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How to Make Money Online with Adbrite 2007-05-23 06:55:00 Adbrite
* is one AdSense and Text-Link-Ad alternative that is not as successful in making website masters earn money. But if your AdSense account got banned and you can’t make the AdSense team reinstate your account, using Adbrite is a viable option.
So how do you make the most out of Adbrite for you to make money online? Here are some simple steps to get your started:
1. Register for an Adbrite* account.
2. Research on what tags to best describe your site with regards to attracting advertisers. This depends on your site’s market, of course.
3. Allow interstitial ads and ads from the network to fill your ad space and earn through pay per click while your ad space is still not sold to specific advertisers.
4. Don’t price your inventory too high at first, especially if your blog is only receiving an average number of traffic.
5. Place the Adbrite codes somewhere the ads will be easily found. The upper part of the sidebar is usually the best place for any ads.
6. Announ Read more:Money
Top Blogs to Read for Great Blogger Wannabes 2007-05-23 03:46:31
If you want to make the most out of the blogosphere and earn the most participative readers, you might want to take a look at the list of 15 Must-Read Blogs
for Blog Writers from FreelanceSwitch.
The list includes the following blogs which I, myself, have in my Bloglines already.
1. FreelanceSwitch - of course!
2. Lifehacker - productivity tips collected by Gina Trapani, et al.
3. Web Worker Daily - hacks and tips galore for remote workers.
4. Get Rich Slowly - a personal finance blog with well-written tips on what else but money matters.
5. Simple Dollar - straightforward tips on personal finance, too.
Check out the other 10 straight from FreelanceSwitch. Read more:Great
, Blogger
Scammish Fummo May 20 Deadline is Up 2007-05-20 10:21:06
There have been rumors on whether Fummo is plain scam. Although I’m also suspecting this because of the unprofessional website design and poorly written content, I still gave Fummo until May 20 to prove that it won’t fail those who trusted them. If you’d read from their website, it’s supposed to launch on May 20.
Guess what? The gutfeel is right. It’s already May 21 and the six referrals that I have under my account didn’t earn me any money. But I don’t know when they’ve added that requirement that you have to do one of offers, i.e., get $70 bonus if you buy hosting from this or that site, before you can get the $5 per referral. And there’s no way I’ll do any of those offers.
So strike out that this blog post’s title. It’s supposed to be Fummo Scam Proven.
Update: I was sent an email just this hour by what he/she called Fummo admin:
(more…) Read more:Deadline
FusionCash: Make Money Online Completing Offers 2007-05-20 09:38:13
Got an email today from Kristie T. about FusionCash, a get-paid-to-complete-offers service.
Here is straight from its FAQ list:
An offer is an advertiser’s way of gaining customers. An offer may be for a product or service, or merely for registering on a website. Each offer has different terms for completion, which are usually listed along with the offer description. If the offer does not have any “requirements” listed, you may assume that completion requires you to sign up and order the product or service offered.
It has a sign-up bonus of $5. Its offers’ payouts vary from cents to $25. It sends payout via PayPal and check delivery monthly. Like many get paid to complete offer services, it has an affiliate program, too, if you’re into these methods of making money online.
Aside from signing up for a Fusion Cash account, which won’t cost you a dime, the requirements to get started with Fusion Cash include:
An access to the Internet
A valid ema Read more:Money
, Completing
, Offers
Online Business Ideas for Techie Teens: Tech Blogging 2007-05-20 06:55:49 If web designing doesn’t make you tick, you might want to try another online venture that will still make good use of your geekiness - Technology Blogging
.
Blog networks are mushrooming everyday. You can either start as an individual blogger running your own blog about the techie stuff you’re so passionate with - be it gadgets, productivity tips, blog platforms, online applications for project management or collaboration tools or anything that always satisfy your techie side. Or you can apply as a blogger for blog networks looking for technology bloggers.
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, Techie
, Teens
Be a Music Blogger for b5media 2007-05-20 01:44:48 b5media
, THE blog network that has just ramped up to 200+ blogs this year, is looking for yet more bloggers. This time, the recent venture capital receiver global media company is in search of bloggers for their music channel.
We will be looking to cover the emerging music scene in various locations such as Toronto, London UK, New York.
