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There has been a lot of discussion on the Unofficial PayPerPost forum that I just recently started about what people have made doing PayPerPost vs. Google Adsense.

As you can see from my blog, I have a fair amount of experience with both PayPerPost and Adsense. I must admit that I have made more money doing Google Adsense ($200 per month), but I have been doing it longer. In the same time frame that I’ve been doing PayPerPost I’ve made more money ($1016.13 as of today). In fact, I think for most bloggers PayPerPost will certainly earn you more money than doing Google Adsense.

However, there is a major difference between Google Adsense and PayPerPost. If you stop blogging, PayPerPost stops paying you. It requires time to be spend to keep making money. However, I could stop blogging today and still make money from Google Adsense. So, I don’t think that Google Adsense is dead by any means, but add it to PayPerPost and you have a good method of money making.

However, it is important to remember that blogging isn’t just about how you make money. It’s also about enjoying the relationships with the people you meet in the blogosphere.

This is an oldie, but a goodie. For those people wanting to learn to optimize their website or blog to be seen in search engines, you need to check out the keywork search tool by overture. You put in a few keywords and then you’ll see how many times that keyword and related keywords are searched.

One other secret I’ll tell you is that just because it has 1 million searches doesn’t mean it’s the best keyword for the site. Mortgage is searched a lot on the internet. However, if you can get to the top of Google for the keywork mortgage then you don’t need to be reading my blog. For most people you want to find a keyword that is searched enough to get you traffic, but not so much that the web is saturated with websites on the subject.

If you have been following PayPerPost then you’ve certainly come across the infamous Flaming Tamale. Ted has gotten too busy in his new corporate lifestyle so he gave us his Flaming Tamale. In fact, he even posted the following picture of the Flaming Tamale:

If you can’t tell, she’s wearing a Star Trek uniform. No, it’s not just a shirt. It’s a full star trek uniform.

After seeing that I couldn’t help but think what she must be like in real life. Here’s a few thoughts of what she probably does outside of her job outside PayPerPost:

-Downloads illegal copies of Star Trek episodes at home
-Practices splitting her fingers apart because she secretly wishes she was vulcan
-Keeps tapping her chest and saying Beam me up scotty…and yet she’s still back at PayPerPost tomorrow
-Searches all the online dating sites for other trekkies
-Writes a blog about how one day she wants to get married in Las Vegas with someone who has pointy ears

I guess it doesn’t really matter what she does in her free time, as long as she still makes it so I Get Paid For Blogging

I couldn’t believe the headline when I read it. Dog the Bounty Hunter was arrested by a group of US Marshalls. Can you imagine going and picking him up from his house?

I should have known that something like this would happen. I always wondered whether a lot of the things he did on TV were legal. I guess in Mexico it might not be legal. In Hawaii they are probably just glad to get them off the street. Not to mention he’s probably related to half the island.

Here’s some interesting quotes about him getting arrested.

Beth Chapman, Dog’s Wife, said:

“I was getting the children ready for school and the U.S. marshals burst in our door and they just came right in and took him,” said Beth Chapman on MSNBC.

“He was in shock. He was, he was shocked. He was shocked and he was amazed that the marshal’s service that came to get him didn’t even treat him as kind as he treats his own prisoners.”

A representative from the Marshal’s office said:

“There were 7 deputy marshals who went to Chapman’s home,” said Jay Beber, from the U.S. marshal’s office in Hawaii.

“We knocked on the door to announce that we were U.S. marshals. … Mr. Chapman was compliant and very respectful.”

Should be interesting to see how this all turns out.