Friday, 14 September 2007

I Love Pay Per Post!

I only joined pay per post the other month and already have earned money from writing only a couple of blogs here! I've probably missed more opportunities than I have taken as I keep forgetting to log in and see what are available. It seems that those people who blog based in the USA get a few more opportunities to blog than us UK bloggers, though we do get some opportunities that are unique to to Europe and the UK in compensation. Also blogger who have their blog hosted on a website get more opportunities as some specifically want blog posts that aren't on blogspot and similair blogging platforms. I'm considering moving or creating a blog on one of my websites in the near future. I may even consider purchasing a specific URL to host my blog as I'm confident that PPP will more than cover the costs of hosting in the long run!

Pay Per Post works as advertisers seek new forms of marketing to aid their traffic generation and web site presence. It works for bloggers as we get paid to do stuff we enjoy! I'm hoping to put my earnings from Pay-Per-Post into paying for a new laptop, and if it goes extremely well I'll even consider buying a much dreamed of Apple iBook!

Saturday, 8 September 2007

My Squidoo Earnings Payout!

I blogged about Squidoo a couple of months ago when I joined up. It's a pretty unique social networking site where you get to create pages on any subject that you want. Unlike myspace, facebook, etc it's unique in that it's main purpose is to earn you money! I received my first payout yesterday for $17.48 or a little over £8, first I knew of this was an email from paypal telling me the money had arrived!

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

I didn't think too much at first until I read more and did a few searches but not only can you earn cash from creating pages you can drive traffic to your website, make pages about gadgets and gizmos that you can place your affiliate links on, or even take the easy option if you don't want to have to manage an affiliate account as squidoo has over 1000 affiliates already and a very easy interface for you to advertise their products.

I only joined up at the very end of June so July was my first month on squidoo and I didn't spend to much time on it. The lens that I did spend a lot of time and effort on was my Perry Mason Lens, though I don't think I got it completed to my satisfaction until August and I'm still tweeking it occasionally.

Imagine my Surprise when this lens earned me over $15!!! $4 of this was for being a high ranked lens, though it never made the top 100 on squidoo, it did spend a few days inside the top 200 on occassion and does get about 40 hits a week. So this $4 was a payout for being in the top tier on squidoo as a share of the sites adsense revenue, but where did the rest come from? Well, squidoo don't do much to break down the sources of revenue as yet, though this could have been from referalls to ebay or cafepress as they were the only money making modules on the page apart from Amazon, and they do log your amazon referalls, though I only had one purchase via amazon, and that's a pre-order which won't ship until next week, so earnings from that won't come through for another couple of months. Visitors may have gone to ebay to look at Perry Mason items I was showing there, or they may have bought items off Cafepress I was highlighting. Other lenses earnings varied from 4cents each for the work in progress and minimal lenses that haven't had much traffic and I keep meaning to go back and finish these, and 73cents for other lenses that were getting reasonable traffic. Though I must mention that these other lenses have sent traffic to my site, and also earned me commission from people following links on them to products I was recommending so am very pleased with my first couple of months on squidoo!


Next month should be even better as squidoo traffic was considerably down in July due to getting a slap from google due to allowing the creation of 'spam' pages, this was something squidoo jumped on very quickly but it did have a huge impact on visitors to the site and rankings on search engines for google which didn't really recover until August

I know that at least one visitor did go to cafepress to buy an item, as it was an item I created in a Cafepress store I was inspired to open by squidoo's interface with them, so not only did I earn commission for sending a customer there, I earned money as they bought an item I had created. For more info on Cafepress and how to earn money selling stuff from coasters to coffee mugs, stickers to wall clocks and aprons to thongs all with your own designs on, just click on this banner - and sign-up, it's real easy!

Design and Sell Merchandise Online for Free

So what are you waiting for? Sign up to squidoo now, if you use this link you will also get an extra $5 when you earn your first $15 and so will I!

Saturday, 1 September 2007

My Online Earnings for August

Well August was an OK month for me considering people were mainly on holiday and in search of the sun! My internet income is increasing steadily, not quite my best month on Amazon, though as I'm working on other affiliate schemes and increasing my adsense earnings in the time I'd usually be spending on amazon I'm pretty happy with the results so far.


One of the other new projects has been joining Pay Per Post, where I'm getting a chance to be paid to do a little blogging now and then. See this post for details.

I joined ClixGalore earlier this month, though have yet to implement many of their ads so have no income yet. Commission Junction is showing some nice earnings from referrals to some paid opinion sites where people get rewards for completing surveys like this one -

Make your opinion count!



And I am also picking up some earnings from Affiliate Future too!



