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Entries from January 2008

Advertise yourself here

Date January 16, 2008

I’m trying to find some new, lesser-known blogs for my reading list. This is the list I use to put together posts on ChillyCool. The big blogs are already linked everywhere - I want to offer something niche.
If you have a blog about affiliate marketing, SEO, etc., from which you think I’d find articles for [...]

Hiring writers

Date January 14, 2008

I realized within a day of posting my insane content writing goals for 2008 that I could use some help. Hired writers to the rescue! Right?
I’m not sure. How do you know that when someone sells you “unique” articles, they aren’t selling them over and over? Aside from asking people you know and trust, I [...]

My plan for 2008

Date January 7, 2008

I’ve mapped out my goals for 2008, and they are huge. I had been planning to build more article reprint sites, but instead I’m revamping the ones I have into original content sites. This’ll be tough - they’re on a range of topics I’m not terribly familiar with. But I know how to research and [...]

Giving up on CrispAds

Date January 5, 2008

The new owners of CrispAds are just so unresponsive, I think I have to give up on them. I was earning a decent little chunk of change that I thought might turn into some actual money down the line, but over the holidays they changed their interface so I can no longer see my earnings.  [...]

Ad buying adventures: pushing aff sales

Date January 2, 2008

Yesterday I talked about how I was trying some new methods for pushing aff sales and seeing a good CTR, which I hoped meant conversions were around the corner? I just had my first conversion, and I’m excited.
The first change I made was to create a banner to promote one of my affiliate shops (that’s [...]

Happy New Year! and December 2007 stats

Date January 1, 2008

This December was a bit disappointing with $348 in earnings.
For January, I gained some cheap text links on one of my PR Zero blogs but lost some expensive ones on this one. I’m still not sure this is related to the zeroing out - I’d have thought so, except for the new text links I’m [...]