4000 visitors broken

Just a small post to share my latest achievement.

Last week I had over 4000 visitors to my Squidoo lenses. I am far away from the numbers some of the big shots are pulling in, but I am really happy with reaching this benchmark.

As you can see I also have about 104$ pending. That is for a 2 month period, but I am really happy with it.

Goal reached!

Ladies and Gentlemen,
After spending approximately 5 months add clicking, answering surveys and  writing on Squidoo I am proud to announce that my initial goal of 10€ had been reached. Today another 5€ was deposited into my bank from mysurvey.ie. This brings me to a total value of 12.34€ earned on the Internet, 2.34€ more than my goal was.

Interestingly, but not surprisingly NONE of these comes from addclicking. That being said, which the change to Clixsense payout treshhold I might actually be able to pull out 8$ from them in 6 days time. (at 7.892$ atm, so should be doable.)

Pretty excited about January payday, I think it will be good as I have a good bunch of lenses in tier 3 and hopefully I will keep my Dwarf Rabbit Care lens in t2.

December pay day is first though and only 18 days or so away \^.^/

First earnings update of 2012

 New Years came and went and the world did not end.
I am back with an earnings update and to talk a little about my newest project. But first the numbers for the cold hard cash! :)

Surveyhead: 15.05 $ (I keep checking back on the site as I am quite close to the payout, but I haven't been given a survey for ages, maybe they don't want to pay me. We will see what happens)

Clixsense : 7.37$

Neobux: 0.713$

Dungeons and Treasures : 5.4k gold and 1.132$ + a tiny bit waiting for conversion from December.

Mysurvey: 480 points (115 points is 1€) I am saving up for the 5€ payout this time at 575 points

GlobalTestmarked: 115 points (1000 points is 50$) 10% mark reached. These guys are really slow at sending out surveys though

Recently I haven't received many surveys  at all and when I have, I haven't had much luck qualifying. We will see what happens now that Christmas and New Years is over.

 Squidoo: 4.29$ pending
Squidoo is quite interesting at the moment, because I am slowly building up and deciding upon a niche. (or should I say several niches.)
So far I am looking at Movies of the 90s one of my lenses on that is top 10 Cartoon and Animated movies of the 90s
Another niche is Magic the Gathering. I recently finished a list of all the Angel creature cards in MTG
The one niche I am the most excited about is Scandinavian Design. So Far I have only made one lens in the area, which is about Georg Jensen design, but it is something I am quite passionate about and I am looking into setting up an interlinked blog on the subject.


My first Payday on Squidoo will be the 15th of January and I am quite excited to see what will happen. I didn't have many lenses going in the first month though so probably wont be more than a few pennies, but still! :)

Overall Payout so far: 2 €

Oh yes, I promised to tell you about my newest project as well.  I have started a new blog just for fun. I call it the Pink-A-Rator. Have a look if you like pink stuff I am sure you will enjoy it.

Another breakdown of money earned on the Internet

Christmas is over and it is time for another update on earnings. It has been 10 days since I wrote here last, but as you will see it is not the biggest changes that has happened.

Surveyhead: 15.05 $

Clixsense : 7.16$

Neobux: 0.666$

Dungeons and Treasures : 28k gold and 1.132$

Mysurvey: 480 points (115 points is 1€) I am saving up for the 5€ payout this time at 575 points

GlobalTestmarked: 115 points (1000 points is 50$) 10% mark reached. These guys are really slow at sending out surveys though

 Squidoo: 3.86$ pending

Payout so far: 2 €

As you can see I didn't have any big earnings with Squidoo yet. I got a bit late into the game, however I foresee some good stuff with Christmas next year.

I only created one New Years Eve lens as well listing great songs for the 2012 New Years Eve Playlists
I guess I will have to start thinking about Valentines day.
Once I have been with Squidoo for an entire year, things should look much better as I will start to have lenses that covers every major holiday and event. Can't wait to see how things look next year at this time. :)

I figured it was about time I did another update on earnings. I know I haven't been as regular with these lately, but honestly I have been swamped. I am trying  my best to get Squidoo  going and having a blast, so that is where my energy is at the moment.
My Squidoo'ing is also having an impact on my clicking although I do try to remember I must admit that neobux and Dungeons and Treasures are being neglected quite a bit. I still do Clixsense and all the surveys whenever they are available though.

