EntreCard

I just joined EntreCard...you'll see the EntreCard Blog of the Day in my sidebar. EntreCard does two things for me.

1. EntreCard drives traffic to my primary blog, Roxiticus Desperate Housewives.
2. EntreCard gives me a whole new set of blogs to read and enjoy. While I have my favorites on BlogExplosion, it starts to feel "same old, same old" and the EntreCard experience is refreshing....and addicting.

BloggerWave

One of the newer ways I have found to blog and make money is a European site called BloggerWave. Just like the U.S. sites that pay bloggers to promote advertisers on their blogs, BloggerWave offers opportunities to make a few bucks on your posts. I like to have several different options for finding paid content for my blogs, so Makin' the Bacon is going to add Bloggerwave to my list of blog employers. We'll keep you posted on the income stream....I think I have the option of receiving my money in British pounds.

Ning Social Networking

Ning Social Networking must be getting hot. Yesterday my friend Deb e-mailed me about her new social network, Jersey Biters, a companion to her Jersey food blog, Jersey Bites. After I joined Jersey Biters, Ning invited me to start my own social network, so I launched the Roxiticus Desperate Housewives social network (see link in sidebar) and invited a couple of friends to join. I suspect my Bestest Pal won't be far behind in launching his own social network. Then today, I visited my BlogExplosion friend Matt's blog, and found that he was promoting the FohBoh (Voice of the Global Restaurant Industry) social network on Ning....you can join it through a link on Matt's blog.

Improving Your Page Rank

I found a blog today called Everybody Go To with helpful tips on improving page rank.

Got Paid by Smorty

Got $54 in my PayPal account today thanks to Smorty. Sure hope the opportunities start showing up again soon...

These Are A Few of My Favorite Things

Since I started my Roxiticus Desperate Housewives blog, I have signed up for a number of different sites for different purposes. At some point, I will come back here and post links, but for now, you'll find them all on Roxiticus Desperate Housewives in my sidebar:

• BlogExplosion: helps drive traffic to blogs, but also exposes bloggers to other people's blogs ("OPB") for ideas and fun along the way;
• Smorty:

  Get Paid to Write! http://www.smorty.com/?B=9790

  pays bloggers to write posts about advertisers. I earned $30 with Smorty during my first week of posting and I have another $54 pending from my second week's posts. However, it is clear from their online forums ("no opportunities in two weeks" or "when will we get paid") over the past week that Smorty is at least temporarily troubled;
• PayPerPost: pays bloggers to write posts about advertisers. PayPerPost will probably end up paying me the most. I've earned $94.87 in just four days and eight posts; PayPerPost's top earner is closing in on $20,000 after a little more than a year's work. However, PPP may also have caused the Google PageRank on my primary site to go from 2 to a big fat zero. To make it up to their posties, however, Izea (the company that owns PPP) has set up its own ranking system, IzeaRanks;
• Sponsored Reviews: pays bloggers to write posts about advertisers, who buy reviews on your site.

Making Money from Amazon

When I first got back to blogging in earnest this year, I added an Amazon affiliate widget to the sidebar of my primary site, Roxiticus Desperate Housewives. I also add Amazon links to various review posts (books, music, DVDs, Keurig coffee). Over a couple of months, I have earned $4.00 on just my own Amazon purchases. Now, I can't really complain about something for nuthin'. However, I have noticed that Amazon doesn't give me credit for purchases unless I click on the link or widget and use my Amazon one-click settings to pay for my purchase and ship it immediately. So now I'm smart, and that's what I'll do when I'm ordering my own stuff from Amazon via my blog. However, what are the odds that any of my loyal readers would actually take that route to purchase?

First Post -- Makin' The Bacon Online

Since I've spent a lot of time surfing other people's blogs to get idea for my primary site, Roxiticus Desperate Housewives, I have started to learn a bunch of tricks for making money by blogging. My new blog, Makin' the Bacon Online, will be devoted to helping others to earn money online.