PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney "Make money on the web," or "make money web site." Those are the kind of things that people type into search engines. Well, it's time to count up my online income once again -- and I'm glad to report that it's grown by nearly $1,000 since the last time I counted up my blogging revenue . Want to make real money on the web? Join the places that are linked below for free: Make-Money Web Site LTD Earnings Associated Content $1,316.43 Amazon Associates $754.05 Review Me $275.00 Google Adsense $398.83 PayPerPost $214.50 Kontera $51.00 Sponsored Reviews $169.00 Auction Ads $49.39 Squiddo $1.02 Blogsvertise $35.00 Text Link Ads $25.00 AdBrite $5.70 PayPal $0.00 SlashMySearch $0.01 Writer's Digest $156.25 CreamAID $16.00 Blogitive $15.00 LoudLaunch $10.00 My Column $1,3525.00 Ghost Blogging $725.00 Swag -- Free Stuff $162.65 Blogging About Swag $20.00 CrispAds $0.00 GRAND TOTAL REVENUE : $5,724.83

by Paula Neal Mooney Google Pagerank is important. To put it simply, Google assigns a rank ranging from 0 - 10 to determine how important a website is or isn't. Zero means little importance, 10 means you're as important as, well...Google.com Check your Google Pagerank right here with this tool , seeing as though there's this big debate over the accuracy of the pagerank displayed on the toolbar right now. For the longest time my Google Pagerank was sitting at a paltry 2, even though I did all the stuff that techies swear would help, including linking to my own blog a lot. Increasing Google Pagerank from 2 to 5 Finally, the other day -- after I'd written an envious comment or two on other blogs excited over their Pagerank increases -- I noticed that the little green line on my Google Pagerank toolbar had moved to the middle when I was sitting on my blog's home page. I was so excited to see my Pagerank jump to a five, I took the above screenshot. What's the big dea...

by Paula Neal Mooney Bear with me techies, my next posts will tell you all how my Google Pagerank jumped from a 2 to 5 overnight -- plus how much closer to $7,000 I've made from blogging and stuff thus far, so subscribe and you won't miss it . But today Robin Thicke premiered his new Can U Believe video , and you all know what a Robin Thicke fiend I've been lately . In the "Can U Believe" video, I was glad to see Robin wearing the Christian cross around his neck , and he's got that feel-the-Holy-Spirit-power-wash-down-on-me Christian hand raise down pat. I love it. I love it. I love it. Does anyone know if Robin Thicke is Christian? These things matter to me. Kind of like the people who say they're colorblind. They have the right heart, but I don't always believe it. Plenty of my search terms are related to race and such... Back to Mr. Thicke, who by the by is going to be on American Idol tonight! And Kween Kong at http://southsidestar.blogspot.com/ ...

by Paula Neal Mooney We all know R. Kelly could use some good PR at this point in his life. But I hope and pray that R. Kelly's new Virginia Tech song is from his heart, and not for reasons of getting good press. Listen to a snippet of R. Kelly's "Rise Up" song for the Virginia Tech victims right now . Despite all his truly heinous sins -- in no way do I ever justify child abuse in any form -- I still have a soft heart for R. Kelly. I dogged him out a bit in my Oprah post about hip hop , but wrote that I'm always pulling for him. We went to Kenwood Academy High School in Chicago together, and though I never met him personally, I remember the day he did an impersonation of Eddie Murphy impersonating Stevie Wonder. R. Kelly sang "My Cherie Amour" and the crowd went wild. Later R. Kelly talked about that moment in Vibe magazine and I couldn't believe I was there to witness the tall and gangly, unsure of himself teenage baller get his first dose of on-s...

by Paula Neal Mooney When I first heard of the One Day Blog Silence badge going around to honor the angels of the Virginia Tech shooting , I thought to myself: Oh boy, here goes another meme designed to go viral off the blood of gun shot victims. But now that I'm closer to the day that http://onedayblogsilence.com has chosen to honor them -- Monday, April 30, 2007 -- I feel compelled to observe it. It feels less about selfishness and more about honor -- like the bell that tolled 33 times for 33 human beings that I listened to in my car. "Do not ask for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee..." There might always be a smidgen of the voyeurism set forth in the exposing truth of Don Henley's Dirty Laundry lyrics when writing about stuff like death. There's a reason that song is so popular so many years later. But it's good to give myself a gut-check daily and ask God to "create in me a clean heart" anew. Receiving forgiveness for any wrong motives...

by Paula Neal Mooney Before you read any further, please fave me and I'll fave you. Clean blogs only! I've found out so much good stuff about cracking Technorati's Top 100 Blogs list I'm so excited to post this! For my new blogging readers, Technorati is a site that tracks 77 million blogs and ranks them. The Top 100 Blogs list is ranked by: 1 - The number of inbound links a blog has 2 - The number of people who've made that blog their favorite As of this writing, the guy in spot #100 (ranked by the #2 method above) only has 170 members who've made his blog a favorite, while the TV Squad blog in spot #100 (ranked by the #1 method above) has 3,126 inbound links, so you can see that the #2 way is the easiest way to get your blog near the Top 100. Here's what I've learned from my blogging buddies on how to get closer to cracking Technorati's Top 100: 1 - Do a Technorati favorites exchange Gary V. Vaughan at azazil.net has an excellent post up called...

by Paula Neal Mooney Today has been dubbed Fearless Friday by those of us blogging about Arianna Huffington's latest tome, On Becoming Fearless: ...in Love, Work, and Life . Sure it would be apropos to blog about the debate last night, but seeing as though I haven't watched what I've TiVo'd yet, and have only found this blurb of a democratic debate video , I'll hold off. I only rolled my eyes as I caught Barack Obama droning on with the same tired "between a woman and her doctor" schtick , a litany shared by others within my earshot, so I vowed to watch it later. Fearlessly Get Your Posts on the First Page of Google's Search Results I'll blog instead about fearlessly doing what I love -- writing and consistently driving up my traffic by landing on Google's USA home page , or, more specifically, Google's search-engine results pages (SERPs) -- so I thought I'd pass on my fearless tips to my blogging readers who aim to do the same. 1 - ...