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What's This? A Free Plane Ticket and a Chance to Make Money Online? 2007-06-29 22:42:32 John over at bankaholic has a post that American Express Business Gold Rewards Credit Card is offering a FREE domestic round-trip airplane ticket for signing up!
Yea, we all know that credit card companies spend thousands just to get another customer, but this one is just plain crazy! Just imagine a free round-trip plance ticket for free?
Better yet, I saw this comment on his post:
sweeeeet!!! i got approved instantly. i'm gonna use my plane ticket and visit my brother in atlantic city, and swing by the casino while im there.
They approve applications instantly! Now that's insane.
But don't forget, there's a catch
These credit card companies don't just give away things. How would they earn if they do that? So here's the catch, you need to use the credit card first (One is enough) before getting your free plane ticket.
That's not that bad eh? Here it is in their own words in fine print:
Apply for the Business Gold Rewards Card and make a Read more:Money
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Images on Posts - Why I Started Adding Images on my Posts 2007-06-29 07:29:00 If you have observed, you can see that on my last posts, starting June 20 I started using images on my posts. It's not actually for search engines, but for new comers and of course, to my loyal readers.
It's not a big thing actually but heck?! A picture is worth a thousand words right? An image can tell stories. Like this one:
And this:
See the effect? What did you see from the images above?
Your reader's creativity will run wild when you use pictures on your posts, It's not that hard really.
Anyway… If you're looking for some non-copyrighted images that you want to use in your blog posts you can try http://www.sxc.hu/ my favorite!
But to make it more unique, edit it in photoshop or use the open-source gimp if you don't have a budget.
---Related Articles at Make Money Online with a 13-Year Old:Don't Just Put the ALT Tag in your Images
- Driving Traffic through Google's Image SearchObtain More Subscribers and Stand-
$220 Contest Extended Until July 1! 2007-06-26 09:53:46
Remember the $220 Contest
? Well it has been a month since I launched it and as I specified, It will end June 25 (That is yesterday) Sorry I posted this a little bit off. But Anyway, I'm extending the contest for 5 more days!
I'll pick the winners this Sunday and post here the video. Just to show you some proof and maybe a proof also to those who asks me that am I really 13! Well I'm not because I'm already 14
Here are the contest prizes:
Full Site Review - Worth $60
Sidebar Ad - Worth $30
2 Month Sidebar Link (Sitewide!) - Worth $30
And last but definitely not the least, a blog redesign Worth $100!
What to do:
6 TICKETS Put that cake in your blog - It can be in a post, in your sidebar, anywhere! Just remember to link to this article. Just to inform everyone that I'm 14
5 TICKETS Review my blog - The review can be positive or negative! Whatever you like! Though you should link this blog's homepage with an anch Read more:Extended
, Until
Make Money Online - Batch 11 2007-06-26 08:52:48 It's time to serve the next batch of "Make Money
Online" reviews! It has been a week since I posted a fresh batch of 5 but anyway, I'll give a little order to posting the reviews so everybody won't keep e-mailing me asking when I will post the review. I'll do it like this: I'll post a batch if I complete a list of ten reviews.
Though today, I'll post only 7 reviews. The new posting frequency of the "Make Money Online" reviews will be applicable to the next batch of review
Project Agloco
Earn Global
The Link Bait
Few Bucks
Thoughts to Blog
Enkay Blog
Andre Santos
Gain new Readers! Review My Blog
It's simple, just give me a review linking to any of this site's posts with any, yes any anchor text! Please don't make crappy reviews and be sure it is worth linking to
After you make your review, e-mail me the link of your review and the anchor text that you want me to use linking to your site’s
The Power of Link Love Baby 2007-07-15 08:56:15
How important is link love? So you have that blog going, been approved by an ad program and now are ready to see the money roll in! Exciting, isn’t it? It is until you see that the money isn’t rolling in. In fact the magical $3.03 a day average needed to get to the $100 threshold to receive a check from Google or one of the other companies can be very hard to reach.
