Dollar James !

As you may have noticed, the frequency of my postings is become really awful as i really do not have much time for my blogs recently. Nevertheless, i have yet again received a small 64€ adsense cheque in April after a €70 one received in March! If you look at some of my blogs i have not been posting since february :)! So basically i am earning (little i must admit) but doing nothing! Here is a nice picture of the google adsense cheque i received!

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Many of you know John Chow, one of the most well known bloggers online. He earns about $30000 a month by blogging about how he makes money online! Well he was actually on CityTV (on Breakfast Television live show) on wednesday morning.

He was interviewed by the show host, Simi Sara who as mainy people didnot know a lot about blogging and how to make money online. For example i am not too sure she knew a great deal about online advertising networks such as Google Adsense. But she did a great job and asked the questions that were need for people who are not aware of the blogging world and how to make money with it. John Chow gave us the usual information on how to be successful, he talks about quality content, but mainly that the difference with other bloggers is that he did not at first make his blog to make money, it was more of a passion. But then as he saw it develop and earning money he then started getting money out of it. So here is the video of his interview:

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It has often been said the key elements to making money online with a blog is to have regular quality content on it and an attractive design. This is surely true for the top range blogs such as Problogger.net, JohnChow.com, but i can prove you that a small free blogger blog can make you money!

The blog i am talking about is The Color Contacts blog i own. As you may see it is hosted on blogger.com the design is a free awfull template, and content on it is rather basic. This blog can earn me up to $77 dollars a month depending on how many posts i do per month (max 3 or 4). You may ask me how did i manage to make this money with a such a dumb blog? Well i will answer it may not be so dumb than you may think it is.

First of all, i used various softwares available online in order to compare keywords and try and find a niche market (where searches are high and results are low) where adsense click rate is ok (above 0.2$ average per click). Once this was done i created a free blog and chose a free template which had colored circles, a bit like color contacts actually!

The second part of my job was to optimize it for adsense. For that i simply used the blogger plateform, gave my Google adsense account and placed my ads where i wanted. The most important part was chosing the right place for my ads. First of all i placed a skyscraper ad in my left menu and used colors so that it would look as if it was part of my blog. I guess people think it is a menu and click on my ads ! Secondly i placed ads after my posts so that once people have read my article well they read my adsense ads and often click on it!

The third part was writing the content. Well that was quite easy, just go on google, surf around found interesting articles about color contacts, and then just write about what you remember! This was very easy to do! The content of my blog is surely not of a great quality but it is basic and sufficient in order to be read!

Last of all, was how to get traffic…. Well first of all, you need to be patient, and posting regularly as it will take you time before earning money! You need to have been posting for several months before starting to earn! I also used this blog in order to promote my Color Contacts blog. I also pinged directories using pingomatic.com!

All in all this simply shows you that even a dumb old blog can make money! So if you are not making money with your blog, then you should think again about it and try and optimize it and i am sure you will be able to get profit out of it!

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Adverts promoting alcohol have no direct impact on the consumption in terms of quantity. Indeed, a study from the ”International Centre for Alcohol policies”, showed that an increase in beer advertising has no real impact on beer consumption. One of the reasons for this is that alcohol advertising is heavily regulated.

Even though alcohol advertising has very little influence on consumption in terms of quantity, it has a large influence on the purchase behaviour of the young consumer regarding the types of alcohol bought. Young consumers are aware of brands and products available; they react positively to new innovative products, and are willing to test new products. In most cases they have an emotional reaction to an ad and are therefore easily influenced by it as these advertisements “talk their language or portray images or events that are relevant to their lives and interests” (Advertising Standards Authority, Dec 2005).

Young consumers in general are known to be open to testing new products and having unconscious attitudes, such as binge-drinking. In the last 10 years, brands, in order to gain market shares, have launched new types of drinks that target the demands of young people. They have done large advertising campaigns so that young consumers are aware of these new types of drinks. This is why there has been a change in the purchase and consumption behaviour of young people regarding the types of alcohol drunk and bought. A report from the Department of Health has showed that there has been a change in the behaviour of young people that are now consuming more and more strong or sweet alcohols such as Alcopops or strong spirits.

Another impact of alcohol advertising on young people’s lifestyles is the location where they will be drinking. A change of location from pubs to night clubs and parties has occurred especially with alcopop drinks. The Smirnoff ad on the left is a perfect example of an ad promoting alcohol but also influencing where it will be consumed. The ad pushes people to party and have fun (night clubs, parties …).

All in all, advertising that promotes alcohol has a direct influence on the purchase behaviour of young people regarding the type of drink consumed and on their lifestyles with the location where alcohol is drunk.

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Blogging is probably the largest phenomenon which has happened on the internet in the last few years. Many men now have blogging as their main activity when coming back after work! As a consequence, women are becoming more curious about blogging with sometimes some very awkward reactions!

Generally, when a man creates a blog, he does not tell his wife… The reason for this is unknown, but some say it’s because their wives would not understand the point in blogging. In many cases men consider blogging either as a real hobby or as a relaxing activity where they can share their passion with the world. What has also been noticed is that men often tell their wives they are working when they are actually posting on their blogs! But why? The answer is easy, it is simply to be able to escape from all of the daily home tasks such as cooking, children, shopping or cleaning the house!

