Archive for July, 2005
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Sunday, July 31st, 2005Problogger is calling for is calling for blogging tips. My blogger tip is if you would like to be successful and get a lot of people reading your blog, I believe you need to be fairly generous in talking about your own personal experiences. Linking to articles you have read somewhere on the web, won’t [...]
Flickr
Sunday, July 31st, 2005I have register for a Flickr account and I have started uploading pictures to my account. I heard of someone being offered cash to use a picutre in a magazine so I thought that I should try starting to load some of the 100s of pictures I have on Tokyo and my travels in Asia. [...]
Hostel Affiliate
Saturday, July 30th, 2005I am doing ok with the BookHostels.com affiliate program. I hope it’s not just the summer influx of visitors. I found the affiliate program from the LonelyPlanet website.
Problogger Interview
Thursday, July 28th, 2005I am listening to an interview with Darren Rowse click here to listen There are alot of good ideas in the interview. I was just thinking of the potential I have with taking pictures of a city that no everyone can get to. I really need to upgrade my phnone.
Summer Time
Thursday, July 28th, 2005I don’t know if it is my crummy posts or it’s the northern hemisphere summer but my traffic on this blog is way down this month. The good news is that my tokyoessentials site is doing fairly well. I have had a few hotel bookings which is also promising. I have also seen a lot [...]
Dating Sites
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005I am an affiliate of the Friendfinder.com program. I earn around $70 a month from them. You earn $1 for every male and $2 for every female that signs up. People can sign up for free. To actually send people email you need to become a paying member. I have been with the program for [...]
Planning new site
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005I am thinking about creating a new site. I have seen the potential with Adsense and motivated by people like Problogger. I am thinking all the time what areas might be profitable and reach the widest audience and require the minimum of maintenance. One of the hardest things is finding a suitable domain name these [...]
Tokyo Earthquake
Saturday, July 23rd, 2005Tokyo just had an earthquake. It was magnitude 5 on the Japanese scale. I was in the basement of a building which is a supermarket. It was a little scary. The stopped the elevators in my building and I had to walk up 10 floors.
Mention on Problogger
Friday, July 22nd, 2005I got a mention on Problogger on a post I created about Darren’s $14K month. This is what I wrote: “I don’t know if I could put that much effort into blogging. I would prefer to maintain a website, that you don’t have to keep adding entries to and doesn’t require too much maintenance.” This [...]
Hyatt Affiliate Program
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005Hyatt has rejected my site from their affiliate program. “After careful review of your site, it does not meet our traffic and targeting goals for this program.” Out of curosity I have asked them for examples of a site that does fit their targeting and traffic goals. How can much more targetted can you get [...]
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