We will be looking to cover various genres and categories such as: acoustic rock, British invasion and influence, classic albums, hip hop, rap, indie rock, music industry news, online music services, the indie experience (from a band's perspective), pop, Top-40 and the world of guitar playing.
We will also be looking to cover specific bands who are newsworthy and blogworthy such as U2, the Beatles and Justin Timberlake.
You can apply here.
via b5media Read more:Blogger
, Music
5 Get Paid to Post Forums 2007-05-16 05:49:00 There are so many reasons why you should browse through forum boards and start posting what you can contribute to those forums’ content. Aside from the wide variety of information that you can get from these forums, you can make money from them, too.
Here are five get-paid-to-post forums that can get you started on making money online just by sharing some bits of advice or asking.
1. WiredFlame.com
Always in search of dedicated and talented writers to become part of their team, they require their writers their free time on a daily basis and assure them that they can earn money just by doing what they love. Writers see this as a great opportunity. They can enjoy their own time and their very own desk where they work. Thing is the positions for this site is limited so one must apply as soon as possible.
The requirements for working for WiredFlame.com are fluency in English, can write 20 words for each post, which will be reviewed and monitored by the WiredFlame staff to ensure the Read more:Forums
WPTextAds: Sell Your Own Text Link Space 2007-05-15 07:57:25 Monetizing a blog, especially, if it’s powered by Wordpress, is getting less stressing each day. This is because the number of plugins or applications that make Wordpress users earn more from their blogs are mushrooming like it’s rainy season. (Fungus = moist? Hope you get it. :-D)
Aside from the WPBankRoll plugin, another downloadable app that you can use to sell from your blog is WP Text Ads.
WP Text Ads allows blog owners to sell text link space directly, which is said to be a lot more profitable since it will rid you of having to say thank you to a middleman who gets a big chunk off your payout as a commission.
With WP Text Ads, publishers can sell text link inventory with the following forms:
- Individual post (like Text Link Ads’ Post Level Ads)
- Home page
- All pages
One can purchase a license for $127 or use it for a limited time for free. However, it might not be too easy to find some advertisers to sell links to. This is the biggest setback that one should Read more:Space
7 Ways to Make Money Online without a Website 2007-05-14 05:11:00
image from Turtblu
If you are interested in making money online, then you may have encountered offers and money-making schemes online that require you to have a website. Setting up your own website, however, can be time-consuming. You will need to learn HTML, or master the use of website making software. You will then have to come up with an eye-friendly, navigation-easy site design, which entails knowledge in color coordination and font-to-motif matching. You also need to have interesting, informative content that site visitors will value so much that they will keep returning to your site.
All this work then needs to be placed on a server, and you may need to buy yourself an easy-to-remember domain name. You will then have consumed time and money in making a website that may potentially make little or no impact in the thousands of other websites now on the Internet. Your aim to earn money, therefore, can fail without the proper website.
But do you truly need a website to succeed f Read more:Money
PCMoneyMaker: Make Money Online Opportunities 2007-05-13 01:03:45
If you are looking for another blog that’s featuring a wide variety of methods to earn using a computer and the Internet, PCMoney
Maker is another great source.
It points to a number of sites paying contributors to submit content, sites that shares revenue to its users, get paid to play opportunities, and more.
Thanks to PCMoneyMaker, I got reminded about Amazon Mechanical Turk, which pays people to do tasks that computers can’t carry out. Read more:Opportunities
Do You Know What to Do with Your 36 Extra Hours Per Week? 2007-05-26 11:47:11 You do? Then, if you can encapsulate all the self-fulfilling, productive, and world wellness activities you’d like to do with your extra 36 hours per week in 350 words or less, you could win a round-trip around the world and more courtesy of the 4-Hour Workweek Global Challenge.
If you haven’t learned about the 4-Hour WorkWeek book yet, it is this highly talked about book on getting the most out of your time no matter if you are an office slave or a CEO. You can read a wide variety of reviews, mostly positive on this book authored by Tim Ferriss.
Here are the mechanics of this challenge:
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, Hours
Business Ideas for Techie Teens: Get Paid to Game Google 2007-05-25 09:07:32
If you are great with web designing and you can definitely blog or create content and would like to know about another option on how you can make money online using another online business model, read on.
