Just want to share some new links to free Internet marketing resources I found last week:

Stompernet.net
A video case study on How a website made by an "Old Football Coach in Mississippi" generated $60,000 cash sales while it sat on the 6th page of Google. The video might help in increasing your online sales.

Site-reference.com
The site published an article called 'How I Made 78 Cents On Squidoo'. The article's title may sound a little redicious to you, but don't laugh. It is a good article actually. The article will give you an overview on what is squidoo about and how Squidoo can be used for SEO purpose.

Spraven.com/Gift
Sharlene Raven has put together a package of 3 e-books to help people gain more knowledge about Internet marketing and it's free to download. The e-books are:

• Easy Traffic Now
• Paypal Made Simple
• Article Handbooks

1) Cost-Per-Click (CPC) Advertising Programs
CPC advertising programs are the best money making programs for most of the bloggers. They are suitable to all kind of blogs with family-friendly content regardless of their traffic level and age. CPC programs work well on blog because they display contextual ads that are highly relevant to blogs content and bloggers will earn anywhere between 10 cents to 50 cents for each contextual ads click by their visitors. With proper CPC ads optimization and consistent amount of traffic, a blogger can earn a steady amount of money displaying CPC ads on his/her blog. Google AdSense is no doubt, the undisputed king of CPC advertising programs and Yahoo Publisher Network is the closest alternative of AdSense.

2) Cost-Per-Action (CPA) Advertising Programs
CPA programs is quite similar to CPC programs except CPA programs don't pay bloggers for each click on the CPA ads hosted by bloggers. The blogger only makes money when the visitor takes an action on the CPA advertiser website. The action can be a sign up, making a purchase, generating a lead, downloading a product and more. CPA networks pay a lot more than CPC programs, for a visitor sent by the blogger from his/her blog to a CPA advertiser website and the visitor taken an action on the advertiser site, the blogger can earn few dollar to fifty dollar depend on the niche. But CPA ads tend to work well on large traffic blogs only. AzoogleAds.com, Commission Junction and Advertising.com are some of the largest CPA networks.

3) Promote Affiliate Programs
Marketing affiliate programs is very common nowadays. You sign up with affiliate program of an online company, then decide whether to use the company's text link or banner ads on your blog to promote the company's products or services and earn affiliate commission when a visitor make a purchase through your affiliate link. Affiliate programs can be promoted without a website and blog too.

4) Pay Per Post Programs
Pay per post programs started last year. The programs pay bloggers to write a blog post about a sponsor's website. The paid blog post can be a review or an introduction on the advertiser's website, products or services. The blogger will be paid a least $5 for each sponsor post. Blogs that have massive traffic, high Google PR and large number of subscribers can charge a few hundred dollar for just writing one sponsor post. Here's are the two most popular Pay per post networks that offer this type of earning opportunities:

www.reviewme.com
www.payperpost.com

The downside of pay per post is that writing too many sponsor posts that are not relevant to your blog content can seriously affect your traffic.

5) Sell Text Link Ads
Selling text links on your blog can be a great source of additional online revenue. It is not difficult to get started, just go to Text-link-ads.com to sign up an account, then decide which part of your pages you want to display paid text links, set your price and you are ready to take order. Text-link-ads.com will handle all the promotional works. Another company that offers the similar services as Text-link-ads.com is Reverselinks.com

6) Hosting Web Poll
Vizu Answer offers a pretty new way to monetize your blog's and website's traffic. The pays the publishers on a cost-per-thousand impression (CPM) basis for hosting targeted web poll. The money a blogger can earn from hosting poll is depending on the page views. The more page views, the higher the earning.

Have a look at the money making opportunities I have come across, who know you might be interested.

Reviewparty.com
Reviewparty.com is a sister site of Bloggerparty. They invite anyone to join them to write review about book, music and DVD (movies and televisons) and reward the reviewers by allowing them to display their own Amazon ads and AdSense ads, and make money. The reviewers ads will appear on all his/her product reviews pages.



eSylvan
eSylvan is an online company that provide online tutoring services to US students in grades 3-9. They are in need of online tutors with teaching certification. Tutors will teach students using Internet from home and work at flexible hours. This is a great way to make extra income online. Click here if you are interested.

There are many things to take into consideration when setting up an e-commerce website to start making money online and one of the most important things is choosing a web host company to publish your e-commerce website. When selecting a web host, it is always best to research each potential host and compare all of the offers and prices before settling on the company that provides exactly what you need.

First, you should determine what you will require from the host. The basic business requirements may include:

- Disk space
- Bandwidth
- Shopping cart or similar technologies
- Email accounts
- FTP ability
- Technical support

You should make sure that the web host company you deal with provides the basic features your site will require otherwise you will end up paying for them separately. For example, for e-commerce you will have to be sure that the web host has facilities of a shopping cart and mailing lists along with a secure socket layer (SSL) certificate. Shop around and ask lots of questions. Make sure your host can meet your needs.

Security of your shopping cart is of primary importance. Some large companies offer firewalls, protection against denial-of-service (Dos) attacks and even virtual private networks (VPNs) at an extra cost. You may pay more for these additional services and it may be worth it because any security lapse can undo all the effort that you have taken in building up an online business.

Downtime is a death knell for an online store. Imagine the frustration and reaction of a buyer who tries to but cannot access your site or if it goes down when he/she is actually putting items in a shopping cart. The obvious assumption is going to hurt you and make you lose prospective buyers. Some of those who experience such incidents are liable to spread the word around too. To ensure that nothing of the sort happens to you, it will be good idea to check out the uptime guarantee offered by the web hosts and the technical support that it will provide in the event your site goes down.

If a host offers 30 days trial. You may sign up the trial offer to see whether the company delivers their promises. Although this can mean a small loss to your business due to delay in launching your website. But it is worth it to make sure that your customers can find, use and depend on your website.

