New Mission Statement

If you are a frequent visitor to this blog, you will notice that the site's description has changed. The new description for this blog is, "A blog about Web 2.0, affiliate marketing, adsense, SEO, blogging tips and everything else related to making money online".

I changed the description of this blog does not mean that the main objective of this blog has shifted, but to more precisely describes the articles in this blog. Just like the new descriptions, most of the articles in this blog are about Web 2.0 (MyBlogLog, Ning.com), affiliate marketing (CafePress), adsense (adsense), blogging tips (Blogging tips, and Blogging tools), and everything else related to making money online (Money Makers).

Hope you like my new mission statement for this blog.

The Quickest Complete money maker on the internet

I found this interesting search on my site statistics.

1. Go to Google.
2. Search "The Quickest Complete money maker on the internet"

Become a more efficient blogger

I have a really busy week at my nine to five job, and I am only able to complete one post for the entire week.

It is time to rethink about how I can continue blogging without putting too much stress on my daily life.

I will set up a set of rules for myself to follow:

1. Spend no more than one hour a day on blogging.
2. Reply all of my comments and emails everyday.
3. Sent a thank you message to all the new members in my myBlogLog community
4. Keep a list of blogs to read. Visit the blogs on the list and comment on them everyday.
5. Keep an eye on interesting posts for Johnny's weekly blogmark
6. Keep a list of blog topic to research on.
7. Keep an outline of post that I prepare to write. When the outline is completed, make a new post on my blog.

Hope I can follow my new plan!

John Chow's effect

How much traffic did you got from a link in John Chow dot com?

Here is my experience.

My review on John Chow dot com makes it to his review batch 23. I got 32 unique vistors, and 51 page views from his blog within the next 24 hours. On average, my blog has about 40-50 unique vistors per day.

My Technorati problem -- resolved

My prayer has finally be answered! Technorati finally able to find my site. Check this out:

My blog has 62 links from 54 blogs, and is ranked 74,150!

Thanks for the outpouring support from everyone. My post, "My Technorati woe", has 9 comments from 6 different persons. Many of you have given me a lot of suggestion on how I can get Technorati to ping me.

Based on this experience, it seems like the best way to resolve your Technorati's problem is to leave a message to their forum. I logged my complain in here: http://support.technorati.com/topic/144?replies=3#post-606 , and my problem is resolved about a week later.

Mike Scott's blog also got pinged by Technorati. (Click here)

Since Technorati has officially recognized my blog, hence if you got a link from me, it will increase your technorati link count. If you are interested in link exchange, please leave me a comment.

My Technorati woe

"Dear God, please have the Technorati spider visit my site tomorrow. Amen."

If you have read my "Top 10 signs of blog addiction", you should know that I pray to God everyday for my Technorati rank to rise. The reason is simple. My blog has never got pinged by Technorati. Never Ever.

You can see my technorati rank in this URL:

http://technorati.com/blogs/http://makemoneyonblog.blogspot.com

I first noticed the problem about a month ago, after my blog got reviewed by the Ruminator. Although my blog got a review by another blogger, my blog still had zero blog links according to Technorati. I immediately did what most people will do: Use the Technorati ping service to ping Technorati. I ping Technorati at least 10 times a day, but Technorati ignores me.

Then, I brought my problem to the wisest man on the Internet, Google! I found a web site called, "Ping-o-Matic" that let me ping Technorati. Some people in online forums even claim that Ping-o-Matic had made special deal with Technorati, and sites that are pinged by Ping-o-Matic will got updated quickly. I use Ping-o-Matic to ping Technorati multiple times everyday, while I am using Technorati ping at the same time. Technorati still ignores me.

I check my blogger's configuration, and I have "Add your Blog to our listing" set to public. This should be fine, but my blog still never got pinged. I submit a support ticket to Technorati. I did get an answer from them, but my blog still hasn't got pinged.

One day, I came across Mike Scott's blog, "The Bit Bucket". I found out that Mike has the same problem as me! Indeed, his blog hasn't been pinged for 626 days. I leave a comment on his blog. Mike immediately let other readers know about my problem. One of his readers suggested us to post to the Technorati forums, which I did. The Technorati administrator told me to submit a support ticket, but I had already did that.

My blog still hasn't got pinged!

WHY ME?

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And thou shalt know thy name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee"

This week.....

This week is an exciting week for this blog. First, we started to get more traffic from Google. Before this week, almost 70% of the referrals are from myBlogLog, but now, about 50% of traffic are coming from Google. Both "Amazon Mechanical Turk" and "MySiteProfile" posts were well received, and got bookmarked by readers to del.ic.ious and Diggs.com.

My blog also got reviewed by the Rumiator on January 31, 2007.

For the coming week, I will review more money making resource sites, and add a widget to categorize my previous posts.

Thanks everyone for visiting this blog!

Google This!

Try the following:

1. Go to google.
2. Type "AdSense MyBlogLog CafePress"
3. Click Search.

Guess which site is at the top? Yes, it is "Making money on the web".

Social Bookmarking

I add three buttons to the footnote of my posting. The left most button is for adding my post to digg.com. The next button is for del.ic.ious, and the last button is for you to add my post as your technorati's favorite.

I will add link to Furl, Reddit and Linkagogo soon. If you have any other suggestions, please email me, or post your comment on this post. Thanks.

Customize this page

If you are using blogger, you may realize that this blog is different from the standard templates in Blogger. All Blogger's template has two columns, but this blog has three. I learned the trick to add another columns from Kumiko's Cash Quest. She posted a "How to" guide on January 23, 2007, but I have learned her trick earlier by viewing her page source.

Kumiko has over 1,500 page views in the first two weeks. She has tried out many different online services and has documented her experiences on her blog. One of the affiliate service that she uses is AsianFriendFinder, and she has earned some money with it in less than two weeks. However, for anyone who dares to duplicate her success, please keep in mind that she is a cute Japanese girl, and anyone who looks at her picture will be interested in Asian girls immediately!

You can post your comment now!

Thanks Mark for letting me know that I forgot to change my default Blogger setting.
By default, only members of blogger can leave comment.
I have changed my settings now, and anyone can post his comment on this blog!

Enjoy!

First Mistake

This site has over 100 page impressions now, but still zero clicks. Although I am not planning to make money online by talking about how to make money online, I would like to generate some income from this site.

I may have made my first mistake in my quest to make money on the web. Google Adsense publishes your average click rate for potential advertisers. Since it is likely that I won't get much traffic at first, it may be better to join Adsense when I have more traffic.

I found this site: http://www.checkpagerank.com which will give me my page rank. From some site I read, you can charge about $20 - $50 monthly for each ad., if your site has a page rank of 4.

It is a long journey for me.

New Year's Resolution

The World Wide Web started to take off right when I was in college. Me and several of my classmates have talked about starting our own money making web site. Through many nights in bar, we have come up with many brilliant ideas. Most of our ideas have been implemented since -- by somebody else. It is almost 10 years now, and our web site hasn't even get off the ground. It is about time to get it done for real.

Rather than figuring out the right solution, I decide I should just dive into the market and look for my niche. This blog is intended to show you my journey.