Its quite a time since i have talked to you about my business project. Slowly but surely we have been developing it and we are getting close to an end with the development of the website. Our programmers have done a very nice job, and our website has now many features to attract our target.
But we still have some large amount of work, especially on the legal side with the writing of the terms and conditions but also for the creation of our comapny. With my partner, for legal reasons we have decided to create a UK LTD company to protect ourselves. Indeed with an LTD, our belongings are not in danger, if ever something goes wrong like a user taking legal action against us for photo copyright reasons (which should not happen, but you never know!) well we need to protect ourselves. The LTD seem adapted to our needs for this reason. Furthermore for new small companies they are rather good in terms of taxes, this also pushed us towards this type of company.
Once all is completed with the website, we are thinking of offering to people to buy some shares that we would give them once the company is created. This could be a good opportunity for small investors as you never know we might become very big one day :)! But i must admit our idea is brilliant so we will see. I will keep you tuned!
After reading an article on John Chow where he describes his revenues, i have decided to start joining affiliate programs such as Text Link Ads affiliate program in order to get some extra revenue. The only issue is that i have far less visitors that John Chow so i am not sure i will earn money with this program, but we will give it a try. I will aslo talk about other text ads competitors which i am thinking of using.
Basically Text Link Ads affiliate program pays you $25 when you refer a new publisher or advertiser to them. What is good is that apparently you receive directly $25 once the publisher has been approved. So for example, if you click on my Text Link Ads affiliate banner on the left, join the program, and get approved as publisher (your website needs to be approved), well i will receive $25, this looks good no? Furthermore there publisher text ads seem to be as good as competitors so Text Link Ads seems to be overal a real winner from what i have heard and read. So i would recommend you subscribing to Text Link Ads as you have a good possibility of getting extra earnings for your website.
The second program i wanted to talk about and which is also used on John Chow is Kontera Content Link, which is can be used (as Text Link Ads) in addition to Google Adsense, if ads from Google can be clearly recognisable and that therefore users do not get confused between ads. I am waiting to be approved in order to add it to my blog.
I will keep you updated every month with my revenues for these affiliates/text ads programs!
I am proud to announce that even though my blogs are still rather new and unknow, i am present in Paula’s list of blogger salaries. I am ranked 60, even though you must consider that my earnings are low and many bloggers earn a lot more than i do, so 60 is not representative of my earnings, but the ranking is nice as it allows you to have an idea how much some types of blog/bloggers can earn. To be true i earn more than what is written, but this is because Paula’s list cannot be updated all the time. My revenues should be $600 instead of $479!
The second part of this article will be about an article from notsoboringlife.com which compares blog earnings to alexa ranking. The conclusion from his article is that blog earnings are closely related to traffic (visitors) and therefore to alexa ranking. Yet again my blog is named on this website and am very prowd of it 
Recently, i read an article on how to find niche adsense markets. I found it really interesting as it was a different approach from how i usually do. It is not simply based on using a software to find best keywords in regards to google searches or results, it helps you find directly potential subjects for your blog.
The method consists of going on ebay, and looking at hottest products for each category. Once you find something interesting, well searching in the category for a subcategory is the best. Then search particular products which you will be able to talk about in your blog! This is good as you already know what you have to talk about!
After this make a .txt document with the keywords you find. Make a good list. Then use the brainstorm generator trial for the keywords of your list. You will then find those that have a potential.
Using this method i have created two new blogs which i hope will be successful on the long term. One which has the less potential is “Cat food & treats” , which has small searches under google but also very little results, so we will see if it works or not. The second blog is “Necklaces & Pendants” which seems to have a good potential. I cannot expect to have results straight away. I will need to post regularly the first few months, then hope to have some traffic increase in order to be able to make some profit. I will keep you updated about this! Wish me luck!
Everyone would like to know how to make money while blogging. Is it easy? how much can i make? What do i have to do? So many questions … and so many answers! … but no revenues come in! What the hell is happening? Why cant you make money?
