Paid blogging options for making money online

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

There are many ways to make money online like making a blog in a
niche you are most interested in and generate income from it by showing
pay per click ads, affiliate links and banners or textual links that
are sold privately or via a text link selling marketplace. Apart from
these ways to monetize a blog, there is one more simplest and fastest
way to make instant money from a blog in any niche that’s via various
paid blogging (Get paid to blog) networks.
From advertiser prospective, there are many blogs who performs really
well in their specific niches. And advertisers want to place some links
or written content with some link back to their websites to increase
their search engine rankings and to spread words about their website
and services in blogsphere.
And when you work as a publisher or blogger on a paid blogging network,
you will get some fee or percentage of total review cost if you
complete a review about an advertiser website successfully. So to start
making money with paid blogging, all you have to do become a member of
some well loved paid blogging networks with the best blogs that you
have. Some blog networks have conditions about your blogs like it must
be more than 3-6 months ancient, updated 2-3 times a week, some excellent PR
and Alexa ranking.
Once you get approval from some blogging networks, visit your account
on these websites to see if there are some open opportunities waiting
for you there or place some bids on the open opportunities that are
available. Some paid networks even send e-mail notice about open
opportunities or task waiting for your approval.
When you get an opportunity to write for an advertiser, write your
content according to the terms about that task. And once you have
written and published that content on your blog, inform that blog
network with the Post URL and other details. And when your written post
is approved, you will be paid the chose amount. Most of paid
blogging network send payments into your paypal account and if you
don’t have a paypal account, can request for a check as well. All
networks send your earned money through paypal or via check at least
once in a month. Some network even sends your earnings at an interval
of 15 days or even weekly.
And as far as the amount of money that we can earn for each post that
we write depends upon our blog niche, its popularity, Page rank and
Alexa rankings. You can reckon of making any money from $5 to $100 or so
for each approved post on a paid blogging network.
So here is the list of some of well loved paid blogging networks we can use to make extra amount of money from our blogs easily

  • Payperpost (PPP):
    To be included on this paid blogging network, you must have a blog
    with a minimum age of 3 months. And if your blog has some excellent PR like
    5 or 6, you have fantastic chances of making some huge money with Pay per
    post. They send payments via paypal once in a month.
  • SponsoredReviews:
    SponsoredReviews give 65 percent of a fulfilled task to the bloggers
    and keep the remaining 35 percent in their account. They have lots of
    advertisers waiting for your bids to be placed according to their
    mentioned budgets. The minimum budget for an open opportunity that I
    have seen so far on SponsoredReviews is $5 and maximum budget is
    $1000. They send payments via paypal twice in a month. So their
    payment system is quite strong.
  • ReviewMe: You have a
    fantastic chance of making some huge money with ReviewMe if you have a blog
    with Excellent page rank, Alexa Ranking, Technorati Ranking and high
    number of RSS subscribers. Some of well loved blogs in blogging and
    ‘money making’ niche are registered on ReviewMe.
  • Smorty: To approve your
    account on Smorty, all you need is an active blog having age of 3
    months and must be indexed by major search engines. Minimum amount of
    money that you will be able to earn by writing a review for an
    advertiser available on Smorty is $6. Once you have made the post and
    submitted the details on Smorty, your blog post gets approved within
    next 4-5 business days. They send your earnings on weekly basis into
    your paypal account. 
  • Linkworth: They have
    lots of options for bloggers to earn money with their blogs like by
    selling text link ads, PPC ads, contextual links and paid reviews.
    They have 50-50 and 70-30 revenue split for publishers. They claim
    that when we chose to go for 50-50 revenue share as a blogger, we are
    offered higher amount of money making opportunities. They send
    payments via Paypal, Check or Direct deposit on the 12th of every
    month. 
  • Blogsvertise:
    make a publisher account on Blogsvertise with your most well loved and
    active blogs.And when you get a task for writing, you have to end
    that within next five days. You have to include at least three links
    to the advertiser’s website in your review.
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Twitter Monetization: How to Make Money With Twitter

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Everyone seems to like twitter
these days which is a really cool way of staying in touch with your
customers, friends & colleagues. Basically twitter has
presented itself as a micro-blogging platform where a user can shout
out anything they want to his ‘followers’ within the limit of 140
characters.

