PAULA NEAL MOONEY

"Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's," Jesus said in Matthew 22:21 . So this post about tithes and taxes won't leave me alone in my brain, so I'd better write it out. The end of the year -- specifically today being December 31, 2008 -- has me thinking about earning more than enough money to pay Uncle Sam by April 15, 2009, and that's forefront in my mind. I created a spreadsheet detailing everything I've earned, expensed, donated and all other things taxable so I know about how much I'll pay the government come Springtime. "How much should I give, God?" I hovered over the amount field on WordCity.org , my church's website, yesterday. The amount I put in was more than I'd listed on my spreadsheet in advance, but it was right. I hope. Because even though I realized that the amounts we give each year only factor in a portion to make for a better tax situation, there's still the tithing test to pass. Believe...

I just found out about these HP Home Servers, -- and they loook sweet to me. Why are people going ga-ga over the HP home servers? My husband doesn't see the point, but I was just explaining how we could have an HP home server that backs up all our data, from both our laptops and our workstation in the sitting room. And we could access the data from our HP home server as well. For example, if there's some kind of old file I want to grab off his laptop or our old PC, the HP home server would be just like a network drive to grab it off of. Can the HP Home Server do a better job than DreamHost? I wonder if I bought the HP EX475 MediaSmart Home Server (AMD Live, Windows Home Server, 1 TB Hard Drive) -- that's 1 TeraByte! -- and tried to run a new website from there (since I'm glad my websites are up on DreamHost, but not exactly wanting to add more there) would it do a better job? Whatever, customers are loving the HP MediaSmart Home Servers... ...because looking at the ra...

I'm going thru this article from PC World on how to secure your Vista PC in 10 easy steps , so I thought I'd save it and remember it and tell other people about it by blogging about it. I've yet to find that "local security settings" options they're talking about, but I've done some of the rest and want to finish up later. Safe is good.

You gotta love Amazon. While poking around and researching the different things people buy online and setting up Adwords campaigns to advertise Amazon products, I came across this $384,500 Certified Diamond (Round, Very Good cut, 6.21 carats, G color, VS2 clarity) for sale online at Amazon. Isn't that amazing? I knew Amazon had good stuff -- expensive and good stuff -- but I didn't know they sold loose diamonds and an over 6 carat diamond at that! That Amazon Associates revenue will be exactly $32,682.50 at 8.5% earnings rate for that one sale alone.

I had the best visit with my dad recently -- a tax accountant with a wealth of knowledge about the advantages of small business incorporation. Once I shared with Daddy just how much my online writing business is being blessed by God, he told me about the financial advantages of turning the blog / writing / website / webmaster -- whatever you call this I do -- into an LLC, LLP or some other entity: Limits on liability in the unlikely (I pray) event of law suits Building up Social Security wage credits Drawing down a salary -- that, if you do it correctly, I'm reading around the net that it can save you on taxes -- although the personal 2008 tax rates look comparable to the corporate tax rates I've found online But I've got a lot of research to do. I want to incorporate my blogging business myself -- so I'm starting with the government's website for United States incorporation rules state by state. Some people say it's best to incorporate in Delaware because it...

Maybe the same day after I was led to apologize for asking if Rosalind Gardner's book was scammy or not, she put up this cool video showing how much money's actually in her affiliate accounts. She really is inspiring me with her philosophies -- and I see she's been in some of the programs for years, since 2001. I believe I remember reading she had some dating sites and such. Watch Rosalind Gardner's proof of actual affiliate earnings: /v/LLMB5QdDpso&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1">

Whenever I see a hotly searched for item like Target's 2008 Black Friday ads are today -- I ask myself: Hmmmm....am I a member of that affiliate program already? Searching Target.com, I did find info about their affiliate program, but that page leads you to a "not found" advertiser on Google's Affiliate Network on ConnectCommerce.com -- which I am a part of. I see that I was declined for Target's affiliate program some months ago -- way back on 7/8/2008 -- but went I try to find it to reapply, I can't find it. And Target's not listed under the deactivated affiliate progams -- so what gives, Google? Are you in Target's Affiliate Program? If so, how'd you get in? Thanks! Check here for the latest news written about Target's Affiliate Program in the past month... Where to buy the iPod touch

Despite my happiness over the new Google Ad Review center -- that thank God is providing better paying ads overall --- I hate some Google ads. For all my ad watching and blocking, I logged onto my WatchFreeEpisodes.com website today to find a huge banner ad promoting married folks cheating! That was it. I gave that space to a nice Amazon Christmas ad instead. 'Tis the season anyway...

