Make Money Online Guide

Make Money Online Uploading Videos

2008-06-29T15:20:00.000-07:00

You've tried PTCs, tried paid emails, affiliate marketing, writing, blogging etc etc to earn money online. Now how about trying your hands on videos. This is one area not many ventures. MUO has a nice write up about various ways to monetize your videos. Find it here

Earn cash with live search

2008-06-15T15:52:00.000-07:00

Earn money with Live search.

Searching for products in Live search can bring you good benefits. The live search cashback program gives you great deals on products you search and buy so that can make big savings on every deal. This savings can be encashed once it reaches $5.

Details Here ... and here

Earn money uploading your files

2008-03-27T02:23:00.000-07:00

How many file hosting services offers their services for free? Not many. Now, what if I told you that there is actually one file hosting service which pay you for using their services. hard to believe? but its true.

Ziddu is not only a free file hosting service which lets you upload photos, audio, video, documents or anything else (max file size 200 MB) but it pays you when someone downloads your uploaded file using ziddu link. So next time you need to send a file to your friend or upload something on any website or forum, you know where to do it so you earn some money for each unique download.

How it works -

You will get $0.001 for each Unique download.Redeemed cash will be transfered via PayPal or Moneybookers once it reaches $10.

10000 Unique Downloads: $10

50000 Unique Downloads: $50

100000 Unique Downloads: $100 USD

500000 Unique Downloads: $500 USD

1000000 Unique Downloads: $1000 USD

You will get $0.10 Referral Bonus, when someone joins with Ziddu through your referral link and uploads his first file!

You see, if you are an active member of any forum or website and keep uploading those files it won't be a difficult task to get those downloads and earn.

Click here to sign up for ziddu and make me $0.10.

Make money doing nothing (well, almost)

2008-02-29T00:57:00.000-08:00

I have posted about quite a few different types of money making opportunities in the past like posting in forums, having a blog, affiliate marketing etc etc etc. But how about earning money doing nothing? 'Yeah yeah I know!', well I can hear that sarcastic tone in your voice. But here's actually an opportunity like that. I call it making money doing nothing because all you have to do is to listen to the radio. If you don't know already, 'IAmPaidFor' pays you to listen to their radio. The pay rate is $0.0002 per minute. I know you must be wondering how much money you can make at that rate. But consider this, you are not spending any time on this darn thing. All you need to do is to open the radio (may be more than one window in more than one browser) and mind your other work. Got my point.

You can also increase your earning with a little more participation. That is, they also pay you for clicking on ads and referrals And since I have just joined this service I don't know yet if they are a scam or they really pay. But since not much effort is required, I am gonna try it out anyway and hope you do the same.

Making money with Ucash (tinyurl like service)

2008-02-27T16:44:00.000-08:00

A simple question which I am sure you wouldn't have ever asked yourself. Me neither. 'How many links do you post every day?' . So you own a website or a blog, you are an active member of a forum, how many links you end up posting in your blog or in those forum every day. And how many links get posted through email, chats etc? So, whats the point? The point is, did you know that you could make money form those links? No? Well read on!

This is a good opportunity to make money if you are a webmaster or blogger. All you need to do is to convert whatever link you post on your blog or forums into shorter Ucash url links and post those converted links on your website or blog. I know, till here it sounds like tinyurl! But the good part starts now. When a visitor clicks on those shorter Ucash links posted by you, they are redirected to the destination page while displaying interstitial or top frame type advertisement. The revenue earned from these advertisements are shared with you. There are two different types of advertisements which you can view here and here.

The current Revenue Sharing Rate (RSR) is $1 US for every 4000 top banner ad impressions, and $1 US for every 2000 intermission ad impressions. So you make a guess of how much you can earn. And if you are too lazy to do that, here's an projection.

Join ucash here

Social networking site that pays you

2008-02-27T16:12:00.000-08:00

Flixya is a social networking site that puts 100% ad revenue in your pocket. You can share your videos, photos, and blogs on Flixya, make friends and earn money.

When you register with Flixya, you can choose to participate in earning the total revenue from ads that appear surrounding any video, photo or blog posting. Upload or share your videos from YouTube, Google Video, Revver, Daily Motion, and other video sharing sites. Flixya also offers unlimited free image hosting for posting photos on website or forums. So right after registering with Flixya for free, you can start earning money by blogging, sharing your favorite videos or just hosting images. Want to know more about this money making opportunity? Click here ...

DiggFreak - get paid to bookmark links

2008-02-25T17:05:00.000-08:00

Another one in the 'make money digging' category. I have already introduced you to ximmy which works exactly the way digg does (except that they pay). Now here's another service which isn't exactly similar but yeah, its related to Digg. What do you do here? Well you just vote!

DiggFreak is a social bookmark exchange system where you can earn free advertising or cash by bookmarking other members sites. For each bookmark you will get 1 point which equals to $0.05. DiggFreak use stumbleupon, digg, technorati and del.icio.us for bookmarking. Simply put, other members pay you to bookmark their links. This way they get to promote their links and you get to make some money. You can also start your own campaign to promote your own links.

More Information here ...

Make money online with Image hosting

2008-02-24T14:14:00.000-08:00

Image hosting is a popular way to make money online. These hosting services lets you upload your images onto their server and gives you codes which links to your image or image galleries. Okay, so how do you earn money? Well, this hosting services pays you when someone views your images. The pay rate is different depending on the host. A $1 for 4500 views mean you get paid $1 when your images gets 4500 unique views. Get the picture?

Now, if you are wondering that at this rate it would take a long time for you to earn some decent money, well think again. It's actually a lot easier than you think. The trick is to bring more and more viewers for your images. And how do you do that? If you have a website or blog or an active member of a forum then it just makes your job a lot easier. If you regularly post images on your website or blog, post it with a link code from these hosting services. That is, upload them to an image host and use the code they provide to post those images on your website or blog. So every time someone view your blog and views those images, they make you money. Same thing goes if you are an active member of any forum. Specially it helps, if the forum is an user driven image sharing forum. Post your images there and attract more views. Now you have a clearer picture of how this thing works. So, let me tell you about a few image hosting services to make the job easier for you.

