To Be Completely Debt Free

Wow, January was a bit busy for me in my everyday life, and I didn't get much of a chance to post here. I do have some totals for January, that I will be posting later today or tomorrow. The adsense is getting better with Info Barrel and Xomba, but I will admit I did not get a lot of chances to write this month. Also Chitika picked up this month too. So I was happy to see some money come in through them.

So stay tuned for an updated monthly total for all the sites I belong to.

Hey all, sorry I'm late with this, however, I took some time off at the end of the year. So, December is usually a time of the year when online publishers don't do all that well, and I will admit I didn't do as great as I would have liked. With that being said, I still made a bit of money. I am ready for the new year, have some goals in mind, and have not let my December money totals get me down. So without any further delay, here they are:

BANS: $366.09
Xomba: $1.33
Infobarrel: $3.82
Cashcrate: $3.95


I also belong to shetoldme.com and Chitika, but have not made anything YET with them. So yes I did well with my BANS stores, but it was Christmas time, and I usually make $350 to $400 every December with those stores. They will drop down to their normal $200 range this month. On Infobarrel I have 12 articles up, and plan to get myself in gear this month and put up 30 to 60 articles. On Xomba I have 22 Xomblurbs and 3 Xombytes up. I plan to put up 10 to 20 new Xombytes up, and whenever I stumble across a good website I will put up a Xomblurb. I did make a few cents off of this site, which I was pleased to see, although I'm really only using this site to document my progress, not to make butt loads of money off of. However, I will take it no matter where it comes from!



I have really enjoyed working on Infobarrel and Xomba. I can't say enough nice things about the staffs at both places. I think both sites are going to boom this year and maybe give Ehow a run for it's money. Of course the above links are my referral links but if you don't want to use them, I understand. You can go to them through the following, http://www.infobarrel.com/ and http://www.xomba.com/ . If you really want to try and make a go at making some money online go to these two sites and sign up. You will find the inspiration to make the money because you will run into members who are making a good amount and are not afraid to talk about it with you and to help you along. Again you don't have to use my referral, that's why I put the non referral addresses in, go there and do something to help yourself out, I don't think you will regret it!

So, today I wanted to touch a bit on blog carnivals and their uses. A few users over at Infobarrel decided to get together and start a blog carnival to help promote some of our articles. It is small right now, but as soon as we get more users to join in it should be a very nice backlink to our articles. In the future you will probably see me host a few blog carnivals on behalf of the group, but for now we are going to host it at one spot until the use of it picks up.

So what is a blog carnival? It's sort of a community of like minded people. There are so many interesting topics out there, but sometimes it can be hard finding a group of good blog posts or articles on one particular topic. What a blog carnival does is, collect the links to a particular subject, put them together in a nice article then publishes it on a blog. Say for instance Budget Travel is the topic you would like to read about. On a blog carnival that is about travel, you will read an article that gives links to other articles or blog posts about the same subject. So with one click you get several great posts or articles to read about all directed towards the subject you are interested in.

How does this help you if you are an author of one of these posts or articles? Well, it gives you a backlink and a chance at some traffic to your site or article. Lets face it, that's what you want, you want traffic to your site, and this gives you a chance to get targeted traffic. People who are actually interested in the subject you write about. Now it's a little different when you have a blog carnival about a writing site. The blog carnival that the Infobarrel people have put together is a grouping of their articles, they may not have the same topic in common, but they are from the same site. There is good that comes from this too. Say someone comes across the blog carnival because there was an article about travel, but then they also get to see your article about movies. They might be interested to see what you have to say, and there you go, you get traffic.

Blog Carnival is a great site to find a blog carnival on a particular subject. Also, if you would like to try using a blog carnival, you can find one that hosts on your topic and you can submit your link. Be sure to read the guidelines to the certain blog carnival you want to submit too. It is important to follow the rules to make the blog carnival the best it can be. Do not spam them and make sure your content is what the blog carnival is looking for.

If you get a chance, check out the Infobarrel Blog Carnival. You will get an idea of what a blog carnival is about and you might find an article that you like.

Hey all, or one or two, finally got the new template up and going. I like it much better then what Blogger had to offer. What do you think? Got the FeedBurner and everything going. Only took half of my night! I have Wordpress blogs, but I just wanted something a bit easier, for this blog so I went with Blogger. I was happy to see that there are now a lot of templates out there for blogger, just makes it look more professional and appealing in my opinion. I suggest any of you out there who are using Blogger to get a better template then what they offer. It really isn't that hard to do.

