The Story so Far 2007!
Hi Bloggers and welcome to the last post of the year. 2007 as had its ups and downs for me it as been the year I started by Part Time Internet Marketing career.
Here’s the Story so Far
I decided I wanted to start making a bit of money from the Internet in may when my overtime was stopped in my day job. So I opened up a shop on Ebay selling Ebooks, boy was that a mistake several emails a day saying ‘Link doesn’t work or ‘Ebook is shit’ I want a refund. For f**** sake its only a dollar, get a life. That little venture lasted about 3 weeks and I made about $30 profit. So be warned selling ebooks on ebay doesn’t work now there’s too many people at it.
Next f*** up purchased nearly a dozen ready made turnkey sites. I was a fool and fell for the sales talk not to mention I was a complete newbie. This is now naive I was, I purchased 5 sites from one guy with hosting. So I emailed him to say could I host all the sites on one hosting account. This is what the w***er had to say.
Hi Keith, you can not host more than one domain with each hosting account with us, some hosting account’s do but the service is shocking so stay well clear. This guy clearly knew I was a newbie just by knowing I purchased 5 of his shitty sites, and conned me big time. I am tempted to let you all know who the w***er is but that is not my style, and as they say you learn from your mistakes.
Next mistake I started several forums hoping I could grow a popular community. I managed to gather 100 members on one. But the posts never really taken off and the work I put into it was worth thousands by my day job standards.
In October I discovered the world of Blogging and everything is moving along great now. I am channeling my time and money better and I predict a good year for 2008.
My two Niche sites I discovered last week are up and I’m ranking at 120 for my chosen keyword in a matter of days. And more importantly the site is starting to make a small amount of money .$3.50 so far you have to start somewhere don’t you.
Well hope you all have a fantastic New Years Eve, I’m flying over to Ireland in a few hours to spend it there with my lovely girlfriend.
Bye for now and Happy New Year to all of you!
Part Time Blogger!
Why do Shit Blogger’s diss other Shit Blogger’s
Hi Bloggers whilst checking out a few Blogs around the Blogosphere I came across a little blog called Dayjobnuker.com . I managed to get a small mention on it about new Blogger’s being Dumb. I’m the first to admit i’m no expert when it comes to Blogging. But this guy thinks I am Bragging because I’ve got the 45n5 widget on my blog. No pal its there because when I go to the page to look things up I tend to spend way too much time viewing other blogs. I’m the first to admit I’m crap but slagging off other Blogger’s when your not much better yourself is quite frankly rude.
Thanks for the slag off though you brought me 2 more viewers to my blog. Guys like you keep us all motivated to succeed even when the odds are stacked against us. From one Shit Blogger to another Happy New Year!
Best wishes and a Happy New Year to all!
The Part Timer!
Why pay for a Blog Makeover!
Hi Bloggers the topic of today’s post is this ’Why pay for a Blog Makeover’. Having though about paying for one myself I have noticed quite a few of the more well known Blogger’s are getting there Blog’s madeover for nothing. Tyler Cruz and Caroline Middlebrook to name just a few.
The first thing I did when I started the Blog in October was to spend a couple of hours looking for a good FREE Wordpress Template. I’m on my second one now and fairly happy with the crisp clean design, and have decided I’m going to stick with this one, well until some hotshot designer offers me a Freebie.
To be honest I know this is not going to happen for a very very long time, your Blog needs to be at a certain standard and have well over 500 Rss readers, and I’m crying saying this PartTimeBlogger.com isn’t that. At first I did contemplate buying a Blog makeover hoping that it will increase my readers, a nice blog design is all well and good. But you need the content to go with it and I’m the first to admit it I’m not there yet. If you look around the Blogosphere most of the top Bloggers have what you call Blog designs that are not easy on the eye. To be brute their plain darn ugly, but this didn’t stop these guys getting to the top. The only Blog design I can think of that made the blog what it is today is Johncow.com the content is good but it screamed out come back for more, I’m pretty. I really like the design and when the template came on sale a couple of weeks ago I nearly made the purchase. But decided against it because I didn’t think it would make any difference to my blog.Yeah it may of looked prettier but traffic wise I don’t think I would of seen an increase.
Why get a Blog Makeover?
My advice to all Newbie Blogger’s out there DO NOT PAY FOR A BLOG MAKEOVER. You may be asking why not, well if your prepared to pay for a blog makeover you must rate yourself as a blogger, and see it as an investment which will pay you back 100 times once you hit the big time. Don’t be a fool if your good and your content is good you will get to the big time without an expensive Blog Makeover, and once at the top Blog designer’s will be knocking at your inbox door desperate to makeover your Blog to get that footer link that will make them much more than if you payed them $500 for the Blog Design.
Another reason a Newbie Blogger should never pay for a Blog Makeover is this, Blogging is a Part Time game to most of us and eats into quite abit of our time. This is why most Blogger’s give in after 3 months of blogging they either have writer’s block or find out the time there using can be used on more worthwhile projects or down in the pub. I have even thought to myself, is this worth it. You only get get one shot at life, don’t waste it Blogging earning no money or at best very little money. But my biggest mistake is not the time spent blogging it was the time wasting. I’ve eliminated most of that and I’m starting to make progress with my Niche Sites and Affilaite Marketing.
So my advice to all you Newbie and Part Time Blogger’s is to keep your hand in your pocket and concentrate on writing good content. There are hundreds of fantastic FREE designs out there just find one that suits you and stick with it till your offered a FREEBIE or you Quit. Sorry if the word Quit is harsh but I’m afraid most of us will.
Happy Blogging and Good luck to all of you!
Part Time Blogger!
Link Love to 365 Random Blogcatalog Member’s
Hi Bloggers, when I started this Blog at the end of October one of my main sources of traffic was from Blogcatalog. So I have decided to give some Link Love to 365 random Blogcatalog members. One representing each day of 2007.
Don’t worry if you are a Blogacatalog member and not on the list. You can get a Free link on my Rapidly Growing Community of Part Time Blogger’s. The Part Timer’s
2007 Random Link-Love to 365 Blogcatalog Members
‘CAN YOU FIND YOURS’
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