I woke up this morning and to my surprise i had received a few emails asking for updates on how my template sales where doing since my reserved introduction of paid advertising to my marketing campaign. Well today i’m releasing the results of the past five days for those who are showing great interest in my blog and i hope your enjoying it. Soon i’ll be writing some exciting information on how you can get started in doing something similar.

If your just new to Blog Me Famous or you are unsure what the beeswax i’m talking about then you may want to take a look at the following posts,

• Paid advertising earned me $600 yesterday
• My Template earnings for May

This week i’ve achieved something remarkable and is the encouragement i need to continue in the world of online marketing something a couple of months ago i had so much doubt about. So looking back at the past week my average daily income from template sales came in at an encouraging $460

And here’s the screenshot;

So it just shows you that there are hidden niches to be discovered and learning a trade or skill, such as designing or coding can really add another stream of income for you.

So to finish of the short earnings post, I’d just like to say that paid advertising earned me over twice my income in May over just five days. I hope this shows you some inspiration and gives you an extra boost of encouragement, if you enjoyed this post and would like to keep up to date with my earnings why not subscribe to my rss feeds

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Goals are great, they give you something to work towards and when achieved can make you feel proud. I tend to have a problem with finishing websites and if i do finish them i usually don’t get round to promoting them until weeks after they’ve been online. One site in particular which im extremely proud of is Fragbucket - Video Game Media Website that i created in January 2006 with an alexa rank of 410,000 and eating up server rental costs leaving it without attention is losing me alot of money so this week it’s my main focus as i just turned down a generous offer from a buyer. What was i thinking!

What is Fragbucket?

Fragbucket is a niche video website aimed at electronic sports (eSports.) If your unsure of what esports is then it’s competitive gaming - Playing opponents in video games, usually the PC or the xbox for large sums of money in online leagues and tournaments. It’s an underground sport but is now starting to appear on Television and Online Media. If you live in the United Kingdom switch over to channel 291 on Sky to see Xleague Television for a more indepth look at it.

If you want to know a little more about this project then here’s some features of the website:

• Video Uploads and Conversion to FLV format
• Video Uploads supporting all major formats and upload sizes limited to 1GB
• Integrated Forums with database and style
• Complete CSS tableless Design
• Adsense Revenue Sharing for Uploaders called ‘FragCash’

The idea of fragbucket is to allow users to upload videos and share them, yes similar to youtube but with one advantage. The quality of the videos created are much higher on Fragbucket and that is one main reason why gamers will prefer Fragbucket over the likes of youtube.

This weeks goals in improving Fragbucket

This week i will be focusing most of my time on Fragbucket to improve the design, add new features and then start some sort of promotion campaign - Not sure if it will be PPC based but most probably. Making a site userfriendly is one of the most important aspects of design and one inwhich i have failed at in creating fragbucket so to rectify the mistakes here’s my plan of action;

• Move the Login box to the top right for easy access and to the ‘industry standard’ area
• Improve Ad positions and blending (probably removing the majority without affecting the adsense sharing)
• Add a Filter by Game option to search through videos by Game or Console
• Remove the ‘Roll over effect’ on buttons and text
• Improve the layout and restructure the homepage
• Optimize the servers for faster streaming

Once the website is fixed up and looking alot better the plans for promotion are, Banner advertising on high traffic videogame websites, Competitions and sponsor prize giveaways and PPC advertising. But there is one thing that i am not sure on and i would like your opinions,

Should i change the colour scheme of the website? (white and blue maybe..)

What do i hope to achieve in 3months time?

• An Alexa rank of 100,000 or lower
• A large and active forum community
• Weekly prizes and giveaways
• Making a couple of dollars atleast

Although my main concern is not making money when it comes to Fragbucket, it’s a website i made because i enjoyed videogames. It forced me to learn php, css, html ect… in more detail than before and now i really need to get it to pay for itself.