Your professional blogging days are being worn down every time you log into check your stats. STOP! You are breaking a major rule. The rule of not checking your money stats more than 1 - 2 times a day. This will wear you down and eventually lead to your ultimate quitting the blogging scene.
Instead of checking your money stats start building quality links. Build community on other blogs by posting comments and actively taking part in the life of other blogs. Post questions, read other comments and reply with real answers. The blogging community responds and you will earn some traffic.
Jake Rinard ha
PPC Landing Page Guidelines 2007-07-14 08:32:21
Here are some GOOD rules to follow when creating your Pay Per Click Advertisements and Driving Users to your Site Landing Pages!
1. Always Provide Quality, Substantial and Relevant Content!
When a user clicks on your Pay Per Click Ad and does not quickly see what they are looking for, they will leave your site frustrated and it just cost you MONEY! Try to stay within these boundaries and minimize “Bounce Rate”
Link to pages on your web site that will provide the most useful, relevant and accurate content about the service or product in your advertisement.Try to provide content without registration requirements, or provide a preview of what they’ll get by signing up!
In general, build your site so it will provide useful and substantial content to the user. If your landing page consists of mostly advertisements or search results, you should give as much detailed information as you can beyond what your advertisement describes. For example, if your advertisement mentions (’Free D Read more:Guidelines
Important Blog Pages - Blog Pages You Should Have to Look like a Professional 2007-06-21 08:40:45
I see loads of blogs everyday and honestly, 30-40% of those have a good and professional looking design. Though honestly, sometimes I judge a blog’s worth through its design: the cleanliness, the easy navigation, the colors, and a lot more.
But as I have observed, only 5-10% of the blogs that I visit have the Important Blog Pages
which is very important
So, what are those?
About Page
Contact Page
Archives Page
Advertising Page
About Page
Probably the most important of all, a blog’s about page is a like your own myspace page. Where you put who you are, what you are, what you do and some of your hobbies and interests (Now, don’t ramble too much!). It’s another way you can interact with your readers and be transparent to them.
What should I put in my about page?
Picture - Of YOU, not your cat! Your picture is very important when it comes to your about page, it makes the reader’s feelings a bit more secure and makes them feel closer to you.
Wha?! Who are you? - The about pag
Google’s wicked plan! 2007-03-24 08:31:13
Watch this! It’s based on the book “The Google
Story” by David A. Vise.
Who the heck is the director of this?! hmm.. maybe it’s Microsoft! hahahaha!
---Related Articles at Make Money Online with a 13-year old:Want Traffic? Get your FeedsWeb Analytics - Is it that important?SEO tips from a Kid!The Power of Link Love Baby
SEO Adsense Ready Wordpress Theme by the 13-year old Problogger 2007-03-22 08:22:29
Remember my Adsense
ready Wordpress
K2 theme? If you love it, you’ll love this even more! Presenting SEO
Adsense ready Wordpress theme! Theme
by Mike Little and edited by me
I have added the ad units basing on the Golden Triangle that is proven to maximize your CTR. The
Golden Triangle is a joint eye study conducted by Internet Marketers to track where people give interests to a page.
There are 3 ad units, 1 link unit and 1 search unit on every page placed on correct places proven to get those high CTR that you wanted!
Here are some screen shots:
But wait! This theme is not just an adsense ready theme it’s also SEO (search engine optimized) to get higher rankings in search results.
Download SEO adsense ready wordpress theme. (DOWNLOAD NOT AVAILABE ANYMORE
After downloading it, be sure to change the publisher id’s located in the main index, leftcolumn.php and page template.
Hey, don’t forget; don’t remove my link in the footer eh? Okay? Thanks!
