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This has been a bit of a quiet month in some respects. I must confess to not doing a great deal of work on my various projects. I have decided to cut down on some of my projects and where some domain names have been due to expire on projects that have not been performing or I have not got around to doing what I had originally intended to do, I have just let them expire. I have been spreading myself too thinly and not focusing enough. On the positive side I have received my Amazon earnings...

Into the first month of 2012 and while I am really hoping that my earnings will really turn a corner, I hope that this month does not set the trend for the rest of the year. There have been a couple of good things - my first Amazon.co.uk payout and the first two Clickbank sales of the year - overall there is no sign at present of things taking off. My focus has really been my new blog. At the moment I really just focusing on getting more content on there before I really try and bring in some...

Companies across the world need to check out with consumers what we think about their products or advertising campaigns. After all, iIf they proceeded with developing products without even considering what their potential customers think then this could lead to financial failure. As a result these companies are willing to invest a great deal into finding out what we think. One way of doing this is through online surveys. The participants in surveys gain not only by gaining a sneak preview of...

Once you have written some articles to submit to article directories, why stop there? You might as well make your hard work stretch as far as you can. One way of doing this is to turn your articles into YouTube videos. There are a number of ways of doing this, but I think this is the quickest and easiest way you will find and does not require any specialist knowledge of video editing software, and what's more there is no cost involved in buying software either. The first thing you need to do...

MyLikes. This works by giving you short ads that you can tweet - this is done directly from the MyLikes website rather from Twitter itself. You then receive a small payment every time the ad is clicked on. To boost the chances of receiving clicks you can also connect your profiles from various other social networks including Blogger, Posterous, Facebook, YouTube, FriendFeed and Tumblr. By connecting these your ad will automatically post to each of these networks (although you can decide which...

I don’t know about you but I always like a special offer. The Coupon Album offers plenty of special deals and has loads of vouchers and codes where you can get a discount. As an example, they are offering Turbo Tax coupons where you can get a discount on this popular tax preparation software. When you are working for yourself, such as making money online, it is easy to get into a mess with your tax. Even the most organised of us can start to lose track with income and outgoings, as well as...

At Xomba you can write articles and submit bookmarks and you have the opportunity to earn money from Adsense (60% of the ad impressions are yours). For the bookmarks you have to write more than most sites - 120 words. Recently what I have been doing is for every Squidoo lens I have been building and every article I have written I have submitted a Xomba bookmark. Rather than writing new content I have just copied and pasted a paragraph from my article. This has allowed me to quickly and easily...

Whilst this month's total earnings are fairly average, I have been particularly frustrated with a lack of progress. Specifically, I have been frustrated that I have not made any Clickbank sales (again) and only made two Amazon sales with a very small commission. Here are this month's totals (i.e. what I have actually received): Surveys: $63 ( Global Test Market - $50, Pinecone - $13) Private Advertising: $10 Swagbucks : $5 Quickpenny: $40.66 EBay: $3.25 Squidoo : $2.78 Total = $124.69 I...

With the amount of content on the internet growing by the second it is inevitable that the search engines will need to make constant adjustments as to how they find the most relevant results. As the biggest player in search engine land, the changes at Google tend to be the most closely watched. The most recent update, being trialled first in the U.S. before being rolled out the rest of the world has caused more consternation than most as it is specifically aimed at rooting out poor quality...

This past month a rather strange pattern has emerged: I have put a lot of time and effort into making Clickbank and Amazon affiliate sales and made just two Amazon sales, but I have put almost no effort into selling advertising on my other blog and yet this has been my main source of revenue. The lack of Clickbank sales is starting to irritate me - I have made none at all so far this year and this is longest period I have ever gone since I started this in earnest without a single sale. The...

Submitting articles to article directories is a great way to gain back links to your website, blog, Squidoo lens, etc., but once you have put time and effort into writing your article shouldn't you get as much value out of them as you can? You can submit your article to multiple directories of course, but what I want to discuss here is using document sharing sites. The best known of these are Scribd and Docstoc which are the two I use most. Docstoc also has a revenue sharing element using...

Following last month's high, my earnings have dropped off somewhat this month. However, on a more positive note I have made my first Clickbank sales of the year, two in fact. Also I have made another two Amazon sales (albeit rather small ones). Here are the totals: Clickbank: $19.52 Surveys: (Pinecone) $6.68 Squidoo : $4.81 Swagbucks : $5 Total = $36.01 A pretty disappointing total all in all. Let's hope that May is better!

Whilst this digital age has added greater convenience to many aspects of our lives, it is also enabled thieves more ways to get hold of our money. We are all used to receiving those less than convincing scam e-mails telling us that a long lost relative wants to leave us large amounts of money, but amongst these are more convincing e-mails supposedly from banks telling us that we need to confirm our information for security purposes. Then there are fake websites set up entirely to convince us...

Well, another month past and time to post my earnings. Things have been rather slow going recently and I still feel that things have not really got off the ground as I hoped they might do. I have made three Clickbank sales and one Amazon sale this month, and Adsense earnings have picked up a little. Nevertheless, I seem to be struggling to turn a corner and make significant money. Here are the totals anyway: Clickbank: $30.45 Surveys: $13.06 (Pinecone) Swagbucks : $5 Squidoo: $1.22 Ebay:...

June has been a better month than the previous two, although it has not been without its frustrations. A couple of private advertising sales have bumped up my total. A downside is that I have had couple of refunds on my Clickbank sales; I have only ever had one previous refund so to have two in one month is disappointing. I have been concentrating recently on building Amazon review sites recently. I have two up and running and traffic from these is slowly building. However, they have only...