Detect Money

I knew about HubPages for a long time but couldn’t find time and an action plan to use this high quality article sharing network where you can put your ads (Yeah, we get 60% of all page impressions, thus revenue generating) and more importantly free quality backlinks. The advantage of HubPages is that search engines trust the pages and give high rankings. Since I compete on many technology related keywords it was essential for me to get backlinks.

So, it is the day to start a 50 articles product campaign on several technology items. I plant to write two hubs each day. I will reveal my traffic and revenue (Amazon sales) at the end of this month for the experiment (It doesn’t include Google Adsense for sure, because it is against their rules). Anyway, here is my first hub : Best iPhone Cases of 2009 and possibly 2010

By the way, HubPages network has a very effective affiliate program as well where you can earn affiliate revenue in 2 ways.

1. You get referral’s 10% of all lifetime impressions on their hubs.
2. This one is interesting. Even if you don’t write anything, you can put your affiliate links in settings. Then, if you give a link to another person’s hub, you can get up to 12% of their traffic impression revenue after someone clicks on the link you put for 120 minutes. A quite effective way of earning money promoting other people as well.

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Blogging is one of the easiest ways to make considerable amount of money in short to mid range time with no to little investments using only your time and energy to write interesting articles and market them to the interested readers. Since I have already a well established blog content publishing network, I have decided to take it to a step further. It is all about generating 365 unique blogs in 365 days with lots of useful and interesting content which will make money for me. Well, if you are interested to learn about this blog challenge, I kindly invite you to visit newblogaday.com

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I was lately seeing everywhere these words. Link bait. Now, I understand how exactly it works after seeing live examples and will provide you one of the most effective ones. Bait means to throw little worms to the sea to grab the fishes. In MMO world, it is the process of writing a spectacular controversial article to grab attention of other bloggers and dynamically spread your link through discussions and trackbacks. Cool yeah? Here is what I believe a link bait. Since I am writing on it as well, it is successful.

Seth Godin suggested to click ads to show your appreciation for the blog owner if the content that you read was good. It has fallen to the SEO and MMO community like a bomb and most people including A bloggers blamed him supporting click fraud and have given links to his blog and have driven traffic. Jackpot. Seo and Traffic ! Since, you have understood basically how the linkbait works, I will do my part and eat the worm by writing my opinions about the topic naturally.

First let’s look how the market in general works. We have three players. Publisher, Advertiser and Customer. The ideal is Win – Win – Win and it can be only provided in natural sequence. Customer sees a relevant ad, buys the product on the target and becomes happy. Advertiser sells, happy and finally we publishers get our commission, happy.

Suppose a situation that a small budget advertiser spends $5,000 for marketing a specific product with the expectation of 20% profits. So, he expects to earn $1000 but assume that these fraud and suggested tip clicks get from the budget $1500 with no sales. The result is a loss and most probably this advertiser will not turn to the system with this product, so publisher will not get his future opportunity cost commissions. Loss – Loss – Neutral what we have in the model in the long ru .

Seth has also a right part stating that “I never click on ads people” are wrong. I do agree with him. If you believe that you will benefit from the advertisement do click but not for the only solely purpose tipping the blog owner.

I will give a real example. Since I use statcounter.com’s free service for all my websites, should I click on their ads time to time to support because I think as much as they earn money, their service will continue nicely and I will benefit? Do you feel what’s wrong here in those ideas?

You can also benefit linkbaiting and get your part by linking to these posts including mine for sure Then someone else does it for you until it reaches to a point in the ground of the pyramid scheme. Faster you join better you get the benefit.

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Unfortunately, making money online is a really difficult task. If you are not a marketing guru who can convert every 1000 visitors to $100 a day, you have to play the game according to the traditional rules. Rule #1 is simple but clearly explains everything. If you don’t have visitors you can’t make money. I will give you some clues (in no importance order) how I artificially increase my traffic when there is not enough Google search juice.

Don’t forget that these techniques are not for the long term but a quick and dirty approach to use for your specific pages to get cash as soon as possible. For example, you could be marketing an advertising network like Chitika etc. to get referrals as fast as you can.

