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It was back when I was just a wee nipper in the prehistoric days of dial-up, actually quite a few years ago. My co-worker had created his own blog, and he was eventually able to quit his job. I wanted to be just like him, to be able to live off of my own entreprenurial success was my newly acquired dream.
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How not to WriEt
The Many Hardships…
And the Threat of Becoming a Square
~}Bitchy Post, De la Tarde{~
‘Make a Post like this, and You are Doomed to Fail’
I began blogging for fun, with the hopes (high hopes) of earning some money as the blog began to grow. Of course being the usual noobie upstart blog creator, my blog was, and is just a blog with little to no traffic. I spend hours each day reading content, hoping to learn enough about one subject that I can create an entirely new article on it. This leaves me and other bloggers in my position with very little time for fun. Especially in between school, homework, and whatever time you may have alotted for gaming.
It may sound odd that gaming is on the list of things that must be done in a day, but it is somewhat important. At least, it is important to me, because if I didn’t play games I would be considered a complete square. Being a complete square is not something that I strive for, and so I take the necessary precautions to keep that title away.
Unfortunately, gaming get’s just as boring to me as thinking up new things to write about. Maybe it’s because I think to much, to much like some other people think.
“What exactly is the point of playing this damned game? Is the point to be completely pointless? Create a character, level it to *70? Get better gear for it, and then make a new character? All the while, never having any actual fun while playing the game, and instead falsifying fun and replacing it with the urgency to be better than other people. Maybe if I/We were more interesting, or felt as though we were better than people IRL (in real life). Then this urgency would be gone from our minds”
As I type, I hear my game addict brother in the background yelling at the computer.
“WHAT THE FREAKING CRAP!? I WAS DOING SO FREAKIN GOOD!! WHAT THE FREAKING CRAP HAPPENED?!! WTFFFF!” (exeunt)
Here is an image to make you feel like your better than someone (so you can stop playing games and do something useful).
Now you see, I created this whiny/ranty post to vent my sorrows without going back and editing my writing. It is definitely possible that if I spent more time editing this post it would’ve turned out worse than it already is. In fact, I think I would’ve intentionally made it worse to increase the overall whiney-bitchIness. After all, the whole reason this is here is to be the visual chalkboard screech of the internet.
I’ve gone off course though, this was supposed to have some sort of value, or meaning. Maybe someone will find it interesting. I doubt finishing this will bring any joy or greater knowledge the the reader. For this reason, I will not allow myself to go back and re-read/proof-read this article. If you wish this paragraph was at the top of the post, then I’m truly sorry… but since I made a previous commitment (in the last sentence) I cannot move this paragraph to the top. It would indeed break the vow I made to not go back and edit this post.
Why exactly is this image Here?:
I’m not really sure why this image is here. It could be because this post is titled the many hardships, and this guy looks like he went through some pretty bad times. Actually, it’s from the movie The Pianist, and he’s a Jew… so you know he’s been through some pretty bad times.
If you’re wondering why the jew is being some quickly intertwined with the words Many Hardships, that would also be because the movie was about genocide. The hardships of Jews when the Nazis and Hitler were ruling over Germany.
No esta muy bueno… 
~If you write like this on your blog… you are doomed to fail.
~Do not write like this on your blog… or you will be doomed to fail
~Fail….
~Fail…..
~Fail……
I have to admit though, this was one of the most ‘fun’ things I’ve been able to write. “LOLZ”
Tags: crappy, noob, post, sauce, stupid, the pianist, uselessIF I was being serious and bloggers really did know everything, then the reason would be;
Since I’m not really being serious, and bloggers really don’t know everything, no matter how intelligent they may seem. I’ll just come straight out and say, Most bloggers have no legitamite idea what they’re writing about, atleast half of the time. Now some of you may be thinking that means bloggers just Bullshit their way through entire articles?
This was brought to my attention when I read a comment to an article on digg. Of course the article was about how to pick up chicks and it was written by someone who spends all of his time on the computer and smoking weed (according to the site’s theme). You can check out the site here. So anyways, this comment stated that the author cleary had no idea what he was talking about. I’m sure most bloggers just spam out articles and forget/don’t choose to proof read their articles. Sometimes this leads to leaving out key points and important parts of certain posts.
So, in my opinion the commentor was being a little too harsh. The ability to BS complete articles seems to me like some what of a sign of genius. Every other blogger on the internet, and myself have written an article simply for the benefits at one point or another. This often times leaders to failure, but can sometimes bring in traffic for spurr of the moment topics.
Also, the aire of intelligence and self confidence leads people to believe whatever the author says. When an author tells something matter-of-fact-like he’s doing better for himself than he would be if he were to say something as if he wasn’t sure about it. Plus, most people browsing the internet are seeking information on the internet, and aren’t likely to call you out if you’re wrong.
When a blogger writes something that he/she doesn’t know anything about, you can probably expect it to be true enough to believe. Educated guesses and hypotheses are what found scientific theories and eventually end up as solid results. Don’t expect things that you’re reading on blogs to be untrue either, because many bloggers look into what they’re posting about before typing up the article.
OMg.. I totally just BS’d my way through that entire article. I’m serious too, I don’t think it came out very well.
Tags: a, Add new tagThis has got to be one of my favorite short clips of all time. I found it on cracked.com through digg, and I thought I’d share. Hopefully you guys enjoy the short break from webmaster tips.
