May 14, 2008
So you know you have a good blog when adSense says you have 1 page impression per day, yes, I am SERIOUS! Anyways, just about any person these days can pull out the old adSense code and slap it on a page with a half decent look on their site. What you need to make serious money though is some affiliate marketing, or selling private ad space. Both of these solutions let you take more of the money for your own site.
Affiliate marketing can make you anywhere from $0-$250,000 per month, and more if you are a “super affiliate”. However, you can just through up a site and make some easy money. Look at two of mine, crudcredit and homeprotect. Easy, quick and wordpress to seal the deal.
Private adspace is always a thorn in the same bloggers side. Make your site attractable to advertisers and go onto sites like Digital Point and grab yourself some scratch. Anyways, good luck in making cash online. It is really simple and easy!
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April 18, 2008
So you want to start making the big bucks online? You want to make several hundred dollars, and very possibly thousands sitting at home on your computer? Well, welcome to Affiliate Marketing!
Web Promotion
One of the most common ways to promote offers, those things that make you money is by putting up some banners or links on a website. You have to read individual companies terms of service in order to understand what they allow, but one thing is usually true, GET YOURSELF YOUR OWN DOMAIN AND WEB HOSTING. Affiliate companies do not like free hosts, and MySpace or any other social network. MySpace actually sued an Affiliate company, so many will instantly kill your account and ANY earnings, no matter if they were from somewhere else or the MySpace.
So, just go to GoDaddy and enter in a good domain for a niche. A niche is a topic, like credit card, home security, freebies, etc. You want to make sure you have a good niche to start off with, otherwise your not going to have fun when it comes time to promote your site. Once you’ve found a good domain register it at GoDaddy using code DSC3 and you can get it for $7.20! Once you’ve done that and gotten web hosting, start a blog. It is the easiest way to write about a niche. Write 5 or so posts and upload a good theme. Then apply at different affiliate companies. Hydra is a good one a is Market Leverage. Get approved and start putting up banners!
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April 18, 2008
Wordpress 2.5 has been out for a little while, have you upgraded yet? Honestly, I haven’t felt the need to…but many have upgraded and it has some nice new features. Among them are a cleaner backend, AJAX and supposedly better SEO optimization.
I have done a few other blogs, for affiliate marketing and have installed Wordpress 2.5 for them. They have all gotten ranked in Google and not too shabbily. I think the SEO is there, it just needs a smart enough person and you can really make a killing. The backend for the administration panel is wonderfully light and airy. However, for those of us working in dark spaces, it is white and makes your room glow like a Christmas tree. The AJAX is great as well, gets rid of those hangups that can sporadically occur on older version of Wordpress. Hit it guys, and get a great new version of Wordpress installed on your blog today.
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April 11, 2008
IZEA, the parent company of PayPerPost has really been pushing their “Alpha” of Social Spark, their brand new paid blogging platform. I have to say, unlike PayPerPost, Social Spark is a very nice application to work with. They truly took their time to do it right. I got a key for the Alpha as an advertiser quite a while ago and got one earlier this evening for being a “Postie”(trademark is pending with IZEA, due to an issue with Posties.us). I decided to signup.
I enjoy that Social Spark is so easy to use and you can easily access everything on it. It opens up a lot of new opportunities that things before in PayPerPost didn’t. They now have ideas for your content, things that are both for profit ideas and charity causes that would love a free plug. Could blogging be tax deductible? Who knows! Social Spark is just darn simple to use. That’s all I can say. I would love to put some screenshots in my post, but I have heard Ted wouldn’t like that too much. So why don’t you just signup for the beta, and you’ll get in when they open it up to more people, YA HEAR!
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March 30, 2008
Some people have talked to me about how I make money through affiliate marketing. They want to copy me, because they think that they can be successful. One thing I have found about copying over the years, it usually does not work out too well. That’s why you teach your kids never to copy on tests, just because one persons answer work for them, your test might be getting graded with a different key.
So, let’s say you’ve never started affiliate marketing. I have a feeling that many of the people who read me have not done a 
whole lot with affiliate marketing and might not of done anything at all. One of the easiest and most simple things you can do is go and buy yourself a domain name. It’s cheap, and easy. It will show you are dedicated to your cause. Then you can buy some hosting, personally, I like site5. I’ve been with them since the beginning of the year and my server has not been down once.
Alright now that you have your hosting and domain name, think of a topic. What do YOU enjoy? It can be golf, sports cars, umbrellas, anything under the sky is game! Now one of the easiest ways to be an affiliate for products that are sold in a store is to start writing a blog about it. Use your brand new domain name and setup Wordpress. Then get a good theme, and all that jazz and you’ll be set. Notice, I am not describing in depth how to do this, because, you are all smart enough to use the good ole’ google.
Once you have that blog setup, think up 5 keywords you want to rank for in Google. Write a lot of content, the more the better, and put in your keyword naturally, but as often as you can. Be careful not to spam it because Google will detect it and it won’t help you. Once your all keyword selected and you have your content make sure you submitted your site to Google, otherwise, people will not find you.
This is just one situation you can have, like I said, there are countless others. Keep thinking up new ideas, launch a new site as often as you can! The more the better!
