A lot of you probably already know what ‘review me‘ is. It is basically where you can offer up cash for other bloggers to review your site. The can make it a good or bad review, so you get some feedback. You also hopefully get some exposure to your site from people that would not have been there before.

So we have decided to give reviewme a try. Just a small experiment to see if reviewme makes any difference at all. I have ordered 10 reviews at $10 each as a test bed. I want to see the quality of reviews we get for $10, and see if there is any new traffic brought in by it.

If it does actually give us some new traffic and readers, then we will by some more reviewsme reviews. But the second time would be more expensive, say around $25 a review which would hopefully give us more indepth reviews on better sites.

I will also be giving you all the stats that we compile on this experiment. I have put in the request, but reviewme still needs to approve it before any reviews get written.

You may have noticed that you can buy reviews on this site, but we are selling them through sponsoredreviews.com. So why did I choose reviewme.com to buy my own reviews. Very simple, they accept paypal and the other does not. So I may have to switch us over to review me for selling our reviews.

Anyway, I will keep you posted on what reviewme does for the site.

Reviewme.com – Is it worth it? is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips

First, think about why you want to start making money on-line. You heard all kinds of storeys that others are doing it. You read a ton of the blogs about people like John Chow and Shoemoney and you know you can do it too. You read the latest tip about how they are making a ton with this new program, or that new method. You dream of how you are going to do the same thing and spend hours every day reading every word they write and view pictures of every meal they eat.

You really need to stop that. Seriously.

You are wasting your time if you are just starting out. Those are established blogs, and they already have the traffic to make money. You do not. You need traffic. Take all those hours you spend reading other blogs and put it into creating content for yours. Stop worrying about adsense and where you are going to put it. Stop thinking about selling any type of advertising period.

Write. Write your content. Write to your niche or chosen topic*. Keep writing, and find your voice. Write some more. Thats it. Do not try anything else yet, just create a writing schedule and stick to it. Do this for weeks or even months if you have to.

Nothing else really matters. If you cannot consistantly produce content, there really is no point. If you are writing about something that bores you, again, no point. No one is going to buy any advertising on a site with no content, and no one is going to visit a site with no passion.

So get started, I’ll let you know what to do next with tip #2 a little later.

*Please don’t start another ‘how to make money online’ blog unless that is truly your passion and you are not expecting to make any money from it.

#1 tip when starting a blog to make money on-line is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips

How about we do what we should be doing when selling advertising and use your traffic stats? Who cares about anything else really. It’s your site, you should know what your stats are. Just go from there and sell your ads.

Now I realize that it’s easier if everyone has the same set of numbers to go by, but it’s broken and can be screwed around with anyway. Look at this site, we still don’t even have a pagerank yet, and it looks like we never will.

Google already has enough control over the internet anyway right?

PageRank is dying is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips

But really, I did not want it to be over-crowded or hard on the eyes or annoying to use. So now I am just going to launch it and see what happens. Now I just need to fill it up!

Thats where you come in. If you have a blog, or know of a blog that should be included, please stop by and fill out the form to add it in. Every blog will be added, but it will be reviewed first and if it sucks, I have no problem saying so. Anyway, go on over to the BlogFrisker and give me some blogs to index.

I like to touch your blogs private places is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips

Well, maybe that got away from me a little. I want to do an experimental site doing just that. Doing every little thing I can think of to earn money by selling my opinion and every word on the site. I will plug any and everything on it. I will sell the look and feel. Anything goes.

Now is the time to try out any little dirty whore-ish thing I, or you can think of. Got an idea or something you always wanted to try but were afraid the results would be negative? I’ll do it for you, let you know the results here on the site, and give you credit if you want it. Now remember this though, I won’t do or show anything against the law.

Everything else goes, now first I need an URL. I really “obviously a sell-out” URL. Any suggestions? If I use your suggestion, I will give you… something… don’t know what yet, but it will be quite wonderful…

When I grow up, I want to be a whore too! is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips

Now, let me explain what crap filler is. They are the sorta on-topic posts that are very broad and general. I’ll do a quick example here:

3 Tips to improve your blog!

Follow these tips and you will have a great blog in no time!

