It will probably take a few weeks for them to email people for professional article distubution, so at this time I am just waiting.  At the month’s end I will post my Adsense earnings for this site (even though I don’t anticipate an increase yet).  In the mean time, I’m not doing anything else with the site because I don’t want to mix any other factors in.

Widgetastic

• Placement in Google for keyword (June 2011): 48
• AdSense earnings for May 2011 (typical for this site): $32.93

Stay tuned for details and a review!

It sounded perfect!  There was a time when I was spending around $300 a month to PLR membership sites in the hopes of getting some quality content, however most failed to deliver any quality.

So I was eager to see if PLRPro was going to make good on their promise.  When I first subscribed and logged in, I was happy to see that for each month they are offering ten articles in 25 different niches – so many articles!

However, I was a little disappointed when I opened the first set and immediately saw that there were no spaces between the periods of the sentences and the first letters of the following sentences.  So I thought, OK, this will be annoying to fix but let’s see about the actual content.  So I read through articles in about five different niches and was sad to find that not only did they sound like they were written by non-English speakers, with grammatical errors and sentences that just didn’t make sense, but there was little in the way of useful content.  There were lots of sentences that painted broad brushstrokes and were absolutely useless, sentences similar to “many people like xxx” or “xxx is becoming popular around the world…”  you know the type.

Since I started making content sites in 2002, one of the most important things I’ve learned is that quality doe matter.  If Google sees that visitors only spent a few seconds on your site before hitting the back button, your ranking is going to drop.  And besides, I like making sites that I can be proud of.

There is a bit of information in these articles, so at this point I’m debating whether or not I’m going to re-write some of them, or just let that $30 go.

So if you’re looking for a lot of content for a low price, regardless of the quality, this is the site for you.  If you’re looking for content that you can work with and re-write, this may be the site for you.  Otherwise, I would write the content yourself or hire out some good writers.

Since this document has not been updated since 1980, it’s sure to send publishers into a tailspin over how to deal with on their websites to avoid fines and possibly even jail time!

I, for one, am not so big into product endorsements, but rather post informational content (i.e. recipes, home & garden tips, candle-making tips) as well as provide WordPress themes for users on various sites.  However, I’m still shaking in my boots over just how careful I need to be about the links on my sites, and have just created an external links policy plugin for WordPress to add to my sites because so many people leave comments with links to other sites.

Grab it here for free for your own site if you like:

External Links Policy Plugin

See an example of the page it creates on this site here.

I never wanted that to be a money-making site because I always thought of it as too special, so I’ve kept the advertising to a minimum.  And honestly, the advertising I have on there does not convert well (as is the case with most entertainment sites).  Since I created this site and delved into the world of internet publishing, though, I realized that there were some great business opportunities available online.  So while I kept enjoying my hobby site when I had the time, I spent more of my time venturing into the business side of internet publishing.

The next site I did was a paid survey site.  I had been taking surveys for money and realized that this could be a pretty cool thing to promote, since I did have some experience with it.  I became an affiliate of a few survey sites and made a survey page on a subdomain of my music site where I added my affiliate links and a little blurb.  I bought some advertising throuh our local TV station and through some paid-to-read-email sites and actually started making about $100 a month – I couldn’t believe it!  I was making money online on my own!

Eventually I took the survey section off of the music site because, even though it was its own subdomain of the site, I didn’t think it belonged there.  But now that I was aware that it was possible to make money online, I still wanted to be able to have a profitable online business and was on the lookout for a real opportunity.

One day I stumbled across James Martell’s Affiliate Handbook.  Since I didn’t have a clue about SEO or online marketing, everything in this book was a revelation to me, and it completely changed the way I thought about making sites!  There’s a lot to be learned beyond this book, but it was perfect for a beginner like me!

So I created several niche content sites and began getting up at 4:00 in the morning to write articles before my daughter woke up!  And fortunately for me, my hard work began to pay off and it was only a year later that I was making $1000 a month from the sites.

Since then I’ve learned a lot of things, and while I still only work part time (about 1 hour a day) on websites, I now make about $4000 to $5000 a month.

I’m at a point where I have a lot to offer from my experiences, and where I also have a lot to learn, so I thought this would be the perfect time to start blogging all about internet publishing and everything that entails.