Communities for increasing traffic

Some time ago, when I started all of this, I signed up at the blogger community MyBlogLog. I wasn't certain what this would do, but I had seen it referred to before, so I went there and signed up. I then promptly forgot about it. After looking at where hits were coming from, I noticed that some were coming from MyBlogLog. I had noticed on some other people's sites (mylifestartsatfortytwo, fortywhat and others) a section in their sidebars which displayed icons avatars and names for recent visitors. This table was furnished by code supplied by MyBlogLog.



When I went to MyBlogLog and clicked the graphic for "Get Widgets" it gave me a couple of options. The first for tracking recent readers (who are MyBlogLog members - it doesn't do anything for non-MyBlogLog members). When I looked at the tracking info, I realized a couple of things...1) People were actually visiting my blog and b) lots of visitors were members of MyBlogLog. This got some fire moving under my feet. I started visiting MyBlogLog much more frequently, and (WARNING: This part is shocking, if you have a weak heart, you might want to look away and have someone paraphrase the next line or two) - I started responding to messages people had left in MyBlogLog - invites to join other blogger's communities and what not. And I started visiting the people who had visited me. This led to them visiting me more (I believe). Also leaving short messages at MyBlogLog thanking them for visiting and finally, leaving comments on their blogs.



All of this creates a kind of communal feeling. Sort of like "you do me a solid, I do you a solid" type of atmosphere. The more you visit and comment on other people's blogs, the more they will visit and comment on yours, and the more trackbacks you will receive. All of this is supposed to assist in increasing PageRank, Technorati rank and Alexa rank.



In this next week, my goal for this site is to post more on getting higher rankings everywhere. The places like PayPerPost and Blogsvertise pay better for more rank. Getting rank is not the easiest thing. I have seen time and again, websites or blogs trying to explain how to get a high PageRank in a short amount of time. Most of these start with links to their demo site from a high ranking page they already have. This kind of lends to the "got to have money to make money" catch 22, where one cannot get a good page rank, without links from sites with good page ranks. However, I do know that sheer volume of incoming links will increase a page rank. With this in mind, I am going to do some research and posting on how to get incoming links.



I hope I am not biting off more than I can chew with this next assignment.



As always, thanks for visiting!

Blogsvertise starting to come through

As previously stated, I hadn't been doing much with Blogsvertise. I've been waiting for referrals from them because they don't have a list of opportunities to choose from the way PayPerPost does. Some time ago, I submitted another blog of mine for advertising with Blogsvertise.

Just yesterday I received a task from them for that blog. It paid $10! That's cool. I had pretty much forgotten about them altogether until I got that task. Then, while looking at my data on Blogsvertise, I found that next to my Bigsibling blog, there was a graphic of a bag. The mouse over tooltip displayed the words "Grab Bag".

So I do what any good curious American would do, I clicked it. WOW! It seems that for my Bigsibling blog, I can take one task per day from a grab bag of tasks. These are tasks that were assigned to other bloggers, but they did not complete them in the allotted time. I don't know what the allotted time is for completing assignments, I have always completed them the same day as the assignment was received.

So yesterday I did one of those grab bag tasks for $5 and today I did another one for another $5. There was one left that I'll look at doing tomorrow, that is only a $3 task, but what the hey, I'm going for it anyway!

Thanks for visiting (honestly, I really do appreciate your visits).

Blog adverts update

I have spoken about PayPerPost quite a bit here. I would like to make an update to my PPP status. So far I have taken five adverts, and have had five adverts approved (w00t! I'm batting a thousand here!). Total amount due is $39.01. So far I haven't recieved any of the money yet. The post has to be up for 30 days before you get any money out of PPP. That doesn't bother me at all really. If they didn't do that, I could envision people putting an advert up on their blog, then taking it down as soon as the payment was made. This way, they are guaranteeing their clients at least a 30 day post.

My earliest advert is payable in 8 days, my latest advert is payable in 18 days. So, within 20 days I should have a cool 39.01 in my paypal account - minus of course the cut that PayPal takes for deposits. What a racket that is. I remember when individual accounts could recieve money for free and only business accounts were charged. Now they charge everyone.

Also, I have finally recieved an assignment from blogsvertise. That was approved and I now have $5.00 due from them. I'm not certain (because, lets face it, no one really reads all that terms stuff) when I will see that. Probably there is a minimum payout or something.

My Google AdSense is I think sitting strong at a whopping 30 cents still. Although, I did just now ad their AdSense for Search functionality to my bigsibling blog. This may or may not (probably not) provide fruit. Come to think of it, I think I'll add it here too, since this blog seems to get much more traffic than my other ones.

At any rate, I truly and honestly hope the information here is useful for people and that you all have a great and prosperous new year!

As always, thanks for visiting!

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