2008-08-31

Earnings for week ending Aug 31:  

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Well, if blogging is meant to make you rich, I must be doing something horrendously wrong...

So far, all my advertising across all blogs has made:
$0.01.
All my affiliate dealings have made:
£.024.


So if the only motivation for blogging was money, I'd be in trouble, as around 10+ hours of work have made me approximately £0.25. 25p. A quarter of a pound.

By comparison, if I just did my day job for ten hours, I'd have earned a three-figure sum.

So far, not great. Although I do have a number of weighs I think I can improve by this time next week.

2008-08-25

Scratchback  

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You may notice the new Scratchback widget at the top left of the menu.

I've used it in the past on a popular blog (100-200 readers per day), and despite getting my first tip within minutes, it stalled somewhat, and never really went anywhere.

Possibly that's a comment on the quality and relevance of that particular blog, so I'm giving it another chance here. Having logged in for the first time in a long while, there's also some useful information about pricing, which makes me think my first attempt didn't quite do the system justice.


So what is Scratchback?
Scratchback is intended to be a quick, easy and fun way to get 'tips' for creating good content on your blog. You set a price for tips, and tippers get a return link and recognition in return for giving you a small amount of cash.

Signing up is really quick and easy, and you simply pick whichever design you like from preset templates which should cover most blog designs and colour schemes (You don want it to stand out a bit at least!).

And that's it. Payment is by Paypal, so you'll need to have a valid account - and remember that Paypal fees will be taken out of your tips when you transfer them.

Once it's set up, you can either manually approve tip listings, or let them auto update. And once your spot is full, new tips bump off the oldest one (Assuming it fills up).

As I said, previously I had it set up on a couple of blogs, and I come across it a lot on smaller blogs when I'm randomly surfing - it's rare to see a Jar totally full but this may be down to bloggers always selecting the maximum display number, or getting the pricing wrong...we'll see.

2008-08-24

Starting with the basics  

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There are a limited number of ways to legitimately earn with affiliate advertising.

Signing up: Some schemes will pay you a small amount for signing up. Usually these amounts are very small, and are only there to tempt you in - they also normally require you to earn a lot more before you're allowed to withdraw any cash.

Referrals to the scheme: Many schemes will pay you some extra money for every person who signs up via your referral link, encouraging you to spread the word. Occasionally they'll also pay you on the earnings of the people you encourage to sign up - anyone heard of a pyramid scheme?

The referrals themselves: When someone clicks on a link or makes a purchase (depending on your scheme and settings) you'll get a small amount. Notice the word small. It's usually a very small percentage which means you'll need huge amounts of traffic. The reason Google makes so much out of Adsense is by having millions of websites using it - not by having any high earners using it.