$1500 January Goal @ PPB

Back on the 15th over on my other blog Profitable Productive Blogging, I announced My Push For A $1500 January. In my PPB 2007 Year End post I mentioned that I had met and exceeded the earnings goals for Profitable Productive Blogging. My old goal was to earn $1000 from my PPB blog alone and $1500 total from all of my blogs including this one. My biggest earnings for my PPB blog are affiliate sales, paid posting, contextual advertising, and ad space sales, basically in that order. This and my other blogs vary between affiliate sales and paid posting. I was very happy that I met and surpassed those goals, and now it is time for some new ones. My goal for my PPB blog is to earn $1500 in January. I think this is a very realistic and attainable number.

Here is where the earnings stand for the month through the end of the day Wednesday, January 23.

Affiliate Sales: $647.26
Paid Posting: $303.07
Contextual Ads: $48.81
Ad/Link Sales: $10.00
Misc: $6.13

Total MTD: $1015.27

Why don't you head over to Profitable Productive Blogging and you can read my regular updates and get some great blogging and affiliate marketing articles.

Yours Truly,

Cman

Because You Need To Know What I Think

New Template Finally Working?

I have been busy lately with the Holidays and all and didn't have a lot of time to tweak the new template. There were some recurring problems with the recent posts section at the top, the label search would put the posts below the sidebar, and the post footer said "by Posted By Author". Those were the ones I knew about there may be a few more if you find any let me know.

The recent posts area in the subheader has been fixed and now actually shows the recent posts and the formatting is correct as the double graphic problem has been eliminated.

Whenever the labels were clicked it would appear as though the posts for that label weren't showing up. What was happening was they were being pushed down below the sidebar. I finally was able to track down that problem and correct it as well.

A small but annoying little issue was the post footer doubling up on the by Posted by before the author. This was a quick simple little fix I just had never gotten a minute to fix it.

I also tweaked post header to display a little graphic and the number of comments. I also tweaked the date and time display so it looks a bit cleaner. I may make a few more changes over the next week or so to the post header and footer, but for now I am done. If you notice any formatting or other template issues please contact me and let me know. I load the page in various browsers but I don't always click through on things. Also if you have any comments or critique of the new template let me know.

Yours Truly,

Cman

Because You Need To Know What I Think

AGLOCO Finally Admits It Is Dead

Well it looks like AGLOCO has finally thrown in the towel. I received this status update email just a few minutes ago from the AGLOCO Development Team. I have been waiting for this email for quite some time as the site growth and traffic have been dropping drastically for a long time. I personally never used their adbar except for twice right after launch when it didn't work.

Dear johnathan,

We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO's operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com .

We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.

AGLOCO Development Team

Yours Truly,

Cman

Because You Need To Know What I Think

Category Problem With Theme

As you may have noticed there is a new look around here. Overall I am very happy with the new template and seem to have most of the bugs worked out. There is however at least one major issue with the template. When the category links are picked it appears that the posts are not showing up. They are showing up but for some reason they are pushed down the page below the sidebar. This only happens when the labels are selected. I have tried and tried and can't seem to fix the problem. I have posted @ DP forum to try and enlist some help so maybe someone can help me out. If any of my readers have any suggestions I am open. Unfortunately at this point if I can't get it fixed by week's end I will have to change templates once again. That would really be a shame because I really like this one. Also this blog really needs to have a steady look and presence.

Yours Truly,

Cman

Because You Need To Know What I Think

New Web 2.0 Style Template For CCC

As you can tell I have a new template for this blog. I am still working out the kinks so bear with me. I will be tweaking it just a bit over the next several days and fixing a few bugs that I have already found. I tested the template pretty well, I thought, before taking it live. When I installed it yesterday and went live all hell broke loose. The site was horrible. As you can see from the poll in the above box with the double graphic I still have a few things to fix. I did fix the search box issue so that now, at least in overlay mode, you actually get results. Please put the template through it's paces and let me know how it is working from your perspective. Thank you all for reading and participating.


Yours Truly,

Cman

Because You Need To Know What I Think

Increase Blog Traffic Via Article Writing

Yes, you have heard this a thousand times before, if you want to increase traffic to your site you have to write articles and submit them to article sites. Maybe you never thought about writing articles to increase your blog traffic.

Most often people will write articles to bring in traffic to their affiliate program or some other site where they can make money when someone visits. Again this is a great tactic to increase traffic, but is it more effective to use article writing to promote your blog?

When someone is promoting an affiliate program through article writing you will quite often find that the article is just a review of the product or a "re-hashed" version of the salespage. People do not want this.

They want content.

Every time you create a post within your blog, you are essentially writing an article. This is where you have a great opportunity. Why not expand on your blog post, turn it into an article, and then submit it to an article site.

The most important factor when you write an article is the bio box, this is where you can leave a snippet of information about yourself plus include a link to your blog.

So how will this increase my blog traffic?

This method will increase your blog traffic in a few ways. First off your article has a better chance of ending up with a high rank in search engines due to the high page rank of article sites. More than likely your blog doesn't have enough "authority" to get your posts ranked highly in the search engines. The second way is through distribution. Article sites allow other people to take your article and post it on their website as long as the bio box is kept intact. People looking to add content to their websites will take your article, add it to their site and give you more exposure to your blog.

Next time when you decide to write a post on your blog, why not expand the post into an article and submit it to an article site. This is a sure fire way to increase your blog traffic.

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Yours Truly,

Cman

Because You Need To Know What I Think

Some Great Free Web 2.0 Icons

I don't know about you but I like free stuff. I really like useful free stuff. Ades, from AdesBlog.com has recently release a great set of Web 2.0 style icons that he is giving away for free. These are extremely high quality icons. This set of icons is probably the best I have seen. Another great thing is that the icons come in 4 sizes; 80 by 80 pixels, 48 by 48 pixels, 32 by 32 pixels, and 24 by 24 pixels. Also all images are in .PNG format with transparent background. Doesn't seem like much but how many times have you tried to use an icon that didn't have a transparent background?

So head on over to his blog and poke around there is a lot of great content. Then stop by UserInterfaceIcons.com and get your free icons. Here is a big thanks to Ades for this wonderful free set of high quality icons.

Yours Truly,

Cman

Because You Need To Know What I Think

My Evil Link Bait Scheme

Some of you may have read my post Cman Quits! Site 4 Sale! over at Profitable Productive Blogging. Well I have to admit that I'm not really quitting and the blog(while I did get a good offer) is not for sale. I was having a bit of an evil moment and decided to try a little link bait scheme. Well the results are in and guess what? Moderate success. I did receive some links and it brought me some good BlogRush traffic(shock!). My overall traffic numbers did see a bit of a spike and since I mentioned updates via RSS the subscriber numbers bumped up as well. All positives but honestly not quite as high as I had hoped.

Another positive was that I did get a decent bid for the blog that was higher than the minimum I had in mind. I won't reveal the person or the bid but I have contacted that person before this so that they were aware that the blog really wasn't for sale and to thank them for their interest. I did ask though that they not post about it until after me. That is if they wanted to at all.

Well, overall the results were mixed. I probably won't do anything like that again. At least in the near future. I'm too much of a nice guy to do evil things like that.

Happy Halloween to you all. Don't eat all your candy in one sitting!



Yours Truly,

Cman

Because You Need To Know What I Think