Though the main purpose of this post is to show a few of the wacky items people have either bought from amazon through my links or looked at! I'm also showing off my newly installed java script so I can show you the full details of these on my site! So here we go -




The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance




Hotel California: Singer-songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons 1967-1976



The White Island: The Extraordinary History of the Mediterranean's Capital of Hedonism




Aspire AS3694, Intel Celeron 440, 15.4" TFT with Acer CrystalBrite screen, 512MB memory, 80GB Hard Disk Drive, DVD Super-Multi, Shared graphics, WiFi, 5 in 1 Card Reader, Windows Vista Basic
I would have been a very happy bunny if I'd sold one of these, though lots did look at it!


Bose Sounddock Digital Music System
And one of these days I'd really like to buy one of these myself!


Chubb B-3G114E-PB-67 5 Lever Mortice Deadlock (British Standard) - Polished Brass Finish
Security seems to have been popular too!


MTD001 Adjustable wall mount bracket for large Plasma and LCD screens.
These wall mounts for plasma and LCD screens are in high demand!


JTS JS-1 Large Diaphragm Condensor Studio Mic + Shock Mount & Case
Amazon are even moving into the market traditionaly coveted by Studio Spares for Pro-Audio gear!

And Finally, at the end of the day -

NEW VITAMIN C SHOWER 5 FUNCTION SHOWER WATER FILTER FOR PERFECT CHLORINE REMOVAL, MULTI FUNCTION, SHOWER, MASSAGE, SPRAY, SOFT SHOWER, STOP.ACTS AS IONISER WHILST SHOWERING GREAT FOR SKIN & HAIR, HELPS WITH SENSITIVE SKIN & SKIN ALLERGIES, IDEAL FOR INFANTS & CHILDREN - SUPPLIED WITH 2 FILTERS
For those living in areas where the tap waters not too clever, makes a huge difference in hair condition.

Before climbing into -

Deluxe Raised Airbed
Well it would normally be a proper bed, but these things inflate in minutes and pack away almost as fast. The other advantage being they do elevate you off the floor so ideal for guests and temporary visitors.

Thursday, 23 August 2007

News! New Social Marketing Site Launches


This new social marketing site is due to be unleashed late September / early October, members can play and earn money by winning games against other players, either one-on-one or in tournaments (where each player pays a small fee and the winner takes all), or, pay a membership fee and get paid a commission for each member they introduce and an instant bonus when they sign up another business builder

uVme is a flexible combination of social networking and direct marketing, often reffered to as Social Marketing. This is a growing phenomenon on the net and uVme are geared to take a leading position in this. After all why blog for nothing when you can earn from schemes such as this.

A universal-messenger interface that lists your contacts from MSN, AIM, Yahoo and GoogleTalk so you can challenge your friend to a game who would then be invited to join as a member, you would also earn comission from their earnigs as well as being able tostay in touch with people you and they sign up

The parent company has been involved with MLM for 5 years and has invested a 7 figure sum of money into promoting uVme.

A uvme pre-launch highlights movie has had over 23,000 views on YouTube in just 3 weeks.



uVme is set to be huge globally with the site already configured with various language options already available.

And until the launch, registration on is free, so you can start building your network now!

uVme is the creation of Andy Bailey, a veteran of, blogging and Social Marketing, read more on Andy Baileys blog



Want to be part of my network? Then sign up by using the banner below to enter the site or leave a comment and I'll send an invite!

Saturday, 18 August 2007

Unusual Books!

I don't often post about other blogs, but having come across this blog about some very unusual book bindings and book sculpture by Blogger Avi Abrams I feel compelled to promote such a fantastic collection of photographs of many different books. If you think I'm being a bit of a bibliophile or book geek, you may well change your mind when you see the vast range of creative binding and art crearted from books.

Friday, 17 August 2007

I signed up for Pay Per Post

Pay Per Post is an opportunity to earn money writing blogs. It took a couple of weeks from applying to get approved though during the approval I had access to what sort of opportunities that would be available and what sort of subjects and products were wanting plugging on my blog for payment. It may be a long way from being a professional blogger, but it will certainly provide an incentive to post more regularly as well as an easy form of income that will help me pay for various web-hosting and other associated online fees. For those of a more charitable mind you have the choice of donating the income to a charity.


I'm hoping this opportunity will also help drive traffic to my my blog as well as earn me a nice cash bonus!



Thursday, 16 August 2007

What to do with those old books, CD's, DVD's, Games?

Just thought I'd let you know about a special deal Hitflip are running at the moment -

List your DVDs, books, games, audiobooks or CDs to swap on Hitflip
by September 1st 2007 (00:00GMT) making them immediately available to swap, they will credit accounts with a bonus:



10 items = £1 credit

25 items = £3 credit

100 items = £15 credit



Europe's No.1 Swapping Site


This is a great way of clear stuff from your shelves where they are collecting dust, and replacing them with stuff you want! The only cost to yourself is 79p admin charge and the postage of sending an item to receive credits to get more items. With them giving away free credit at the moment, there's never been a better time to register with them!