Well i think there is no perfect solution on how to make money while blogging. I mean it is not only using pre-made google adsense blogs, doing seo, finding good keywords or even writting interesting posts! It is also about being there at the right moment with the right idea so that people will come and read your blog! Think about all the factors that need to be taken into consideration? Readers from the US will surely read your blog either at lunch if they have time or in the evening, so maybe posting in the evening in order to be in the latest blog post of websites such as digg.com is a good idea ? well probably, but it wont be enough! Being successful is an accumulation of bright ideas and techniques that allow your blog to become successful!
In order to help you with creating your blog, i thought i would show you a link where they talk about top bloggers and how they earn money: How Top Bloggers Earn Money.
It is really interesting to see how some stupid ideas such as the cat picture “I can has cheezburger?” can allow you to become successful! Blogs such as boingboing.net, shows that being creative and writing about your passion can also be a key element to success. You can also note from the link i gave you that most of the bloggers did not expect to earn money from their blog at first, which shows that they were either doing their blog for personal reasons, such as passion for a topic, or simply writing for fun! For me the solution, if there is one, is to write a blog on what interests you but where you feel there might be a potential. If you are totaly into what you are writing then people will come! A must is sense of humor which is much appreciated! I really hope all of this information will help you having new ideas for blogs! Good luck!
We are now in July, it is time for an update of my monthly google adsense earnings. My total earnings for the month of June are $58.16, which is a 17% decrease compared to my May earnings! I am satisfied with the earnings even though they have been decreasing as i have not been posting during this period. The total visitors has also decreased this month.
My blog which is the most profitable is as usual The Color Contacts, which earned me $54.09 this month which is less than the $65 of May. The Color Contacts has still been successful this month but is not developing so much due to a lack of time to update it.
My second blog, My Color Contacts, on the same topic as The Color Contacts has a total earning of $1.18 which is very low.
My third blog, Dollar James, is stable and my profit has slowly increased. My earning for Dollar James in June are $2.80 .
All in all, i am satisfied by my earnings especially as i have not been posting at all. Next month will be bad as i have still not posted anything, well i have but only a couple of days ago. My leading blog, The Color Contacts has good profit so i intend to increase the number of posts on it in order to make sure that for the month of August profits will start again to increase.
By the way i have received by post mail my first Google Adsense payment of $160 which is a good start
We are now beginning of June, it is time for an update of my monthly google adsense earnings. My total earnings for the month of May are $70.82, which is a 75% increase compared to April! I am really happy with this progress, as my main blog has doubled its earnings. The total visitors has increased by 22% this month.
My blog which is profitable is as usual The Color Contacts, which earned me $65.28 this month which is the double of what i earned in April ($32.79)! The Color Contacts has been really successful this month with an increase in visitors and earnings.
My second blog, My Color Contacts, on the same topic as The Color Contacts is not developing as wanted, but this is surely due to the fact that i do not post regularly enough and especially i did not post suffisiantly at the beginning. My Color Contacts has very few visitors unfortunately and total earning is of $1.91 which is less than in April.
My third blog, this one, Dollar James, is stable and number of visitors has been multiplied by 4. Nevertheless profit has not increased, as my earning for Dollar James in May is $1.84 .
All in all, i am satisfied by the increase in my earnings especially as i have not been posting recently. My leading blog, The Color Contacts is getting close to a $70 earning per month which is very nice in regards to the work i do This month i plan to most more regularly in order to increase even more my earnings, and myabe reach $100 in the month with The Color Contacts!
As always, i am interested by making money. I started mid April, trading on the forex market. At first with demo accounts, but quickly i started trading real money, and what is astonishing, is that without any effort i have been making regular profit!
So how did i proceed? Well first of all i read a great deal of information on the forex. My main source of information was Babypips.com! On Babypips.com, i found all the basic information such as “Fundemental economic news” always need to be taken into consideration, as you cannot rely on graphical studies only. I then learnt to analyse graphs, and especially candles with patterns such as hammers, hanging man, dodji, or shooting stars! Once i had a basic understanding of the meaning of of candles, i then started looking Indicators, such as Fibonacci, macd, rsi, bollinger, MAs, EMAs!
