PAULA NEAL MOONEY

So I'm finally taking a lesson from my last post, "Does Google rank money-making websites lower?" and switching from SEO (search engine optimization) to SEM (search engine marketing) to drive traffic to my websites. I'd tried a Google Adwords campaign before -- without much success. But now I've learned how to create better Google Adwords campaigns and make money with Google Adwords , so I'm happy to give it another try.

A funny thing happened on the way to the bank. Google stole my traffic. To put it more precisely, a few of the websites I set up with "buy online" somewhere in the URL were dropped down low in Google's SERPs. It was a noticeable change. One week pageviews hovering around 2,000 daily -- the next week hovering much lower. Ranking high for certain terms, the next day that same ranking taken away. And then given back. And then taken away again. Could it be that the mysterious Google algorithm is set up to check URLs with "buy" or "download" in their URLs? We know that Google probably checks the expiration date of the URL to take sites with domain expiration dates longer than one year away more seriously, but I think it also checks how much free traffic they're giving to affiliate marketers and the like. Google penalizing money-making sites? Google gives a clue towards its attitude towards money-making sites on their "reconsideration request" ...

My very first post on this blog two years ago -- December 13, 2005 -- was Motherless . And boy oh boy, if I could've seen how far my God would've brought me from that cold winter day to this one... Nearly 20 websites later, with me begging Him in Target today for them to turn more than enough profit to pay the Amex bill and then some, He still is providing abundantly. So Happy 2nd Birthday, blog. Love you, still with you, but gotta also take care of my other kids, too, now. Download Free Firefox 3

I absolutely love that Yahoo Buzz log. At the BlogHer conference, I sat next to a woman at dinner who contributes to the Yahoo Buzz log and I fawned over it. She couldn't believe people love reading it that much. I love them even more now that they came up with this list of Top 20 things people want to buy online right now. To an online affiliate marketer, this stuff is gold. Speaking of which, why are people trying to buy gold online? And what kind of stars are they trying to buy? Oh, I see...they're really buying the ones in the sky. Buy Wii Online in Stock Buy Nintendo DS Game Consoles Online in Stock Buy Turducken Online - Order Tur-duc-hen Download Firefox Free Mozilla Browser

Find out how I made nearly $4,000 in the past six weeks online . I learned to think globally and joined all the Amazon Associates programs around the world I could find. As such, I fell in love with the Babel Fish Translation tool ... ...and currency converters like this one .

One good way to keep making money on the internet is to tend to your most popular posts. Whether it's a popular post that makes you Adsense money from the traffic, or affiliate money from the product pitched within, take advantage of all the eyeballs by giving them what they want. Take time to go back to posts and update them with new data -- I did that a lot today on my TV site. Or, if you're rushing to go pick up your kid from school -- hint, hint -- just take enough time to pretty up your money-making post and republish with a current date. That way, readers don't feel like their reading old news...

Just when I had all but given up on this Blogger blog for several reasons -- one of which is that is loads so slowly, hopefully my dropping it down to the normal Google crawl rate will fix that -- Google has encouraged me to not give up! Yesterday I noticed my waning hits on this blog were growing again, and I figured out it was because Google unpenalized me! See -- if you do a Google search for "Paula Mooney," this blog shows up as #1 again. Was John Chow Unpenalized Too? I see that John Chow is still penalized by Google, because a Google search on "John Chow" only turns up the "John COW" parody site, and not his own. Not that this is hurting him, with all that moola he's making. (And wow, catching up with his posts, I see the Chow-man is going to be featured in an upcoming issue of Entrepreneur magazine!) Speaking of the evil genius, I was wondering who his private advertisers are -- and how he got $11,888.79 in private ad sales . I wonder if those ...

I would be remiss not to first mention a great new book I just finished reading called The Overfed Head: What If Everything You Know About Weight Loss Is Wrong? . I believe The Overfed Head: What If Everything You Know About Weight Loss Is Wrong? is a better philosophy than The Master Cleanser . While I have fasted here and there to try and get closer to God, if you're fasting for weight loss reasons, I'd recommend first buying and trying The Overfed Head theory. The guy lost 160 lbs. and has kept it off since 1998. Plus, he writes about how dramatic weight loss from some diets is harmful because you regain it all back and then some. Please read The Overfed Head first if you're considering other things. It makes sense. by Paula Neal Mooney Beautiful Beyonce appeared on a recent Oprah show telling the world how Beyonce lost 20 pounds with a "Master Cleanser" diet fast. Beyonce went on this 14-day fast -- a liquid diet , I guess, that includes vegetables -- in or...

