Chloe Spencer makes $10,000 from her Blog

Meet my newest discovery: The Youngest Money-making Blogger!
16-year-old blogger, Chloe Spencer is one of my mentors in blogging especially considering the fact that her 2007 income figure, $900 a month is my first target income in blogging.

At the blogher 2007 conference where Chloe shared her story of "making money while she sleeps" -- through the creation of a blog about the popular virtual pets site Neopets.com.

It all began when she was 15. Chloe turned to SEO and blogging instead of babysitting or running a paper route as her part-time job and turned her love for the Neopets into a profitable venture -- with the help of a few smart SEO decisions.

In early 2006, when Chloe was 15, she decided to devote a blog to Neopets, a virtual pets site popular with kids the world over. After performing some keyword research through WordTracker and Google Suggest for her blog’s title and section headings, she discovered that “neopets cheats” was a hugely popular search term to target for her blog. So she settled on the name: the “Ultimate Neopets Cheats Site.”

A good point to here is that, Chloe used the keyword research tools Google Suggest and WordTracker to select both the name of her blog and its categories. The name became "The Ultimate Neopets Cheats Site" because it included the highly popular search term "neopets cheats." She set up her blog through WordPress.com, and within a couple weeks it appeared on Page 1 in Google for "neopet cheats".

She then used the free WordPress.com service to start the blog. Chloe’s site was able to ride on the coattails of WordPress.com’s trust and authority in the eyes of Google, thus sidestepping the “Google Sandbox” and jumping to page 1 in Google for the term “neopet cheats” within two weeks of launch.

Wanting to capitalize on her success, Chloe attempted to place Google ads on her WordPress.com blog, only to find that she was unable to monetize her blog due to WordPress.com’s restrictive Terms of Service. So Chloe migrated the blog over from neopetcheats.wordpress.com to her own domain, neopetsfanatic.com, powered by the WordPress software. She then went about building links through places like Blogger Stories.

Chloe also devoted a bit of time to link building, through trusted blogs like Blogger Stories.

Wanting to turn her blog's popularity into dollars, Chloe was excited to add Google ads onto her blog, but found out the hard way that this wasn't possible due to WordPress.com's restrictive terms of service that forbids the use of AdSense or other third-party ads. Chloe soon moved her entire blog to the domain neopets fanatic.com.

Some pages of her blog, NeopetsFanatic.com, sport more than 5000 comments. Chloe monetizes her page 1 Google rankings and 11,000 daily pageviews into cold hard cash with Google AdSense. She's a busy girl and only blogs once or twice a month, but still she makes between $10 and $40 per day -- money while she sleeps!

Worthy of note especially is the fact that Chloe's site currently ranks number 6 for "neopets" (out of 6.12 million results);Her blog's traffic has grown to produce $10 to $40 per day in AdSense revenue. Best of all, Chloe only spends a few hours a month blogging and maintaining the site. Not a bad ROI! That equates to somewhere around $900 a month, or approximately $10,000 per year. If Chloe wanted to earn something comparable through a typical minimum-wage first job at her age, she'd have to work somewhere around 25 to 30 hrs per week. Because she's built an income-generating asset, Chloe can take a paid vacation whenever she wants without affecting her take-home pay; one good reason for you to consider "making money while you sleep".

One of the key things to keep in mind about Chloe's story, is that she's proven that SEO is not "rocket science." Heck, a kid can do it! (Note that I've only given her a few hours of guidance, she has done this all herself.) So if you have a solid foundation of SEO knowledge, why work for a living when you can create assets that work for you?

Early 2008, Chloe launched her newest blog, QuizFanatic.com, full of personality tests for teenage girls, such as "How Boy Crazy Are You?"

Chloe has since spoken at BlogHer, SMX West, Ypulse and DMA08. She has presented a science experiment live on Denver's 9News to an estimated 1.2 million viewers. She also appeared on the Bay Area's ABC7 News as part of their coverage of the BlogHer conference. Chloe is an aspiring documentary filmmaker who lived in New Zealand for eight years, returning to Wisconsin last year, where she resides with her parents and two sisters.

