tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51287381552038501352024-02-06T22:02:54.217-08:00Race To 1 MillionMy goal, to have 1 million dollars when I turn 25. Upon the starting of this blog (April 2008) I just turned 21 that month and have about $750 in the bank. The clock is ticking
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Is this likely to happen? No way.<p>
Is this impossible? Of coarse not.<p>
Life is expensive, im in school so that sucks away ton of money, theres rent, bills, beer, and girls are of course expensive. Plus 1 million is a lot of money. Despite the overwhelming odds this will not deter me from my goal.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-24340280206481435482008-08-30T23:27:00.000-07:002008-08-30T23:47:37.532-07:00Reply to Anonymous "hey i intend on starting an account any advice? "This comment was left on the first article i wrote about <a href="http://favoritecreatures.blogspot.com/">NeoBux</a>.<br />I'm glad to say that i do have some advice.<br /><br />It depends on a couple of factors, A) do you have a fast internet connection, and B) do you plan on putting money into it or are you going to start with nothing and work your way up?<br /><br />If your internet connection is slow then i suggest not upgrading to Golden membership for awhile, this is because conpetition for referrals amoung Golden members is ferece, 2 seconds can mean the difference between getting 100 referrals and getting none. <br />If your connection is slow then i would suggest buying at least 500 referrals before upgrading.<br />If your connection is fast then upgrade after haveing as little as 200 referrals, you should be able to buy more no problem at all.<br /><br />Are you planning on putting money into it? I suggest that you do, but its ok if you dont. If you dont then try to get some friends to join as well to up your income. If you have a blog even better, use it to advertise your link. <br />However putting $40 into it will really jump start you compared with starting off with nothing.<br /><br />Another suggestiong is downlaod a program that will allow you to track the average clicks per referral to make recycling them more of a science and less of a guessing game. I use Neobuxox but there are lots of good programs out there.<br /><br />IMPORTANT!!! With Neobux, if you have referrals you must click everyday! If you dont not only will you not make money from your referrals the day after you dont click but you will lose money because you are still paying their rental fee. The good news is that the vast majority of people only have to click 2 ads a day to get the full benifits of their referrals. So it only takes about 70 seconds of your time. If it is impossible for you to do this occasionally try to get someone like a family member to do it for you.<br /><br /><br />I'm more then happy to coach anyoe who signs up under my link more throughly in any aspect of Neobux or anyother PTC site. Simply e-mail royenp@hotmail.com with your username and ill answer any questions you have at all.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-17540204688737352772008-08-29T17:19:00.000-07:002008-08-29T17:22:20.301-07:00InterBlagMoney.comThe new URL and name for the blog is <a href="http://interblagmoney.com">InterBlagMoney.com</a><br /><br />Theres not much to it right now. But as i develop it i will be blogging about all the steps it takes to start up a blog, so if your having trouble getting your blog going, or are thinking about starting one you'll definitely want to check it out.<br /><br />rt1m.blogspot.com will stay up, but it will rarely be undated at all, all new posts will be published at <a href="http://interblagmoney.com">InterBlagMoney.com</a>Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-2126366338256026812008-08-27T07:18:00.000-07:002008-08-27T07:23:26.914-07:00new site!You may be thinking to yourself hmm its ben awhile since Roy wrote anything, if you are thinking that then congradulations, you are observant. The reasons being 2, the first im jsut too tired, the second soon the blog will be moving to a real domain that ive had sitting around for awhile collectiong dust. The name will change as a result but its not that big of a deal.<br /><br />Good news is that tomorrow is my last day of work, wow i cant believe summer is over. So the new site could be and running by friday. I love that word...could.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-28920946427712272702008-08-17T00:35:00.000-07:002008-08-17T00:40:52.715-07:00Exciting news... kind of?Turns out that if you type 'race to 1 million' into google the is the number 1 hit!