After a couple of days, weeks or months, wives obviously discover the secret activity of their husbands and become really angry at them which is in fact very understandable… You then have to explain to your wife all about blogging and why you like it so much! After debating with her for several hours, she will finally accept your hobby but damn all your daily home tasks will now have to be done…!

Once your wife is aware of your blogging activity, she will be fine for the first few months but then she will become awkwardly jealous… Jealous of seeing you passing so much time managing your blog rather than spending your time with her… She will argue with you that blogging is not worth it, that it is a virtual world and that you should therefore spend more time with her… Every evening she will be angry at you when you spend too much time blogging! Your life can become a nightmare! Basically she will try and make you you’re your blogging activity! Unfortunately for men this often happens…

The only solution to this issue is actually making money from your blog! Once your blog is optimized and that you have huge traffic you might start earning money! If ever your wife starts discussing about your blogging activity and how she thinks it is useless, you will simply reply that it earns money and that she should be thankful towards you as it paid her last dress!

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As you may have seen my DollarJames blog was offline for quite a time as i unforunately did not have time to work on it. My adsense blogs were also put aside, and this caused my revenues to decrease drastically. Since christmas i have restarted posting a coupe of times in my blogger adsense blogs which have allowed revenues to come back in January and hopefully more in February.

As usual it is The Color Contacts blog which is my most successful blog, and the other unfortunately do not seem to be working very well. My total adsense earnings for January is $33.5 which lets me hope that i will be able to reach the $60 easily in February! The Color Contacts blog has earned me $31.45 in January and My Color Contacts only $1.88 ! My other blogs have earned me the few cents left! For February i am already at $13.03 which is a good start! I will continue posting regularly during the month to see what will happen!

Also i have inserted Google Analytics in order to be able to do some keyword optimization. For example it will allow me to know which keywords visitors have typed in Google to come to my blogs, and all sorts of other information such as where visitors come from. With this i hope to be able to optimize my blogs in order to increase website traffic.

I have also launched a new blog on Eye Laser Surgery, so i hope that in a couple fo months this one will be working and that i will increase web site traffic, but i need to pst regularly which i seem to have difficulties too lol! I will keep you updated!

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Dear readers, as you may have seen, i have not been posting regularly, this is because i was away on holiday for a week in september, then because i had a lot of work as it was one of the most busiest week of the year for me at work! yes for those who dont know i am working for 6 month in a bank before going back to my business school. Position i have is really interesting as i have good responsabilities and am directly in contact with managers and high leveled people in the company!
Should be posting regularly again now!

You may have noticed my latest review on payday loans abc, well this was my first review from ReviewMe offers. Basically i am paid by advertisers to do a review of their website/blog. This will allow me to have a complement to adsense for my revenues. I do not expect to make much, but a little is better than nothing.

In order to keep a quality blog, i will only do reviews of websites that are related to money or similar topics on my blog.  I am also part of their affiliate program, but am waiting to have my own badge to put on my website. You get paid $25 for every advertiser you refer to ReviewMe who purchases a review that makes completion.

Payday loans are what can be considered as small short-term loans, typically less than $500 which do not require a credit check. They are intended to fill in money gaps when cash is needed immediately. These types of loans with high interest rates that can go higher than 20% should not be confused with regular bank loans from serious institutions. Payday loans can be useful when needing cash quickly but you must take into consideration that they are risky and interests can add up very quickly.

The Payday Loan ABC website is a resource guide that helps you find online Payday Loan Advance. Thanks to their approved lenders they offer no fax payday loans, but unfortunately the service is only available to people in the US. The process is rather simple as you just need to complete the online application forms provided by the approved lenders. After this step, you will receive money within 24 hours approximately on your account.One of the good points of Payday Loan ABC is that they offer news on the payday loan industry in to be kept informed of any important news, which you never know might be useful one day.

The only bad point i would give to Payday Loan ABC but which i would also give to other websites/companies/lenders offering these services, is that it is difficult to know who to trust online, and i find that there is a lack of information from who you are asking cash from. Are they are company, a legal lender? Furthermore i find these interest rates very high! I would rather recommend people to ask relatives or friends to lend money, but if this is not possible then payday loans are a solution and the services Payday Loan ABC offers seems to be of good quality even though i find little information is disclosed.

While surfing on the net i fell on John Chow’s competitor (not sure if i can say that or not!), John Cow! Yes John Chow but without the “h” to make cow. Basically John Cow’s website is rather interesting as he offers the possibility to guests to post messages on his blog but keeping a high quality content moderation. This is how i fell on an article which is related to seo and gives a smal tip which i did not know and use.

This SEO tip is rather simple but seems logical to use. I checked on well known blogs like John Chow, and they all seem to be using this trick, so i have added it to this blog! So you might ask what is it? Well its a tip that allows your blog posts to be seen in a better way in google. When i read about it, i really said to myself that i should have thought about it by i did not! Sometimes simple things are easily forgotten!
The first step for this SEO Tip is to have a wordpress blog and go to options, then Permalinks. Once in permalinks choose custom structure and insert “/%postname%”. Basically this will allow your article link to be your postname, instead of a number or date, which is apparantly better for google but also for remembering a link address.

The second step to take is to download and install the wordpress plugin All in One SEO Plugin which allows you to create your own description for your blog article. Therefore when doing a search under google a visitor will fall on a nice description which can contain important keywords! Very nice simpe SEO trick.

This trick is very simple and takes only a few minutes to put on your blog, so if you are a novice blogger such as i, or do not use it yet well i would recommend you to do so!