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Ashley Qualls, Teenager makes $1 million from Adsense

She's my hero!I Love her! Age is no factor her, I adopt her as my mentor- a passive one though since I will only be following her lead.

The Girl Power

No rich relatives? No professional mentors? No problem. Ashley Qualls, 17, has built a million-dollar web site. She's LOL all the way to the bank.

Late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching for under-the-radar destinations for notoriously fickle teenagers. Beyond MySpace and Facebook, countless sites come and go in the teen universe, like soon forgotten pop songs. But Whateverlife stood out. It was more authentic somehow. It featured a steady supply of designs for MySpace pages and attracted a few hundred-thousand girls a day. "Clever design, a growing base--that's a no-brainer for us," Moray says.

He approached Ashley Qualls, Whateverlife's founder, about incorporating ads from ValueClick's 450 or so clients and sharing the revenue. At first, she declined. Then a few weeks later she changed her mind. He was in Los Angeles and she was in Detroit, so they arranged everything by phone and email. They still have yet to meet in person.

When did Moray, who's 40, learn that his new business partner was 17 years old?

Pause.

"When our director of marketing told me why Fast Company was calling," says Moray, now ValueClick's director of media development. "I assumed she was a seasoned Internet professional. She knows so much about what her site does, more than people three times her age."

It's like that famous New Yorker cartoon. A dog typing away at a computer tells his canine buddy, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

At 17 going on 37 (at least), Ashley is very much an Internet professional. In the less than two years since Whateverlife took off, she has dropped out of high school, bought a house, helped launch artists such as Lily Allen, and rejected offers to buy her young company. Although Ashley was flattered to be offered $1.5 million and a car of her choice--as long as the price tag wasn't more than $100,000--she responded, in effect, Whatever. "I don't even have my license yet," she says.

Ashley is evidence of the meritocracy on the Internet that allows even companies run by neophyte entrepreneurs to compete, regardless of funding, location, size, or experience--and she's a reminder that ingenuity is ageless. She has taken in more than $1 million, thanks to a now-familiar Web-friendly business model. Her MySpace page layouts are available for the bargain price of...nothing. They're free for the taking. Her only significant source of revenue so far is advertising.

According to Google Analytics, Whateverlife attracts more than 7 million individuals and 60 million page views a month. That's a larger audience than the circulations of Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and CosmoGirl! magazines combined. Although Web-site rankings vary with the methodology, Quantcast, a popular source among advertisers, ranked Whateverlife.com a staggering No. 349 in mid-July out of more than 20 million sites. Among the sites in its rearview mirror: Britannica.com, AmericanIdol.com, FDA .gov, and CBS.com.

And one more, which Ashley can't quite believe herself: "I'm ahead of Oprah!" (Oprah.com: No. 469.) Sure, Ashley is a long way from having Oprah's clout, but she is establishing a platform of her own. "I have this audience of so many people, I can say anything I want to," she says. "I can say, "Check out this movie or this artist.' It's, like, a rush. I never thought I'd be an influencer." (Attention pollsters: 1,500 girls have added the Join Team Hillary '08 desktop button to their MySpace pages since Ashley offered it in March.)

She has come along with the right idea at the right time. Eager to customize their MySpace profiles, girls cut and paste the HTML code for Whateverlife layouts featuring hearts, flowers, celebrities, and so on onto their personal page and--presto--a new look. Think of it as MySpace clothes; some kids change their layouts nearly as frequently. "It's all about giving girls what they want," Ashley says.

These days, she and her young company are experiencing growing pains. She's learning how to be the boss--of her mother, her friends, developers-for-hire in India. And Whateverlife, one of the first sites offering MySpace layouts specifically for girls, needs to mature as well. "MySpace layouts" was among the top 30 search terms on Google in June. Ashley knows that she needs new content--not just more layouts, but more features, to distinguish Whateverlife from the thousands of sites in the expanding MySpace ecosystem. Earlier this year, she created an online magazine. Cell-phone wallpaper, a new source of revenue at 99 cents to $1.99 a download, is in the works.

