It is Sad news indeed. Bloggervenue.com is for sale on sitepoint!

I have been thinking about this in the past month. I no longer have the conditions to give the attention this blog reserves. I will soon start my career abroad as a nurse and i wouldn’t be able to update as i should.

So this is the main reason i decided to sell Bloggervenue. It is sad for me because i really like this blog, but no longer can maintain it. So i am hoping that a serious blogger take’s this opportunity to bring bloggervenue.com to the next level.

I put the auction on sitepoint with an initial bid of $100. All the necessary info is on the auction page.

The sale will last for 15 days.

If you are interested in bidding or have a friend that might be interested please lead him to this post or to the auction directly.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to get an established blog.

Visit the auction page.

Well, last Friday was one hell of a day!!! Negative temperatures in the majority of Portugal, wind and snow!

I was heading to my parents house when weather conditions worsened. I was in the highway traveling at about 20km/h. It was dark as hell, the road was icy and very dangerous.

After a few hours travelling in these conditions, i reached a traffic jam zone. The trucks and buses had a terrible time and were forced to stop on the highway. But with the ice they couln’d pull over efficiently to let the other drivers to pass, making some impressive traffic jam.

Meanwhile, there i was… Inside my car, waiting… but enjoying the snow falling, listening music… After all…There wasn’t much more i could do… lol.

After 5 hours i managed to arrive home, barely feeling my ass and thinking i had enough snow for 10 years!!!  lool

Have you ever had a similar experience like this?

P.S – I noticed that my RSS subscriber count as reached 101 readers! This is a new record high!

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Today i received an email about an advertising offer that i was negotiating in the past days, and in the mail the sender alerted me for the fact that Bloggervenue.com lost its Page Rank! I said “what the hell!?!?” and immediately checked my page rank and it was true!!!! Holy crap!

Many of you don’t give a damn about page rank but i learned to value my page rank 3 (at first) and the page rank 2 until recently.

I really don’t know why i lost my PR…. well, maybe i do know, but there is no way to prove what was the reason. Perhaps google bot detected link ads? i really don’t know.

Well, i lost the page rank, but i investigated a little more and saw that i lost almost half of my backlinks! Bloggervenue.com had almost 10,000 backlinks but now it is little more than 5,000 backlinks! This is a major difference!

This never happened to me so i am a bit lost. How can i loose almost 5000 backlinks so fast? Does any one have an explanation for this?

Have this happened to you before? How did you get through all of this?

Finally i am back, after a really bad week.. I just recovered fully last friday, but i was able to attend school in wednesday.

I just had a gastroenteritis + vomiting + fever. This lead me to some degree of dehydration, and surprise or not i didn’t went to the doctor. lol That is my problem, i don’t run to see the doctor when im sick (well, im a future nurse, and we are, along with doctors, known to be the worst patients that can exist lol). I just knew what i had to do, drink water and get eletrolites from salt from the small amount of food that i could ingest. The next day i was better, so no need for the doctor happily

To worst things up, i had an exam friday, so i had to make a choice, and left the blog a bit alone.

No link love?

Sorry guys, there is no link love. I haven’t had the time to read a single post yet, so i prefer to skip this weeks link love post. sorry guys.

Plans for the week

Ok, im not making any plan for the week, because every time i do plans, something comes up to screw them. But im thinking to do 2-3 posts (the usual), hopefully to i can finish the create a forum series.

I need to catch up with the comments on the blog. I have a few dozens to respond

One thing that can mess my blogging week is friday. I have an exam (again), that will hopefully be the last before i graduate

Again for the second time in a row im giving the link love on Monday instead of Sunday. I can’t make a habit out of this lol

Week In Review

I started the past week by giving you a simple tip to make your posts look better. Followed by a post about wordpress themes. This time, it was about themes that we should runaway from. 7 themes were mentioned but some more were mentioned on the comments.

And finally, i ended the week by showing you how to create unique content in seconds. This post created some unexpected buzz on a social media site. More about that below.