Reputation Defender, an online identity monitoring service, is a search engine optimization company that does what it claims as “Google
insulation.”
For a monthly $10 fee, it monitors what information about the client is being disseminated online. And for an extra $30, it can “destroy” content that is not favorable to the client. via Forbes
This is one of the businesses that Google helps make thrive.
What does it take to put up this kind of online business?
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, Techie
, Teens
Freelance Rate Calculator 2007-05-24 04:50:48
How much is your time worth? The never-ending question personal finance experts AND freelancers keep on trying to answer. Now how about using a calculator to determine how much your time is worth really.
Freelance
Switch have developed a fun calculator that aims to guide freelancers on coming up with a good estimate of their hourly rate. This calculator depends on the expenses, number of billable hours, and desired profit of a freelancer.
Here is the FreelanceSwitch Hourly Rate Calculator
.
I tried it and guess what’s my ideal hourly rate? $28.13!
Tell me yours?
Tags: freelance hourly rate, calculate hourly rate
Get Your Readers Buy You a Beer 2007-05-23 21:32:00
Making people to buy you a beer online is now also on blogs. I said also because I thought this only applies to the Warrior Forum that I used to frequent. You know if you’d like to buy a certain e-book or any product from one of the warrior forum members, one of the payment methods is via buying that member a beer via Paypal, too if I remember it right.
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V7N Contextual Link 2007-05-30 06:25:06 While looking for more *Text-Link-Ad‘ish ways to earn from a blog, I found another text link ad selling service in the form of that of V7 Network’s.
However, it’s available only to the members of V7N Network forum. And instead of being like Text-Link-Ads wherein you usually place the links on the sidebar or somewhere else except on blog posts. V7N Contextual
Links is more of ReviewMe-like than TLA’ish I guess because of this information I got from its FAQ.
Q. Do the links get placed on web sites owned and operated by V7 Inc?
A. No. We have a large network of bloggers who are paid to place the links contextually in a blog post on their own blogs.
Also, you are required to have a PayPal account to get paid.
You can join the V7 Network’s text link ad service here again only if you are already a member of the forum.
*referral link
Why Blog-Referred Prospects Can Raise Your Home Business Profits to New Heights 2007-05-29 08:39:26
They’re easy to sell to, you can consider them a captured market, they’re a major method of strategy and yet many entrepreneurs fail to harness the possibilities that come with each referred prospect made by their blogs. Here’s why you should take advantage of the sales potential blog referred prospects bring so you can turn your profits way, way up:
When blogging’s done properly you can build a good measure of trust.
Referred prospects are easier to sell to because they already have an idea of what your product is and what it can offer. When clients are happy, they can convince other people to do business with you. If they’re pleased about their experience, you can be sure that they will let other people know about it and convince their referrals that your products are better and worth a try. More than half of those who make a purchase, especially of a new product, have been referred by previous customers.
How do you build trust with the help of your blo Read more:Business
, Heights
Online Business Tools to Improve Customer Experience 2007-05-29 02:45:28 Do you have an e-commerce site? Or do you have a professional blog that’s meant to gain you more clients? If you are planning to increase interaction or simply make your website more helpful in your endeavor to improve your client base, these online tools might be what you’ve long been looking for:
1. Click and Connect Customer
Service Tool
A phone to phone service from Jaduka that connects a user to a customer service representative with just one click.
2. Google Maps API
Online businesses with brick-and-mortar stores can benefit from this Google service. It embeds a customizable map on a website with the help of Javascript technology.
3. Web Video Tool
One of the advertising media that is gaining momentum is via online videos. Interactive Video Technologies is a DIY tool that can make webcasting a cinch if you have products or services that you’d like to demonstrate for promotional purposes.
I’d like to add Sitepal, which lets you create an animated character Read more:Business
, Tools
, Improve
Secret Blog Promo Challenge 2007-05-27 10:47:00
As I’ve mentioned at the last part of my How to Make Money Online Gaming Google (SEO Business) post, I’ll be launching an SEO challenge for now.
What will this challenge be all about?
I’ll be aiming to get on the first page of the Google search engine for a keyphrase that I won’t mention today. It is a fairly competitive keyphrase since a lot of blogs similar to this blog’s theme are also aiming for a top position for a similar keyphrase. Why similar? You’ll find out in the long run.