I really just found out about Google's Ad Review Center after bemoaning the fact that I couldn't block more scuzzie and skeevy advertisers from my websites. Well, God heard my prayers because lo and behold I logged onto my Google Adsense account and looked under the "Adsense Setup" page then clicked on "Competitive Ad Filter" and found "New: Ad Review Center" link there. Increase Your Google Adsense Earnings... ...hopefully it will yours like it's doing mine ever since I opted into that "Ad Review Center" -- which I hope has been rolled out to everybody by now -- and then I went thru and blocked the obviously scuzzy Adwords advertisers. The ones who have a lot of junk ads ready for review on your site, the ones that when you go to their website, it looks like crap. So you know they won't be paying you much per click. Anyway, my Google Adsense earnings / income increased... ...only one day after blocking out the scuzzballs. (Check...

Google's got a new Google Keyword Search Tool that I'm liking right now. I've been plopping Google.com into the website field and searching on a number of terms like "money" and "video" and whatever to get a sampling of the actual demand for the keywords that people are typing into Google. I was so inspired by Lindsay over at WritingForYourHealth.com making over $103,000 last year from Google Adsense alone -- and her method of writing about basic matters that people are interested in online, that I'm realizing there's lot more money to be made online, once I research what people want. So try Google's new keyword search tool (login to your Adwords account for even more Google Keyword Search Tool words) and see what you come up with!

It's weird, I was approved for WalMart's affiliate / referral program before thru LinkShare -- LinkShare is an e-commerce business solution for over 3.5 million online relationships. Become an affiliate of the LinkShare Network for FREE and earn revenue by linking to over 500 premier online merchants . I'm liking LinkShare -- they are sending me a free Turkey, along with 99 other of their affiliates -- and I pitch Movie Rentals Now Available on iTunes and other products thru them. And I was at one point accepted into the WalMart program thru LinkShare. But I waited too long to act on the email. Now I'm trying everything to get back into the affiliate program. I updated my profile to reflect the more than 500,000 monthly pageviews I get on WatchFreeEpisodes.com -- changed from International pitching to strictly US -- made myself all kinds of corporations since I plan to incorporate like John Chow did his blog to save on taxes... Nothing. Yet. But I'm praying to mak...

I'm freshly inspired to increase my online income due to Lindsay Buroker over at WritingForYourWealth.com -- who just wrote the post " What it Takes to Make $100,000 a Year From Adsense ," detailing somewhat how she's upped her Google income. Some ideas are sticking with me: Like focusing on consumer products -- and what people are actually already searching for, not necessarily trying to create a need. And not jumping into an over-crowded market. But what websites does Linsday run that are her money-makers? I looked all over her site to try and find the two websites that are her main moneymakers to see her design. Basically, I want to know how long those websites have been up -- how she SEO's them, and how much content is there. You guys already know that WatchFreeEpisodes.com is my main money-maker... ...and stay tuned for an updated income post by the end of 2008. So it will be great when Lindsay lets us all know what her main money-making websites are so we ca...

I'm all over wanting to promote the new BlackBerry Storm, which I've yet to find on Amazon.com -- but I do see it on the Verizon Wireless website. So I clicked to join the Verizon Wireless affiliate program and that leads me to the old Connect Commerce's site, which is now the Google Affiliate Network. But I'm searching around the Google Affiliate Network, and don't see Verizon Wireless anywhere. Does anyone know anything about -- or are you in -- the Verizon Wireless referral program? Where is it? Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

»»»»»»» Watch videos on the Kindle? Get your blog on the Amazon Kindle blogs... Get your blog listed on Amazon Kindle blogs -- that's what I'm about to do -- thank God for my husband prompting me if I could get mine listed on there. I'm going to apply to have the WatchFreeEpisodes.com website listed on the list of Amazon Kindle blogs, but since that site contains lots of videos that begs the question: Can you watch YouTube videos and stuff on Amazon's Kindle? Kindle owners, let me know if you can watch any videos on your Kindle? Never mind, I think Amazon just answered my question: Video and User Generated Links: You agree to remove all video and / or user-generated links (e.g. Reddit, DIGG, and Technorati).

Product from an Excluded Merchant The product is offered by an Excluded Merchant and will NOT earn Associate referral fees on any sales. That's the message I got when I planned to promote this Wii in stock for $249.99 on Amazon: I saw the Wii on ReadWriteWeb and thought it would be good to promote -- again. I wonder if my other Wii code is earning money? I'd better check... Wow! I haven't gotten Wii earnings since December 2007! I just checked my Amazon earnings report and saw that the last time I earned on the Wii console -- not games and accessories -- was December 2007! That was a good Christmas last year. But I wonder how many I've sold without the commission? Anyway...thank God other Amazon products are selling well, especially now that it's close to Christmas again. Guess I'm definitely letting those Wii sites go now. Yep, I just Googled and found out from the Digital Point Forums that since like May 2008 Amazon hasn't been paying for...

