At this rate I will make $1000 in 23 years. Beat that all you rich Internet kids, 23 years. Here are the five simple steps you can follow so you to can buy $100 worth of crap just by blogging for two years and four months.

1. Get a blog: Duh, this is the easiest step. Find one of the free sites that give out blogs and sign up. Or as I did, have a computer nerd brother that wants you to blog set one up for you and host it.
2. Start off strong: Post a lot, and about really mundane crap. This way anyone who wonders to your site will be bored and your three readers will be your mom, brother and fiance.
3. Get adsense: Sign up, get invited whatever, just get it. Wait about another month and finally implement the code on your site
4. The system: Figure out that what you write about affects who visits your site and what kind of ads you get. Try to write about things you know and are worth a lot of money to advertise. Don’t ask me what those are, I don’t know either.
5. Profit: Keep track of your adsense until you are rich(er) then you where before all of this started.

Remember this take patients and a lot of sacrifice. Well actually very little sacrifice, unless you count the time I could have been spending playing video games.

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I had my ads down so low on the site that if you where to visit you might not see them. Where I have them placed now seems to allow people to see the ads but I don’t feel that it disrupts the flow of the site or is to in you face.

For now I am quite happy with Google adsense and would recommend it to anyone who wants to try to make money in their blog. I will tell you that it is not a get rich quick idea unless your blog kicks ass. Since my blog doesn’t necessarily kick ass, but it kicks feet so it works ok.

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Unfortunately I had to switch computers before I could finish the transaction so I had to start all over at the beginning. I found the phone selected the plan entered all the porting information and was entering my credit card information when the chat window appeared: “Do you need help selecting a phone?” What? I am about to give you money and you are going to confuse me with un needed help. I think that they need to rethink this and make it so that once you reach a certain point you are not bothered by the often robotic chat helpers.

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On their website they have a nice side menu that divides the different games they sell into the Genre of the game (Trading Card, Roleplaying, Miniatures). This gives the illusion of ease of use, however each click leads to its own special site, that would be great if you played one of those specific games or genres, which makes it hard to compare the different genres if you are new to the systems.

Each of these brand specific websites has its own menu with no easy way to get back to the previous screen without a lot of hunting away from the menu. I also found that it seemed that the Wizards of the Coast seem to promote bad Internet. That is a really busy\flashy site with very little content. They seem to be fans of pictures of dragons and warriors and less a fan of explaining what there site is about.

I will be the first to admit that I can be distracted with a picture of a dragon…but come on.

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On the top of my list is that they make adding links and other html into a What You See type editor. This way people who don’t know how to make links and other html will be able to add links easier as well as make the overall site navigation easier.

I also wish that there where a couple of shop themes that allowed for simple color changes without having to directly manage the css or the whole theme. Also I found that when I was trying to edit the themes that the updates didn’t happen super fast and it took a little while for them to take shape.

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When you are adding games to your MyQ you click a button that says “Rent It”, this works well if you are in the games individual page. When there you the button changes once it is added to your MyQ it changes to say “In Q”. However if you are on the main browsing page it dosen’t change, it continues to say “Rent It”. The site dosen’t let you add it to your My Q again but if you are looking a couple days down the road you might not know if you have added it yet or not.

I also find the sites use of pop up type messages to be annoying. When you click on “Rent It” a message pops up saying that it was added to your My Q, then you have to click on a button to view your My Q or to continue browsing. I find these extra steps to be to much work. I think it would be much nicer if it highlighted the game in yellow or orange and said “Adding to your Q”, the color could then fade to the normal background color allowing quicker browsing and adding if need be.

Also when these pop ups show up it starts you again at the top of the page. If you see three games that you like at the bottom of the page you have to scroll down to them three separate times rather then letting you select multiple games or not forcing the restart at the top of the page.

Also they limit your My Q size. I find this frustrating as I like to add stuff to My Q. I realize that limiting the size makes it easier to manage however since I have two systems I like to add a lot of games and there are at least 25 games of each system that I am interested in playing or at least trying out.

Overall I have found my experience with Game Fly to have been quite good though I do find their site frustrating at times.

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