Once you have narrow down the list of potential hosts, it is time to compare prices. Budget hosting usually comes with several downsides, such as lesser facilities and lack of technical support that could ultimately prove to be more expensive in terms of loss of profits. This is of course, not all budget-hosting companies provide such a low quality service, but keep these things in mind before going with a cheap deal and regretting it later.

The web hosting industry is very competitive, you should be able to find a good deal after doing some researches. Finding the right host will save your money in the long run and help you get your site to its complete potential immediately.

Derek Gehl and his team from Internet Marketing Center (IMC) has just released another free e-book to share their ideas, tips and strategies on starting an online business to make money online. I just downloaded and read the e-book. It is about how to find a profitable niche with proper keyword researches, ways fo getting the right products of your niche with lowest cost possible to sell online and some online businesses tips and advice. This e-book is helpful to you for starting an online businesses and it can be downloaded by visiting the below link:

http://www.marketingtips.com/foolproofsuccessebook.html

You can only download the PDF format if you are not a subscriber of IMC newsletter.

BizPreneur, an online community that lets people around the world market their businesses for free has just released their new beta advertising options for profiles. This means that members of Bizpreneur can now use their own advertising services to generate income from their profiles.

How it works:
- You create a profile in BizPreneur to network and promote your business.
- You can choose to use your own Google AdSense Ads or Adbrite ads to displayed on your profiles pages.
- Simply go to "Edit Profile" to insert your ad code.
- Your revenue-generating ads will be displayed on the left-hand side of your profile page.

This is the first business networking website that allows members to earn 100% of ad revenue while networking. I like their new idea, it is creative and motivative.

Step2
Grow Your Friend List. Your friend list is the key to succeed in Myspace marketing. You need to make as many friends as possible. You are going to look for friends that have interests in your website and blog content, or your product and services. This is the first challenge in your Myspace marketing.

Tips and Tricks for Growing Your Friend List Faster
1) Search for Myspace users in your niche and add them as your friends. There are plenty of groups created in Myspace, look for groups in the categories related to your niche , visit these groups and add them as your friends.

2) Visit other Myspace users profiles that also market the same niche as your. They should have built a friend list, add their friends as your friends too.

3) Use Myspace trains like makeatrain.com and Myspacetrains.com to grow your friend list faster. If you have never heard about Myspace trains, they are websites with a specific program code allowing people to add their profile to a chain which will be seen in all bulletin board on the different Myspace communities.

4) Whoring. What is whoring? Here's an explanation how it works:
- You partner with a Myspace marketer in your niche, request the marketer to send a bulletin message encouraging his/her friends to add you as friend.
- In exchange, you'll do the same for the Myspace marketer.

Step 3
Drive traffic to your site or blog from Myspace and make money. Once you have got a lot of friends, you can start sending your promotional message using bulletin. Your bulletin message shouldn't directly promote your site or blog as it will not work.

You can post bulletin to notify your friends when you have written a new blog post, posted an interesting news on your blog, added new helpful tips and articles on website, organized a contest and ask them to visit your site or blog to find out more about the contest and any other ideas you can think of. This ways your traffic will increase and so as your AdSense revenue.

Tips
- Make you bulletin message interesting and fun to read.
- Don't just make your bulletin message about marketing. Occationally you can send something fun such as a joke or a brain teaser.
- If you want to sell your own or affiliate products to your targeted friends, you need to figure out ways to draw your friends to your sales page using bulletin.

Myspace.com is the largest social networking or web 2.0 website with over 1 billion members in their database and their membership is continued to grow steadyly. For people who want to socialize online, it is definitely a great place to make friends, share your content and build your own groups. But for Internet marketers, webmasters and bloggers it is a great tool to generate free targeted traffic and make more money online. So, how Myspace can be used as a marketing tool to generate targeted traffic? The below step-by-step instructions will show you how:

Step 1
Obviously the first step is go to Myspace to sign up an account. Once you have set up your Myspace account successfully, you proceed to login and you'll see the following main features:

• Edit Profile
• Account Settings
• Add/Edit Photos
• Add/Change Videos
• Manage Calender
• Manage Blog
• Manage Address Book

Edit Profile
Profile is one of the most important myspace marketing tools you can use to promote your website, blog or online business. Clicking the 'edit profile' link will allow you to add details to your profile and make it searchable by the 'friends', e.g. the people or niche group you want to attract on Myspace. Here are the options available to customize your profile:

* Headline
It is the place to add a title to your myspace profile page.

* About Me
This is the section to add details and information to promote your website and blog. It is important not to make your about me section read like a blatant sales page as this against Myspace rules. You can start introducing yourself, What you are doing, your area of expertise, tell about about your website, blog and business, some descriptions about your site and blog, share your knowledge, experience and so on.

Myspace allows HTML code in the about me section. So add in some images, graphic, features to make your page look more interesting. You can even change your layout and background using one of the Myspace editors at http://www.strikefile.com/myspace . Keep you Myspace page looks clean and neat.

* I'd Like to Meet
This is the section you tell people who you like to meet. You should focus on finding friends that have interest on your website and blog content, and your products and services.

* Interest, Movie, Music......
Let other know more about you by telling them about your interest and hobbies.

Add/Edit Photo
You need to upload your own photo onto your MYspace page to make friends in Myspace. It will make your Myspace profile a little more interesting and people are more likely to approve your friend requests if they can see your face. Pick the best photo to upload.

The rest of the features you can choose not to use. But they can help in your Myspace marketing if you use them.

I saw commonties.com appears in Google ads. They are looking for people to submit them personal stories for cash. I then visited their site to read more about the opportunity.

They actually want personal stories on all topics from people around the world. They accept stories between 750 words to 3,000 words and prefer stories between 1000 words to 2,000 words. What about the pay? The pay is pretty high, $100 to $200 per published story and can ask for more if you think your story deserve higher rate. Interested? Click here for full guideline.

Google's ranking algorithm has never been consistent, recently, I discover that the frequency of content updating on blog and website is getting more useful in increasing Google ranking as it uses to be. I think it started about a month ago.

