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Text Link Ads On Sale!

Late last week, I received an email from Text Link Ads about their sale on ad inventory. Right now on Derrich.com, you can receive 15% off of sitewide ads on this PR5 page. That’s over 300 pages with your link appearing in the sidebar where it is highly-visible. Read the email to get details on how to take advantage of the 15% discount.

Hello Derrich, it is a great time to check back in at the new inventory at Text-Link-Ads.com The inventory of niche websites have been growing fast I wanted to extend to you a special discount. Save 15% on all NEW orders for the rest of August! Just enter august into the coupon code at checkout and you will save 15% off your order for the life of the order. We are excited about the growth of our inventory and the results reported back from our advertisers. If you are ready for an ad that can drive traffic and raise your natural search engine rankings head on over to TLA now. Thanks again!

While my blog isn’t a niche blog, I know you’ll be happy with the results from buying a text link ad on Derrich.com. Click on the banner below to get started.

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Coming Up For Air

Hey, everyone! You guys remember me? It’s Derrich. Ok, ignore the fact that I haven’t written in 6 days. Busy doesn’t even describe my week. My “day job” took me for a ride this week, and my soon-to-be “night job” took a sudden downward spiral. I decided to spend whatever spare time I had with my kiddo. Awwww…yeah, yeah. I’m just happy to be back. Not only did I not post, but I missed out on some great opportunities to win some swag. I picked the wrong week to be absent.

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure
Derek Semmler and Leo Chiang are both supporting the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure by offering some sort of swag to incent readers to help out. Of course, I missed out on Derek’s contest; he chose his winners last night. Leo’s contest is still going strong. Find out how to win a great prize and help fight breast cancer. Both of these fine gents are sponsoring Darla Briggs in the CIBC Run. Kudos to both of you guys for supporting such a good cause. Expect my donations soon. Heck, at today’s exchange rates, $25 CDN is like $3 US, right?

Run A Business In Your Underwear
Wendy Piersall, who I haven’t seen in awhile (my fault, Wendy), is always posting about something that exudes success. It is her Modus Operandi. Perhaps I should take this job and shove it, scrap my bar plans, and learn how to start and run a home business in my underwear. While she did not disclose whether or not she works at home in her underwear, Wendy offers 10 viable options for doing just that.

Support The Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk
Just a reminder that I have formed a team to participate in the The Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk. My friends, family, and I are walking on behalf of both my grandmothers. You can donate to our team if you feel so inclined. I will match every dollar donated up to $100. So far, we’ve received $50. Our goal is $1,000. While I’m personally responsible for $100 of that goal, it would be sweet if I could knock that one out of the park. Thanks in advance.

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Blog Money — July 2007

This month’s revenues have taken a small dive. July 2007 was a busy month for me…particularly with the progressive opening of Retox Bar. While I’ve continued to make regular contributions to Derrich.com, I haven’t been able to go out of my way to take advantage of my #1 revenue source: PayPerPost. It is important to stay on top of the list of review opportunities. Failure to do so will surely impact your earning potential…unless you don’t mind doing a number of $5.00 reviews. AdSense remained about the same.

Last month, I mentioned that some bloggers were reporting a notable decline directly following Google’s elimination of arbitrageurs. Mine increased. While many bloggers noticed a significant increase in AdSense revenue for July 2007, my AdSense earnings decreased despite increased traffic.

The PayPerPost reviews I did happen to complete once again brought a steady stream of high-eCPM ads. Some of those posts included topics such as financial responsibility for teens, drug rehab, and traveling to Jamaica.

Here are my blogging revenues for June 2007:

Google AdSense:	$46.43
Text Link Ads:	$22.40
PayPerPost:	$164.50
AuctionAds:	$1.01
AzoogleAds:	$0.00
Amazon Associates:	$0.68
Advertising on brohans.com:	($4.00)
TOTAL:	$231.02

My TLA revenues remained flat. Although I set a goal to improve this source of revenue, I was unable to lure new advertisers to Derrich.com. If you guys have any suggestions on how I can sell my remaining inventory of 9 sidebar ads, I’d greatly appreciate it. Much of the problem is likely from the fact that my content isn’t specialized, which is understandable. But I know a few “general” blogs that have sold more ads than I have, so I know it can be done.

Thank you!
Once again a big thank you to my Top Commentators for July. They included Urbanist, Gregg Hawkins, Matt Propst, Derek Semmler, Brown Baron, and Ed Lau. So don’t forget, U Comment, I Follow…and keep ‘em comin’. Special thanks to sponsor, StockTrak.com for its continued support of Derrich.com.

