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Entries from April 2006

BloggingAds

Date April 25, 2006

You probably noticed that yesterday’s entry contained an ad for “Danforth Diamonds”. As you know, I’ve been looking for new ad networks to use, and not finding any that really worked for me. Well, this one certainly appears to have potential.
I saw an ad for Blogging Ads, which said that if I submitted [...]

Goal assessment, and my new focus on affiliate sites

Date April 24, 2006

This has been a big week for assessing my goals, both online and off. And cool enough, a lot of things have started coming together in my head. In order to clear the way for new business, I’ve been taking care of a lot of basic maintenance recently, and all that rote work [...]

My first AdSense check, and AdBrite and CrispAds and Chitika and Pheedo

Date April 20, 2006

I’ve finally made enough on AdSense to get paid, assuming all goes well. I’ll let you know when it happens.
In the meantime, I have some thinking to do. Do I want to continue with AdSense, and hope eventually it gets to where I can earn a check in less than a year? [...]

Directories overrun with crap

Date April 18, 2006

I run three free directories, including the one here. My submission queues are so backed up with utter crap that I can’t keep up and get the decent sites approved in a reasonable amount of time. Nor can I possibly look at every site carefully - I’m having to delete a lot of [...]

GoDaddy refund

Date April 11, 2006

A representative from GoDaddy contacted me privately after my latest article on my troubled domain transfer. Since then, my domain has been transferred, and my PayPal account credited with the amount of the last renewal I was forced to order, or risk losing the domain.
While that doesn’t help customers who don’t have a blog [...]

Don’t put PPC ads on directories

Date April 6, 2006

This site is a blog and a directory, as you probably know. I have one other site that’s similar. Both were doing well on AdBrite: this one was fetching a nice price for ads, and selling them regularly, while the other was going gangbusters with the “intermission ads”. At first, I only [...]

GoDaddy sucks more than I thought

Date April 5, 2006

Remember the domain I tried to transfer from GoDaddy, only they set up an impossible scenario in which I couldn’t possibly set everything properly to make the transfer, and was forced to renew the domain with GoDaddy, or lose it?
Now that their 60-day squatting period is over, I’m trying once again to transfer it. [...]

Steady income from ads and PPC

Date April 4, 2006

My affiliate sites are still struggling, at least partially because I’m not giving them the attention they need. But my 5 blogs that rent adspace and PPC are starting to bring in a steady $35 per month. That’s nothing - a utility bill - but all of them put together have something like [...]