Link Love of the week:

Sadly, this was a week that i haven’t had the pleasure of reading as many posts from blogs i visit, as i wanted. But still i managed to read some cool articles. Here is my selection:

Sire from Wassupblog made a useful post to all the blogger community that uses comment love plugin. The author of Comment Love, as made a new cool feature to his plugin. Visit sire’s blog to see what it is.

Syed from Balkhis made a case study to find Which Blog Posts get the most traffic?

This i had to mention. lol The Tragedy stroke Johncow TV. The cow was “cownapped”!  Pretty funny! hehe now serious…. poor cow… it must be terrified!

Yan from Thoushallblog made a list of 20 things we should do after installing wordpress.

The Buzz about Create Unique content post

On the first paragraph i said that the “create  unique content in seconds” post generated some unexpected buzz around it. Unexpected and negative buzz.

I have submitted that post as i usually do, to several social media sites. One of the sites was sphinn. After a few hours i started to see traffic arriving from sphinn to that post.

I logged in, and saw the post was “desphunned” 6 times, and a discussion started.

A few comments were made (some very ironic) such as:

well, it’s sucky advice, a sucky attitude. if i need 50 more characters, i thought it sucked.

Let’s make scraped and copied content OK by moving around words and “giving credit.”

this made me throw up in my mouth a little. it’s this sort of thing that ruins the internet for all.

Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.

If you want to take part in this discussion, sphunn or desphunn the topic, by all means feel free to do it

Conclusion

If there are users who don’t agree with this method, then it is up to them. I can understand, but first they should think a bit about it before saying something. They have read the words “create” “unique” “content” “translate” and assumed that it was a really bad advice… They should understand that i condone the use fo this technique to take an article as their own (i thought i cleared this in the post!). But in the end. What one of my readers do with this, is completly out of my hands. It is their responsability to act in the right way…

I don’t really care that i got a negative buzz out of this. Really. I don’t care. In fact, im loving it. The reason? im getting some exposure and traffic to my blog, and has many say good or bad, what matter’s is they talk about us. lol

Sony is one of the most commited companies to eradicate piracy of the world, but it is also on of the major creators of CD-R and DVD-R, used in a large percentage to record pirated products. Ironic? (Santos, 2008)

P.S. – Santos it is my surname in case you are wandering who the hell is santos. And don’t get me wrong about this quote. It is just a little thought to take the right conclusions….

TinyMassive is a new company, launched July 1st if im not mistaken. They are really new but they know what they are doing.

Tinymassive is a comparison shopping engine (CSE), similar to shoppingads and widgetbucks. It will show ads from several merchants, relevant  to your site in several typical ad formats.It will display a list with products from different merchants, and it allow you to compare prizes between them. Nothing new if you are used to shoppingads or widgetbucks.

You can sign as publisher and make money displaying their ads. You earn on a per click basis, up to 70% of the value paid to tinymassive.  So far i can’t tell how the cpc is, as i have no data to share.

What’s worth to mention is that they claim that a publisher can earn up to $6 CPM! This is really good compared to similar companies, but sadly,im sure this CPM rate is not for all users…

As usual in these kind of sites, they tend to value American and canadian traffic, although the PPC ad sare open to other countries so far.

Ok, but do the ads look good?

well, you be the judge:

In my opinion, the widget style is clean, simple, light and very web 2.0. You can rate the product, compare prices between merchants, and a very important aspect is the ability to read comments about the products displayed. I really enjoyed how the widget looks like.

This is a new company and this is the time to sign up and get some referrals. They pay you 10% of what your referrals make.

Go ahead and give Tinymassive a try.

Oh, btw. A peculiarity about the company is that it is owned by a group of women. And they all have experience in this area.

Well, i usually don’t plan to write about my monthly earnings (has some bloggers do, even if they aren’t worth the mention :p), and this is only because i want to show you something i can brag about. lol But this month, i decided to show the blog statistics and earnings of the previous month. I think this was the right time to show you some more info about this blog.

Probably, march was the worst month of this blog in terms of earnings, contrasting with February, which was by far the best month so far.

