PAULA NEAL MOONEY

All of us Examiner.com writers know the changes that the site has gone through lately, first being removed from Google News then graciously allowed back in -- with the local Examiners making sure to write locally, and the National ones sticking to their topics. Apply to Write for Examiner.com here now... But how many of our Examiner articles are actually making it into Google News? I just wrote a piece about Beyonce's booty-shaking and Bible reading that I hope makes it into Google News. Checking out these links will let you know which ones of mine are making it in. Examiners -- how many of your pieces are making it in? Cleveland Pop Culture Examiner / Google News articles Christian Music Examiner Christian TV Examiner

AOL's Seed.com: How much does it pay? Is it a scam? I was looking through Google News for Examiner.com mentions and found this ABC article called " Earn Cash from Home When You Work with Twitter, AOL and Other Online Companies ," which talks about how to earn real money online. Apply to Write for Examiner.com here now... As many Examiner writers know right now, the website has been temporarily removed from Google News while it restructures its local news and national news positions -- and plans to be back in Google's good graces soon. (They are back in Google News! Hallelujah! Forget this Seed.com thing. Okay, kinda kidding -- but they rejected my article below. I may try again.) In the meantime, it's been one of those great times to stop and have "second cup cafes" with God and figure out what to do with my life and career. More on that soon -- but in the meantime, that ABC piece led me to AOL's new Seed.com, which is not one of the scam...

Thanks to Design Delight , that mysterious and loyal comment-leaver who reminded me to update you guys with my 2009 income. And THANK GOD for Examiner coming into my life in September 2009 -- because as you can see, they make up a good chunk of the year's income -- and that's just for 4 months' worth of income from them. So glad I can pay Uncle Sam what I owe him. Apply to Write for Examiner.com here now... I didn't include my expenses, so this is just gross income for now. Perhaps I'll come back and update the expense numbers, like anything I spent on Adwords: Name                        Payment Received Associated Content Total $1,611.58 Clarity Digital Group, LLC Total ( Examiner.com ) $12,217.90 LinkWorth Total $50.00 Niche Blog Media Total $11.98 Text Link Ads , Inc Total $676.04 AMAZON ASSOCIATES Total $10,648.51 BUY.AT PERFILIATE TECHN PAYMENTS Total $134.25 CJ.com Total $673.13 EBAY PARTN...

50+ Ways to Get More Page Views, Hits and Visitors to Your Website, Blog or Articles Update: I keep thinking of new tips to add to this list, so I'll keep updating to help people. Let me know how much your traffic increasing by leaving a comment after implementing some of these free traffic-getting tips: Time to do a lot of giving back -- I've been meaning to write out a major post of all the ways online writers can get more visitors to their websites. Some of the below tips are specific to writers who write for sites that appear in Google News, like Examiner.com -- but many of them can help all online writers of their own single blogs and the like. Apply to Write for Examiner.com here now... Lots of the tips are focused on news writers who write about breaking news topics as opposed to seasonal, evergreen stuff -- but still, the tips can help those who aren't up-to-the-minute entertainment writers. Take what you need, leave what you don't: About the He...

Well, it's that time again -- thought I'd update readers (and myself) on just how much money writing online at this website and others is bringing in, in terms of moola, that is. Gotta make sure I've got enough to give Uncle Sam come 4/15/2010 -- and I'm still playing around with the ideas my tax accountant dad is giving me to go use Intuit's Easy Pay Cycle to start paying my LLC's taxes through them, and therefore save on the $9,000 and more plunked down to the IRS in coming years. When he started trying to explain to me the tax benefits of choosing a fiscal year end for my business that's different from the calendar year end for my personal taxes, my brain began to wander like in Analytics class or something, so I figured I'd picked that studying up again in 2010. But anyway, thus far I've taken in $34,394.02 from January 1, 2009 - November 30, 2009. Moving along at a good clip. Writing for Examiner.com has been the biggest online writing...

$23,332 online blogging income from 1/1 - 9/30/2009: Here's how I made the money online... My last income post explained how I was up to nearly $20,000 of blogging income in the first 6 months of 2009. Apply to Write for Examiner.com here now... And I felt it was time to get an update 3 months later, and find out how much money has come into my accounts (PayPal and checking) in the first 9 months of 2009. The grand total of monies brought in (not just earned, more is coming) is $23,342.66, as broken down below. As first I thought I was mistaken, "only" brought in $3,689.22 in the last 3 months since I updated, approximately $1,229 per month. Note: The $23,342.66 doesn't include the amount of expenses I've spent this year thus far for doing business, including about $900 for web hosting fees, even more for Google Adwords advertising and such. I'll update with more numbers later... Which is a good thing in terms of the amount of taxes I'll owe ...

Get more website traffic visitors on Examiner.com, add Google Analytics tracking code and study it Thanks to my fellow Examiners over at the LinkedIn discussions groups for letting me know that you could put Google Analytics tracking code inside each of your posts to find out which of your particular posts get the most traffics and why -- so I'm writing this post to show other Examiner.com writers how do so, until the time that Examiner.com puts this forthcoming enhancement in place. Apply to Write for Examiner.com here now... First, go to Google Analytics and set up a new account if you haven't already. It's free. Then go to "Add Website Profile" at the bottom Choose "Add a Profile for a new domain", and add Examiner.com as your website and leave the choose adwords box blank Then you should get "Instructions for adding tracking" and "New Tracking Code ga.js" and under that you'll see "Copy the follow...