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Archive for May, 2009

Wassupblog April Statistics Still Pretty Good

Monday, May 4th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

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It’s great when you have friends that remind you that there are things that need to be done, not that Mitch reminded me directly in so much as his post on April’s Income Statistics jogged me into action. Mind you, if I asked Mitch to keep tabs on my posting habits I am sure that he would. Just like he is constantly making me aware of my spelling errors that he finds in my posts. Honestly, if I had the spare cash I would do away with those damn spell checking software and employ Mitch full time to spell check my posts for me. Wait a minute, he’s doing it now and for free too! Now that is the sign of true friendship. But I digress, it’s time to look at my April’s income.

Adsense: $36.38
Voxsant: $0.12
Kontera: $0.33
Project Wonderful: $0.13
Clix Galore: $0.26
Chitika: $3.09
Infolinks: $0.68
Advertisers: $4
E-Junkie: $21
Paid Posts $71.50
Commission Monster $9.05
RegNow $22.57

TOTAL: $169.11

Overall it was down a bit from last month but the bulk of that was from E-Junkie which is the affiliate that promotes the FlexSqueeze Theme. There was only one sale last month as compared to three the month before. It’s all good though as I have already made a sale this month.

Google although lower than last month is still a lot higher than what I am used to and so I have no complaints in that area. Chitika was up a little and that is comforting.

I don’t really have any plans for doing anything different this month except perhaps changing the videos on the sidebar from Google to Voxant, and having a look at some new places to stick Chitika to see if I can boost that up a little.

Using Comments To Double Your Exposure

Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 9:57 pm

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First let me say that this technique will only work if you are using Andy Bailey’s commentluv plugin. If you are not using this plugin, you really should as I believe it will increase the amounts of comments you receive on a blog and it’s one of the best ways to reward your commentators. I’ll let Andy himself explain exactly how it works;

The CommentLuv WordPress Plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment, this way you can encourage people to join in the discussion of your posts and give something back straight away.

The plugin looks for a feed at the site given in the URL field of the comment-form, if you have an auto find feed then it should find it.

The plugin retrieves your last post at the time of the comment being entered and appends the extra text just before the comment gets saved to the database, this way it doesn’t put any extra load on the database or server other than the effort required add another 60 or so characters to the comment content.

When commenting, the only time you get any real SEO benefit is when you comment on a dofollow blog as these comments can be ‘seen’ by the search engines. Blogs that have the commnetluv plugin also display your last post thereby rewarding your commenter. To pick up your last post it needs you to fill out the url to your blog in the comment box. This is gives you two links, one to your blog, and one to your post.

The thing is that I really wanted to promote my new Top Software Online store but using this link in the url meant that I would lose the link to a post, until I happened upon the following method.

First you type in the url of your blog as you would normally do
Then you write your best comment, not only because you don’t want to spam the blog you are commenting on, but because a good comment is more likely to lead to people visiting your link.
Lastly, before you press the submit button you paste in the new link to the second url you want to promote substituting the original url that you had typed in. This could be a link to another post or another blog / site entirely.

That’s it, you now have a comment that is doubling your presence on the Net.