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Finally the cooler temps have arrived here in the deep south and I am so happy. I absolutely LOVE this time of year. Snuggling under blankets, drinking hot chocolate, baking lots of goodies…all fun stuff. I don’t even mind the shorter days. The one thing I don’t like about Fall is Halloween. I hate to say it but I am not a fan of this holiday. Never have. As a child I hated dressing up. Of course, I have 4 kids and they get into it big time so I have to just suck it up and suffer. This year should be fun though. We are going over to Maddie’s best friends house and going trick or treating her neighborhood. Hardly anybody in our neighborhood leaves their outdoor lighting on and you know the rule…if the porch light is off then they aren’t participating. I’m just so ready to get it all over with. Ick.

I did it using the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Worked like a charm! The only thing is that now my Category Visiblity Plugin is no longer compatible. It seems the creator has not upgraded the plugin for 2.3 yet. I hope someone does because I love that plug in for my paid posts! Oh well, you feed readers will just have to read them now, huh?

but I don’t wanna! I’m so scared I’m gonna break something and have to spend an hour fixing it. I need to, though, because there are some major changes I want to make to this site and I feel like I need to upgrade before moving forward. Have you updraded to Wordpress 2.3 yet?

OK, Geeks. I need your help. There’s a forum that’s hotlinking a big load of images from GGC and they are sucking my bandwidth dry. Luckily, I have tons of BW every month but I’m about ready to bitch slap the little twerps for doing this. This is not the first time and I’m sure it won’t be the last. It happened another time a few weeks ago but it was just one image and I was able to quickly change the file name. This is about 15 very large images and I’m trying to avoid having to go in and change the file names. I’ve been reading about preventing hotlinking with .htaccess but I can’t get it to work! Any ideas?

As promised here is a detailed list of what I made off my websites last month. I know it’s not as much as the A-listers but since it’s about double what I normally make I thought I’d share. I enjoy reading these reports on other blogs because it inspires me which is exactly what I want my report to do for you.

Total September earnings: $684.39

As you can see, it’s really not that much but without this money I wouldn’t have been able to buy our Hannah Montana tickets, go to Starbucks a few times, treat my family to a nice dinner out so I wouldn’t have to cook, even worse…clean up after cooking, oh and yeah, I was able to pay my car note with my blogging money. That’s kind of a good thing.

Here’s a little break down of the above companies….

Sponsored Reviews: I actually enjoy working with Sponsored posts. When I can get jobs from them, that is. Once your site is accepted into their program you can browse the available opportunities and “bid” on them. The advertiser then visits your site and decides if you are a good match for their opp. Well, alot of them want a lot of work for very little money and they want sites with higher page ranks. Since this site is a PR 2 these jobs are few and far between. They pay out every 2 weeks and are very reliable in doing so. Just wish they would approve more of my bids!

Bloggerwave: This company is fairly new to the game and I have only done three $10 sponsored posts for them over the past several months. Keep waiting for things to pick up.

v7n Contextual: Another company where you have to wait for them to send you opps. The thing I like about them is the fact that they pay within a few days of completing the opp. If you can get one from them. I’ve only done about 4 over the past several months.

PayU2Blog: Out of all the paid blogging companies I’ve worked with, PayU2Blog is by far my fave! They are super duper reliable and all the ops are quick and easy. They also do a weekly banner drawing video and a few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win. PU2B is the best!

Pay Per Post: Pay Per Post is probably the most popular of all the paid blogging companies. I could have doubled this amount if I’d really buckled down. I got a little bogged down with GGC last month and really slacked off. Lately there have been so many low paying opps I’ve kinda blown them off. I also hate the fact that they do not pay you until the post has been on your site for 30 days. Need to get over myself and do my quota of 3 per day!

Google Adsense: OK. I’ve been tinkering with Google Adsense off and on for the past couple of years not really having any clue at all as to what I was doing. When I opened GGC, I decided to attempt to monetize it with Adsense. I did a little research, learned a little SEO and managed to get a nice flood of consistent traffic to GGC. 85% of the money I made from Adsense came from GGC. Just to give you an idea, the month of August, I made around $4.00. They don’t payout until your account reaches $100. I know $109.56 is not much compared to some sites but I am extremely happy about the fact that I will be receiving my very first Adsense check in a few weeks! I’ll post a pic! Woot!

Text Link Ads: Once your site is approved by TLA they will attempt to sell links to be placed on your site. I’ve only sold 1 link on GGC so far. Hopefully, more will follow soon once it gets some page rank. One way to make good money with TLA is not just by having their links on your site but by referrals. They pay a $25 flat fee to you for everyone that signs up under your referral ID and gets approved into the program. Guess I better get busy and start pushing those referrals! So why don’t you help me and sign up with Text Link Ads right now!

Kontera: Kontera is a contextual link program that places text link ads within your blog posts or articles. Once you are approved they will send you the code you need for these links to show up. If you go to GGC then you will see the orange links with the double underline. Everytime someone clicks on these links I get a little change. It adds up! Some sites make a lot of money using this program. They key is to have lots of content so that they can provide the ad links. Some people find it a bit annoying, though. Also, like Adsense, they don’t payout until your account reaches $100. I have quite a ways to go. I just started using the program a couple of weeks ago so hopefully I’ll hit that goal next month. I haven’t added it here yet but as soon as I upgrade to WP 2.3 I plan to install the Kontera plugin so that I can control which posts I want to use Kontera in. Pay Per Post doesn’t like Kontera links in their posts.

Goals for October.

Work the hell out of PayPerPost! I know the paid posts are annoying but here’s a tip…if you read me via RSS you won’t see most of them.

Pimp Text Link Ad referrals as much as possible. $25 is a lot of money. I have seriously been missing the boat on this one. And remember if you sign up and get approved then you can sign people up too. Then we all make money. Yay for making money!

Manage my time better. See, I have these 5 other people that live in my house and they will NOT leave me alone. I have very limited time to spend on my blogs and I get so distracted by email, and reading Perez Hilton that I don’t get done what needs to get done. This has to change right now if I want to make this work. I’ve got to make better use of my time.

Finish up my new projects! I have recently registered a few new domains and I need to get those up and running. I have 2 more entertaiments blogs and a blogging for money blog on the horizon.

Now, if I could just get someone to clean my house and take care of my 4 children then maybe I could some things done. I need a nanny!

This is the longest blog post ever! Congrats for making it all the way to the end!

I’m dead serious.

If this doesn’t make you get off your ass and make stuff happen then I don’t know what will.

And all she wanted to do was talk about her stupid perfume. Poor Paris! I can’t help it but I actually like her. There. I said it. So sue me.

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At the beginning of each month I’m going to start posting a break down of my blogging income from the previous month. So look for this September report on either on Monday or Tuesday. I like reading what other people are making because it inspires me and I hope it will do the same for you. This month has been pretty good and I am excited about what’s to come. I absolutely LOVE making money from blogging! Even if it means trying to work in keywords like body shop supplies it’s still fun and the best job I’ve ever had.

Oh Sweet Mother. This is great.

Thank you, Amy for the link!

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