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October 3, 2009

Last month I made a paltry £10 through blogging. I just want to double this each month!

Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Internet, Making Money Online, Time Management — Tags: adsense, Affiliate Marketing, blog posts, Blogging, earn money online, Flightmapping.com, forums, Social Networking, Time Management, twitter, Web 2.0, WordPress — admin @ 1:06 pm

Forget about all these wild claims about making thousands online from signing up to someone else’s automated scripts programme!

I don’t want to earn a fortune, I just want to double this amount every month for a year! Hang on a minute, after a few months, this starts to look quite juicy:

September	£10
October	£20
November	£40
December	£80
January	£160
February	£320
March	£640
April	£1,280
May	£2,560
June	£5,120
July	£10,240
August	£20,480

Oh, the powers of compound growth! Of course, doubling for the next few months should be child’s play, but who knows what will happen after that.

To clarify - I am looking at building up Adsense and perhaps other affiliate revenue from blogging alone, and not from Flightmapping.com, which is a dedicated travel website, albeit one built using very last millenium web 1.0 Architecture! Flightblogging.com is a standalone blog related to, but getting very little traffic from, Flightmapping.com, and my own personal blog is now building up slowly too. I also expect to re-instate a couple of other long standing blog projects, whereas the World Tube Map concept may evolve into an online discussion with some revenue opportunity, but the main aim of this is to actually sell physical printed maps, which don’t count as online revenue.

You might ask why current earnings are so low. The reasons are simple - I am a relative latecomer to the social networking and blogging scene, having put so much effort into building Flightmapping.com as a content portal, and focusing purely on SEO around the quantity of text, rather than playing the link building and social networking game. I am declaring my hand as a newbie in this field - and I want to learn - FAST!

Hopefully progress will develop with some good advice from friends old and new.

As always, keep your seat backs firmly upright, Pay Attention Meticulously, and enjoy the journey!

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March 30, 2009

Adfero = Do Fear!

Filed under: Blogging — Tags: Adfero, blogs, DirectNews, do fear, forums, legal threats, Shaun Hofer — admin @ 10:51 pm

Well, I’ve had my supper and calmed down a bit, down some work, and gone back online.

It looks like Adfero are experts at snuffing out anyone who doesn’t like them.

This hasn’t just happened on A4U - where Sean Hofer, Adfero’s online spokesperson admits that they asked other blogs to remove posts which ‘weren’t substantiated’ - a similar thing happened on another business forum, except that in this instance, the administrator publicly said that he had got a ‘take down’ notice from Adfero.

Does it surprise me that Adfero, who’s slogan is supposed to be ‘bringer of news’ is an anagram of ‘Do Fear’? Perhaps their slogan should really be ‘bringer of sues’.

Note - I should point out that the above comments refer to Adfero Ltd, and the Adfero DirectNews product. It does not relate to Adfero Group, a Washington DC based media agency.

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Adfero DirectNews are incompetent - and if I can’t say it on A4U I’ll say it here

Filed under: Blogging, Uncategorized — Tags: Adfero, blogs, Costa Del Sol in Morocco, DirectNews, forums, Granada, legal threats, Shaun Hofer — admin @ 6:49 pm

I really don’t like companies which go round with a big wooden stick and try to clear up what others say about them on the internet. There has been a thread running on the A4U forum for quite a while about a certain Adfero - “bringer of news”. I could go on and on about the troubles I had with them, but it is feeding time, so I will keep this brief, make sure people know it is out there, and publish any more that is needed later.

The key discussion boils down to Adfero’s claim that:

“DirectNews does provide unique content – we are very aware of the dangers of providing duplicate content to a website and ensure everything we do is unique.”

In our case, this was about 50% right - when the story was unique, it was because the incompetence was on such a grand scale that no-one else could match it. I repeat again (well, as said on A4U about 3 weeks ago, but since mysteriously disappeared), according to Adfero, the Costa Del Sol was in Morocco, and Granada was a spice island walled city in the Caribbean - these are the facts of the so-called news they provided to us.

The rest of the time, the stories were often directly taken from other press releases - any news company will do this to some extent, but there should always be some editing involved, but not in the case of Adfero - again, specifically, I refer to the story they gave us about new BA flights to Algiers, which matched the BA press release we got verbatim.

Adfero then say that they got other blog posters to take down their comments because stories were “unsubstantiated” - I can certainly feel the fresh blow of their censor’s axe coming down tough on anyone who doesn’t like them.

Well, this will not do - an internet company providing news in the 21st century should be able to take a bit of negative commentary on the chin, and should not have to threaten other blogs and forums which say things they don’t like.

Adfero, when you read this tomorrow, please take note that this blog is the personal opinion of James Avery, and relates to the former contract between yourselves and Flightmapping Ltd. The opinions are my own, but if you take issue, you can email ja @ jamesavery .co.uk.

Note - I should point out that the above comments refer to Adfero Ltd, and the Adfero DirectNews product. It does not relate to Adfero Group, a Washington DC based media agency.

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