---Related Articles at Make
Web Analytics - Is it that important? 2007-03-20 08:16:24
If you have a website you might be familiar with “Web Analytics
” well, if you ask me it’s very important, my blog won’t survive without it. Because I use my web analytics (which is 103bees and Google Analytics, we’ll talk about that later) to search for keywords and also to track my visitors. Many use it for business, internet marketing and advertisement. It is very popular on SEO’s and webmaster due to the fact that they use it to track different keywords and long tails.
We all know that the web is a very competitive place, don’t we? There are always new websites and mostly blogs that come up everyday. So what are you going to do so you will stand out of those gazillion of blogs? The answer is CONTENT MANAGING, but how? Well, track visitors so that you know what to give them.
Don’t worry lad, it’s not that hard. Just insert some piece of HTML and poof you’ll be tracking like a guru.
Some web analytics has this features that I REALLY need:
1. Visitors - Of course
6 ways to get an unsuccessful blog 2007-03-18 07:55:53
Hehehe I know the title seems unusual because most of the time when I post, I post all the positives. I gave it a little twist, just to be sure you won’t get bored with me
Okay so here’s how to get an unsuccessful blog:
1. Get pieces of crumbs from other sites - What I mean is, get a copied content to other sites, this is the best way to be unsuccessful if you ask me, because I really hate copied content from other sites. It’s irritating!
2. Be Boring! - Doh! It’s obvious; nobody wants to read a boring blog which makes you sleep when you read it. So be sure to write content that is so boring if you want a fruitless blog.
3. Make up stories - Well, if you blog about fairy tales it’s ok but when you blog about news and the like and if you want people to not trust you make up stories so you could have a blog that suck. Don’t forget to exaggerate the truth also.
4. Don’t update - Once a week is enough to update your blog if you really want a blog that sucks a lot. Make peop
Tips from a kid on how to get a successful Niche 2007-03-17 07:52:18
First step is to think of a niche that you will put on your site. Well actually this is the hardest part for almost all of internet marketers out there. After all, it is very hard to find a niche that people will love. You have come to the right place, I’ll tell you some secrets that many people don’t know to get that niche that you wanted that people would love.
After reading this whole article, I swear to you that you would find it easy to find niches that people would love and that will make you earn money from it.
Niche Tip # 1
Research! Research! - Keyword research is a good way of finding a niche, but how? This is the secret. Start off by choosing a not so specific topic like: cars, food, health and etc. Here’s a good tool you can use.
Niche Tip #2
List up your possible niche - Make a list of all the possible specific topics that you got from your research. Making a list would make it easier for you to choose and establish your niche.
Niche Tip #3
Research Again! - Af
Getting your Referral Traffic 2007-03-16 07:41:22
I know everybody wants traffic to their site, even me! But do you lack traffic? Well that’s the number one problem why internet business fail, no matter how high quality are the items their selling or advertising they still fail because they lack traffic.
Don’t be like them! Because there are many ways on how you could drive traffic to your website, but it does take time about moths or even years! WHAT IF you could get that traffic that you wanted years ago in just days and weeks? How evil is that?!
There are loads of ways you could do to flood your site with traffic. Most of them are expensive and also time consuming. I’ll tell you a little secret, you’ll get those expensive and time consuming traffic that you wanted right after you read this post and of course after you put it into action!
As a matter of fact flooding your site with traffic is just easy because there are many ways that you could easily do with no cost and only for a little time. Now I will show you my evil Read more:Referral
SEO tips from a Kid! 2007-03-14 07:39:06 SEO
(Search Engine Optimization) is a thing that usually drive people’s heads off!! Naaahh! Ok, here’s the thing: Search Engine Optimization is an act of optimizing your website or blog to be more Search Engine Friendly. Almost %75 of web traffic comes from search engines and that’s why it is required to optimize your webpage.
Optimizing your website/blog is a procedure to maximize the unique visitors of your website by building a Search Engine Optimized webpage. You should be in charge of the top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) which take control of almost all the search traffic in the web. By Search Engine Optimization you could make your website to be in the first pages of those search engines above!