If you read any blogs anywhere, I know you have seen this kind of junk all over the place. I was surprised at first that posts like this actually got comments, but I figure it’s one of two types of people. Those that are idiots, or those that are trying to get the top comments award.

So here is my question. Does this thing count as a post to you? Do you appreciate this crap as at least it is something, or would you rather the writer just wait until they had something to say?

Also, would these posts help yoiur rankings at all? Besides filling them with keywords, it will show your blog as being more active. Does that have any bearing in the SERP’s at all?

Is writing Bullshit good enough to keep your readers? is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips

So now I have finally decided to put some time into it. I’m going to try and add 10 or so blogs a day as I need to review each one first. The descriptions of the blogs in the directory are going to be written by me so I need to look at them to form an opinion.

Now I am sure I will get to everyone on MyBlogLog who is a member of foximus, or one of my friends. But, if you have a site, or know of a site that should be included please let me know. Just use our contact form.

It does not matter what tyoe of blog it is, and it does not have to be good. If it’s adult, please let me know in the e-mail so I only open it when I am alone, late at night, after a few drinks… Anyway, any help would be appreciated, and I’ll let you all know the URL once there is at least enough stuff in there to look at.

Please put you big Blog and my hot Directory is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips

Anyway, so what really happened to the site as far as visitors go? I wasn’t gone that long right?

I am just going to give you one stat from the site and you can see what happened.

Hits for July 2007 = 299481
Hits for August 2007 = 71345
Difference between = 228136

Yikes, that is huge. But are we done? No sir, we are not. Now say we take into account that we were more than doubleing our number every month. For this example we kept up with the trend and we doubled up.

Hits for August should have been = 598962
Difference between = 527617

Now that is huge! Half a million hits gone. So if you ever need some proof, or motivation to update and you care about your stats at all, now you have it. Not updated your blog regularly really will kill it fast.

Not updating your blog will kill it…. fast… here’s the proof is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips

• MyBlogLog. You may have seen the fox running around on some of your sites.
• We try to regularly comment on the few blogs we read daily
• We have done 4 reviews for link backs
• Participated in one link train, and one viral link campaign

Thats it really. No SEO, no buying/begging for links. No submitting every story to digg/reddit/netscape. Very little promotion at all. We really have been concentrating on learning and developing our writing style. Anyway, some fun numbers for you all to chew!

Google PR = 0! (we expect this to go up during the next update)
Technorati Rank = 48,065!
Alexa = 415,232
Traffic = June has a %300 increase over May already!

We are also in all the search engines in one way or another. So I guess the ‘build it and they will come’ holds true, at least a little bit.

But these numbers are not good enough. July shall be promotion month for us! We shall seek out any and all ways to promote the fox and drive traffic here. We shall continue to grow! We shall be relentless! This is Sparta!!

Anyway, I have a favour to ask. Give me ideas. Sure I can find ways to do it myself. Or possibly create my own but I’m sure some of you already have some knowledge on the subject. I am willing to try anything as long as it does not cause someone else to lose anything. Be it money, bandwidth or anything else. I will try any crazy idea, report what happened and give you the credit (and I won’t blame you if it blows).

Just use the contact form to get in touch with me.

150 posts later… is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips

The basic premise of the technique is to get your MyBlogLog avatar to always show up on a A-list blog for free advertising. You do this by have a auto-refresh plugin for your browser so that your avatar is always on top.

Sounds like a simple process right? Well, not only does MyBlogLog take steps to prevent this from happening, it is just plain evil and wrong. Let me explain.

First, who the hell are you to try and game my site and get yourself listed on it for free? Other people pay good money for a link on a blog, but you want to game the system so you don’t have to? And this is coming from a site on how to make money on-line, yet they are giving this sort of advice?

Lets not forget that if this actually worked, that is one less spot for others avatars to show up, and you are also burning up the owners bacnwidth that they pay for! Thats just fantastic. Not only am I going to get free advertising on your site, I’m going to make you pay for it.

I mean there is evil, then there is just unethical. And trying to justify it in any way by doing it to a blogger you don’t like does not make it any better. Maybe I am just not evil enough for these types of things, but I am trying to learn how to make money, not cheat others out of theirs.

Gaming MyBlogLog for free advertising? is a post from: Saving money tips - frugal living tips