The search term "make money online" is a good example to strengthen my point. If you often use this search term, you'll notice the websites listed in top 10 result fluctuate from time to time. The frequent fluctuations have lead to websites with decent number of backlinks that have stayed in first page for long period of time gradually one by one drop from top 5 to top 10 and from top 10 to top 20; and allowing more blog with frequent content update to get into top 10 listing. I have been in the niche of "make money online" for more than a year and never see it happens this way. It is obvious that Google has changed their ranking algorithm again and place more weight on content.

So if your website have experienced a drop in Google and you think that you have not done anything wrong. The frequency of content updating may be one of the main reasons. You may take a look at your competitors website to see whether they have started adding fresh content often. If yes, you may think about updating your site in on going basis as well. It will give you a better chance in re-gaining your Google ranking.

Internet marketers like to give away free Internet marketing resources to anyone interested to learn Internet marketing and they never stop what they are doing. Below are some new links to websites that provide free info and tutorial about Internet marketing I found last week:

Viralprofitautomator.com/videos
Free FTP and Cpanel video tutorial such as website configuration in cuteFTP, WS_FTP, SmartFTP and more.

Other98percent.com
A website that offers free and paid memberships. The member areas have webmaster tips, methods and strategies of getting traffic, information and technique......

Easter JV Giveaway 2007
The title says it all. It is a giveaway program allowing you to gain free access to over one thousand products and services from hundreds of experienced Internet marketers that you can use immediately for your online businesses to increase profit.

Make money with paid survey, is it just a scam or non-sense. Well, there are actually a lot of reputable market research and consumer companies welcome people to become their members to earn cash participating in their online survey. It is a legitimate way to make money online. Additionally, Paid survey is very popular, there are more than 100,000 people searching for paid surveys every month in Yahoo as recorded in Overture Search tool.

However, the downsides of paid survey is that you will not know how much money you make ever month. The companies only send paid survey invitations to you if you are eligible. If you receive more surveys in the month, you'll earn more. Another problem is that most paid surveys only available to US residents, so people outside US will find hard to make money with paid survey.

Start Earning with Paid Survey in 3 Steps:

• Step 1 - Create a new e-mail account specially for receiving paid survey invitations. You can use Yahoo, Hotmail and other free email services. This will make finding your survey invitations easier compare to using an existing email that receives plenty of mails daily.

• Step 2 - Go to Yellowsurveys.com to sign up with as many online market research companies as possible. The site compiled a long list of market research companies that offer paid surveys. Sign up with the companies in "Most Popular" category first and then continue to join the rest. This can take few days of work.

• Step 3 - Wait for paid survey invitations send to you. It can take fews days to months to receive your first survey invitation. You shouldn't rely on paid survey as your main source of income. It can only be a way of earning extra money.

Gabor Olah from http://plrwholesaler.com has prepared 14 part of Clickbank guide to help people understand how Clickbank works. If you have a lot of questions about Clickbank or confuse how to get start with Clickbank, this free guide is right for you:

http://viralprofitautomator.com/clickbankguide.html

The guide cover most of the aspects of Clickbank, including explanations on Clickbank important policies, what are the features available in both vendors (sellers) and affiliates accounts and what are the products statistic affiliates can use in selecting a right Clickbank's product to promote and make money.

The fastest and easiest way to start an online business is buy a turnkey e-commerce website. A turnkey website is a website that ready to generate sales and make money online. The website is completely functional and provided with everything you need.

Where to buy a turnkey website?

There are many companies offering a turnkey website in web hosting business. These companies generally are web hosting service providers. You can own a web hosting business by joining a web hosting company’s reseller program. Many of the reseller programs usually are free to join and you are allow to set your own price for each product you selected for reselling. To search for a web hosting reseller program, you can go to Google and enter the search term 'web hosting reseller program'.

If web hosting business doesn’t sound interest to you, you may consider starting an online store. You can buy an online store for less $100 from a website calls getestore.com. They allow you to choose from 3,500 items with brand name such as Sony, Xbox, Panasonic and many more for reselling on your store without paying upfront for inventory. The suppliers will also handle all the packing and shipping works for you.

If you are only interested to start an affiliate marketing business. Pluginprofitsite.com is your solution. The site will recommend you to join several popular affiliate programs. After you have joined their recommended affiliate programs, the owner of Pluginprofitsite will create a brand new professional e-commerce website for you to promote all the affiliate programs you have participated. The cost isn’t cheap; you need to pay about $50 per month for hosting your website and the affiliate membership’s fee.

To generate sales, you need to drive targeted visitors/traffic to your site. The more traffic you get the more money you will make. Here are some of the techniques you can use to drive traffic to your site:

Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
PPC advertising programs offer an opportunity to advertisers to promote their websites by bidding for top-listings in the search engines on the keywords of their choices. PPC advertising can drive instant traffic to your website but they can be very expensive if you don’t use them wisely. Here’s a link to download a free e-book that will teach you how to use PPC advertising effectively for your online business:
http://www.googleadwordsmadeeasy.com/1

Search Engine Optimization
Search engines can bring you a lot of free targeted traffic for long term if your website ranks top in their listings. To rank high, search engines optimization is a must. Search engines optimization involves optimizing your webpages for your targeted keywords and increasing the number of websites link to your site. It will take a lot of time and effort in search engine optimization. Here’s a website contains helpful basic and advanced SEO tutorial:
http://www.seo2020.com

Article Marketing
Writing articles and publishing them on article directories is another free way to drive traffic to your website. You will promote your business in the article’s resource box by introducing yourself and your website. Your articles can drive thousands of visitors to your site within weeks if your content is impressive.

Google AdSense revenue sharing not just occur in community forums and article directories, it happens in news sharing websites too. Below is a list of news sharing sites that allow you to earn with Adsense by sharing news and articles:

Kick.ie
Kick Have a long list of news and story topics you can post. Share 50% of the AdSense revenue generated on all your published content.

Techtagg
A technology news related sites. Welcome submission of links to your blog stories. Earn 100% of AdSense on your content posted in Techtagg, if you the first 250 members of the site.

