I just received $35.00 for adding a text link of Money4blogs.com's financial company. I found Money4blogs.com 2 weeks ago. The site seems to be new and is currently offering an easy way to make money online. Money4blogs will pay people for displaying a text link (with a very short description) on their blogs. All of the Money4blogs.com's text links are related to finance, so I think blogs that are highly relevant to finance will earn more. Apart from that, They also look at your blog's PR. Here's the link to sign up.

http://www.money4blogs.com

Be patient as they don't reply you with an offer within 24 hours and their approval and payment process seem to take longer. I waited for about a week to receive their payment.

I'm sure you want to improve your Google AdSense CTR to increase the amount you can earn from AdSense. Here is a brief video called 'Three Little Known Tricks' by Ben Shaffer containing 3 useful tricks that you can use today to increase your AdSense revenue.

1) The science of profit element.
2) Laser-targeting your ads.
3) Colours.

This video is free to access and you don't even need to give your name and email address to watch the video

You can make money by reviewing computer companies at computerclub.org. Computerclub.org will pay up to $50.00 for a company review and listed in the computerclub.org directory. To start reviewing or giving your opinions, you first need to apply to be their editor and then become a computer review consultant. The computer companies you can review include computer training, isp's, technical support, hardware, computer manufactures and retailers. They are looking for quality and positive computer companies reviews that highlight the strengths of the companies.

Just visited DotMySpot.com and found that there are interested to buy articles. You can make money by writing for DotMySpot.com or by supplying you old articles that are not published on the Internet. The owner is looking for the following topics:

Audio Product Review | Interview | Business Profile | School Review | Restaurant Review | Real Estate Buying Tips | Fundraising Events | Video Game Review | CD Review | Research Document | College Research Paper | Movie Review | Humor Clip | Travel Guide | Lesson Plan | Original Composition | Original Music Video | Car Review | Hotel Review | Short Story | Consumer Tips | Nightlife Review | Neighborhood History | Concert Review | City Activity Guide | University/College Review | How-to Guide | Product Review | Travel Tips | Stock Tips | Daycare Review | Nursing Home Review | Editorial | Tech Advice | Reviews of Local Attractions | Vacation Journals | Store/Restaurant Openings | News Clip/Press Release | Entertainment Guides | Weekend Happenings | Local Service Provider | Video Product Review | Video How-To Guide | College Video Project | Political Commentary | Original Song

Payment is made by Paypal.

If you are making money online using PPC advertising programs, this news should concern you. Yahoo has announced that they will rank ads in their search result based on ad's quality and bid amount beginning Feb 5 2007 in US. This means that advertisers with highest bid amount are not guaranteed to rank top in the sponsor listing.

Here's an extract of the announcement that explains more about how Yahoo will rank ads in the future:

Example of How Ads May be Ranked
The graphic below helps illustrate a scenario that may result from this change:

Note: The graphic above is provided for illustrative purposes only, and will not actually appear in your account.

What is "Ad Quality"?
Ad quality is determined by:

1. The ad's historical performance - its click-through rate relative to competitors and normalized for position.
2. The ad's expected performance - determined by various relevance factors considered by Yahoo!'s ranking algorithms, relative to other ads displayed at the same time.

Overall ad quality is displayed in graphical form by the quality index.

I'm sure you want to be the kind of affiliate who gets a steady flow of checks to your mailbox monthly. There are lots of people receiving monthly commission checks all year long. However, it is sad to know that there are also a lot of affiliates cannot generate a sale and have never received any check from their affiliate programs.

No matter what type of affiliate marketing you are in, you will want to be one of those who make a steady income in affiliate marketing.

Below are some tips of building a good and sound affiliate marketing income.

1. Identifying a niche market. Try to identify the niche market you want to focus on or you are passionate about.

2. Find a stable affiliate program in the niche market you have identified. Here are some of the top affiliate networks that might contain the affiliate program you are looking for:

ClixGalore.com
Shareasale.com
CommissionJunction.com
Clickbank.com

Do some researches before signing up for an affiliate program. Find out the conversion rate of the affiliate product. A product that has a conversion rate of 4% is fairly good. This means that for every 100 visitors you send to your merchant's website, 4 visitors will buy. Also, take a look at your merchant's website to find out whether the offer pages or sale pages are convinced enough to generate sales.

3. Create a website to promote your affiliate products. You can make your website looks like an online store by displaying all your affiliate products with a description on each product on your homepage. Or you can write a review for each of your product on your website to encourage visitors go to your merchant's website and buy the product. Another alternative is to provide a product recommendation list on your website such as 'Top 3 Affiliate Marketing e-Course', 'Top 3 Herbal Products' and so on. Don't recommend something that your are not certain about.

