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Starting HubPages 50 Product Campaign

muratos — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:32:26 +0000

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.

You get referral’s 10% of all lifetime impressions on their hubs.
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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Announcing a crazy blogging experiment – newblogaday.com

muratos — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:01:37 +0000

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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So, What the hell Linkbaiting is?

muratos — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:18:30 +0000

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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9 Quick&Dirty Ways to Generate More Online Income

muratos — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:06:31 +0000

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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Cash For Your Blog: Earn Easy £10 instantly and £5 monthly

muratos — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:43:01 +0000

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

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.

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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Proven! Russian Dating is Still Excellent Money Maker

muratos — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:59:40 +0000

Well, I know what many people are thinking about Russian dating and bride services (mostly scams). I was thinking that way also very negatively and repeating myself “Hey! who would give money to these Russian women sites to meet even though there are many such free services? It is impossible.” So, I decided to try with my free blog Russiamania year ago and voila! My dear readers, after making 4 conversions resulting around $300 commissions in a year time (last one is around $190) , I was urged to open a special website dedicated to it. Welcome the Best Russian Dating Sites Especially many people from US and Europe are ready to pay for the legendary beauty and intelligence of Russian girls believe or not. Many people also enters first time to Internet and ready to pay money to meet people. If I would say that I am also married happily to a Russian girl already 2 years, maybe you wouldn’t believe to me, but it is another story which I plan to write later on my upcoming personal blog Muratos where I will kick start the egoistic advertising which I ignored a year mostly because of my ethical approach to monetary things and laziness

Anyway, I extensively promote Anastasia International affiliate program. They pay 30% for your referral’s purchase. Since they offer Russia tours for the members you can surprise to get a horny $200 with a single shot. I would suggest you to join them to try. Don’t disappoint if you don’t get sales even though having many many clicks. It is natural. It means that you don’t advertise much and not targeting. There are people who makes thousands of dollars only with this site deliberately advertising.

Anastasia International has also a second tier program. Each time the partner you bring them earns his commission, you rightfully get extra 10% of his earnings. This sum is not deducted from the new affiliate’s account; it is an extra.

Well, I promised to write about SocialSpark and Facebook ads before. I will be very clear and not open a separate article. Since SocialSpark rejected my Gadgetthink and EnglishTurkey.com blogs, I would never write a single sponsored reviews with them. Anyway sponsored reviews is not my main income source. I appreciate their full Web2.0 website with high quality excellent design. That’s all. !! Facebook ads are god damned so expensive. I couldn’t get a single click from my advertisements. So, I give up them for now and continue with Adwords.

Well, I will reveal my identity in two weeks with my own personal upcoming blog muratos.com to communicate with my readers clearly and cooperate, join the money making forces. Have a nice day, money hunters

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All Money Eggs in One Basket

muratos — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:56:34 +0000

Actually, I was planning to write about Facebook ads and SocialSpark but happened very urgent thing (which I was suspecting though). Finally, I managed to be banned by Google Adsense program. Another Update : Currently I use my friend’s Google code to support him. Anyway, Google will pay my all pending earnings which is considerably large. Later, I will write about the mistakes (evil actions) that resulted in ban. Because I used their ads in my all blogs, I had to change them with other CPC and CPM advertisement networks and it took almost one month to update efficiently. At that time, unfortunately I couldn’t write posts on my blogs. I see that Adbrite and Chitika are the best alternatives to Google Adsense, even performing better for some blogs. I can’t suggest Bidvertiser much because it didn’t convert well for me and I have given up with them.

What I would like to tell is that Google Adsense ban didn’t affect me terribly because I didn’t put all the eggs in one basket. Since I have depended heavily on Amazon, RocketProfit, CJ and other money program affiliates my income didn’t drop drastically. Now, I have more motivation and can write more freely on my blogs without fear.

Do not forget that Google isn’t the only way to make money online. I will tell you how you can make money which is a little bit far concept to many bloggers. That’s Russian Dating Affiliate programs and I will tell about more after my next post about Facebook ads and SocialSpark.

John Chow was right always repeating the phrase. DO NOT PUT ALL EGGS IN ONE BASKET because you can someday get the deadly email from the big boss ! Internet evolves every day and is full of opportunities for the people desperately seeking them.

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Facebook Ads and SocialSpark

muratos — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:36:49 +0000

After a successful journey with Adwords for several blogs, I have almost come to limits there for my target audience on the profits. I need to increase my ad budget for further profit, so decided to use Facebook Ads and published an advertisement for $0,01 per click and a daily budget of $10 for testing. It awaits for approval. After this process, I will write about the results next week. It is a highly targeted ad, so I am hopeful with the results. We will see.

Another experiment will be with SocialSpark. I have registered two blogs for testing there and will publish my opinions soon. I can beforehand say that it is one of the most attractive designs and has the best functionality in “paid to blog” websites.

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Choose the Right Domain Name or Die

muratos — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:08:16 +0000

Most people think that when you get a top domain name with niche keywords inside, you will have more chance to be indexed in top search result pages of Google. It isn’t true if the niche you want to dive is overcrowded. For example, I tried to run an experiment with a domain name called as BestDealHostingWeb.com with a basic content. The result isn’t successful because there are tons of similar domain names with lots of content and are added every day. I need to put so much unique content but I can’t invest much time on it when the success is not certain. So, I then tried to get cheap traffic with Google Adwords, but because of the high keyword competition it resulted again in failure. Now, all I need to make at least $10 in a year for this website to compansate using other advertising platforms like entrecard and social network postings. $10 seems to be funny but if you continue to develop a network of let’s say hundreds of blogs and websites, even the minimum profit becomes really important.

Before buying a domain name, it is essential to make a basic niche search. According to my experience minimalism is the future for the small websites and blogs for survival. So, it is a better idea to open a website about volcanos of Mexico than simply web hosting offers because you will have easier traffic from search engines with much less content and efforts.

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Advanced Ads Settings in Google Adwords

muratos — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:39:13 +0000

If you are using Google Adwords for your websites to advertise and earn money from Google Adsense, I recommend to exclude your target ads website showing in your own website by using Site and Category Exclusion menu on the Campaign Summary page. I have today noticed that the advertisement which I prepared in Russian language targeting Russian Federation and Ukraine content websites, also shows in my own ads target website prepared in English for Google Adsense. It is the worst thing which can happen to your campaign. Can you imagine paying for clicks to advertise on own your site? I think this is because of the difference between content and target language websites. Anyway, the best way is to exclude your own website that you don’t want your ads showing from the menu for safety. Hope this little trick helps to strengthen your high budget ads campaigns.