Running a growing company without an MBA, not to mention a high-school diploma, is hard enough, but Ashley confronts another extraordinary complication. Business associates may forget that she is 17, but Detroit's Wayne County Probate Court has not. She's a minor with considerable assets--"business affairs that may be jeopardized," the law reads--that need protection in light of the rift her sudden success has caused in an already fractious family. In January, a probate judge ruled that neither Ashley nor her parents could adequately manage her finances. Until she turns 18, next June, a court-appointed conservator is controlling Whateverlife's assets; Ashley must request funds for any expense outside the agreed-upon monthly budget.

The arrangement, she says, affects her ability to react in a volatile industry. "It's not like I'm selling lemonade," she says. Besides, it's her company. If she wants to contract developers or employ her mother, Ashley says, why shouldn't she be able to do it without the conservator's approval?

So the teenager has hired a lawyer. She wants to emancipate herself and be declared an adult. Now. At 17. Why not just sit tight until June? The girl trying to grow up fast can't wait that long.

Ashley is different from the recent crop of high-profile teen entrepreneurs. True, her eighth-grade class did vote her "most likely to succeed," but it's safe to say they were predicting 20 or 30 years out, not three years removed from middle school. She created her company almost by accident and without the resources that typically give young novices a leg up. Catherine Cook, 17, started myYearbook.com by teaming up with her older brother, a Harvard grad and Internet entrepreneur. Ben Casnocha, the 19-year-old founder of software company Comcate and author of the new memoir My Start-Up Life, is the son of a San Francisco lawyer and has tapped Silicon Valley brains and bank accounts.

But Ashley had no connections. No business professionals in the family. No rich aunt or uncle. In the working-class community of downriver Detroit, south of downtown and the sprawling Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, she bounced back and forth between her divorced parents, neither of whom attended college. Her father is a machinist, her mother, until recently, a retail data collector for ACNielsen. "My mom still doesn't understand how I do it," Ashley says. To be fair, she did go to her mother for the initial investment: $8 to register the domain name. Ashley still hasn't spent a dime on advertising.

It all started as a hobby. She began dabbling in Web-site design eight years ago, when she was 9, hogging the family's Gateway computer in the kitchen all day. When she wasn't playing games, she was teaching herself the basics of Web design. To which her mother, Linda LaBrecque, responded, "Get off that computer. Now!" For Ashley's 12th birthday, her mother splurged on an above-ground swimming pool--"just so she'd go outside," LaBrecque says.

Whateverlife just sort of happened, another accidental Web business. Originally, Ashley created the site in late 2004 when she was 14 as a way to show off her design work. "I was the dorky girl who was into HTML," she says. It attracted zero interest beyond her circle of friends until she figured out how to customize MySpace pages. So many classmates asked her to design theirs that she began posting layouts on her site daily, several at first, then dozens.

By 2005, her traffic had exploded; she needed her own dedicated server. Ashley, who had bartered site designs for free Web hosting, couldn't afford the monthly rental, not on her babysitting income. Her Web host suggested Google AdSense, a service that supplies ads to a site and shares the revenue. The greater the traffic, the more money she'd earn.

"She would look up how much she had made," says Jen Carey, 17, one of her closest friends. "It was $50. She thought that was the coolest."

I'm doing what everyone says they want to do, "live like there's no tomorrow." --Ashley in her blog, "The Daily Life of a Simple Kind of Gal," July 1, 2006; 2:43 a.m.
The first check, her first paycheck of any kind, was even cooler: $2,790.

"It was more than I made in a month," her mother says.

"It made me want to do even more designs," Ashley

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Social bookmarking websites are becoming more and more popular. They allow you to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite’s list of your browser.

I have compiled a list of Social Bookmarking websites here from a number of sources for your use.

Visit some of the sites provided here. Create an account. Then bookmark interesting and useful things in the areas of your interest or expertise. By doing so you create a useful Feed. Once you’ve done that you intermittently, (or aggressively), add useful and interesting items, (perhaps also from your own content), that could use additional exposure.