SEO is easy as 123:
Keyword research- The most important in SEO is keywords, of course if you don’t have the right keyword your nothing. Also internet marketing strategies should also be implemented in choosing the right keywords to optimize.
Monthly Optimization - I
Affiliating With Health Business For Lifetime Commission 2008-03-08 10:20:55 This post is sponsored by MedStore and posted by Charles Lau.
A professional-looking website, with a lot of human and animal photographs in it. This website I am going to talk about has a pretty good idea about the kind of Internet business that they are working on. It looks complicated on the surface, and yet it is very simple to use once you started to do a few clicks on the website. It has an affiliate program to attract interested website owners to refer interested traffic to their website. This next website I am going to talk about is the affiliate program for MedStore, a Prescriptions and Health
website which has an exhaustive list of products and information to educate anybody who is interested in any kind of medicine and health.
Please allow me to show you a video review of M Read more:Business
, Lifetime
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I Have A Confession To Make… 2008-03-08 01:21:13 I've been busy lately.
Aside from school work, games and stuff, I've been meeting with this towering internet marketer. For the last few days, we wrestled tons of stuff that could possibly give knock out punches to the internet marketing industry.
I am not allowed to give all the details now but all I can say is, this is new. It's something you've never seen before - and when I say never, I MEAN it. I'm not one of those who pitch all day long with no real content. We are coming with hardcore information here, we even want to serve it to you in a silver plater.
Stay subscribed, I'll come back next week with more news about this.
Help! WordPress Plugin Hack Attacks 2008-03-02 08:57:09 Update: Thanks to Hafiz Dhanani for the tip (via the comments section). The contributor account seems to have a back door access to the two plugins that were "hacked".
It seems like someone is playing with my WordPress plugins lately.
When I woke up this morning, I was surprised to see that the settings of the plugin Related Posts was changed. The items that it was supposed to show was set to one - before it was three. The tag before the related posts were touched too and the show excerpt option was set to true which was set to false before.
The Feed Count plugin was also left altered and instead for it to point to Feedburner, it was suspiciously linking to kasakk.blogspot.com that seems to be a reader of my blog kasakk.blogspot.com/2008/02/14-years-old-blogger-is-it-littlle.html (I'm n Read more:Plugin
, WordPress Plugin
Melo Villareal Helping You To Make Money At Home 2008-03-01 18:15:20 This post is sponsored by Melo Villareal and posted by Charles Lau
I was reading through Melo Villareal's blog about making money at home. A neat and presentable Manila Freelancer blog for all of us to enjoy. Looking at the overall view of the blog, it has a pretty decent page, optimized for its blog expansion with the 6 banner ads on the right above, and some of the advertisements and featured sites on the right below. It has also installed a plugin to use strip ad right on top of the blog for maximum exposure.
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Post Consistency
Melo Villareal has been consistently posting his blog. Probably with a few hiccups in between on January 2007, March 2007 and October 2007, the rest of the months have been really consistently posted with articles. Looking at the archives page of Read more:Helping
, Money
The $8,907.83 Contest Is Now Live - Advertising Packages Galore! 2008-02-29 08:21:15 The contest is officially live.
Sorry for the slight delay though, I've got loads of things cooking for the last few days - just keep coming back or subscribe to my newsletter through the sign up form above to get informed about it.
Alright, so this is the first part of the $8,907.83 first year anniversary contest. Today the prizes are a bunch of advertising spots from 17 sponsors, bundled in seven packages, served to you in a silver plater.
The Prizes
Package One:
One 125 x 125 ad spot for a month worth $20 from Putting Blogs First
One ad spot for a month worth $80 from Gather Success
One 125 x 125 ad spot for a month worth $10 each from Etenblog
One premium featured ad spot for a month worth $25 from 1coolfile
Package Two:
One 350 x 250 ad spot for two months worth $70 from iPenci Read more:Contest
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It’s Linkbombing Time! - 2/26/08 2008-02-26 07:48:54 Landrush .ASIA Domains
Looks like loads of domainers will make good money with the new .asia TLD this year. Although the pre-application opened three months ago, this was the first time I heard of it.
