Lifes Like That

I have been with Entrecard on this site for a little over a month now. I have started to see some nice traffic growth in the past month and it is due largely to these top droppers who drop by this site on a regular basis. So, this is post is just my little way of saying thank you to the top droppers for the past week. So, if your on my list, then thank you very much for your continued visits, and if your not on the list and want to be, all you need to do is drop!

1. Frank Kanu’s Books
2. Karlonia.com
3. Make Every Day Your Lucky Day
4. DecMeadow Studios
5. I AM KCAT
6. Embrace Simplicity
7. Musings
8. CyberLife of AntiGeek
9. The Loquaiously Verbose Ramblings of 1 Slacker
10. Mind Relaxing Ideas

Thanks guys! I really appreciate your continued drops!

Well it’s been a little over two years since I bought my first laptop and tried to find ways of earning a little extra income online.  It’s been a struggle to say the least as I have found that there are a lot scams and scammers out there who are going to try to take your money.

I have pretty much tried everything on the Internet and have to say that there are only a couple of ways to earn income  that I have found that have been worth my time and have costed me no money up front.  The two avenues of income that I am talking about is paid blogging and freelance writing of articles.  Any other program that I tried usually ended up costing me money or a waste of valuable time.

If you’ve found success with any other avenue of earning income online, I would love to hear from you.

Well this weekend I am going to step away from my computer for a while.  Yesterday my husband found out that his annual bonus will be coming on Friday, so we are planning on taking the kids on a small vacation this weekend.  During March break we were unable to really do anything as my son was sick and my husband had to work.  So with this extra money we have decided to do something special with the kids.

We are going to take them to Crystal Palace.   This is an amusement park and water park.  It’s a great place to take kids especially in the winter.  It gives them something different to do as well as giving us some very much needed family time.  Even though I won’t be home and online that much, I’m still going to take my laptop with me when I go.  It will give me something to do while the kids are in bed sleeping.  So, you’ll still see evidence of me, just not as much.

I’m sure you all have noticed a pretty neat widget in my side bar. Every day the picture changes, but…the message still stays the same. The message is “drop”. When you join entrecard and start dropping cards on other people’s sites, you are participating in a program that encourages traffic to your site. This is a wonderful program and I have seen a nice increase in my traffic levels since I joined. So, each week I am going to thank my top ten droppers publicly. If your on this list, then THANK YOU for dropping by so much, if your not and would like to be, all you need to to is “drop”.

1. Cyberlife of AntiGeek
2. Embrace Simplicity
3. Choclat Covered Imperfections
4. Karlonia.com
5. Surf The Mind
6. Treasure Nature
7. Make Every Day Your Lucky Day
8. Frank Kanu’s Books
9. Mom Knows Everything
10. DecMeadow Studios

Thanks guys! I appreciate the drops!

I got an e-mail yesterday from a very dear friend of mine. She is starting a weekly blogging series which spotlights some of her “favorite” mommy bloggers. When I first started blogging, I got so totally hooked on it, that I was telling everyone that I could how fun blogging was. And the fact that you could earn a little extra cash off you blogs was just a little bit of icing on the cake. One of my friends, Tammy started to blog and is thoroughly enjoying the blogging world. So in appreciation of me helping her through all the blogging bumps she wanted my permission to use me as her first featured mommy blogger. Of course I said yes as this is a very special thing to do for any blogger.

So, if you would like to read all the wonderful things that Tammy has to say about me, why not drop by her site and let her know that Kim sent ya!

Thanks again Tammy! Your the best!!

Well I am always looking around for different ways to earn a little income from home. Now that I have six blogs on the go, I am constantly looking for good programs to get involved with. I had heard about this site over a Project Wonderful and started doing a little research on the income level that I could expect from this program if I decided to join it.

Yesterday I signed up for it over at my other blog Thinking Outloud to try to test this system out. It doesn’t cost you a cent to join and you can potentially earn a small amount of income for it. The income that you could receive comes from people buying your ad space. Bidding starts out very cheaply ($0.00 actually) and the more people who become interested in your ads, the more you can charge for them. Right now my ads are set up at $0.00 so this is quite cheap advertising for anybody who would like to advertise on my site.

As I said, I just joined so I am not really sure how this will all pan out. But as soon as I start seeing any actual movement towards people buying my ads which will give me this income that I am so looking forward to, I’ll let you know. Of course if you want to advertise with me, all you need to do is to drop over to my site and place your bid.

I’ve got to tell you all that the biggest annoyance I have found on the Internet is having to sift through all the spam comments that I receive on all my blogs every day.  I literally spend a couple of hours each day rejecting spam comments.  But along with the time that it takes me to delete all these unnecessary comments, a couple of times I have deleted honest comments by mistake.

So, if I deleted a real comment from you, I am truly very sorry.  I value each and every “real” comment and I never would intentionally delete or spam your comment.  I wish there was a way in which I could make these spammers stop from visiting me.

Any suggestions??

Well yesterday I was sitting at my computer quiet bored, so I decided to start another blog! Yes, you read right!! Another one. But, I can honestly tell you all that this will be my final one. As of right now, including this one, I have seven blogs on the go. But, when I have all these sites up and running the way I want them to, I will be phasing out three of them. That leave me four blogs and that will be just fine with me.

If anyone is interested, my new blog can be found over at Rambling On. As I said this blog is really, really new with not much content on it right now (only one post so far). But, if you know me, it won’t take me very long to get it up to the standards that I so enjoy. So, if your looking for a new blog to read why not drop by this site and find out what I’m “Rambling On” about today.

Wednesday I had a very upsetting and quite unsettling day here on the Internet.  So, yesterday I decided to take a me day.  I found this was extremely important to me to step away from the computer and only worry about my “real life” for a change.  What triggered this horrible day was I wrote a post on a teenager being caught drinking. (it’s in this blog, but I won’t link to it).  You wouldn’t believe the comments and bashing I received over this post.  You would have thought people thought I was talking about their child and school.

So, since this turn of events did upset me quite a bit, I decided not to go online at all yesterday.  I needed to find out that if  by staying away from all the “nasty commenter’s” I could bring back my love of blogging.  I am happy to report that it did and I have come to a decision that these types of commenter’s will never get me down again.  It’s my blog and my words.  If they don’t agree with me and want to get nasty about the whole thing, then they don’t ever need to come back to my blog for another visit.

Now before anyone here gets upset with me for this post.  Let me make one thing clear!  I welcome comments and I do publish most of them.  Even if the commenter doesn’t agree with me.  But, when you start to get nasty, I will not publish the comment.  If you want to have a rational (even heated) exchange of words and ideas, I am more than up for this.  But, I will not subject myself to people who  just want to be nasty.

I’m in a better frame of mind today so that’s how I know a ME day was successful!

I have been working on the Internet for the past year and after seeing a post on someone else’s blog this morning, I feel quite flattered…I think?? After reading the post of this individual and seeing that the very first link that they posted to was mine, this shows me that people are finding some of my blog posts.

The reason why I am unsure as to why I should be flattered or not is because the link that he posted to was about one of the companies that I post for, but he actually got the wrong company. I have never made any secret to the fact that I do some paid posting and I have never tried to hide this fact. But because this individual isn’t a fan of one of the companies that I do work for he decided to use one of my posts as an example.

A lot of people would be upset that any site would link to them in a negative manner, but I guess my feelings on the entire thing is if he is posting about my site, then he is potentially giving me some extra traffic. Not what he intended I’m sure, but what the heck, I’ll take it!!