I have just started twittering since last
month (*yes I’m pretty late starter!) because initially by looking at
it for the very first time, I couldn’t find any ‘value’ that it has for
my work & my social life. But after reading a convincing post by Aaron Wall,
I thought of giving twitter a try. Since then onwards I have been using
twitter all day long, just to keep track of some of the leading experts
in the Internet & Search Marketing field as well as to have
some ‘fun’ with my online buddies.

Anyway the whole point of
doing this post is to highlight some of the key monetization elements
that an individual can explore using twitter. I assume you have the
basic knowledge of what twitter is and how it works, so I will directly
deep into some thoughts which can make you earn money from your twitter.

make money with Twitter

  • Direct Advertisement
    – If a lot of people are following you in ‘twitter’ or in other words
    if you have a ‘wide reach’ to a large number of twitter users, you can
    probably look into direct advertisements for monetization.
  • Recommendation – You can recommend a particular product or
    service on behalf of your advertisers & peruse your followers
    to take an ‘action’.
  • Promotion – You can help your advertiser to promote a new product or service to your twitter followers.

It works pretty much like niche marketing because, say if you
are an Internet Marketer, It is very likely that most of your followers
in Twitter are also from the same area which is why they have
‘followed’ you in the first place.

  • Affiliate Marketing – I was listening to Shoemoney’s podcast yesterday where he talked about how affiliate marketing can really be blended within Twitter.
    • Affiliate
      Links – If you are recommending a Product or a Service to your
      followers, you can always embed your affiliate link in your tweet.
      (e.g. Using a service like TinyUrl.com)
    • Sales Pages – Instead of taking your followers to another website
      using your affiliate link, you might just want to promote your own
      product & services and sell them directly via your sales /
      landing page.

    This is an area where every one can really look into. For
    instance say when one of your followers is asking for suggestion to
    choose a web host, you can always suggest him the best one from your
    experience but at the same time use your affiliate link which can earn
    you some quick cash.

  • Paid Review– This is pretty
    much like the direct advertisement, but the only difference would
    be, instead of blindly suggesting a product or a service to someone,
    you can really do some ‘paid reviews’.
    • Product – You can do a paid review about a particular product (e.g. Internet Marketing software)
    • Services – You can do a paid review about services that your advertiser offers. (E.g. SEO Services, Web Hosting Services etc.)
    • People – You can also do a paid review about people. For instance,
      maybe you can review someone’s web design skills, or you may promote
      someone’s ‘twitter’ account for instance.
  • Sponsored Contest– An advertiser may want to run
    a contest via a well loved twitter user to get feedback about his product
    & services or just to make some brand awareness.
    • Feedback – Example – “What New features would you like to see in Product X”?
    • Brand Awareness– Example- “Describe product X in 140 Characters” or
      “Tell us why you like product X within 140 Characters”. The best answer
      can be given a cool prize sponsored by the advertiser.
  • Sponsored Advertisements– There isn’t must
    difference between this & the direct advertisement. But
    when I was making the mind map, this ‘branch’ did somehow pop in, so
    have chose to include it. I guess the main difference would be that
    all the tweets which are really sponsored advertisements can get a
    predefined prefix which will help your followers to identify them as
    ads.
    • Auto Ads – There can be a mechanism or a ‘new’
      3rd party service which can really help you to distribute or Tweet
      the “Ads” when you are ‘not’ tweeting or say when you are idle. An ad
      interval can also be set so that your frequent sponsored ads don’t
      annoy your followers.
    • Sponsored Actions– Well this might sound like a weird thought but, I
      feel that some aggressive marketers might like it. Example – “I Like
      #Google. Re-tweet this message and WIN yourself a GPhone”. Since a
      hash-tag is used, all the massages can be tracked using that and a
      lucky winner can really be picked from the pool.

