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I’ve been avoiding Twitter like a Mexican avoids somebody with flu symptoms. It’s not so much an issue with Twitter itself, more the technology involved. I figure unless I can update it frequently and easily enough then what’s the point of using it? If I use my mobile it will cost me a fortune, the various Twitter clients I’ve tried were all bulky for what little functionality they gave. The Twitter website is not that good. So in short I couldn’t be bothered with Twitter.

I did however set up an account for my daughter. It took a little while but now she has become hooked, not only that but every day she seems to gain more followers, many from people all over the world. This has had a really positive effect on her blog (can you see where I’m going with this yet?). Am I really stupid enough to ignore something that could be so beneficial? Nope.

They you are, sat at your computer. You’ve searched Google high and low for information about affiliate marketing. You’ve read every blog and e-book on the subject and you’re ready to go. If there were exams in the understanding of the importance of landing pages, keywords, ad-copy, split-testing you’d pass with flying colours. You decide today’s the day. Pumped up from the glowing reviews from every make money online blogger on the planet you start your investment – $99 on “The Affiliate Theme”, $500 into your brand spanky new Adwords account. $200 a month on some tools to help with your keywords and ad generation. The top affiliate marketers say you need these so it’s an investment right? You are a money making machine and you’re about to rock the internet! Sleep is now for wimps, you spend 2 days creating tight keyword specific ad groups within Adwords, just like the experts tell you. You are pumping out landing page after landing page with “The Affiliate Theme”. You know you need to bid high and then drop it down later when you’ve got a good CTR, so that’s what you do – you set your initial bids at around the $1 mark and you wait….and wait.

Jump forward 48 hours – your Adwords bill is closing in rapidly on your $500 limit. You’ve got no conversions (on a product that you only earn $25 on anyway) and you’re left with the distinct feeling that you’ve been had. Feeling down you check around the blogosphere and find yet another article where a Super Affiliate boasts of making $20,000 yesterday! That my friend is how the majority of people go about starting affiliate marketing.

If that’s you, or if the thought of having to invest a few thousand dollars to “test the water” makes you want to be sick then I’ve got a new technique for you. It concentrates on making a profit with affiliate marketing first and foremost. Welcome to my 10 steps to making a profit with PPC affiliate marketing.

Hands up who wants to sponsor me? Come on people, you know you want to.

I’m doing a challenge in May for the British Heart Foundation. Basically my gym has set up the challenge, you have to do a total of 31 kilometres in the 31 days of May using the various pieces of gym equipment. Now in my mind I consider 31 km to be not much of a challenge (to me personally), so to up the ante a little I’ve set myself the goal of doing 310km instead! That means going to the gym every day and grinding out 10 kilometres. To make it even more of a challenge I’m also taking away my option of using an exercise bike, so that means I have to cover 10km a day using only a combination of rowing machine, cross-trainer and treadmill. There is the very real possibility that I will do myself a mischief trying this, on my second practice run I was physically sick! Some people will call me stupid but this is just a natural thing for me (I’m naturally stupid), if people are going to be good enough to sponsor me then I’ve at least got to make it punishing. I will do it though, even if I have to crawl the last kilometre on the treadmill, I will do 310 km!

So why support me? The British Heart Foundation although British in name have a primary goal of seeing a world where people to not die prematurely from heart disease. They are right at the fore front in the research of cures for heart based defects and ailments. Research that is used globally. On a personal level my uncle died at the age of 44 from heart failure, as I break into my thirties it really has dawned on me that it was no age. From having the time of his life at my wedding (where he was an usher) to being buried 2 weeks later, completely out of the blue.

So each day I will go to the gym, do my exercise and then have it confirmed by an instructor. I’ll be doing regular updates on here of how I’m getting on (may scan my record sheet). So if anybody would like to sponsor me you can use the PayPal donate button below – any amount is very greatly appreciated!

If for some reason you sponsor me and I don’t complete what I’ve set out to do I will personally refund any donation and then contribute the entire amount to the British Heart Foundation myself.

Progress

Somewhere buried on my “to do” list has been the need to add a list of the resources that help me Make Money Online to this here little blog. The good news is that I’ve finally got around to it…well sort off. I’ve only added a couple of newer things so far, I will add other products and services as and when. I have a list of 6 that are shoe ins for now, some of which I have written and are exclusively available from here, others of which are the resources that I’ve paid for/been given by third parties.

Talk about ups and downs, I just about think I’ve got something new making money when yet another income source comes under threat. This time it’s the small amount I make with TLA.

I have a domain that’s been a home page PR4 since the very first days of Page Rank. It slipped to a 3 at the last update, which I could understand (some links have got very old) but I’ve just checked now and it’s a big fat ZERO! There are 3 or 4 pages on that domain (out of hundreds) that contain links sold through Text-Link-Ads. Other than that it’s full of top quality original content and is an authority website on a few subjects, holding great rankings. The whole domain has seen it’s page rank slashed. So the questions is this, for the sake of a few hundred dollars a month is it really worth selling links with Text-Link-Ads and having the Google PR penalty? Whilst a PR penalty isn’t affecting my rankings at the moment is there a chance it will in the future?

Entrecard started life as a way for bloggers to show a 125×125 advert for their blog on other blogs. It was all powered by a points system with points being awarded for various actions (too many to list here). As with any freebie system there comes the time where the owners will want to start making money from it. Fair enough. Entrecard have played around with a few gimmicks and ideas in the past but have just recently released what I suspect was probably the overall aim of setting up Entrecard in the first place, a paid advertising network. With pay per click costs as low as 0.04 cents and pay per impression costs as low as 0.60 cents per thousand (both for subject targeted) I just had to give it a go. Somehow it’s left me a little bit dazed and confused, and here’s why.

It’s now been 2 months since I wrote my first ever WordPress plug-in and I’m finally ready to reveal some results. The reason I’ve waited so long was that I wanted to make sure that any changes that I was seeing were long term and not just day to day fluctuations in search traffic. If you look below you can see a week-by-week traffic chart of the organic search traffic that Google has been sending me since I first implemented the plug-in (including the current part week):-

Hold on to your horses people, the t’internet is just about to get more interesting. PirateBay.org, the world largest bitTorrent tracker website have just been found guilty in a court in Sweden of promoting copyright infringements. Not of actually committing any copyright offences themselves but just of encouraging it, encouraging it by linking! All of a sudden there is a test case in place that makes us responsible for the content of those we link to. Remind me again what the whole internet is built on? Oh yeah, that’s it, linking! Here’s an example, you can watch illegal material on YouTube. Here’s a link to YouTube. If I was in Sweden what I’ve just broke the law, I’ve just providing you a link to a website that contains material that infringes copyright. So that’ll be a million dollar fine for me and a year in prison then? What a load of complete and utter crap!