Don’t touch my stuff.

I just wanted to put up a quick post to promote my giveaway over at Earsucker:

Free Guitar Giveaway & More!

Don’t click if you don’t want to win something really cool for VERY little effort.

All you have to do is leave a comment with a musical memory to get a chance to win a free guitar. Other prizes include an iMainGo portable Zune/iPod speakers, musical toothbrushes, and music CDs.

To get two other chances, you can link to the post or stumble it.

Comments close on June 18th.

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I’ve been away for a while, making money online….I’m back for a minute to tell you about this little online game called “Spot the Difference” that you can play to earn cool prizes.

You’re welcome

The game is located here and basically all you have to do is take a really good close look at the two pictures and spot the differences between them. Of course, that is, before the time runs out.

How good are you? Try not to cheat!

The sweet prizes:
You can win $20 gift certificates from Amazon - get free movie DVDs, concert videos, TV series or books of your choice.

What have you got to lose except for three minutes?

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I may as well use this blog for what it really is….a personal blog. And I figured with the recent influx of comments (maybe not influx, but it’s good to know I’m not talking to myself), that I’d see what everyone is up to.

So, what are you up to? Are you trying to make money online? Are you chilling with the kids, playing Guitar Hero 2, biding your time until Christmas to bust out GH3? Talk to me, I wanna know.

Anything on your mind? I’ll tell you why I haven’t been blogging here so much, if at all lately. I have taken on some blogging jobs to try to make some extra cash so that I can quit my real job.

There’s of course Earsucker, my music blog. It doesn’t make a gazillion trillion brazillion dollars yet, but maybe someday….. Then there’s Star Offenders, which is a strong competitor for Earsucker, traffic-wise. Both blogs together brought in over 60k pageviews last month. So you can imagine that I have my hands full with those two.

Other than that, I have taken on a celebrity blogging job that pays per post. I can’t disclose the website name, but it’s a cool blog with a really nice design. Being the stats junkie that I am, I don’t have access to the amount of pageviews for this particular blog. That’s the only thing I would change for that job, though.

There’s also Newblogger, which I’ve been meaning to post about how much I’ve made from blogging last month. That site got it’s first review recently. Ten bucks is still ten bucks, right?

What have you been up to?

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As I was creeping through the internet last night, I noticed that this rockin lady has created this nifty award, based on my Rockin’ Girl Blogger award.

Check it out:

As opposed to what I started in June, which was this ugly little button:

I really like the first one better. I know that this doesn’t speak for my design skills, but hey, that was in June. I’ve honed my skills since.

The idea behind these awards was that you get to start something. Anything. Get an idea and run with it. And that’s what she’s done for her friend, Victor. The Awesome Guy Blogger award never really took off like the Rockin Girl Blogger has. I thought I could attribute that to the ugliness of the actual button, but I still don’t know the cause.

If I had to redesign the Awesome Guy Blogger award today, here is what it would look like:

Grab that and nominate an awesome guy blogger that you read, today.

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Updated: Sorry about the screenshot earlier, I was at work

John Cow’s site is rather nicely designed, very nicely indeed. So when I was tipped off that he was using this ad to advertise his advertising, I knew something had to be done.

Look at this:

I just wanted to see the cow have a nice ad to advertise his advertising. And he was gracious enough to give me a shout out.

Thanks to John Cow, enjoy your ad

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These are all of the submissions for Courtney Tuttle’s Group Writing Project. Great job, everyone!

