2005 October · Dominic Foster

It’s official, He’s a 4 Figure Online Worker!

October 31, 2005 on 9:44 pm | In AdSense, Blogging | 1 Comment

Big congratulations go out to Drew who runs Work Online from Home - How I did it.

I first came across this blog when I started blogging myself back in July. Drew had set up his blog at the same time with similar intentions to myself - i.e. to earn some cash from the internet. In fact, I believe we were both inspired by Darren Rowse’s Slashdotting about his Google AdSense cheque.

However, he is now pulling down about $25 a day in AdSense (about ten times my daily average) and some more from other Ad providers and affilliate programs. He has published a graph of his earnings too.

The great thing is though, that this guy started his online business because of being made redundant and has been blogging to document his journey so far.

I believe he has really achieved something special - A shining example of what can be accomplished when you have to!

Also, He is from Dunedin in New Zealand.

I am from Auckland - So Drew, let me know if you are ever coming up to visit the Jaffa’s, I’d like to buy you a beer and pick your brains about your online strategy!!

Google PageRank

October 25, 2005 on 9:28 pm | In Etc..., SEO | 2 Comments

I read today on Entrepreneurs Journey that MSN.COM gets a Google PageRank of 2 in the recent Google PageRank update!

This prompted me to check what my PageRank was incase it had increased. It had! I had the pleasant surprise to find that my PageRank has gone from 0 to 5.

I’ve heard a lot around the Blogosphere that PageRank is now less relevant than it used to be. And to be honest, I have not ever really given it a great deal of thought (but still checked mine from time to time ;)).

However, it’s got to be said that it feels pretty good when it goes up.

Especially when it is higher than MSN.COM!

It was also pleasing to find that my Darvas Trade and Trader Knowledge websites both have a PR of 4.

Woo-hoo! Google PageRank rocks!

Article Submissions

October 14, 2005 on 8:31 pm | In Blogging, SEO | No Comments

On the advice of Yaro Starak’s Beginners Guide to Backlinks, I have recently taken the bold step of submitting a couple of articles to
Ezine @rticles.

The main reason for this is an exercise in increasing backlinks to my web-sites - but also to experiment with writing to a wider audience.

Syndicating your work on an article submission website serves to increase your backlinks because whoever publishes your articles is obliged to also publish a link to your web-site(s). If you manage to write a very popular article, then you could theoretically be looking at an awful lot of backlinks.

The article submission site that I used - Ezine @rticles - has a whole catalog of categorised articles available for free publishing on web-sites. There is even a category for writing articles!

The whole exercise was pretty straight forward. I just signed up for free membership, re-hashed a couple of articles I had already written on my Blogs, and then submitted them for review. A day later they were approved and they are now being viewed by publishers.

I’m not sure if anyone has published them though

Here are my articles incase you are interested

Chitika eMiniMalls

October 7, 2005 on 1:31 pm | In AdSense, Etc... | 2 Comments

After reading what Darren Rowse wrote about Chitika eMiniMalls - decided to apply for them myself.

Well, I received the confirmation that I had been accepted today and have configured my Trader Knowledge website to start showing them so that I can see how they fare against AdSense.

They are really easy to set up - very much like creating the Adsense units - and putting them onto Trader Knowledge was just a case of replacing the AdSense code with the Chikita code.

It will be interesting to see what happens - I’ll post back with the results after a week or two of testing.

The Million Dollar Homepage

October 3, 2005 on 12:37 pm | In Blogging, Etc... | 3 Comments

I have just signed up for an interesting project at at Yaro Starak’s Entrepreneurs-Journey blog. Yaro plans to purchas a 100 pixel package at The Million Dollar Homepage which will link to his website. The package costs $100, but he has invited people to pay for a $10 share in his purchase. If you pay for a share, he will link to your website for a month and also report back on the traffic that he receives from The Million Dollar Homepage.

Alex Tew - who created The Million Dollar Homepage has already raised $252,900 - so has $747,100 worth of space left to sell.

Yaro has already sold $74.95 of his pixels (including my purchase - as long as it has gone through) - so has only $25.05 left to sell.

It will be interesting to see how much traffic I get from entrepreneurs-journey.com.