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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Paid blogging options for making money online

There are many ways to make money online like creating 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 easiest 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 popular 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 old, updated 2-3 times a week, some good 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 decided 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 think 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 popular 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 good PR like 5 or 6, you have great chances of making some big 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 great chance of making some big money with ReviewMe if you have a blog with Good page rank, Alexa Ranking, Technorati Ranking and high number of RSS subscribers. Some of popular 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: create a publisher account on Blogsvertise with your most popular and active blogs.And when you get a task for writing, you have to finish 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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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

7 Blog Promotion Strategies That Work

I just finished looking at my stats and thought I would show you where my traffic is coming from and what marketing tactic I used to get it.
Below are only the things that produced visitors to my site in the last 48 hours. Nothing theoretical whatsoever.
1) Search Engines
Yesterday was my biggest day yet with this new site platform and the performance is unlike anything I have ever experienced before.
I had more search engine traffic from more phrases in one 48 hour period than ever.
From very nice short tail keywords like “video syndication” to fat long tail phrases like “how to get more friends on myspace.”
And everything in between.
How do I do so well in the engines?
I use the very best publishing system on Planet Earth. Nuff said.
2) Article Syndication
LOL – right? Wrong. Article syndication is still a very powerful traffic driver if you do it properly.
Rather than try to be on every article directory on the web, I go for the most important article directories on the web.
I also write the best content I can on highly relevant, topical, hot issues in my niche.
I do not wirte and syndicate articles for links. I write for traffic. Huge difference most people completely ignore.
I syndicated this article over the weekend and am getting traffic from the following article sites:
I will get traffic from many others, but I am only showing you today what happened to drive real targeted traffic in the last 24 hours. (People don’t do this anywhere else that I know of by the way!)
I syndicate my articles exclusively with SubmitYourArticle.com.
3) News Readers
Because I have several feeds to choose from, and a wide range of related topics I publish on, I have feed subscribers on all kinds of readers.
In the last 24 hours I have gotten traffic from people using feed readers from:
  • Yahoo
  • Google
  • Bloglines
  • Delicious, and
  • different versions of desktop readers like MyWebTop.com.
4) Links
I’ve gotten significant traffic in the last 48 hours from sites such as:
and many many others.
These are link partnerships or just people pointing to specific posts here and commenting on their blogs.
The better your content, the more people comment and trackback your site. So good content equals good link traffic.
5) TrafficSwarm
I get a good amount of traffic each day from TrafficSwarm, which is no new kid on the block.
I have tested the traffic from this service and opt-in rates are good, meaning the traffic isn’t junk traffic, if you were wondering.
They have a free and paid version. Don’t bother with it on the free level. It is extremely inexpensive traffic compared to Adwords and Co-registration, and there are other benefits of membership aside from direct traffic and subscribers.
6) Video Syndication
I have been doing screen capture blog marketing videos lately and syndicating them on all the free video sharing sites available.
Since I started (I have only done 4 so far) I can attribute top 10 rankings in Google for terms like “blog marketing videos” and many others to this marketing tactic alone.
Since video sharing sites are all popular (none of the sites I syndicate videos to are under PR5, most PR6 or higher) the links are worth a lot and the traffic is great each time I submit a video.
Video syndication will be one of the buzz phrases of 2007. Glad I am in the top 10 for that phrase too!
7) Tagging and Pinging
Or simply posting properly and showing up automatically (and practically instantly) in places like Technorati which track blogs, is a big daily traffic driver.
Right after I post this I will see traffic from Technorati and other sites that I ping.
Kind of encourages me to post regularly knowing every post brings me more traffic and another chance to score in the engines for more keywords.
If you don’t know how this is all done, the best information available on the subject is from Sean Wu.
Again, the above tactics all resulted in real, live, free targeted traffic to the Friday Traffic Report in the last 48 hours.
Thought you’d like to see what is working based on my actual log files rather than more theoretical pieces from people who don’t necessarily use the tactics they push to drive traffic to their own sites.
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Best ways to promote your blog