<br />If you type 'Race to one million' its number 3<br /><br />Although this is it pretty useless, i mean who is going to type those into google? It still shows progress, i remember when i could type either of those in and not have my blog show up on the first 5 pages.<br /><br />Anyways im happy. One thing that i do actually have to be happy about is that i know that there are several other sites out there with the name race to 1 million. So even though its useless more or less, its still good to be number one amongst useless peopleRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-52734465240939144592008-08-16T12:45:00.001-07:002008-08-16T12:54:04.525-07:00Contest WinnersThis months drop contest winners are<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rockfuse.com/blog/">ROCKFUSE</a><br /><a href="http://www.hqblog.net">High Quality Pictures</a><br /><a href="http://slowstreamyx.com">Slow Streamyx</a><br /><a href="http://myideas1.podbean.com">People You Need to Know</a><br /><a href="http://articlespecialist.blogspot.com">Article Specialist</a><br /><a href="http://fruityoaty.com/">FruityOaty</a><br /><a href="http://www.untreatableonline.com/">Untreatable's Blog</a><br /><a href="http://tanaya.net/MatthiasChronicles/index.shtml">The Matthias Chronicles</a><br /><a href="http://www.cdubmarketing.com">CDubMarketing</a><br /><a href="http://www.raqmitch.com">Memories Frozen in Time</a><br /><br />Congratulations to all of you and thanks. You should have your 200 Credits each in less then 20 minutes.<br /><br />Like i said earlier unfortunately this will be the last contest for awhile probably.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-30105460019660144702008-08-13T14:22:00.000-07:002008-08-13T14:29:52.076-07:00Bux3: Another One Bites The DustIt seems Bux3 and the rest of their network is gone. This includes World-Bux and Im pretty sure at least one other site. This blows, for me at least, because I was expecting payouts from Bux3 and World-Bux<br /><br />Now the question is was it a legitimate we're losing too much money kind of thing or was there 'foul play' a foot?<br /><br />If I had to take a guess (it's a uninformed guess mind you...) I would say that I suspect foul play. Aprox 2 months ago Bux3 was hacked. Then they delay payments for a month until everything is 'back to normal'. Shortly after the month is up, a couple of days ago, Bux3 disappears without any explanation, that I know of.<br /><br />I'm not saying either way if the apparent hacking was real or not, but either way I suspect that the owner decided it would be a great start to a series of event ending in them grabbing a bunch of money and disappearing.<br /><br />Does anyone have any real information about what happened to them?<br />Whats your opinion? Legitimate closure or scam?Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-62353173574269627752008-08-11T17:18:00.001-07:002008-08-11T17:22:54.367-07:00No Time No DropAs my regular droppers may have noticed the last 4 days i haven't been returning dropped cards.<br /><br />Due to other commitments in life I will no longer be able to follow the U Drop I Follow philosophy. I will drop when i have the time, but don't expect it regularly.<br /><br />This months contest, which ends in a couple of days will be paid, but there will be no others in following months due to my expected mass reduction in credits earned. <br /><br />Other aspects of the blog are not affected, this relates solely to EntrecardRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-81729268212730428822008-08-06T14:06:00.001-07:002008-08-06T14:14:14.514-07:00EntreCard AuctionTime for my first ever EntreCard Auction. 1000 EC, Starting price only $1<br /><br />You bid by commenting on this post.<br /><br />Auction ends at a random time next Wednesday, August 13. This is to make it fair to those who cant be on the computer 1 minute before the auction ends to try to get the winning bid.<br /><br />If the Winner fails to pay the next highest bid will win.<br />Please post a link to your blog to prove that your bid is legitimate.<br /><br />You'll also have the option to buy another 1000EC for the same price that you won the first 1000.<br /><br />Possible payment is through PayPay or AlertPayRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-80289239476072304362008-08-05T19:23:00.001-07:002008-08-05T19:26:31.601-07:00Project wonderful / A visitor friendly blogThis is kind of 1.5 entries in one. The two topics overlap in away.<br /><br />I was just approved by Project Wonderful today so I’ll be selling 125x125 ads through them now. There will also be ads for sale directly through me (currently 2 weeks for 2 dollars).