SpreadShirt - A great way to make a few extra bucks

Have you ever thought "Wow, that would make a great shirt and people would buy it." Thoughts of having your super cool t-shirt printed up and making loads of cash selling it started running thought your mind. Ya you would be the fucking T-shirt Tsar of your block... if there was such a title. Girls would be wearing your name across the bare breast and you would be king. Alas, you didn't have the cash to layout to buy the shirts let alone any idea how to sell them.

Well, the answer is here. A bunch of krauts... well at least one, came up with this great idea. You design the shirts you love, you set up the website (so easy a monkey could do it) and they take care of the order processing, credit card payment, shipping and sending out your commission cheque (Yes I am in Canada.) Best of all, it does not cost you a fucking cent. Ya, that's right not one friggin penny. When I first saw the site, I was a little sceptical so I set up my own store and designed a T-shirt from their free layouts and BANG my store was set up. They told me the base price for my shirt and I chose the mark-up. In this case, I picked 5 bucks as my "design" was far from perfect. Now I can go to bed and think back to my Tshirt Tsar fantasy of years gone by and come up with some idea's for shirt designs. After all, I can create as many designs as I want and it doesn't cost me a cent.

Bloggers and Internet whores take hede, there is a new Search Engine in Town

OK, so the internet is a buzz with Anna Pattersons' new Creation Cuill. To be fair, I guess her husband was involved as well, seeing as he gets top billing on the who's who of the site.

So I took a quick look. The layout of Cuill is quite different, from the very basic search page to a very different non linear search results page, image is obviously a very large part of cuill marketing. This gets me wondering how they are going to do their sponsored ads.

I did a little experiment. There is a small text heavy site out there on security alarms. It is based out of Vancouver British Columbia and has a mass amount of information on security alarm systems in general and the owner is quite proud of the fact he does not pay for Search Engine Marketing. I played around with various search terms and found the term "hardwire security alarm vancouver" brought me NOTHING on Cuill. However, the same search on Google brought a page 1 hit. Odd considering the website mentions exactly those phrases dozens of time. Oddly enough though, keepsafesystems brings up a page 1 hit on cuill.

The long and short of it. I like the Cuill layout and am curious as to where it is going to go. For now though, the Cuill computers need a little shot of adreniline.

For those Internet whores out there, if you cannont find your site indexed on cuill.com you can send an Email to crawler@cuil.com and request addition.

Good Luck Anna

Rushmore Drive - Welcome to the new Search Engine

No, I'm not just sucking up... Although a nice cherry listing would be nice. Rushmoredrive.com is the new player in the search engine market. Claiming to have an edge over traditional search engines, Rushmore aims more at the content of the site. In addition, Rushmore partly bases its search engine results on click throughs. Hopefully they have some sort of fix for those who choose to promote their site by clicking through on the search results as oppposed to putting in good content.
Speaking of which, quality of content is also involved in Rushmore's ranking system.

For those wishing to submit their site to Rushmoredrive.com there is a submit option on the search result page

See more at http://www.rushmoredrive.com/

If you happen to find us there, please click though :P

Blogging for the Bucks - All these Ad Services, who do I choose?

Ahwile back when I started my trip down blogging lane I really didn't know much about it and to be quite honest, I was not expecting much.
At first I did what most do and used Google Adwords. Originally I used Google ads as a way of optimizing search stats for my own website. I figured, If I had Google ads on my site I would be placed higher in the search stats. Since this was only one of many things I did, the true effectiveness is unknown.

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After seeing a few pennies show up here and there I decided to take google ads to a whole new level and I created my first couple of blogs. I did a little research and found some hot topics and started to blog away.

I noticed my hits were growing and all of a sudden I had reached the $100 mark and was expecting a cheque. Oh wait, stop right there. Google, in their infinite wisdom decided to ban me for in appropriate clicking activity. So I lost all my money due to their stupidity. I had the hits to prove legitimacy but they did not want to have anything to do with it. SCAMMERS!

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I then did a little searching and found Bidvertiser. It seemed they had a better program which paid more for the clicks. Once again, screwed over and no money came my way.

Fed up, I decided to find an ad service which relied more on ad views than click throughs for income. I found Adbrite. What a relief!!! Aside from the odd spam ad, which is quickly removed by their exceptional tech support staff the ads are pretty and colourful. With an adult rated section for those nake celebrity pictures called "Black Label Ads" Adbrite won me over. Just recently, I received my first cheque. Only just under $14 for 2 months but I am now growing to about 2 bucks a day in Ad revenue. As my blogs grow, so does my income.

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The long and short of it, forget Google and Bidvertizer.... Adbrite is the way to go.