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March 27, 2008
Well, due to several facts, including me being self employed…my taxes are ASTRONOMICAL! Only to the tune of $617 for last year and the first quarter of this year. That is correct, the CPA has had to make me pay taxes quarterly! Nuts isn’t it? I just can’t wait for the IRS to get their dang check and get out of my pocket until…JUNE 16TH! Gotta love that quarterly stuff. Interestingly enough, I am leaving for France two days later…well, hopefully the IRS gets their check.
The main thing that sucks about making money online, in the United States at least is the taxes. 
Most of my wonderful money is going to the Federal Government! However, the State of Michigan is taking its $97 chunk as well. The only problem about this is…I don’t have a checking account. Never really needed one, until now. My savings account can’t do share drafts, which is a problem with PayPal, which pisses off the bank and so on and so forth so this will solve a lot of those problems as well.
I need money! I am nearing the end of the month, and this month is going…adequately. However, the more money the better. I have been checking out cash advances, and there are some really nice ones out there, and there are some really bad cash advances out there. I found a really nice cash advance from United Cash Service if you need some extra cash for a little help on your taxes. Then you can pay them back with part of that stimulus check, which I won’t be receiving as I somehow qualify to be a dependent? That makes literally no sense…I have a second CPA working on that.
Anyways, that’s enough legalese for today. If you are as stressed out at the moment as I am, your going to need some extra money for a vacation so check out United Cash Advance. In the meantime, keep your nose above board and finish those tax returns up. If you don’t, thats a nice hefty fine you have to pay that Federal Government! Who wants to have to pay them even MORE money?
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March 25, 2008
I’ve been having a little…”fun” recently. I enjoy making money, heck I bet you do too! That’s why I have been slowly eliminating AdSense from my blog. SO many people DO NOT realize that affiliate marketing can get you so much more than AdSense. 
I know I’ve really been driving that into the ground but I want you to be successful!
Here is the perfect example, it took me from last October to the end of January to get payment in Adsense. I am around $70 again in AdSense, not doing bad by anyones means. However, in the past MONTH I’ve made $531.34! That I made through affiliate marketing. Now, consider this. I have had a 4 AdSense banners placed in premium positions on my blog. I have also had several affiliate banners placed on my blog the entire month.
Well, through a matter of coincidence my affiliate manager at Hydra, the wonderful and beautiful(I’m just guessing that..haha) Victoria wanted me to start using them. I agreed and we found a campaign for ADT security, which is GREAT if you do not have it. However,we decided to run a little test and I put up a couple banners on my site this evening around 7:30 PM EDT.
The FBI recently reported that homicides and robbery have increased over 10% in some areas. Learn how you can protect your home and your family by visiting here. With violent crime on the rise, get piece of mind knowing your family is protected. Visit this link for information on a free home security system.
Well, I am now blogging at 2:58 AM and I have made…$27! That’s right, within 8 hours I made more with affiliates than I have the entire month with AdSense. It’s not limited to just Hydra either! Market Leverage got a $26 sale from someone through Blogging4Everyone and then their is their PurePlay offer. Check that out, if you just enter your email you can get a seat in the World Series of Poker.
Affiliate marketing is NOT going away, if anything, it is only getting bigger. I’d encourage you to get rid of AdSense and get into something that actually pays you for your work!
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March 24, 2008
PayPerPost sent out an interesting email to all advertisers earlier today. Thought I would share it with you.
Dear Ryan ,
As I am sure you know, we are very close to releasing a public BETA of SocialSpark, our new Social Marketing Network. We would like to invite you to participate in a private ALPHA prior to that release. We are not accepting any hard dollars during the Alpha period, rather we are providing credits for current PayPerPost advertisers.
Now through the end of March, for every $1000 you spend in PayPerPost we will credit you with $100 in SocialSpark Alpha Bucks and a key to the Alpha. Maximum $5000 Alpha Bucks per advertiser. You can spend your credits on anything in the system during the month of April.
These credits have no cash value and can not be redeemed outside of SocialSpark. All credits must be utilized between April 1 and April 30th, 2008. If you are interested in participating in this limited Alpha launch program please contact me or your sales representative for more information.
Well, I’d like to thank IZEA for sending me a promotional email. I am an advertiser, but I don’t happen to have $1,000 sitting around. I am glad to hear that they might finally be launching their long delayed Social Spark application, supposed to be launched in November, the application still does not have a definitive launch date. Well, good luck IZEA, I will be watching but not buying.
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March 23, 2008
I have been slaving away hard at affiliate marketing and think I am finally getting a place or two. Some of the best offers are usually the most difficult to find. Then, you have to promote them and that takes time too! 
Well, I want to announce the launch of my new get paid to signup site, FunCashOnline. FunCashOnline is a site where you can signup for advertisers offers and get paid to do so! We have some really nice ones for college information and Napster up right now!
Alright, so if you are not into paying $170 for the Get Paid To script you should still work in affiliate marketing. My total is climbing higher and higher! I am so happy that this is finally paying off. However, most people think affiliate marketing is just emailing/spamming a bunch of people. This is NOT true at all. Affiliate marketing can be either web(as in website), search(paid search), or email. A lot of people are making a lot of money off of affiliate marketing, so you should be sure to get in on it today!!!
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