Postcards from the Funny Farm

It was a fairly slow month but I learned a lot. I think February will be a lot better. Just the same, I am being realistic with my goals.Postcards from the Funny Farm
Weblog Analytics January 2008

1,877 Visits: Goal achieved.
61 Visits/Day: avg. Goal missed by 19 :(

Feb Goals:

2,000 Visits
70 Visits/Day avg.

Top Referring Sites (Thank you!)

Social Networks:
1. bumpzee.com
2. stumbleupon.com
3. Wordpress.org
4. blogcatalog.com
5. 9rules.com

Peer/Other:
1. liveslessordinary.wordpress.com
2. lorelle.wordpress.com
3. livetardy.com

Web Publishing:
1. blogcritics.org

Monetization Stats for January 2008

Ads:
Adsense $1.64
Other $0

Pay to Blog:
PayPerPost $50
LoudLaunch $20

Total earnings for January: $71.64

Monetization Goals for February 2008:

Ads:
Adsense $5
Other $5

Pay to Blog:
PayPerPost $30
LoudLaunch $20
Smorty $ 5

Total Feb earnings goal: $65

How are you making money on your blog?

Google Vilifies PayPerPost and PayPerPost Fights Back

By now you may have heard about what Google did in attempt to destroy a small startup company, PayPerPost. The story goes like this:

Google invented PageRank. They set the secret criteria websites are assigned a rank from that called “Page Rank.”

When PayPerPost came on the scene, they paid bloggers to write posts on given topics. As with any open platform on the web, some abused it and wrote short meaningless posts that met the criteria of the job but were basiclly just filler posts with no new content. Having said that, there is still the large potenial for PayPerPost posts to be even more effective sources of info on the web (which I THINK Google would see as a good thing.) That’s why I was was shocked to find out that Google becaise a couple months ago stripping every blog with PayPerPosts on it to a zero page rank.

Now the big irony: To get the decent paying jobs on PayPerPost, you mch have a high Page Rank. Google not only sent all blog with PayPerPost to the bottom of the snake-pool but they alsocut off the life dollars of “posties,” as they are called who were once making $500/month writing quality articles.

Google is protecting its interests just like Microsoft tried to do by making Netscape incompatible with its software. Google is going to find that spam sites and services are much more prevalent that PayPerPost writers. Many I have spoken to are fed up with worry what Adolf-Google will find immoral so they are doing PayPerPost when it sounds interesting. I’m in this camp. If I get a great idea from PPP idea, I am going to write and link it . If Google think that make my writing spam, they can sit on their thumb and spin. I predict: Google will change or start falling in the next 5 years. They will not be the best company with tactics like these.

It’s the new Page Rank! RealRank.  The company is IZEA and it makes a lot more sense as a ranking system than Page Rank does. I recommend you head over and get your blog claimed … I predict this will transform rank as we know it. IZEARanks.com :: Top 100 Blogs, Blog Ranking, Real...