Make Money Online with a Girl

Well earlier in a post I said I would be giving out free blog reviews, now here is one of them for nspeaks.com

When I first loaded the site I thought I’d check out the design before actually doing anything else, personally I think the content of a site is 500% more important than the theme (which is why I decided to use a simple one) looking at the design it is actually very pleasing, a sort of punk-esque theme with nice blending with the images.

Looking at the non-image side of the layout I think this blends in nicely with the nicely done dark/light text comparison, taking a look at the right sidebar of the blog it has excellent room and not stealing any from the main content! Further down the sidebar you can see it splits off into 2 other columns which looks even nicer than other conventional 2 column themes.

Now onto the beef, the content. I like how the author makes all of the posts personal, let me take an extract out of this post.

When I logged into my Feedburner Dashboard today, number of subscribers of all my feedburner feeds are zero. How can it be possible for every feed on single day

Even just using self-words can make it seem a lot more personal than referring to the sites feed burner dashboard, or the sites visitors/commentators I don’t know about you guys but If I was talking about MY feedburner stats (which I rarely do) I wouldn’t refer to the sites because I own them, and they are mine and this is how you should write content.

The way he talks to the readers and asks them questions (I also do this) and I would say his writing style is very similar to mine so if you like my blog, you will most likely like Nspeak’s at nspeaks.com It’s very easy to filter through the posts only long time readers would like and to get to the actual advise stuff new bloggers would want.

Hope you liked the review guys.

I think now would have been a more appropriate time to blog about pagerank eh? Just before the storm, not to early becuase almost everyone blogs about it when they get their new pagerank. Honestly I don’t know if i’m going to be dreading the update or not, the linktrain has given my blog a fair few backlinks and i’m hovering at 15,330 technorati rank, I kind of wanted to get into the top 10 before all the juice of it was squeezed but it doesn’t matter anyway.

Maybe when the pagerank comes i’ll get at least pagerank 4 and then I can start selling more ads, I mean personally, whenever I look at a blog I almost blank/ignore the ads that I see almost automatically, guess It comes from so many years of internet experience.

Which reminds me, sorry I haven’t posted in so long guys, just been a bit busy with some things, also I’d like to give away 1 free review about your blog, on my blog. This offer goes to the first 2 people that email me and the posts will stretch out over this current week!

I was thinking about this, i’ve seen bloggers who go on holiday and then leave their posts to be posted automatically, but I just really cant stay away from my email and my blog, I like to quickly reply to people who give me emails, right now i’m visiting family in devon, and i’m still blogging, checking my email and such. I have to do it aswell to bring home the bacon. The point of this post was mainly to see what my readers do/will do if they go on holiday reguarding blogging.

Which reminds me, I got some fruit of my blogtree!

One thing I have noticed in my days of trying to make money, be it online, or offline. Is that human laziness is the key to making money. If you can get someone to say ‘yes’ to this paypal subscription, you have them for a while. For example if they set it up for a game you have made, lets say they stop playing it after a while the money will still be taken out of their account, this can be for such things as car insurance ( which I’m always on top of ) where when you first buy it it’s cheap, and then a couple years later it can slowly increase and become something expensive that you would have avoided when originally buying the tax.

Laziness with money is your greatest tool, subscriptions, anything that they can forget about is great. Perhaps it sounds evil but you don’t get money emailing someone saying ‘Hey you’ve not played our game maybe you want to cancel our subscription?’ Awful ideas there, even if it’s just another monthly payment when they get told that the money came out it’s still cash flowing into your account.

You could try something like the car insurance, usually when people sign up to things they constantly click yes yes yes, you could be asking them to let you raise the price/drop it 10 days before the payment occurs. How can I put this in blogging terms…Hard to say with this, but I like to have some posts that don’t give advice to bloggers too.

What do you guys think of exploiting this?

Okay, now that we know a blog is like a tree and not fishing I’ll have to use tree related puns. Now you may have guessed but this blogpost is indeed about “Ashwin Khana’s Blog Extravaganza! Win $2500!”

For some reason when I woke up and checked my email I was astonished to find a few lines of something like this;

Now some of you may have got this also, but I’m blogging about it as soon as I wake up just for the fresh coffee, and fresh conversation. A while back I remember him announcing it, some saying he may do it some saying he’s gonna fake out like he did. I actually entered into the competition. But even when Ashwin posted about it on his blog, he actually sent all the traffic to the winner, one of his sites. Here is the winner post if you’re interested.

Hell he actually expected us to believe this? It’s some contentless blog which he no doubt created so he could get some free genuine links. I am ashamed Ashwin and I have definitely taken you off my blogroll.

I just wanted to sneak it into this post quickly, and I may do another one that John Chows blog has had a new design and I really like it. What do you guys think of it?

If you have done a blogpost on Ashwin’s scam, please drop it in a comment here, I’d like to know your thoughts on this.

I get a few emails every day, not as many as chow, or problogger. But I reply to the people that email me with great care, let’s take Joey Massenburg he contacted me about advice for his blog, and asked for a blogroll exchane. Joey is a nice guy and was contacting me for a genuine reason. Recently another person contacted me asking for advice on his blog.