Thanks for all your great guesses. I'm going to get back on a normal monthly schedule of reporting my income, so check for my month-end report at the end of November -- soon after most of us return from traveling and eating turkey. In the meantime here are some tips to hopefully help increase your income like mine is: 1 - Start a niche site pitching hot Amazon products. Much of my income increase will be due to Amazon affiliate sales from niche sites. I've left a BIG hint in this post as to which one is earning the most. 2 - Don't limit yourself with just Amazon.com One big thing God spoke to me like in Israel Houghton's "No Limits" song is to remove the boundaries I placed on myself. Join Amazon German (Amazon.de) and Amazon France (Amazon.fr) and Amazon Canda (Amazon.ca) and Amazon UK (Amazon.co.uk) and all the others you can get the Babel translation tool to work for and pitch those products too! I'm so happy that I've already made sales in German...

I know it's a question you may have thought of, because it's one I've asked myself. After all, seeing... ... John Chow post up $23,448.59 last month ... ...and Shoe Money post $30,000 per month ... ...and the Connected Internet guy post $15,179 per month ... ...and Randy post $7,378 last month ... ( thanks, Shane ) ...and Lilian post $5,628.01 last month ... ...I can't help but ask God -- Why am I working so hard and not seeing the same results? Then He led me to the passage where Peter was fishing all night and caught nothing, but then Jesus came along and said, "Push out into the deep for a haul..." And Peter said they'd been fishing all night long and caught nothing, but that on his Lord's word alone he'd try it again. He did, and that's when so many fish came, they had to call their friends to help. Peter left to become the "fisher of men" that Christ talked about after that. So, my lesson learned was that I can work my butt off ...

Amazon.com Widgets I recently wrote a post called "Increase your Amazon affiliate income and earnings..." and now I thought I'd expand on that to include a few more tips on how to make money online with Amazon. Especially since Amazon sales pick up around the holidays, why not try your hand at making money thru Amazon by joining their free affiliates program and blogging about some stuff? So here are my tips for blogging about Amazon products on your product (or everything-but-the-kitchen-sink) blog or niche site: 1 - Subscribe to the Amazon Associates Blog I just found it! But subscribe to Amazon's associate blog to learn money-making tips with them. 2 - Write up specific product reviews, or lead people to the ones already written. I have a Vizio TV, so it was easy to write up a short honest review of Vizio TVs . I don't yet own a dehumidifier, but I led people to the dehumidifier reviews and ratings on the product pages. 3 - Jump on hot products right awa...

Want to know how this guy makes $120,000 per year mainly from Google ads? Or find out about the woman who makes almost $90,000 annually from mostly Google ads -- $30,000 of that all from Google during December 2006 alone? And the man who makes $25,000 per year (equal to his retirement pay) from Google ads? Read about the Gray Googlers ...

Google penalizing the PaulaMooney.blogspot.com URL (for whatever unknown reason), has compelled me to build up the PaulaNealMooney.com URL I've owned for several months now. So I've switched PaulaNealMooney.com from redirecting to this blog, and loaded up WordPress on it, and have started blogging separately over there. Since PaulaNealMooney.com has been linked to and is already being crawled regularly by Google, I figured I might as well build that puppy up and SEO that mug -- since most of my SEO efforts on this penalized blog are for naught. I'm not ditching the paulamooney.blogspot.com URL -- it still has a great Alexa rank and PR of 3 from Google, so it's still good for blogging tips and paid postings -- but not SEO'd posts. The "big Googe" ranks them too low in the SERPs. The PaulaNealMooney.com will be a hodgepodge of stuff like my complete infatuation with the song "Fence Riders" by Jimmy Needham I heard last night and keep playing over ...

A noose around a statue of Tupac has caused uproar in Stone Mountain, and a man has reportedly been arrested for hanging the noose around the Tupac statue. I pray this ridiculous noose-hanging trend (around Tupac's statue, on teacher's doorknobs, around trees in Jena ends.) Read more here: Vandalism investigated at Tupac Shakur site Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 12 hours ago By TIM EBERLY Something was placed around the neck of the bronze statue of Tupac Shakur at the Stone Mountain center dedicated to the slain rapper. ... Shakur Statue Targeted in Possible Noose Incident ABC News - 19 hours ago Georgia authorities are investigating incidents on Saturday and Monday that targeted a bronze likeness of slain rapper Tupac Shakur. ... Tupac’s Statue Victim Of Vandalism & Alleged “Noose” HiphopRnbSoul.com - 2 hours ago A man has been arrested as a possible suspect in two recent attacks on the statue of late rap legend Tupac Shakur. The attacks have been described by th...

