We read somewhere that certain Google ads make more money than others. We are not talking about the content of the ads but the location of the ads on your sites. One secret that was shared to me and found to be effective was the use of Leader ads. Leader ads are those ads that sit on top of your site. They are not on your sidebar or posts. It simply sits at the top of your site and provide relevant advertising to the things that you blog about.

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We haven’t posted our monthly income since April. We originally planned to update our income at the top right hand corner up there with real time income per month. Due to lack of time, we haven’t really had the chance to post it. But don’t worry, we have some very exciting news.

From our income through blogging and other mediums such as eBay and Adsense, we must say that we’re not doing all that bad. Financial Freedom is at our fingertips. We could taste it.

Hang in there folks. We will update our income. We promise.

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I came across this article and I thought, “EXACTLY!”

How to Start Getting Credit

You’ll have to start small. You will need to open bank accounts, preferably both savings and checking. Wherever you apply for credit, the lender will want to know where you live, work and bank. The longer you have lived or worked in the same place, the better.

Your First Credit. Don’t apply for a major national credit card like Visa or MasterCard without first building up a good credit rating by getting “easier” forms of credit and paying off the bills on time for at least a year. Easier forms of credit for the beginner are accounts at local department stores and accounts at certain mail order companies. You will buy products at a particular store with a credit card good only at that store, then you will be sent a bill. You will have the option of paying the whole amount off within a few weeks and be charged no interest, or of paying a minimum payment for that particular month (a percentage of the balance). You will then be charged monthly interest on the balance you have not yet paid off.

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have SUCCEEDED. - Emerson

I would like to share the success that we are having with blog monetization with all of you. It has worked really well on our part, even with the re-rating of Google’s PR - we looked somewhere else other than Pay Per Post to create our income. This month, although Pay Per Post is still our TOP income stream, we were able to gather more opportunities from Reviewme.com and Sponsored Reviews. Thus, tallying up our income for the month of January, we still made a good profit.

Pay Per Post, Sponsored Reviews & Review Me Combined

$1,916.56

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You may be wondering, “What, among all the thousands of social networking tools out there are really effective?” There are tons of social networking tools and the most recent one is Entrecard. Then, SiteHoppin added a tool to help you drop your cards to anyone at a faster rate than having a hundred browser open after dropping your card. At the least, it can prevent you from acquiring carpal tunnel in the future or minimize its severity.

Although Entrecard has provided me traffic that would otherwise be absent, I am still hopeful that they will change the design. Dropping cards for me has been very educational because I read blogs that are relevant to my niche. I found Ready to be Rich through Entrecard and I actually think we’re friends now. Joetech.com is another blog that I found through Entrecard and he is brilliant. I love his blog as well. So, all in all - eventhough John Cow has dropped his Entrecard membership due to high bounce rate on his blog, I am not there yet. I still find it useful at this time and would remain a member until I find it otherwise.

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As a blogger who is just beginning to thread the waters of the blogosphere, you may be wondering what’s next. Until you see that first few cents earned on your adsense account, or the first $5.00 dollar opportunity you get from Pay Per Post programs - you may lose sight of why you started to blog. Blogging is not that easy if nothing motivates you. You have to be drawn to something in order to blog. Otherwise, you will probably hang it the moment you begin. Be patient. Good things come to those who wait.

I never believed in putting anything in one basket. It’s an old saying that holds very true today. Why bank your money in one when you can bank them in four? If you’re an investor in stocks - why put all your money in Technology when you can invest in healthcare as well? These are questions you should be asking yourself. Similar to any investment, you cannot rely on anything using one source.

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I like telling this story because it seems unreal now that I am earning a few bucks daily from Adsense. I had Adsense for over a year and I had placed the codes on each page of my website. I promoted my site many times over to get the traffic that I needed and was even featured at one of the most popular Pinoy humor blogs, Reyna Elena.

Even with all the attention I received, I only earned .41 cents. Funny because I just copied and pasted the code as instructed by Google, sat back and waited for the $$$ to come. I had no idea how it was going to work so I waited, and waited. Nothing. I started calling it Google Adcents. I couldn’t seem to understand how others are boasting of checks received from Google in the thousands of dollars! It was just so unreal to me.

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