The most important is finding a system that you understand and which suits you! When trading, it is essential to have at least 3 indicators that confirm your trade decisions. Also any economic information must also be taken into consideration. I have several systems, some which are for specific pairs such as GBP/USD or GBP/JPY. But in all casses i use macd, rsi, bollinger, and MAs.
So how has trading been getting along for me? Well in fact pretty well. I have been trading irregularly for a month. I would say that i have traded half of the business days this month. My profit is 17% which is really good considering i have only been trading half the month. I can easily make between 20 to 80 pips a day, which is quite good for a beginner
So i will continue learning and trading and i hope to improve my skills and increase my monthly earnings!
So here we are beginning of May, its time for to give you an update on my Google Adsense earnings. My total earnings for the month of April are $39.99, which is 3 times more than what i earned in March! I consider this to be a really nice progress! Furthermorethe number of visitors has impressively increased!
So lets go in details with my various blogs and websites that earn me money. My most profitable blog is The Color Contacts which earned me $32.79 which is most of my profit.
My second most successful blog was My Color Contacts which i have just started. The number of pages viewed is small but it still represents an earning of $5.04. I am trying to develop this blog, but am having a few difficulties.
My third blog that earned me money is this website, DollarJames.com which earned me $1.81. This blog is only used for information purpose and to update about what i am doing on the net, and how i am successful in making money, so it is normal that it is not optimized to earn money!
Overall, i am really satisfied with my Google Adsense earnings as they have tripled since March! The Color Contacts is having a great success with more and more visitors. My Color Contacts is progressing rather slowly i hope this blog will develop very soon. Considering i did not post in April on Dollar James, it is normal that earnings are low. I intend to correct this during the month of May.
My objectives are to continue earning as much with The Color Contacts, doubling my revenue from My Color Contacts, and increasing revenue from Dollar James. I will keep you updated end of May!
On the 5th of February i launched two blogs on two supposed “niche” markets. It is now over a month they have launched, and the results are interesting to analyse.
The first blog i launched was The Color Contacts, which was based on the color contacts niche market. I posted on this blog about one post every week or every week and a half (so not a great deal!). My adsense revenue was rather disapointing in February, as i had a small amount of visitors and a $2.18 revenue for 25 days. Pretty bad no? Well yes and no, i did not promotion for it, and its the first month so at the end of the month i decided to continue with it by posting new info on it. I was rather supprised that in March my adsense revenue started increasing especially that i was posting less frequently! For the moment in March (18 days), i have nearly doubled my visitors and my adsense revenue is of $5.52 in 18 days. Basically i have already more than doubled my February revenue in even less days! Considering the color contacts has only be launched just over a month and a half ago, i think this is rather impressive vue the time i am spending on it! I intend to continue with it, and hope revenue will continue improving as my ranking in search engines and blog search engines.
My conclusion about the color contacts “niche” is that it definitely has a potential and i can expect to earn $73.6 a month in June if it continues doubling every month as it is now! Consdering all of this, i have decided to launch a second blog on the color contacts “niche” market in order to increase my earnings. The blog is called: My Color Contacts and can be accessed with this url: http://mycolorcontacts.blogspot.com
The second blog i had launched on a “niche” market, but which i thought would be less successful was The Glowsticks. I chose this niche as clicks were paid relatively high. Nevertheless i have been disapointed by this niche market, as i have had poor results in Frebruary and in March. This is probably because people do not visit blogs for glowsticks maybe lol? Therefore i am kind of leaving this blog asside as i think it has a poor potential or if it has it is more difficult to reach. Statistics are awful, hardly any visitors in February and a revenue of $0.19! March is even worse, but this is because i am no longer updating it!
Overall, i am confident for the color contacts niche market, and hope to have several successful blogs that will allow me to earn a small monthly income between $100 and $200 a month in a couple of months! I will keep you updated of my future revenues regarding these blogs!