ShareAPic pays you $1 for every 4500 unique image views. It has a mass uploader which lets you upload 200 images at a time. You can also put your Adsense code on the image galleries and earn money from it. They pay through Paypal and the minimum payout is $20. The only problem with ShareAPic is that their image approval system is manual and hence takes time.

ImageReverb is mainly used by adult webmasters or bloggers and to some extent for general purposes. You need to upload the images through a zip file which would be automatically extracted once uploaded. They run pop-up advertisements and the interface is not that smooth. They pay $1 per 2500 unique views. Payment is by Paypal and the minimum payout is $5

ImageFap pays you $1 per 9000 image views. Payment is by E-Gold and Epassporte and the minimum payout is $5. They accept both adult and general images. The viewing experience is not smooth for users as it is cluttered with ads.

There are many other image hosting options available which I would write about in detail when I get some more time. But this info should be enough to get your started. Try it, if you haven't. Earning money this way is not that difficult.

Social networking site that pays you

2008-02-23T17:34:00.000-08:00

Yuwie is a social networking site that pays you for doing almost the same activities that you do in MySpace, Facebook, orkut or any other social networking sites. Its free to join. It offers all the features relevant to a social networking site like profiles, picture, videos etc. You can also make money by referrals. You get paid via Paypal and the minimum payment is $25. If your earnings for the month are less than $25, they will be rolled into the next month's earnings. So if you spend your time socializing online through social networking sites, well its time you got paid for that.

More details / Join

XIMMY - Get paid for Digging.

2008-02-23T17:00:00.000-08:00

XIMMY is a social networking review site that lets you bookmark and share top news, videos, pictures and websites with your friends and other users. Plainly put, its a website just like Digg.com. If you are familiar with Digg (who is not?) then you would find Ximmy very simple to use. The only difference here is that unlike Digg, Ximmy pays you for your activities like submitting story, commenting etc.. You get points for submitting stories or commenting. Once you have accumulated enough points you can redeem them for cash.

This is how you can collect points -

Story Submitted - You earn 1 point
Comment - You earn 1 point
Popular (your story makes it to the homepage) -15 points

And these are the different stages you can redeem your points for cash

Points Rewards
1,000 $10
1,800 $20
3,200 $40
6,000 $80
12,000 $160
20,000 $300

Sounds cool? Then why not join Ximmy

Making money with ShoppingAds

2008-02-23T14:15:00.000-08:00

ShoppingAds displays relevant ads on your website and you can make money out of it on a CPC (cost per click) or CPA (cost per acquisition) basis. Also, there is an affiliate program built right into the ads you display! If a user clicks on the "Ads by ShoppingAds" link and signs up for ShoppingAds service, you earn 5% of all revenue generated by that user for the first 6 months. Payment is by Paypal and they claim to make it on the first of every month. Here's the link if you want to check it out ...

http://shoppingads.com

Make Money Online Without a website or blog

2008-02-23T12:20:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I have made a few posts on how to make money online with a website or a blog. But what if you don't have a website or a blog and have no intention to do so. Either you don't have the time to maintain a blog or don't just have the will, whatever your excuse is, the good news is that there are ways to make money online even without owning a website or a blog. here I explain a few of the most popular ways to make money online without a website or blog.

Academia-Research
Academia-Research is a freelance writing service company dedicated to professional research and writing.They pay upto $18 per article. So if you are good at writing here's a big opportunity.

Associated Content
AC not only accepts original contents (like articles) but they also pay for them. AC offers upfront payments for some content submissions as well as a monthly performance payment for all of your original content. So if you are good at writing you can make some money with AC.

Get Paid To Sites : These sites earn their revenue from advertisers who pay them to attract potential customers for them. Part of the revenue these sites earn is shared with you when you visit the advertisers and perform specific actions like, taking part in a survey, reading email advertisements, referrals, purchasing a product or even subscribing to a newsletter. Click here for a list of several such get paid to sites and how they work.

eBay - Selling items on eBay is one of the most popular way to earn money online. What's more you don't need a website for it. And if you don't have any items to sell on eBay, how about writing a useful e-book and putting it up for sale.

Shvoong : Shvoong pays you for writing abstracts of book, website etc. An abstract is like a summary. So writing an abstract for a book would actually mean writing a short review for it. You get paid part of the revenue your abstracts generates.

Ximmy - You know about Digg.com, where you submit/bookmark any pages you like and vote and discuss on the submission son others. Now what if Digg.com paid you for doing this? That is where Ximmy comes in. Its similar to digg.com except that it pays you to share top news, videos, pictures and websites on the Internet.

CafePress - At CafePress.com, you can create and sell a variety of customizable products with zero upfront costs and zero inventory investment. in CafePress.com you can sell Merchandise you design including t-shirts, posters, mugs, bumper stickers and much more, Books printed on-demand, Audio and Data CDs. CafePress provides the free online shop to promote your products

MyLot : MyLot is essentially a forum where you can start or take part in discussions on a range of topics. The only difference between MyLot and other forum is that MyLot pays your for your activities. Their payout rate is also very low, so its worth a try.

Squidoo - In squidoo you create what they call as Lens page Choose any topic and create a lens page highlighting various aspects of the chosen topic and dropping your affiliate links. You get a share of the revenue your lens page generates plus the money earned from the Amazon, eBay etc affiliate links.

uTest : This is quite a new service and it still remains to be seen how they fare. But what they do is simple - you register with them and then test new software products. if you find any bug in the software, well you get paid to report the bugs.

Make Money Hosting Research Polls

2008-02-23T10:29:00.000-08:00

Did you ever wanted to hold a poll on your blog? How about holding a poll and getting paid for the same? Now you can earn money by opting in to host market research polls from Vizu Answers.

How it works is - you host a poll originating from Vizu answers on your blog and you get paid by Vizu for every page impression. Companies, both large and small, use Vizu Answers to get quick feedback on products and important market questions. This feature pays you each time a Research Poll is displayed on your site or blog. The polls appear right on your pages; there are no new browser windows or pop-up windows involved.