SharePointKicks.com
This is a media site focuses on news and content related to Microsoft Sharepoint technologies. Also allow other topics submission. It shares 50% of AdSense income.

Private label rights (PLR) are rights given a person to change or alter the content of an original product and the person can include his/her name as the author of the product after modification.

Products that come with private label rights include e-books, website templates, software, scripts, articles and other written, raw material.

Let's use e-book as an example. The Internet is flooded with e-book sellers. Some of them even give away the private label rights of their e-books to people who buy a copy of their e-books. If an author of an e-book would give you private label rights, you can edit the e-book in any way you see fit, add your name on the e-book and then use them in anyway that you think it will make money for you.

The advantages of gaining private label rights are they make starting an online business easier and faster. All you need to do is find the right material to work with, modify the text with your creativity, put in your name and you have an instant product ready to sell online. Futhermore, you get the glory of the byline since you can put your name on the PLR material because the product is yours to claim now.

Now, let's see how we can profit from PLR products:

1. If the license allows you to resell the PLR products as they are, you could start selling it right away and keep 100% of the profit.

2. If you buy PLR articles, you could change the articles into unique articles then use them to build niche content sites to make money with AdSense or other PPC and affiliate programs.

3. PLR articles can also be compiled into a series of tutorials and send them to your subscribers in your opt-in list. You can profit from your tutorials by using teach and sales technique.

4. You could use the PLR products as bonuses to your customers who purchase your own developed products or if you are marketing an affiliate product, you can offer the PLR products you have bought as incentive for anyone who would order the product through your affiliate links.

5. You could also use your PLR products as supplemental materials for your sales page. Do you have a highly informative piece in one of your PLR purchases? Clip the same and paste it on a box inside your sales page so that your readers can refer to it to complement whatever you will share on the main parts of your sales copy.

Here are some of the websites that offer PLR material:

http://www.sourcecodegoldmine.com - Selling PLR software products

http://www.viralmarketinggiveaway4.com - Free Internet marketing resources with PLR

http://www.plrpro.com - Selling PLR articles

These are just some of the things you could do with your PLR articles. The possibilities are quite endless, further establishing these PLR goodies as fantastic options for your marketing needs.

1) Comment on Blogs
Look for large traffic Blogs in your niche, visit them and leave your comments on their blogs posts. You may use blog search engine like www.blogsearchengine.com, www.google.com/blogsearch and www.searchengineblog.com to find blogs in your niche.

2) Submit Articles
Write articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as ezinearticles.com, Isnare.com, Articledashboard.com, Articlealley.com and goarticle.com. Quality articles may drive you a lot of free targeted traffic.

3) Participate in Community Forums
Use google to search for forums that are related to your blog. Look for forums that has over 10,000 members and read the rules of the forums to see whether you can promote your blogs and websites in your signature. Join forums that allow you to add a link to your blog in the signature and start participating in discussion. You can ask questions, answer other members questions and post your articles, ideas and thought in the forums.

4) Submit Your Blog to Directories
This isn't working to me but some bloggers claim that they gain a good amount of traffic from their listings in directories.

5) Post Often
You can lose traffic if you seldom update you blog, try to make it at least 5 posts per week. This not only will maintain your traffic but possibly attract more readers.

6) Write about Blogging
Write helpful and quality articles related to blogging can attract other bloggers link to your articles and gain may be truckload of free traffic.

7) Post Breaking News
If your found a breaking news of your niche very earlier, post it to your blog. It may give your blog's traffic a boost.

8) Social Bookmarking
Bookmark you blog posts in the large social bookmarking sites like Netscape.com, Digg.com, Simply and Reddit.com.

9) Run a Contest
Start a contest on your blog. Think about the prizes that people really want. It will create a viral effect and bring in new visitors.

10) On-page Optimization
Make sure your blog's title tag and description tag contain your targeted keywords. When you have posted plenty of quality blog post and done a lot of blog promotion, don't be surprise to see your blog ranks top 10 in Google and get free search engine traffic daily.

Li Evans from Searchmarketinggurus.com has posted an interesting blog post titling "Would You Report Paid Links?" The blog post stated that webmasters can now report paid links to Google by using the authenticated spam report form to help Google improve their search results. If Google concluded that the reported site is spamming, then the site will be removed from Google's index. If you are making money online by selling text links in your website(s). The news is really concerned you.

Creating a website to generate income online is one of the most common methods these days. You can earn money from a website by:

a) Marketing your own merchandises/products and services.
b) Joining affiliate programs to promoting other companies products or merchandises.
c) Participating in Google AdSense Publisher Program to start generating AdSense commission from your website.

Option (a) & (b) require a lot of time, effort and advanced Internet marketing knowledge before you start generate profit from your site. The third choice is much simple and faster to profit online with a website. To launch an AdSense campaign you must first sign up to become a publisher of Google AdSense program. You are going to submit your website for review when applying an AdSense account.

The first step of building a website is deciding the content of your website, your content can be related to any subjects as long as they comply with AdSense program policies. Google AdSense policies can be found at https://www.google.com/adsense/policies. Your interest, hobby, past experience and area of expertise may help you decide what topic or subject you are going to write. You can provide helpful content like advice, educational articles and so on to others on your website if you are an expert at something. If you like to travel you may write about the places and countries you have visited and share your traveling experience and tips in your website.

There are plenty of online companies providing web design service but it is expensive using the service of a web design company. Hiring a web designer to build a website via freelance marketplace like guru.com is much cheaper than using a company. However this is still not the most effective way to cut your cost to minimum. The cheapest way to create a website is by using a free web development tool or software. There are getting more and more free web development tools on the Internet and I recommend Bluevoda website builder. You can download Bluevoda website Builder at http://www.bluevoda.com. Bluevoda allows user to create websites without technical knowledge. Users can create almost any kinds of website with little limitation. Create websites using Bluevoda is free. You only pay for the domain name and website hosting.