<br /><br />Project Wonderful is a pretty widespread but I’ll still go over it for the people who are too lazy to look into it like I was up in till recently.<br />Basically people go to their site to bid on your ad space. Below your ad on your blog it shows the current going rate, I’ve seen from 5-40 cents, although I don’t always pay attention so I'm sure there are higher ones [after checking it out some sites sell ads for over $50 a day]. Project Wonderful takes a 25% commission I think it is. Sounds steep, but they claim to be below industry standards, I’ll take their word on that. Plus I’d say it’s worth it when you consider you don’t need to chase advertisers around trying to collect your money, and spending time changing ads around every week or whatever. <br /><br />On another note I'm getting rid of some of my other ads. The giant skyscraper AdBrite ad on the right, and the wide banner at the very bottom. I first started using these because you get paid per visitor not per click with them. But through a combination of not enough traffic and low rates they just aren’t doing it for me so they will be gone shortly.<br /><br />In trading in the 2 big sometimes flash ads for much more resource friendly ads you can expect the blog to load a little faster now. And in continuing with that user friendly attitude as soon as I figure out how to I'm going to move my entrecard up into the header so you don’t have to scroll anymore to get to it. <br /><br />Ive always kept it close to the top because I hate the feeling for searching through the jungle to try to find where to drop on other peoples sites, but at the same time wanted people to have to spend at least 2 seconds at my blog. But I’ve decided that forcing people to spend less time in my blog may end up causing those who actually are interested in it to be able to discover and spend more time on it.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-52744001987976821082008-08-01T14:19:00.002-07:002008-08-01T14:23:16.002-07:00$277 Bux.toThe plan for today was to post something that I wrote a couple of days ago. It was about how <a href="http://bux.to/?r=rnaughtonr">Bux.to</a> was claiming to have all past due payments sent out and be up to date for once.<br /><br />Then I was thoroughly shocked and pleased when checking my e-mail at work there’s a message saying that my payment had arrived, $277! A little more then just pocket change. And its about dam time, I requested this money March 7, keeping with their terms of service they should have had it to me before the end of April.<br /><br />I was skeptical of their claim to get caught up because of their history of not respecting their own dates, but it looks like they proved me wrong. My major question now however is are they planning on staying caught up, or will they fall months behind again? I'm hoping they stay caught up because it will mean that $772 will be coming my way in about 6 weeks.<br /><br />With my $277 the majority. $200 will be invested back into buying referrals on Bux.to. $35 will be used to buy referrals at a PTC site I haven’t bought at before, and the remaining bit has no plans and will eventually end up as pizza or beer probably.<br /><br />I'm really hoping that the $772 come in less than 2 months. I'm going to be using the money to start Phase2 of my making money plan. I won’t go into it right now but the plan is for Phase2 to replace PTC sites as my number 1 money maker.<br /><br />I think I'm going to make a banner for Bux.to like the one I have for <a href="http://www.neobux.com/?r=maplecow">NeoBux</a> above the posts, it seems to be successful in getting me some referrals. The only pain is that Neobux’s banner updates how much money I’ve made automatically, because Bux.to doesn’t have one of these ill have to change it myself every week or so.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-9876355230625293512008-07-30T13:33:00.000-07:002008-07-30T13:36:37.937-07:00If you use AlertPay you should read thisThe past couple of days there have been e-mails sent out to AlertPay members (I’ve gotten like 6 of them) that say blah blah blah….. change your password….blah. It then has various links to click where you can change your password.