I’ve not done one of these Blogger Earnings posts for ages, so I thought it was about time that, I checked out how my blog has done over the last month, Blazing Minds is getting more popular lately and this seems to show on the earnings, though some sites such as SponsoredTweets, Magpie and Google Adsense haven’t pulled in as much as they usually do, but sometimes there is a slump in the earnings and I have noticed in the past the February always seem to be the month that slumps!

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I was going through my bookmarks recently on FireFox and noticed some handy sites that I would like to share with all my readers, you may already know about some of these already, but, for those that haven’t seen these sites then they are certainly worth checking out and may even help with your future endeavours with your websites SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).

Firstly a great little website, but not to take to seriously is PageRank Prediction the title says it all really, it’s a simple pagerank checker, just enter your website address and the site will try to give you your pagerank on the next Google PageRank update, I’ve found it to be around 80% accurate though, so give it a whirl!

Next is the first in the “Graders” websites, the Website Grader measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

The second “Grader” is one which is quite fun and is the Twitter Grader, will give you a grade out of 100, show followers, following, Summary of the Twitter, history and tweet cloud, all good fun and useful tool to see what a new follow is really doing!

Finally a website tool for those of you trying to improve your websites keywords, the Google AdWords Keyword Tool, is a must, just type in the keywords that you would like to improve on and Google will search through it’s database and try to give you a good selection of keywords that may help improve your keyword on your post or website, I do find this very useful for some posts and it has improved my posts in the past, it may even help you with Google Adsense, but it is trial and error, so give it a go.

I bet the title certainly grabbed your attention didn’t it, but this is what you find on the internet these days, people claiming that they have made millions from sitting at home and blogging their proverbial backsides off!

Well, is it possible, I would like to say yes, but, I have to say NO! I have worked hard with my blog with it’s SEO and keyword related tips n tricks and I can quite honestly say that I’m not a millionaire, far from it, my blog bring in a small amount every month with Google Adsense and affiliates such as TradeDoubler, Amazon, iTunes etc bring in minuscule amounts.

So really if you want to quit your real job to make “millions” from just blogging then you’ll have to work all hours.

Don’t get me wrong I do know a few bloggers that have had some success with a work from home venture, but, I don’t think any of them would say that it has made them a millionare, but hey, I may be wrong…

Now I have been using EntreCard for a long time now and I must be one of the few “Droppers” that actually visits a site, stays for a while and even leaves a comment if the posts interest me, but the problem is those “Droppers” that speed drop!

The trouble with speed droppers is that they land on your site hit drop and then bugger off! Which is not really good for your blogs bounce rate, ok, I may be sending this right over people heads right now, so I would recommend reading the Wiki about Bounce Rate to find out what it is, but to cut a story short, bounce rate is the amount of time a visitor stays on your blog before moving onto another site etc.

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OK, so you’ve got a blog, and you’ve got your RSS feed, but are you using your feed with your subscribers to it’s advertising potential with Google Adsense?

NO!

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Most bloggers these days use Google Adsense and other Ads to help support their hosting etc, but, many these days are using the FireFox Plugin Adblock Plus.

So how can you help your fellow bloggers by supporting them if you are using Adblock?

Well, first of all if you are an avid reader of a blog, disable Adblock for that specific blog, this will allow Google Adsense to display ads and the blogger will have some revenue coming in, maybe not much but every little helps.

Secondly, if you really don’t mind the Google Adsense ads been displayed, which are not really a problem as they don’t take you away from the blog, then go into the preferences of Adblock and press CTRL+F to display a search box, now type in “pagead2″ and then uncheck the tick box next to it, this will now allow Google Adsense ads to be displayed.

So remember help bloggers by allowing their Google Ads to be displayed on their blogs!

For those who have been looking around the net and have not long signed up to the website Matched, then you may or may not know that the site, which had been in a Beta mode for a while, has now decided to close it’s doors.

I myself had not long signed up and though had waited ages for something to happen, wasn’t really that surprised to see that the site had closed.

It is with much regret that we announce that Matched.co.uk has closed.Matched has been running as a beta experiment for some time and, after much careful consideration, it has been decided not to progress the project to the next stage.

As a result, Matched will not be accepting new sign-ups and will no longer be assigning adverts to its current publisher base.

So now it’s time for bloggers to look for some kind of revenue to help support they’re blogging, so, here are my recommendations:

1. Google Adsense – One of my all time favourites.
2. SponsoredReviews – This has been quite a good one so far for me.
3. Smorty – Make money blogging and advertising
4. WP125 – This is great for adding and running your own 125×125 ad service, highly recommended.
5. Amazon – Yes they do an associates program which a host of options.
6. TradeDoubler – Another one of my favourites with a great collection of affiliates such as iTunes, Play.com and stacks more to choose from.
7. PayPal – Yes, PayPal, by adding a Make A Donation button you can sometimes find that someone who appreciates your work will make some sort of donation

So don’t sit idol with your blog, help it make it pay it’s way, I’m not saying you will be a multi-millionaire, but even if it covers your web hosting etc, then surely that’s a bonus in itself.

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