Blogger Spotlight: Mike’s Money Making Mission
Who is he and What is his mission?
Mike retired after publishing several business opportunity magazines which he sometimes mentions in his blog posts. Now he poses the question “Is it possible to make money with free blogs?”
Earning Reports
If you are like me, you want to know how other bloggers are earning money so you can implement that on your own blog. Mike posts a weekly earnings report, that includes money earned, traffic received, and referrals and visitors gained.
Mike is now in week 34 of his money making mission. “The aim being to try and earn money, using only free blogs and without any capital outlay.”
To date, Mike has earned 1,764.15 dollars. His first blog post was in September of 2006. So, that works out to be about 200$ per month, however he didn’t make his first 100 dollars until week 6.
Biggest Earners and Referrals
Included in Mike’s earning reports, he includes all the money he has made from different websites, and affiliate programs. Not only that, but you can find a post about each of these money earners. There you can decide if that particular program is right from you.
Looking to boost your traffic? Mike also includes his top referrals, including search engines, directories, and other blogs. Mike recently published his Top Ten Blog Referrers. That is actually how I became an active reader of Kumiko’s Cash Quest.
Link Exchange Master
I am not much for link exchanges, I like to keep my blogroll’s smaller. I didn’t understand how many links Mike has until recently. Of course he is getting linked to because he is writing great articles, but he has also conducted a massive link exchange. Almost daily, he gets requests for a link exchange (now especially due to his PR 5).
By having such a desirable blog to get linked to Mike can essentially pick and chose who he wants to exchange with. The result? Tons of links to and from relevant blogs.
According to Technorati, Mike has 470 blogs linking to him, bringing him easily into the top 10,000 blogs, ranked 7,026.
Mike and I go back a long way, almost 9 months (I started blogging after him though). He posted a link love mentioning his first blogs he exchanged links with. I liked Mike’s blog so much he decided to exchange links with me even though I had nothing to do with making money online.
After deciding to start Blog about your Blog, Mike was right there with me. He has been and always will be a valuable author, acquaintance, and friend to have in the blogging world.
I can honestly say Mike inspired me to become the blogger I am today. To try to earn money online, and make a real mark on the blogosphere.
If you also want to Make Money with Free Blogs, Mike’s your guy!
This post was guest blogged by Matthew Henrickson, Owner and Co-Author of Blog About Your Blog.
Posted in Blogger Reviews, Guest Post, Make Money Online