I just saw a commercial about this GPS tracker that can track your lost dog -- and they said it will text you with the dog's location, or the location of your stolen car, or your teenager who forgets to call you to tell you where they are:

For those of you on WordPress using the All-in-One-SEO Plugin, you know how cool that tool can be to drive traffic to your site. But today I saw the normal little "upgrade" beneath the All-in-One SEO plugin and got an error -- something about that /home/.regalo/ folder in my WatchFreeEpisodes.com directory that I tried to look into a bit -- but didn't find much about. So I used that opportunity to do a little digging (I'm redesigning my site anyway) and thanks to this guy's post about great WordPress plugins , I found the HeadSpace2 seo plugin to download. I'm trying it -- we'll see what happens. Do you use HeadSpace? If so, leave me a comment, please, and let me know how you like it.

I just tried to log onto my Google Adsense account using my Firefox browser and freaked out when I kept getting the "UsernamePasswdNotMatch" text on a blank white page. I thought I'd typed in my password wrong -- or that Google was merging accounts or something worse! Thank God I read thru some help screen that said to try a different browser and clear your cache before sending Google Adsense support an email. I did just that -- I popped over to Internet Explorer, logged onto my Google Adsense account from there and lo and behold great God almighty, the "UsernamePasswdNotMatch" error did not appear, just the total of the lovely money I need to pay these bills and tithes and offerings and then some! Whew! So if you found this post because you also got the "UsernamePasswdNotMatch" from the Big G -- don't fret, pet -- it might just be your browser. Hopefully...

My new best friend is Google Insights for Search, a new tool by Google that gives us clues as to what stuff people are searching for and the breakout trends. To use Google Insights for Search, just type in any word you think of, like how I typed in "Google" here , and see what's trending down to the right-hand side. You can see I set up my search to find out what people are typing in related to "Google" in the past 30 days, only in the US. And a bunch of info about the new Google Chrome browser pops up. I love it.

DreamHost Down - Many DreamHost Websites Down on Tuesday, September 23, 2008... I love DreamHost. I use them for most of my websites (all of my dot coms) because of their ease of use in installing WordPress with their awesome "one-click installs" -- but DreamHost has been experiencing some issues with their servers today, which I'm sure those DreamHost guys are on top of. Of course the DreamHost downage came during one of my site's busiest traffic days -- but I'll bet you DreamHost fixes the problem soon. I don't want to move anywhere else. How is BlueHost? Does anyone use them? I'd really love to stay with DreamHost.

How are Bloggers Making Money Online with Free Blogger Blogspot Blogs? People ask me all the time how are we making money online -- and today I found that interesting post about how one "hot blonde" is making money online. I love that the person is making their money online with a free Blogger / Blogspot blog. That spells hope for people who can't afford to create their own dot coms, or don't know how. Just jump on Blogger.com, set up a free blog, post your little heart out with good, SEO'd, quality content, put the Google ads up front and center -- and voila! -- you could be posting up your numbers next year or sooner.

ARE .CM DOMAIN NAMES REALLY AVAILABLE TO REGISTER AND BUY ONLINE? So my Google Alert led me to this post saying that the pre-registration period of .CM domains is here. But where can we legitimately register .CM domains that aren't $700? I don't see the option of .CM domain name registration on Go Daddy -- is this real?

I made $2,005.26 in Google Adsense in One Month - Increase Your Google Adsense Earnings... Google Adsense is still a great way to make money while you're waiting to get those private ad sales. Bless God I made over 2 grand in Google Adsense income last month -- so find out how to make money online and how much money other people are making online. Let it all inspire you, too, to make more money online. Labels: make money online,make more money online,making money online,get more internet money,increase adsense earnings,making cash online

Make Money From Home With Google Adsense, Amazon and Text Link Ads... If you run a website, please read my post on the new blog that gathers the best tips from all the money-making blogs online into one place detailing how I was favored to make $20,375.34 from home online in 8 months. How Do You Make Money From Home? If it's online, feel free to leave your money-making from home online tips in the comments section. I know 20 grand is less than some people make online from home in 8 months, but I suspect there are plenty others salivating to make that much -- like I am when I read about the big bloggers out there making ten times that from their humble (or palatial) abodes. I believe we can all learn from each other how to make money from home...especially during these times when people want to make good money from home to put in their gas tanks.

