You better get a bloody good web host for your proxy

Hello everybody. I was just watching TV, we had Discovery turned on here and what I saw there reminded me of this blog again, just like I was thinkning about it minute ago. The reason is, American Chopper was building Go Daddy chopper and I have some Go Daddy experiences to share.

It is all about my proxy. I calculated that I can easily make a few bucks in a year or less if I invest about $45 USD to GoDaddy web host plan and one .info domain for a year. So I did and here are the results.

Just after few months of running my proxy I reached few hundreds of visits per day. And that was generating some traffic. Actually some more traffic. So at maybe third month of my proxy running I reached bandwidth allowed without any problems and transferred few GBs over my limits. So I thought, ups. And after that I've received payment invoice from GoDaddy. They wanted me to pay something over $400 USD for those few GBs over limit. Ups. I got scared at the moment, I ignored it and I'm still ingoring and not making any money from my proxy. They turned me off.

I made about $40 USD all together. So I am still missing few bucks. Not good. But I'm still a domain owner (I guess so) so I still might try to get a new host - special one, for proxies (and adult sites :) - and give it a try again with some small investment. I might get luckier than this last time. And I'll try to think of something different that could make me my few bucks. Any ideas? What's making money for you?

Everybody, let's BlogRush

Let me introduce BlogRush to you - new web service that can help you increase your traffic exponentially.

How it works?

It is pretty simple. You get code for your blog, you place it on your blog, the code generates widget and for every impression you earn some credit. Widget displays few articles from related blogs and as you earn some credits, your articles starts to display at other topic related blogs. By the way, you can also earn credits from your BlogRush referrals.

The idea is very simple and by my experience with very similar service I can tell you that rush about BlogRush is there from a reason. John Chow can tell you what is the result.

Don't hesitate and register you blog to BlogRush.

Juicy links #1, August 7th

So far I had that luck of seeing so many great sites and reading so many great articles and I didn't share them with you. But today I feel like I should share some of them with you.

Juicy links will be irregular mash up of the best ones. Let's start this session with these:

• Three Ways to Spice Up Any Blog Post @ Copyblogger
• 8 Essential Strategies to Saying “No” @ Freelance Switch
• Resources for web designer and freelancers @ zenful creations
• Minty Fresh Indexing @ Matt Cutts
• Japanese Smileys @ Google Blogoscoped
• Setting a Blog Posting Schedule @ Blog Tutorials
• Monday Morning Links Serving: The August 6th edition @ Geeks are sexy
• SEO Game @ GSINC
  

Enjoy!

Posting Frequency vs. Quality Content

This is real, friends, we have a fight here. In the left corner of the ring, there is Mr. Posting Frequency, very fast fighter, can get really angry. And in the right corner, here we have standing Mr. Quality Content, big and strong fighter, has won many fights, as well as his opponent Mr. Posting Frequency. But now, this is day, today, we will find out who is the best. Again - Posting Frequency vs Quality Content.

And the bell rings, fight is started. Mr. Frequency approached closer to Content and gives him several very fast hits. Ouch, that hurts. Okay, okay, so far it looks better for Frequency, but Content is really strong guy and can take some more, I guess. And watch him now - "Ouch" is only thing that Frequency can say, Content hit hard, only once but very hard and Frequency took it bad. But he's getting up and let's see the response. Bang, bam, bom, and the Content is on the ground, Frequency staying proud on his feet. But Quality has it's fans and they want him back. Yes, he's getting on his knees and Frequency is just waiting for exchange some more punches...

If the fight like this happens, who will win? What do you think? What's more: posting frequency or quality content?

Make your first $10

That's was Thirty Day Challenge is about - Make your first $10 in 30 days without a dime spent with help and advice of some skilled guys. Even if you're making more than $10 dollars in less than 30 days, you're welcome to join. I did. And for newcomers - com'on, what your waiting for? Go for it.

30DC (30 Day Challenge) has already begun but you can still become member a try that challenge for yourself. First day, yesterday, was very light introduction with video, podcast and some more ideas about what is going to happen. Looking forward to checking today's stuff.

So guys, newbies and gurus too (except gods) there is always something to learn and people behind 30DC are right people to learn from. Join challenge here. Check out 30DCs blog.

How am I doing?

Hello, everybody. I would like to apologize for not giving you my attention through to whole July. Of course, it's holiday season, so I guess you took some days off too. But still, I was thinking of few bucks blog and got an idea about sharing my secret of current status of my money making projects. Well, to be sharp, it is no secret, but I don't see many people doing that. Here is what I am doing, how is it going, what are the results, traffic, earnings - everything.

Okay, so I have two WordPress based autoblog (geek related and operating systems and software related) that syndicate content from few major sites. They create, I don't know, about 15 posts per day. Of course, credit (and linkback) for those posts is given to their authors, not to me. The problem is that they are getting two little traffic (10 to 20 uniques/day) and earnings are low according to that. Monetizing method here is PPC from Google AdSense. I am also doing heavy link building, mainly by exchanging links at Digital Point forums.

I also have new young and pretty proxy. I did some link exchanging, submitting to many toplists and we'll see what will happen. This is like the first week and proxy is getting about 15 unique visitors/day. Hopefully it will grow by few zeros in number. Monetizing way is also PPC, bud BidVertiser this time.

And, not forgetting, this is my third project. I'm not trying to monetize it any way, because I'm thinking of more long term business plan. Firstly, create some content and get some regular readers. Probably the most difficult but (could-be) best earning project of these three.

Some short term plans? I'm trying to get some traffic for all of my sites. For first two mentioned I'm basically doing link building and last days also stumbling-upon. Heard that it can get you guys pretty good traffic. One of my friends mentioned 1200 uniques/day mostly by StumbleUpon.
And for Few Bucks, I'm just going to keep on writing, creating hopefully interesting content and gaining you - visitors and regular readers.

See you some time again, with updates and news about my projects. By that time I would love to hear about your projects, your problems, your earnings and your plans and models.

Grab my RSS feed, please.

Step 3: Be a part of community

This post is part of "Tuning your blog: From regular to ultimate in 7 steps" series. Today's, third part is about being part of community.

In my country, we have some old legend about king and his sons. King gave his sons a task to complete after which he would decide which of his sons will become a new king. Task was to broke 3 canes. When they were tied up together first two sons were not able to broke them. But when third some untied them, he was able to brake them, each separately. This story teaches us about how important it is to be a part of some fellowship. Even fellowship of bloggers. You can have a good, well ranked blog, but when three other blogs appears, in a cooperation they can easily beat you and become better ranked then you. Community creates strong background for you.

Community in blogosphere means comments, personal contact, links to others, visits, subscriptions and so. Always be informed about what is going on, blog about it, links to others, to their posts, comment at their posts and join discussions. Another point of view: Do what you expect others to do.

Join services like MyBlogLog, it can help you become more visible in community if you browse other blogs. Join discussion groups, be active wherever you can be. Remember, not your own blog is a place for you.

I could tried more to create some list of things to do, but actually I thing that it is more important to get that idea and you'll find ways how to be a part of community.

You have just read first part of series "Tuning your blog: From regular to ultimate in 7 steps".

1. Make it attractive
   
2. Promote (previous post)
   
3. Be a part of community (this post)
4. Be a writer (coming soon..)
   
5. Count
   
6. Do some link love
   
7. Repeat steps 1-6