Forest's Reviews - Name Change

I finally did it, I was easy!

Forest's Reviews and Randomness has become The Random Forest and even has it's own snazzy domain name www.therandomforest.info.

It was a very easy change using bloggers help pages and I purchased the .info domain from Big Daddy for only $1.99 for the first year, BARGAIN!!!!!

I actually own the domain for this site but purchased it from a company that I have no clue how to change the cname settings so when I get time i'll investigate further.

What I'm going to do!

Just thought that I would put a little update about what I am thinking about doing over the next few days.

I started my new blog very recently and it's going quite well in terms of it being a place I can dump various random posts and bits and I know it will be a lot more interesting for the random visitor. In fact I have had more visits over there than here but I have been promoting it more heavily.

I now want to get my other blog it's own domain as this will enable me to take more paid opportunities on pay per post I think! I also need a new template. It's feeling a little ugly and unoriginal (same here on this blog).

I've been doing lot's of reading and ideas are starting to stream into my head. There are a lot of very interesting blogs out there and it seems like the blog community supports itself mainly with a little help from random visitors (mainly bored office workers I bet).

My next move is to try and think up a few niche blogs and as I have seen a lot of people using word press I will make sure I try this on my next one. I have a few ideas which I will ask my friends about and hopefully will manage to find out which ones are worth taking a plunge into and buying a domain name and all that.

I have a lot of work ahead of me!

I always feel the posts on this blog suffer a little from boring info so hopefully with all this reading and research I will find a better voice for my info and make reading of my adventures much more fun.

Thanks for reading.

Earnings Report No. 1

I've seen others doing earnings reports so finally decided i'd publish my first one. Now as I have been earning very little and went through some time of inactivity I am going to just give my earnings since the blogs and internet stuff started back in April. Hopefully I will then report once weekly, probably on Tuesdays to keep the trend going.

Earnings April - Present (Tuesday 11th July 07)
Adsense: $12.54 ($2.77 this week)
Helium: $0.02
Pay Per Post: $0 (pending acceptance)
EVO: $0 (Pending Launch)

TOTAL THIS WEEK: $$2.79
TOTAL SO FAR:$12.56

Hopefully the list of earning avenues will grow and the earnings too so please watch this space.

If anyone can recomend any schemes then i'd be interested.

Another Blog? Time for more schemes?

I've started another blog as have noticed that one common thing with all the people actually earning money on the net is their multiple streams of income from more than one blog.

The purpose of my new blog is to allow me to post reviews and randomness so I can be abit more free with speech and talk about things I like and hopefully eventually use it to review products and services in exchange for even a few cents or pennies!

The address for the new blog is: http://www.forestreview.blogspot.com

I know none of my blogging ideas or posts are original right now but I just need to keep plugging away and hopefully gaining friends who will help me grow and find my niche or potential.

My next post will be a post of my earnings. I'll try to do it once a week right now as i'm hoping that my renewed effort will mean that I start to earn more than 0 and increase steadily. I'll estimate it like this.

WEEK 1 report: 1cents
WEEK 2 report: 2cents
WEEK 3 report: 4cents

and something like that. Hopefully for Week 10 i'll be earning almost 12cents a week!

Wish me luck for the week ahead!!!!

Helium - My first impressions

Yesterday whilst playing around with my blog and trying to get my new business website up and running I finally visited a site that I had seen in Adsense adverts for a long time called Helium.

As i'm sure many of you already know Helium is another review site where anyone can contribute and theoretically earn cash for doing so. I was intrigued so signed up immediately and so far have written 2 reviews. The reviews are rated by other users and go up or down in the overall rankings of the subject you have chosen to write in.

I know I won't be able to earn much from this site as have had a quick flick around the net and found that other people have said that it's more of a fun thing so I hope it will be a great opportunity for me to write on fun subjects read other peoples reviews and hopefully, the ultimate goal, improve my writing.

My articles so far can be found here:
http://www.helium.com/tm/443465/firstly-sauce-revelation-mighty
http://www.helium.com/tm/441955/transformers-movie-first-movie

The Pasta sauce one started out at number 10 of 19 yesterday and to my surprise has already leaped up to number 4 so maybe i'll earn a few pennies for this!!
The Transformers review was an off the cuff not really thinking about it jot of text and has stuck fast at 11 of 33 since it was written.

So i'll make sure that I definitely keep everyone posted of my new articles (probably will post 5 or so at a time) and any earning I receive.

This has also renewed my thoughts of going back to a site that I posted reviews on a few years ago called www.ciao.co.uk so when I get a chance i'll have to find my old login details and see if I have earned any money there and if it's still a good site to post on. If anyone knows of any other good sites for this kind of thing please let me know as right at this second I feel that I just wanna keep writing small things but am lacking a little in inspiration.

Bye bye for now.

Yet another template change!

I'm having trouble working out what I want my blog to look like.

I'm never happy with it. This is a standard blogger template for now and i'll try and keep it for a while until I work out how to properly customise it or find a really good template to upload.

Anyone have any idea where I can get a wordpress style template for blogger?

Oi Parks

Location: Williston, Vermont, USA

Where on earth have I been?

Well i've been quite lazy of late and my life has been all over the place but if i'm genuingly going to unconstrain my life then I really do need to get on with things.

I really didn't know what to do with this blog so it's been very neglected. My partner confirmed my suspicions that this blog was a very boring read so I was going to scrap it and try to start again but I think i'll give it another shot!!!!

So I have been up to bits but no where near enough. I'm currently in the states and have been enjoying mself loads but the point that I was going to get all my online activities really going hasn't happened.

I have been working on my new website though www.oiparks.com where people can buy prints of my photos/art or send me their own images to be printed. I want to target photographers and families who need imagery blown up. This service is only availbale ion the UK at present. I'm yet to get any sales as have not been pushing the advertising of it and am only just starting to get the site near finished. Any comments or suggestions for the site would really be appreciated. Also if anyone knows of any good ways to market this kind of product again I would be very interested.

To go along with this i've also just started putting images back onto ebay and my current images can be seen here.

My Adsense has been earning absolutely nothing here as I have been going against the main rule of blogging and have not been posting or trying to get links from other people.

I promise I will try and post most days from now on!!

Thanks for reading.