<br /><br />This e-mail, despite that fact that the logic they use is kind of screwy, looks pretty legitimate. Its NOT though. Do not click the links, just delete it. If you check the properties of the links they don’t go to www.alertpay.com they go to www.aiertpay.com (see picture below)<br /><br />If you have clicked these links and changed your password do the following as quickly as possible. Change your password again if the scammers haven’t already switched it, and tell AlertPay. Hopefully you don’t end up losing money on this. <br /><br />I’ll hand it to them it is pretty clever, I had to look twice before I realized that it wasn’t Alertpay.com<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZm34IBR6II0PB5k_1DB5kvSkVO1kDk-zkJa0hqPeFoYSI4-YU76SbKvJN9i-07_TaTL8z7NMTo3DVnHuqr0gbnZCl1SPazW7rYsPUmeo3cS36uZrIw6obYGC_P0bQb4WPHbyVvWepAY/s1600-h/alertpay.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZm34IBR6II0PB5k_1DB5kvSkVO1kDk-zkJa0hqPeFoYSI4-YU76SbKvJN9i-07_TaTL8z7NMTo3DVnHuqr0gbnZCl1SPazW7rYsPUmeo3cS36uZrIw6obYGC_P0bQb4WPHbyVvWepAY/s320/alertpay.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228908631866606994" /></a>Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-32439311230125517162008-07-26T17:43:00.000-07:002008-07-26T17:57:24.845-07:00New Logo: Win 2000 ECI think its finally time i come up with a logo that has some pazaaz.<br /><br />Im giving 2000 EC to whoever designs the best one. Has to be 125x125.<br /><br />All entries that show at least some effort will recieve 200 EC, max 2 per person<br /><br />E-mail it to royENP@hotmail.comRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-1576868713706184002008-07-26T17:28:00.000-07:002008-07-26T17:29:16.999-07:00People are stupid sheep… take advantage of it.[Please note I started this post, forgot about it for 2 weeks then finished it today]<br />While I'm sure there is a lot of topics I could write about, and maybe ill make a series of it. Today I'm talking particularly about how to use their stupid to make money in short term investments.<br /><br />The best way to explain why it works is through example. This morning General Motors announced a bunch of stuff including how they are getting rid of a bunch white collar jobs and their plans to raise money and what not. Approximate stock price at 8:30 am, the time of announcements, $9.50. Now of course some people start running around like chickens with their heads cut off screaming it’s the end of GM, others see them and follow suit, before you know it the stock price is at its lowest point in 54 years at 10 am at about 8.98. Finally someone them get tired or running around freaking out and start thinking wait a minute, maybe we over reacted a bit, and the stock ends the day at around $10. Now I don’t know how the hell it managed to close above its opening price today, but that’s not the point. The point is there’s a clear and easy method to follow here.<br /><br />1) Listen for bad News<br />2) Give people time to act like stupid sheep and stock to fall<br />3) BUY<br />4) Wait until price raises again, could take a couple of hours or a couple of days or whatever<br />5) SELL<br /><br />Using this method with GM today you could of made about 18% gains in 1 day.<br />Not convinced yet? What about oil, this frigging happens like every week, except its kind of like the opposite.<br /><br />1) Wait until theres been very little news about oil and conflict in the middle east for a couple of days (price falls)<br />2) BUY<br />3) Something blows up in the middle east…again<br />4) Give people time to act like stupid sheep (price of oil rises)<br />5) SELL<br />6) People will realize they over reacted for the 5th time this month and within a couple of days prices will be back to normal<br /><br />Of coarse this doesn’t work all the time. This is the great thing about taking a couple weeks to write this post because a counter example is in the process of happening. In the past week or so oil has taken a pretty big dip. Following my method it would have been very easy to put some money into oil after it dropped $5 in one day then plan for it to go back up tomorrow just to have it fall a lot more like it has. No plan is perfect…<br /><br />Anyways if you follow my advice without thinking it through / practicing with fake money first to see if it works for you you’re either an idiot or recognize genius when you read it, that’s my disclaimer. <br /><br />When I get closer to actually attempting to apply this strategy ill practice first to see if I actually have any skill at it, ill let you know how it goes.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-21896871903345134132008-07-24T16:30:00.001-07:002008-07-24T16:44:33.102-07:00Experiment: Follow That DollarA couple of times i've mentioned my theory that you shouldn't worry if you find yourself spending what you consider alot of time to make a couple of dollars because if you invest those dollars properly in the future they could be worth $100. Ive decided to test this theory.