It has now been one week since I started this blog with the aim of making money and I have put ALOT of work into it. Much of this work has been behind the scenes stuff such as signing up with directories and search engines or adjustments to the look and feel of the blog design.Ive been working into the wee small hours at times making little adjustments to the index page and CSS when im drunk and then fixing it the next day when I wake up.

Things are getting there and the look of the blog is beginning to settle but I will always be changing and adding things as I see fit.The signing up to directories and trying to get traffic in other ways is just beginning and will always be ongoing.Its the start of a long, long road.

Here is a quick run down of some things I have done this week:

• Researched and signed up with a free blog host - blogsome.com
• Chose a 3 column theme cloest to my requirements.
• Moved various sections from the right column to the left column and removed others such as the calendar function that didnt seem to serve a purpose.
• Added adwords to the site but later changed this to be very minimum
• Joined Mybloglog and added a latest visitors widget
• Added buttons to the end of each post to subscribe or bookmark using addthis.com. I also added digg buttons but removed them after adding the addthis buttons.
• Registered with several directories and search engines, added some buttons and reciprical links for some of these.
• Signed up for mylot.com where you get payed for posting in a forum and started a few discussions - not too many replies though.
• Signed up for linkreferral.com and browsed and reviewed some sites
• Signed up with FairytalePTR and clicked on ALOT of payed emails (whilst doing other stuff), also with nilecash.com but they didnt send too many. Boffopaid mail is the same kind of thing but is a scam.
• Joined the friendfinder network affiliate scheme which is REALLY GOOD and is earning already.
• Added google search bar at the top of the page.
• Yesterday I added a new header graphic which I made (I even took that photo myself - but its all fake miniature money!) and also changed the menu headers,post & date colours to stand out a little more as I felt it needed more colour on the site.
• Applied and was approved for clickbooth - I have very high hopes for this affiliate scheme.
• Posted comments on various other blogs to try to get a bit of traffic (but only on posts I find interesting - not comment spamming).
• Added the RSS button at the top left today.
• Posted 15 times (not including this).
• Read alot of other blogs!

    EARNINGS : WEEK 1

   FRIENDFINDER - 11.00 US$
   ADSENSE - 0.00 US$
   FAIRYTALE PTR - 2.25 US$
   NILECASH - 0.05 US$
   MYLOT - 0.40 US$

   TOTAL - 13.70 US$

Not exactly alot of money but more than I expected in the first week and its all down to friendfinder. Adsense is something I havent really looked into a whole lot and it shows, but I thinking that can wait until I get more traffic. I still dont have that much faith in making much from it though from previous experience of the scheme - not until I have alot of traffic anyway. I thought mylot would have given me a little more but my discussions didint take off - maybe I scared people away with my opening post about white dog poo  . I have very high hopes for clickbooth though and will be looking into this great paying affiliate this next week.

Friendfinder signups pay about 1US$ per signup for the free signups and I got most of mine from amigos.com (part of the friendfinder network) but not directly from this site. The signups were from a mixture of posting in forums and from another site of mine www.boliviablog.net. I will be looking into other ways of promoting this network. 

I didnt get a whole load of traffic and it is hard to say exactly how much as I didnt sign up to a tracking system until a few days ago. On the upside both alexa and google search have picked me up already - my alexa ranking in a lofty 5,450,998 but im just glad im picked up quickly.

This next week I will be trying to get more traffic, bulk up the content with some useful stuff and of course try to get more money. On the site design side I will add a contact me section, an about me page and a couple more adverts. Im trying to come up with some unique ideas for competitions and other traffic building goodies.

All feedback, suggestions, complaints and greetings are welcome. Also if you want a link or review exchange please let me know.

Onwards and upwards!