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Well, a bit of a slow month in October, part of which is owed to me changing the writing style and the rest to a lower amount of promotion made. I tried writing more often, and succeeded for a while, but the quality suffered as a result. So, I’m going back to writing just a few posts per week. My time and my mood don’t really fit the 2-3 posts per day schedule, and I assume everyone would prefer if I wrote less often, but went into greater detail with my posts.

The visits and page views didn’t go up by much, but it’s better traffic now, since I had less StumbleUpon visitors. I did gain, 40 subscribers, the only metric that I follow, so I still consider it a 25% increase.

First number is for October and the number in brackets are from September.

• 6,624 visits (6,152)
• 11,349 page views (10,428)
• 470 visitors from search engines (440)
• Technorati Rank: 25,970 - authority 215 (27,770 - 176)
• Alexa Rank: 79,628 (105,434)
• Subscribers: 193 (152)
• 68 posts and 306 comments (42 - 235) (trackbacks included in comment numbers)
• 1396 downloads for the Shylock Adsense Plugin (968)

Plans for November include a free 2 column WordPress theme that I bought and plan to release, a few guest posts on big blogs from the make money online niche, less posts and more time put into them. Posting often doesn’t really work for me. Makes me miserable and I don’t enjoy writing this way.

Advertising Rates

Since I didn’t sell all the ads in October, I decided to drop the price considerably.

150×150 button (1 available) - $15 for the entire month or $0.50 per day if it gets sold later. So if you buy it on November 10, you pay just $10 for the 20 days left in November. Someone might steal it before then, so better hurry up ;).

160×600 banner (1 available) - $20 for the entire month or $0.70 per day if it gets sold later into the month.

468×60 banner in the header (1 available) - $10 for the entire month or $0.35 per day if it gets sold later.

Reviews: $15 alone, or $10 if ordered together with one of the ad spots. Because I’m going to post less often, I’ll also do a limited number of reviews, so better take your spot now if you want to order.

Use the contact page to get in touch with me and let me know which one you want. For reviews I’ll need payment before I do it. PayPal only.

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To pick-up some extra money for a new project of mine, I’ve decided to offer custom mini-sites for those interested. I’ve talked about making money with mini sites before, and for those that don’t know where to start or they’re too busy, I’m offering to make you one.

Mini Site Packages

$20 - 5×300 words articles on the keywords of your choice. You get full rights for the articles and they will not be sold to anyone else.

$30 - 5×300 words articles, each based on their own keywords, and I find the keywords for you. Each keyword will have around 100 searches/day according to GTrends, and when looking for them in quotes, they will have a maximum of 100,000 results in Google. You get full rights to the articles and I will not sell them to anyone else.

If you want more then 5 articles for your mini site, the price is $4 for a 300 words article with the keywords supplied by you and $6 for a 300 words article if I’ll be the one looking for the keywords.

Other options:

If you don’t know how to make a mini site, for $5 I will upload your articles in the 19Pages CMS, set up the meta descriptions and keywords, put it in a zip file and I’ll email it to you. All you need to do is copy the files on your own sub-domain or domain, change the password to the admin area, put in your Adsense code, and it’s ready to go. 19Pages is optimized for search engines and built for mini sites.

However, I don’t give any guarantees that you will make money from those mini sites. You need to do some link building for them and maybe let them age for a bit. Making them rank is your responsibility. I just write the articles.

How it works: send an email at contact@shylockblogging.com and let me know which package you want. I’ll give you the PayPal address to send the money and I’ll start working on the articles after that. If you decide on the second package and you want me to look for the keywords, I’ll email you what I find before I start working, and you can let me know if they’re OK.

Advertise On This Blog

I’m currently looking for advertisers for November. The feed count varies around ~180 subscribers currently, and I’m planning on doing some guest posts on JohnChow.com and other big blogs in November. If you order now, the banner goes up immediately, meaning you get 5 weeks instead of 4!

150×150 button above the fold. It costs $25 for November and it includes a free review of your blog/site/product. Only 1 available right now.

160×600 banner, where the SEO Book ad is currently located. It costs $40 for November and it also includes a free review.

468×60 banner in the header, where the Adsense ad is currently located. It costs $15/month.

Reviews: they’re $15 and you get a review at least 400 words long and 5 backlinks with the keywords and destination pages of your choice. Only 1 or 2 reviews will be available and they will be made in November.

Contact me at contact@shylockblogging.com for the PayPal address and send me the graphics/details of the banner/review.

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I’ve decided to start selling advertisement directly on this blog, considering that since September 28th I can finally receive money through PayPal in my country.

More details on the advertise page.

Stats from September:

• 5,149 uniques
• 10,428 page views
• Alexa Rank: 105,434 (Oct 10th)
• ~170 subscribers (Oct 10th)
• Technorati Rank Oct 9th: 32,510
• Technorati Authority Oct 9th: 182
• ~6000 backlinks according to Yahoo, 3000 reported in Google Webmaster Central, many of them from high quality blogs and sites, like SEOmoz.org, SearchEngineLand.com, Gawker.com, Blog.Wired.com, Valleywag.com, NYMag.com, CashQuests.com, DoshDosh, BloggingTips.com, DailyBlogTips, Blogging Fingers, JohnTP, Mashable, 45n5 and many more.
• Current PR: 0 (Predicted PR: 4)

There is still 2 buttons 1 button available in the sidebar. They’re 150×150 in size, above the fold, sitewide. They’re $20 a piece and for the first month they also include a free review worth $15.

Also, a 160×600 sidebar banner, that includes a free review as well, sitewide, for $40.

Last banner is a 468×60 in the header, where the Adsense ad is currently located, sitewide, but no review included. Price is $10/month.

A blog/site review is $15 and its at least 400 words long, plus you can specify what parts you want me to pay more attention to. However, I will give my honest opinion on it.

I’m currently selling ads for 1 month, but if you want for a longer period of time, we can talk about it, though the price will be higher, as I expect this blog to grow.

How it works:

• for banners contact me using the form or mail me at contact [at] shylockblogging.com to give you the PayPal address, send me the graphics, URL and anchor text and as soon as I put the image up you send me the money.
• for reviews, contact me and tell me the URL, and we’ll talk from there.

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Shylock Blogging is now two months old, and I’m pleased with the growth shown so far. The most successful article in September was the one with 15 Link Building Methods, that hit the front page of Sphinn, and got mentioned by a bunch of sites, including Fantomaster, Wiep, SEOmoz and Search Engine Land.

The main thing that I’m following here is the subscriber number, and that jumped from 43 in August to 152 today. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do it by clicking here.

And now for the September stats. Between () you can see the numbers from August.

• 6,152 visits (4,504)
• 10,428 page views (5,813)
• 2:05 minutes average time on site (1:07)
• 440 visitors from search engines (149)
• Technorati Rank: 27,770 - authority 176 (88,524 - 64)
• Alexa Rank: 105,434 (221,247)
• Subscribers: 152 (43)
• 42 posts and 235 comments (25 - 95)  (trackbacks included in comment numbers)
• 968 downloads for the Shylock Adsense Plugin (535)

Goals for October include breaking into Top 15,000 in Technorati, Top 70k in Alexa and getting to 250 subscribers. Not very ambitious goals, but since I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to promote this blog, I’m not going to set anything more specific.

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