Category: Making Money
Shaun Carter November 2007 Blog Earnings

The month of November saw some great increases in traffic, due to my coverage of Black Friday 2007. Stats were up almost across the board and earnings more than doubled from October. Stats: Unique Visitors – 7,350 Total Pageviews – 10,537 Alexa Rank – 360,952 Technorati Rank – 194,358 Technorati Authority – 41 RSS Subscribers – 41 (Peak 50) The [...]

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Kontera Great For Product Based Blogs?

During the Black Friday madness and the increased traffic to this blog because of posts listing specific consumer product model information, I noticed a dramatic increase in earnings from Kontera. I am inclined to believe that the increased CTR and EPC is due to the Kontera links for the various holiday products that everyone is clamoring for this season. Typically, [...]

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My Million Dollar Wiki Pages For Sale

I have had three Million Dollar Wiki pages since the site was launched and haven’t done much with them. I just added some adsense to the pages and will watch and see what happens. I own the Depression, United States, and Debt Consolidation pages and have listed them for sale on the MDW resale page. The content on the pages [...]

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October Blog Earnings

The month of October was quite a bit like September, but Shaun Carter dot Com did see a slight increase in traffic and income. One positive development this month was this blog being granted a PageRank of 1 by Google during its latest, and most controversial PR update. Direct or type-in traffic is still by far the biggest source of [...]

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September 2007 Blog Income

September saw a large decline in income over August as the TEAM/Quixtar news began coming through at a much slower pace than before. Traffic on this blog spikes whenever I post about the troubles between TEAM and Quixtar, specifically regarding the lawsuit filed in California. Here’s a breakdown of the stats for September: Unique Visitors: 4,155 Pageviews: 6,970 Google and [...]

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GM Strike & Why You Need an Emergency Fund

This morning was welcomed by news that the UAW has called a nationwide strike of all General Motors plants amid an impasse over contract negotiations which seem to center job security for its members in the future. Now, when a strike is called, these workers cease getting paid their average $27/hour pay at the GM plants and will only receive [...]

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August Blog Income

This is the first blog income post I have done, because this is the first month I’ve monetized Shaun Carter dot Com. This blog utilizes Adsense and Kontera for income and I did a little bit of Adwords advertising during August (only 1 and 2 cent keywords). I do have site wide textlinks available from Text Link Ads for only [...]

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What To Do If You Win The Lottery

Congratulations, you just won $330 Million in tonight’s Mega Millions lottery! Now what? It’s all too often we hear about the multi million dollar lottery winner who squandered there fortune in a few short years and are back in the poor house. Here’s some ideas to help you out if you ever strike it rich, so your money will last [...]

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Million Dollar Wiki Founder Update

The other day the creator of the Million Dollar Wiki, Graham Langdon, announced he was leaving college to pursue his new web venture full-time. Well he has clarified his decision that he is not leaving UConn, but is simply cutting back his schedule and not living on campus as an RA. This is good news and means Graham can continue [...]

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Million Dollar Wiki Founder Leaves College

I was intrigued to read on the Million Dollar Wiki blog today that the founder, Graham Langdon, has made the decision to drop out of college at UConn to devote his full attention to building his site. The Million Dollar Wiki is a site that is selling wiki pages by topic… currently at a rate of $100 per page. I [...]

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