On another note, was approved for Chitika. In case you are wondering what the heck that is, it's just ads that you can make a bit of money off of. Just like adsense. I like the set up and you only see the ad if you come to the blog by search engine. So the few of you who check in by not using the search engine will not see the ads. I like it that way. I really don't want to hit my readers with a crap load of ads. That's another reason why I liked this template, it blends the ads in so they are not screaming at you. Don't get me wrong, would love to make a few bucks, who wouldn't, however, my main goal is not to force them on anyone.

Last but not least, Twitter. As you can tell from my sidebar, I'm on Twitter now. We shall see how this goes. I have a private twitter account and I get bombarded with people trying to sell me things, hope this one will not be as bad. My main reason as to getting the account is so if you are interested in this blog, I can update you on things I'm doing to make my goal of $600 a month. I totally think it is do-able, just takes some work.

Some people at Infobarrel have gotten together to run a Blog Carnival. One of my links will be on it, so as soon as it is up and running I will post more about what a Blog Carnival is and how to use them.

Hey all, or the two people who actually read this blog:) (I hope there is more), in my quest to make money online, I recently signed up for a new site called, She Told Me. It is a social bookmarking site like Digg, but the difference is that they pay you 100% of the adsense revenue that appears on your submissions. For each link you submit to SheToldMe.com a page is created with the title of the link, the link, a description, a screenshot of the website hosting the link, and a link to your main site if you add one. Up to 3 AdSense blocks are displayed on this page and of course, if anyone clicks, you get the money. I just started last week with this, mostly as a way to promote my articles on Infobarrel and Xomba but I will let you know how it goes.

Speaking of Infobarrel, I have put up a few more artilces,Scoopable Litter- Which On Is The Best?, and article about, finding better scoopable litter then the scoopable clay litter that may harm your cat. Also, The Exxon Valdez And The Emergence Of Environmental Crime, a piece on how the Exxon Valdez oil spill was the catalyst for the emergence of fines and jail sentences for crimes against the environment. I also wrote an over view onHow To become A Pharmacist , and The Four Most Underrated Walt Disney Movies , and last but not least Club Drugs-What You should Know About Them and an overview of Criminal Insanity. Check them out if you get a chance and let me know what you think.

I have also signed up for Chitika, will update that more when my application gets accepted. I'm still working on getting a twitter account. I've been busy but I will do it this weekend, oh and I will be trying out new templates. I don't really like this one, but hey it works for now.

Okay, so much to my surprise one of my articles that I have recently written for Infobarrel, has made the front page! If you check out the site you will see several articles listed under the different topic areas. My article about California Shipwrecks, can be found listed under the topic of History. I've only been with this site for about two weeks now, so I was more then honored to see one of my articles make the first page! I have to say I have really been enjoying writing for them. The staff seems very hands on and the site looks great. They just added a new forum so things are moving along over there.

I've noticed a lot of people have been jumping ship from Ehow and heading over to both Infobarrel and Xomba. That's interesting to see, I don't know much about Ehow. I was going to sign up for Ehow, and decided to take a look at their forum first. I'm thankful that I did, seems their forum is just filled up with people complaining about they way they are being treated over there. While looking through the forum I found a few mentions of both Infobarrel and Xomba, so I'm grateful for going there and finding out about other places to try my luck, and I'm grateful for doing my homework first before blindly signing up with Ehow.

Also, I'm going to give in and try my had at twitter. So in the next day or two I will post my twitter name. I have no idea if it will be a good thing or not. I don't know much about twitter, and I'm not sure I have much of a following here...LOL...to justify a twitter account, but hey, why not try it?

So over the last few days I've been trying to come up with ways to find good topics for my articles. One suggestion to me was to check out the questions asked at Yahoo Answers. I have to say, I did get one or two ideas from it, but wow, have you ever checked those questions out? I know there is suppose to be no such thing as a stupid questions, but folks, I've come across some questions that can not be otherwise described as stupid.

So, I've moved on to checking out what is popular on the article sites. I'm guessing if the subject is popular at sites like Ezines, and Go Articles then I'm sure they will be popular at the sites I write at. Now, to just get a good list and see what works.

So far I have not been able to figure out if Infobarrel or Xomba is the better site. I'm sure it will take a few months before it is figured out. Both sites seem to get good juice from google, and I'm doing well with page hits from both of them. I'm actually doing better with these two sites then with Squidoo and Hubpages. That alone makes me want to churn out more articles for those two sites.