After you finish designing your website, it is time to publish it on Internet and promote your website to earn AdSense revenue. There are a number of ways to promote your website to bring traffic (visitors) to your site.

Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising companies let you advertise your website on search engines using keywords-bidding system. When a visitor enters a keyword you bid on in search engines to find something, the visitor will see your ad and if the visitor clicks your ad, you will be charged based on the amount you bid. The two most common PPC advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing but they are quite expensive to advertise with due to tough competition in the keywords-bidding system. You might encounter the problem of your PPC cost higher than your AdSense revenue and lead to a loss. Luckily, there are low cost alternatives such as Bidvertiser.com, searchfeed.com, Bidclix.com and so on. These PPC companies allow you to drive instant targeted visitors to your site with less than $0.15 per visitor.

Provide free content
Creating articles and sending them to content websites like online article directories is a no cost way to gain further exposure for your website. You will promote your website and get traffic by writing about yourself and your website with a live link points to your website in the author’s bio of each article published on content websites.

RSS advertising
RSS advertising is another free method to increase your website’s traffic. There are people reading information and news online using RSS readers or news aggregators. This has created another opportunities for webmasters to boost the websites traffic. By creating your own RSS file and submitting it to search engines and RSS directories, the links to the content in your website will appear in front of those who read information using news aggregators and as a result driving free visitors to your website. Need further explanations? You can learn more about RSS at http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175271

Web promotion is what you will concentrate. It is much like a business. The more effort you put in for web promotion and generating traffic, the more traffic you will gain and possible the bigger your AdSense pay check.

I read about this 2 opportunities when visiting other people blogs. I think you might be interested:

Newsforge.com
Newsforge.com is a online news site for Linux and open source. They need new articles currently and offer to pay $100 - $300 for an article (between 800 to 1500 words) published on their site. They want news, reviews, case studies, HOWTOs, feature articles, and fact-based commentary directly related to Linux, open source, or free software. $100 - $300 for an article, this is the highest offer I've seen so far. Too bad this writing job isn't for me as I know nothing about Linux and open source. Anyway if you are interested to write for them, here's the link for more information

http://www.newsforge.com/write.tmpl

Vizu Answers
Vizu Answers offers an innovative way to monetize your websites and blogs traffic. It is an advertising network that pays you to host interactive web polls.

Vizu Answers is more suitable to large traffic sites as it is a CPM (cost-per- thousand page views) advertising network. Publishers will share 50% on all the revenue earned from hosting polls with Vizu Answer.

Getting Started in 3 Easy Steps

1. Register and create an account you
2. Poll template(s) and establish your pricing
3. Paste the Vizu Answers Poll Zone code into your site page(s)

The polls only appear in locations that you specify and are from Vizu's clients who have a question to ask your website visitors.

Although anyone can start an affiliate marketing business but not everyone can achieve success in affiliate marketing. What is the reason? Well, there are 10 of them, actually. There are 10 affiliate mistakes that deter people from succeeding in affiliate marketing business. To avoid all these mistakes, you first need to study them and understand them thoroughly.

1. Believing that visitors would only click on their affiliate links. Although the task of an affiliate is only restricted to pre-selling, pre-selling isn’t just limited to displaying the affiliate links. It also entails enticing visitors to click on them by listing out the benefits of the affiliate products, giving positive recommendations by writing reviews to encourage readers to check out the products.

2. Promoting too many affiliate programs at the same time. If an affiliate markets 8 affiliate programs at the same time, he or she will have 8 affiliate marketing campaigns to handle. Most probably, the affiliate will find difficult to manage all his campaigns and unable to concentrate on each one of his or her affiliate programs in this situation and ends up losing money.

You should begin with one affiliate program; choose a program that you are passionate about. Then put your best effort to market the product. Test different marketing strategies to see which one works best. Once you are making a steady commission with the product, then maybe you can look for second affiliate product to sell.

3. Believing that using a single method of marketing technique is sufficient. There are people actually think that submitting a few articles to article websites will generate the amount of traffic they expected. But this is wrong. Focusing only one marketing technique will limit the number of potential buyers you can send to your affiliate merchant’s website

4. Failing to improve the performance of your marketing campaign. Many affiliates tend to concern on checking their daily commission only and have no interest on studying and analyzing their marketing campaigns performance. When their campaigns don’t work as expected or don’t generate sales, they will fail to make corresponding adjustments because they don’t know which aspects of their campaigns need to be improved. It is essential to learn every aspect of our marketing strategies. Which marketing techniques are attracted most visitors? How many unique and returning visitors generated? How long do they stay in our website? Where they come from? These are the questions that could help us enhance the performance of our affiliate marketing business.

5. Promoting affiliate products that are lacking of demand. Some affiliate programs offer extremely high sale commission to their affiliate. But the products aren’t sellable and thus earning nothing.

6. Failing to find an affiliate program with a proven record of consumer satisfaction. The trustworthiness of a company relies on how people view it. If the affiliate program has established good relationships with their customers, then it has established a brand which is recognizable for its excellent service. You will find easier to pre-selling such an affiliate product.

7. Failing to keep abreast with the latest developments in the industry. There will come a time when the marketing knowledge we know would become obsolete, more so in the field of internet marketing where everything transpires at a rapid pace. You have to constantly update yourself with the newest trends, techniques and news in this field to always keep your competitive edge.

8. Failing to invest on knowledge. Knowledge likewise evolves and you have to evolve with it. Buy noteworthy eBooks, special reports and the likes… those which would teach you the latest tactics to help you conquer your field.

9. Resting on your laurels once a semblance of success is achieved. Success is not eternal. You have to sustain it. If you leave your business alone once it shows the promise of success, you’re just setting it up for failure.

10. Though that affiliate program can help you become rich fast. No, affiliate program isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme. You have to put in a lot of effort and time, and some capital before you can make money in affiliate marketing.

