Sunday 1 July 2007

June 2007 earnings

For me June was not about earnings but about getting links and boosting popularity. I continued to do the odd paid post just to keep my hand in, but actual earnings are very much lower this month. On the other hand, my PPP opps are paying out this month so my Paypal account has been boosted with the fruits of last months labours.
To spell it out then, I earned just $62.28 this month, and I received a total of $125.51 from previous work which had not been paid out. PPP is still the run-away leader and will continue to be the focus for the future. SMORTY have started to email opportunities now, so I watch for emails from them and from Creamaid. I also had a job emailed to me from blogsvertise. This job was especially interesting as it promised an additional $5 per month for a permalink. However, the next day another email came out to say that it was a mistake. I was assured that I would get paid for the original post even though I was then requested to remove it....

Now, if you are interested to learn how the link-love month went, I can report a resounding success via the following methods:
Viral Links - MASSIVE, MASSIVE boost using the tag links and the favicon link schemes
Reviews and comments - The more 'traditional' methods proved time consuming in comparison.. Although I did manage to get a piece of the action in a paid post that appeared on 40 blogs (I hasten to add that I didn't pay myself as that is against my extremely strict principles!! ha ha). I also spent more time than I normally do in social sites such as Spicypage in an effort to do some socialising, but inevitably got side-tracked on some interesting blog or other...
Directory Submitting - slightly tedious, but a large amount of links accrued - more about this in a later post.

View blog authority
And my Technorati Authority??
I was rated a mere 23 at the start of the experiment, I aimed to double it to 46 but rather overshot the mark and am currently standing at 277...!!(the widget above displays the current authority figure, as you can see, it is still rising)
I have posted my thoughts on viral linking here and elsewhere, but I am confident that I have used a mix of tactics which will stand me in good stead and hopefully achieve the intended result of a raised Page Rank next time around...

5 comments:

MHJ said...

Congrats! How did you get your Technorati rating up?

Do you ever feel like your original/personal content gets pushed out of the way because of sponsored posts?

PS: The button removal was unintentional. I'm trying to reorganize the sidebar. I want to try to make the color presentation a little more nifty/eye friendly. Please forgive me :-(

*hugs*

jay said...

see above:
1)Viral links (massive gains)
2)commenting reviews/banner exchanges (more 'legitimate' and 'organic' methods)
Yeah I think the sponsored posts get in the way to a degree, but my blog is intended to be about the earnings you can make from paid to blog, so they are an essential illustration too.

MHJ said...

Cool! Congrats, again!!!!

Linky Love said...

Jay, can u elaborate about what u were doing with? on? those 40 blogs?

Congrats with your authority!

How much time did u spent on mylot to get those earnings?

Next weeks my new earnings (just before I hope to get accepted with PPP: another one slowing down their server...)

jay said...

Greg Stratz did a post which I think Rob StGeorge posted on 40 blogs - I wrote the piece for Greg, so he put a link in for me... (see the Greg Stratz interview)
I reckon you have to write about 2000 words on MyLot to earn a dollar, on paid to blog you could get $50 or more for 2000 words. is it worth it? no, but it's fun nonetheless...