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I’ve been extremely busy so instead of neglecting my loyal readers, I figured I’d update you guys on various projects that I’m working. And if you guys are interested in any of them and want to know more, just let me know.
I’m sure a lot of you guys know by now but I own quite a few sites so spending time on all of them is pretty hard, though, it’s definitely doable. But working on all these sites are like projects to me and I’m always trying to test out new things to see what works.
For instance, I decided to test out various niches that include MMO, entertainment, adult stuff, traveling, etc. Of course, the main reason for testing these out is to see how much money I can make from these sites. I mean, the long term goal would be sitting back and relaxing and watching the money flow in without doing much work.
And let’s say so far it’s going pretty good. I signed up for a bunch of related direct affiliate sites that should definitely improve the money making aspect and I’m slowly seeing my Adsense earnings increasing everyday. I’ll reveal all this information eventually, just maybe not the actual sites. 
Of course, I can always sell those sites then reveal the URL’s to you guys and that leads to my site flipping project(s). I decided to reinvest my time into one of my older sites (actually, it’ll probably be 2-3 of my older sites) that I have neglected for a couple months, build up the stats, monetize it and see how much I can sell it for.
Before I get to the famous entrepreneurs, let’s go over a quick definition on what exactly is an entrepreneur?
The definition of entrepreneur is “An innovator of business enterprise who recognizes opportunities to introduce a new product, a new process or an improved organization, and who raises the necessary money, assembles the factors for production and organizes an operation to exploit the opportunity.”
And a female entrepreneur is sometimes known as an entrepreneuse which is the French feminine form of entrepreneur.
Anyways, I just wanted to give you guys some motivation on becoming a entrepreneur, your own boss and show that anyone can be a famous entrepreneur if you put your mind to it. I know we might not all be billionaires like Bill Gates but we can all be on own bosses if we put our minds to it.
Matter of fact, I think a majority of us don’t even realize how much of an entrepreneur we are. But if you have made money on your own before whether it’s selling lemonade on a hot sunny day or coming up with a new way of selling a product, then you are on your way to a famous entrepreneur.
Anyways, I’m sure you’re sick of my blabbing on famous entrepreneur stuff so here’s the list of famous entrepreneurs you may or may not have known and what they’re famous for. (There are plenty of famous entrepreneurs that I’m sure isn’t on this list, feel free add any of you and I’ll give you a backlink to your site)
Feel free to subscribe to my RSS Feeds as I’ll be continually updating this post. Who knows? I may be putting your name on here soon enough.
Google updated its pagerank and all I have to say is: Google Pagerank is just a number, who cares? I’ve been preaching that for a while because it won’t stop traffic from coming to your site, you’ll still be listed in search engines and if you’re good enough at SEO, then you should have no problem.
For instance, a friend of mine recently got knocked down to a PR0 and you would think it affected his search engine traffic but nope, it didn’t. He still gets thousands of uniques each day.
So, like I said, Google Pagerank is just a number, who cares?
I checked and it looks like a couple of my sites got knocked down from PR4 to PR3 – including DatMoney.com – but a few of my newer blogs got PR2 from PR0. But when it came down to it, none of my search engine traffic got affected by this update either.
What I’m trying to say is, don’t rely on Pagerank so much because it’s not that important. I know a bunch of people who has PR5’s but they barely get search engine traffic. On the other hand, I know people who have no pagerank at all that gets thousands of search engine traffic still… so I guess when it comes down to it, if you know SEO then you’re all set.
And if you don’t, pagerank or no pagerank, it’s not going to help you either way.
I know we all need web hosting if we’re planning on taking this webmaster stuff seriously, so of course, you need to find out which hosting server is best for you, right? Well, I stumbled across this web hosting reviews site that breaks down almost every hosting company you can think of.
The interesting part of this site is the fact that all users have the ability to post their own opinion on different hosting servers. They have a rating system on a 1 to 5 scale on various criteria’s which range anywhere from user-friendliness, quality, price to tech support.
I was pretty impressed with the site because you would think almost every review is bad or almost every review is good but it’s a big mix. And I decided to go under the “Best Blog Hosting” tab to see which hosting server and it was BlueHost.
To all the BlueHost users, don’t give your hopes up! It only got a mediocre 3.2 stars out of 5. Matter of fact, a lot of reviews trashed it especially for the tech and customer service.
Ouch!
Of course I was curious what they said on my hosting, Lunarpages, it seemed just about the same as BlueHost. That just tells me not everyone will be happy with their hosting.
Webhostinggeeks.com breaks down every aspect that I could have ever thought of about hosting and that includes important web hosting articles , domain stuff, best web hosting and they even break down the different types of sites that the best hosting is for.
For example, if you run a forum they have the best hosting listed specifically for that. If you’re looking to blog they have the best hosting listed for that. And you see how the pattern goes.
And for all those people who plan on running an adult website, blog, forum or whatever, you have to keep in mind that not all hosting companies support that. But don’t worry, they also have links to adult web hosting sites so you can pick.
Personally, I’m not going to rate any hosting on the site but it was definitely an interesting read to see what people have to say about my own hosting. You guys should check it out and possibly leave your feedback if you want to!
DatMoney.com and iBlogtoBlog.com but you should also know you can make money outside the MMO/Blogging tips niche so I had a challenge/bet taken by Jason a.k.a. TUK so I figured we’d make this official.
I’ve been preaching you can make tons of money outside the MMO niche but people tend to overlook that fact. Some people think starting a MMO blog is the only way to go with making money but I had proof you can make just as much outside of that niche.
I even mentioned that I bet I could make more money blogging from iBlogtoBlog.com than I could with DatMoney.com and Jason didn’t agree and he was open to taking that bet “anytime.”
I’ve decided to experiment with various niches’ to see how well I could do with making money with those blogs so I can report back and let you guys know. The reason why I’m doing that is the fact that there are tons and tons of niches’ outside the MMO niche that you can make more money from. I’ll let you know in a later post on which niches’ I’m diving into, so subscribe to my RSS Feeds to stay updated!
Anyways, back to the challenge/bet I have with Jason.
To sum it up real quick, I have to make more money from iBlogtoBlog.com than DatMoney.com ; only money generated from the blogs so that does not include banner designs which is associated with DatMoney.
Jason let me set the rules, so here it is:
- Since I didn’t really start making money from DatMoney until February/March (which is 4-5 months after the blog started), I figured we’d wait until iBlogtoBlog.com was 4-5 months old (currently it’s about 2 and a half months old). After that time, we’ll take one months revenue to determine which blog makes more.
- I can make money in various ways on either blog but it has to be directly linked to the blog. For instance, services such as my banner design work will not be included into the blog revenue.
- No blackhat methods will be allowed. Although, money is money, I’ll stay clean with this experiment.
If Jason wants to add anything else, feel free.
Prize:
The loser has to write a full review of the other person’s blog (of their choice!) Jason and I both manage a few blogs so I figured we’d let each other choose, even though we’ll probably choose Theuniversitykid.com and DatMoney.com .
Hey, if anyone else wants to get up in this, let me know! Or you can vote which one you think would win.