• Use Google Analytics and look weekly where your visitors come to your specific page. Get the top list and stumble upon, digg them if you didn’t. If you have some time, post these articles using services like SocialMarker.com. You will get visitors as well because there are your links in those articles. If the traffic is from a comment you dropped before, write another useful comment on another popular article on the source site to refresh it.
• Use Facebook effectively. Create a page there and drop some useful content. Find some related forums and advertise your product page. Add new people from US cities to friend list. It is not hard but a little bit black hat. Find an attractive model photo, make your homepage to your ads page and your inbox will get hundreds of new friendship offers in a few day. Many of them will become your fans as well This is suitable especially if you are advertising a product page to get CPA cash constantly. It is quite popular in blackhat style moneymakers and Facebook seems to be not fighting with these evil money makers at all.
• Throw many Google Adwords campaigns on the network with the price of 0.01 dollar for a click with small broad word sets. Since most make money online bloggers are from Malaysia, Philippines and India limit the target to these countries. If your target page is a good opportunity to make money online, you will get back multiples of what you spend in terms of referrals.
• Do not check daily your earnings statistics for Adsense, statcounter or other income sources. Since you are not a media baron making millions of dollars, why to lose time with those little cash and dream for more. Don’t be slave to dreams. A weekly check is enough to see overall progress. Ok, it is a strategical thing, I admit.
• Do not waste your time writing usernames and passwords for the websites you extensively use each day over and over. Trust Firefox and save your information. It is quite useful if you use socialmarker because you don’t need to enter username and passes to every social network. This one is strategical as well.
• Don’t waste your Entrecard ECs in empty articles. Empty article is an article where you don’t get anything since you don’t have affiliate links inside. Instead, search for a profitable offer and if you believe you get many referrals chargeeeeeeeee with your 10,000 ECS in the network.
• Join free advertising networks like Mogado peel ads. This will bring a good click through rate because people wonder what resides under this cover.  Noticed the ads on the right top of my website?
• Advertise cheap on Adtoll with geo targeting. It is quite effective. There are many websites which you will pay only 0.01 for world wide traffic or 8 cents for targeted US traffic.
• Do not afraid to experiment with your money. I spend at least 10% of what I earn to increase my possibilities to earn more. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. The most important thing is it is calculated and in the budget.

As I said, it is a quick article (not strategical development) which I hope that it has given you some clues.

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Important Update 17.08.2008 :

I think they don’t accept new bloggers more to the system because all the ads slots are full. Thanks for everyone who joined. You can try other opportunities listed on my blog for extra income while I discover new ones

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Freebies4Webmasters is an easy income advertising network which uses direct link placement method which will pay you £5 monthly by PayPal for placing their high quality 468×60 text links on the bottom of your selected 3 pages.

I have been just accepted with my Gadget blog and replaced the codes in the bottom of these 3 pages. You can see these high quality ads on these pages.

• Super Samsung Tocco Deal with Free Gifts
• The Best Digital Notepad : SolidTek DM-L2 DigiMemo
• Lightwedge: Impressive Book Light Gadgets

You will receive your free £10 payment when your first banner goes live on these three pages of your website or blog. After that you will receive monthly £5 payments to your PayPal account if they are still there. Another £5 bonus is available if you implement the ads within 72 hours after approval to the program.

As you know, a referral program is a good encouragement for making more money. If you bring another blogger to the network which implements the codes you get £10. There are no limits on how many bloggers you can refer and how many websites you can add for advertisements.

And my final opinion. Actually, I was hesitant to join at first but after seeing that the ads are from a respected UK website I was persuaded that it is not a scam. Freebies4Webmasters uses an effective selected advertisement tactics for the advertiser because each application is approved by editors. Try to choose your best pages with content when you submit your application. I was approved after 2 days of application. If you have any questions please comment on this article. I will try to help you.

Last update to topic : Today 03.08.2008, they paid my first £10 to paypal. So, actually you will need to wait almost a week. Anyway, free money is nice any rejections?

Another hot update: One of my blog visitors asked me payment proof. So I have added here as well. Check please below

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