Everyone knows that posting on forums with a link to your sites in your sig is a quick and easy way to gain a lot of backlinks quickly. What they often don’t consider is their profile pages. Whether a forum allows guests or spiders to see sigs or not, every post you make has a link back to your profile. Also, most forums have a list of online users on their homepages which has the highest pr. So it is not that hard to get a nice PR to your profile. Just checking out a couple forums that I visit I found that I have profile page that is predicted to be a 4 and a profile page that is predicted to be a 3! Suppose that you visited and posted ten times a day on 10 different forums. In a TBPR export or two you could have 10 strong forum profile back links. You don’t even really have to keep posting to keep the PR. Just pick a new forum and start posting, it doesn’t even have to be a webmaster forum—any will do. There is one small problem, some forums use a robots.txt to tell spiders not to index profiles so check to see if any other profiles from that forum are indexed before going all out.

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Some time back I mentioned that after getting nowhere with Chitika I was beginning to have some limited success. I take it all back. All the limited monies I made were withdrawn during auditing. I won’t call Chitika a scam, but I can certainly see how some have been justified to name it as such.

Chitika was a great idea, but it’s useless if it doesn’t get money into my pocket. So now I’m left with finding a suitable alternative. I really only have 2 sites where I was really counting on Chitika to bring in some revenue, so I think what I’ll try is selling text links there instead. A couple sales and I’ll have made more than I ever “should have” with Chitika. If that doesn’t work out then I’ll have to try to find another ad alternative.

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U.S. judge in Google case sides with gov’t in part If you’ve seen this story or another one similar to it, you might be as disgusted as I am at the lenghts my American government will go to trample the civil liberties of its citizens. The government has no right to invade the privacy of its citizens in this manner no matter how good the cause.

If I’m disgusted at the government, I’m even more disgusted at the judges that are allowing this to happen. The job of a judge is to protect the american people from both its citizens and its government. It is a bad day indeed when the judges start choosing the government over the first ammendment.

Of course this isn’t completely the government’s fault. I am proud of Google for not bending over backwards when the real G demanded the info, but they should do anything to keep the search data out of the G’s hands. If the judges will not protect us then Google should. Destroy the search data Google, take one for the American people. You can always rebuild, we can’t without a long and bloody war.

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I am proud to say that I have already met my Adsense goal for this month. I changed up the implementation of the ads on some of my sites and it has just about tripled my earnings from them. So I can pretty much call another goal that I have. It looks like I will get my first payout from Adsense at the end of this month. I’ve been using Adsense since August of last year and I never was really sure that i’d make it to the first payout, but I am going to.

So, I have a new goal for next month. That is to make a payout in one month. So I want to Average $3.33 per day for the entire month for a grand total of $100. So how am I going to do this? Well I’ve got one site that did very well when it was getting steady traffic from its previous owner, but that has tappered off. So I’m going to try to get it some decent traffic. I I do that then its earnings should sky rocket because it has a high click-thru rate and it pays well for clicks. Secondly I’m going to work on acquiring another already earning site or two.

In other interesting news, bring on Google Mars! If they’re already doing this with the limited info they have, I can’t wait to see it once they have a satellite sitting on mars.

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The next time that Google makes an earth shattering announcement on their blog, do your self a favor. When you spread the word by blogging about it, include a link back to Google’s blog post. What this will do is when Google next crawls your site they will find your link to that post, and they will add a link to your blog under thier “links to this post” section of their earth-shattering announcement post.

Now, not only is this going to get you traffic—maybe a lot maybe only a little—but, as far as I can tell, these links will pass PR as well. I just picked a random post from April of 2004 and it has a PR5. How’s that for a free high PR backlink? To get more traffic then pick a really good title for your post which is sure entice readers that are looking for speculation and answers ect.

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p>All I can say is that this month has started out great for me. Today is the first day that I have ever made over $5.00 in a single day. Most of it was from Adsense, but even though I’ve been critical of Chitika in the past, it is starting to pick up for me. My Adsense goal for this month was to finally make over $1 per month. Well, after two days not only am I above that goal, if things continue at this rate then I will have doubled in this month what I have earned to date.

This inspires me to say that succeeding with Adsense really is all about the placement. On two of my sites I completely changed the Adsense implementation and they are doing 1000 times better at making money while there has been no significant change in traffic. And unlike previous times, CPC is staying strong.

I’m still waiting and hoping for a PR update on the index of Mlinkz. If it doesn’t get it before the update is finalized then I am going to really begin to wonder.

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I’m going to go on record and say that yesterday was a pretty darn good day. I had to make a hard decision and so far it has panned out. Plus, Google was good to me as well.

Let’s start with the hard decision. Since starting this semester at school I have known that there was no way for me to keep running Mlinkz directory if it kept getting the number of submissions that it was getting each day. So I was faced with a hard decision. I could either sell it, my only really successful site, and start over with something new or I could tack on a fee of some sort so that submissions would be slashed. I fully intended to sell it after the PR update because I expected the homepage to go to PR5 and the category indexes to go to PR4. However, Google didn’t do what I was waiting for, so I opted for the second option. Yesterday morning I decided to charge a reviewing fee for submission to the directory. I also doubled the price of the featured links and I told myself that I was happy with a single site submission each day. Yesterday I sold no regular submissions, but I did sale two featured links!

I said that Google was good to me. Well it was. After waiting the entire duration of this PR update for something to happen to Mlinkz, yesterday the category pages that were linked to from the index finally got some PR. PR3s all around. I’m still waiting on the main page to get updated, but for not it is not as important as the category page.

Secondly, February has ended, so lets discuss how I did at Adsense. My goal for the month was $1 each day for a total of $28. All was going good and I was well ahead schedule until I had a dry spell in mid-February. Well yesterday I had an excellent adsense day and fell just $.40 short of my monthly goal. So this month I’m going to possibly aquire another site and really make the $1 per day for a total of $31 at the end of the month. If I can accomplish that then I will be only one month away from earning an adsense payout, something that I was never really sure I would make it to.

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