So let me show you how blog.dahh.net performed in terms of statistics:

This blog failed to reach by a thin number (800) the top 100,000 in alexa ranking at the end of march. But, right now the domain is ranked at 98,616! hehe. Of course, this blog is in a subdomain, and the alexa rank is influenced by the traffic going to the main domain: dahh.net which is a portuguese forum community. Nevertheless, this subdomain is responsible for 50% of the traffic source.

The peak of the RSS subscription was 36. This is an aspect it really needs to evolve. (want to help me?)

1832 absolute unique visitors

3645 page views

Average time on site: 2min and 07 secs.

Bounce Rate: 75% thanks to entrecard

Traffic Sources:

Search engines: 48.03% – i received a great deal of traffic from long tail keywords

Referring sites: 39.81%

Direct Traffic: 12.16%

My major traffic comes from United States, followed by Portugal, Canada, India and United Kingdom

Now for the profit:

The results from the total from my 2 main sites.

Using third party publishers: $58.43

Reviews:$36.95

Affiliate marketing: 12,08 – Definitely, an aspect to improve!

Total: $107.46 revenue

Now for the losses:

Bought OIOpublisher: -$37 (this is a great buy! i recommend it!)

Bought BANS -$97 + taxes (haven’t got enough time to develop decent stores.)

Advertising in other sites such as Buckserv or Moneybites: – $37

Total losses: -$171

March total: -$63.54

This is the first month with losses. But i don’t see it in a negative point of view. Some investments were needed, and they were made thinking in the future. In order to produce better results some investments are required, don’t you agree?

Off course, the results for april will depend on my time (final exams month), the quality of visitors and your participation and i count with your help

I decided to write again about the mini site i created. Now that it is 1 month old i can give you more solid results.

According to google analytics the mini site had in one month:

283 visitors

569 page views

49% rejection

1.41 minutes average time on site

and 34% comes from search engine traffic.

As for the keywords researched, the search engine rankings are:

wii finder in store: 12

“where to buy wii”: 19

wii finder locator: 12

wii availability checker: 16

guitar hero wii finder: 6

and i could tell you more searched terms but the volume is irrelevant.

Now, enough this boring talk, and let’s head for the gold… well… pennies is more accurate… lol

In one month the mini site have earned me an exact total of $6. This means that i have “doubled” my investment on this mini site in a month.

With this, i proved that 19pages works pretty well, and in the hands of someone better skilled in marketing than me, the results could be 10 times more than this.

Now, for the challenge.

I invite you to create a mini site with 19pages, create a series of posts on your progress, and i will give you a guest post on this blog.

This is a test that can bring you easy money…. Think about it.

Many of us, bloggers, read other blogs, and post on them. And in that blog we give our email adress, name and blog address.

Well, if the blog has dofollow links, then this is a good strategy to run. We write, readers see our name and link to our blog and then they just might visit us, specially one important reader named google bot.

This helps getting our blog indexed, and might help increase search rankings.

Till now this is good, but it can get better. How?

Don’t use your blog address like: yourblog.com, instead point the url to a post of your choice like: yourblog.com/a-post-of-my-choice

This way google will crawl different pages from your blog, instead the same root url, and making google bot think that blog owner is spamming.

You should try this every time you post on a blog. But there is an exception.

The exception is if the blog you are visiting uses commentluv, then  don’t bother doing this, because the plugin fetches your latest blog post.

Hope this was useful.

Lately, the advertising opportunities available to me on Smorty, require that the blog does not have any Ad or review from payperpost.

As you may know google was on a penalizing spree to bloggers that used services such as text link ads or payperpost. This made a market change.

Text link ads is trying to hide as much as it can from google bot, and payperpost created Real Rank. PayperPost still require a disclosure of some sort, such a badge or a small text selling this post was sponsored by… Smorty advertisers want to keep their google ranks in good grace and don’t want nothing to do with payperpost.

I personally will stick with PayperPost because it is still my favourite Sponsored Reviews Site.