Here are my stats:

Surveyhead: 15.05 $

Clixsense : 6.28$

Neobux: 0.599$

Dungeons and Treasures : 21k gold and 1.132$

Mysurvey: 480 points (115 points is 1€) I am saving up for the 5€ payout this time at 575 points

GlobalTestmarked: 100 points (1000 points is 50$) 10% mark reached. These guys are really slow at sending out surveys though

 Squidoo: 3.17$ pending

Payout so far: 2 €

So far it is clear that surveys has made me the most (the only thing that has paid out yet is surveys and the money from Surveyhead is looking good). However I have faith in Squidoo. I see a little more visitors every day and once in a while I even get a clickout that leads to a purchase.

We will see how things goes in 2012! :)

Earnings update

Very exciting news this update. I have withdrawn my first money. I reached 230 points on mysurvey for which I withdrew 2€ to my paypal account. After their charges I now have 1.63€ on my account. The first money I have earned from this whole project. 8.37€ to go! :D
Surveyhead: 13.85$

Clixsense : 6.01$

Neobux: 0.570$

Dungeons and Treasures : 16k gold currently processing and 1.132$ (I only played Dungeon and Treasures once this month, but my mom has been playing and I am still getting referral gold from her).

Mysurvey: 0 points (115 points is 1€)

GlobalTestmarked: 95 points (1000 points is 50$) slowly slowly nearing the 10% mark.

And finally Squidoo:

Squidoo: 2.94$ (pending to get paid to my PayPal account.

I haven't earned much on Squidoo the last couple of days despite now having 22 lenses and quite a lot of traffic. I am still trying to find my niche and to figure which types of lenses will make you money and which wont. It is still tons of fun though so I am just going with it. One thing that worries me though is that my main lenses that gets traffic atm is the christmas ones and I am scared that once christmas is over I wont see any traffic. We will see though I still have 16 days to go until the holiday season is over so theres plenty of time to add some non christmas related lenses. :)

One more thing. I am now only 4$ from my first Clixsense payout, which is both awesome and also very frustrating as it sounds like very little, but in reality it is A LOT. i was just looking at my Clixgrid earnings and  I have won 2.95$ on the game, but I have also clicked 2.271 times that is 0.0013$ per click as each click takes 10 sec to validate that means and hourly income of 0.46$ which is quite ridicolous. Still hoping for that 5$ win though as that would be a quick way to reach my goal.

I'm writing lenses on Squidoo and would love you to join me 

How to make paper boxes

My latest lens is a step by step guide on how to make folded paper gift boxes like these




They are really simple to make they are amazingly versitile. Furthermore it is a really easy way to add a bit of personalized WoW factor to a present. I have used these for creative gift wrapping for many years now and they never fail to impress people. Check out the guide for easy DYI boxes for yourself and tell me they aren't simple to make.

This particular lens was made because I wanted to share something I have enjoyed crafting for years, ever since I was a young child. I hope it will come in handy for you! :)

Magic the Gathering Abilities

I learned english by playing Magic the Gathering! Well not solely of course, I had english classes, english movies, english books and a lot of other stuff in english, but I will make the bold statement that Magic the gathering is the reason I went in to all of those other things with the enthusiasm I did.

When Magic the Gathering was launched in 1993 I was 11 years old and my english was pretty much limited to "my name is" and "hello".

Then my cousin introduced me to Magic the Gathering and I had to learn english. My cousin is a couple of years older than me and in 1993 his english wasn't really stellar either, but together we spelled our way through the rule book and the card abilities and flavour texts.
I will admit that for the first couple of years we were playing, we probably made up a lot of rules, we played Magic the Gathering as we thought it was meant to be played based on our limited english skills. If something was too hard for us to translate we would just ignore that part. This was true for Cumulative upkeep for instance. (Those cards were ridicolously overpowered in our games until we grasped the meaning.)