4. Create Your own newsletter and invite visitors to subscribe your free newsletter when visiting your website is necessary in affiliate marketing because people usually don't buy in the first visit. You need to collect their email addresses to follow up with them. To encourage your targeted visitors or audience to sign up your newsletter, you may offer free gifts, e-courses, tutorials or tips. Teach and sale is one of the effective techniques to encourage your subscribers to buy your affiliate product. For instance, let’s say you are promoting SEO software, you can teach your subscribers how to optimize a website to boost the website's ranking in search engines and recommend the seo software to them. Tell them the SEO software will save their time and tons of SEO work.

5. Drive targeted visitors or traffic to your website to generate sales. There are many ways of getting targeted traffic. You may start off with pay-per-click (PPC) advertising programs like Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. PPC advertising can drive traffic to your site with minimum effort but the costs aren't cheap. You should test them first before investing a lot of money in PPC advertising.

Article marketing is another way of getting traffic. This method is absolutely free. What your need to do is create some articles related to your website with a link to your site in the articles resource box and submit them to many article directory. Some of readers may visit your site after reading your articles and increase your website's traffic.

Articletrader.com has just released their latest article management system, ArticleMS v1.2. ArticleMS v1.2 is a free script that anyone can download to start an article directory. Several new features have been added to this latest script:

* pdf view of articles
* member list
* improved search features
* much more

As you know article directory is a website that accept articles from authors around the world and most of the approved articles will be read by the website's visitors. The owners of article directories usually make money by displaying AdSense ads and promoting affiliate programs on all the submitted articles.

There are people in Amazon Mechanical Turk willing to pay you anywhere between $0.00 to $2.00 for completing a task. They have about 100 tasks available in their database. You can choose any tasks to complete and you will earn money for each tasks approved by the requester. Also some of the tasks offer bonus reward for your good work. Your earning will first credited to your Amazon account where you can convert it into cash at any time by transferring it to your personal checking account. Alternatively you can transfer your credit to your Amazon Gift Certificate balance.

A new Giveaway program has just started. Here are the money making e-books and tools you can download if you sign up for the program

How To Start & Build Your Affiliate Marketing Business
Web 2.0 Revealed
Instant AdSense Article Directory
How to JV with a Guru
Ultra Track - Powerful Tracking Software To Explode Your Sales And Signups
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And the link to sign up is http://www.10daysofwinter.com/gifts/index.php

I visited creative-weblogging.com yesterday and found that they are now hiring experienced bloggers to provide content for the blogs in their networks. I have been thinking to apply but unfortunately I can't because I have no knowledge on the blogging topics in their list. Creative-weblogging.com is looking for people to blog for the following topics as updated on 16 Jan 2007:

b2b tech: AppSecurity, CRM, DataCenter, Data Management, Domino, Exchange, IT Channel, Mobile Computing, Networking, Networking Channel, OpenSource, Oracle, SAP, Security, Security Channel, Server-Virtualization, SMB, SQL Server, VB, VoIP, WebServices, WinComputing, Windows Security, WinIT, Project Management, Tech Consulting, video blogging, Harley Davidson motorcycles, sport bikes, social networking

If you are expert at any of the above topics, you may consider apply to become their paid blogger. They pay $225 monthly to bloggers for 7 to 10 posts per week. For more info, please visit http://www.creative-weblogging.com/50226711/get_paid_to_blog.php.

Update - If you don't find the opportunities is the above link, this means that the offer has already been closed.

I just received an email from Joel Comm (an AdSense expert) informing me that Google now allows AdSense publisher to display other contextual ads on the same page with AdSense ads. But the ads that appear on the same page should not be very similar to AdSense Ads. YPN and Bidvertiser ads are very similar, so they are not allowed to run on the same page as AdSense ads. Here's the reply from Google to Joel Comm's question.

Question 1) Does Google allow other ads to run on the same page as
AdSense Ads?

Answer 1) The official word is a qualified "yes".

You may not run ads that are designed to resemble AdSense ads.  For example, Yahoo! Publisher Network
ads look very similar to AdSense ads.  While you can run YPN on your site, they may not appear on
the same PAGES as AdSense ads.

However, contextual ads like those provided by Kontera, Intellitxt, Amazon and Chitika ARE allowed
on the same pages as your AdSense ads!

This is definitely a good news to those people who make money online through a website.

ProductReview.com.au is a Australia's consumer opinion site that provide a platform where people can rate and give opinion on the products and services they have used. ProductReview is currently looking for webmasters to join their affiliate program. They will pay

- AUD10 for signing up their affiliate program.
- AUD0.05 per unique visitor send to their site.
- AUD0.50 for each approved review submitted by your visitors.