Google drops PageRanks again! My pagerank already went from a 5 to a 4, now it's a 3 -- but Google already penalized this site so that I no longer rank for "Paula Mooney" or "blogger salaries" or other stuff. Oh well, it just gives me more time and inclination to reposition myself and focus on my other websites. But it turns out I'm far from alone in Google's latest PageRank dropping nightmare. Maybe it's not really about paid links at all -- or more precisely, maybe it ALL about paid links and text-link-ads and PPP and more. Maybe Google thought they gave too much power to sites with higher PRs, and all the advertising revenue that garners them, so this might be a day of equalizing. How'd I Find Out About Google's Latest PageRank Drop? Daniel over at Daily Blog Tips wrote another great post about all these major sites that Google has dropped their PageRanks again (I told him he could add John Chow to his list, who has dropped from PR 6 to ...

Everyone's all buzzed-up about the I Am Legend 2 movie trailer that's hit the net overnight. (Just click the Will Smith pic to view it.) And what an amazing movie "I Am Legend" appears to be. Just imagine being the last person on earth -- or at least thinking you are the last person on earth, and dealing with your grief and fear and horniness without killing yourself. The release date of "I Am Legend" is December 14th, so that means the "I Am Legend" DVD will probably emerge around mid-Spring 2008 or so, maybe earlier or later. And just imagine if you could watch that movie in a comfy viewing room with home theater seating and surround-sound and such. How awesome would that be? Of course, it'd be fun with friends and food around. Guys especially like that sort of stuff. The noise that makes you believe you're actually experiencing the crazy, daring adventures the people in the movie are going thru. Those chairs remind me of Joey and Chandl...

I was amazed to read this article about the TV links UK website that has been shut down , and its owner arrested. ( Mahalo also has TV links UK 2007 down and website owner arrested news. ) Thank GOD above for warning me to not link to TV links UK before they even shut down , because I figured what he was doing was probably not legal. TV links UK being shut down will be a good warning to people who run the illegal websites, and hopefully a wake up call to movie studios and TV people to offer their stuff online so that people can pay for them legitimately.

"Field Negro" Attorney Wayne Bennett has made the LA Times ! Well blow me over with a bushel of cotton. (All respect to folks like my Daddy Elmer (late grandfather) and GranRuby (late grandmother) who actually worked those fields from "cain't see to cain't see" (before dawn till after dawn) -- and women like my grandmother who actually went into labor with one of her four kids in those fields, its soil richly tilled by their rugged hands -- labor that blest me with a college education at the HBCU Florida A & M University decades later...) Thanks to GetReligion.org for hipping me to the Field Negro LA Times piece , who points out an interesting take on Wayne Bennett's viewpoint, leading me to ask myself: Does the self-described Field Negro thinketh me a field negro, too? A patio negro? Or the much-derided house negro? It matters not. I know in Whose vineyard I toil ... And you know I'm praying in Jesus' Name alone for a serious Damascus Road ...

...or at least I'm hoping Starbucks health insurance benefits will be a hot search item after just watching today's Oprah. There was a couple deep in debt, and Suze Orman prescribed the woman get a job at Starbucks , because Orman said that Starbucks' health insurance benefits are available to even part-time employees who work at least 90 days at the coffee giant. In this article with Starbucks' CEO about their health insurance benefits , it states: "Starbucks provides health insurance for all employees working 20 hours a week and up. " But Starbucks' employees speak here of having a hard time getting 20 hours per week to get their health benefits, in some instances. Either way, any company that pays its employees full health benefits for part-time status is good in my book. Now, about that Black Gold movie...

The Fried Coke recipe balls have been revealed here . (Is that the official recipe?) I wrote about searching for the Fried Coke recipe balls (that's another version) nearly a year ago, and now today Fried Coke is all the rage again for some reason. As if we haven't battered and deep-fried enough stuff under the sun, now comes deep Fried coke . But how on earth do you deep fry a liquid? Turns out you don't, according an original article published in 2006 that only alluded to the deep fried Coke recipe without giving too many particulars, calling them "gooey Coke-battered nuggets topped with cola syrup." Now the deep fried phenomenon has spread and Yahoo is abuzz with searches for "deep fried coke recipe" or just plain ol' "deep fried coke." Read more about Fried Coke balls here... Tags: fried coke recipe what is Abel Gonzales

Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work I guess this is the best part of being an isolated blogger -- at least for a couple of hours out of each day. I don't have to buy books like this new one by Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster, titled Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work to help me deal with some annoying coworker that gets on my nerves that I can't escape, like the high-pitched voiced, rotund woman on Office Space that answered her phone extremely happily every few seconds. But I do remember what it was like back in gray cube land, dealing with a few folks who got on my nerves. During days when I wasn't the one getting on other folks' nerves, I pretty much treated every one equally. 'cept the red-faced guy with the Napolean complex who wanted to rule us all. Or the witchy woman who was rough around the edges. Or the...Never mind! Just read an excerpt here... It looks fantastic. ...

by Paula Neal Mooney Blog or workout. That was my choice this morning, a Thursday. I'd just hit the health club on Tuesday, so it's not like it's been forever since I worked out -- but after watching Oprah talk about her sluggish thyroid and that New-Agey but wonderful author Dr. Christine Northrup talk about how important it is for us giving-it-all-to-our-families-women to exercise, I thought about being a gym rat today. But alas, all my website children were calling me louder than the treadmill today. I could feel the Bill Cosby's appearance on Oprah story needing tending. There was more time and desire to update my blog in these wee mid-morning hours, and chat with a workout buddy on the phone. Tomorrow is a different story. My flab-threatening deltoids will get more attention than the blogs. I've promised myself I will hit a store or website and buy some great Sporting goods and workout gear that compels me to get back on a stairmaster or the weight room till...

