10 January, 2007

The new job

OKay, well, despite my best effort yesterday to get two ads up, I was only able to get one ad up - for $5.00. It has yet to be approved, but I'm confident that it will be.

It took about 45 minutes, which doesn't bode well for the $/hour ratio. Although I have to admit, it would probably take less time if I just sat down, without interruption, and did the work. Even if it does take 1.5 hours to post two ads (and general posts in between), the 5 ads that have been approved so far total $39.01 which translates to just over $7.80 per ad. If I add the last two ads posted (but not yet approved) that per ad income goes up to just over $8.14 per ad.

If we look conservativly at $7 per add, and two ads per night and 1.5 hours per ad, that would mean about $9.33 an hour. Which really, for the kind of work being done, isn't all that shabby.

Problem is that will three kids in school, and parents who are increasingly lacking good health, and a disabled wife, I could not just sit down and do the work. I had to work for a few minutes here and a few minutes there, and eventually got it posted.

That being said, I could have posted another one after the kids went to bed at 2100, but I was pretty much spent. Hell, I didn't do well in algebra the first time around, and wracking my brain trying to help the 6th grader with his algebra pretty much wastes my brain's capacity. Beside, Boston Legal was on, and Denny Crane was heading to New Orleans. Had to give that my full attention! :)

Oh, and thanks for visiting!

09 January, 2007

More Income Generation Update

The first $6.01 from PayPerPost was added to my PayPal account on 7 January. As stated, they pay you 30 days after your post is approved. So far, only the first post I made has actually been remitted. The others are awaiting for the 30 day window to expire.

Currently I have another $33 approved which are still in the 30 day window, and one post for $12 that is awaiting approval. It is my belief that it is possible to get a little more income from this method, but that it will take some actual work.

The Blogsvertise thing, I am not very certain about. In the several months that I have been registered with them, I have had one assignment and completed that. But their assignments are few and far between it seems. Perhaps because my blogs have no google page ranking.

I am hoping the page ranking will change. I got my main blog added to the "Anti-PC" blogroll, and now Technorati shows there are 50 some odd blogs linked to mine. I am hoping that when Google sprinkles the magic PageRank dust and does whatever they do to update PageRanks, perhaps that will increase my rank a bit and I can get more income from it.

Also, I have determined that to actually see any real income from PayPerPost, I have to treat it as a job. So this is what I'm going to do starting today. PayPerPost will allow two ads per day per blog. Soon this blog will be eligable for ads, and I wills start posting them here when it is.

So each evening, I am going to spend time scouring the PayPerPost opportunities and post at least one, and preferably two ads each day on my blog. I will also keep track of how long it takes me from start to finish, this will give me an idea of whether the money gained is actually worth the effort (I'm guessing it will be worth it because it's not like I would be doing something else to generate income instead).

If I could generate $10 a day via posting two ads, that is $300 a month. That isn't terrible. And that is only with one blog. If I had two blogs, I could potentially double that, three blogs, triple it. You see where I'm going with this right? Although, In addition to the ads, I would have to keep up other posts as well. Since one of the rules for PayPerPost is that you can't have only ads, and you can't have two ads next to each other, they must be seperated by non-advertising posts.

All of this will have to figure into the time it takes to make the non-ad posts, since it is possible that I would not be posting daily on my blogs (which, while I try to do, I don't always do).

Potentially (probably) when this blog becomes eligable for adverts, you will start to see some potentially meaningless, and fairly short posts. But that is the way of things I fear.