It appears that Yahoo does not like any of my Blogger blogs anymore. Sometime around the end of September my Blogger traffic fell into the search engine abyss. Bummer. It was fun while it lasted. Since I have nothing to lose I may host them myself. I kind of like those blogs, particularly the modification to the templates. I love a challenge and will be interested to see if they can be revived if they are off the Blogspot domain. The keywords that I targeted got me top 10. Time to reclaim my spot.
On the bright side of things my legit blogs, the ones I actually bought and paid for, are doing just fine. Even subdomains. Who would have thought that if you just update a blog with fresh content they would make money? Huh.
Anyone having good results with BlogRush? I personally think it is a turd. Seems I’m not alone. The few bloggers outside of IM that tried it are not impressed.
I’m sick of the Cutline theme used here on Lost Ball. I’m close to wanting to buy a personalized theme for use here. Anyway, if you notice some whack-ass things going on with the layout well, you’ll know I was in the mood to try something different.
Finally, for anyone who likes to watch quality, well-written and challenging TV, give Friday Night Lights a try tonight.
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barry // Oct 5, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I don’t know what your other hosting arrangements are, but Dreamhost is so cheap as to be free and, so far for me, very reliable. They have Wordpress for blogs. too.
Barry
Splork // Oct 5, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve got two hosts: one that lets me host 10 domains and another that is a reseller account. So far so good but I will keep your recommendation in mind.
Walt Breuninger // Oct 5, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Try nearlyfreespeech.net - great, and incredibly cheap hosting.
Splork // Oct 5, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Thanks guys. Not really interested in changing hosts though. I’ve been with the same ones for over three years and wouldn’t change. But it’s good suggestions for the other 7 readers of this blog.
Teli // Oct 6, 2007 at 5:35 pm
You have more than 7 readers Splork.
To answer your question re BlogRush, I’m about two days away from pulling it off my site. I have thousands of credits, but the traffic boost is barely there. Of course, it could be because I don’t blog as much as I should.
Sorry to hear your sites went to piss in Yahoo!, but moving them to their own domains may be a wise decision in the long run. Good luck with that.
And by the way, how come you haven’t posted your 2 cents about the 20/20 challenge yet? I’ve been curious to see what you’d make of it.
~ Teli
Splork // Oct 7, 2007 at 7:43 am
Hey Teli. Good to hear from you.
20/20. I kind of think it is an interesting challenge. I almost pulled the trigger but ended up not going with it. The problem I see is if you fail the challenge you lose money despite the guarantee. Sure you get your money back, but if you lose $1000 trying to promote the product you’re still screwed.
Yea, BlogRush was removed from my sites.
It’s good to hear from you.
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GiGi // Oct 9, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Hi from another one of your 7 readers! Thanks to you, I joined PLR Pro (I hope you got the credit) and started their 90 day challenge with some tweaks of my own.
Can I ask how many blogs you DO have? And how many actually make any money?
Just curious. I’m still struggling with this. But I’m so close….so close…lol
GiGi
Splork // Oct 10, 2007 at 11:02 am
I hope you like PLRPro. I’ve been a member since the start and like it a lot. I won’t be dropping out anytime soon. Thanks for signing up under my Affiliate ID. Not sure if I got credit or not but it’s certainly the thought that counts.
I have 8 (money) blogs that I manually and frequently update. This is on top of 3 XSP websites that I also update manually and frequently. It’s too many. I hope one makes a break for it and I can spend time building it up or selling it. I’d consider it a success if it made $1k for the month.
I have, I don’t know, maybe 35-40 landing page-type blogs. Simple blogs that I update very infrequently but build with 5 articles and up to 10 articles to article directories for indexing and small amounts of traffic. These are mostly Blogger blogs but also some Wordpress blogs as well. I’m converting some of the better Blogger ones to Wordpress as time allows. Given the dislike of my Blogger blogs by Yahoo now, which was the majority of my traffic to these blogs. I hardly get any traffic from Google, by the way..long tail keywords or no. MSN and Yahoo search keeps me in the money for snowboarding and the like.
I have numerous Blogger, splog type blogs as well that I use to feed to traffic to everything other than my money blogs (Wordpress.com, Blogger, Tumblr, MySpace, etc.)
All my blogs (not splogs) make me money. Some a few cents from an Adsense click others from an Affiliate sale. Overall I generally average about $30/day these days.
GiGi // Oct 11, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Thanks for the update! I’m not so far behind you with 5 XSitePro sites (and associated blogs) and now 3 new PLR pro blogs and 1 website from the University 2020 that’s doing nothing in traffic. I’ll be moving that to XSitePro soon.
That’s going to be it for me — too much to handle.
I’m very impressed with the PLR pro blogs I set up using the 90 day challenge. Got my first sale in just over a week! Plus there’s some long tail traffic already. All with no promotion yet.
GiGi
Splork // Oct 11, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Nice work GiGi. Sounds like you are on your way to some success. I forgot to mention that I am big user of subdomains as well. The XSP sites that I have all have numerous subdomains under them. For instance I have health and fitness XSP site. Other than the main site I have a blog in a folder. The blog is doing quite well these days. The subdomains are all XSP sites for pilates, exercise eqmt, yoga, etc.
I bought a few Niche-mania sites a while back and stuck them under subdomains as well. They do OK.
I also have some general name domains that also have numerous subdomains under them. Some XSP. Some WP. I also have quite a few Niche Portal Builder sites that I haven’t touched in 2 years now that still make daily Adsense. I bet if I add that to the Adsense total I’d be averaging making more like $40 or so a day. Those things still rock. I keep threatening to build more.
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