If you will visit my blog regularly, you will definitely know what keyphrase I’m targeting to get a good rank on. So keep yourself posted! Read more:Promo
, Challenge
Alexa Site Gets a New Look 2007-05-27 00:39:14
If you are trying to see the traffic flow of a website or if you are planning to make money online via monetizing a blog , the Alexa
traffic ranking feature is one online tool that may interest you.
Wondering what is traffic rank all about?
The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users). The three-month change is determined by comparing the site’s current rank with its rank from three months ago. For example, on July 1, the three-month change would show the difference between the rank based on traff
Get Lorelle Vanfossen Book for Free 2007-06-01 03:00:15
Hoping to win Lorelle Vanfossen’s (the A-lister blogger from whom many can learn from when it comes to blogging and the ethics of it) book - Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging through the Work at Home on the Internet Blogging Project.
If you want to give it a shot while helping those who are running home businesses, all you have to do is write an article on how a blog can aid home business owners. You have until June 2 to submit your entry. Guess which blog post here is my entry.
Flood of Blogging Jobs 2007-05-31 21:55:25 I discovered another source of job openings for bloggers via Blog News Watch - Performancing Blogger Jobs thread
Here’s one blogging job for techie bloggers, specifically those who are experts on the following topics:
Web 2.0 applications, and web technologies in general
VoIP, telephony, cellular
Wi-Fi
IPTV/ Internet TV
GPS
RFID - light emphasis
Go here for the details of the job.
Tags: technology blogging, blog job, Performancing Read more:Blogging
How to Sell Infoproducts You Trust but Didn’t Make 2007-05-31 09:14:47 Infoproducts can be books or e-books, articles, or videos that teach you something. It’s a bit easier to sell if you’re the author and a bit harder if you’re not. Here are a couple of tips to help you out if your situation coincides with the latter.
Test it yourself. There’s nothing as powerful and convincing as firsthand experience and testimonials. More importantly, critics would hard to refute your words since it’s all about how you experienced it.
Establish your credentials. People are more inclined to buy from you if they know you’re a good and trustworthy person with excellent qualifications.
Use your friends as test subjects. Have them pay for it if you can but if not then give away a few samples.
Their positive feedback can help you sell thrice as much in the end. Encourage them to fully and freely express their comments so that you can capture the essence of what they’re saying. Customers have a way of knowing when a person’s laying it a bit too thick, and that
Guest Blogger Matching Service for Busy Bloggers 2007-05-31 05:41:41
Darn! Guest
-Blogger
.com domain registrants have beat me into getting that domain name:
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: GUEST-BLOGGER.COM
Created on: 27-May-07
Setting up a site mainly to match guest bloggers to those people with blogs but can’t maintain it for a while was my goal for that domain name. But I told myself that if it’s no longer available, then I guess that won’t take off.
And just today, I saw from Darren Rowse’s speed linking post that there’s actually now a service offering just that! It’s objective is to not pose a solution to those who are unable to continue maintaining their blogs for quite some time but to also increase the popularity of those who will be tasked to do some guest blogging.
Is it a paid guest blogging matching service? Not yet. But I think this service will become a very lucrative business if the management plays their card right. I suggest that they take in ghost b Read more:Service
, Guest Blogger
Yahoo Search Engine Results Update 2007-05-31 01:05:24
Results of SEO efforts will definitely be showing up any time soon, especially for those who have sites getting major traffic number from Yahoo
! This is because an index update has just happened.
I got this inkling already because some of my never blogs that have been getting more traffic from Google are now getting more visitors that are Yahoo-referred. ‘Guess Yahoo!’s favoring my blogs more now than it did before although Tim Mayer of Yahoo! has mentioned that it will only show minor results
via SearchEngine
Land.
Tags: Yahoo index update, Yahoo SEO Read more:Update
Ways to Make Money Online for Free 2007-05-30 04:50:07 Edith Yeung, a personality development writer and entrepreneur has compiled 53 ways to Make Money
on the Internet.
However, she has divided them into four major categories for easier digestion:
1. Online Advertising
YPN, Clicksor, and Pheedo are some of the online ad networks that Edith Yeung highlighted. It definitely pays to have more options other than AdSense.