Below are some links I found this week that contains helpful free resources:

Awesomefungifts.com
The site have a long list of free downloadable gifts from a number of Internet marketing experts that can improve your online business. Gifts you can download are traffic-building e-books, Adsense templates, wordpress themes, softwares & tools, website headers and more.

Covertaffiliatelinks.com
Some Clickbank affiliates find hard to sell Clickbank products due to commission stealing problem. Covertaffiliatelinks.com has a free report that contains tips on how to stop commission thieves and boost your conversion rate.

Freeiq.com - Beta Version
Freeiq.com is a new social media website. Currently have a lot of money making resources in PDF format, video and audio shared by members. You can become a member to upload your content too to promote your website and business. The site was recommended by Joel Comm. He said it will be big in near future.

Only a successful sale generates profits. You can encourage visitors to your auction, you can alsvo get them to read it, but the most important thing is to get them to bid on it. Below are some tips that can help you increase response on your e-bay listing and make more money on each sale:

1) A lot depends upon how you design your auction. You have to attempt to put information on it in a manner that it gives the much required incentive to the casual or interested visitors to actually bid for your item. For example some people do not give enough importance to the accompanying picture they have posted on eBay. A professionally shot picture with proper lighting and un-intrusive background is as vital as the description of your item.

2) Most of the bidders are apprehensive about disputes and the hassles that they might get into after they pay up. To allay such fears the best policy is to sign up at SquareTrade and get permission to display their logo on your auctions which will assure the bidders that they will be not be shortchanged in any eventuality. It gives a professional look to your auction and you will always see it on PowerSellers auctions. To further your professional image and build confidence, put up all business practices in a visible place giving details, including shipping, time schedules, and refunds.

3) Nothing boosts confidence more than good feedback. Include all positive feed back comments prominently and in the event that you have 100% positive feedback, make sure that it is mentioned on all auctions. If you have a reserve price it is likely to discourage bidders. Displaying a NR (no reserve) along with your item’s name should take care of that.

4) Benefits not features: Make sure your description emphasizes on the benefits that your item can give to the customer, not just its features. This is a classic sales technique. If you have trouble with this, remember: 'cheap' is a feature, 'save money' is a benefit.

5) You can never be sure of which payment method a particular bidder might be comfortable with. Try to include unusual payment methods such as checks, which most of the sellers try to avoid. Also keep just two or three auctions going on for an item you have more than one of in stock rather than choosing the Dutch-auction route.

6) Remember that much depends upon the search results when it comes to categories that are crowded. To ensure that your product comes up in the first ten results and you get the maximum hits you need to upgrade regularly. The best upgrades may be expensive but they may be worth the money you spend for them.

I just found a forum for people to discuss everything related to Agloco. The forum's address is http://www.agloco.fm. It is not agloco.com. The owner of this forum has nothing to do with the owners of Algoro.

The forum looks simple and currently has 308 members. I think it is pretty new and it is the first forum of Agloco I have seen. If you have a lot of opinions about Agloco whether positive or negative, you may express them out in this forum.

Also, owner of Agloco.fm offers some incentive to members who refer new member and post messages to the forum. The minimum payout is $100. $100 seems to too high and I think the owner should lower the payout or no one will be able to reach the minimum payout.

The main difference between blog and website is blog has content update frequently and the latest blog post will appear on the top. Each blog post created in blogs generally welcome comment from readers. So which one is better in generating online income for you? Unfortunately I don't think there are any answers to this question. Which one works better for you will depend on your preferences and behavior. You will have to know which one best suits you before putting serious effort, time and money in Internet marketing or you could end up regret making the wrong choice and suffer losses.

Ok, now lets take a look the the pros and cons of website and blog to help you find out which one is right for you.

Website's Pros

1. Most Website seldom have new content added frequently. You don't need to add new content and articles to your website if you don't want to. So it saves your a lot of hard works.
2. You still can get a steady stream of free traffic from search engines even without updating your website often. You wouldn't lose ranking in Google since most of the webmasters don't add fresh content to their sites often too. This apply to most of the niches except some niches that are crowded with blogs in Google.
3. More flexibilities in AdSense and affiliate programs optimization in your website.
4. Generate high AdSense CTR if you optimize your AdSense well.

Website's Cons

1. Take long time to get a lot of traffic and high search engines rankings. Also visitors seldom return to website unless fresh content are added daily.
2. To survive in long-term, you'll got to master some long-term traffic generating strategies such as good SEO to rank high in search engines, effective article marketing and more.

Blog's Pros

1. You can join blogger.com or wordpress.com to create a blog easily at no cost. A better option is to register your own domain name and pay a hosting company to host your blog.
2. Take lesser time to gain a steady stream of traffic by posting new and quality content on your blog daily and using free traffic strategies like social bookmarking, networking in a blog community like mybloglog.com and so on.
3. When you blog start becoming popular, many bloggers will start noticing you. You will find many of them will link back to your quality post and thus gaining a lot of free quality backlinks to your blog. And Probably, your blog will then rank top 10 in Google and getting more traffic. The more traffic you get, the more money you will earn.

Blog's Cons

1. Lower AdSense click-through rate. You need to have massive traffic to earn few hundred dollars of AdSense revenue monthly.
2. Over AdSense and affiliate program optimizations in your blog can annoy your readers and lose traffic.
3. If you want to maintain a steady stream of traffic, you have to keep on writing. Your returned visitors expect to read something on your blog when they come back.

Displaying AdSense ads just below interesting pictures or images in a website use to be a great way to generate high AdSense click-through rate. But Google has disallowed this optimization technique recently.

There are still websites using this technique. Some them may be not aware about this new policies and some of them knew about it but thought that Google will not take it strictly, may be just a warning if Google found their website against this rule. But my advice to you is remove the AdSense ads that place next to or near your pictures immediately if you are one them who uses this technique because your AdSense account might be banned for this reason. I was told by a webmaster that his AdSense account has disabled by Google due to this reason and most probably his AdSense earning will be disabled as well.

