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Months revenue from Opuix

August 19th, 2008 by Gareth | 3 Comments | Filed in Business and Finance, General Internet

I set up Opuix Media a couple of months ago to try and earn some cash on the side for future projects and to pump into my blogs. Turns out it really got popular especially around were I promoted it.

Now this is the question that everyone who was wondering how I managed to do this.

Where did you promote and how?? (more…)

Generating money on new blogs isn’t hard

July 28th, 2008 by Gareth | 1 Comment | Filed in Blogging, Business and Finance

I have recently got some friends into blogging and I am glad they are getting into the whole blogging community because you can update family and friends whilst make decent cash on the mighty internet. Everyone gets lost a stage and the place they get lost is when they make their blog and think how will I generate revenue and get visitors?

Everybody makes it out as if its hard which it really isn’t. Like I stated in the title of this blog post.. “Generating cash on new blogs is hard, or is it?“. I have listed to the right three sites (Bidvertiser, Chitika and Smorty) for you guys, unfortunately Blog Spot are tightening up and don’t allow either Bidvertiser or Chitika. (more…)

Yahoo! making it three years in Beta

May 26th, 2008 by Gareth | No Comments | Filed in Business and Finance, General Internet

Its now added up to be three years and Yahoo! is still only available to USA. It said when they started the Beta that they would aim to get Yahoo Publisher worldwide. If they were to make it worldwide would they be able to compete with Google AdSense? Personally if they were to bring it to UK I would try it and see if it lives up to all the American’s say how good it is meant to be.

There’s still no sign of a break-through and releasing Yahoo! to the rest of the world, but for now we can’t really say that they are anywhere near releasing if its took over three years.

Will Digital Point ever get unpopular

May 25th, 2008 by Gareth | No Comments | Filed in Business and Finance, General Internet

Two years ago I had a conversation to my brother Andrew about webmaster forums and which one will be the next to go down. We agreed to each other that Shawn knew that sometime soon his forum would become unpopular just like any other webmaster forum. All I can say is that we were wrong. I have been a member on that forum for some quite time and I can say that I have seen an amazing gain of traffic and members.

Most of the newbies that start into the webmaster world wants to have a big forum, I tell them not to make a webmaster forum unless they have money to promote or else they have something unique about it that it will knock competitors like Digital Point, Site Point and other forums.

Make money using Smorty

May 15th, 2008 by Gareth | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, Business and Finance

Blog Advertising - Get Paid to BlogEveryone wants to make money, well as far as I know they do. This is how it went, once upon a day I was looking round the Digital Point forums and seen some threads about this company Smorty. I said to myself I must look at this, some people were making over $250 a week by just reviewing sites by using this site called Smorty.

Later on after looking more into it I decided to sign up and give it ago, so far its been good I have done 4 site reviews that are about $6.00 to $12.80 each. Those were done in one day and I have sent them off to be reviewed by the site owner, if I don’t get accepted I will be really cheesed off!

Really hope this turns out to be a profitable way to make money from blogging. I got some other sites I have signed up to, but this one looks a little more professional than the other ones I went too and plus it pays via PayPal. The others don’t. If you’d like to get paid to blog go to Smorty!