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Anyway, at least it’s a really simple job to do, another reason why wordpress is so good!
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Ok, not really much to shout about, but I’m pleased that I’m now back to an average of a dollar a day from adsense earnings after the dip I had over the last few months.
A large amount of this is due to a mini site I made. A one page site with information about a particular niche, keyword rich, but still reads well, and some adsense ads. My forum and other few sites are still pulling in a little too, but the noticeable gain has been via the mini site.
When I set the site up, I linked to it from this site and posted one comment on a popular blog on a similar niche and google didn’t take long to find it and start sending people my way.
OK, so what next?
Well, more one pagers I expect for now with my next target being $5 a day average which is a big jump. I’ve also got an idea for a larger site on the same theme as my current mini site, so that may help a little too when I can get round to building it.
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Every little helps, as an advert for a supermarket says.
Scott is running a competition to win fictionforum.net which requires me to write what I would do with the domain should I be the lucky winner.
Well, here goes.
If I was to win fictionforum.net I would initially keep it as it is, but maybe moneytise it with amazon affiliate links. I would then work on an idea that sprung to mind when I heard the domain name. Did you ever read those ‘choose your own adventure’ books where you read a bit of the book and then had a few choices of where you wanted the book to go. Well how about a community driven site where they build the choices.
From a starting paragraph or two, people can register and then submit a choice for the route the story would take. Maybe there could be a limit to the amount of choices each juncture could have, and the amount they could write would be limited too. So a story will unfold, from people writing their own fiction.
When someone reads the story, it records what choices they make, thus giving them a complete book …. if the story ever ends of course.
How about that idea then Scott?
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I’ve always liked LEGO ever since I was a youngster. Technic LEGO was my favourite, building cars and trucks with working steering and suspension and driving them round my bedroom floor.
It’s been a few years since then, but now my love of LEGO is back and it’s all due to the little figures that come with the various LEGO kits.
I’ve seen a few people on Flickr recreating scenes from films, music videos and history and I thought I’d give it a go. So after some digging around at my parents house, my box of LEGO was found and I dug out my collection of figures. I found about 20 or so figures, but they were all old ones. If you look at that figures you get now, they have lots of extra things like better wigs, better accessories and other stuff like capes, beards, and helmets. You can also get flesh coloured figures too, so it’s not just the normal yellow people.
LEGO has also capitalised on the major films too. You an now get kits and figures from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Batman and Spiderman, plus there are also pirate, wild west, space and medieval knights kits and figures available.
The figures are now very collectible and ebay has lots of LEGO figures available, some going for a fair bit of money considering they are just little bits of plastic. For instance, if you have a Jango Fett figure from Star Wars, then you can expect to get around £40 for it on ebay. £40!!!
I’ve now built up a collection of around 100 figures, with about 12 Star War characters (not Jango Fett unfortunately) a couple of Spiderman characters, a few from Harry Potter and the rest is a mixture of knights, spacemen, cowboys and various other figures.
So, if you’ve got some LEGO in the attic or a cupboard. Dig it out and relive your youth, or just flog it on ebay, you may make some good money!
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With porn.com recently selling for $9million, domaining can be a lucrative thing to get into, but obviously getting your hands on a domain like that is not an easy thing to do. So is it worth it, well yeah. There are plenty of niches left to target, think a bit laterally, think about what’s happening in the future that may be worth a domain or two and don’t ignore domains like .org or .org.uk for instance. With all the popular .com and .net domains being bought up, it can be profitable to snap up the other domains too. Maybe not as profitable as a .com but hey, even if you make a small profit it’s worth it.
Sites like SEDO allow you to buy and sell domains, but it’s worth watching what sells and what doesn’t for a while to get an idea what words to go for.
I must add that I am no way near a proper domainer. I don’t buy and sell…. just buy at the moment, and I have a small collection of domains with not much happening on them, but maybe they will prove worth it later down the line.
Have a look at some of the domains I own at randomdomains.co.uk. I’m open to offers if you fancy any of them!
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In my last report I said I had been using the google adsense heat map for forums to position my adsense ads to try and get maximum benefit from them. I positioned them on several of my pages on my Dynax Digital forum and used different adsense channels for each ad so I could track their progress.
After doing this I noticed an increase in earnings, but I only got back to the level I was at before I reskinned the site. Most noticeable was that the adsense ads positioned at the top of the first post in a thread performed the best, earning nearly 4 times as much as the second place position which was the ad placed at the top of the list of forum boards.
Unfortunately the amounts aren’t anything to write home about (but maybe enough to blog about) but I got back to a level where my monthly hosting was covered…… but….. recently these amounts have dropped again. Why this is, I don’t know, but it’s annoying.