<br /><br />Tomorrow probably im going to be buying $18 dollars worth of referrals from <a href="http://favoritecreatures.blogspot.com/">NeoBux</a> using my account balance. Im going to track the referrals bought with 3 of those dollars and see how much it appreciates.<br /><br />The $3 will buy me 10 referrals (or maybe 15 i think they may cost less now that im a golden member). Im being what i hope to be conservative in estimating that in a month from now those 10/15 referrals will have doubled into 20/30. From that point on the $3 will continue to grow at a faster and faster rate.<br /><br />For those getting tired of me posting about NeoBux lately dont worry i am too, im start to feel like a bit of a shell for them. Ive just been excited about my membership upgrade. I have several ideas for posts that wont be about themRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-32854337064116430422008-07-23T14:07:00.000-07:002008-07-23T14:16:31.540-07:00I'm GoldenIf you pay as much attention to the <a href="http://favoritecreatures.blogspot.com/">NeoBux</a> banner right above my posts as I do, recently you would of noticed two differences. The first being it now says im a Golden Member and the second that im making significantly more money each day then i used to. This is because i recently upgraded my NeoBux account.<br /><br />Because of this my income has now doubled because i now make twice as much per referral clock. More impressively my profit has more then doubled because i now pay less money each day for my referrals. Regular members pay 0.9 cents for each day that a referral clicks and Golden members only pay 0.6 cents each day.<br /><br />For the time being this solidly places NeoBux as my favorite PTC site.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-52273692271832996422008-07-21T18:56:00.000-07:002008-07-21T18:58:06.916-07:00lack of everythingI apologize to my regular droppers for not returning cards the past couple of days. And to my readers for lack of material. Between working out almost everyday and weekend drinking ive had no extra energy, but i plan to get back on track starting right nowRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-79715593940298561212008-07-17T20:35:00.000-07:002008-07-17T20:41:59.012-07:00Neobux and Paypal<a href="http://favoritecreatures.blogspot.com/">NeoBux</a> is currently running a trail of using PayPal as a payment processor in addition to AlertPay.<br />This is a big step is proving the legitimacy of NeoBux. Some months ago PayPal cut ties with pretty much all PTC sites due to receiving about a billion complaints a day regarding PTC sites. The only restriction is that your account must be verified by PayPal.<br />This move is especially convenient for people involved with multiple PTC sites because while AlertPay is universal when it comes to PTC sites many other kinds of sites/ companies/ whatever do not use AlertPayRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-6459141748831123072008-07-16T18:36:00.000-07:002008-07-16T18:52:49.943-07:00Contest WinnersThis months drop contest winners are<br /><br /><a href="http://myideas1.podbean.com/">People You Need to Know</a><br /><a href="http://www.moneyloveandchange.com/">Money, Love, and Change</a><br /><a href="http://www.searchenginepanel.com/">Search Engine Panel</a><br /><a href="http://progrecious.com/">Make Money Progrecious.Com</a><br /><a href="http://metallmans-reverie.blogspot.com/">Metallman's Reverie</a><br /><a href="http://mariucasperfume.blogspot.com/">Mariuca's Perfume Gallery</a><br /><a href="http://islandwench.blogspot.com/">Island Wench</a><br /><a href="http://www.expand-your-thinking.blogspot.com/">Index-expand your thinking</a><br /><a href="http://adsenseaddict.com/">AdsenseAddict</a><br /><a href="http://roxxymetal.com/">Life With Roxxymetal</a><br /><br />Congratulations to all of you and thanks. You should have your 200 Credits each in less then 20 minutes.<br /><br />Next contest ends August 15<br />Contest Details <a href="http://rt1m.blogspot.com/2008/07/monthly-dropping-contest.html">HERE</a>Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-47885715148693438412008-07-15T03:24:00.001-07:002008-07-15T03:25:13.557-07:00Contest Delayed 1 DayIm taking a short vacation to a cottage after work today, so this months contests winners will be announced 1 day late tomorrowRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-71112247536211533812008-07-14T18:07:00.000-07:002008-07-14T19:46:35.590-07:00Blog ExperimentI have an experiment that I started a couple of days ago.