You set the minimum CPM (cost-per-thousand page views) price for each Poll Zone in your account, and you can modify your price at any time. Typically your minimum CPM rate is based on a number of factors including the placement of the Poll Zone (i.e. how high up the page), the site's audience, other content on the page(s), etc. CPM rates are usually comparable to the rates for ad units in the same location.

Vizu currently pays via PayPal only with minimum payout being $50. So why not check it out ?

BlogPayz - Get paid to write articles in your blog

2008-02-18T17:58:00.000-08:00

Newly launched BlogPayz is a service similar to ReviewMe and other paid to review sites. You can either sign up as an Advertiser to get articles published by Bloggers or if you own a Blog and want to get paid for articles you write, sign up as a Blogger.

For Bloggers, BlogPayz pays qualified Bloggers for internet advertising to write targeted articles according to exact BlogPayz Advertiser requirements.

Its a new service and so it remains to be seen how they perform in the market. For more details check it out ..

Making Money With Get Paid To Websites

2008-02-18T10:04:00.000-08:00

Making money with Get Paid to Websites...

How they work: - These sites earn their revenue from advertisers who pay them to attract potential customers for them. Part of the revenue these sites earn is shared with you when you visit the advertisers and perform specific actions like, taking part in a survey, reading email advertisements, referrals, purchasing a product or even subscribing to a newsletter

How to avoid Internet Scams in GPT:
Well, let’s face it. There’s no foolproof way to know if any internet money making scheme is fraud or not. Same goes with the get paid to websites. The best approach in my opinion would be to get to know the general sentiments of people who might have dealt with the concerned business or something similar. Look in the message boards forums blogs etc. You would definitely know what’s the general opinion is. Moreover use your common sense. If the light is too bright there’s something wrong with the bulb or your eyes. But if the business is a new one, you might not find any opinion about it. The only way to find out is to get into it. But be wary if it requires a great deal of monetary commitment for you to join such a business, otherwise if the investment is too low go for it, no pain no gain remember. But I would suggest that you go for the established known names that are not scams unless you don’t give a shit about your money.

List of Get Paid to Websites: Please note that I have not tested all these websites personally. This is just a resource list for you. Please go through the sites well before joining them.

Monsterpayscash
A free service, that pays members cash to order free trials, complete surveys and shop for products from top stores.
US, UK, Australia or Canada Only.
No minimum cashout

Swatcash
With the referral system you can earn 20% of what your friends make, so the more people you get to sign up the more money you will make. Don't forget cash back shopping, shop online and get a percentage of cash-back on every purchase.
Accept registartion from Internatonal users.
Minimum payout $15.00

RevolutionOffers .
As a RevolutionOffers.com member, you'll get paid to refer your friends, sign up for offers, & clicking.
Membership available worldwide.
Minimum payout of $5

Cash Grab
Complete surveys, sample products, signup for trials, join free websites, review products, and get paid for it! There are hundreds of offers to choose from. Complete an offer and make money! Increase your revenue by referring friends and receive 20% of whatever they earn on The Cash Grab! You're not required to do so, but why not make some extra cash just by spreading the word? Receive payment via PayPal or check in exchange for completing offers and referring others. Earnings are paid every two weeks!
United States Only.
Minimum Payout $10

CashCreate
Get paid to complete surveys, join free websites, and referral program!
minimum payout $5
Most of the ofers are U.S and Canada based.

aWholeLotOfGreen
As a member of aWholeLotOfGreen, you can earn money completing free surveys, offers, joining free websites, trying trial offers, shopping online, and referring your friends to do the same!
United States only.

Mycashsafari
Get paid to complete offers
Minimum payout of only $20
US Residents Only

TreasureTrooper
Take surveys, sample products, signup for free trials, join clubs, register for credit cards and get paid for it all. There are over $2000 in offers!
Minimum payout $20
Open to international user

Freebiesontap
Earn cash by filling out short surveys and questionnaires. You can also earn money by downloading media, registering for other sites, and referring others to this site as well. With payments disbursed every weekday night via paypal or check and a $1 minimum.

Fairytaletreasure
Earn cash for trying new products, completing surveys, entering free contests, and shopping online. Get $2 as sign up bonus! Earn more with reffrals. Payment via Paypal, check or gift cards -- it's your choice! Daily trivia game and many other fun ways of earning cash.
Only US residents
$10 minimum payout.

Ezami
Sample products, Complete surveys, Signup for trials, Join free websites, Review Products, and get paid for it! There are hundreds of offers to choose from. Complete an offer to earn points, use the points to get WHATEVER you want! Cash Rewards can be sent via paypal or check.
United States Only

Cashlagoon
Earn FREE cash for web offers and free cash for surveys! They have many incentive based offers that will allow you to get some free cash including mystery shopping offers and surveys for companies. All with an instant payout! Get paid to take surveys in your pj's and earn some free cash. We have a HUGE amount of web offers that are all incentive based. Choose a few or as many as you want.
USA, CANADA & UK

Dealbarbiepays
As a DealBarbiePays.com member, you'll be paid to complete offers. Offers include freebies, trials, & cashback shopping!
United States only.
Minimum payout of $20

CashOnTap is a free service that pays members money to complete offers that they are interested in and/or refer others to this site.
U.S and Canada Only
Payment is issued on the 10th, 20th, and 30th of every month.

Instantprofitz
Shop online, take surveys, play games and more for cash . Get paid monthly by check or gift certificate.
Open to international user, although majority of offers are for the US market.

Gangstergreed
Join clubs, fill out surveys, sign-up for free trials, apply for credit cards, and get cash in your PayPal for doing so! Participate in contests, compete to win cash and prizes, recruit soldiers, rise in rank, all while earning real cash! Earn cash by referring new family members!
Available only for U.S resident (referral program is open to international members)
Minimum Payout $10

Software Testing - Get paid for finding a bug

2008-02-17T16:35:00.000-08:00

If you are one of the types who like to check out each and every new software out there then here's an opportunity for you to do the same and get paid for it at the same time. Sounds good? All you need to do is to test new software and find and report any bugs you find, (Just simple software testing), And the good part is that you get paid for every bug you report. Sounds interesting , then visit here for more info.

