Don't Fail By Giving Up Too Soon

This is something I’ve written about several times on this site. The main reason online marketers fail is because they give up too soon. It can take 6-12 months before a site starts providing regular income. And that doesn’t mean create your site and sit back and wait. During those months you need to promote your site and continue to add good content.

With most Internet marketers giving up within the first six months, if you can hang in there at least that long, a good part of your competition will have fallen aside. Your site will have age on its side, compared to any new sites coming online.

I have been online for 1 ½ years. August will be two years. I have to admit that during this time I have considered giving up. But I didn’t. I’ve hung in there and now traffic to my sites is increasing slowly but steadily. And I am making money from my sites.

Keep at it, work every day at it, and don’t give up. If you give up then you definitely will fail.

You Can Be In Charge of Your Blog Post Title

There is one thing (among others) that Blogger can be annoying about. And that is the blog posts URLs. What Blogger does is use the title of the post to create the URL. Well sometimes (a lot of times?) the title doesn't really work well for SEO purposes and wouldn't it be nice to be able to make the URL a bit more SEO friendly.

Well, you can. See the title of this post? Now click on the title and check out the URL. They are NOT the same. How did I do this? Simple.

And the big thank you goes to the blog Etiole.

Now if there was a way to do this with scheduled posts, that would be great. Unfortunately, unlike Wordpress, Blogger does not assign the post a URL until it actually posts.

Condron.us For Your Blog

I use Sitemeter to monitor the stats on my blogs. Just recently I noticed traffic from Condron.us on one of my blogs.

So I decided to check it out. Turns out that Condron.us is a huge blogroll with over 9000 blogs listed. Recently updated blogs are also randomly pulled from Wordpress and Blogger, which is how I suspect my blog ended up being displayed.

A visitor to Condron.us is exposed to blogs as they display one after the other. There is a timer that the reader can adjust. If an interesting site pops up, the reader can stop the timer.

It's free and it's easy to load your blog URL. I've loaded this one. I already know the site can drive traffic. Being just one out of 9000 I don't know how much traffic I'll get. But writing this post about Condron.us is supposed to improve my chances of this site being displayed.

Get Cash For Your Books

I just found this site: Cash4Books.net

In my opinion this site has got a BUNCH of things going for it:

* In today's economy, people need CASH.

* Easy way to turn your used books/textbooks into CASH.

* Quick quote. Enter ISBN (no dashes) and get an instant quote on the value of your book (s).

* THEY pay the shipping.

What could be easier?

Looking to gather a little extra cash? Check your bookshelves for those dust collectors and then get a quote from Cash4Books.net.

Jazzz - Another Scam

Jazzz.com is a free traffic site. It promises

FREE 250,000,000 Visitors to your website.

It looks real good. You have to submit your website and then view 10 websites for one minute each. The intro sounds really promising.

When you signup, you are presented 10 websites for a period of one minute each. Some might say one minute is too long... Wrong ! We want to send you real interested traffic, traffic that converts to sales, so, what you do is what you get! Be honest to the people who owns these 10 websites and your visitors will be honest with you. That means, take your one minute (or more) to sneak around each site, read what the site is all about, buy a product... Once you will be completed with this step, we will give you a unique URL. A real .html page that we will index in 1,000s of search engines and directories through a professional software we own. Of course you can send your own people there as well or promote the way you want (without spam of course). You will also get a login so you can check your stats or change your URL as necessary. The results are guaranteed! Just try now, it's free!

So I signed up and I viewed the 10 sites. I got my referral URL. Now what????

It has been several days since I became a member and, based upon my stats on the site, I haven't had one visitor. What I did get is a LONG list of emails.....

What am I suppose to do with these emails? There is no opt-in to a safelist. Am I suppose to spam them? I don't think so.

Don't waste the 10 minutes. Move onto something else.

Internet a Boon to Collectors

If you are a collector, the Internet is a fantastic resource. Information on whatever anyone might be collecting is available at one's fingertips.

With a little time and effort, it is possible to get current values, to buy, and to sell.

Whether you are looking for Michael Jackson collectibles or rooster dinnerware, you'll find it on the Internet. All you need is a little time to look.

My Experiment With Buying Traffic

I have a post about signing up for Linkbee. Linkbee is one of those URL shortening sites where you can have a banner ad show up at the top of your page, or what they call an interstitial ad, the kind that shows up before your page displays. Based upon the number of times the ad is displayed, and where it is displayed (what country), I could make some money.

I found a great resource for buying traffic cheap. I was looking at 10K hits. Based upon the rate table on the Linkbee site, I figured I'd make close to my cost back and maybe even make some money by making a sale or two.

Well, I did make some money but it was mostly from Adsense ad clicks. I made zero sales. And I also made very little money at Linkbee. In trying to figure out why I discovered that 1) my traffic was almost all non-U.S. traffic and I was getting paid at .125 cents/1000 versus a possible .50 cents/thousand with U.S. traffic and 2) I was probably getting multiple hits via the same IP address so those didn't even count.

Did I make my money back? Probably in Adsense hits. Would I do it again? Maybe. But not just yet. I've got to think of a better approach or, at least, find another site that does what Linkbee does but pays better for non- U.S. hits.

Any suggestions?