<br /><br />The Reason: A curiosity about if the topic of my blog (making money) inherently causes it to “fail” (not that I consider my blog a failure necessarily). What I mean is there’s so many making money online blogs that people could easily dismiss it as probably having nothing new to offer. Plus I'm sure the idea of making money online seems stupid or nerdy to a large portion of the population. Further more I get like 0 AdSense clicks a day on average, I think a large part of this is because most of them on my site turn out to be things like “ Make 100k in 5 minutes” Most peoples reaction to those ads I’m sure is something similar to ‘ya…sure I will’ And 99.99% of the time I'm sure that response is well warranted. But obviously another reason is i dont get massive traffic yet. <br /><br />As regular readers may know I don’t like to do things, therefore enter Mark. Mark is one of my house mates, under my supervision he will be conducting most of the experiment. I convinced him to help with promises of vast wealth.<br /><br />The Idea: Girls<br />Vague I know, details later, but lets just think about it for a second. <br />What is something that that half the population (and probably more then half of the ‘blogging population' would be interested in? Girls<br />Whats something that half the population wont find stupid or nerdy? Girls.<br />I could go on for awhile but you get the point. Its hard to find a topic that half the topic is interested in I would imagine.<br /><br />So Mark is going to make a blog that focuses around pictures of attractive girls. He has pretty much total creative control over the project with a few restrictions. <br /><br /> My hypothesis is that he will develop a larger ‘reader base' then me because his blog will apply to more to the general population then my own. People who usually visit the blog through Entrecard who would normally just drop and leave in under 5 seconds may spend more time on the blog. There will be more AdSense and other ad form clicks partly due to the fact that people are spending more time on the blog and partly because the ads will be much more interesting. His blogs popularity will grow faster then mine did. I'm not sure about comments, a lot of my entries actually get comments now, although I cant even picture myself considering about commenting on a site like that I can picture a lot of people with the overwhelming urge to tell the world that ‘that girl is hot’ so I'm also going to say that he will have more comments then me.<br /><br />You can submit pictures to the blog for EntreCredits. 50 credits per picture that is used up to a maximum of 200 credits, or 4 pictures per post. You can also include a link that you want displayed at the bottom of the post if you want (good source of back links!). And you get ANOTHER link in the blogroll which will be for people who have submitted pictures. <br /><br />Send all pictures to markyyy@live.com<br /><br />So now the only question is I'm a genius, or have a just sunk to a new low?<br /><br />Visit the blog <a href="http://favoritecreatures.blogspot.com/">HERE</a><br /><br />[Update: Haha... i just showed Mark how to set up adsense ads. Right now theres ads for several different ethnicities of women and 2 ads for Buffy the Vampire Slayer...humorous]Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-68892054398435861142008-07-11T16:20:00.000-07:002008-07-19T10:35:09.283-07:00Advertise on This SiteNow that i have my new blog layout more or less the way i want it im opening up the ability to buy ads on it again. <br /><br />Currently the only spots are 125X125 ads near the top of the blog. <br />For 2 weeks the cost is <br />$2 paid through paypal or alertpay OR<br />2000 EntreCredits<br />Deals may be available for advertising for more then 2 weeks at a time.<br /><br />E-mail royENP@hotmail.com for more details<br /><br />You can return to this information anytime by clicking any open ad spots on my blogRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-3164423131207384882008-07-10T19:28:00.000-07:002008-07-10T22:41:09.021-07:00Entrecard, friend or useless companion?Many of us use Entrecard to drive alot if not pretty much all of our traffic to our blogs, but how useful is it?<br /><br />If you look at Entrecard traffic on a micro scale id say its pretty useless, meaning look at a indvidual person. Theres a very high chance that that person is going to spend a total of 5 seconds on your blog to drop there card and leave possibly before your site even fully loads. Plus theres also a very good chance that you spend some time of your life dropping a card on their blog first to get them to come to yours. If you add up all those seconds could you be doing something better to bring real traffic to your site or to make money another way? Of course sometimes someone will discover your site through Entrecard and actually read it, maybe every day, but its rare. In short looking at the individual its a useless and a waste of time.