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In this post I asked how long it would take before Google would start to send traffic to my brand new site Techplay- experience.

Last night I received  my first  traffic from a Google search, 8 days after the first post was made. I suspect this would have been quicker if I had been able to put more content on line at a quicker rate.

At least this proves that the process works.

2 of the most popular and highly acclaimed actresses to play Elphaba in Wicked are Idina Menzel & Kerry Ellis.

So what happens when the 2 come together on stage at the same time……the following video shows the singing “I know him so well” from the musical “Chess”.
Idina Menzel

In this post I asked how long it would take for Google to send traffic to my TechPlay Blog.

The blog was born on 21/10/09 and currently has 9 posts.

6 days later Google hasn’t sent a single visitor, but does this mean that anything is wrong – I’ve search Google for my blog’s domain and it is listed so I know that Google is crawling the blog, so why no visitors?

I suspect that the answer is content – when I launched Netbook-experience.com I had a library of posts that I could copy across quickly, more posts = more content = more Google traffic, but with Techplay-Experience I’m having to start from scratch.  So it is going to take a while  to build a good solid  selection of content for Google  to see.

Videos can be a useful addition to a blog or website, they add interest for your audience and drive repeat visitors to your site, videos can be a very useful form of sticky content.

There is also a way to make money from videos using Voxant Newsroom who provide a wide selection of individual video articles and also Video feeds. The videos carry advertising and some of the revenue generated gets passed back to you.

For every 1000 views of a video you get $3.50.

There is also an option to auto play videos where the videos automatically start to play when your site loads, these carry a lower rate of pay pf $0.50 for every 1000 views, but if you have high traffic this may work form a good source of income.

The video belows shows how the video can be integrated into your posts.

Welcome to the October 24, 2009 edition of blog it and earn it.

Web Traffic Network presents Web Marketing with depending on anyone posted at Website Traffic For Sales.

Redfire Atkinson presents Top 50 Biotech Blogs posted at online MHA degree.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Cheap Web Hosting Services For Those On A Budget posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Thanks!”

Raivyn presents My Advice to Aspiring Pro Bloggers posted at Quoth The Raivyn.

Harold Gelien presents Top 50 Blogs to Help You Apply for College posted at Undergraduate Degree.

Effective Blogging

Carolyn Friedman presents Top 100 Graphic Design Blogs posted at Graphic Design Degrees, saying, “Got a creative mind, love of technology, and tons of ideas? Then graphic design might be for you. Learn more about this profession, along with thousands of insider tips, by taking a look at these top 100 graphic design blogs.”

Viswanathan presents The Ultimate Paid To Click Guide – The Good and The Scam posted at Paid To Click Guide for Beginners, saying, “Visit here to learn about the best and reliable sites in paid to click business that offer free money. The blog also lists some of the PTC sites that users should stay away from.”

Angela Martin presents 100 Best Professors Who Blog posted at Online Colleges.org.

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MBB presents How I Started Blogging Online posted at Money Blue Book Blog.

Mike presents Blogs for Business posted at The Blog Builder Guy.

Mary Jones presents The Top 10 Free Sites to Find Reliable, Authentic Customer Product Reviews posted at Accelerated Online Degree, saying, “Consumer reviews make purchasing products or services much easier. Unfortunately, you can’t always find an honest review for everything you need, but you can check these 10 websites to see if the product or service does have a consumer review listed somewhere online.”

Mark Wadinski presents Get More Buyer?s with Credit Card in Hand posted at Make Money With Blogs.

Andy Hayes presents Are you blogging with a strategy? posted at Travel Online Partners (TOP), saying, “To blog it and earn it, you must have a strategy. What’s your focus?”

Monetizing Your Blog

J. S. presents Blogging Theory: Everyone wants to be a Bum Marketer posted at Blogging Theory.

Jacqueline Gharibian presents My Newest Recommended Traffic Tool-Free posted at Start Your Own Online Business With $ Zero |How To Start An Online Business,Free Tips,Tools, saying, “It isn’t often that I find a traffic tool that is truly unique.”