The minimum registration is for two years for $40, not bad as a lot of generic names are still available for pre-application at Godaddy - In fact, I've ordered 15 pre-applications today.
Learn how to advertise from a 14 year old
Carl Ocab is a great blog to highlight here on Advertising Blogger, specifically because it’s a great example of what you can do online if you work hard and set your mind to it. If a 14-year-old kid can make a ton of advertising cash with a blog—even with school and chores getting in the way—then there’s really no reason why you can’t, too. And no, there
About The New WordPress Theme 2008-02-25 05:56:23 A lot of people have been asking me lately "Where did you get your theme?" "Who designed it?" "Can I use it on my blog too?"
Actually, this post about the new design was only half the story. You see, I ordered a PSD blog design from Design Guru Ryan for $250 to get a completely unique one. His first concept was this:
Although the design was clearly unique, the colors didn't blend that well and some parts of the blog did not get that much importance like the signup box - that I wanted to prioritize.
After receiving the design, I requested a full revision with the colors I wanted and some more fine tunning. I then got this second one:
I was stunned with the sparkle of the red shadings so I said to myself "This must be it". Although I didn't feel that much comfortable with the logo and Read more:Theme
Specialized Website Templates Just For Internet Marketers 2008-02-24 07:41:13 This post is sponsored by Mini-Site Gallery and posted by Charles Lau.
If you are looking for a suitable website template to sell your digital product, you would probably have difficulty choosing the right template through the website galleries which are freely available for download. Why am I saying so? If you have noticed, most of the templates are built with the aim of a corporate look where you have some of the menus such as "About us", "Products and Services" and "Contact Us". You don't actually need them in your website since your purpose is to sell your digital product effectively. What you really need is a good sales copy where the words are there to sell to your potential customer effectively.
Mini-Site Template Gallery
I have not found such specialized galleries before until Read more:Specialized
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I Paid 12 Months To Learn These 32 Things 2008-02-23 09:49:54 February 4, 2007 - Carl Ocab dot com was born. The 13-year old blogger made waves, gigantic waves in the blogosphere - up to now.
Err! Enough with the spiffy 3rd voice introduction.
So yeah, I've just celebrated my first year anniversary, bought a cake and took a good glance of the past. I'll also be having a contest, but there's more than that.
Blogging has taught me hundreds of things since then. Today, I've compiled them and picked the best to share it with you. I'd suggest you bookmark it, print it out and save it in your desktop.
But before that, I would like to give a little plug here to those who have helped me succeed a lot of things online, blogging and in life. Special mention goes to the Lord God for guiding me, helping me and in all of these things. My parents who have̷ Read more:Months
Website Traffic And Article Marketing 2008-02-21 07:44:48 This article is guest posted by Dianne Ronnow.
My favorite way to get traffic to my sites and blogs has to be article marketing. It’s really a very simple concept and the best kind of a win-win situation.
The first step in getting your site noticed is to have a site that is designed in a way that is search engine friendly. That is called SEO (search engine optimized). This is mostly a web designing issue. We will assume that you are starting with an SEO optimized site. Carl has some great advice for optimizing websites here: -seo-tips
The next step in getting the search engines to notice your site, is to understand them. The search engines' whole purpose is to find quality content-- that is what the Internet is all about. Information. And the more content (related to your site's most Read more:Article
, Marketing
Make your RSS subscribers shoot up with SIMPLE methods 2008-03-14 23:21:48 This article is guest posted by Pranav Rastogi.
I am using a couple of simple tricks and plugins to increase my blog's RSS readers constantly. Today I'm going to show you HOW you can also do it.
Plugins
I have installed a couple of plugins in my Wordpress blog to do the work.
MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad
I've been using this plugin since 2 weeks till now and it has helped me 90% of the time in getting many RSS feed subscribers. After installing this plugin my feed readers went from 0 to 35 within 2 days of installation. After you have activated MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad plugin, go to Options -> MBP Stripe Ad. Now add a new stripe ad. Make sure that the anchor text(title) draws the attention of your readers, I have added "Subscribe to our FULL RSS Feed for fresh YOGURT!" as the title. In th
School Is Out, I’m Back! 2008-03-14 09:26:02 Later this day, we just finished taking our 4th quarterly exam (it's a test that covers ALL the things discussed from start to end) and at last, I can breath clearly again.
So that's a wrap, school is out.
I don't normally do this, but what the heck? Here are some pictures of "us":
Alright, nuff show. I'll miss this school year - it was a blast.
To those who aren't subscribed yet, subscribe now via RSS or email. I'm ready to rock again! Read more:School
Beneficial Mistakes 2008-03-17 07:25:46 Yesterday, I was walking with my little brother at the beverage area of our local mart. We were looking for drinks to gulp down on our way home. There were hundreds of different colas. You know, those piles of drinks in a long open fridge.
Then I saw this weird looking, 1980’s style orange drink that says “With real pulp inside”.
Suddenly, something popped out of my head.
I remembered this little story (urban legend?) that used to haunt a local orange drink here in our country.
They have this promise that their drink has real orange ingredients in it. But during the bottling process, one of their machines broke and spilled the dried pulp over the orange drink.
In spite of that, the bottling went ahead. The drink was sent and sold to almost all stores nationwide.
Big deal? YES,
The Tactical Freelancer - 4 Easy Steps To Conquer The Competition 2008-03-21 05:28:40 This article has been guest posted by the folks that gave you 101 Ways to Make Money Online
If you are going to be a freelancer, then be a successful one! Forget this working for chump change non-sense that has plagued the freelance world for so long. Forget the constant worry of whether or not you made the right decision to work from home. Just tuck your head between your legs, jump overboard and never look back.
Mass Market Your Tail Off
Are you going to be a guppy or a shark? If your going to make any money freelancing, you better start thinking like a shark. If you decide to take the easy route, sit back and wait for opportunities to come to you, they are not going to. Why, because I am going to sneak in during the night and take them before you have a chance, don't let that̷ Read more:Tactical
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Blogger Holding $1000 Contest Every Month! 2008-03-24 07:46:19 This post is sponsored by Thousand Dollar Project and posted by Charles Lau.
Well, I have never seen a guy who is as daring as this next reviewee I am going to talk about. This guy is virtually holding contests every month to give away $1000 in cash! I was pretty shocked to see such a daring move from an Internet Marketer who self-proclaimed himself to be successful in his trade, and I believe such a marketer must have been making quite a lot of money online to be able to support his stand of giving away $1000 every month. His name is Chris - based in the UK - and he has a make money online website, which consists mainly a blog and a forum.
A Video Review Of His Website Live!
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Is He Really Successful As An Internet Marketer?
I don't really know Chris personally. But judging Read more:Blogger
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It’s Linkbombing Time! - 3/22/08 2008-03-22 10:34:12 Top 30 Young Bloggers Under 21
Here's a not so ordinary list compiled by Mike over at Retireat21. Guess who's the number one? ;-)
The Blog Monetization Strategies E-book
This ebook has been been launched last month but due to my horribly busy schedule, I only had time today to share this striking report from Matt Jones.
Go get it, it's worth the read.
How To Make Money Giving Away Your Free Ebook
Yep, give it away and get rich still exists! Free ebook my Dr. Mani.
Win $12,201 in FREE Prizes
It seems like someone overtook our $8,907.83. Check out Gyutae Park's contest.
Domain Lookup Firefox Extension
I'm not a big fan of domaining but this tool seems pretty useful. With just a click of a button, it will show the other TLD's available for the domain of your choice.
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