Here are two examples I taken from http://adsense.blogspot.com that don't comply to this policies:




And here a page of a website against this policies currently

http://www.moneymakingstuff.com/internetmarketingseo/

Google is pretty strict to the AdSense publishers. So, do take some time to review your sites and blogs to make sure you are fully comply with the policies of Google AdSense program.

After about 6 months of launching Website Optimizer, Google finally released Website Optimizer (beta) to all AdWords advertiser worldwide on 4 April 2007. If you have no idea what is Website Optimizer, Here's how it works as explained in http://adwords.blogspot.com

Website Optimizer is a free multivariate testing application built into AdWords that helps online marketers increase visitor conversion rates and overall visitor satisfaction by enabling them to continually test different combinations of site content.

So, the tool is designed to boost your sales. It will eliminate your guesswork on what site content works better by letting your website visitors to tell you what works best and thus save your a lot of time and hard work.

To learn more about this tool, please visit Website Optimizer sign up page.

I personally think that this a tool that you should spend time to learn about it as when you know how to use it, it will be very beneficial to your PPC marketing with Google AdWords.

Promoting affiliate programs without a website, is it possible? Yes it is possible. In fact there has been plenty of affiliates market their products without websites. They use Google AdWords cost-per-click advertising programs to advertise their affiliate programs and some of them have achieve great success in affiliate marketing after years of testing different AdWords strategies and techniques.

However, Affiliate marketing without a website isn’t limited to Google AdWords advertising only. There are other techniques:

Forum Marketing
Online communities, or forums, are likewise great channels where you could promote your affiliate links. Membership in pHp 2.0 based forums gives you a signature box where you could advertise your links. Use this to advertise your affiliate links. For every post you will make, your signature box would appear. Post a thousand messages, and you’ll have a thousand pages advertising your affiliate links! Want to know the forums which are relevant to the subject serviced by the affiliate products you’re promoting? Use the tool at www.link-advantage.com/search to find the appropriate online community.

Advertise in E-Zines
This may cost you some cash, as many eZines charge for advertising space. Nonetheless, you could expose your affiliate links to highly targeted prospects using this approach. Imagine if the eZine has a list of 10,000 people. You’d immediately be able to reach 10,000 quality leads with one advertisement. Again, you don’t need a website. Simply use your affiliate link in your ads.

Marketing Your Service
To make money you need to have customers. You are going to go out and find customers. Don’t worry, it is not very difficult. I believe you can do it. Here are 2 methods to find customers for your business.

Post Your Flyer
Look for a local shop that can prints out 500 copies of your flyer. The cost should be anywhere between $20 to $40. Then go out to post your leaflets through 500 letterboxes. You can start with your own area to post your leaflets. After you have posted all the leaflets, all you need to do is wait for calls.

Once you received your first call, you are going to arrange to meet your first customer. You will meet your customer at their home as the items usually placed at their homes. Bring your digital camera and a notebook. Be cheerful and polite with anyone you meet.

Take a few shots on the item using your digital camera. You can get good results in daylight, but using the flash. Record as much detail about the item as possible like make, serial number, model and other details. Make sure you have agreed the following things with your customer:

• The selling price of the item
• How much commission you’ll charge and how much money the owner will receive.
• The item must not advertise for sell during the period you are trying to sell the item on ebay.
• Who will pay the shipping fee? You, the owner or the buyer
• Who will send the item once it was sold

Establish a good relationship with your customers. Make them trust you and they are likely do business with you again.

Another marketing method is to buy a copy of all your local newspapers and start checking at the ads section in all the newspapers and look for the ads that offer items for sell. You are going to contact the sellers to tell them you can sell their items for them for a fee. You can contact them using phone. Is this a sales call? Yes it is. If you don’t like to do that, there is another option. Use your leaflets. Send them to the sellers to offer your service. You may found many items for sell, but you should not contact each of the item’s seller to offer your service as not every item will make you profit. Here are some tips on what kinds of items you should pick to sell for the sellers:

• Small items with value more than $100.
• Jewelry and metals.
• Collectables and antiques.

Listing You Items on ebay
After your customer agrees all the terms and conditions and let you sell the item. It is time to list the item on ebay for sale. You will be uploading a picture (pick the best picture) of the item to ebay, write an attractive title and a description.

Start with an auction listing instead of fixed price listing to allow ebay visitors to bid for your item and this can make your selling price go higher. Try not to set your starting price too high as people in ebay tend to like bargains. They prefer to bid for an item with a low starting price.

If you have been learning how to make money online for some time, you may have aware that you can make some extra money by selling your unwanted things on e-bay instead of throwing them away.

But, do you know that there are plenty of people who struggle to dispose their unwanted stuff for extra cash never think about they can dispose their stuff on ebay even though they heard about ebay before.

They just sell their items using the old-fashion ways like spending money to advertising in newspapers, sticking their sale notices on everywhere on the street. If you can offer them a better way to sell their unwanted things then they would like to accept your offer. And this created a business opportunity for you to profit online.

The business will work in these ways:

1) You approach the people who desperate to sell the stuff.

2) Discuss about your offers with these people.

3) If they accept your offers, you may start photographing their items and list the items on ebay on a no sale, no fee basis.

4) If an item successful sold on ebay, you earn certain percentage on the selling price as agreed earlier with the item's owner.

The owner possesses the item until it was sold and thus the item will be stored at the owner place, and you don’t need to spend any money up front.

You can use your existing bank account or open a personal bank account for the business until the bank starts bugging you. Other things you must have are:

An ebay account - To list your customer items for selling.

A PayPal account - To accept payment from ebay buyers.

Your own business cards - You can design your own business cards and print them out to distribute to your customers. Or a better way is to create a flyer. A flyer is a small advert and the suggested size is A5 (half A4) with the details of your offer and contact inside the flyer. Here’s an example:

Give your flyer to your potential customer when meeting with them. If they don’t have anything to sell yet, tell them to stick it to their doors or walls, or keep it until the need your service.

The headline and messages in the flyer should be simple but attractive to the readers.