2. Affilate Marketing
Clickbank and Commission Junction are two of the most popular affiliate marketing services Edith has mentioned. I have noticed more referral programs that I’m not familiar with such as ShareaSale and Jellyfish. Will definitely try them out when I get the time.
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Link Building vs SEO Content in Increasing Traffic 2007-06-05 04:59:19
Those who would like to get more traffic for their sites but are obsessed with keyword-stuffing can definitely benefit from this information I have just recently confirmed.
Link building is a better traffic booster than writing web content made for search engines.
How did I find out about this? I have been experimenting on a blog that I stuff with keyword-rich content for more than a year now and it has never reached the first spot of the only 20,000,000 search engine results although it sometimes reaches the first page.
I think that many of the sites that are consistently on the first page are not even targeting the keywords that I have been tweaking my content with, these sites are still on the first page of the search engine results for the terms that I thought my blog deserves to be found with.
After analyzing what it is with those sites that causes them to outrank my content SEO
’ed blog, I discovered they have more backlinks or inbound links compared wi Read more:Building
, Content
, Increasing
, Link Building
Blog Goals for June 2007-06-03 23:42:25
Do you blog just whenever you feel like blogging? That’s fine if you are blogging for the sole purpose of venting out or expressing thoughts. Or simply put, that’s fine if you intend to keep your personal blog just that - a personal blog.
But what if you want to augment your income with the help of your blog? Definitely, blogging just “every now and then” won’t work. You have to have a plan on how to make your blogging for money endeavor take off.
In view of this came the decision to set up my own blogging goals, which is a list of to-do’s which may not be too ambitious but will most likely help me in keeping things in perspective.
Since Flood of Dollars is about making money online, it’s only logical that I try to make money online from it, while keeping a symbiotic relationship with my current and future readers. Although even without any motivation I’ll still do my best to make FOD as resourceful as possible, it never hurts to ge Read more:Goals
How I Made Extra $203 in One Month Using My Blog 2007-06-08 07:09:24 Aside from my freelance SEO writing gig, I also welcome any new ways that will allow me to make money with only my time and Internet connection as investments. Just this May I was blessed to get some new clients because of simple additions to my blog. Let me tell you about these three winning blog tweaks.
1. I Mentioned My Email Address A Tad More Often
I have been hesitating to mention my email address anywhere public because of my fear of getting bombarded with email spam, which I patiently check one by one because I sometimes miss client inquiries which get filtered. But when people who are not so accustomed to looking for the ‘about the author’ page inquires, I can’t help but mention it every now and then.
Obsessive compulsive spam checking has been my online vice for quite some time. But I believe what triggered it (almost losing one important client) is not so irrational so it’s justifiable, right? As I’ve mentioned this is the very rea Read more:Extra
, Month
Setting Up LinkWorth LinkInTxt 2.0 2007-06-08 02:39:30 In-text ads services, which offer text link ads that are inside a site’s content usually linked on keywords, like Kontera, Intellitext, and Adbrite’s are now joined by another in-text ad program - LinkWorth’s LinkInTxt 2.0.
When it LinkInText was launched, it’s required for a publisher to enter each web page that he or she would like the intext ads to appear on. However, just today, I’ve received an email that it now has its own search engine that will crawl the webpages of a site to automatically include intext ads in stead of manually entering each web page.
Here are the steps to take advantage of LinkInTxt’s automatic crawling:
Here’s what you need to do: (more…) Read more:Setting
Can You Blog Like the Gizmodo Bloggers? 2007-06-06 05:29:48 If you think you can do what the Gizmodo
bloggers do - posting short but very hot gadget news several times a day, then you might want to apply as a gadget blogger here.
All you have to have is a flexible schedule and sheer passion for what else but techie gadgets. Here are the specifics of the posting requirements:
It’s a daily posting job and you must write a minimum of 13 posts per day on weekdays, and a minimum of 6 posts every weekend, we’re talking about simple posts, like the ones you can see on Gizmodo for instance, not 3000-word original articles. Plus, 6 posts at least must be written and published from 8am-9am to 12pm EST on weekdays only.
How much is the salary? $500 and more if you can make the blog grow. By the way, don’t forget to mention that you got it from FloodofDollars.com since I may also earn $50 as a referral reward if you get hired.
Here’s more about making money online as tech blogger.
via LifeHacker Jobs
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