 In order to succeed in blogging the quality of content is very important. However, only content cannot help in making a blog popular. You need to know about various successful tools for blog promotion. Internet is full of a large number of blog promotion tools and websites. Here are a few ways which you can use for promoting your blog.
 1.DIGG:
 Digg is a social news site that can help users find blog posts and web pages of interest as well as promote pages and blog posts they like.Digg users can add "friends" to their networks. This is where Digg gets social. Users can comment on submissions and share submissions with each other.You can add your blog at Digg. You can add your posts and if people like it, they will digg it. More diggs indicate increased popularity of your blog. It is very easy to use Digg. Numerous people use Digg for promoting their blog. Google picks up blog posts from Digg in a fast manner.
2.FACEBOOK:
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.Facebook is the most popular social networking site with over 350 million members. Not only is it a great tool to connect with friends, family, colleagues and more across the world, but it's also a great tool to increase traffic to your blog.Adding your blog to your Facebook profile is a great way to promote your blog and drive traffic to it. When you add your blog to your Facebook profile, each time you publish a new post, a snippet of that post appears on your profile's home page as a status update. Every friend that you're connected with on Facebook will automatically see that snippet on their Facebook status updates page where they can click on it and visit your blog to read the rest of the post (and if your Facebook profile is public, everyone with Internet access can see it).
3.TECHNORATI:  
Technorati Media is an integrated online media company with an ad network, three owned web properties, and an ad technology platform. Technorati.com, the flagship site, is the world’s first and largest blog search engine and a robust community blogging platform.Numerous bloggers have already added their blogs at this website. If you add your blog at Technorati then it will help a lot in its promotion. You can meet likeminded people here. Do not doubt the reliability of this website by focusing on its name. It is a wonderful tool for blog promotion.
 4.MYBLOGLOG:
MyBlogLog is a blogging directory and community that also provides statistics tracking to registered users of the site. Registration is free. The statistics provided by MyBlogLog are not as robust as those provided by most of the other stat trackers available.This service is offered by Yahoo for blog promotion. Here, you would be able to meet a large number of bloggers and you can ask them to visit and join your blog. You may leave your comments on other people blogs and they will return the favour. It is a trusted method for blog promotion.
5.Del.icio.us:
 Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website owned by Yahoo! that can help users save, share and find online content such as blog posts.Del.icio.us is also a great way to find content of interest, because you can easily search using relevant tags. Having the ability to subscribe to feeds for your favorite tags makes it even easier to find content of interest.Del.icio.us should certainly be a part of your social bookmarking plan to promote your blog, but don't rely on it to bring in torrents of traffic.
 6.REDDIT:
 Launched in 2005, Reddit is a social news website that displays news based on your personal preferences and what the community likes. Your preferences are determined based on your history of voting stories up or down.So reddit evenly counts for your blog traffic.
7.  Getting blog traffic by link building:
  1. Exchange links with other bloggers
  2. Use BlogRush
  3. Submit to RSS directories
  4. Submit to blog directories
  5. Submit to general directories
  6. Start a 2nd blog and link to yourself
  7. Create and give away blog themes (with a link to your blog in the footer)
  8. Create free plugins
  9. Create link bait
  10. Participate in blog carnivals
  11. Comment on DoFollow blogs 
8.Joining communities:
  1. Join communities at MyBlogLog
  2. Join communities at Bumpzee
  3. Join communities at Blog Catalog
  4. Start a community at any of these sites
  5. Comment on other blogs in your niche
  6. Email your friends and contacts about a new blog post that may interest them
  7. Email your readers to say “thank you”
  8. Email other bloggers to introduce yourself
  9. Link out to other blogs
9.Internal Links:
A great deal of blog promotion tips focus upon how to promote your blog on other people’s blogs and sites – but a great way to promote your blog post is to do it on your own blog.
One thing that I try to do with my best posts after I publish them is to think about where I could promote it on my own blog.
While it is at the top of my blog’s front page (the primary place to promote it) if you think hard you’re bound to find a few other posts in your archives that you could link to this new post. Find places where you’ve covered similar topics before and add your link as a ‘related reading’ link or even add a link to your new post within the content of an old post.
You might also want to add your new post to previously written ‘sneeze pages‘ or your sidebar if it’s a key post. Every link you add on your own blog to your new post potentially sends your current readers to your new post but also helps your blog with Search Engine Optimization (internal links count too).
10.Other social networking sites:
  1. Netscape
  2. Magnolia
  3. MySpace
  4. YouTube FORUMS:
  5. AuthorityBlogger
  6. Stumbleupon 
The above discussed ways to drive traffic to your blog covers the entire basic scenario to drive a quality traffic to your blog and hence enhance your blog rankings.A deep research on how to drive traffic to a blog mainly  ponits out to the above ways. Though, suggestions to the improvement of the post will be greatly acknowledged. Leave comments if any...............
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Top 10 Proven Tips to Increase Blog Traffic