NetAudioAds Pay-Per-Play - Play audio ads on your website to make money

2008-01-25T17:42:00.000-08:00

NetAudioAds Pay-Per-Play (PPP) is a new online media channel that plays 5 second audio advertisements on websites that place the PPP code on their web pages. Audio ads are only heard on web pages where the website owner has placed PPP code.

NetAudioAds Pay-Per-Play offers a generous compensation plan that is designed to pay you in several ways:

TIER 1: Get paid 25% of what the advertiser spends "per play" on audio ads that you serve on your website(s). You get paid for every visitor that remains on any web page (where you place your PPP code) for more than 2 seconds.

20% of Internet users do not have their audio system turned on but you will be paid for 100% of your traffic where an audio ad is served whether it is heard or not. The price that our advertisers pay already takes into account that only 80% of their ads will actually be heard.

TIER 2: Get paid 5% of what the advertiser spends "per play" on audio ads that are served on the websites of those that you personally refer to the Pay-Per-Play opportunity.

TIER 3: Get paid 5% of what the advertiser spends "per play" on audio ads that are served on the websites of those that your direct referrals bring on board.

Fore more details click here ...

Earn money blogging with PPC advertising

2008-01-23T07:45:00.000-08:00

This is perhaps the most popular way to monetize a blog. Everyone knows about Google Adsense which falls in this category. PPC stands for Pay per click and here's how it works. You register with the network which runs the ads (like Adsense) and insert some code on your blog to display those ads. The PPC network then provides ads relevant to the content of your blog and you get paid every time someone clicks on an ad. The main requirement to gain success in earning decent sum with PPC is traffic. The more traffic you get the better. But its best if you get targeted traffic. The two important factors which dictates the PPC profitability is the CTR and CPC. CTR stands for Click through rate, which depends on the design of the site. CPC is cost per click which depends on the niche of the blog. Some niches like finance pay more than others like technology related niches. The mostly used CPC advertising networks are :-

Google Adsense
http://www.google.com/adsense
YPN (Yahoo! Publisher Network)
http://publisher.yahoo.com/
BidVertiser
http://www.bidvertiser.com/
Chitika
http://chitika.com/

DealDotCom - Another money maker

2008-01-07T14:36:00.000-08:00

Here's how you can make money with Dealdotcom, another affiliate network.

Dealdotcom provides you with an affiliate link. All you need to do is to make some sign ups for a free DealDotCom account using your affiliate link. Now, whoever had signed up with dealdotcom using your affiliate link makes you money every time they buy something. This affiliate program is 2-tiered. Whenever you refer someone to DealDotCom via your affiliate link, you get paid 35% of DealDotCom’s profit for every item that they buy. If someone you referred to DealDotCom refers someone else, you get paid 15% of DealDotCom’s profit every time they buy something for the rest of your life.

They pay through PayPal or Check. DealDotCom pays affiliate commissions on the first day of the following month. For example, you will receive your earning in affiliate commissions for the month of September via check or Paypal on the first day of November. Payments are only made when earnings reach $20 USD, so if you earn $18 in the first month, you would not be paid, but if you earned an additional $15 in the second month then that month you would get a payment of $33

You can sign up for a free DealDotCom account here

Earn from your RSS Feed

2008-01-03T09:44:00.000-08:00

RSS as it turns out is not only a tool to increase your reader base, but it can actually make you some money as well. There are RSS feed ad networks which monetize your feed by CPM or PPC based ad options. Some of the network which you can join are -

http://www.pheedo.com

http://www.feedburner.com

http://www.bidvertiser.com

Earn money writing paid reviews

2008-01-02T10:01:00.000-08:00

If you got a well circulated blog then you can make money by paid reviews. These services pay you to write a review of any product or service on your blog. There are many such services available now. Join any of the review networks and once they approve your blog you will get product for review. Write a details review of the product and post it on your blog just like other posts. The review should be posted on your blog for a particular duration of time (after your review is approved) depending on the review network and upon completion of it, you get paid.

Smorty
http://www.smorty.com
PayPerPost
http://payperpost.com
ReviewMe
http://www.reviewme.com
Sponsored Reviews
http://www.sponsoredreviews.com

Earn money blogging with Affiliate marketing

2008-01-01T09:53:00.000-08:00

Affiliate marketing is another very popular method of monetizing a blog. How it works is very simple - there are product manufacturers who lets you sell their products and pays you a commission for every sell you make. If you are good at internet marketing or bringing targeted traffic to your blog, affiliate marketing should be a good earner for your blog. You can join either individual merchants who offers affiliate marketing or join any affiliate networks. Some popular affiliate networks are -

Commission Junction

ClickBank

Azoogle Ads

Amazon aStore

Link Share

Earn upto $18 a page writing

2008-01-01T03:20:00.000-08:00

Good in writing? Here’s a chance to earn upto $18/page.

What is it?

Academia-Research is a freelance writing service company dedicated to professional research and writing. They support customers in academia requiring timely, high quality, customer-specific deliverables. All work is prepared according to generally accepted editorial and style standards used in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

What do they do?

The freelance writers at Academia-Research assist customers by developing essays, term papers, theses, and dissertations that meet customers' unique needs. Projects requiring original field research and qualitative studies are also accommodated.

What’s in for writers?

They offer freelance writing jobs that provide freelance writers with:

Flexible writing schedules - writers can take orders on their schedule.

Topical Choices - the "Available Order" board is always accessible so writers can see their work options and select the paper that best suits their schedule and expertise.

Industry-leading compensation rates

A diverse range of writing assignments.

How to become a writer for them?

To become a writer for them you have to first register on http://www.academia-research.com. Once you have done this you will receive a test essay that you will be asked to complete within a couple of days. If you pass the test, your account will be activated.

Payment Terms

The writers' fees for completed works are paid twice a month: 10th and 25th of every month. The works which are successfully completed from 15th to 30th (31st) of the previous month are paid on 10th of the current month. The works which are successfully completed from 1st to 14th of the current month are paid on 25th.

Where to register?