    Some of you may reckon that all these ‘monetizing’ options can
    really turn twitter into an ‘evil’ place and slowly reduce its value.
    But let’s face it, if you aren’t fully utilizing all the areas of
    twitter today, somebody else will – tomorrow. But of course you should
    set a ‘limit’ on how many ‘such tweets’’ you are going to do on a day,
    so that your followers still consider you as a valuable contact rather
    than a commercial junkie.

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    Get paid for blogging with Smorty

    Thursday, July 29th, 2010

    Are you willing to monetize your blog more and earn more money from
    it? Today I’m going to introduce blog advertising program Smorty, where
    you will be paid for whatever you have been doing so far i.e. blogging.

    Make money quick with Smorty paid reviews service
    With this kind of advertising program, advertisers will be able to get
    thousands of quality links from the blogs of their niche and thus will
    be able to bring lots of traffic as well as higher page rank for their
    websites. And bloggers will have lots of money making opportunities by
    reviewing advertiser’s websites.

    So it’s a win-win kind of situation for both the bloggers and the advertisers.

    To start making money with Smorty, one need to have a blog of
    his/her own. If you don’t have a blog, make on at blogger.com for
    free. Once you have a blog, you can submit your blog for approval on Smorty. There are some basic rules that your blog must abide by for getting approval here.

    • Your blog must be index by Google and Yahoo search engines
    • Blog must be 3 months ancient at least
    • Must not contain adult, despised or violated content
    • Blog must be in active stage and should have 2 posts per week on average
    • No duplicate posts

    Once your blog is approved here on Smorty, you are ready to write
    reviews about various products, services and sites that comes your way.
    Bloggers can earn five dollars to hundreds of dollars per review. The
    amount of money that you earn for each paid review depends upon your
    blog page rank, alexa ranking, average number of visitors and the
    number of subscribers your blog have.

    A blog with higher page rank as 5 or so will get opportunities from
    $50 to $200. And a blog with lower Page rank will be making lesser
    amount of money per review as compared to the high pr blogs.

    Increase page rank and Traffic

    In Smorty, there is a Post Exchange program where
    you the bloggers can exchange posts with the bloggers as per their
    niche and per their Smorty rankings. For every post that writes for
    other bloggers, a different writer of your niche and of similar
    rankings will write a post about your blog. So this is something
    sponsored post kind of thought but it’s free as you are going to write a
    post in response to a post for your blog. This is one is to one
    situation. This way you will be sharing traffic with the bloggers of
    your niche. It will help you get more traffic from search engines and
    will also help you better page rank as a result of free links from
    other blogs of your area.

    Payments system

    Payments at Smorty are made on weekly basis. The only payment method
    available here is Paypal. If you don’t have a paypal account, open one
    Paypal account today as it will not take more than five minutes for you
    to open a new account.

    So if you a re interested in making money for blogging, then do sign up at Smorty, submit your blog and let the websites, products or services review related opportunities come your way. 

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    Using Text Link Ads for making money online

    Monday, July 26th, 2010

    Text Link Ads is the targeted traffic and link popularity
    ads firm located in NY. I have been working with TLA for more than a
    year now and have so far earned thousands of dollars from its link
    popularity program.

    Text Link Ads are really helpful for the site owners who are willing to gain top rankings in search engines as they offer static link and that also on the choice of your sites.

    Use for Advertiser

    TLA is a fantastic market place for the advertisers who are willing to
    buy some quality and targeted links for their website. Advertisers
    find it really simple to buy links from here because their whole process
    is really simple.

    This service displays its publisher’s sites by categories and orders them with their Alexa Rankings,
    their link popularity and their monthly prices. As an advertiser, you
    have to choose the targeted category and chose a website for purchasing
    link according to your budget and requirements. Once you have found the
    website where you want to advertise, click on ‘Buy’ check box and click
    ‘Add to cart’.

    If you are new here and want to try Text link ads, then you can get $100 in free links.

