Blog publishers were paid Aug 26, 2010

If you earned over $10 last month, and get paid via Direct Deposit, you should have received a payment on Thursday. I did!

My Remittance Advice Has Arrived

I've never bothered to check, but I wonder if Amazon, or whoever handles the payouts for the blogger section of their business, are located in England? I mean..."Remittance Advice" indeed.

I got my June payment from my blogs today. I'm expecting to get my July blog report around August 10th or so. In fact I'm looking forward to that a great deal. For the past few months my blog income has been so low as to hardly be worth talking about, but with the introduction of my Kindle Blog Report, I started getting some decent subscriptions. (Albeit, it took three months for that one to build its audience.) I expect to have at least 200 subscribers to my Rush Limbaugh report after only a month (on the other hand, my Barack Obama Report and Sarah Palin report have utterly tanked.) I also have a fiction blog that should have over 100 subscriptions, as well.

So, as you can perhaps tell, I am extremely excited, but of course a little apprehensive, to see that August 10 report. By keeping track of the numbers on each blog's Amazon page, I can tell that the blogs are being subscribed to in great numbers. But of course it's impossible to tell if they are being unsubscribed to, just as rapidly.

On the other hand, the "daily" report that I receive has each of these blogs in positive numbers, even though it is a couple of months behind the times. For example it still has my Kindle Blog Report at 11 new subscriptions / 80 total subscriptions, when in last month's monthly report, the one with the "real" numbers on which you get paid, I had over 128 subscribers.

So, 7 more days to go. Ah, I must possess my soul in patience.

Blog Publishing: My Success Keeps on Succeeding!

For various reasons I still haven't been able to get back to my book project, but soon, very soon.

Meantime, I'm very pleased with how the Rush Limbaugh Report blog is doing. I continue to get what I estimate to be at least 5 subs a day. Of course my job must be tempered with the knowledge that while I know approximately how many people are subscribing, I won't know how many people subsequently unsubscribe for another 20 days. The next report won't come out until August 10 or so.

The "daily" report continues to annoy me. Sometimes it will be updated every day, then after 3 or 4 days it will lie un-updated for several days. Just doesn't make any sense why it is so inconsistent. I know it doesn't matter, that the info there is at least 30 days out of date, but it still is annoying.

Blog Publisher Tips: Keep Records and Backups of Blogs

I had a question about something that has happened on one of my blogs - the "search ribbon" at the top has disappeared and I can't figure out how to get it back - so I went to Blogger's help forums to ask about it.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger?hl=en

Because I use blogger for all my blogs.

After asking my questions, I browsed around other people's questions, and came across someone frantically trying to figure out why their blog had been deleted without warning, without explanation.

This struck a chord with me, because I used to have a Google Adsense account. I'd had it for three or four years. And for three or four years I was gradually increasing my income, so that last year - when the events I'm relating happened - I was actually making some good money with Adsense and beginning to believe I could make a living online with my websites, because of it.

Then one day I tried to sign on to my account...couldn't do it. Without warning,my account had been terminated. I desperately tried to find out what had happened, and why, but never could do it. I never violated TOS, and I emailed them and told them so, but never got a response.

So that was four years of hard work down the toilet. That was my income, down the toilet! I was pretty depressed after that for several months, I can tell you.

Not to mention furious. I had not broken TOS. Even if I had broken TOS, they had my email. Why couldn't they email me, say, "You're doing this against TOS, clean it up or we'll have to suspend your account." Instead, nothing. No reason, no explanation, no appeal.

Well, after that rant let me get back to the purpose of this post.

Turns out, Blogger will do the same thing to your blog account. If they see something they don't like, they will suspend your account without warning! You have to submit a request to "review blog" and while you're waiting for them to review it, if they ever do, your blog is down.

Of course for most people that's not a concern - we dont break TOS, we follow the rules... but if my experience with AdSense is any judge - sometimes that just doesn't help you.

So, my advice is that if you use blogger, or indeed, any free blogging software, like Wordpress, and you compose your blog entries onlie, as I do, neverthleess make sure you post a copy of your blog into a word document and save it on your computer. And go back into your archives and save all those entries as well.

Just to be on the safe side.

In addition, depending on what your blog is about, I'd recommend keepig an Excel file with title and topic and date posted, for all your blogs. It will help you go back in and find a certain blog (if you've got hundreds and hundreds of entries) and there's always a use for it!