Blogger Dreaming of Money
For some of you – how sweet would it be to imagine yanking a cool $50,000 a year just of blogging? Imagine waking up, grabbing some cereal, writing about a topic you enjoy then just going about your day. Rinse and repeat. It happens. Some people make even more than that. The truth is there are more people blogging than ever before, but the truth is also that relative to the number of people out there, there really aren’t that many bloggers so there is still a market share out there for you to nab. I blog about money because I’m business oriented, but the possibility to what you can blog about is only limited to your imagination. Start blogging today. Its a slow process but once you get going you’ll realize how much potential having a web page can have.
Paypal Fee Structures
One thing PayPal hides from you at all costs is how much percentage fee they take out of the money you receive or send. Here is a listing of the fees PayPal has taken out of recent 2008 payments of mine.
$125.00 received – $3.93 fee
$140.00 received – $5.76 fee
$27.00 received – $1.08 fee
$78.00 received – $2.56
$4.00 received – $0.46
$24.00 received – $1.00
$35.00 received – $1.32
$195.00 received – $5.96
$5.24 received – $0.45
$1.99 received – $0.36
$1.04 received – $0.33
$8.00 received – $0.53
$21.00 received – $0.91
$10.00 received – $0.69
$108.00 received – $3.43
$40.00 received – $1.46
$60.00 received – $2.04
$45.00 received – $2.06
.mobi keyword shows up in Yahoo top 10
NewHairstyles.mobi is indexing in the top 10 for the popular Yahoo search “new hairstyles”. This is relatively significant news in the make money search engine industry. I’ve never seen a .mobi domain rank so high for a popular keyword on any of the big three search engines – Yahoo, MSN, or Google. .Mobi keyword domains would raise in value if this trend continues.
Link Under Your URL
Google decided to dock websites with too many anchor text links under their targeted keywords. Now, website owners seeking higher PR and better rank should link under various keywords to achieve their goals. This will help websites get found under similar terms more often and prevent further penalties next update. If you want to err on the side of caution, acquire links from your URL address without the keywords altogether. However, links have become a smaller part of the equation. My take after the new update is emphasis is placed on fresher content and longer blog posts. Too many outgoing links can also be a big problem. Be very mindful of blog comments to make sure someone is not just using you to prop themselves up.
Cuil.com Making A Search Engine Splash
The last time ex-Google employee Anna Patterson created a search engine, it was quickly bought up by Google to upgrade their system. This time, Patterson’s search engine is not for sale.
Cuil.com (pronounced cool) is backed by $33 million in venture capital and claims it indexes more pages than Google. The search homepage lives up to its name, with a nice black background highlighted with bright blue trim. The search results are displayed different than the conventional results, with larger paragraphs lined horizontally rather than vertically.
Cuil.com could emerge as a dark horse in the search engine race if the results are better tailored to the search. Currently, results match as well as Google or Live.
New Google PR Update
Google has updated their page rank to websites on July 26, 2008. This will cause massive amounts of money to be made or lost in the coming days. Page rank is the infamous rating system Google uses to assign the importance or authority of different websites. It is not indicative of actual search engine rank, but there is a significant correlation. Higher PR links sell for large amounts of money while lower PR links are not considered very valuable in and of themselves. For example, a pure PR 5 website link can be worth anywhere from $15-$150 a month depending on the niche and type of deal you get. A PR 0 or PR 1 may get $3 – $12 a year.