The minimum payout is AUD50. If you become their affiliate, you will display their banner or text link on your website to earn money. This can be used in conjunction with AdSense as long as there is no ProductReview's text ads involved.

BetterThanBanners will give Amazon vourhers to webmasters who display their advertisers banner ads. You'll receive a £10 Amazon.uk vourcher for just signing up as a publisher of BetterThanBanners and then you'll get a £5 vourcher every month for displaying their banner ads on your website. You don't need to have a high traffic site to join their network. All you need is a mini site with English content. BetterThanBanners has 2 webites:

BetterThanBanners.com
BetterThanBanners.net

The difference between the above 2 links is that the .com one will give you vouchers for Amazon.co.uk (pounds) and the .net one will give you vouchers for Amazon.com (dollars).

You can also make money referring new publisher who then place a banner on his site.

Nana Gilbert-Baffoe , a Certified Google AdWords Qualified Individual is currently invitating people to join his private club to learn how to make money with Google AdWords arbitrage system. Nana has prepared a series of video training in his club to teach people how to make money with the system.

http://www.ppcarbitrageclub.com

Google Adwords arbitrage system is where you become an AdWords advertiser and pay money to advertise your website on Google in order to earn Google AdSense revenue through the website. As long as your AdSense revenue greater than your AdWords cost, you make profit. It is not easy to success with this system, but after learning the tricks and strategies from Nana Gilbert you might be able to make a steady income with this system.

You'll learn everthing about Google arbitrage system in the club, including how to find a profitable niche using keyword tools, building an AdSense site of the niche that meets Google AdWords criteria, ways to optimise AdSense ads, AdWords secrets and strategies and much more.

Here's a free membership site providing a step-by-step video that can teach anyone to build a order-taking money making website.

Mini-Site secrets revealed

In the video tutorial you'll discover:

* How to register and protect your domain name(s), find a low cost web hosting provider.
* Accepting credit card without opening a merchant account and without paying fee monthly.
* The places to download free web development tools.
* How to design your sale page, order page and download page including how to format text links, add links and images.

You will be given 2 templates where you use to build your very first mini-site and start making money online after watching the video.

Yaro Starak, owner of blogtrafficschool.com has just told me a good news. Blogger.com bloggers can now sell text link through Text-Link-Ads (TLA). Before a blogspot's blogger can use the Text-Link-Ads service, he or she must login to the new version of blogger.com and upgrade the blog's template. Here's how to upgrade the blog's template

After login to blogger.com new version - 'Click Template' > click 'Customise Design' > and click 'upgrade Your Template'.

Note: You can always revert back to your old template if you don't like the upgraded template but then you will not able to sell text links.

This can be a great source of income as there has been a number of bloggers making hundreds of dollar monthly sell text link via TLA system. As I mentioned in my previous post, The selling price per text link will depend on your Blog's Google PR, traffic and where you place the text link. The higher the PR and traffic the more money you can make.

If you have embarked on some online money making venture through the channels made possible by eBay, the virtual world’s most popular marketplace, then you’re sure to be on a constant crusade for some techniques that would help boost the profitability of your trade. Well, I have two words that would help you when it comes to such:

Drop shipping.

Drop shipping involves a contact with a wholesaler, known as a drop shipper. The drop shipper would offer some items for wholesale prices (i.e. big, big discounts). The clincher? There are a couple of them, actually:

1. You’d get to purchase these items at wholesale prices even if you’re going to get them per piece.
2. The drop shipper will take care of shipping the item to the designated location.

Immediately, you will see the potentials for profitability with this setup. You won’t have to buy items for resale. You won’t have to create items for your offers. You just need a relationship with a drop shipper, select from his selection of products, and market the same at eBay. You could place your own markup. And you wouldn’t have to worry about storage space or shipping. Better yet, you wouldn’t be too pressured to make a sale, as your items aren’t technically in stock, rather, they’re with the drop shipper who will be awaiting your word as when to deliver the same to the winning bidder.

Now, here’s what is of the essence. Where could you find drop shippers?

Here’s an important piece of advice: forget about offers that promise to provide a list of drop shippers. More often than not, these lists contain outdated information, dead links and even fabricated entities. This is a fact that has been confirmed by eBay itself.

Here’s another important piece of advice: forget about searching for “drop shipping” or “dropshipping” at Google. The term has been exploited beyond belief that it has almost lost its essence in many content sites.

