Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
March flew by quicker than Superman during sexy time. This months goal update is fairly brief seeing as though I struggled to get it done on schedule, so here t’is. Goal Number One: Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that can generate $350US per month. Slight improvement here in relation to the past couple of [...]
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Here’s some good news for anyone that’s looking to make a little extra cash online. WidgetBucks have increased their referral payouts to 15 per cent. In other words you earn a 15 per cent referral fee based on commissions earned by the publishers that you refer. This 15 per cent referral offer runs for the [...]
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
In my eternal quest to make this site profitable I’m trialling a new program called LinkShowOff. The LinkShowOff program allows you to run a simple javascript based widget on your site (eg. your blog’s side bar) and earn money when someone purchases a link in your widget. LinkShowOff is said to be Google safe as [...]
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
As the door closes on 2008, it also close on another 12 months of the Swollen Pickles goal project. It’s been a big year, with some decent gains made in some areas, and some disappointments in others. Join me, as I take a look at how I went in December 2008. 1. Develop Swollen Pickles [...]
Friday, December 12th, 2008
I’ll be honest, when I first read about Infolinks in various forums, I was more than a little sceptical. Whenever a new advertising program kicks off, it’s not unusual for discussion boards to become flooded with people spouting off about the overwhelming success they are having with the next big thing, no doubt in the [...]
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
November is traditionally a very busy month for me, and 2008 was no exception. I say this, because basically I spent very little time on any of my websites, so I guess I should be grateful that they made anything at all! Enough of the rambling, the goal project keeps on keeping on… 1. Develop [...]
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
I’m not sure that anyone out there actually cares, but a week ago I extended my ProjectWonderful experiment to try and figure out how to get the most out of my ad block and find the optimum pricing level. During the first week of the experiment I set the opening bid at $0.00 to see [...]
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
In case you are looking to make a little extra money, WidgetBucks are offering a $25 sign up bonus for all new publishers. According to their blog, this promotion is to celebrate the first birthday of WidgetBucks and will run until the end of October. Here’s what they have to say: “They say that time [...]
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
I’ve made a bit of cash from ClickBooth, and they have a butt load of pay per lead offers which seem to convert quite well. So today, I logged into my Clickbooth account and searched for all offers available that were also happy to take Australian traffic. A long list was generated. Too long for [...]
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Here’s one for all the Aussies. It can be a pain in the butt trying to find affiliate programs that are ok with Australian traffic. It’s even harder to find those that offer the good stuff. Commission Monster have taken on Windows Live Hotmail with Hotmail currently paying $0.30 per Australian click. If you get [...]
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Turn on the TV and you’ll be lucky if you don’t see a story on the big Global Financial Crisis. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that there are a lot of people out there interested in what is happening globally, and how the financial crisis is directly going to affect [...]