Heres an email I recently received.

Hey Sam,

I just wanted to say that I really enjoy reading your blog. I recently got into writing tutorials and blogging this summer and found yours from Connor Wilsons’ blog. I was wondering if you could check out my site http://easyctutorials.com and help me improve it with any suggestions. I literally just learned CSS / HTML and PHP this past few months to create this and would welcome any suggestions from a seasoned blogger such as yourself.

Now I know my site doesn’t have anything to offer (alexa rank of 1mil+, PR 0 and technorati rating of 450k+) but I put a link to your site anyways because I enjoyed it so much. I was wondering if once my blog becomes more popular if you could link back to mine.

Anyways keep up the great work and I can’t wait for your next post.

-Adam

Hope you don’t mind me using you as an example in my blogpost Adam!

Here is some advice I replied to him with.

Hey Adam, sorry but my blogroll is a bit full already!

But I do have some advice for you.

Your posts seem to be a bit…Short, and you’re kind of targeting the wrong kind of niche asking me for a blogroll, you see. My readers are mainly made up of entrepreneurs and connors reader base is made up of mostly designers and some entrepreneurs. So really you should be targetting another coding blog or another C coding blog.

Now he called me a seasoned blogger which I was really surprised at considering the fact that I haven’t been blogging long at all, just because you think you’re not a good blogger and you give good advise doesn’t mean you aren’t. I told him about which niche he was targeting, and he definitely was targeting the completely wrong one!

When it really comes down to it you’re going to be making more money and you will be more experienced when it comes to selling links on your pagerank 7 blog. Of course when you’re going to be selling links on your blog you have to tell people that you are, or else they wouldn’t know. Go on your site and pretend you know nothing about it, how would you find out they are selling links? Well you wouldn’t and that is a potential advertiser down the drain, lets take a look at my advertise page. I recently revamped it and it now says.

Why should you advertise on sambreadstone? Why not go advertise on some other guys website? Well here’s the reason:

Sam Breadstone has an technorati rank of 17,409 it has an alexa rank of 317,974 the reader base is mainly around entrepreneurs and best of all, to get a month sidebar link all you have to do is pay me $15 to the paypal account sambreadstone@hotmail.com and pop me an email at that address as well if you’re interested or want any questions.

Thanks!

Before it was a really awful page and I certainly wouldn’t have advertised on there. Try to include your blog stats, alexa stats, technorati stats, pagerank, anything that can be of any value to the potential advertiser. I find telling them what kind of reader base you have helps aswell, mostly mine is made of entrepreneurs, isn’t that right?

First it’s best to go with this method, like the chow says wait until you’re getting around 1000 uniques a day until you use an ad service like google. Best luck guys.

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As soon as I got into blogging it was really exciting, fun and new. I think I’m going into a little slump with posts, my post before this one was AGES ago, I stopped getting so many emails as well John Cow rage has died down a little bit, they’re still pumping out good information though. Sadly they’re getting less and less comments all the time, my blog continues to grow steadily and I still wait and wait for the pagerank update to come so many someone can advertise

The main reason I’m posting this is to ask for a little help from my readers, kind of like speed linking but the other way round, if you saw some nice posts round the blogging sphere to spark up some conversation please email me over at my contact page. Can be your blog, or anyones blog. It doesn’t really matter.

And this time I really promise to post more

I have come across the phrase that blogging is like planting a tree, well the thing is it’s not. Why? Simply because with a tree you get the same fruit every time, depending on what tree you plant you get a different type of fruit, it may be more juicy, sweeter, or whatever. When you fish, you you don’t always get the same sized fish, now when I am talking about sizes i’m really meaning money amount.

Let’s say you’re in your back garden, throwing out a line into a river trying to catch some fish (starting a blog, posting, trying to get money) but you have realised that you’re only catching tiny fish or you’re catching no fish at all (perhaps small amounts of money via adsense or something) but eventually you should realise you should be getting into new fishing grounds, investing in a small boat (getting off problogger? buying your own domain? paying for some better hosting? whatever) go out fishing in the wide open sea, or a big lake and start to catch some bigger fish.

That is why blogging isn’t like planting a tree, it’s like fishing.

Everyone has to do personal posts. But the reason I am making this post is to help you to decide when you should do them, how frequently. What specifically about, and in-between other posts.

Now when I say personal posts, I can either mean your dog has run away and you’re gathering a search party to go and save him from whoever has captured him, or you’re starting a new website or blog and want advice to tell your readers about. Really, both of these should be included into your blog. I try to stay away from the ‘my dog ran away’ kind of posts because I think that the posts I do are personal enough anyway!

Really you shouldn’t do personal posts after personal posts because people get bored about hearing just of your life. The reason I chose this as a blog to share my wisdom 3/4 of the time and tell you about me and my like 1/4 of the time is because there isn’t actually much to say. My life is rather simple and isn’t complicated, and I love it that way. My post before this one can be counted as personal.

Also you may have noticed I’ve added an RSS feed button in my header. Subscribe here.

That was really bad blogging practise on my end not putting it up earlier but from the lack of my posts recently you could probably tell i’ve been busy!