<br /><br />What about at a macro scale though? Meaning your Entrecard traffic as a whole. The more drops you get, no matter how useless as individuals do the following as a whole. They raise your Entrecard popularity which increases the chances of someone really interested in your topic of choice ending up at your site. They raise things like your Alexa rate and page rank possibly (if they link to you). Both of these have advantages obviously whether it be search engine ranking or attracting advertisers . Plus you can do some useful things with all of the Entre credits your gatherings. Whether it be selling them, buying things, or useing them to get more traffic. But do all of these benefits out weigh the time spent dropping cards?<br /><br />My opinion is it depends on how you go about it. If you spend all of your time attracting people to a blog like this whos interests are things like celebrity gossip then your not maximizing your time spent (i cant say that im not guilty of that sometimes too though).<br /><br />I have seen the benefits to my blog because of Entrecard, i get more comments, more ad clicks and more referrals, what about you?Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-80725017831984140762008-07-09T14:01:00.000-07:002008-07-09T14:07:35.945-07:00Different Browsers, Different ViewsToday I learned the importance of making sure that your blog looks the same / good in different browsers. At home i use firefox, at work IE. Take a look at the difference. Remember that im redoing the layout, so none of these are actually how i want it to look in the end.<br /><br />FIREFOX<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOXSW1qdO2Jf9DXdcSvSh13zT5UJ5QRLblYSaYX4zg1Z_daVLzWiorpV2UkYwHtpGLpQoIoYcA2x1ZUrMlVyOAvr9ffs6oWwqw10Kmsyz643iYeVRKkEtIUXSx0p3jIw7wrWM_T1Gs5s/s1600-h/fff.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOXSW1qdO2Jf9DXdcSvSh13zT5UJ5QRLblYSaYX4zg1Z_daVLzWiorpV2UkYwHtpGLpQoIoYcA2x1ZUrMlVyOAvr9ffs6oWwqw10Kmsyz643iYeVRKkEtIUXSx0p3jIw7wrWM_T1Gs5s/s320/fff.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221123460820228978" /></a><br />IE<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp3dZYxfX14MvIv9c0SG4Pm3i12-hgLyU707ewiT897p4b8Akwe-mruB6hB1xZdA_rQ2u9FqZcbxl0SJArylV32nH-ukmOXrUBFqaoacQUvzoHe2W3MxVGUx-4rqD9vbS8gFtmAOsEdGo/s1600-h/ie.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp3dZYxfX14MvIv9c0SG4Pm3i12-hgLyU707ewiT897p4b8Akwe-mruB6hB1xZdA_rQ2u9FqZcbxl0SJArylV32nH-ukmOXrUBFqaoacQUvzoHe2W3MxVGUx-4rqD9vbS8gFtmAOsEdGo/s320/ie.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221123137640163346" /></a><br /><br />Weird how IE puts the stupid microsoft paperclip in there eh?<br />So you should at least check out your blog in the 2 major browsers, IE and Firefox.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-72469670854268472352008-07-08T13:39:00.000-07:002008-07-08T13:42:38.748-07:00New LayoutOver the next couple of days I will be implementing a new layout for the blog so things may be kind of messy.<br /><br />I want some opinions on colour scheme. Personally I think that switching to a white (or lighter colour) background with black text is a bit easier on the eyes.<br /><br />Any opinions on this or general suggestions? <br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />-RoyRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5128738155203850135.post-64597436487554119272008-07-07T13:58:00.000-07:002008-07-07T14:04:14.793-07:002 Payouts ReachedI reached the payout limit for 2 PTC sites earlier last week, <a href="http://www.world-bux.com">World-bux.com</a> and <a href="http://www.visitandwin.net/?r=readfished">VisitAndWin.net</a>. The limit for both sites is $10, so I still have a bit of a ways to go on both of them to break even, I put $35 into each of them buying referrals. <br /><br />VisitAndWin.net says that payment SHOULD be given within 5 business days, but could take up to 30. This is great if its true, it means I should have my money from them by the end of the week. Ill be pretty surprised if I do though.<br /><br />World-Bux.com went with the more standard it will take 30 business days to get paid. <br /><br />Both these sites have a pretty good number of ads, so given a bit of luck in getting some good referrals these two could be big money makers, assuming they do in fact pay. Ill post again when / if the payments do come.Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854107543638188535noreply@blogger.com2