Perez Hilton Page 1, Page 2, Whole Website Taken Down by Internet Explorer Error... I never thought I'd see the day that Perez Hilton's site would be stopped by the dreaded "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet Site Operation Aborted" error, but I saw it today. It's reportedly relatedly to SiteMeter -- find instruction on how to fix the "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site operation aborted" Site Meter error -- plus, I recommend people download the free Firefox browser and use that instead to get on Perez Hilton's site.

I'm glad Google updated their AdWords Keyword Tool thingee to finally show the numbers of the search volume terms by month that people are searching for. This will be helpful in determining those "evergreen" terms that people search for month in and month out -- or even for figuring out new trends to start blogging about or whole new websites around. Just plop a word -- any keyword or phrase -- in that box it shows and then click "get keyword ideas" and run with it!

Today I received the below email in my inbox about the new Google Affiliate Network. I used to be a DoubleClick Performics member, but I couldn't figure out my old password and login, so I reapplied to the new Google Affiliate Network. Hope I get in! June 30, 2008 We are pleased to introduce Google Affiliate Network . Effective Monday, June 30, 2008, DoubleClick Performics Affiliate will operate as Google Affiliate Network. The integration with Google's brand is a reflection of efforts to quickly assimilate our business and teams, as well as reinforce Google's commitment to the Affiliate channel. Together with our new colleagues at Google we are creating new opportunities for monetization, expansion and innovation in Affiliate Marketing. Someone clicks the ad on your site... ...buys the advertised product... ...and you receive a commission on the sale. Within the next couple of weeks you will see some exciting changes to the user interface reflecting the new brand. The plat...

CBS Streaming Video Clips Removed From RedLasso. ARRGHHHG!!!!!! So this week Bishop TD Jakes' daughter, Sarah Jakes, got married and was featured on Entertainment Tonight. I caught the segment on TV, but many people didn't so they went searching hot and heavy for video of Sarah Jakes' wedding online ... Yeah, notice how that clip is unavailable now? I did some digging, and turns out all of CBS' videos that I tried to play from RedLasso are now unavailable! So of course I go poking around ETOnline.com to see what video CBS has put up to satisfy their online searches for the wedding of Bishop TD Jakes' daughter -- and of course, as of this writing, find NONE ! This is why the network TV execs making these decisions suck. CBS is not a pay-cable TV station, it's a free TV station that should readily offer clips of its TV segments just as readily online as they do off-line, on TV. For it to be 2008 and for a network like CBS to not understand this is beyond belief. I...

New Google Trends for Websites Tells You How Many Visitors a Website Gets, and Their Most Popular Keyword Searches! Webware has a great write-up about the new Google Trends for Websites , so instead of reinventing the blog post, though I'd just send my readers on over to them. Already I've checked out the data for Perez Hilton, whom I already knew gets around 600k hits a day -- funny that Google.com nor YBF.com doesn't disclose their stats (must not have Google Analytics tracking their data, odd for Google!) but Yahoo.com and other websites do, so play around and find out some great keywords under the "Also Searched For" section on the right hand side of Google Trends for Websites. I've learned some good stuff -- off to post away on my other websites! I'll let you know how it works and how much more traffic it can bring us bloggers...

Password Hacker for Yahoo Messenger - Trying to login without password on Yahoo messenger? There's a better way... Need a password hacker for your Yahoo Messenger account? Or is it your spouse's or kids' Yahoo Messenger account that you're trying to hack into? Believe me, I've forgotten my share of my own passwords on my own Excel spreadsheet, and I hunted around Google for password hackers till I found something that reminded me what my own password was. How to Hack Into Your Own Yahoo Messenger Password... Of course, the easiest way to hack into your Yahoo Messenger forgotten password account is to avail yourself of the Yahoo Messenger "forgot password" or whatever option. But I suspect many people searching for "password hacker for Yahoo Messenger" want to find out if their mate is cheating on them by sending secret IMs to their lovers, or if some skevvy old guy is IMing their kids. In that case, if you're talking about hacking into your o...

My fair Google trends list, please update thee again! I absolutely love Google Trends Labs list that's usually updated hourly. Today Google Trends list hasn't been updated in over 5 hours. The other day, Google Trends list wasn't updated for 15 hours or more . Wow, I didn't know till I read that post that spammers are the ones responsible for those X-rated weird searches that show up on the list. Hope Google is doing away with those ASAP... What's up, Google Trends people at your Google Plex? Hopefully they're just working hard to make the Google Trends list even better, giving us not only a list of the movers and shakers, but the most popular pages indexed by day, month, 3-month period, 6-month-period and more. Wouldn't that be cool? Won't it be so awesome to see what pages in this whole world wide web got the most hits in one day?