Set Your Price
The reasonable service charge for an item sold is 12% to 15% on the selling price. If the item doesn’t sell, no charge to the customer and the agreement end.

Freelancing refers to the process of offering your services for someone else on a per project basis. The best way to explain this is through an example.

Supposing you possess excellent writing skills. There are tons of webmasters and internet marketers out there who are in need of fresh content and new products on a daily basis. Their demand for digitally written works is so great that even if they are blessed with just as much writing prowess, they won’t have the time to come up with everything that they need. Hence, they resort to outsourcing.

And this is where you enter the picture.

As a freelancer offering your writing services for a fee, you could take in some projects they will give you. You will be paid per delivery, and once that’s done, you could take in more clients for consistent earnings.

But freelancing is not only limited to writing, or ghostwriting as it is technically known. There are other services that you could offer, depending on the area of proficiency you possess. Here are more examples:

* graphic creation and design
* web creation and design
* software development
* data encoding
* translation to specific languages
* marketing consultancy
* strategic placement consultancy
* Admin and Accounting

If you want to dabble in freelancing, here are some splendid places where you could advertise your services and solicit some clients:

www.elance.com
www.scriptlance.com
www.guru.com

Creating an account on the above sites are free. You will need to fill in your personal and working information in your profile. The employers will review your profile to decide whether you are right for their jobs. So, make sure you update your profile well.

Kurt Chrisler has written an AdSense e-book. The e-book is called AdSense Master Plan which contains a step-by-step guide from creating an AdSense content-based website to promoting the site in order to generate Google AdSense advertising revenue. You will learn some of tips and ideas such as how to locate underdeveloped niches, perform proper keyword research, ways to build AdSense site, methods of driving traffic to your site, how to optimize your AdSense ads to achieve high click-through rate and more.

Kurt is currently offered this e-book free to the public at http://www.adsensemasterplan.com. To sign up to download this e-book, you need to give your name and e-mail address.

Break.com is another social media website like Metacafe.com that worths mention. Members of Break.com will make money for posting original videos, pictures and games. Here's how it works:

• If a member post a short original video or film to Break.com's homepage, Break.com will pay the member up to $2,000 to buy the video or film.

• If a member post an original picture and feature on the gallery, the member will be paid $25.

• If member created an interesting game, the member can email to Break.com to request the game posted on the game channel of Break.com. The member can them sell the game to Break.com for $2,000.

Here are some tips by Break.com to help members to get paid:

How do I get my picture in a gallery?
Create and upload an original picture. We scour the site for the best of the best. If we use yours, we'll send you some paperwork to fill out. Once you send it back in, you will be paid $25 bucks through Paypal within one week.

How do I get my video on the Homepage?
Create and upload an awesome video, short film or flash animated short. If it's cool, funny or interesting enough, we'll put it on the homepage!

Making money online from parked domain names seems to be an unfamiliar concept to many people. The concept is simple:

• You register a domain name.

• Then park the domain name to a domain parking company.

• The domain parking company will create a parked page for your domain. name with sponsored ads, links and search box inside the parked page. Some domain parking services even will add relevant articles and content to the parked page.

• You earn ad revenue for the traffic generated by you to the parked domain. Some domain parked services will share ad revenue with you and some allow you to display your AdSense ads and keep 100% of the AdSense commission earn.

The cost for parking a domain usually less than $5 monthly. If you have domain names that left unused with existing traffic, you can start using them to make money by parking them to a domain parking company such as Parkedgold.com and Godaddy.com - Cash Parking.

Another way is to buy a expired domain name comes with existing traffic. One of the important factors you should pay close attention to when looking for a expired domain name is the link popularity of the expired domain. An expired domain name with many backlinks is very likely to have a targeted traffic built in. You can find expired domain name from Godaddy domain auction, there is a section in auction where you can bid for domain names that have expired recently.

More visitors to your website means more website revenue. Here's is an opportunities to increase your website traffic free. MSN is offering free $50 pay-per-click advertising credit to new advertisers opening a new Microsoft adcenter account.

http://startadcenter.com/lcoffInexp%5Fcj/

You need to pay a one-time activation$5 fee when opening a new Microsoft adcenter account to get the $50 credit. Bid starts at $0.05 per click. Since the competition in Microsoft adcenter is lower than Google and Yahoo. You can expect to get hundred of visitors with the $50 ad credit. Offer valid until 30/4/2007 and available to US residents only.

Derek Gehl, owner of marketingtips.com sent an email to his newsletter subscribers offering a free copy of "How to Dramatically Increase Your Online Traffic" to his subscribers and to the public for a limited time. I didn't post this free offer here as I thought Derek offered this new e-books privately to his subscribers only. Is my mistake, Derek is actually giving away free copies to anyone who want one. This e-book is going to teach you the the exact same strategies and methods used by Derek to get a lot traffic and increase your online revenue. It is helpful especially to beginners and experienced Internet marketers will learn something new reading this book. Here's is the link to get the e-book

http://marketingtips.com/trafficebook

This e-book is currently sell for $27.00 at http://www.marketingtips.com/increasetraffic/tips.html but for a limited time, you can download it free from the above link.

Amazon has launched a new ads system called 'Content Links' for affiliates to promote Amazon products. Amazon's Content Links are similar to Kontera In-Text Advertising. Context Links automatically identify relevant phrases and keywords within your page content in your website and turn those phrases and keywords into links to Amazon products. When a visitor clicks a content link and purchase a product, you make money.

Content Links are customizable and here are the customization options provided by Amazon allowing you to control:

• the number of links on each page
• which portion of the page will be linked
• which Amazon product categories are linked
• the matching of exact product names only
• if preview windows will appear when your site visitors hover over the links, and the style of those windows
• the options of single underline, dashed underline, and double underline link formats to indicate to your site visitors that they are Context Links

See how Amazon Content Link look like in this website muppetcentral.com.

If you are Amazon affiliate you can try it immediately. If you are interested to test this ads system but not an Amazon affiliate, you need to join Amazon Associates program first.