Chapter 3 - First monetisation of my forum

I signed up to Adsense and got accepted on my second attempt. I added two adsense blocks to the top of my forum & a leaderboard ad unit near the bottom. I got my first click on 5th July - it was a very pleasing $0.94! The ads themed around making money on the internet, so I was pleased with my first click & I had high hopes for my Adsense future.

Things were going pretty well - I was getting 1 or 2 clicks a day as I continued to promote my forum on other free advertising forums & directories. Google started to send traffic my way, helping my domain to reach an Alexa Rank of 800,000 & a Google PR 2 quite quickly!

I was delighted with the progress - especially as, in June, I didn't even know what Pagerank was! However, things were about to change! Read Chapter 4!

Chapter 1 - My experiment begins

My experiment will focus on whether the average person can make money on the internet. It began in June of this year. I signed up to Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting Plan, with the domain name of

http://www.make-money-online-uk.net/

This domain no longer exists - but you'll read more about this in later chapters! On this website, I focused on building content around making money on the internet - reviewing a wide range of opportunities. Meanwhile, I discovered blogger and started to make a blog or two. My first ever blog is below.

http://shopping-rewards-uk.blogspot.com/

I have not updated it since mid-June. You can see how poor it is! Remember though, this was my first attempt at blogger!