PAULA NEAL MOONEY

~$20,000 Made Online Blogging the First Half of 2009 - I'm surprised... Since today is July 1, 2009, it felt like a great time to ascertain how much money has come into my accounts from all the different ways I use to make money online. I totaled up everything that came in the first six months in 2009 (realizing that some of this stuff is attributable to sales I made in 2008) and this is what I got: AMAZON ASSOCIATES Total $7,500.09 BUY.AT (Selling TicketMaster tickets) PERFILIATE TECHN PAYMENTS Total $134.25 CJ (Referring various products, like Apple Store stuff) JANUARY 2009 EARNINGS Total $605.63 KONTERA Total $1,651.69 LINKSHARE Total $945.99 GOOGLE ADSENSE Total $7,453.38 Associated Content (Writing articles online) Total $867.05 Text Link Ads, Inc Total $433.38 Niche Blog Media Total $11.98 LinkWorth Total $50.00 Grand Total $19,653.44 I'm kind of surprised it's nearly $20,000 -- about half of what I brought in during 2008 from blogging, w...

Amazon Associates Program Closed for North Carolina, Hawaii - California and Other States Next? I was surprised to read over on ProBlogger that Amazon Associates has closed for North Carolina and Hawaii associates already, and California may be next. Yeah, while the selfish part of some of us say that's less competition for other states -- not so fast with that thinking -- who knows what state may be next? Read all the gory tax details causing the melee over on ProBlogger or the links he has and comments that let Amazon Associates in the closed states know exactly what to write to their representatives to protest. Lately, Amazon Associates has been making over 500 bucks a month for me -- nothing to sneeze at, hey, everything helps pay the bills! -- but for others, their Amazon Associates take runs into the thousands per month.

Watch out for .MP and .CC virus website links on Twitter... I have a GreaseMonkey script that shows me what people are tweeting on Twitter when I search for that term right on Google. That's how I noticed a lot of .mp and .cc domain names tweeting about current google trends with a link that I was poised to click on till something in my gut -- thank You, God! -- told me not to click on. So I researched "mp and cc domains on Twitter" and found a Mashable post warning people of just that: Scammers and phishers are using a lot of .mp and .cc websites to post links to malware sites. Don't click on em!

$40,000 a Month Blogging - $500,000 Projected Income in 2009 for John Chow - Watch the video below to see how he does it... John Chow -- one of my blogging heroes -- posted up an hour-long video describing how he makes $40,000 per month with his blog, one that he hadn't even monetized when he started it back in 2005. (Just like me!) Then in 2006 he said some challenged him, "Hey, you don't make any money blogging -- why should we listen to your tips?" John Chow took the challenge head on and started monetizing his blog. The first month he made around 300 bucks; after a few months he'd hit his goal of $3,000 per month -- so he said, Why not pull out all the stops? He did, and in 2009, his blog is projected to make half a million dollars. I watched and/or listened to the whole video below because it was interesting to know his philosophy. Some of it is pretty techie for those who don't know about Aweber, RSS feeds, auto-responders, Feedburner chicklet counts an...

10 Grand is Buried Here - Microsoft Has Buried 10 Grand on the Internet, Guess I Gotta Switch over to IE from Firefox to Find the 10 Grand... Microsoft has a "10 Grand is Buried Here" contest going on (click the attached pic in this post for more info) where they've buried $10,000 somewhere on the internet and the first one who finds the $10,000 wins the money. I see that the buried 10 grand will be revealed on an IE8 browser, so I guess I've gotta switch over from my beloved Firefox Browser back to IE to find it. They are giving clues on Twitter, so I'm going to go decipher them and pray I win. Or, whomever really needs the money to win.

A woman illegally downloaded 24 songs -- and now she's gotta pay $80,000 for each song. That's the verdict today in the only illegal file-sharing case to go to trial. Thank goodness I don't use Bear Share and all those other file-sharing sites -- I don't like them because they are a virus risk. I like getting my music from Amazon or iTunes instead. But I love YouTube and Daily Motion videos, I must admit. But that's a different story.

I've never heard of WorldPay before today. And while WorldPay itself is not a scam, scammers did target WorldPay customers with some "WorldPay CARD transaction Confirmation" saying that their Amazon products were confirmed and supposedly contained some invoice. But it was really malware in the email. For WorldPlay customers who opened the attachment in the scam email, a trojan identified as Troj/Agent-JUC would've been downloaded. Find out the latest on this WorldPay scam here...