Well, just follow this link http://www.academia-research.com/sign.htm

77 Ways to Get Traffic

2007-12-31T17:03:00.000-08:00

Allan Gardyne lists top 77 Ways to Get Traffic in http://marketerssolutions.com. The first ten ways are ..

• Traffic tip #1 – High quality, unique content.
• Traffic tip #2 – Keep adding content.
• Traffic tip #3 – Memorable domain name.
• Traffic tip #4 – Buy the wrong domain name.
• Traffic tip #5 – Easy to read domain name.
• Traffic tip #6 – Keywords in image files.
• Traffic tip #7 – Serious keyword research.
• Traffic tip #8 – Improve page titles.
• Traffic tip #9 – Organic SEO.
• Traffic tip #10 – Submit to directories.

Read the full article here

Social bookmarking websites

2007-12-25T06:51:00.000-08:00

Social bookmarking websites allow you to save bookmarks online so you can access your bookmarks from anywhere. But for bloggers it's more than just that. You can actually promote your blog in these websites by submitting articles or by inviting visitors to submit those articles.

Here's a list of Social bookmarking sites...

http://www.digg.com/

http://www.technorati.com/

http://del.icio.us/

http://www.furl.net/

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

http://www.reddit.com/

http://www.propeller.com/

http://www.fark.com/

http://www.newsvine.com/

Earn money blogging with CPM Advertising

2007-12-23T09:33:00.000-08:00

CPM is cost per thousand (where M is the roman numeral of 1000). They work similar to the PCC system. The only difference between PPC and CPM networks is that in CPM you get paid for the number of page views (wherein in PPC you get paid for clicks). Lets for example say that your blog has 10000 views per month and you are displaying a CPM ad with the rate of $1 CPM, so you will earn $10 for the month. Remember $1 CPM means you get $1 for every 1000 page views. Like PPC ads, there are factors which decides the CPM rate. These factors include the network you choose, the position of the ad etc. If your blog gets tons of traffic, then this is a good way to monetize your blog. The mostly used CPM networks are -

Casale Media
http://casalemedia.com
Right Media
http://www.rightmedia.com
Value Click
http://www.valueclickmedia.com
Burst Media
http://www.burstmedia.com
Advertising.com
http://www.advertising.com/index.php

Important Link And Resources For All You Blogger

2007-11-25T15:42:00.000-08:00

Well two posts back I have talked about how to go on about starting a blog. Now here's a list of links which would help you find the tool and resources to dress up your blog ..

Find how much is your blog worth ?

http://www.business-opportunities.biz/projects/how-much-is-your-blog-worth/

Huge list of Blog tools and resources of almost all kind. Blog Editor / Widgets / Templates / Themes / Poll / Blog Directories / Ping Services etc. http://apusay.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-tool-resource-blog-editor-widgets.html

How to get traffic for your blog

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2123/5020685

List of Blog directories

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Affiliate Programs For Blogs

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/08/22/affiliate-programs-for-blogs/

How To Get Google Page Rank | BackLinks

http://makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-get-google-page-rank-backlinks.html

Burn your feed

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home

Increase Traffic To Your Blog - A beginner's Guide

2007-11-25T14:20:00.000-08:00

Submit to search engines
Follow the links and submit your blog to the Google and Yahoo search engines if you have not done so already.
http://www.google.com/addurl/
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

Post comments on other blogs and leave a link. But make sure the comment is worth reading and interesting not the ‘Excellent Post’ kind of comment. When you post nice interesting comments to other blogs they would most of the times take a peek at your blog too by following the link you leave.

Use Blog networks like Technorati etc. Register with them and create a detailed profile of you there. These sites are nice places to interact with other blogger or people looking for nice blogs.

Use Social Bookmarking services like Digg , delicious, etc..You can bookmark/submit interesting articles to these sites. And who cares if in the beginning you are the only one bookmarking your own articles. It would attract some traffic nonetheless.

Forums are a good way to promote your blog. But don’t just register with any forum and start posting about your blog. That would be spamming. Register with forums of topics relevant to your blog and participate in the discussions regularly. Just create a signature and leave a link and a short description about your blog in the signature.

Ezine/Articles Directories:
Submit your articles to free e-zines and article directories and include a link to your blog in the articles. This won’t send a great traffic immediately but over a period of time you can get a decent traffic from them.

Online Blog Directories
Submit your blog to the numerous Blog Directories. For a list of such sites follow the link below.

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Link exchange:
Why not exchange links with a fellow blogger. You can offer other blogger to exchange links with you or respond to any such offers. But a word of caution about Link Exchange, if you overdo it your links get diluted and it’s now worth as much as you may think. Moreover some commercial link exchange programs do more harm than good. Search engine specially Google is very stringent about them and may penalize you reducing your page rank.

Social Networking sites offer great exposure to your log. Create a profile in Orkut, MySpace etc. and leave a link to your log in your profile. Every time someone views your profile they may also want to visit your blog.

Have a RSS feed URL which visitors can subscribe to. You can also use services like FeedBurner.

Use Trackback links when you refer to other blog posts.

Use ping services every time you update your blog. To automate it you can use automatic ping services like Ping-O-Matic
Use keywords properly in your blog. This helps search engines crawl and index your blog better.
Use Blogrush widget in your blog. It sits in an assigned place on your blog and display latest topics from other member blogs which is relevant to your blog. What’s good is that similarly it displays links to your latest post on other blogs which attracts a decent traffic.
Be the first to break news. It’s quite hard to do all the time but doing it once in a while is important.

Getting Started with Making Money With A Blog - A Beginner's Guide

2007-11-24T14:39:00.000-08:00

The best thing about making money with your blog is that once the ball starts rolling there’s no stopping you. You spend the time and effort making one blog post once, but the returns you get from that single post is simply said, forever. Making money with a blog is simple three step process. Create a blog – Get good traffic regularly – Monetize it with various schemes.

However doing the same isn’t that simple. It’s not like you make a blog with a few good posts and decorate it with ads and people would start flooding your site all of a sudden clicking on those ads to make you a hell lot of money. No, it’s much more complicated and harder than you may think. Its serious business. And before you go and create that blog account here’s something you should know. Blogging more specifically blogging to make money needs serious commitment. Not that you have to on you PC 24/7 making posts but you have to spend sometime regularly everyday to succeed.

