End of week two and although I havent had as much time this week to work on the blog my earnings are really starting to take off. This was a bit of a surprise as I thought it would take some weeks to get to this point and I just hope I can maintain this level.

EARNINGS : WEEK 2

   CLICKBOOTH - 152.00 US$ - I love this affiliate!
   FRIENDFINDER - 14.00 US$
   ADSENSE - 0.00 US$
   FAIRYTALE PTR - 1.42 US$
   NILECASH - 0.03 US$ -
   MYLOT - 0.00 US$

   TOTAL - 167.45 US$

The clear reason for the earnings is the affiliate program CLICKBOOTH which earned me money from the blockbuster advertising and from the affiliate sign up program which both pay very well indeed. Considering I still have low traffic the earnings from this have been outstanding and I am very excited about the future prospects. I cannot recommend this program highly enough - do yourself (and me!) a favour and signup here for the best paying affiliate program out there. I will be trying out some other ads from clickbooth to see how they perfrom. There are many programs to chose from and I hope they earn aswell as the ones ive tried so far.

The Friendfinder network is still paying well and I would have been happy with just these earnings for a second week but clearly they have been outshined by clickbooth. I will still be promoting this as I feel the program earnings will keep rising and provide a steady income.

Traffic has increased but is still low and needs alot of work but my Alexa ranking did climb by millions from 5,450,998 to 1,116,789 - lets hope it climbs by this percentage each week! 

Overall Im very happy and have high hopes for earning money online - maybe I can even make a living from this sooner than I thought.

I will be trying to get more content posted this next week and work on getting more traffic (I still have directories to sign up with ….boring).

If anyone wants a link exchange please let me know!

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 (more…)