Lifetime has free, full episodes of Army Wives online here - including Season 2 Army Wives premiere episode under the "full episodes" tab. Army Wives Season 2 Full Episodes online for cheap... Army Wives Season 1 full episodes are online here for cheap... Army Wives DVD of Season 1 And the... Army Wives DVD for Season 1 is now available for sale. You all know my new passion is WatchFreeEpisodes.com, a site that shows you where you can watch free full- and partial-length shows like Army Wives online , another of my new passions. Lifetime is smart in that they're running the first two full-length hit episodes of Army Wives for free on their site...and I hope they leave them there! Sites like USA Network have wreaked a bit of havoc as of late and are sure to cause a revolt for removing the full free episodes of The Starter Wife that were online and available to watch the day after it premiered. Watching Full-length TV Shows Online is the Future Nothing could be more...

Want to increase blog traffic? Witness the testimony of 25,000 blog hits in one wonderful day... I got 25,000 blog hits on my TV site in one day. Actually, the gravy train kept going for two days, with each day averaging about 25,000 hits. I'm so overjoyed, I had to take a screen pic (CLICK TO ENLARGE IT) and share the tips below it: How to get more daily traffic to your blog... 1 - Check Google Hot Trends list . I admit it, I'm obsessed. Google trends list is how I get my daily news. But watch out -- some stuff you don't want to click on. 2 - Write a blog post about something that interests you on the list that people are searching for, but not many people have written about yet -- at least not in a good SEO'd (search-engine optimized) type of way. But when you see an interesting item like " Elevator Ghost ," you gotta blog about it. 3 - Be short and sweet...and if it involves a video, even better. Short posts work pretty well. People don't necessarily wa...

Red Lasso may be down for the count... but I hope not... An Ode to a Great Techie Urn Called Red Lasso... Red Lasso, Red Lasso. How do I love thee? I love thee for the depth and breadth of your streaming broadband footage... The ease of which you allow bloggers to clip specific parts of footage and upload them to our blogs for all to witness. I love thee for thy embed code. I love thee for thy ingenuity... For I just discovered your full potential this past weekend, and now in a forthnight or two you just may depart from the blogosphere. Fear not what the mockers -- are saying of thee, oh fair Red Lasso -- unless, of course, it was meant to be. For me, my dearest Red Lasso, I'm praying for millions more in millions more series rounds of funding. For thy technology and vision (if not thy legal loophole) was the best...

UPDATE: WATCH JASMINE LAWRENCE ON THE TODAY SHOW VIDEO... by Paula Neal Mooney On Oprah's show about young smart kids, there was a young black girl named Jasmine who is the CEO of a company named EDEN BodyWorks. At only 15, Jasmine developed her own formula of EDEN Body Works products that help prevent hair breakage. (Interesting, because Jasmine appeared to be wearing pretty extension braids herself, but her own EDEN Body Works must've helped restore the bald patches she once had.) Of course, Oprah related her story of when her fell out as the result of a bad relaxer. The EDEN Body Works leader also had the same experience at a younger age. With products like an All-Natural Hair Oil with JOJOBA and Peppermint & Tea Tree Shampoo and Conditioner, EDEN Body Works will no doubt receive plenty of hits in coming day. You can even sign up on the EDEN Body Works site to receive free samples. March 30, 2007 update: No more free samples! Just got this email from Jasmine: Paula, ...

Dooce Movie May Happen... How cool is it to see that Dooce (aka "Mommy Blogger" Heather Armstrong) now earns $40,000 per month and just may be making Dooce.com the Movie ? I remember learning about Dooce waaaaaayyyy back when nearly two years ago (though she's been blogging since 2001) when there was the drama over her book lawsuit bruhaha -- and now look at Heather! Though I haven't read her in a while, it's cool to see Dooce in movie talks...

Google Pagerank Updates Going On.. Penalties and Increases Noticed... So Google's going thru a Pagerank increase. Daniel over at DailyBlogTips.com noticed it via Courtney The Internet Marketing guy the other day. (Right now I'm lovin' the Adsense-Ready Studio Press Red WordPress Theme by Daniel so much that you can see I use it on the majority of my sites, some of which are listed below.) But with Google's PageRank upgrades come penalties for some. I got a frantic email from a different blogging friend saying that Google penalized her site. I've been there before, so I can empathize.... Thankfully, it didn't last too long. Maybe a month or two? Sounds like forever in the world of blogging, but when it happened, it just forced me to turn my attention to other sites, and thank the King I did. So favor is falling and my pageranks are up -- it really does make a difference in getting that good Google traffic. Stay blessed. For all who are interested in blogging, ...