Some Knowledge

I’ve spent the entire day it seems just web surfing again.  I looked into article marketing some more.  I found a lot of sites that claim to know what they are talking about, but for the most part they want to sell you an ebook.  I got a free ebook on how to make money on the net.  Basically, you set up and promote a website with a product, a blog, and video advertising.  This reminded me of a news report I saw on CNN this morning about random people making viral videos on Youtube.  There must have been a shortage of news this morning.

I looked into the Amazon.com affiliate program for about an hour or two this evening.  I read all about how to set up links to various products and what I would have to do to apply for this program.  I even read the affiliate terms of service.  That was a bit of legalese to wade through.  I would have to think about setting up an affiliate site for a while.  I don’t enter into agreements that I don’t entirely understand.  Still, it might be a way to generate money.

Every once in a while I check the rankings of this site.  It has been steadily moving up the list as I write more posts.  Still, there is a long hard way to go to get near the top.  I’ve had a surge of traffic recently, mostly due to one post about a racing game.  It’s strange that one single post can get so much traffic.  I guess it was a popular search term and my blog got listed on Google Trends for a while in relation to that search.

I’ve found some small amount of interesting information on setting up an Internet business today.  I saw on one site that credit card companies pay out some of the highest commissions on affiliate sales of card registrations.  Other financial companies and travel companies also are supposed to pay well.  My blog is not so much about finance though.  It’s pretty much about whatever random stuff is going through my head on any given day.  If I were to focus on something though, maybe I could generate some more interest.

I think I am going to spend some time looking around WordPress for something interesting to read.  I haven’t left a lot of comments recently.  I guess it’s always a good idea to leave comments where people might follow the backlink.  It’s almost like trying to trap an animal though.  Set a snare in its path and hope it walks into the tripwire.  Then again, I shouldn’t compare random web surfers with animals.  People have their own reasons for clicking on links.

I didn’t really see anything interesting on Google Trends today.  In fact, I haven’t gotten a topic from that site in almost a week now.  That list has been flooded with nonsense and NFL draft picks for the last week.  I’m going to have to find an alternate source for popular material if this keeps up.  Yahoo has a list of popular searches.  I should set aside some time to find a good popular search page or three.

This will probably be the last post today.  So far, I might have gotten three hits on what I wrote today.  I need to find a topic for tomorrow that will be a good subject for a few short articles.  The short posts seem to get the most attention.  Hopefully there will be some more interesting subjects come along.  I haven’t even gotten any comments today.  I should just use my imagination and get creative.  I almost wrote up a nice post on the beer diet this afternoon, but thought better.