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Here is my list of the top 10 Firefox add-ons. Some pertain more heavily to webmasters, but I consider them good tools for everybody that browses the internet. Each one of these add-ons have separate uses, and can make your internet browsing experience more enjoyable, or easier than it already is.
Tab Effect: Add effects when current tab is changed…And that… is my top 10
Fireshot get’s an honorable mention, because I almost listed it.
Ok, so I started out Vital Pixel using adsense, and of course when there was no revenue. Days after the opening of vitalpixel, the site started to get tremendous traffic. The blog was getting thousands of hits/pageviews per day thanks to social networking, and some other methods. Tremendous in relative terms… since it was days later that it started to receive thousands of hits, I deem it tremendous. Despite the tremendous amount of traffic, the money stayed near the same. The highest point using google adsense, was a remarkable $5 on one day, with a not so remarkable twist. The $5 was split between a large sum of 297 clicks.
So, after wondering whether or not I had been click bombed, in which case google probably wouldn’t have counted a large amount of those 297 clicks. I decided that maybe, google was really only paying me an average of 1.5 cents a click. Which totally sucks if you know what I’m saying. In my dream world, that many clicks would’ve made me at least $100 dollars. So, feeling that I had been royally jipped, I decided to venture out into the world of ad network limbo. Reading guides on blogs other than my own, trying to decide which pay per click network I would use.
I came to the decision that I would try adbrite, which I had used before on my arcade website a couple years back. I’m so impatient that I only managed to force myself into leaving the ads on Vital Pixel for a couple of days. There were so many things I could say about adbrite that were good, it’s might be hard for some to realize why I took their ads down.
Oh, but then… every one of these positive features of adbrite had a downside. Each downside greatly outweighing the positive.
So no, I did not prefer adbrite over adsense, and this has happened to me before. All the other sites that I decided to use other advertising networks on, I was severely disappointed. Being to stupid to learn from my mistakes in the past, I’m hoping this will be the last time. who knows how many $.001 I could’ve made when I removed google as my advertiser?
As you can see, adsense has been reinstated, and adbrite has been shunned by me forever, or until I forget what’s wrong with it again.
The comic:
Alright, to tell the you the truth, after making 2-3 posts every day it appears that I have run out of ideas for new webmaster tip comics. This is where you (the reader) come in and lend me a helping hand. If anyone has any webmaster tips that would work well in a comic strip, then let me know by commenting on this post!
Get a Comic For your Website:
Alright, I’ll be making free comics for anyone and everyone that wants one. Here’s how it works;
) I’ll try and include an html embed code, but you should be able to embed the image yourself.Blogging is one of the most popular ways to get your ideas across to the general public. I use it, and there’s probably more than half of the webmaster population using a blogging platform as well. It’s a good thing though, a lot of blogs means there are a lot of good tips, information, and news that circulates around the web. Blogging is easy too, with just an update or two per day, and a little bit of help from your social networking friends, you can get your blog popular and make money with it in days.
Step 1: Traffic
I’m going to assume you already have traffic to your blog, and continue with this post. If you don’t have a steady flow of traffic coming to your blog yet, then check back next time for the Blog Traffic post, which I am due to release pretty soon.
Step 2: PPC Ads
By far the most obvious way to make money on the internet. Go and make your self a publisher account on Google Adsense to get started. You can customize your advertisements, and paste the javascript code into your page. Make sure to blend your ads in with the usual color scheme of your site, for maximum click potential. For every click, you get a certain amount of money (based on your keywords). You can also make money for getting large amounts of impressions. Don’t click your own ads, or ask your visitors to click ads!
Step 3: Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing, is simply getting someone elses product, and referring new users to it. Lot’s of sites on the internet have affiliate programs you can join. You can check out Affiliate Scout for several different sites that have affiliate programs. Sometimes affiliate programs have flat rates, like… $65 dollars per sign up. Or, they will pay you a % of the money the person you referred ends up making.
Step 4: Link Sales
If your blog has a high page rank. Which is Google’s interpretation of the value of your site. People will start getting interested in having their link on your website. The higher your page rank (pr), the more you can sell links for. The easiest way to sell links, is to join a forum like Digitalpoint or Vitalpixel Forums, and create a thread giving the details of your site, and how much you are willing to sell link-space for. Never fill up your site with too many links, and make sure to sell links monthly. Don’t offer life-time links unless you’re a directory, because you may want to take them down at some point.
Step 5: Products
If you have your own products that you’d like to sell, you probably know more about how to sell them than I do. But, the way I would go about selling my products, is to post a link to my website on a webmaster forum (in the buy/sell/trade section). Then, I would give details about what I was selling, and offer my services to those willing to pay. For Example;
I would say, Selling webmaster tip comics for $5 a piece. They would give me what they wanted the comic to be about, I would make it, give it to the buyer, and they would pay me. It’s pretty simple, and self-explanatory really.
Step 6: Blog Reviews
Once your blog starts to get a decent amount of visitors, and has a pretty good page rank, you can start selling reviews. When I start making reviews, I’m sure I’ll be using reviewme, which is the biggest name in blog reviews at the moment. You’re site will have to be reviewed by them, before being accepted into the program, but once your in you can make quite a bit of money.
Tags: affiliate, blog, internet, link sales, money, pay per click, ppc, profit, Reviews