Big Fat Failure!
Failing, depending on what type of person you are? Can make or break your blog. What do I mean by that? Well, some people take failure badly. Once they’ve failed and their money making dreams have been thrown down the toilet, there’s no need for them to go on. Money was in control of them, it was keeping their dreams alive, but now because of tight fisted Google AdSense only making them $1.03 that month! That money buzz has been destroyed and so has the passion for blogging. Definitely a broken blog. I personally have enjoyed failing. Failing has taught me so much. I’ve learned a hell of a lot more discovering what went wrong, rather than sitting their flexing my muscles in the mirror just because I made $50 from a few EBook sales. If I can start using what I’ve learned from my adventures properly, my blog might just make it out there.

Here’s what’s failed for me so far:

funkreviews.com - A blog I set up to take advantage of sponsored reviews. I simply lost interest in it. I was only after money so the blog was rubbish and it failed miserably. About Funk Reviews

Affiliate Marketing - After stupidly reading and believing in a 4 year old EBook about selling EBooks, I thought I would kick ass and make a fortune. How wrong was I. Affiliate Marketing Adventure

Getting greedy with Freelancing I jumped rite in to the deep end and started advertising cheap web graphics all over the internet. I couldn’t cope. Kill customer Frenzy

My Successes
Success for me isn’t money related just yet. My successes are when people leave a comment, send me an email or subscribe to my rss. I have earned money through this blog, I’ve made a few dollars off referral links, a few cents of Google Adsense but most of my income has been coming in from freelancing work which I secured by advertising away from this blog. I suppose if I’d sold out and started using pay per post and sponsored reviews my income would have been a lot better. But I didn’t want to get bitch slapped by Google.

Plans for the future
The next 3 months should be fun. I’m almost ready to launch my CMS Showcase site cmsnerd.com. I’m also going to starting giving this blog as much exposure as possible. Paid advertising is definitely something I’m going to be looking in to. If you fancy doing me a deal? I’m all ears. Making Money from this blog still isn’t really an option yet. I’m still focusing on growing my readership and increasing my traffic. A month or so ago I was on page 90 of Google for Make Money Blogging. Now I’m on page 10. So that’s another area I’m going to be working on. I’m also trying to get a Google PR I think the goals I’m setting myself for the next 3 month are realistic. If I put the effort in I’m sure I’ll make it.

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New Design
I’ve switched themes for the third and final time. The revolution magazine theme I was using was really boring. It’s great if you use it for what it’s intended for, a magazine style blog. But if you turn it in to a standard blog, it’s a bit dull. In fact, the Revolution theme theme got so boring I would fall asleep almost every time I started proof reading my posts. The theme I’m using now is actually a free theme. I’ve made a few changes to the design and I’ve messed around with the sidebar. I’m pretty happy with it. I was going to pay someone to design me a custom theme, but this design is more or less what I would have asked for. So I’ve probably saved myself about $200.

Backing Myself Up
As you probably know, you should always keep a decent amount of draft posts ready for emergencies. So, I’ve spent most of this evening writing up draft posts for when I’m running on empty. I’ve created 8 in total. They’re not fully completed posts, but if I do get stuck for something to post, these should hopefully get me out the shit. If you’re stuck at the moment? Here’s a few of the drafts I’ve written tonight. Not in full of course. But they might help you think of something to write.

The Advantages of Multiple Blogs?
Looks mainly at the downside of multiple blogs, what attracts people to make them and why most of them fail.

Cheating your way to the top
I’m basically talking about the pros and cons of mass blog creating tools and Black Hat SEO.

Do you need to blog about money to make money?
This is a post about why people love blogging about ”make money online” so much.

Contest
I’ve also been looking at running some kind of contest. Nothing huge, but the prize should be decent and I can promise you now, it wont be 300 entrecard credits and you wont have to sign up to my rss. I hate rss, I never use it, so I don’t see the point in flaunting it all over my blog. And I’m not going to promote something I don’t use myself or like. I do have an rss feed for people to subscribe to, but that’s just because some people like them. I like to cater for all tastes.

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