As a writer you need a way to show off your skills. Setting up a blog or website is critical if your customers are online. A free blog like blogger works. A better idea is to set up a hosted wordpress blog. I have both html websites and wordpress blogs hosted on my own domains. They're easy to use for the most part. Read more details and how I earned $100 writing yesterday at Make Money Writing With Dee.

A couple months ago I set a goal for myself to earn $100 a day online by writing. I had no intention of killing myself by selling 500 word articles at $5 a pop. I also didn’t want to set up a freelancing business depending on clients. I know what it takes to set up a successful business. You spend as much time marketing as you do writing. Read more at Make Money Writing with Dee.

I'm just not going to give up on the CPA stuff. The FTC regs and Visa closing merchant accounts that relied on forced continuity really put the kabosh on any earnings from weight loss programs.

So as an experiment I've decided to see how I can earn money from CPA and affiliate programs for Valentine's Day.

The first thing I did was put up a blog Valentines Gift Ideas That keyword phrase has 15,000 searches a month so I think with some SEO I can get to the first page....

It wasn't my intention but I tackled the most difficult toy pages first. Barbie Fashionistas has a collection of 6 dolls, which means I have to download and then ftp 6 images, set up 6 affiliate links from amazon.com, and write 6 blurbs about Barbie. I don't even like Barbie.

The second page was Rocky the Robot Truck. That was pretty easy only one affiliate link and two graphics.

However Crayola Crayon Town had 5 different play sets, so had to download and then upload...

I got the domain ChristmasToys-2009.com which I was a little surprised was still available in October. I'm going to focus on the key words Hot Christmas Toys 2009 for promotion of the home page and then the top 15 toys by name for the inner pages.

I've got squidoo pages and blogger blogs set up for each toy as well. Again I was surprised they're available.

Right now I'm waiting on the articles I'm having ghostwritten.

Dee