Ever since I started blogging on my first blog Internet Business Blog (it’s a history now) back in March 2006, I never ever saw blogs as a marketing aid. Blogging for me was just a tool to get my pages indexed fast on Google and increase my rankings. Now, after almost two years in blogging I understood that, blog can prove to be very helpful in building a brand as well as in SEO. I gradually learned how to blog and continue to learn and apply whatever I read from people online.
Here I’m sharing with you my Top 10 Tips that helped me to increase traffic to my blog. This has helped me and would surely help you too, if you continuously do it.
1. Comment of other blogs : It has been proved that commenting on other’s blog could increase traffic to your blog. Leave good comments blend it with humor, people love humor. When you find some controversial post simply put your comments in a memorable form, like you’re a grown up, controversies are the most effective way to become famous with least amount of effort but be sure not to fire people against yourself.
Traffic that is unstoppable2. Submit your articles to Social Media Sites : Social media sites are the best places where you could submit your articles and get an instant boost of traffic to your blog. If people like it they will surely link to it, hence increasing even more traffic. While top Social media sites are the best ones, you must also consider to submit your articles to niche specific social media sites. This would give you considerably good amount of recognition for your work.
3. Comment on online communities : Join and take part in the online forums and communities. Don’t forget to add a signature with your blog URL. Your comments on these communities and forums would reward you in becoming a respected part of the community as well as get you work.
4. Bookmarking Articles : Ask your visitors to bookmark your articles. Sites like StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks and del.irio.us could provide you with loads of traffic.
5. Interact with blog commenter : Make friendly relations with your blog commenter. Make them feel at home and they will make you feel at home. It’s that simple. Always try to help your commenter with some useful resource, if that is not possible lead them to a place which would solve their problems, don’t worry about they leaving your site, if they like your help they will return.
Traffic signs to stop traffic6. Write with a Consistency : Write at least 3-5 resourceful articles a week. Doing this will let your visitors understand that you are a dedicated blogger, who cares to help. If you’re not consistent enough to write then why would your readers would be consistent to visit your blog.
7. Submit your blog on Blog Directories : Submit your blogs to Technorati, Techmeme, Blogcatalog and other blog directories. Blog directories are also a place where you could submit your blogs and get traffic, initially when your blog is fairly new.
8. Link to other’s Article : Linking in and out helps a lot. Firstly, it helps you in providing proof about your thoughts as well as helps you get people link to you for providing a resourceful article.
9. RSS Feeds : Always syndicate RSS through feedburner, why? Because they are the best. Syndicating feeds also results in increasing traffic, as the people who are in list of your feed would definitely come back.
Traffic night scene10. Be Patient : This last tip is the most important one, this tells you to be patient. Whatever you do, be it building a big house or making a million dollars, everything takes time, so does our online venture. Consider this, if you have stepped in to Internet Marketing, then you didn’t get involved by chance. It’s that even your destiny wants you to get in it. If you’re patient enough to cross the initial period of failure then your future would be full of colors of success.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

SponsoredReviews: a real money making opportunity

As all of us know Sponsored Reviews is a paid review providing website where we can buy or sell reviews for or on our websites and blogs. In today’s post, I am going to talk about how to make money online with SponsoredReviews working as a blogger and will also share my experience I have with them.
Account creation on Sponsored Reviews

You must have an active blog with 3 months as its minimum age when you sign up as a blogger on SponsoredReviews.com. If you have a 3 months old blog with little traffic or few back-links, may get rejected here. So it will be in favor for you to submit your best blog here if you want to earn some real cash from them.
How to work as a blogger
Once you accept your blog into their marketplace, you are one step closer to making money with them. When we go to Manage Blogs section in our account on Sponsored Reviews, there is some Suggested Price range defined like $20 to $100 for every blog that we submit. This suggested price is calculated based on our website or blog link popularity, Technorati statistics and Alexa ranking.
So sign-in into your Sponsored Reviews account and start making bids on all open opportunities by browsing Find Advertisers section in your account. There are hundreds of opportunities available when you first logged-in into your account. So you can be selective about the kind of task you place your bids for. For every opportunity, there is some bidding amount you can place bids for and please keep your bidding amount below or equal to the maximum bidding amount allowed for a particular task. I would suggest you to test different set of bids and see which one works for you.
There will be certain advertisers who will be contacting you with a different price bid on some opportunities where you placed your bids earlier. It’s up to you to decide whether to accept their request, decline it or suggest some other price for that opportunity. Suppose you placed your bid as $40 on an opportunity with $60 as maximum bidding amount. And the advertiser is contacting you with a new price of $20. It’s up to you to decide whether you want to reject or accept this task or suggests some different price like $30 as your new bidding price.
Once any or some of your bids get acceptance from the advertisers, you should start writing about those tasks. You have to finish writing and submitting all accepted tasks within a week time from the date they were accepted by the advertisers.
Revenue Sharing & Payment System
They have revenue sharing system of 65:35 i.e. bloggers will be getting the 65 percent of total amount from a completed task and the test of 35 percent will be kept by Sponsored Reviews. They send payments to all bloggers into their paypal account. They make payments two times in a month, on the 15th and 1st of every month.
My experience with Sponsored Reviews.com
I started working as a blogger with them in the month of November last year. And I have been able to earn more than $1300 with them in this short period of time. I’m using Sponsored Reviews on two of my blogs only. So earning of $1300 from one network only in 10 months is not a small earning at all.
Click here to create a blogger account on SponsoredReviews If you also want to make money online writing paid reviews for hundreds of advertisers available on Sponsored Reviews. Please let me know in the comment section if you face in any problem in creating an account on this paid blogging website or have some doubts or questions about SponsoredReviews. Here is my earnings summary screenshot with them:


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