Here’s a fact that you should know: 80% of manufacturers would be more than happy to do some drop shipping for you. Whereas a couple of years ago, drop shipping was a novel approach to selling items online, nowadays, manufacturers have realized that drop shipping can be an effective evolution of the direct selling model. It’s easier to look for drop shippers today than it was a couple of years ago.

The first thing you have to learn is how to focus. What do you want to sell, exactly? Have you researched the market for it? Is it a profitable market?

The second step should entail researching appropriate products for the market you have chosen. What are available for the same? What, among these choices, do you want to sell?

Subsequent steps would be easy. All that remains to be done is to pinpoint specific manufacturers based from the list you have prepared, and contacting them individually. Ask them if drop shipping is among the services they could offer for willing partners. Chances are, you will get an affirmative reply.

Of course, there are ways to streamline the process. The website www.worldwidebrands.com offers a comprehensive directory of manufacturers that do drop shipping. Unlike the lists that have sprouted all over the internet, this website is very well known for its credibility as well as the equally credible information they offer. Each entry is verified to ensured accuracy. Their service isn’t free, however, but for a serious seller who wishes to make the most out of drop shipping, it would prove to be a good investment.

There are also some dedicated people maintaining websites about their experiences with drop shippers. Take www.webpuffs.com for example. The webmaster offers reviews of the drop shipping manufacturers he encounters, and the information he provides for free is immediately worth a lot.

The bottom line is this: drop shipping can make your eBay business more profitable and more convenient. And finding drop shippers is not as difficult as advertised, if you know how to proceed with the same.

Well, now, you’re in a better position than your competitors.

Shareapic.net is a picture sharing site that allows people to upload photos & pictures and hosted on Shareapic.net free. There are two ways to make money in Shareapic:

1) Earn from Picture Views
Shareapic pays $0.22 per 1,000 image views. Meaning, you earn $0.22 after your pictures and photos have been viewed 1000 times by people. Thousands of image views (or even more) are achievable if you post your images in different places like myspace, large forums and ebay.

2) Earn AdSense Commission from Your Pictures
Members are allowed to place their AdSense ads on their Picture and photo pages to generate AdSense revenue. Your AdSense earning will depend on your picture page views also.

Joel Comm will launch his new AdSense product called 'Monthly Templates' on January 10th, 12 pm EST and if you sign up for this pre-launch announcement list to be notified about the development and release of this program now, you'll be given an opportunities to download his e-book called 'How to Make Money with CPC and CPA Advertising'.

http://www.monthlytemplates.com

This e-book will explain to you:
* what is cost-per-action ads (CPA),
* how to make money displaying CPA ads on your site and blog and
* which CPA network that is right for you.

One of the latest way of driving targeted traffic to blog and website is using social bookmarking websites. There have been a numbers of bloggers and webmasters using this technique and are getting free traffic or visitors every day. If you are interested to increase your blog's or website's traffic and make more money online using social bookmarking sites too, here's are 2 places you can learn how to use techniques free.

SEO2020.com - Tag and Ping Article Archive
Free tutorials with video presentation to help you get started.


Web 2.0 Revealed Report - The beginner's guide to social bookmarking and social networking. Contains many useful links to audio presentation and websites to help you understand and learn more techniques.

Just checked my 2006 earning reports and I quite happy with the result. My total online revenue for 2006 is about USD3,000 and the revenue come from the following sources:

Google AdSense
I started using AdSense on Feb'06 and it is my 2006 best money making program. It contributed more than 85% of my total revenue. If you are planning to make money online with a website this year, I will definitely recommend you to use AdSense as your main source of income.

Affiliate Commission
I made a total of $99.35 of affiliate commission from the affiliate programs of the following websites:

Warp Speed Wealth
Affiliate Cash Secret
BlueVoda Website Builder

The reason I didn't make much money from affiliate programs is I spend most of my time generating AdSense revenue.

Treasure Trooper
Treasuretrooper.com is a website that pays people to sign up offers and refer new member. It is really an easy way to make money online as it doesn't involve a lot of effort, special knowledge and expertise. The amount I made up to today is $59.36.

Freelance Work
I have been applying and bidding for a number of freelance jobs and projects in 2006. But only awarded a data entry work. The pay is good. The employer paid me about $150 for completing the job in four days.

A new years free gift by Holly Cotter that might help you increase your website's traffic / visitors.

Traffic Dominate Tricks Exposed - Audio Series

As you know, the first challenge of making money online through a website is generating targeted traffic. The more traffic you get, the more money you'll make and the more successful you are.

This audio series will show you some proven strategies and tactics that you can use to attract free search engines traffic to you site. The audio series have 12 chapters and each chapter contains helpful SEO tips.