    Use for publishers

    As a publisher, You can make money with text link ads
    from your website by selling link space on your website for a week or
    month. You can sell its link side wide or even for individual pages and
    also can choose how many of its ads you are really willing to sell.
    You also have the option whether to accept or reject a particular link
    offer that is being made to you.

    As a publisher, you can use Text link Ads Calculator to know the
    value of a link for a website which depends upon where you are going to
    place it and also whether you are offering the link side wide or single
    page. You will be able to make maximum with your link ads when you
    place them in your left sidebar and the link value decreases when you
    go towards the right on your website or blog.

    As a publisher, you can make more money with it by referring other
    publishers and Advertisers to it. You will be paid $25 when you refer a
    member who sign up on Text Link ads and add the TLA script on his
    script on his/her website for seven days. You will also be paid when
    you refer an advertiser on here.

    Which Sites are accepted

    There are many factors like Google Page Rank, Alexa Ranking, RSS
    subscribers that plays an vital role when it comes about submitting
    your website on Text Link Ads.
    You have greater chances of being accepted here if your site has Excellent
    page rank as well as Alexa. Don’t try to submit a fresh new website or
    a site that has Page rank less than 3 as in that case your site will
    mostly be rejected there. According to me, your site has greatest
    chance of being accepted here if its page rank is greater than or equal
    to 4 and has excellent Alexa rankings as well.

    Payment System

    There are many payment options that TLA is offering to the
    publishers. As a publisher, you can accept your payment via Check,
    Paypal or Payoneer. I have so far used its check and paypal paying
    methods. But my choice is paypal which is a convenient and quick method
    for accepting and sending money.

    So Try TLA

    As I have told you, I have been able to make thousands of dollars
    from TLA within a year time. I know many publishers who have even been
    able to make more than thousand dollars from TLA every month. For many
    publishers, text link ads in one of the main source of income. I even
    noticed while checking the earning stats for some of marketing experts
    sites, they have been able to make more with Text link ads than Google
    adsense i.e. their TLA earnings have been much higher than what they
    made with Google Adsense in a month.

    So there is nothing incorrect in trying Text link ads. 

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    Why Most Blogs Don’t Make Money Online

    Saturday, July 24th, 2010

    We all want to make money online. But unfortunately not every one is
    able to do it. But if every one was able to do it then what is the
    difference between you and the other person. It is vital that you
    know most blogs on the internet will never make any money online –
    because the fundamental concept of the blog is incorrect.
    Daily millions of blogs are made of which, may be one of them may
    get successful, generally, the ratio is even lower. This tells us that
    there is something that is genetically incorrect in most blogs which are
    started. The proof to this is the millions and millions of dead blogs
    that are lying around in the internet – all of them have a few months
    worth of content. But then the blogger stopped updating them after the
    blog never earned him a dime.
    There is no need to be de-motivated though, if your blog does not earn
    money online, all you need to do is make changes to your blog until it
    is a blog which makes money. This can be done from simply improving
    content to altogether changing the niche.
    At the same time, the way to making sustainable and continuous money
    online is not scamming – as they never will pay you in the long run.
    Moreover, making money from pyramid schemes and other questionable
    methods is unethical.
    But, the real trick to making money online is experimentation and
    determination. It is a well known fact that all blogs cannot make money
    in the same way. Some blogs can earn well from affiliate products
    while other may be more adept at roping in new members into your
    membership site- while others will be an asset for you in terms of
    sponsors and advertiser reviews. The way a blog makes money online will
    also depend on the blogger – as some bloggers are pathetic at selling
    affiliate products.
    So once you get decent amount of traffic coming to your blog, then it
    is time you start to ponder how you can make money out of it. You can
    do it by experimenting by different methods. First thing you can try is
    by suggesting your readers products which they can use – earning from
    affiliate commissions is one of the most rewarding and tough things you
    may do. If you are successful at it- fantastic, otherwise gear up to sell
    your readers e-books or promote your membership website. Keep trying
    until you make money online.
    Hope you learnt something new from this post. Do leave your comments.
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