of this post (other than for me to clear my head) was to give you an idea about the aims of this blog, where it came from, and where it’s going.

Coming up:
- In 1 week today there will be the first in the series of Google Analytics overviews for this site, where you will be lucky enough for to find out where this site gets its traffic from and how much it gets.
- I will be shifting to making weekly earnings reports instead of monthly ones which just take too long to wait for.
- Insider info about my new sites and partnership with Garry Conn.

Blog Review: Earners blog

Stuart, over at Earners blog has offered a John Chow style 'Review my blog and get a 'free' linkback'; but this time there’s a twist. The best review of Earners Blog will also receive $25 via Paypal & an SEO Audit of their website with recommendations & thoughts.

I'm in!

Earners blog is one of the many sites (like this one) about making money online. It's also similar to this blog because it is also a top blog in it's niche :p. Earners blog has some great down-to-earth posts that we can all learn a little from. Stewart has been in the Online Marketing Industry for over 4 years currently works for one of the Fastest Growing SEO Companies in the World. This means he has knoweldge!.

Before writing this review I thought I should really get stuck into Earners blog so I browsed around and read a lot of the articles. These are the three most useful ones in my opinion, so if you read anything today, read these.

- Walkthough Affiliate Marketing
- Good Internal Linking Increases SE Rankings
- Do You Squidoo? (I will be checking out Squidoo myself soon).

Earners blog has quite a casual feel to it. Each post is summarised and you decide whether to 'continue reading' or not. I find my self 'picking and choosing' which posts I want to read more freely, because normally I would just read the title and make a decision 'to read or not to read - that is the question. With this layout however I can have a dabble in the post and make a more informed decision.


All in all, Earners blog has numerous posts about Affiliate marketing, Social Networking and AdSense that we all want to know about. A couple of the posts seem like they end without teaching me what I was expecting to learn, but generally this is a great site, so check out those links in list above.

Coming up: - Squidoo Stuff and a look at the pros and cons of traffic exchange programs.

BlogToProfit - A Trial

Michael over at DotMySpot has been having success with BlogToProfit. BlogToProfit pays you to post on your blog. Michael has been receiving offers for $5 a post. I see no downside as long as the posts are relevant to the topic of the site. This means I will now have several options for content. I can either:

1. Find something to write about myself by surfing the net and reading blogs. (good because I can submit it to article directories and I develop my understanding of the net).

2. Find something to write about by using Google Alerts. (good because its up to-date news which people like and will bring more traffic from places like Digg).

3. Write sponsored posts from BlogToProfit (which is good because It makes me money directly and saves time in searching for what to write about).

I will be using a combination of these to keep content varied. I will tell you about my experience with BlogToProfit in a week or so once it gets going. It has been snowing here in Cambridge today and I am snowed in so I will be busy on this blog for most of the day!