Getting Traffic To Your Website

The Smart Way To Get Traffic And Links: Creating A Prospect List For Bloggers by Maki
Finding Blog Topics That Will Bring You Traffic by Sean
The 25 Best Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog by Marco
How To Increase Traffic To Your Website by Frederick

How To Get Instant Free Traffic To Your Blog by Bruce
How To Stay Visible Inside Of 70 Million Blogs by Ken
Blogging In Real Life by Theda
Why Back Links Work by Paul
How To Optimize Your Blog Images For Google Image Search by Etienne

Developing A Website

How To Choose A Topic For A Blog by Vic
Here’s How To Get MORE Subscribers To Your Dazzling Blog! by Mark
How To Gain And Lose RSS Subscribers by Simon
Blogging Burnout: How To Avoid It To Achieve Blogging Success by YC

Eight Ways To Write A Successful Newsletter by Carlo
How To Decide How Often To Post On Your Blog by Derek
Finding Good Keywords For Your Niche by Caroline
The Anatomy Of A Link by Sutoco
How To Use Google Webmaster Tools - And 5 Reasons Why You Should by James

How To Secure Your WordPress Blog by Fab
Common Internet Marketing Mistakes by Bryan
Ultimate List Of Free Blogging Platforms by Fred
How Do You Build Relationships With Your Blog Visitors? by Pearl
The One Thing To Know When Writing With Keywords by Simonne

Upgrading Your Theme For WordPress 2.3 by Karthik

Making Money With A Website

Start Making More Money And Sell Your Own Ads by Tay
Methods To Make Money With A Website by Genesis
Balancing Affiliate Marketing And Relationship With Your Readers by Meg

How To Sell Ads On Your Blog Despite Its Size Part 1 by Casey
How To Sell Ads On Your Blog Despite Its Size Part 2 by Casey
How To Sell Ads On Your Blog Despite Its Size Part 3 by Casey
Day One: Affiliate Marketing by Roberta
Throwing Away Visitors For Fun: Wrath Of Advertising by Fabien

Why People Don’t Make Money Online by Adebola Oni
Effective Email Marketing by Matthew

Writing Copy

How To Write Content That Makes A Difference For People by Bobby
How To Become A Better Writer by Pat

Why Bloggers Should Be Better Writers by Nate
12 Reasons Why Bloggers Need To Become Better Writers by Karen

Getting Better Website Rankings

How To Increase Your Alexa Rank And Why You Should by Don
Case Study: Ajax Edit Comments and Technorati by Ronald

Improving Yourself

How To Increase Personal Creativity by Sara
How To Find Answers To Your Marketing Questions by Justin
Finding The Commitment To Climb Your Private Everest by Nick
How To Increase Productivity While Working From Home by Neena

Choose Your Attitude Choose Your Success by Don

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Maybe the professionals at Google know what’s going on with pagerank issues. I just read that Problogger has been knocked down to a PR of 4. Along with that, John Chow’s blog is also a PR4. Adesblog, who was a PR7, is now a PR5. CopyBlogger is a PR4 now.

What on Earth is this madness?!?

Anyone know?

Now, I’m not saying that pagerank is the factor in what makes a quality blog, that could be the furthest thing from the truth. I still read those blogs and find their content interesting and thought-provoking (as I’m sure most of us do.)

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I used to be a hardcore Sitemeter junkie. As most of us are, I’m a stats junkie. I check and I check, I want to know where you came from, how long you were here, and where you clicked to go when you left.

Donovan happened to turn me on to Statcounter. The beauty of this service is that for one thing, you can have an invisible meter on your site, and two, you can track multiple sites with one account. It’s also really easy to use and you can block more than one IP address at a time.

Sitemeter, on the other hand, still tracks my visits (to update) from work. Maybe that’s Sitemeter’s way of telling me that I shouldn’t be doing that stuff at work, who knows.

So, in the end, it’s Statcounter all of the way for me. What about you? Do you use either one? Or another service?

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This blog has been cluttered with ads, and to no avail. They certainly aren’t making me any money here, otherwise I’d keep them. I don’t want to turn into a John Chow, where my ads overrun the space and no one can focus on the content.

As far as the content is concerned, it is going to be funny stuff, ramblings, affiliate stuff, and other stuff. I hope you stick around to read what I have to say. I appreciate all of your comments, they are more than welcomed here, even the crappy ones…hehe

I’ve gotten rid of Google, TTZ Media, blogrush, and all of that other nonsense. I like it and I hope you do, too.

Thank you and come again. No more revisions, and more focusing on the content.

Update: I’ve added “ads”….all of which point to my other sites…..

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