Choose a topic

First thing first, choose a topic you are really interested in and on which you can talk for hours. If you choose a topic for your blog looking at the demand but not your interest or niche, chances are you would soon end up being fade up with that blog, especially if the initial no/low traffic frustrates you. So, better choose a topic of your choice and create a blog on that topic.

Keep the faith

So you’ve created your first blog and made a few posts. You’ve also decorated it with a nice template and a few widgets. But your hit counter tells you no visitors. This is the point where a majority of the blogger surrenders themselves and the blog goes to oblivion, soon to be buried in the cyber-grave. But the truth is that this is the time you should stick to your blog and keep making quality posts and working hard to make it popular. My advice to you in this situation would be – stop looking at the hit counter for a few days, may be a few weeks and keep updating your blog instead. Remember, it takes time to get a blog a good amount of regular visitor. Keep the faith in your blog and give it time to grow up.

Quality First

Serious note to all you blogger – Always make quality posts. If your blog is nothing but a whole lot of junk, no visitor would come back one more time to your blog. For a blog’s survival, a base of loyal regular visitors is very important. And the best way to make sure that happens is to maintain a high quality blog which makes a visitor come again. Once in a while nonsense, junk post is okay as a fill-gap, but it shouldn’t be enough to dilute the overall quality of the blog. Not making any post one day is better than making a silly unworthy post.

Market Your Blog

Well nobody’s gonna visit your blog unless they know it exists. So, let them know that it exists and what it offers for them. How to do that? Well a lot of ways actually. First tell your friends about your blog and ask them to spread the word. Second submit your blog to various search engines and web directories. Join forums related to your blog topic and spread the word through your posts, but make sure you are not spamming. Use social book marking sites like Digg or delicious, include the URL of your blog in your email signature, and watch this space as I would be writing a detailed article on this topic later.

How to monetize your blog

So you did everything right and now have a blog with a decent content and a decent number of daily visitors but you don’t know how to monetize your blog. There are a lot of ways to monetize your blog. And it’s mostly ads and affiliate marketing which dominate the money making blogs although there are other sources also.

Google Adsense is a good point to start for any new blogs. You don’t need to invest anything to get started with Adsense. After you sign up with Google and set up Adsense for your blog, text ads relevant to your blog contents would be shown by the side of your contents. If anyone clicks on those ads, you earn money. But make sure you never click them yourself- your account may be terminated.

Affiliate marketing can be a good earner too if it is done well. In affiliate marketing you sign up with the affiliate networks and sell their products or services. Fore example let’s say you have signed up with Amazon aStore. Now you have posted a book review of the latest best seller and posted the amazon affiliate link for the readers to buy the book online in the same post. If anyone likes your review and decides to buy the book through your affiliate link, then you earn a commission from Amazon. It may not be a good earner in the beginning but the earning will increase with the increase in traffic to your blog.

Paid Post is also another way to make money from your blog. Services like PayPerPost and ReviewMe pays you to make a post reviewing a product and posting it on your blog. This is how it works- You sign up with them, they review your blog and approve, you write a review on any of their products and get it approved by them and then post it on your blog. The review should be on your blog for a specific period of time after which you get paid for it.

There are many other ways to make money with a blog which I would be writing about in detail later. But this should be enough to get you started for now.

Earn from Survey

2007-11-11T14:12:00.000-08:00

Let me start with this good survey side. SurveySavvy.com community has grown to over 3 million people and they claim to have paid out more money to members than any other online market research company.

SurveySavvy.com pays members an average of $2 for every survey a SurveySavvy.com member's referrals complete and $1 for every survey their referrals complete. To get a better idea use the earning calculator

What's more each time you're unable to complete a survey, they enter you into the SurveySavvy.com Sweepstakes--a monthly drawing for 50 $10 prizes. So I think its worth a try, specially when you don't even have to invest a dime.

Click here to Join

2007-11-11T14:04:00.000-08:00

Ok guys, so here I am back after a long time. Things were quite hectic off late and I had to divert my time to things other than this blog. But I am back and with a bang. Yes, recent experiences has taught me many things some of which is good and some bad. But things always change don't they? Anyway, I had not stopped my quest of earning money in the internet although I stayed away from this blog for a while. And here I am gonna start updating this blog regularly and share new ways of making money online with you all. So keep watching...

Shvoong - Abstract Writing

2006-12-21T19:48:00.000-08:00

Well another post and here is yet another money making opportunity for you. But this time it's little different. What's the difference? Well, here's this website Shvoong, which pays you for writing abstracts. Confused? Well, abstracts are defined in Shvoong as -

A. Abstract of "Books" or a "www" (Internet site) means: of 300 to 900 words that make the long story of any book/ site short, in your own words. B. Abstract of "Science & Humanities" (existing books or articles) means: summarizing a thesis with 300 to 900 words, in accordance with academy standards, in your own words. C. Abstract of a newspaper (or magazine) article means: Summarizing (in 300 to 900 words) any existing newspaper in General or choosing a certain section, such as: the daily news section, economics, sports or editorial opinion. In any case, please make sure you choose the "Country" and the "Newspaper" from our given list.

Shvoong's objective is to summarize all that has been written throughout human history in the areas of literature and scientific research (in the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities). Each abstract will be available in three text-length formats: (i) up to 300 words; (ii) up to 600 words; and (iii) up to 900 words, according to the reader's preference, in almost every language.

So, you see the potential? For more information or to join visit Shvoong.

Play to Earn ....

2006-12-20T17:28:00.000-08:00

So what if someone paid you for playing games. Well you can actually get paid for playing games online. Exodus 3000 is one such game.

Exodus 3000 is an online strategy game where you can have fun while earning real cash and prizes! You don't need to install any extra software...just sign up and begin playing! Once in the game, you will earn Mars Dollars (MD) for performing actions, such as mining volcanos, searching ruins, and attacking other players. At the end of the month, you can exchange your MD for real cash!

