On a Postcard

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If you have the money, the in-thing these days seems to be by way of paid posts. This, of course, suits me no end as it provides me with a nice stream of income. Presumably it’s cost-effective in that some major players are doing it but I’m not so sure that it’s viable for small-scale websites.

For much less money, you can go to one of the manual submission services. For about $30 they’ll submit your site to around 200 directories and it’s a good quick way to get your site indexed quite widely. Thoroughly recommended to get new sites off the ground quickly.

However, by far the best way is simply to have original content. Our Whole Earth Guide had over 700 links within a month of being launched yet was only mentioned a few times in our own blogs.

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Whilst just a few years ago it seemed like nobody was making money from the Internet, nowadays it seems like almost everyone is doing it.

Right on the front page of Pay Per Post they urge you to sign up to get paid to blog about the things that you love. OK, I can’t say that I’ve been really fired up about every paid post that I’ve done but a considerable number fall into the fields of holidays and finance and those are areas I could talk all day about.

I’m sure that there are already people who put down their occupation as “blogger” which I’d have laughed at just a few months ago yet now it looks possible that in a year or twos time I’ll be doing just that. Let’s face it, it’s hard to beat a job that pays you reasonable money for just a few hours work per day and also for something that, by and large, you’d be doing anyway.

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