Brian presents Increase SERP Rank on eHow posted at Earn Residual Income Online, saying, “A case study on increasing SERP rank and the resulting web search traffic to a published article.”

bm presents Online MBA Degree Program? posted at Accredited MBA Online, saying, “Does an MBA mean anything anymore? I got mine and it helped at work but I see blogging as a viable employment option these days. That MBA is arguably helpful from a bloggers perspective.”

Kaitlyn cole presents 100 Must-Read Blog Posts for Networking in a New Age | Online Colleges posted at Online Colleges.net.

supermom_in_ny presents Getting Out of Debt: Two Paid Blogging Sites Offer Affiliate Programs With Residual Income posted at Getting Out of Debt, saying, “This is a great way to get paid to blog and create a passive income. All you have to do is introduce others to the sites!”

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The Investor presents Weekend reading: End of summer update posted at Monevator.com, saying, “Personal finance blogger shares thoughts on the progress of his two-year old blog and its earnings.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of blog it and earn it using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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I’ve previously written about the difficulties I had in getting Google to send traffic to  My Netbook-Experience site. I eventually made a break through and managed to get Google to send me traffic by following these instructions.

With this is mind I thought I would investigate how long it would take for Google to crawl through my blog and send me traffic if I follow these instructions right from day1.

I’ll give it a go and report back here how it goes.

I’ve found myself posting more and more technology and videogame news and articles on this blog, and as they are topics that really interest me I thought I would create a dedicated blog where I can write just about these subjects.

I’ve registered a Domain name: http://techplay-experience.com/ and created a blog there and my first task has been to install Google Analytics using the Google Integration Tool Kit.

I’ve been following the video game RUSE for a while, as it  takes the concepts behind table top war gaming and  integrates them into a computer and console video game.

There have been a number of videos released which show how the game play works in detail….and the game is looking superb.

This latest video shows how tactics play a big part of the game and how decoys can be used to gain the advantage of your enemy.

Many web sites and blogs use Google Adsense as a revenue stream to monetize their pages, but how many actually read the terms and conditions that you are required to accept when you sign upto Adsense?

One of the terms and conditions is that you need to publish a Privacy Policy on your site. If you haven’t done this before then you can view an Adsense compatible Privacy Policy Template  by clicking here.

Make sure you follow those Adsense  Terms and conditions or you might get a nasty suprise.

YouGov is a well known and respected survey company who produce surveys for many large organisations, their findings often appear on news reports.

What’s more is that they pay you to take part in their surveys. Today I completed another YouGov on line survey and was rewarded with 50 points (50p), when you get to 5000 points then they send you a nice £50 cheque in the post.

I’m currently averaging over 1 survey a week from Yougov.

To join YouGov click here.

Its now been a month since my last update on how Kontera compares to Adsense so I thought I would see how the comparison is going but over a slightly longer Time Frame.

I’ve install both systems on a number of my sites and here’s the results between 2nd August and 13th October.

Adsense:
Total Page Impressions: 6953
Number of Clicks: 30
Earnings ($): 4.22
Average earning per click ($): 0.14
Average number of impressions per click: 231.77

Kontera:
Total Page Impressions: 6,014
Number of Clicks: 64
Earnings ($): 1.42
Average earning per click ($): 0.02
Average number of impressions per click: 93.97

In summary, my comparisons continue to show that Kontera gets significantly more clicks then Adsense but Adsense has significantly better rates of pay.

YouGov is a well known and respected survey company who produce surveys for many large organisations, their findings often appear on news reports.

What’s more is that they pay you to take part in their surveys. Today I completed a YouGov on line survey and was rewarded with 50 points (50p), when you get to 5000 points then they send you a nice £50 cheque in the post.