There is no limit to the amount of cash you can earn! The more you play, the more you get!

Computer security...

2006-12-20T17:03:00.000-08:00

When you start your quest to earn money online, one thing that you need to take care of is your security. By security I mean both your privacy and your computer. For now lets concentrate on how to secure your computer.

As you go around searching for new money making offers and signing up, one thing that you are never sure of is the legitimacy of the website you are browsing daily to earn those bucks. And with many scams around your system is always at risk. You system may get effected with spyware, virus, trojan etc. So its important for you computer security that you follow certain things.

First of all install softwares that protect your system from various threats. Like install an antivirus to protect from virus attack. Spyware remover and firewall is also a must.

If you don’t have any of these installed, you can check out the following free softwares.

AVG Antivirus - Free anti-virus software .

Zone Alarm - Free firewall which protects your PC from known and unknown threats.

Spybot - Software that removes spyware, adware and other malicious software..

Installing these software is not enough. Make sure you update the sypware and virus definitions whenever there is a new one available and run a scan at least once a week.

Use a browser which has a pop-up blocker, or else install pop-up blocking software.

To avoid spam give away your email id only when you trust the site and is absolutely necessary. Don’t post your email id in any chat room, forums etc.

If you think a mail to be spam and it gets into your inbox rather than the spam folder, report it as spam so that the next time any email from that address gets filtered.

You can get more help on spam here

Email Signatures..

2006-12-18T17:16:00.000-08:00

Like I have mentioned in one of my previous posts attaching your referral link to your email signature is a great way to get more referrals. you can either create a text signature or better still a HTML signature with an image of the website logo or like which your are referring and a code which redirects the user to your referral link when he or she clicks on the image. For the benefit of the people who doesn't have any clue about how to create a signature let me explain this to you.

Outlook
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Go to Tools-->Options-->Signatures-->New and
write your email signature in the edit signature box. If
you want to create several email signatures in a notepad
file, then click the "File" radio button, and browse for
your signature file. This makes it easy to edit any of your
email signatures in notepad and upload the edited version
in Outlook Express.

Yahoo
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Navigate to Mail Options and select the Signature link. If you are trying to create a HTML signature and the HTML toolbar isn't visible then click Color and Graphics. Now key in your text signature content or the HTML code with tags. Click on Save. You're done! And don't forget to change the setting in your yahoo mail so that your signature is included in all of your emails.
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Detecting Frauds...

2006-12-18T15:58:00.000-08:00

The first question that comes to someone's mind when they come across a new money making opportunity on the web is 'Is this just another fraud?'

So how can you find out? How cam you make sure that you don't lose your hard earned money signing up with a bogus site? Well you will learn this as you gain experience in this business. But to help you here are certain tips .

Well, the first place you can look for is the company website itself. You can tell a lot about the credibility of a company by its website. The look of the website can tell a lot. Also find out if the website is hosted on a free server. These fraud companies usually don't spend much money for hosting their website and look for free services (though it may not be the case always). Try to find that out from the domain name. You can also use 'Whois' and other lookups to find out more info about the website. If you don't know how to do it, the following site may help you.

http://www.dnsstuff.com/

Don't always trust discussions in a forum. You may have posted a message asking for some good money making opportunities which are not scam. And within next few hours you get replies which tells you of so many options. Don't just follow all the links and register for their service. The frauds frequent these forums too, so beware and think twice before signing up with any website which might even remotely seem suspicious to you.

Maintain a list yourself with the sites and the different names they operate under, whenever you come to know they are fraud. This would help you and others later and also do your bit for others by spreading your findings.

Beware of unsolicited emails. You may get many emails a day offering you lucrative work at home opportunity. Trust me, most of these are fraud.

Envelope stuffing schemes are usually fraud. And in fact, illegal in most countries.

Don't ever give away your bank or email account information to any websites which asks you the same for any kind of verification proposes.

Beware of emails that offers you credit card even if you have bad credit.

Click here to view some common scams

Nice knowledge base of Fraud

All about Advance Fee Fraud

MyLot - Forum that pays you for posting!

2006-12-17T16:29:00.000-08:00

So you are a member of a forum which you can't do without. I mean you can't do without posting in that forum everyday. But what if that website paid you for posting your posts? Sounds funny? Well its reality in fact. There is this forum which pays you for every post you make, and every discussion you start. You can also earn money by referring people. What else, you can also make friends there. So just hop in and get registered. I assure you that they are not a scam. At least not till now. But be focussed and make posts everyday to increase your chances of earning money.

AGLOCO - Own The Internet

2006-12-17T15:45:00.000-08:00

I have just signed up for this promising new website. So I don't know if they will pay. But if I am not paying any money to sign up, why should I bother. It's better to take a chance what say? So I will just paste some text directly from their website which describes them.....

AGLOCO’s story is simple:

Do you realize how valuable you are? Advertisers, search providers and online retailers are paying billions to reach you while you surf. How much of that money are you making? NONE!

AGLOCO thinks you deserve a piece of the action.

AGLOCO collects money from those companies on behalf of its members. (For example, Google currently pays AOL 10 cents for every Google search by an AOL user. And Google still has enough profit to pay $1.6 billion dollars for YouTube, an 18-month old site full of content that YouTube’s users did not get paid for!

AGLOCO will work to get its Members their share of this and more.

AGLOCO is building a new form of online community that they call an Economic Network. They are not only paying Members their fair share, but they’re building a community that will generate the kind of fortune that YouTube. But instead of that wealth making only a few people rich, the entire community will get its share.

What's the catch? No catch - no spyware, no pop-ups and no spam - membership and software are free and AGLOCO is 100% member owned. Privacy is a core value and AGLOCO never sells or rents member information.

http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBJ5311

Earn money hosting images!

2006-12-16T12:46:00.000-08:00

Certain image hosting service providers also lets you one opportunity to earn money by uploading images to their site. But before you go and start uploading images right away, read on to get a clear picture of the trade.

It's not easy to earn money through this sites. Well it may just look simple to upload your images. But then comes the harder part. They don't pay you for just uploading the images but for the unique views that your images get. And you need to have a very large number of views to get to the minimum payable amount. Take for example this site which rewards you with $1 when your image views hits the 2500 number, and their minimum payout is $25. So how many views you need?