Make an honest effort to contribute USEFUL information and links. This is all about sharing and exposure. Done properly, you can be as aggressive as you want to be about sharing information. You can share your blog(s), links to your informational/resource sites etc. Think about the fact that when you share links to other’s resources, you’re also effectively promoting their content as well.

Happy Bookmarking...

Site

Alexa Rank

PR

	60094	6
BlogMarks.net
Social Bookmarking with thumbnails. Atom enabled.

	438516	3
Blauer Bote Bookmarks
Bookmarak Manager in German and English

	9781	7
LQ Bookmarks
Social Bookmarking, tagging and annotating all things Linux and Open Source.

	295993	6
de.lirio.us
Social Bookmarking, Tagging, Blogging & Notes. Mmmmmm, Notes.

	2180	8
del.icio.us
Currently the most used software application.

	0	7
digg
Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

	2378882	5
feedmarker
A free, Web based RSS/ATOM aggregator and bookmarks manager.

	672284	1
FriendSite
Get free storage and share your photos & videos, get your own url and customize your page, create free evites and invitations, add friends, message people, create discussion forums and groups, blog, share and store your bookmarks & much more...

	445264	5
frassle
Frassle helps you read and publish weblogs, track bookmarks, and find relevant content organized your way.

	1928721	0
FuzzFizz
FuzzFizz is a brand new social bookmarking site, where users vote for the most interesting and important news stories.

	125861	5
Jumptags
Jumptags.com is a revolutionary Web 2.0 social bookmarking web service for collecting, storing, sharing and distributing web bookmarks, notes, RSS feeds, contacts, and much more. Based on AJAX and other next generation web development techniques, Jumptags.com offers the easiest, fastest, most intuitive and productive way of maintaining and collaborating bookmarks and other internet resources online.

	833758	5
linkroll
Linkroll is a free link blogging service. At a personal level you can bookmark, categorize and comment on all the great web pages/links you find. All your bookmarks are then sortable and searchable by category and date. All bookmarks are also accessible, by category and/or user, in the form of RSS feed (for your news aggregator), or JavaScript (for syndication on your own web site)

	60011	4
loom
Collaborative bookmarking application written in PHP.

	181086	6
MyProgs
Social bookmarking for programs you use.

	1	7
Yahoo Search myweb2 beta
A social search engine integrating social bookmarking with search.

	0	0
NEWNOOZE
Social Bookmarking on just about every subject. A Digg.com clone site. Beta Stage.

	1328526	4
openBM
It's just linking cool sites together. openBM is a little tool for everybody. openBM just keep's your bookmarks and provides them for other people on the web.

	122873	6
Reader²
Share the list of books you read or recommend, find new books by tags/authors. Multilanguage.

	0	7
reddit
Social bookmarking where your votes affect your karma points.

	0	6
scuttle.org
amongst others are based on the scuttle software.

	0	5
Scuttle
Another open source clone of del.icio.us.

	0	5
unalog
Open source bookmarking software written in the Python programming.

	2308711	3
aworldofhelp
Users submit and rate links in numerous categories. The highest rated make the front page.

	1150083	5
beanrocket
Beanrocket.com is a community and a news reader.

	63378	6
BlinkList
Social bookmarking with slick interface and new ways for organizing tags.

	98113	7
CiteULike
Social bookmarking for academic papers.

	162993	6
commontimes
Provides community-based media distribution services and solutions along with BitTorrent hosting and consulting for individuals and organizations of all sizes.

	699250	5
Connectedy
This service allows the establishment of pseudonymous online link libraries. Users may impose arbitrary categorical hierarchies on their links and choose which categories and links to make public and which ones to keep private. The Connectedy site has par SEO properties.

	0	7
Connotea
Social bookmarking for scientists.

	0	0
dinnerbuzz
Dinnerbuzz is a social guide to restaurants, bars, and coffee shops. It's designed to make it easier for you to find a place for dinner or drinks anywhere in the world.

	0	4
Wiklink
Tools to synchronize bookmarks with your browser.

	0	5
FeedMeLinks
Social Bookmarking since 2002.

