LinkShare and Affilate Advertising

I am using linkshare's affiliate advertising as another way to try and make money online. I am going to list a few of the links I am currently trying below. I am not holding my breath on making money with these, but to really know the best way to do something you have to try everything else first. (I am still waiting for enough time to past to give you the results of my sedo domain parking experiment, but I can say so far it seems 100% better then godaddy!)

These are the three I am going to try for a little while. If they don't seem to generate any profit, I will try a few more companies offered through linkshare. I am going to try and use these type ads only in my posts about the ways I am experimenting with to make money online. To me my blogs appearance has suffered because of these ads being on every page.

1. Homestead, which is a company who offers website building tools and hosting. I have used them before, about two years ago, and I think building a website through them was easier then most of the services I use now.

2. Netflix is another affiliate I am linking to through linkshare. It is a movie rental service which I have never tried, but I have heard good things from my friends about it.

3. RushMyPassport.com is a service helping traveler obtain passports. It looks like it could be useful, but I have no prior knowledge of this company.

I am not advertising these companies anymore, so I have linked them to my web pages. Just wanted to let anyone who comes across this post know.

Sedo Domain Parking vs Godaddy Cash Parking

The final chart and graphs showing my earning for these five domains when they were parked with Godaddy are below. I am going to include a date range that can be compared to Sedo parking when the time comes.
I transfered five of my domains to Sedo from Godaddy cash parking today. I was paying more then I was making to have my domains parked with Godaddy. I transfered keoweeboating.com, tillmanbeach.com, thenextgold.com, scfacebook.com, and blaketillman.com. Sedos sign up process and parking service was easy to use. I still have a few domains with godaddy I will be transferring to Sedo soon I'll keep you updated!

January 1st, 2008 - March 15th, 2008

BlakeTillman.com $2.22
Keoweeboating.com $2.78
ScFacebook.com $2.01

TillmanBeach.com $3.94

TheNextGold.com $4.26

How to Blog ........ then make money !

I started this blog with the intentions of informing readers about the best ways to make money on the Internet, but have realized to do this I needed to know a lot more about blogging first. When I first started trying to make money online I wasted a lot of time and cash paying for information and signing up for "get rich online" schemes. I want to be able to list the ways that worked and also list the ones that didn't. I am going to do this in the future as I get the data.

I do not want to write about blogging because so many people already do, but I am going to include blogs and websites I have used for making my blogs. There is much more to creating a good blog then I imagined, but where there is a will there is a way. I have been optimizing my blog as I come across information and doing things one step at a time. The following blogs and sites are a few I have used:

- Problogger.net - This is a blog discussing how to blog, how to make money blogging, and more. It is full of great information and I highly recommend checking it out.

- Technical Blog - I used this blog to edit the way my comments work in one of my blogs. I am stilling looking for good blogs to help me with this.

- Meta Tag Builder - SEO site I used it to make meta tags.

- Domain Name Analyzer - www or not? Determine the optimal domain name.

- Dummies Guide to Blogger - A good blog for those using blogspot or blogger. Tons of information!

Five Ways to Profit Blogging

1. Good Blog- The first thing you have to do is understand that it takes a blog with good content, a decent reader following, and a lot of patiences. I have finally gotten a page rank on goggle after a few months, but I still don't have enough readers, or visits to my blog. Before you spend time on ads, I would advise working on your content and building your reader base because that is the most important part!!!

2. Adsense- I am sure most bloggers have heard of this, but if you are new like me you might not have. This is a program where Google places ads on your blog in many different shapes, sizes, and types depending on your preferences. When your readers click on an ad you get paid a varying amount. It is a form of PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising. I have made around $4.00 to date from this, but I am sure I will make more as my blog grows.

3. Linkshare- This is an affiliate program where you can place ads or links to other Websites and you earn a percent of the revenue you generate for them. If you can find affiliates that go along with your blog topic you will probably do better. I am just starting to use this, but I will update how it worked for me later.


4. Selling Ad Space- Just like a billboard you can offer space on your blog for companies to advertise. You need to think about what types of ads you will except including size, text/image, and content. You don't want sleazy ads on your blog unless its a sleazy blog. I have not done this yet, but I am open to reviewing any offers I get.

5. Blog Donations- Some bloggers have a PayPal link or other method of accepting donations from dedicated readers. This has worked for some bloggers, but I think you need to be in the "top bloggers list" to implement this tactic.