From I was 11 and until I was 20 my grandmother would give both me and my two cousins booster packs for christmas and we would spend the holidays together playing and constructing decks. I don't buy as many cards anymore, however I still love to play Magic the Gathering and to see all the new abilities and additional rules Wizard of the Coast adds every year to keep the game vibrant and interesting.  If you have a child age 11 or up, this may be the perfect gift for them, both in terms of enjoyment and socialising, but also as a way to make them want to learn english. (this is helpful for both non native speakers and for native speakers as their vocabulary is bound to be expanded either way.)

20th lens a top 10 of the best Ritter Sport chocolates on the marked

Celebrations are in order! I just finished my 20th lens which is very fittingly (for me) a tribute to Ritter Sport Chocolate.
I am a huge chocolate fan, so big in fact that I only half joke when I say I only work out so I can eat more chocolate without feeling bad about it.

It was really fun to put together the 10 ten over the best Ritter Sport Chocolate bars and as an additional positive I am now at the 20 lenses mark, which makes me quite proud. The next step will be 25 and then there is a long way to the 50 lenses milestone. I will get there though! :) Maybe you want to join me making lenses?

defeat at the 20 lens self-challenge - distracted by Magic the Gathering

Tonight is the last evening of my vacation and I must admit to defeat. I only made it to 19 lenses.
I am not too upset though as my failure is due to spending more time than expected writing and putting together my 19th lens, this time on the topic of Magic the Gathering abilities. 

I played a lot of Magic when I was younger and it is a topic I am quite passionate about. For some reason I hadn't actually thought about putting a lens together on the subject of Magic the Gathering before, but it came to me in the morning and I just had to do it. That is how it goes. Once I had gotten started I knew that I wouldn't feel right unless I actually put some proper effort into it and I ended up spending almost 6 hours putting it together.

In hindsight it might not have been a very smart move from a time/money perspective as I am not entirely sure whether it will actually earn any sales. (I have this sneaking feeling that the target audience will either not have the means to buy from Amazon or they will already have dedicated shopping sites. Anyways, we shall see, maybe I am lucky and hit the right segment of players. :)

Writing this up made me think that maybe I should add a starter set to the lens... brb need to fix the lens!

...And back. Okay, but yeah I am quite happy with my My Magic the Gathering lens and hopefully it be worth the time investment.

In other news, I am always trying to find more ways to get backlinks and so today I joined Loveblinks it is targeted towards providing backlinks for Squidoo lenses and furthermore it gives you adsense money for any clicks made on your "blinks". The site seems to work quite the same as Top Reviewer. You add a couple of links that have something in common, you add a description and a title and you are done.

Here is one I did on Christmas lenses.

Anyways, tomorrow is work, but maybe I can squeeze in enough time in the evening to create my nr. 20 lens.

Top 3 christmas ornaments and decorations

I just put together this list of my favourite Christmas decoration lenses Best Review - Top 3 Christmas decorations and ornaments. It will be interesting to see if it drives any traffic at all.

I am also considering starting a Twitter account to help promote my lenses and this blog. I might do that once I have the target of 20 lenses under my belt. :)

 Here are my earnings so far.

Surveyhead: 12.85$

Clixsense : 5.78$

Neobux: 0.509$ (a 4th of the way to the 2$ payout)

Dungeons and Treasures : 246 430 gold currently processing and 0.713$ (I am only playing Dungeons and Treasures for pleasure now, so I do skip days from time to time).

Mysurvey: 160 points (115 points is 1€)I am going to withdraw when I have enough for 2€ so just another 70 points to go. 

GlobalTestmarked: 90 points (1000 points is 50$) Almost a tenth of the way although these guys seems very slow in sending out surveys.

And finally Squidoo:

Squidoo: 2.05$ (pending to get paid to my PayPal account.

This does not include the money paid for lens rank on Squidoo as I wont get paid for that until I my lenses have reached an age of 2 months. (they will gather up credit, it just wont be paid until 2 months has passed.)

