Otherwise known as “how to lose money online” 
I bet no other photography site does this. Report the stats and earnings every week. And that’s what I plan on doing here at Photo Daily News. It should be no suprise that unless you’re just doing this for a hobby that most sites need to make money to survive. Some sites, need to make a lot as they have employees, and ad budgets, etc. I’m a one man show here. I make my money (for now, anyway) with my other site, ramseeker.com. It pays the bills. This is a labor of love at the time being..At very least, I’d love to break even.
We’re all in this together. You subscribe to a newsletter, or tell a friend about PDN is probably the BEST thing you can for me right now. We’re new. As in brand-spanking new – new. It should be no suprise to you that I’ve spent more than I’ve earned to date. I hope, over time to change this.
I have until April 1 to make a go of this. Then, it’s time to try something else This is my last chance effort at making a living online. Which is all I want to do, really. I LOVE getting up every morning wondering what I’m going to write about today. This is SO much fun, I should have done this years ago. Who knew? I took photography in school, yet I end up writing. Sometimes life is too funny.
Stats
I found some guy on Digital Point Forum selling traffic. It’s a pay per click thing. People sign up and they get paid to visit Photo Daily News. I bought like 100,000 visitors and most of my referrers have been through there. Sadly, the visitors don’t do much other than wait the 20 seconds or whatever it takes for the next site they need to visit to load.
Stats for the last 7 days
Income:
Google Adsense; $1.93
Affilliate Sales: Zero, zilch. Nada.
Expenses:
1. $25 for the traffic I bought
2. $10 for the domain name.
3. $20 monthly for aweber newsletter sending and management. This might be the best money I’ve spent. It’s only been a day since I’ve done this so too early to tell.
4. .54¢ for a small google adwords campaign.
Totals:
Expenses $40.54
Income $1.93
LOSS of $38.61
I’m hoping that next week can be better, and at very least break even. It’s quite possible. Wait, maybe not. I’ve got a pretty cool digital camera review coming up, and noboby sends me this stuff for free, I bought it. So, next week I have to make $20 to break even, or thereabouts.
What can you do to help?
Write for Photo Daily News. Free your inner wordsmith. All I can offer at this point is a link back to you and your site. You might not get paid from me directly,but it’s a link to your website you didn’t have before. Contact ME if you want to write for PDN.
Comment. This is a no-brainer. I want your input. Top Commenters get their name in lights on the front page. If you have a website your website will be included too. This is a do-follow link which is a great way to increase your rank in search engines such as google.
Link to Photo Daily News. This is probably the best thing you can do. I include links to all the social bookmarking sites. If you love me, hate me, or otherwise – share it.. ” You know what they say – even bad publicity is good publicity. If you do link to me – send me a note, and I’ll share the love and link back to you.
Click on an ad. I’ve got some google adsense running, as well as I’m trying some ads from TTZ media. If you feel I’m worthy, and you’re actually interested in the ad- Do the click. Do it. Both don’t require you to spend a cent.
Subscribe to the RSS FEED. This is another thing you can do for free, and actually saves you time from having to visit the site in a browser.
Subscribe to our newsletter. Every 10 posts, I send out a newsletter so you can be up to date with what’s going on – sent right to your email inbox. Again, free and no effort on your part. just enter your email and name into a form. Which you can find here:
Donate: If you feel that this site is SO valuable to you, you’d hate to see it go or at very least – want to see this site prosper and help others in photography learn and grow.
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Otherwise known as “how to lose money online”
I bet no other photography site does this. Report the stats and earnings every week. And that’s what I plan on doing here at Photo Daily News. It should be no suprise that unless you’re just doing this for a hobby that most sites need to make money to survive. Some sites, need to make a lot as they have employees, and ad budgets, etc. I’m a one man show here. I make my money (for now, anyway) with my other site, ramseeker.com. It pays the bills. This is a labor of love at the time being..At very least, I’d love to break even.
We’re all in this together. You subscribe to a newsletter, or tell a friend about PDN is probably the BEST thing you can for me right now. We’re new. As in brand-spanking new – new. It should be no suprise to you that I’ve spent more than I’ve earned to date. I hope, over time to change this.
I have until April 1 to make a go of this. Then, it’s time to try something else This is my last chance effort at making a living online. Which is all I want to do, really. I LOVE getting up every morning wondering what I’m going to write about today. This is SO much fun, I should have done this years ago. Who knew? I took photography in school, yet I end up writing. Sometimes life is too funny.
Stats
I found some guy on Digital Point Forum selling traffic. It’s a pay per click thing. People sign up and they get paid to visit Photo Daily News. I bought like 100,000 visitors and most of my referrers have been through there. Sadly, the visitors don’t do much other than wait the 20 seconds or whatever it takes for the next site they need to visit to load.
Stats for the last 7 days
Income:
Google Adsense; $1.93
Affilliate Sales: Zero, zilch. Nada.
Expenses:
1. $25 for the traffic I bought
2. $10 for the domain name.
3. $20 monthly for aweber newsletter sending and management. This might be the best money I’ve spent. It’s only been a day since I’ve done this so too early to tell.
4. .54¢ for a small google adwords campaign.
Totals:
Expenses $40.54
Income $1.93
LOSS of $38.61
I’m hoping that next week can be better, and at very least break even. It’s quite possible. Wait, maybe not. I’ve got a pretty cool digital camera review coming up, and noboby sends me this stuff for free, I bought it. So, next week I have to make $20 to break even, or thereabouts.
What can you do to help?
Write for Photo Daily News. Free your inner wordsmith. All I can offer at this point is a link back to you and your site. You might not get paid from me directly,but it’s a link to your website you didn’t have before. Contact ME if you want to write for PDN.
Comment. This is a no-brainer. I want your input. Top Commenters get their name in lights on the front page. If you have a website your website will be included too. This is a do-follow link which is a great way to increase your rank in search engines such as google.
Link to Photo Daily News. This is probably the best thing you can do. I include links to all the social bookmarking sites. If you love me, hate me, or otherwise – share it.. ” You know what they say – even bad publicity is good publicity. If you do link to me – send me a note, and I’ll share the love and link back to you.
Click on an ad. I’ve got some google adsense running, as well as I’m trying some ads from TTZ media. If you feel I’m worthy, and you’re actually interested in the ad- Do the click. Do it. Both don’t require you to spend a cent.
Subscribe to the RSS FEED. This is another thing you can do for free, and actually saves you time from having to visit the site in a browser.
Subscribe to our newsletter. Every 10 posts, I send out a newsletter so you can be up to date with what’s going on – sent right to your email inbox. Again, free and no effort on your part. just enter your email and name into a form. Which you can find here:
Donate: If you feel that this site is SO valuable to you, you’d hate to see it go or at very least – want to see this site prosper and help others in photography learn and grow.
Related posts: