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Have you ever needed a new avatar and/or a character to separate yourself from the thousands of other bloggers out there? If you didn’t know, there are tons of avatar and character creators out there that can help you in a matter of minutes.
Avatars are a good way of making you distinguished and recognized by the masses. It can even get the attention of those who may not have even known your site existed.
I’m not going to lie to you; ever since I put up the BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog widgets there have always been certain avatars that stand out more than others. For instance, as I wrote this post I saw an avatar of a female’s ass. I mean literally, a female’s ass on one of those widgets.
Normally, I’d be curious enough to click on it to see who BlogCatalog approved to have an ass as their avatar. Luckily for me, I can just move my cursor over the image and the title tag states “Sexy Celebs Celebrities”.
Eh, probably not my type of site to visit. But do you see how important it could be? I would have never known about that site if that avatar didn’t stand out like it did. I’m sure cartoon characters are just as good, especially the fact that it will be remembered by most if it’s unique.
If you are cheap (or too poor, or maybe just don’t think it’s worth it) and don’t want to spend $600 to get one professionally done for you, just make one yourself with the various free avatar and character creators on the web.
I’m sure you have seen a lot of people with personalized Simpsons or even South Park avatars before, well, you can make one as well in a matter of minutes. Just go to the South Park avatar creator page and just pick out what you want created.
I made one myself just for the hell of it and you can see it below. For the record, no it’s not one that resembles how I look, how I dress or whatever.
I made a random avatar in which the character just came back from laser tag, so he’s smokin’ while taking a break and holding up a sign on who he supports (sort of like the presidential elections). Oh, and he has a hoodie on because it’s winter time. 
Yes, you read it right. Make more money with ugly sites. It’s weird how things work, huh?
First of all, notice how I said “ugly site” rather than “ugly blog?” It seems that a lot of ugly looking sites seem to convert better and will possibly make people attracted to click on your ads. I’m not fully sure how well ugly blogs work because you’re building a readership.
But with that said, readership is sort of the same as membership, right? Well, have you ever checked out that dating site Plentyoffish.com? Looks plain and I think it’s basically a match.com type of site, except they don’t charge a subscription fee. Well, they make their money off of Adsense. Matter of fact, it’s reported they make a six-figure income each month off of Adsense alone!
So, do ugly sites actually make you more money? Ask any super affiliate marketer and they’ll tell you that some of their ugly sites or landing pages tend to convert pretty well. And I know a few landing pages that people own and I have seen them and I can tell you some are just hideous.
I think making money blogging just got easier for me and it will for all of you guys. Now, I don’t want to jump the gun or anything but I decided it was going to get a lot easier to make money blogging. Especially if you have multiple blogs that have high trafficked search terms with low competition.
How?
Well, remember when I said I was going to test out different niches to report back to you guys on which ones would make more money? I’m still working on that but let’s say my Google Adsense earnings have slowly been claiming higher since I started this mini project.
It’s interesting because I read a post on Theuniversitykid.com on how you should “Relax if you want to make money” and just from that one post, it reminded me that I was trying way to hard. If you try to force it, you’re just putting added pressure on one person – yourself. And that’s exactly what I was doing with my “I will make $3,000 with a budget of $100 this month.”
For the record, I’m not going to meet my goal of $3,000 this month because I realized I procrastinate… a lot. Plus, we all want to do easy things and just watch our revenue grow, right? I mean, that’s what affiliate marketers do. They set up a landing page for a particular product and set up PPC advertising to get traffic and then watch their campaign and money skyrocket.
I want to do limited work and just slowly watch my money grow. Well, this is not just a random rambling, I’m actually doing that. I know I said I won’t make my $3,000 goal this month but it’s also because the projects that I’m working on right now takes a little time. I’m working for the future and not necessarily for right this second.
Basically what I’m saying is I’m working on projects that will require very minimal work to make money, it just takes a little time to get everything set up. I mean, who wants to pressure and stress themselves into making money when you should be doing the opposite to do better!
Don’t worry, I will keep you guys updated on my projects. Well, most of them anyways.
