Pay Per Post - What’s That About Page Rank?
After I saw that I wasn’t making much money in Affiliates or AdSense, I looked into other methods of making money online and found Pay Per Post. When I first saw people referring to this service, it was the ethical discussion that originally kept me away from signing up.
You see, on some level, you could equate Pay Per Post for spam. With the way that they are set up, they are paying you to post on a topic or a site that wants traffic, higher Google search rankings, etc. And in some cases they do not want you to tell your readers that you are being paid for a post.
On the other hand, some of these things you may have blogged about anyway, so why not get paid for it? Why not pass along something that you’ve found and get paid in the process? This is the tight rope that some “posties” walk.
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Affiliates - Would You Like to Buy a Vowel?
It was not long after starting to make a little on blogging that I realized that I wasn’t going to be able to make an income on Google AdSense. If you look at my first few months of AdSense it was pathetic (especially considering you don’t get any money until you break $100, and I didn’t do that in my first six months).
It was long until I discovered that I could get a share of some of the cost of an item that people would either buy anyway, or buy because I suggested it. I mean, I was able to share with family and friends that they should get an HSBC savings account and they could save many times over their personal checking accounts. And hey, if HSBC will pay me for something that my family and friends will do anyway and it doesn’t cost them anything more, why not?
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Google AdSense - Click Here
When I first started blogging on Brave Journal close to four years ago the only ads that you saw were the (sometimes blinking) ads that were placed there by Brave Journal themselves– on the top of the blog. They were irritating, and they did nothing for the blog itself, and so when I first moved off Brave Journal to a friend’s family site, I bragged about my new blog not having ads at all!
At the time I thought it was just nice not to have to have the things blinking at me, and I figured that it was better for my readers– at that time only two really followed me to my new home.
A friend of mine suggested I try a new service– Google AdSense– figuring that I could make a buck or two on the content I was already writing. I wouldn’t have to do anything to select the ads, and they had bunch of formats.
Since that time, I’ve experimented with a lot of different ad formats, to many different degrees of success:
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For Subscribers - 01-29-2008
Been a while since I was able to do one of these posts, so let’s cover some links to things that I’ve found interesting!
Homosexuals Squelch Facts About MRSA Outbreak, Conservatives Say
And you thought AIDS was bad, now there’s a new Multi-drug Resistant Microbe, but the problem is that political correctness is keeping how it’s spread a secret:
In fact, the researchers determined that this variant of MRSA infection is 13 to 14 times more prevalent in homosexual men than for the general population.
This is just one more reason that we should not be encouraging this lifestyle– it’s sin, it’s a risky behavior, and it should stop.
New Miss America once battled anorexia
There’s always some story around Miss America– and this year it’s that Miss America has battled anorexia in the past.
Haglund was diagnosed with anorexia, and the lack of nutrition caused her collar bones to stick out, her heart rate to drop and her relationships to suffer.
“I would feel fatigued walking up six stairs,” the 19-year-old Haglund said Sunday, a day after being crowned Miss America 2008. “I was a completely different person. It’s not a pretty sight.”
Haglund plans to spend her yearlong reign, trying to raise awareness of eating disorders, promoting the pagaent and helping the Children’s Miracle Network while maintaining a healthy lifestyle and exercise.
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“You have to have curves,” she said proudly. “You can’t look like a stick-thin model.”
We must pray that these girls see what they are doing to their bodies and realize it before it’s too late.
Cell Porn Scandal Hits Pa. High School
The problem with cell phones that have cameras is that they are everywhere, and it’s only a matter of time before the images that are taken are passed everywhere. And once it’s sent, there’s not way to get it back.
Troopers are now attempting the impossible– to find the copies of these girls in compromising situations and get them erased. Frankly, I’m surprised that they are not already all over the Internet.
It’s a sad commentary on our society when our kids think it’s appropriate to take something that’s private and blast it for all the world to see. And yet this is the very thing that our porn generation has said is a good thing.
Blogging “Against Choice:” All About Me
This is quite a powerful article (you should read the whole thing) about what’s behind the pro-choice movement:
Everything in the abortion debate, at least on the other side, is centered around what I think, what I feel, what I want, who I am and why I should force everyone else to be comfortable with my decisions and my actions. Their central point seems to be that because I am who I am, the rest of the world is thereby required to assent to my decisions about my life and my decisions concerning any other life that might temporarily be within my control, not by virtue of recognition of any moral conviction or standard, but by group recognition of the illiberal virtue of “privacy,” that ungodly word that pervades every aspect of today’s battle.
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The focus of the pro-life movement — at least the new pro-life movement — is one that doesn’t focus on me. The pro-life movement should and presumably has always been about protecting and assisting others. It is the ultimate gift of self-sacrifice that calls people to care so deeply about children not yet formed who they may never know.
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How Do You Explain the Miracles?
One of the things that is interesting when you get to talking with Atheists is that you can quickly get taken into talking about technicalities and playing “on their turf.” Now, I can appreciate the works of people like Vox Day, who can write a book eviscerating atheists with pure reason. However, we do not need to resort to playing on their turf, because their turf does not represent reality.
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Do You Believe in Prayer?
I would guess that a majority of us would say yes, and yet I believe that we’d be wrong. You see, I agree with Joel Hoffman in that I don’t think that those of us that call ourselves believers truly believe in prayer.
I have decided that I don’t believe in prayer. I don’t believe that God hears us when we speak to Him. I don’t believe that time I devote talking to God makes any difference whatsoever. It is a waste of time and I would rather do just about anything else, than to spend time on something so irrelevant as prayer. This is what I have come to realize.
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Yahoo Shortcuts
If you’re like me then you like to spruce up your posts with images, links and any tool that you can find that will help you do this is– and do it easily– is something that you’d want to try out.
Well, one of the great things about WordPress is that there are always people writing plugins and coming up with neat things– and this plugin is no exception. Yahoo has developed what is calls “shortcuts“. It’s a plugin that sits on your write post screen over on the right hand bar and watches what you write.
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Point of Order
I have an addiction. I try hard to avoid it. I don’t know why it fascinates me so. I don’t know when it began, and I don’t know that I will ever get over it. I’m addicted to process– the order of things.
Maybe it’s because I “invented” one too many ways to play card games with my grandmother growing up, or perhaps it’s because I always wanted to be “the one that knew the rules”, but I’ve always liked and have been fascinated with knowing what the rules are.
That’s one of the reasons that I would actually give Ron Paul the time of day in my brain. That’s why I like reading about people like Sen. Tom Coburn from Oklahoma. I like people who stand for the side of the rule of law and want to do things in the right order.
But I’m also a realist.
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