About Me
Writer Paula Neal Mooney
I love writing.
Ever since the day in grammar school when others balked at picking a story from a book to copy down and practice our penmanship, and I chose a long story to write, I began getting inklings that writing was my thing.
By the time I was trading my writing skills to write my friend’s English papers in exchange for help with my accounting homework in college, I knew I’d been born a writer.
In December 2005, I published my first blog post on my Blogspot-blogger blog.
When Google temporarily took away my ranking on my “Paula Mooney” name for unknowingly Google bombing that search term, I started this PaulaNealMooney.com website.
I don’t know how many dot coms I own now — I just know I still love writing, and it’s paying off.
In 2010, bless the Lord oh my soul, I earned over $50k from writing online, and the income is growing.
I use my writing to inform others of growing trends, warn them about scams online, do product reviews, or just vent and experience cathartic revelations that, in the end, I pray leads many to Christ.
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Oh yes, Christine — Thank you so much!
I know I read about the movie Sparkle being remade, but you just reminded me that Bishop TD Jakes is producing that movie. I love that movie! I was still thinking about the line that Irene Cara’s character told Philip Michael Thomas when she said something like, “Do you know how miserable that is when you think you can’t be without someone and don’t know if you can live another second?”
Wow.
Okay, I will email you to get more info.
Take care,
Paula
Hi Paula,
Could you email me? I saw your recent article on Examiner.com that mentions Bishop T.D. Jakes. You mentioned not knowing about his next movie. I’d be glad to send you information about his next movie Sparkle if you like.
Best,
Christine
Hi Lisa – I see I didn’t reply yet, though I read your comment a few days ago.
Thank God for allowing you to survive breast cancer — there is probably a wealth of information you can write about there.
Make sure to Google “Examiner” and “Paula Neal Mooney” or “Examiner” and “Paula Mooney” to read all the tips I’ve written about getting traffic to your articles. I’m finding it is taking me many hours of not only writing for Examiner but also my own websites to make a decent online income. I hope I can surpass the $50k from last year from all of my writing and affiliate marketing sales combined.
I plan to do a new post soon on my 2011 income from January thru August, because I don’t even know how much I’ve brought in yet. And I will give more tips in that piece and others.
It can take PLENTY of time and favor and work to equal the type of full-time salary you may have enjoyed in the past. I will check out your FitSurvivor.com site — sounds amazing because I love weight-lifting, too.
Be blessed,
Paula
lol
Greetings my friend in Jebus Christ Paula,
I write to you with the sad news that your uncle, Paul Neal Mooney, has passed away in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by way of a giraffe shooting him with a rebellious gun, leaving a money of fortune worth in excess of US$23,500,000. I should like to release to you the money but I need some of your money to do it as t6he ways of international money are dark and mysterious and the mystery is matched only by the mystery.
In short send the small sum of US$3500 to the International Finance Redraw Conglomerate at http://www.IFRC.org, we can release the money to you that you may live in the happiness of Christ.
Yours sincerely,
Not a 419 scam.
Hi Paula,
I ran across your info online for Cleveland Examiner. I wrote one article for Philadelphia Examiner about two years ago and landed a full time job only to be downsized and searching for a job again. I’m a breast cancer survivor and compete in bodybuilding/fitness. I wrote an article on cancer and fitness – the above is my blog – fitsurvivor.com. I have written a few pro – bono articles for bodybuilding.com, Glimmer of Hope, and I wanted to learn what it would take to write full – time. I have a sales background and I don’t want to pound the pavement like I used to everyday because breast cancer treatment (radiation) takes so much out of you. My goal is to motivate, inspire, and encourage other cancer patients/survivors because my doctors and healthcare providers are amazed at what I have been able to do. They feel that more cancer patients need to see me – so they can be inspired. I live in Pittsburgh, PA and was thinking about writing for Columbus Ohio Examiner because its a much more progressive city then Pittsburgh and I used to live there. Check out my blog and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette did an article on my background last July at http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11195/1160092-54-0.stm I’m open to ideas.
