It didn't take long, but only a couple weeks after I announced that Voxant Rocks, I've decided to stop using it. Why? Because I've encountered page rendering problems for the second time that cause my website to behave badly. Although I'm making great money with Voxant, I cannot put up with the low quality of their service anymore. I've been very patient with them. Their was early rendering problems. Then they missed sending me my first payment. Then they came up with two false excuses on why I didn't get paid. Then they told me they were cutting me a cheque and didn't. Finally, I got paid and was very excited about this opportunity. Now, I'm experiencing rendering problems again. It was a great quick buck and if I'm desparate for money, I'd use them in a splash, but I've got too much invested in my websites to forfeit users for quick cash.

http://www.thenewsroom.com

I'm moving this blog to a new domain. Originally, the intent of this blog was to figure out how to best use AdWords to promote websites. Then, I expended into AdSense and Analytics, other advertising servers and just about anything about making money online.

Wanting to move the blog to its own domain, I thought about BestingAdWords.com and BestingAdSense.com, but realized that Google would just come after me. Then, I stumbled onto WebVertization.com. That's a word I often use to describe how I create my successful websites. That's the perfect domain. I'll move this blog there in the near future.

This weekend I hit the paid reviews jackpot, getting a $200 ($130 for me) review from a SponsoredReviews client. I had to write 50 words, but wrote 60, so that's $2 per word. I'm really starting to like the pay-per-post model. This is an easy living for someone willing to put in a small effort.

Voxant, a.k.a. TheNewsRoom, is a great new content and advertising widget. I've been playing with it for the last 3 months and made more coin with Voxant than I did with AdSense on a fraction of the impressions. This isn't strictly an advertising widget like AdSense, but also makes text and video content available all within one widget. I'm still working with Voxant on making the widget work for both them and me, so I'm not certain of the long-term profitability. I did have a bit of problem getting paid, but after a few bumps the money arrived via PayPal. Right now, I'm running their widgets at the base of many content pages. In August we're gonna try some different placements and prices that'll affect the bottom line, so I'll report back.

http://www.thenewsroom.com

Today, I got the PayPal funds from SponsoredReviews.com. I only did a couple reviews for them, so I didn't make all that much, but honestly, if I had the time, I could've done 30+ reviews for them this month and made $500+. Add some ReviewMe reviews and some AdSense clicks and we're starting to look at some serious money.

http://www.sponsoredreviews.com/

I did my first paid review for SponsoredReviews.com this week. I made $13, which isn't bad. I also submitted a few publisher requests. I got one counter offer, which I accepted.  I wish I had more time to do more reviews. I could make $100-200 per month on several different pay per post services. That's pretty good coin.

BlogRolled.com is a another new and interesting way of making money off your blog, or rather, it's page rank. The concept is that advertisers will pay to be in your blogroll. This is a step beyond paid reviews and even beyond paid text-ads. The benefit to advertisers is entirely in gaming Google page rank. I haven't checked it out yet. Been busy.

http://www.blogrolled.com/

I'm currently translating a website to French. I tried to get a friend to help, but although they expressed interest, they didn't move on it. Now, I've decided to do it myself. I am French (mostly lost). Google translate and Yahoo! Babelfish are great resource, but I found Reverso has additional context that helps me make the correct translations.

http://dictionary.reverso.net/

After running Commission Junction for a week and a quarter of a million impression (mostly top of page banners). I have zero conversions, zero leads and have made $0. This is similar to other CPA experiences that I've attempted in the past. The ads were highly relevant; NBA playoff tickets on NBA blogs and simliar.

http://www.cj.com/

SponsoredReviews is another pay per post service. I signed up today. I added a few of my blogs, but they haven't been approved yet. I'll provide more feedback later.

I got a call from Chitika a couple weeks back asking to test their new premium ad units. They wanted me to replace my primary AdSense ad unit with their units. I decided a less ambitious test would be better and put it further down the right sidebar. I did so for the last 10 days. At first, I was confused because I was only getting a fraction of the ad impressions I thought I might. I asked them and they replied that this premium unit only appears for search referrers. That explained that, but that would mean very few ad impressions. It was paying about $0.09 CPC, which is well below the CPC of the AdSense ad unit it could replace. I'm giving up on their premium ad unit, but I'm gonna retest the eMiniMalls.

http://chitika.com/mm_overview.php?refid=randymorin

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Voxant to display their ads. They have some very interestering ad units. They have a video unit that pays $3.5 CPM. I didn't like it, as it was distracting. Instead, I went with their text unit ($0.25-$1 CPM). The text units are very large, but they are paying reasonably well. In fact, I'm making more from Voxant than AdSense. The truth will be told when I actually get paid (PayPal) and if the earnings hold up. I've experienced good times with other advertisers other than AdSense (Amazon, FeedBurner and Chitika), but earnings eventually sunk.

http://www.thenewsroom.com/

Today, I created a Commission Junction account. I've heard both good and bad things, but I was never much into affiliate programs. I'll report back in the next few weeks with my successes and failures. I applied to four advertisers and one has already declined (MLB.com).

http://www.cj.com/

Thought I'd just drop a blog entry bomb on what I've been up to in my advertising.

First, I've decided to completely abandon the FeedBurner ad network. After making as much $410 for ads in my feeds, before the Google takeover, I've now made $3.31 in the first two-thirds of this current month. I thought that by now, FeedBurner should've been integrated into AdSense. I kinda wonder what's up for the future of FeedBurner. Is it gonna turn into one of those forgotten Google purchases?

I'm dropping BlogAds from all my blogs, except Talk-Sports. I rarely ever get any new ad submissions for my blogs that get as much as 2000 daily pageviews. You appear to need at least 5000 daily impressions before BlogAds advertisers will consider your blog.

Last, I'm testing Chitika and Voxant and will report further soon on both.

In the last month, I've written 800 words in 4 ReviewMe paid reviews and I made $60.  I could write another 6 campaign reviews, as they allow 10 per month. Assuming I could get the same pay per review dollars, that's $150 per month or $1800 per year. Now consider that their are several pay per post services, sign-up for them all and you have an awesome part-time job. You could easily write 30 reviews per month and make $5400 or who knows. Some of the paid reviews I wrote paid me as much as $125. Now add some AdSense to your blog and who knows, you might actually be able to quite the 9 to 5. I think I'll spend some time checking out the other pay per post services to discover just how profitable paid blogging can be.

On the downside, a friend of mine with a very good blog, was rejected by ReviewMe. He was using a standard Wordpress template with great technical writing, so his blog looked like a splog created from those article buying services. I think it's really important to customize the look of your blog before you submit it, so that it doesn't look like just another splog.