Archive for April, 2009

Personal Blog

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

So I finally decided to create my own, personal blog: RunPD.com. I will mainly post about my athletic career there and keep RevenueQuest more professional/affiliate marketing oriented.

Speaking of affiliate marketing, now is a good time to fill you in on where I am at. School has been as busy as ever and affiliate marketing is very limited these days. Currently, I am not running any PPC campaigns and the only traffic I am getting to my offer pages is via search engines. This would be great if the volume was there, but it isn’t.

Like the last few summers, I should have some time to put into affiliate marketing and get something going again…

Google Finally #1

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Almost 18 months ago I wondered how long it would take Google to pass up Yahoo! on Alexa’s rankings. Yesterday I noticed that it finally happened. Google is now the #1 most visited website in the world! (according to Alexa)

It is interesting to note that Google owns two other sites in the top-10, Youtube and Blogger.com. Pretty impressive.

Self-Employment Tax is a Bitch

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Last week I was lucky enough to finish up my taxes and sent them away to the US Treasury and the Franchise Tax Board of California. Last year was definitely the most I have ever made from affiliate marketing and I wanted to be a good citizen and pay my taxes. Since my total profits came out to be less than $10k, I thought I would pay very little. I mean, Obama is looking out for me, right?

Wrong

Self Employment screwed me. Many people that are making lots of money online incorporate or form an LLC to avoid these high taxes. In the future, if I start to make much more money, I will without a doubt incorporate.