Archive for the ‘Blogmoney’ Category

Who wants 1,000 Entrecard credits?

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Who wants 1,000 Entrecard credits?

For those that need Entrecard credits fast or are too lazy to drop 300 cards a day I have created the Entrecard Credit Shop, with the lowest prices on the market.

You can buy Entrecard credits, in packs of 1,000 or 2,000 credits. The price for 1,000 credits is $8 and for 2,000 credits is $14. Although I have a limited number of credits, I don’t plan to raise the credits price.

If you decide to buy, leave your Entrecard email address and website, and you will receive the credits in maximum 12 hours, if you have any questions send a mail or leave a comment.

The transactions is made throw my associated, he takes care of all the financial aspect of this website. After you buy, he sends me a mail with your data and I will send you the credits. 

For the shop I use the PayPal Storefront Widget, as you can see it looks nice and dose a good job, but still it has some bugs.

Amazon Your Video Widget

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Amazon launched a video sharing program “Your Video Widget”. You can upload videos on Amazon and add the code to your website, while playing you can show different products.

This program is for blogs and websites, not for watching videos like on YouTube, Amazon doesn’t have a portal for the uploaded videos, but who knows maybe in the future.

The video must not be longer that 10 minutes and larger that 100MB, no two products can appear within 10 seconds of each other, videos that are obscene, or contain violence and nudity are not allowed, you are not allowed to show phone numbers, mail addresses, URLs, prices, or shipping information.

You make money from the referral fees, like before. So you can’t use Amazon to promote your blog, you can use it only to sell stuff. Like any other type of ads this will work beater if you show products that are related with the video content.

 

Traffic and Money from Associated Content

Monday, January 21st, 2008

”Associated Content is a platform that enables everyone to publish their content in any format on any topic and then distributes that content to engaged audiences through its website and content partners. Those who contribute to Associated Content’s ad-supported collection of original text, video, audio and images gain exposure and often earn cash for their participation.”

 

If you write unique content Associated Content is a good way to make money, they pay $1.5 per thousand page views (PPM); you earn $1,500 if you have 1,000,000 page views. I think that beats AdSense at least in my case.

You can make money from page views on Associated Content and drive traffic to your website, just put a link at the bottom of the article and you are done. After you have written an article and you want to do a second part, at the bottom of the first part add something like this “Part 2 coming soon” and your website address after. This will certainly bring traffic to your website, even if it’s a two year old article and you didn’t write a second part, people will still go to your website to read the second part if they liked the first one.

 

They pay through PayPal if you have at least $1.50 in your balance, they even pay if you are not a citizen or legal resident of the United States. If you are a citizen or a legal resident you are eligible for upfront payments, this is a bonus they pay before the article is published.

When you signup you agree that Associated Content (AC) can republish your articles in any format or language, if you chose to give exclusivity to AC you will receive higher upfront payment and you are not allowed to publish that article in any form. Or you can retain the right to publish the article anywhere.

 

If you are planning to signup remember: you must write original content that must contain many high values keywords (this is for the search engines), there is no limit on how many articles you can submit or how much money you can make.

This program will bring you traffic for a long time. I thing this program will pay better that Squidoo and HubPages.

 

When I will make my first $1 from Associated Content I you will know.

HubPages Money

Saturday, January 19th, 2008


HubPages is basically an article publishing site, where you can set up an account, post articles about almost anything, this is very similar with Squidoo almost identical.

HubPages get your blog or website crawled much faster that usual if you put a link on your Hub, because it doesn’t use nofollow links, at least for now.

HubPages is different from Squidoo because you don’t get a part (50%) of your lens profit made from affiliation; your ads receive 60% of total impressions made by your Hubs, and from this you get all of the money made from AdSense, eBay, and Amazon.

 

The bad part is that you must be an AdSense publisher and an affiliate to eBay and Amazon, so if you don’t make $100 with AdSense, $10-100 with Amazon in a month you don’t get paid.

With Squidoo you don’t have these problems, they pay when you earn $1 and you don’t have to be a publisher or an affiliate with the stores.

 

But HubPages has something special Flagship Hubs; this are big articles (Hubs) of 1500 words, with 3 relevant video, 10 helpful links and much more, after you get approved you have 7 days to complete your Hub, and get $25-35 when you finish your Hub. You have a limit of 30 Flagship Hubs a month and to get started you must sign a contract.

 

With both this program you have the same old problem traffic and you have do make a lot of pages in order to make some money, on this programs are users that have hundreds of pages, but I have one on each of them, this makes me the number one.

Testing WidgetBucks

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Today I start testing WidgetBucks, I have read some things on different forums about this program.
The good:

-They pay through PayPal when your account has a balance of $50.

-You make money from PPC (Pay-Per-Click ), CPM (Cost-Per-Thousand Impressions) and Referrals.

-Pay CPM for visitors outside the U.S. and Canada.

-Some publishers say that one click worths between $1-$0.1

The bad:

-PPC is only for U.S. and Canada visitors.

-They stopped the $25 signup bonus.

-Many publisher have complained that WidgetBucks has closed their accounts for no reason, or have changed their account balance.

Despite this problems I have decided to test this program. Todays $million comes from them, maybe.

WidgetBucks brings the fashion part of this blog, the last year most popular trends.

What is SQUIDOO?

Monday, January 14th, 2008

SQUIDOO is like a Mall and you are the seller. You make a lens about something you like, put some modules with video, pictures and some text, and between this you put eBay, Amazon or other items to sell, you don’t have to be an affiliate to this stores, SQUIDOO is the affiliate and you share the profit with them, they send you money through PayPal.

If you have never been on SQUIDOO, I have some advices for you don’t freak out if you don’t find something, look at the top of the page and click Add Modules there you will find many useful modules; you add links and modify the text style manually.

Important

Before you go to signup on SQUIDOO you must know that you can make $5 after you have earned $15 if you use this link to signup, this way we both win, when you make $15 we both receive $5.

Some SQUIDOO lens resemble with Wikipedia because they have real information, but there are major differences, on Wikipedia you don’t find youtube videos and you don’t have any products to buy or sell.

On blogs and other websites you find this “SQUIDOO=$money$”.

This is the first thing I’ve heard about SQUIDOO. And I started to ask myself why people will go there and buy from from them, when eventuality they will end up on eBay, Amazon or any other online store.

People don’t go at SQUIDOO with the intent to buy something, they go to see your lens and if they like it, you might convince them to buy.

I just saw a lens about Gordon Ramsay show, and after I saw just one video, I was almost ready to buy because the video was funny.

People will buy from your lens if you make your description, your videos and picture appealing to the reader and relevant to the product you try to sell.

This is all the magic, there are no other tricks, you have to attract convince and sell.

And even if nobody is buying, SQUIDOO and other social websites are crawled every day by the search engines, so by having links on your lens to your website, you are driving some traffic and increasing the chance that your website will be on the first page of a search.