Sincerely,
Lisa C. Nicolette
Hi Karl,
Yes, everything you described sounds like the right plan, starting with first of all a topic that a lot of people are searching for — so if you’re checking Google Trends and Alexa.com’s “What’s Hot” URLs that are updated every 5 minutes, along with all the other “most popular” stories on Google News and such, those are place I check to get good content and news ideas.
And then you want to write in an engaging way using good SEO practices (search-engine optimization) and I like to embed a lot of videos on my video pages and write about videos a lot that are popular, because that increase the time spent on my articles and tends to lower my “bounce rate” — and all that can help you in the end earn more.
But to tell you the truth, I just checked my numbers, and July 2011 should bring me around $600 in Examiner.com earnings income — and that’s from all four of my Examiner channels (Cleveland Pop Culture, Christian TV, Christian Music and Internet Deals).
I am grateful, and yet it still used to be a lot easier to make money from Examiner when I first started writing for them in 2009. And I hear it was even easier in 2008 or so, with the top Examiners pulling down $8,000 per month. But since Google’s Panda algorithm change in February 2011, I’ve noticed a change. Some of my pieces still make it into Google News, but not all.
So I think Examiner is still a very viable place for writers to make money online, if they are really willing to work hard at writing, and are writing about the stuff that people are seeking and they are writing in a way that can put them in Google News and be found by lots of people.
However, in addition to my Examiner writing, I’ve been branching out into a lot more niche websites in an effort to increase my Adsense earnings, which already surpassed my Examiner.com earnings in July 2011.
So they are a nice addition and can work in conjunction to all help boost online income.
How do we make more money on Examiner We publish often. We Tweet. Post on all related Facebook Sites. Tag carefully. Rank high on Google annd Gooogle news (type in SF Chefs this week). Any advice please. (I am AG Workman online)
Blessings
Wow! How did you get your Adsense up to $1,500 for the month of May? Is that for your jack.hk website?
Was it the Google Panda update that hurt your earnings?
i am wondering can you send me an email so we can discuss more about making money online?
i just received $1500 from google adsense in may but this month i got a major fall which only earned $400 so far in june.
Hello Paula
I came across your article Here’s Ephren Taylor, The Social Capitalist,Richest Kids in America…
I have been scammed by this Black Madoff and I am looking for others(especially in the Church) that have been ripped off by this crook. I am looking to file a class action suit he is not going to get away scott free I am letting the world in on this guy and how he has devasted so many families out of their life savings. Please let me know if you can help me any further. I want the news media, radio, the government and you did a good job on the internet
Cool, so glad my earnings and writings could help you!
Thanks for your being one of online mentors. I just started my blog about a month ago. I’m still going through growing pains now. So when I grow up I’ll be just like you, lol. But seriously thanks!!
Sure, yes, Wayne.
If you Google a term or find a blog and it’s been deleted, you can see the word “cached” under the links on Google for most items.
If you click on that “cached” link — if they have one and Google hasn’t deleted the cache yet — you can go to the page and see what it used to look like. For example, I just clicked on the cache of my church’s page and this is how it looks:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MnuHNtzvYj8J:www.wordcity.org/pastor-ra-vernon/+Size+Does+Matter+by+Dr.+R.+A.+Vernon&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com
Hi Paula,
How are You? Great I hope. I had a question on a story you wrote back at the end of August 2010. It was written in the Cleveland Pop Culture Examiner about Nicole John who died falling out of a window at a New York City apartment. My question is in that article you mentioned how to get google cache files on a blog. I was wondering when you had time if you could explain how that works or how I could get a blog even after it was removed from a site by the Google cache process. I hope this made sense. Thanks so much for any help you might be able to provide. (I was trying to see if the Nicole John Blog postings could be viewed again after all this time). Thanks.
Wayne