Share your ideas on the best way to promote this niche or website and if you enjoyed this post, why not subscribe to my rss feeds

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As you know, Blog Me Famous is a blog to record my journey in online money making and to reward my readers after a phenomenal week i am going to be giving out 15 free .info domains. if your interested in knowing exactly how much i’ve made this week then stay tuned to Blog Me Famous as i will be publishing a breakdown of the week.

How can i get a free .info domain?

Simply contribute to the blog by posting a comment on one of my posts or link to one of the posts here from your blog. You get to choose the domain so ensure that it’s available before requesting it.

The Details of the Giveaway…

To claim your domain, head over to the contact page and send me the domain of choice (has to be a .info) aswell as linking to the post you commented on or the page you linked to and from where. I would prefer a linking but as this is my first giveaway you can make the choice.

Also include the information required to transfer a domain on Godaddy.

• Domains are registered on Godaddy and then pushed to your Godaddy account
• Domains will be pushed within 24 hours of receiving the email
• Domains are registered for one year only
• Only one domain per person
• You must provide a contact email for details to be sent thats not from a free email service (hotmail/gmail/yahoo)

If you like this giveaway, why not subscribe to my rss feeds and secure your place in the next Blog Me Famous giveaway.

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Social Networking - The importance of linklove for the growth of new blogs

A couple of days ago i received an email asking if there was a particular reason why i was linking to popular blogs and blog posts within my chosen niche and what benefits it has provided, if you didn’t notice this then you can take a look at my Introduction to Blog Me Famous and My template earnings for May here, you will see various links going offsite to other blogs.

What are we talking about?

Social Networking, a valuable marketing and promotions technique that every blogger or website owner can implement in a bid to increase the awareness of a blog within your chosen niche. The technique of ‘Social Networking’ can result in improved RSS subscriber numbers, increased reach for your blog and perhaps most importantly, forming relationships with established bloggers in your niche.

The techniques i implemented on Blog Me Famous?

• Linking to popular blogs and blog posts across my niche

As mentioned above, i linked to various blogs across the blogosphere in a prominent position on the blog post, usually coming in as an introduction to an article or making up the main content of a post, for instance ‘About Me, The Blogs That I Favor’

The benefits of this?

Creating trackbacks on articles can provide a great means of traffic not to mention getting the attention of blog owners. Increasing awareness of your blog is something that needs continuos promotion and gaining the attention of blog owners in your niche can lead to linkbacks, referral’s and possibly being featured in their weekly link roundups.

The Blog Me Famous results…

The past week i have received comments from Kevin Muldoon , Anthony Feint and Matthew Henrickson along with visits from other established blog owners in my niche. In addition to comments, i received a noteworthy link from lorelle’s weekly digest section for my post on guest blogging earlier in the week.
Although the techniques i have used are fairly simple they have provided Blog Me Famous with the awareness that a new blog requires to survive. It’s something that takes little time to introduce to your posts and when starting out blogging it leaves the reader with a good impression seeing comments or trackbacks from popular blogs.

When starting a blog consider using the various techniques mentioned above to increase your traffic and reach as it will provide you with more subscribers, readers and links. if you liked this post why not subscribe to my rss feeds.

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Well today i had planned to release an article discussing the use of social bookmarking especially how to get the maximum benefits from stumbleUpon, however i did notice that an article had already appeared over at another blog discussing something similar so i decided i would take the article and build upon it.

So today i am going to give a list of posts that i’ve enjoyed reading over the past week from various other bloggers around the internet.

• Wite a Review on Here.org.uk and win a SonyEricsson P990i Smartphone
• 13,000 Reasons to research your niche
• AdGridWork reviews - A textlink exchange service for blogs

Im not going to overdo it by posting to many links but here are a few that i think that you may enjoy. All i regard as an interesting read and will provide some good information and entertainment - not forgetting about the free phone you could win.

If your a first time visitor to Blog Me Famous you might want to check out a couple of articles i released over the week;

• Five Guidelines to Guest Blogging
  
• Blogging Mistakes - The one’s i made first time around

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