As I said in my previous post, I am finding it hard to get my head together at the moment to concentrate on making money online. The odd blog post has been done, a few comments made, I’ve fiddled about with the odd bit of bookmarking, but that is all. Nevertheless, I need to get my act together and make some more money!

This is the second time in recent months I have had to be offline for a while and these experiences have taught me that in order to make a living on the internet, you need to be organized.

Now all I have to do is follow my own advice and stop procrastinating :)

One thing which makes my procrastination worse is that I am a prolific and speedy writer. This actually gives me more ’space’ to waste time. If I were a slow typist, or someone who finds writing difficult (or has little to say), then I would probably be more organised, because I would have to be, otherwise, I would never make any money on the net at all! But enough of the rambling…

These are my Money Making Organisation Plans… of sorts:

Making Money From Adult:

  • I have hundreds of adult blogs, sites and landing pages. The landing pages need no work at present (just checking for dead links and posting more backlinks now and again). Most of my adult blogs are on some kind of ‘auto feed’, either via sponsor RSS, gallery feeds, or forward-dated posts set up in block months ahead. The only work these require are RSS/gallery feed checks and checks for dead links. The handwritten blogs are rather lacking in recent posts and require urgent updating, so that’s Adult Project #1.

  • Adult Project #2 requires better link building strategies before I get cained again by big g. This was underway before I left for the UK, but now requires urgent attention. When I am finished, I’ll post about that on my Adult Webmaster Blog.

  • Adult Project #3 requires building more adult blogs and landing pages. I had slipped back to less than 3 per day. 3 per day is the minimum, 6 would be better! Onwards and upwards…

Making Money From Mainstream:
I now have almost 20 mainstream niches I am working on using a variety of blogs and sites. Some are on different hosts and some on free hosts. Some contain advertising of various sorts, some do not, but will do eventually, others will never contain advertising (such is the way it seems with mainstream as opposed to adult…). Most of these blogs and sites already have articles posted which link to them. Some are linked to others in their niche, others are not. Most of them are now out of the sandbox (despite my rather haphazard link-building techniques).

  • I need to work on better link building strategies now, which at the outset will require more article submissions to EZ-Articles, GoArticles and via Article Submitter. For me, that’s the fun part! Mainstream Project #1

  • Mainstream Project #2: I need to make some directory submissions. Just a case of getting my act together here.

But after this, my motivation tends to drag…

  • Mainstream Project #3: I really need to get my ass in gear and build HubPages and Squidoo Lenses about the niches I am working on. Squidoo lenses are not indexed as quickly as they used to be. HubPages still seem to be okay. Squidoo lenses provide ‘dofollow’ links I can make for my money making sites. HubPages provide ‘dofollow’ links after the Hub reaches a certain rank. Both doable and both worth doing, especially as a means of getting good quality links and for someone who writes a lot.

    So why have I ignored these avenues so far? Basically because, like a lot of the Web 2.0 stuff it leaves me cold. I just want to build blogs and sites with CSS and HTML, not drag and drop. And yes, I do know that almost everything on the web nowadays is Web 2.0 in some shape or form, but Hubs and Lenses I find a lot of hard work for a site which seems very impermanent and a bit crass. But perhaps that’s just my way of thinking… Never mind, I’m sure I will make some hubs and lenses any day now!


  • Mainstream Project #4: I need to make some forum posts and ‘dofollow’ blog comments. Forum posts are not really a problem. I quite enjoy making forum comments with my signature attached ;). Blog comments I like making also, but here is the rub: I like commenting on blogs I enjoy reading. I would much rather be ’sociable’ with people who interest me (or even who I disagree with), rather than making comments just because the blog is ‘dofollow’. But I suppose I’ll just have to bite the bullet…

  • Mainstream Project #5 is not a fun part for me at all; it involves Social Networking. I want to rank high in the SERPS and I know that social networking will not get me there in the long term, or provide me with surfers who will buy the products I am advertising. But I also know it is important to get those links coming in. For some of my sites, I also want to use social networking to help me make a ‘brandname’ - someone credible, authorative, and not ’spammy’. So I’m going to have to do more ’stumbling’, furling’ etc. A royal pain in the butt!

    I have set up a new Facebook account and I guess I had better get my ‘persona’ out there on other networking sites, but I just cannot be assed to be part of a stumbling et al community, and as to ‘tweeting’ every five minutes… wtf? Or is it just me who feels this way? I’ll just have to give it more of a twhirl…

And that’s only the start and doesn’t take into account the need to do this every day ad nausium, plus constantly build new blogs and sites.

Do you know? When I compare the two project areas above, it strikes me that making money in adult is easier than in mainstream. They are both hard work, it’s true, but at least in adult there isn’t so much ‘forced socializing’ as opposed to socialising because you actually want to.

Never mind. I wanted to be ‘respectable’, so I guess I had better post this entry and get on with making money in mainstream (after I have finished my adult blogs for the day anyhow…)

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