To join YouGov click here.

In this post I mentioned how RUSE was going to use the new Microsoft Surface technology to put a modern slant on table top war gaming.

The Trailer for the game really shows this use of technology to full effect, showing how hand movements are used to facilitate battles, by virtually pushing your troops forward they charge into battle.

This game is a really good example of how touch screens can be used to their potential.

Ezine Articles is a site that lets publishers write and share high quality content with the web.

The site contains thousands of articles on many different topics,  and is a very well visited site on the Internet as well as carrying a google Page Rank of 6.

Writing articles for sites like Ezine Articles let you share you work easily and quickly with a high number of readers, and because the quality of the articles is kept high through the use of moderators, not only do you get a sense of pride in having an article published there but visitors come to the site knowing that the the articles are GOOD.

Ezine Articles let you add a link to your site to each article, so not only can you get traffic by submitting articles to  the site but you get a link to your site from a high traffic,  High Page Rank site.

You can see my first published article by clicking here, or all my published articles by clicking here.

I thought it would be Interesting to see if any days generally bring more traffic then others. The general opinion around the Internet is that Weekends are generally bring less visitors then week days, so I thought I would see  if the traffic to my Netbook Experience Blog reflected this or not.

So using Google analytics I pulled of a report showing how many visitors visited Netbook Experience each day during September.

I’ll repeat this expercise for a month to get a better picture overall but the results for September are shown below, and show that Fridays are on average the Quietest days for my site and Sundays are the businest days.

The average number of vistitors every day in September: 

Fridays: 27.75 visitors on average
Thursdays: 30.75 visitors on average
Tuesdays: 33 visitors on average
Wednesdays: 33.4 visitors on average
Saturdays: 35.75 visitors on average
Mondays: 38 visitors on average
Sundays: 40.25 visitors on average

2 of the most popular musicals in the theatre in recent years are Wicked and Avenue Q.

Wicked is a thought provoking look at the events leading upto the Wizard of OZ, and follows the adventures of Elphaba, who will go on to become the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, who becomes the Good Witch of the North. Wicked has gone onto to break box office records around the world.

Avenue Q has been described as an adult Sesame Street, and when it closed on Broadway it became the one of the longest running shows of all time. The show features mainly commedy songs, and the show is aimed at adults, whith strong language and adults themes.

As of June 21, 2009, the production had grossed $117,009,852 and had returned profits of $23,500,000 to its investors.

So what happens when the 2 shows combine. In this clip Trekkie Monster as Elphaba and Kate Monster as Glinda sing one of Wicked’s show stopping songs “Popular.”

It’s now been nearly a week since I hosted my first Blog Carnival so I thought I would investigate how much extra traffic taking part in blog carnivals brings  to a site.

In total BlogCarnival.com has sent me 31 visitors since 18/09/09 which is when I started advertising my Carnival (13 days ago).

The highest daily numbers of visits was the day after the Carnival was published with 9 visits.

In addition I’ve submitted articles to a number of Carnivals and the domains of the hosts and the number of hits from those Domains are shown below:

• http://www.successpart2.com/ 0 hits
• http://blogging4good.blogspot.com/ 0 hits
• http://thatsblog.com 7 hits

So over all I’ve had 38 visitors from my Blog Carnival work, and as well as picking up a number of extra links hosting the carnival provides a regular source of content.

38 may not sound like a lot but I’ll keep working with Blog Carnivals to see how it goes, particularly with the Carnivals that send me traffic.

It’s commonly believed that currently ITV HD is on available to FreeSat viewers, however since a recent update to the Sky HD EPG it’s possible to manually add the channel to Sky HD.

ITV HD currently broadcasts a lot of championship League Football in HD so for Football fans this is a good move

To add Sky HD go to the Add Channels menu and use the following settings:

11.427
H
2/3
27500

If you now go to the other channels Menu Channel 10510 is ITV HD.