I have pulled in a little bit from my other sites too, but the forum forms the major (if you can call it major) source of adsense income.
As a bonus though, I got a ad deal with shopzilla which is part of bizrate.co.uk, a price comparison site. This deal gives me income for a year, paid quarterly and is enough to cover my hosting. So again, not loads, but it all starts to add up doesn’t it.
I am now expanding the forum site a little which should provide more opportunities for affiliate schemes which may prove a better source of income. I read a post on selfmademinds about using one big site (I know I keep going on about that site, but it is good!) which confirmed, for me, that this would be a good way forward.
I’ve still got a long way to go before I can retire on web site earnings alone, but with a few small steps in the right direction I might start making some inroads into that dream.
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It’s a bank holiday here in the UK, which is basically what we call a public holiday and I’ve spent the morning packing up some of my old photography gear that I sold on ebay and watching Star Wars Empire Strikes Back, the original laser disc version not the one that George Lucas has fiddled with.
Anyway, I thought I’d do a round up of the sites that I look at on a daily basis for various purposes, so here you go:
Dynax Digital Forums - this is forum site that I run. I have to check it daily, sometimes several times a day, just to make sure it hasn’t been targetted by spammers and that things are running as they should. I don’t think anyone really realises the amount of work involved in running a forum, but it’s worth it when you start to see a great community building from something you’ve done.
Self Made Minds - I came across this blog purely by accident while clicking a few links in articles on other sites. I eventually ended up at this great site. For someone who wants to make money from their web site, it’s well worth a visit. The writing style and the tips and ideas, and the honesty from the authors too, make it a handy site to keep an eye on.
Daily Blog Tips - I check this almost daily as Daniel usually has a handy well written article on running a blog to read. His site is really taking off, so good work fella!
The Register - for an IT chap like myself, it’s good to keep up to date on the latest news in the IT world. The way the articles are written make it good to read.
BBC News - I generally don’t read or watch the news. It’s always full of doom and gloom, but I use the BBC’s news portal to keep up to date on what’s going on in the world. I don’t read all the news, just the bits that catch my attention.
Flickr - I check and see what my contacts are getting up to, see if anyone has commented on my photos or just get some inspiration.
Techzi - I also check David’s site Techzi from time to time. Reading his comments on what’s going on in the techy world can be quite amusing, even though he is a young whipper snapper. Hope the exams go well for you!
So that’s my regular set of sites, there are numerous others I check occasionally but these are the main ones. I used to check out ProBlogger daily too, but for some reason I’ve gone off it, the site just doesn’t grab my attention anymore even if some of the articles are useful. Maybe it’s the design, maybe it’s the writing style, or maybe I’ve just found other sites that suit me better, I don’t know. Sorry Darren. I’m sure you won’t lose sleep over me not stopping by as often!
So there you go, a Bank Holiday update. Now it’s time to get to back to Empire Strikes Back, there’s 2 star destroyers coming and the hyperdriver motivator on the millennium falcon isn’t working! Serious stuff!
Just a really quick update on my post about speed painting.
The dude who has produced some amazing stuff on YouTube has started a web site dedicated to speed painting. It’s still in it’s early stages but it looks like it should a great place for information and tutorials.
Ever since Vivien at Inspiration Bit made me aware of speed painting from her post ‘7 Astonishing Minutes to Get Inspired‘ I have been amazed by the amount of talent out there and the work they are showing on YouTube. I’ve become a bit addicted to watching the videos actually, and manage to use up my time just watching what’s new and what people are painting.
For those of you that don’t know what speed painting is, it’s basically a recording of someone using software, usually Adobe Photoshop, to paint a picture. This recording is sped up so a painting that took several hours can be watched in several minutes. If you use Photoshop, then watching these videos is just amazing, even if you’ve never used Photoshop they are still good to watch.
Now, my painting skills are not up to the level of the speed painters on YouTube, but I thought about doing a similar thing for photo editing. So when I work on an image that requires a fair amount of work, I plan to record it then speed the video up so I can show my own speed photoshopping videos. To do this I need software to do the recording, so I did a bit of a hunt around to see what was available. Something free, or cheap, was what I was after and I eventually found CamStudio which is free to download and use. It’s open source and is a development of the software that eventually became Adobe’s Robodemo. Anyway, enough of the boring development history, it records what you do and saves it to an Avi file or even a Flash file, so it looks ideal.
I’ve not actually got a video to show you yet, but I will have. I’ve actually got to do a talk to the camera club I’m in and I want to use this technique to try and keep everyone awake during the evening so I should have something soon.
In the mean time, here’s one of my favourites from YouTube:
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