Archive | August, 2005

August earnings

29 August 2005

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August has suprisingly been a good month for me. I have earnt over $300 with one particular affiliate and there is still 2 more days to go for another sale. I am in line with my Adsense forecast – which I am happy about. Especially since I was on holidays for about 10 days. I [...]

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Content Content Content

27 August 2005

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One the best ways to get traffic to your site, retain visitors and earn money from programs like Adsense is – content. Most webmasters make a target of creating at least one page of content a day. Depending on how much you devote to your website, this can be an easy or difficult task. Just [...]

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Travel Agency

22 August 2005

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Sorry if it sounded like I was complaining, where I said that people were inundating me with questions by email as though I am a travel agency. The fact that people think that my site is like a travel agency is probably a good thing, as people with book their tours, hotels and flights through [...]

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Blog Outsourcing to China?

19 August 2005

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I came across this site this morning, and had a good laugh. To quote from the first post on the site, “The beginning of this blog marks the beginning of a business venture that lies on what I believe to be shaky moral ground…What Jeff and I are doing is simple but as far as [...]

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Adding a forum

18 August 2005

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I have been getting a lot emails lately from my tokyoessentials.com website. I have decided to raise the priority of adding a forum to the site, so hopefully other people can help answer questions. I am thinking of using phpbb. It is free and seems to be fairly well used by people, although it’s popularity [...]

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Bali Pictures

16 August 2005

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I have posted some pictures of my recent Bali trip to Flickr. You can see them here.

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Blogging for money

16 August 2005

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I had an email from someone asking about how to go about blogging for profit. I wish I knew the answer to this question! Firstly I would take a look at problogger.net and the different sites the author has created. It’s not easy at all to make money from blogs. You need to find your [...]

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Holiday in Bali

11 August 2005

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If anyone has been wondering why there haven’t been any new posts is that I am currently on holidays in Bali. It is soooo relaxing and enjoying every moment – beautiful weather, beach and food. I am staying in a place now run by a fellow Australian. It has beautiful bungalows. I am real envious [...]

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Google Check

3 August 2005

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I got my Google cheque tonight for June. I was starting to get worried, but it reached my fine. They are always 1 month behind for each end of the month. I am starting to think that this is more profitable than real estate. Although there is no guarantee as to how long this will [...]

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Google Earnings

2 August 2005

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I was thinking of posting my Google earnings each month. For July I have earnt: $557. For June I earnt: $375 It is a nice increase. Of course I have been working on the site more, and studying the best positions for placing ads and so on. The bulk of the earnings is from tokyoessentials. [...]

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