But don't be disheartened. It's not that hard either if you know how to get those views. There are hundreds of forums where you can become member and then post links to your images. Just make sure the images are relevant to the forum. Need to send those trip pictures to friends? Why attach them to a mail and send? You can just upload them and provide the links. Just don't sit idle after uploading the images. Try and come out with new ways to get more views for them. Also refer your friends to join such a website and persuade them to work seriously as your are also rewarded points for the views they get(Given that they join with your reference).

So, Good luck! If you need links to such websites here's it ..

Link 1

Link 2

Join a forum!

2006-12-13T15:50:00.000-08:00

Well not just any forum but forums dedicated to the topic of earning money online. There are many these type of forums out there and you decide which ones to join. whats the use of it? well first and foremost you would be connected to thousands of people like you who have been in the online business. From beginners to the expert of the trade. And like in any other forums, you can discuss things related to the business. Got to know about this new website offering lucrative opportunity but little skeptical if its a scam? Well just discuss it in a forum. Chances are at least some of the people there might have already have had their share of good or bad experience with that, so you can get their opinions. Want to know about a great affiliate program? or wondering how to increase traffic to your own website or just not sure if you should pay the $45 as the membership fee to join a particular business, well anything and everything related to the online earning businesses can be discussed there. So go ahead and join one such forum.

Links to some forums (more coming soon!) :

Link1
Link2
Link3

Getting those Referrals

2006-12-13T15:17:00.000-08:00

Referrals are one of the main contributors towards your earnings in any kind of online jobs. Be it paid to read emails or forums or any other data entry jobs, most of these online businesses pay you when someone registers with them with your reference. So its very important that you pay special attention towards it. Some sites even pay some percentage of money earned by people who joined with your reference. So you can see its potential.

But many people face trouble thinking of how to get those references. Well simply start with your friends or colleagues. Its easier to explain things to friends and convince them. But don't be contained with a few references among your friends. There are a lot of ways to get those references online. If you are member of any forum or social networking sites you can spread the word there and post your referral link. Be sure to read the rules of the forum before doing so as some sites prohibits this kind of activities and you may get banned. Search for online communities related to the concept of earning money online and spread your word there.

Word of mouth has great potential in getting you more referrals. Talk about your online business to any people who you think may be interested. You sure would find some people interested enough to sign up with your reference.

Email signatures is another impressive but mostly ignored way to get referrals. Create a HTML signature with an image with a nice catch line and it should contain your referral link. Make sure you attach your signature in your mails whenever possible.

This section would be expanded with more tips, keep watching.

Work as a Web Searcher from home ..

2006-12-11T15:30:00.000-08:00

Here’s a website which provides business services using home based professionals. But yeah, you need to have some kind of basic skills to work for them. Depending on your skill set you can work as an analyst, an information specialist, Translator or web searcher. For most of the roles you are required to appear for a few tests while the job of Web searcher doesn’t require any such test till now and also it doesn’t require any mandatory skill set. Moreover what you need to do is also very simple. So go ahead and give it a try. It’s a very good opportunity.

Click here for more info

Few Points to help you ..

2006-12-09T12:30:00.000-08:00

Points to remember when you sing up ..

* It's not a bright idea to provide a website with your credit card information who promises this information would just be used to verify that you are legally 18 years and above age. Trust me they can verify that with many other means. Also look out for security certificates of the website in case you provide such information to any websites.

*It's wise to be a little skeptical about website which promises to pay huge amount of money for little tasks. Not even an utter idiot would pay $5 for posting a simple two lines post in a forum, or $10 for uploading an image file. Got what I mean?

*'Get paid to read email'. This seems to be one of the most popular catch lines of earn online websites. Well I am not here to say that it doesn't work. But most of them comes with a big catch. And the catch is you are not paid only for reading an email but for following up the certain links in that mail and then taking a survey or sometimes signing up for a different service or like and most often than not you end up giving away your personal informations online and later realize that the effort you put in never materialized properly or at all. So Just be careful in choosing out these type of services and learn to decide which is more useful.

* Not all website pay to user in all the countries. So before you sign up make sure to check if your country is included in the list, send an email to them asking the same if you can't find the information in their FAQ.

*For your system security always keep your anti spy ware and your firewall running along with your Anti Virus. Also be careful before downloading and installing any software part of any earn online schemes. Sometimes these are just plain spy wares or Trojan which can pass on sensitive information from your computer to a remote host. Its always wise not to ignore and warning message that your firewall or AV displays.

*Search for newly opened schemes. The online earning market however grey or black or white it may be, its always growing. Everyday there are new services coming up. So how do you decide if its not a fraud. The answer is you can't until you try out. So you can always try out any free service but be careful before signing up a paid membership.

*Read the Fine Print. Before signing up with any online service, read the rules and regulations/terms and conditions thoroughly. Look for hidden facts and clauses that might not be useful to you.

*Get your hands on free stuffs – It is a good idea not to join any service which asks for membership fee for providing you with certain services like database of websites, tutorial on how to earn money etc. Pyramid schemes and programs which claim that you can earn ten thousand dollars just by investing one are just scams.

*It’s a good idea to research about a new program you found out before joining. Check the website details like hosting server (look for my previous post on how to do it). Also you can enter the website name and add scam and search in Google to know if any scam information of that service is available on the net.

welcome note!

2006-12-08T17:54:00.000-08:00

Hi,

After having many good, bad and ugly experiences with my attempts of earning cash online, I have learn a lot about the trade and thought it would be nice if I tried to spread the tips n tricks of the trade to interested people like you. It is a very humble effort from my part where I would be posting regularly about my finds of new good sites and ways to earn money online, tips for a better and safer experience. Everyone is welcome to share their views and experiences through comments considering the ever changing scenario of this business. I would try to be as precise and careful to help you but considering the volatility of the trade I won't assume any responsibility of any kind.

Hoping for your best support. Thank You!

Privacy Policy

2006-03-24T13:50:00.000-08:00

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