Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

So I decided it was time to start blogging again after a super long break.  But instead of just starting from scratch with this domain I decided to import all my posts from my old site and redirect everything here.  So it’s new…but not really.   Make sense?

I plan to use this post about all my silly guilty pleasures and just whatever else I strikes my fancy.    Speaking of guilty pleasures….  my sister and I run a fansite for the brand new CW series, The Vampire Diaries.  Please Visit us at Vampire Diaries Online!

I actually bought this domain name about a month or so ago but over the weekend I decided to set it up and start posting.? Check it out!

Mom’s Blog Money?

As of right now I plan to post over there at least 3 times a week.? Hopefully more if I’m feeling inspired.? It’s still a work in progress but please go visit, leave a comment and subscribe to my feed.

I don’t know why I haven’t posted about this yet but I’m doing? NaBloPoMo this year.? Actually, I signed up about 2 weeks ago but never posted about it until now.? By joining, I’m committing myself to posting everyday for the entire month of November.? It’s kind of a spinoff to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) which I actually attempted about 3 years ago.? I failed miserably, though.? This is much easier.? Here’s my profile.? I have no idea why my profile username is gibberish.

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• Pay Per Post: $70
• Sponsored Reviews: $26
• PayU2Blog: $105
• Kontera: $22.18
• Text Link Ads: $68.12
• Linkworth: $9.82
• Affiliate Commissions: $43.83
• Google Adsense: $275.65

Total Earnings: $620.40

While October was a bit lower than September’s earnings of $684.39 I am still very happy.? Of course, this income is from 3 sites combined with over half from GGC.? I could have made a lot more but I pretty much abandoned PPP last month as you can see. Starting today, I am going to be working with them a lot more. With Christmas coming the money is much needed.

My biggest earner of the month was Google adsense! My goal was to hit $300 but when all my sites went down for 17 hours on the day that I get the most traffic I lost quite a bit of money.

Oh, I want to thank those of you that signed up with Text Link Ads through my referral link. You know who you are. *wink* I get $25 per referral thanks to you. TLA pays on the first of every month so I should be getting that payment via Paypal anytime now. This is some easy money, guys! It’s totally free to sign up. Even if your site doesn’t get approved for text ads you can still be an affiliate and earn money through referrals by getting people to sign up under you. I was so excited to see that I had 2 referrals last month. I know some people who make several hundred dollars a month this way.? If you are interested in trying out TLA then you can do so by clicking the banner on my sidebar are you can just click here.

Happy Halloween, y’all.

Welcome to the House of Chocolate. Oh. MY. God. I have never seen so much candy in my entire life. Maddie’s best friend invited us to go Trick or Treating in her neighborhood tonight and let me tell you, that “hood” knows how to do Halloween. All the houses were decorated with scary stuff and everyone was having parties in their carport for the kids. So much fun! I think we walked about 5 miles, though. My legs are killing me. I’m going to have to hide all this candy. Between 4 kids there’s about 20lbs of the stuff here. I kid you not.

Even though I’m physically exhausted, I’m wide awake. Think all that chocolate has anything to do with it? That’s ok because I have plenty to do. I want to do a little research for one of my online projects and catch up on my blog reading.

Stay tuned for my October Blogging Income report in the next couple of days. While I didn’t make as much as I did last month, I hit some major milestones and can’t wait to share them.

I have lots going on in my little bloggy universe these days. Some of it’s still in my head and I don’t want to talk about it right now and some of it is a work in progress and isn’t ready to be shared yet. Not sure exactly what is happening with me but it seems like all these light bulbs have been going off in my head like crazy lately and I feel like I’m bursting. It’s all good, though. I really love it but I do feel so overwhelmed at times. Between the demands of my family (which always comes first) and my housekeeping duties (which I never put first. yuck.) I’m finding it hard to find the time I need to work on my projects. Like for instance, as I type this I have my 9 year old reading over my shoulder and someone calling my name from another room. How do work at home moms do it? I guess those that can afford it have maids and nannies to make life easier. I haven’t quite gotten to that point yet.

My tv show blog is going great. So far for the month of October it has gotten over 111,000 hits and 60,000+ unique visitors! Google finally gave me some page rank of 3 too! Was hoping for a 4 but I’m very happy with a 3. Everyday I’m continuing to rank in the top 5 results on Google for most of the major keyword phrases. I’ve also been accepted into some great affiliate programs like iTunes and Shopzilla which are turning out to be some great money makers. I hate to sound like I’m bragging but I’m just so happy with out it has turned out.

P.S…I hope to launch that project I can’t talk about within the next week so stay tuned!

I am not happy with how my blog is looking at all these days! It seems that every template I try just looks half-assed and I don’t have a lot of time anymore to play on Wordpress like I used to. Remember how I used to change up my template all the time and it actually looked good?

I’m actually liking this one except I need to change the colors and make a logo image. Maybe add a cute background. Hell, I don’t know. I wish I could afford to have someone design it for me but I don’t.

Speaking of money…. We bought a Nintendo Wii yesterday! Well, we didn’t actually buy it. My mother in law gave us the kids’ Christmas money early and we were lucky enough to snag one. I say lucky because we searched all over town and everyone was out. Best Buy, Circuit City, Walmart? OUT. Our last stop was Target and we couldn’t believe it but they had 2! I’m so excited that we got it. I keep hearing nothing but rave reviews. Maybe I’ll become one of those savvy gaming moms now.

Oh, and one last thing.

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Thank you! Mwuah!

I’ve been working on a new theme for Java-girl.org and I’m just about finished.? I just have a few more tweaks here and there and I’ll upload it.? My sister has been complaining about this brown theme for a few weeks now so maybe this will shut her up for a while.? Just kidding sis!

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?