I am currently trying to get into the whole idea of making sales lenses. I put together a Hello Kitty iPhone case lens which I hope will bring some traffic, however I am still trying to wrap my head around keywords and SEO and it might take many more lenses before I actually hit Jackpot. My Dwarf Rabbit care lens seems to be doing fairly well and so does my Christmas traditions in Denmark lens. 

I have weekend until sunday and the plan is to have 20 lenses up and running by then. Currently I have 16 lenses so that is 2 new lenses pr day. It should be doable, but we will have to see what happens. :) 

Summing up the earnings: 

21.902 $

and some unredeemed points. If that was all on 1 platform I would have reached my goal. As it is, there is still some way to go.

I'm writing lenses on Squidoo and would love you to join me

Squidoo Squidoo Squidoo

I have been writing like a madman on Squidoo trying to get some money lenses going. I now have 15 lenses. Some of them I am more happy about than others. My top lens is still Ireland in Pictures however the visitor stream is dying down now that the initial run from lens of the day has disappeared. I am trying to save the lens rank by keeping it updated regularly. Lens rank equals payout from Squidoo so I would love to keep it high.

My Dwarf Rabbit Care lens is getting a lot of google traffic, which is awesome. It also just had its first sales yesterday so it has started earning me money. We will have to see if it keeps up, but right now I am super happy with the lens.

My newest lens is Hello Kitty iPhone skins I was looking through Amazon and I found these amazing Hello Kitty themes for iPhone, iPad, iPod and for the Kindle. I just had to put together a lens about it. I have no clue whether it will do well or not, but I do know that after writing the lens I really want an iPad so I can put one of the Hello Kitty iPad Cases on it. ;)

I also put together a lens on how to make Woven Paper Heart Baskets this was a pretty cool lens to write as I was doing all the crafting at the same time and I got into the christmas spirit while I was crafting, listening to christmas music and typing up the lens.

Then there is my lens on Blankets and throws. It got it's first comment today and it is very new so it isn't too strange that it is not more visited. I hope I got my keywords right for it and that it will start getting google hits at some point.

My purple star lens "My quest for the perfect Waffle Iron" has gotten a bit of Google traffic, however doesn't seem to be getting any sales. At least not yet. I do get some nice comments from the awesome people at Squidoo so that is something! :)

All in all things are better than I had expected, but I am a very impatient person and it annoys me when some of my lenses are not getting any visitors at all. I will need to tweak it seems! Tomorrow I will throw another update on earnings for all my projects. Hopefully there will be some nice numbers to show overall! :)

Join me in writing for Squidoo.

I'm writing lenses on Squidoo and would love you to join me

I have been with Squidoo since the end of October and I already have my first payment pending. It is just 1.03$ but it has been sent to my PayPal account. I can't wait for it to show up. :)

I know it is pocket change, but I am unreasonably excited about it!

Now it is all about building backlinks to keep the ball rolling. I joined Best-Reviewer in an attempt to lure trafic from Google. It is a fairly new site, but it has potential. Basically you create top 3, 5 or 10 lists (or any number inbetween) of links and you get paid for any adsense income on your page. I am not sure how much money it will generate in terms of adsense, but I hope it will give me some traffic.

I figure I should give you guys an update on my weekly earning as well:

Surveyhead: 12.10$

Clixsense : 5.46$

Neobux: 0.465$ (I have been slacking with Neobux, but I am determined to get to the first payout treshhold of 2$)

Dungeons and Treasures : 205 183 gold and 0.713$ (I am only playing Dungeons and Treasures for pleasure now, so I do skip days from time to time).

Mysurvey: 160 points (115 points is 1€) I am currently contemplating making a withdrawal.

GlobalTestmarked: 90 points (1000 points is 50$) Almost a tenth of the way.

Most importantly my newest addition and something I thoroughly enjoy:

Squidoo: 1.03$ (pending to get paid to my PayPal account.

So there you have it! :) I might be earning the most currently on Surveys, however in terms of enjoyment Squidoo is definitely miles above everything else.

My newest lens is about Waffle Toasters and my highest earning lens (0.75$) is about different types of Christmas Tree Toppers.

I'm writing lenses on Squidoo and would love you to join me