CHECK OUT HOW MUCH MONEY BLOGGERS REALLY MAKE ONLINE! by Paula Neal Mooney My blog's money-making-money-makers are better this month at a total of $1,111.04 -- thank You, Father -- than the previous month's take of $736.02 in blog money making . So I need to really read up on LinkWorth money making, because other bloggers have made money thru them, but I haven't taken the time to really get on there and research them yet. How this money-making blog make money on the internet? Mostly from my niche TV site -- so that's my money-making blog advice in a nutshell: Find a niche topic that's in high demand, pray, pray, pray and write well and often that provides a service to folks (especially a FREE service), load it up with ads, and they'll come-a-clickin'! Paula's Online Income as of October 17, 2007 Click on the links where appropriate that float your boat, sign up if you want: # Program / Website CUMULATIVE EARNINGS AS OF 10/17/07 Increase Since Last Incom...

by Paula Neal Mooney You may have already heard from Media Takeout the uproar this flier caused, soliciting light-skinned women to come to a party in Detroit for free. With a pic of a light-skinned black woman on the flier, and "light skinned women & all Libra's free entry all night" on the bottom of the image, this "light skin" bash harkens back to the days when we used to give each other the brown-paper bag test. That's during the era when blacks stood humiliating at the door of a party and had to pass either one or all of three tests I've heard of: Stick your arm in a brown paper bag -- if you were lighter than the bag, you were in. If your veins showed thru your skin -- you were in. If a fine-toothed comb could pass easily thru your hair -- you were in. Did I miss any inane tests? The Light-Skinned, Dark-Skinned Thing... ...has been around for ages, ever since there were house vs. field folks. Of course the politically correct thing to say her...

Try ShoppingAds thru my affiliate link if you're in the mood to try a new experiment with me, then let me know your ShoppingAds reviews. ShoppingAds is a new Cost Per Click the techies are writing reviews about, and I want to see if these ads that people only have to click on will make us more money than AuctionAds did. This guy, in his ShoppingAds review thinks it may spell the death of AuctionAds, which is fine by me, because you'll see that I made nearly nothing with the cost-per-action model of AuctionAds when I post up my monthly income later today -- Lord willing. ShoppingAds.com Reviews? Beta Invitation Code? If you were already an AuctionAds.com user, you should already have an email with the ShoppingAds invitation code to their beta program in your email inbox. So sign up and write up those ShoppingAds.com reviews and let me know how much money you're making -- or not! Here's the email I received this morning containing the ShoppingAds invitation code bel...

Last night I was watching Girlfriends , and Lynn had the Chocolate Rain ringtone (download free here) go off on her phone after she bedded some young college student. How old was that college student by the by? And how old is Persia White's character? Anyway, I don't agree with that -- even though he showed her his ID before they got busy -- today I kept thinking of R. Kelly's lyrics " Show me some ID before I get knee-deep...I don't see nothing wrong with a little Bump 'n' Grind " -- I'll bet you my former Kenwood Academy High School alum sees something wrong with it now! But I still hope the best for R. Kelly, and that he's learned his lesson as we all do. I used to blast that Trade in My Life song in my old apartment -- he was taking me to church thru music. While hunting around for the free Chocolate Rain ringtone that you can listen to here , I came across this tripped out unaired Verizon commercial of some thugged-out portrayal of black ...

YBF.com is not the Young Black and Fabulous blog that used to be on a blogspot.com address. No, the real Young, Black and Fabulous .com can be found at TheYBF.com -- that's because cyber-squatters realize the importance of all the Young, Black and Fabulous traffic that that site gets. Even TMZ.com -- TMZ!!!! -- linked to YBF's piece about Lauryn Hill being pregnant with her 5th child by a Marley man (hope it's true -- care for me, care for me, said you'd care for me ...) At least the crazy-popular site Young, Black and Fabulous is monetized. Rhymes With Snitch (who has a Google PageRank of 6 -- and also got a link from TMZ.com when he or she -- I think it's a she -- broke the El Debarge story ) is one of those webmasters that works hard but makes no money off their site from what I can see! I've emailed the Rhymes With Snitch lady to tell her to enable her post pages so that at least she'd have individual URLs, but she hasn't. It's not that I ...