Side note: I was going to launch the contest post the other day but my all my sites were down for a few hours each of the last couple of mornings so I wasn’t able to update. Of course, I wasn’t home for most of the day so you guys didn’t get an update for the last couple of days. MY hosting apologizes to you guys!
I used the different forms of “Youtube” such as Utube, Yotube, Yutube and Youtube as my examples for misspelled words. So, why in the hell am I misspelling these words? Well, the main reason is the fact that you can take advantage of the traffic it generates; particularly search engine traffic.
I know we should all be professional with grammar and punctuation when it comes to certain niches – particularly MMO, entrepreneur, blogging tips type of blogs – but once in a while a misspelled word (or words) can go a long way.
In my example with the “Utube, Yotube, Yutube and Youtude” words, many people spell these wrong when they’re searching for what they are really looking for. And I bet a majority of the times they don’t do it on purpose.
Now, I’m not saying Utube, Yotube, Yutube or Youtude are the only words that can generate traffic but if you look up potential traffic they can generate through search engines, you’d be amazed.
I took a quick screenshot of the estimated traffic from SEOTOOLS you could get from “yutube” as an example.
If you look, people could potentially gain up to 912 daily unique visitors. Now, it would require some knowledge in SEO but if you can manage to get yourself in the top 3 spots within that keyword rank, you’ll be all set. Of course, we are all aiming for that number 1 spot.
Now don’t go misspell every single word you can think of because more than likely your readers will get turned off on the fact that you’re writing is like a 5th grader. But if you do some keyword research, keep in mind misspelled words can help you as well.
Side note: I know the other day I wrote “Search Engine Traffic = More Money and More RSS Subscribers”, I’ll be writing the second part to that this week as well as revealing the new contest for the Nintendo Wii prize.
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Cheap banners and great banner designs!
Most of you guys already know, but I design banners for a cheap price. So, you’ll be getting cheap banners but of very good quality. I mean, who can beat cheap banners for great quality banner designs… and if you keep reading, there’s more incentives.
Now if you guys haven’t been to my banner designs page, you should go check out the various cheap banners that I have made for people.
I can make logos, large and small banner designs, and the most popular is the 125×125 banner designs. I charge only $6.00 USD per 125×125 designs while most people would charge $20.00+ USD.
If you’re looking for a great logo or cheap banner done for you, I can do it. And if you let me design your large banner or logo, you’ll get a permanent backlink adspot on my PR3 banner design page.
So, not only will you get a great banner design or logo made for cheap, you’ll also get link juice for search engines directly to your site.
I know, I know, sounds a little too good to be true. But I’m dead serious, go to my banner designs page and see for yourself. You see the PR3? You see all the backlinks/ads to people’s sites from the cheap banners I made for them?
And I only charge $21.00 USD for a large banner/header or logo to be designed. I’ve done my research and most places charge you at least $30. I mean, some places charge you more just for the backlink from a PageRank site. And with me, you’ll get a cheap banner of great quality and a permanent backlink from my PR3 banner designs page.
If you find someone who can beat that, well, you’re definitely getting the best for your deal. But I can guarantee you people won’t have the type of deal I’m proposing.
Here are a few banner designs and logos that I have done for people (including for myself):
And also, this is what people are saying about my services and cheap banners design work:
Dey Lockett of EntertainmentReporters.com says “When we needed a logo, and header developed for our web blog, EntertainmentReporters.com, I chose Jay at DatMoney.com to assist us with our creative logo, corporate indicia development, and vision because of the high quality designs and logos that he had designed, and created for other clients. I knew that Jay’s work was top of the line, but I was even more impressed when he delivered the finished product. Quite simply, Jay is a logo assassin. His designs and logos are highly creative, and his innate ability to take our business branding vision to a level that exceeded our expectations was a pleasant surprise.”
Wayne of EzDiyelectricity.com says “Jay is offering a great service for an incredible price. I highly recommend Jay’s services… If I need more banners and I will definitely use Jay’s design services again.”
Blazin says “What an awesome deal this is. Jay is an awesome guy and does an outstanding job. Get your while you still can and leave him a good tip!”
Hey, like I said, can you beat the cheap banners, quality service, the permanent backlink/ad spot from a PR3 page (for larger banners/headers/logos)?
Well, let me design your banners and logos already!
