As a blogger, running a blog about making money online, I need to prove myself, in order to achieve trust from my visitors and hopefully convert them into regulars, who believe in my articles. That is basically a short summary as to what any blogger aims to achieve - user loyalty!

There are a number of ways to achieve user loyalty; I shall just mention two ways below though:

• Proof of earnings - people want to see that I have earned money, ie. not all talk. If you see that someone is practicing what they are preaching, and turning results, then it’s obviously a good idea to read on, if not, what is the point? Take a look at my proof is in the pudding post, to see what I am talking about.
• Recognition - Being noticed and spoken about increase reader loyalty: "If others are interested, then so should I" - This ties up with many of my posts, where I talk about people being like sheep, and following the heard.

Bullet one above, is very much self explanatory, click the link, and see how I turned a 5 digit income in a month. Bullet two, however, is a lot harder to achieve, and often nearly impossible to show, but today I have a great example, which actually features this exactly..

About a week ago, I was interviewed by a fantastic journalist from the Campus Financial Mail. He found my website via one of the popular search engines, and at the time, he was writing an article about South African Web Entrepreneurs, who were making a success using the Internet as their tool. This morning, I logged into my mail account, and to my delight, I saw that the article had been published both on their website, and in the printed edition of the Campus Financial Mail. Above, is an extract from the brilliantly written article on South African Web Entrepreneurs. If you are not a subscriber, you can download the article, by clicking this link.

I cannot stress how important these two points are, if you can achieve these, you will see a huge increase in traffic, as well as an even bigger increase in recognition - basically a snow ball effect.

Thanks to everyone who visits this site, I do hope that you gain from reading my articles!

Websites which gossip, websites which mention celebrities, and websites which talk about the famous always get hundreds of hits. This isn’t a secret really, but how many of you have tried putting this in practice? I guess it’s a scary thought to start a celebrity blog, as there are so many others, but what if you could find an edge, something slightly different?

I recently made two posts: Angelina Jolie on Facebook and Jessica Alba on Facebook - both these articles brought over 200 users to my blog within the first 5 to 10 minutes of publishing the articles. Digg and Stumble submissions made a massive difference.

Why not write a few articles related to celebrities, get the Google spiders to crawl your website a couple of times, and then submit a post like I did. That way, your Google Adsense adverts will hopefully target celebrity content, and your CTR (click through ratio) will be higher, and you could make a good couple bucks in a few minutes! If this doesn’t spur you on to create a website more focused around celebrities and the likes, then either you are like me, and you are too busy, or you are just daft

I would love to hear from anyone who runs a celebrity website, or hear from anyone who would be interested in starting one - it could be an interesting venture!

Things have been really busy in the Webtrepreneur’s life recently, and finding time to write articles is not the tricky part, it’s finding content which is full of information, and won’t waste you time that is hard! I don’t believe is writing useless content just to keep the blog posts rolling.

I have seen a massive increase in traffic over at Blogvertise, which is great to see, the ‘Whose pixels rock‘ section has seen some good changes too, which is always interesting to watch. For those of you who are using the service, may I ask that you please add a link from your website to Blogvertise, this not only increases the popularity of the website, but also brings you potential traffic, and creates traffic for others. Blogging, and the art of increasing ones traffic is a group effort, support others and they will support you, it’s as simple as that. You can find our banners here, take a look please. I will post the latest top pixel list sometime over the next week or so.

I was taking a look at all the affiliate networks earlier this morning, and have a little bit of information on each one. I noticed on Bidvertiser that they now have a service which you may use to drive traffic to your eBay adverts. The service looks rather useful to me, I took some time to read about it, and decided that I would paste 6 points here for you:

1. Browse our directory of participating sites and use our keyword tool to find the ones that are appropriate for your eBay item(s).

2. Choose your geographical targeting, to only show your ads to users from specific locations.

3. Set your max bid and budget.

4. Choose any of your eBay Items.

5. Your ad is created automaticaly.

6. Your ad runs on the sites you have selected.

Sign up for Bidvertiser now!

Google Adsense update from the Inside Adsense blog:

“We’re now requiring AdSense publishers to comply with the spirit of our Page Quality Guidelines. If you’re an AdWords advertiser, you might already be familiar with these guidelines, which are intended to provide a better experience for users, advertisers, and publishers alike. If you use any kind of online advertising, know that these guidelines encourage publishers to, among other things, create sites with simple navigation and substantial, useful content.

This new policy requirement doesn’t mean that you can’t use online advertising; it simply means that if you do, you need to be sure that the way you advertise meets with the guidelines, whether it’s through AdWords or through any other advertising program. However you advertise your site, it can always benefit from significant and relevant content, clear navigation, and the other points in our quality guidelines.

The other noteworthy update: now you can place up to three link units on a page. As we’ve noted in the past, link units are a great way to provide relevant, user-friendly ads in hard-to-fit locations on your site. With the new opportunity to place three link units — and the plethora of link unit formats — we hope you’ll find great ways of incorporating this unique ad format on your site.”

As the days go on, I find myself moving more and more away from Adsense, and taking on a lot of Traffic Synergy’s advert campaigns. I have watched my stats very closely, and have noticed that I am starting to make more money with Traffic Synergy than any other affiliate network I am involved with. To new publishers, PPC (pay per click) campaigns are always the most appealing, as you see revenue right from the beginning, but why not take some time, and be patient and use there CPA (cost per action) campaigns. There are several campaigns, which can generate you a huge amount of money! Hint: Travel Campaigns!!

Right, so that’s the update for now. I am going to do my best to start putting up content more often again, and hopefully source some useful information!

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