	0	3
FlipSkipper
social bookmarking manager that allows users to pull concurrent searches from Yahoo!, Google News, and del.icio.us when surfing.

	0	8
Furl
Similar to del.icio.us: stores copies of the pages saved, automates finding users with similar interests, archives can be exported in MPLA or APA citation format.

	0	4
GiveALink
Donate your bookmarks for academic research.

	0	4
IndiaGram
Allows social bookmarking. Aim is to develop a community that shares information about websites on diverse topics.

	0	6
jots
Jots is a collaborative bookmarking system that allows you to Store, Share and Discover relevant links. Store your own links and choose whether to share them with the world, with a select group of people or just for yourself to use. Discover new links based on specific users or topics of interest.

	0	4
leze.de and
German Internet Bookmarking Service

	0	0
LibraryThing
Deli.cio.us for books. Cataloging based on some 30+ libraries using the Z39.50 protocol.

	0	4
linkblog
Portuguese

	0	6
linkfilter
linkfilter.net is just what the name implies, a link filter. All links are posted and moderated by users. Links can be ranked on several levels: clicks, votes, age, or a combination of all three called points.

	0	5
Lookmarks (beta)
Search and share your bookmarks

	0	5
memestreams
"Don't hate the media, become the media!" - Biafra

	0	6
Netvouz
Social bookmarking using either categories or tags. Share your bookmarks online or keep them private. RSS feeds for all bookmarks. Add2Netvouz button for easily bookmarking new sites, import/export, automatic link validation and lots of other features.

	0	0
Network Menus
Social Bookmarking (or /wiki/Collaborative_Bookmarking title=Collaborative Bookmarking Collaborative Bookmarking) within a web browser toolbar.

	0	4
O Y A X
A fast and quick social categorized bookmarking service with groups.

	0	0
RawSugar
Socially enhanced web search based on hierarchal tagging of bookmarks and favorites. Include s multi-word categories, mechanism to define and rename categories, and hierarchy.

	0	5
Shadows
Social bookmarking with tags, comments and ratings. Shadows' toolbar puts users one click away from a discussion forum for any page on the web.

	0	6
Simpy
Social bookmarking with tagging and full-text searching.

	0	0
sitetagger
SiteTagger.com is a bookmark/favorite organizer. You can bookmark websites you find on the internet via a simple button/favlet/bookmarklet that you can add to your browser link bar. This button makes it as simple as a click to bookmark a website page that you are visiting. The true power comes from the tags.

	0	6
Spurl
Similar to del.icio.us: stores copies of the pages saved.

	0	7
StumbleUpon
Bookmarking, social networking, friends-network, random browsing within interest-groups.

	0	5
Sync2It's BookmarkSync
Effortless social bookmarking, millions of hand-picked sites, real-time RSS feeds, public & private collections. Features automatic clustering technology.

	0	4
taghop
Taghop is a collaborative thoughtblog. A thoughtblog is a combination of some of the existing ideas behind blogs, with some ideas of its own. It is a web site, search engine, wiki, blogging system, social network and community site all rolled into one - or at least the best parts of those! They have been inspired by the great work from sites such as Google, Flickr, del.icio.us, 43things, etc

	979342	0
Tagza.com
A very young Social Book marking web site mostly being used by Indian and Pakistani web masters.

	0	3
Textnotes.de
Social notes manager. Easy integration of references to books, news and articles.

	0	5
TheThingsIWant
Universal wishlist service with Social Bookmarking and RSS feeds.

	0	3
URLex
Personal/Friends/Community bookmarking and rss feeds.

	0	5
Wazima
Coupons clipped by robots. Wazima scours the web and shows you the deals you are most interested in.

	0	5
Web Feeds
Web Feeds is a social bookmark site with a difference, users moderate and decide which items make it to the home page.

	0	6
Wists
Visual bookmarks, wishlists, photoblogs.

	0	6
wURLdBook
Share webreferences and rss feeds with others and more.

	0	0
Yoono
Social Bookmarking based on browser bookmarks (no tags needed), includes a search engine, an RSS Reader, web monitoring and sharing functions. Windows application and firefox extension.

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