Please share your blog success with us, and any practices or secrets you have applied to your own blog to increase your monthly revenues.

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BlogCatalog Big Idea Challenge

Like most BlogCatalog users, I recently received this email from the BlogCatalog crew about a new contest they are holding.

During the past 6 months BlogCatalog has grown from a little known blog directory into one of the best known blogger social communities on the Internet. One of the main reasons for this growth is you. Everyday we receive new ideas and feedback from bloggers. Since many of you already share your ideas with us and we know that all of you have great ideas, we have come up with a challenge to make it more worthwhile and fun for you to share your feedback. To do this, we have created the BlogCatalog Big Idea Challenge.

The BlogCatalog Big Idea Challenge is a contest for the best ideas to improve BlogCatalog. To enter, come up with an idea that you believe will make BlogCatalog the most extraordinary Blogger Social Community on the Internet.

The Grand Prize winner will be awarded $2,500. With second receiving $500. To enter, submit your ideas via email or regular mail (with links to applicable online presentation if applicable).

Via Email Send To:
webmaster [at] blogcatalog {DoT} com

Via Regular Mail (if applicable):
BlogCatalog
7126 Eckhert Road
Suite 208
San Antonio, TX 78238

Submission Dates:
Open July 12th, 2007
Close August 31st, 2007 (11:59pm EST)

Prize Dates:
Winners will be announced before September 30th, 2007.

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All Aboard The Geek Train

Another Google Page Rank update, another link train. I think I’ve been tagged by 3 different link trains this week. Thanks to everyone who thought of me. Leo was the first to tag me, so I decided to continue his.

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Geek Train - All Aboard!

1. Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and linkback to the blog(s) that put you on the list in the paragraph. You MUST do this. No-one plans on getting slapped for duplicate content any time soon, do they?
2. Next, copy the list of originals below COMPLETELY and add it to your own blog. If you’d like a different keyword for your blog then change it, when you do your post, and it should pass to most blogs with that keyword, provided the train keeps on spreading.
3. Take the adds from the blog that added you and place them in the “Originals” list.
4. Add at least three new favourite blogs of yours to keep the train going, e-mail the blog owners (or comment on one of their posts) and insist that they post.

The Originals:
(The kick-ass) Nate Whitehill
(The original) 13-Year Old Blogger
(The money-making) Affiliate Marketing guide
(The crafty two at) TechRave
(The AdSense ‘dude’) Michael Cheney
(The overclocker) Shawn Knight
(The incredible) Chris Hooley
(The rhetorical) Michael Kwan
(The talented) Leo Chiang
(The root of all evil) John Chow
(The business dude) Josh Mullineaux
(The brilliant) Shoemoney
(The absurdly loud) Ed Lau
(The mastermind) Jon Waraas
(The yaketty) Stephen Fung
(The wickedly cool) Everton Blair
(The uber blogger) Ms Danielle
(The enterprising) Matt Coddington
(The career minded) Jane May
(The legendary) Gary Lee
(The nifty) Dosh Dosh
(The ambitious) Jeff Kee
(The Down Low) Shawn Low
(The Reviewer) Thomas De Maesschalk
(The Post Whore) Derrich
(The Bitchy Mogul) Bob Buskirk

My Adds:
(The Anti-Social) Matt Propst
(The Hawk) Gregg Hawkins
(The Carpenter) HMTKSteve

This link train is the brainchild of David Wilkinson, hyper, money-making kid, and kick-ass blog designer Nate Whitehill.

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Mr Gary Lee Announces An iPhone Giveaway

Although I posted that iPass on iPhone, I thought I’d throw my name into the hat for Gary Lee’s free iphone giveaway. Giving something away is one of the best forms of internet marketing. The contest requires a few links including one to his new project site about Golf Equipment as well as PinkDeals.net which provides a free online coupon for most stores on the internet.

Here are a few other posts that will help you market your blog effectively:

• 7 Ways To Take Advantage of Social Marketing
• Does Link Baiting Still Work? 3 Ways To Make It Last
• Optimize Your SEO Scorecard

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Akismet Eats Spam So You Don’t Have To

Since I started Derrich.com in October 2006, Akismet has blocked exactly 9,011 spamments as of this morning. Not a ton for a blog of my age, and certainly not alot in the whole scheme of things. Today, Akismet announced on it blog that it has blocked two billion spamments since its inception. Over 6.3 million today alone. Geez. That’s alot of spam. I can’t imagine sifting through all those spamments on a daily basis. Thank you, Akismet.

By the way, if you haven’t downloaded Akismet for your blog, do it now. Get Akismet. If you already have it, how much spam has Akismet eaten from your blog?

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