Domains vs Free Blogs

Following on from my last post here Alexa Gaming, where I spoofed the holy grail of gaming your Alexa rank in order to draw advertisers to your blog, I'd like to draw attention to a post I made over at another blog as it is a poignant view on blogging.

Here is the first paragraph:

There are many people who like to use free blogs not just for the enjoyment and personal satisfaction of writing down their thoughts and publishing them on the web, but also for Internet Marketing purposes in the pursuit of making money. Likewise, there are many people who prefer to buy their own domains and host them on a professional server, for much the same purpose...

Read the full article here: Domains vs Free Blogs

You may be thinking to yourself, hey, wait a minute, isn't he doing what he hates being done to himself in stealing content?

Nope.

As I'm the author of the article, I reserve the right to promote my own work by publishing small snippets of it on other websites and blogs that I own. That way, I not only widen the viewer base of that work, I can also legitimately give it a link to boost its own authority on the page it lives on. Better for the blog owner where its published and better for me by giving it a wider audience.

Win-win is the term, I believe...

Terry Didcott
Freedom Writers
The Honest Way

Honest Work

Well, it seems I'm approaching the 100 mark for my assortment of self hosted websites and blogs, free blogs and Squidoo lenses so things are rather hectic as I try to keep on top of them all!

Anyone still reading this blog may notice that I don't get to post in ANY of my blogs with the frequency that I used to, which is a knock-on effect of building up my portfolio and working them all into well stocked sites and blogs.

I've been moving into several different niches in the endless quest for money online, which to be honest is a tough target to hit with so much competition out there. But patience and toil are the two main virtues that will see this honest project through to its logical conclusion.

So stick around and visit my other, more worked on sites and see what's going on these days!

Terry Didcott
Freedom Writer
The Honest Way

Another New Blog

The Honest Way announces another new blog in the family of money info blogs. This one's called Money Hints (link removed as I no longer own this website), and the domain is the first of the expired domains that I have been looking at and buying.

This first one was my first mistake, actually in that I liked the name as it lends itself nicely to a make money blog, but after I bought it I found out that you can buy expired domains that come with some PR.

So since this purchase, I have bought 3 more domains all with PR6.

I'll post when I take ownership of them and get new blogs up and running on them as well

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

The Honest Way to Blag a Blog

The Honest Way to blag a blog is to use an almost unused blog to promote another blog!

Well if that sounds strange, it's not and it's perfectly honest!

So this blog was used more often in the past to push some link juice to it's big brother, my main Honest Way site and blog by simply mentioning it in posts and linking to it - like this one is doing right now.

Another use it to give a little something to some of my other free blogs that need a link or two to get them going. So here's some link juice to my other free blogs:

PayDay Loans Page
My Designer Bag
Bob Marley Music Page
Jennifer Lopez Music Page
Cheap Digital eBooks
Celebrity Gossip Page

And here's some for my other self hosted blogs:

Make Money
Make Money Blog
Alternative Cures
For Dogs
Natural and Organic Food
Hypnosis


It makes it worth while keeping this one going after all, because none of these free blogs that I have in here are just sitting idly by gathering cyber-dust. They all have a purpose.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Honest Way to Make Money

The Honest way to make money is a difficult path to go down.

Why?

Because while people respect honesty and integrity, they don't throw money at it. I've found this to be true since getting involved with internet marketing almost a year ago. While I've made money, it hasn't been a great deal. At the same time, I see others who resort to less than honest tactics to make money do so in much greater amounts than my honest methods.

What does that tell me?

I need to work harder at what I'm doing. The search engines don't help you when you're honest - at least that's the way it seems.

I've been trying to gain a decent page rank for The Honest Way blog so that I can use it to make money the honest way by writing paid reviews and by attracting text ads. But despite attracting a good regular readership, lots of good backlinks and a decent Alexa ranking, Google hasn't lifted that blog off the PR0 floor, so my potential earnings from honest sources is still very limited.

I'm the eternal optimist, however.

I'll simply keep slogging away, writing my ass off to keep the content fresh and interesting over there and call in here every so often to let off steam!

So if you're here reading this and you want to learn how to make money the honest way, then please head over to my main blog The Honest Way (or the two satellite blogs I also set up called Make Money and Make Money Blog) where you'll find between them an absolute ton of free information!

Here's to your success

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

Now There's a Forum!

Forums are great places to meet people and get acquainted with new friends online. Forums that concentrate on how to make money online are springing up all over the place so I thought it wouldn't hurt to add another one to the growing army of member's forums hatching out all over cyberspace.

I added a forum to the main Honest Way site late last night to give visitors the chance to meet each other in a friendly and hopefully informative meeting place. The link to the forum can be found on the homepage of the website in the top righthand corner below the navigation bar.

But for the lazy ones amongst you, here is the direct link to the Honest Way Forum.

So why not have a look in and see for yourself. The site continues to grow and grow!

THE HONEST WAY

Terry Didcott