I am a big fan of this guy, John Chow, owner of www.thetechzone.com. TheTechzone.com is the one of the best tech review, information site. I just found out his personal blog today, Make Money Online. He is sharing how much he makes and how to do it. According to latest stats from his blog, he made $10k+ from his personal blog which is just amazing.

John Chow dot Com is still a part time venture for me (it’s really a hobby). Here is the income breakdown. * ReviewMe: $4,500.00 * Affiliate Sales: $2,150.00 * Text Link Ads: $1,352.81 * Direct Ad Sales: $1,200.00 * Google AdSese: $1,077.67 * Kontera: $1,000.00 * FeedBurner: $271.44 * TTZ Media: $150.74 * Grand Total: $11,702.66 I received a $500 gift from a sponsor in April but I did not include it in the total income because it was a gift and not cash. However, I wouldn’t have received the gift if I didn’t have the blog. Adding in the gift would bring the total April income to $12,202.66.

I mean he is pretty well known, so he get free traffics from it but his stuff is just good.

I create two posts with Globalwarming Awareness2007 keyword in it and Post about this blog to other blog which has PR7.  Submitted Goolge, Yahoo, and MSN.  After 48 hours, I read my stat, here is bots,

crawl-66-249-65-240.googlebot.com

crawl-66-249-65-20.googlebot.com

se2.search.re4.yahoo.com

livebot-207-46-98-60.search.live.com

sebe500.inktomisearch.com

But site is not indexed yet in any of Big3..

This is interesting SEO contest. Well, I decided to enter one to learn some SEO skills and want to know what works and what’s not. Contest runs from Jan. 15th through May 1st, 2007. Keyword was announced Jan. 15, globalwarming awareness2007.

First thing I did was register domain, www.global-warming-awareness2007.us and installed wordpress. Blog is easier to maintain and easier to SEO in my opinion.

I will start reading all these forums articles about how to SEO again and follow simple methods, build up some backlinks, etc. I will keep posting my progress.

If you want to find out more about it, here is the site.