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...

June 2007 Update

Visible activity on Munny4Hunny has reduced somewhat, however 'off-page' activity has been a very different story. The aim for this month has been to raise the profile and I have been using Technorati 'Authority' as my measuring stick.
Here are the methods that I have used:

1. A paid-post (not paid by me...) kindly 'donated' by Greg Stratz - this scheme guaranteed a post including links would be posted on a specific number of different blogs
2. The viral tags scheme as devised by Jimmy at Founders Cafe, he adapted Andy Coates original viral matrix idea.
3. Commenting and reviewing a couple of blogs
4. Using a free submission program to get my blog listed on up to 250 directories

Of these methods, the runaway successes have been methods 1 & 2 - I used the viral method on another blog and can report that it gave me about 90 authority points. So far my authority on this blog has risen by 170, so if we assume that the scheme is as effective on one blog as the other, then another 80 points need to be accounted for. I think that scheme 1 probably gave me about 40 or 50 points leaving 30 or so unaccounted for. Some of these will be down to additional links in comments and natural accumulation of ranking points through normal activity.
I have already pointed out that the viral-scheme can hardly be regarded as an 'organic' method of accruing popularity, a view acknowledged by Jimmy himself. I can envisage a filter being devised by Google to counter the effect of this on PR, which is why I have used other methods which should stand me in good stead if such measures are introduced. I have employed one-way links where possible when submitting to directories and will probably not bother with directories that don't have any page-rank of their own. Commenting and reviewing is a more organic method and will gain you authority in the long-run, but can be painstaking as you can't get such rapid results as via the other methods. I don't advocate spam-commenting which I have seen done here and there, generally my commenting attempts to be intelligent(?), meaningful and on-topic...
I will report final results of the popularity pursuit at the end of the month. Suffice to say that once again, my results were far better than my target (I need to set higher goals obviously) - I had hoped to double my Technorati Authority from 23 to 46 - right now I am at 194 on Munny4Hunny so I might well exceed expectations by up to ten-fold by the end of the month.
Due to the activity off-line in this and other projects, the actual paid to post earnings for the blog will be very low for June, but the ultimate aim will be to gain Page-Rank and therefore to be picky about the paid posts I will do in the future.