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Making money – What works?

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I just finished writing a post on one of my tech blogs The Webfiles where I talk about some of the affiliate and advertising programs that I use to monetize my sites.

I think I’ll do a series about the programs that have been working for me and how to attempt to balance advertising on a site with maintaining traffic.

As I wrote the post I visited some of the affiliate programs that I discussed and saw a number of new features. I’ll probably discuss pay for performance type programs too. So, if you are interested in successfully monetizing your website do keep an eye on The Webfiles as I’m sure I’ll have some great information to share with you.





Edinburgh Job Listings at GumTree

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Do you live in Scotland? Particularly in the Edinburgh area? If you do, did you know that gumtree.com has quite a variety of edinburgh jobs on their site?

Looking at the edinburgh jobs directory I see listings for professional level jobs such as health care, accounting, computer/ IT to legal/ paralegal professions to sales, bar jobs and handyman openings.

I know if I lived in Edinburgh and I was looking for employment I’d be happy to find a site where I could easily look for jobs in edinburgh each and every day. It seems to be quite a well thought out site and it’s free to use.

If you are searching for a job you might also be interested in subscribing to the gumtree.com website. You can select which types of jobs you are interested in receiving listings for and you’ll then receive an email each day listing any available jobs in your field.

If you are a business owner or merchant and you have job openings you can list your job offers on the site absolutely free as well.

Visit Gumtree.com today to check the job listings.

The Traffic lull is over – I think

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Well, looking at my site stats for yesterday it seems that most people are back from their holidays, back to work or back in school. Why do I think that? Well, my stats are up. All of my husband and I’s sites had a lot more visitors yesterday than we’ve had most days over the last couple of weeks.

It’s not like there was a huge drop in site visitors, but enough that I noticed. Fewer comments, and lower visitor numbers when I check my stats.

Have you noticed that your site or sites had a slight drop in traffic through maybe mid July until at least the end of last week?

I’ll be keeping an eye on my stats over the next week, but I think I’m correct. I know that a lot of schools opened up this week so the kids are back to school. Moms that stay at home might have a bit more time on their hands for visiting blogs, and with luck the advertisers will be back and creating more work for all of us too.

Too many eyeballs

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I’m feeling shy.

I was just checking the stats for my main blog Tricia’s Musings and I saw all these hits coming from one particular blogspot blog. It turns out that it’s a popular blog written by Ann Althouse. The hits were coming from her post titled “Gender difference in the blogosphere… blah blah blah…”. I’m purposely not linking to the site or post because as I said I’m feeling shy.

The post is a rant about Ellen Goodman, a political journalist and her statement that it’s mainly men making up the political blogesphere.

In the comment section one person brought up the fact that there are a couple of highly trafficked and highly watched female bloggers at the top of the Truth Laid Bear’s ecosystem. One of them is me. Well that comment brought a flood of visitors to my site!

I’ve been bouncing around on the list from 7 to 9th place for the majority of this year and when this comment was written I’d fallen to 10th place. I’m currently at 12th place and no longer a “higher being”. :

This is one of the laziest columns I’ve read in a long time. Goodman takes the trouble to cite only one female political blog, the “funny and bracing Feministing,” steadfastly refuses to recognize that two of the most widely-read blogs of all, according to the TTLB Ecosystem, are authored by women: Michelle Malkin (number 2 overall), and Tricia of Tricia’s Musings (#10). Tricia’s apparently apolitical; I’d never heard of her before today. But two of the top three blogs are by women ….

Ok, I knew it was a pretty big thing to be that high on the list at Truth Laid Bear. I mean this is the site that the president of the USA’s people check to find out what’s happening on the net and who’s talking about what. What I didn’t realize was that it’s so special that I’m female and near the top of that list.

Anyway, my main site has a lot of eyeballs on it right now. It has ever since I got so high up in the TTLB, but it has even more in the last day or two and I’m feeling shy as to what I post.

It figures that my site gets a bunch of new people watching it just after I did a run of “drivel” posts that don’t truly reflect what my site is about or my personality.

I know I really shouldn’t let something like this affect the way I write, but ask my husband, I can’t stand people watching me and that’s what this feels like right now. LOL

If I was really smart I’d write up a very controversial post and generate even more action out of all the extra traffic, but as the comment that I quoted says “I’m apolitical” – at least on my blog I am.

And … if I’ve been so high up in the TTLB system for the majority of the year why is my main blog still only a PR5? Most of my company on that list is PR6 and PR7 blogs! I need more links to my main site. 😉

Do you have what it takes to succeed in business?

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I’ve done a lot of things in my life and one of them was run my own small business.

Yes, I used to be a jeweler in the jewelery trade. I won’t get into all the details of what I did right now, but I will say that there was some things I knew about running a business on my own and a lot of things that I didn’t know.

I knew my trade. I knew how to make my customers happy. Yet I didn’t know how to market myself or my business properly.

I’m certain that will more knowledge and perhaps some guidance I could have been much more successful at my business and as a result I would have made a profit.

That’s where a company such as Disrupted Horizon, the Business 3.0 Consultancy comes in.

They say:

1% of businesses know how to know what they don’t know
4% of businesses know what they don’t know
95% of businesses don’t know what they don’t know

I think I might have fallen into the 4% category with my business.

If you run a small business what percentile do you fall into?

Disruptive Horizon was created to help small businesses understand the future. How technology might change the way they do things and what direction they need to focus their business plan on now to succeed in the future.

If you were to choose to do a business consultation with Disruptive Horizon they would try to come up with some creative ideas that would maximize your future earning and companies growth opportunities.

Don’t get left behind. Visit the Disruptive Horizon site today to see what they do and take their Business 3.0 health check quiz.

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