A collection of tips and tricks I find valuable on how to make and deal with money
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
6 Ways to Make Money Blogging
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.
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. They are good payer currently. Good way to make extra money together with CPC.
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.
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 to sign up an account (and get $100 free), 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
Friday, 30 November 2007
myLot
| Advantages: | Paid to discuss anything, no limit in number of post per day |
| Disadvantages: | needs more involvement at the begining |
myLot is a Paid Chat Forum
1.Current total member: 114,285
2.Members are accepted from all over the world.
3. myLot pays members via paypal, egold or moneybookers.com
where you can earn by
1. Starting new discussion about virtually anything . Yes discussion with mature content is also allowed when you check some special options.
2. U can also earn by Responding others discussion
To increase the income you have to respond as many new discussion as possible. You should respond in as much descriptive way as U can. Not just "Thank you" or 'Fine"-this kind of single word response.
There is no limit how many you can post or respond in a day
3. You can make friend network just like ciao here and use your friend network to boost your earning. In mylot it is better you respond all of your friends post and then they will also respond to each of your post. When you get more than 10 responses to your post, they will pay per each response. If the response is lower then 10 then they will just pay a few cents gross, for the posting.
So More powerful your friend network, more responses you can get means more earning.
4. You can attach picture to your post which will add up few more cents for the posting
5. Uploading pictures separately only to allow the members to see the picture in picture page, this will also add few cents to total earning
One picture earns minimum a cent and can increase if many members click it to see and leave some comment. Bigger your friend network, better traffic to your picture.
6.Referring anybody to myLot when they sign up and take part you will get 25% of their mylot earning.
Other benifits;
1.As you can make your friends network there, you can spread your referral link of other program you are associated with and build your downline for those program. This can be done in two ways; you can add your own blog, website or lens to your myLot profile so that when somebody goes to check your profile, can find your referral link (or money making program) and join under you
2.You can often send personal message to the special friends within your network. Therefore you can send them your referral link requesting them to join under you and this can be done thru private message not violating mylot rules.
Dont's:
1.You cant copy or paste discussion to post it or to respond at the beginning. After you rsponded 500 threads you can copy and paste there.
2. Dont create more than one mylot account per person. They will
cancel your mmbership.
3. Dont make multiple posts on the same subject for the purpose of getting attention paid to your issue.
4.Start meaningless discussions or give meaningless responses to try and boost your rating. Discussions like “What’s your age” will be deleted as well as short responses like “ok” or “no”.
5.U cant start any discussion like a poll, jokes, recipes, game to get more members attention or U cant post recipes here.
6.No post to Request donations, post charity requests, petitions for signatures, chain letters or letters relating to pyramid schemes, advertising or solicitations for funds, or mass mailings.
Members' reputation in myLot:-
1.If you often can start your discussion on any interesting topic and it can engage other members for long time
2. If you can respond properly to other discussion making the discussion longer and more interesting
3.If you can maintain your friend network actively and regularly respond specially to all your friends, myLot will rank you with some score. The score is defined as;
you will be a a blue star(10, highest rank/top rant) when your csore is ~95/100. For a red star(9) for about 93/100, green(5) for ~53/100, Pink(6) for 61/100, grey(7) for 65/100 and yellow(8) for 85/100.
So when you achieve the blue star you are among the best member catagory of myLot and so on...
My membership and earning:
1.My first star was red (9) though!!!
2.I am there for two months now
but I am very much irregular. Still a I received $15 for the last months activity and this month I worked last 5 days only seriously and made $10.
3.I am now a blue star after a red one and I achieved it very fast.
My opinion:-
It is a good, clean and healthy forum. Payout is not very hard if you are serious and active. The most important thing in my opinion is: The site is very clean and reliable, no cookies, no pop-up advert. Very responsive and they really pay their member. I have used many paid forums and other kind of sites so far and mylot is the best paid forum yet.
You cant be reach but you wont be upset ever for wasting time and losing effort.
If anybody from you are helped by this review that will be my pleasure.
You are most welcome to send me a message if you want to join myLot as my downline. I enjoy it very much.
Saturday, 17 February 2007
Scams
What is a scam?
A SCAM is a fraudulent attempt to steal your money or to deceive and manipulate you into giving your money to an individual or corporation who doesn't deserve it. A scam typically promises a large return with little or no risk involved.
How do I avoid scams?
Various research has shown that 95% of scams originate from spam (spam scams). With this in mind, our single most important piece of advice would be to ignore all spam. Remember, if it's spam, it's a scam! For more information regarding spam, check out our spam page.
Always be cautious of any company that asks for money even if it looks like a legitimate reason (registration fees, instruction manual etc). There is absolutely no logic in paying to work!
Don't trust everyone. Just as you wouldnt trust a stranger with your money in real life, there is no reason why you should do so on the internet.
Research each company well, checking the whois details as explained in the the tips page, and always ask for a few references you can call. Call each person and ask about their experiences with the company. Avoid PTR scams by
checking out our list of paying PTR programs.
Finally, when a good opportunity comes your way, remember, the basic law of nature, what looks too good to be true, normally isnt true!
Do you think you have been scammed?
According to recent statistics from the National Consumer League?s list of Top 10 Net Frauds, online auctions seem to top the list of Internet scams for a few years running. Many people have got scammed on the Internet, but today the scammed person is not necessarily the loser. Stop blaming yourself and fight scams NOW.
Start by reporting scams to the local police, FBI, Secret Service, post office, phone company, local newspaper and tv station, your bank and credit card company, your lawyer and the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Besides, consider reporting scams to the following agencies which are specialised in dealing with Internet scams.
Internet Fraud Complaint Center - this is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), that strives to address fraud and scams committed over the Internet.
Better Business Bureau - file an online complaint against any company or charity that has treated you unfairly. The site also provides a national database of reliability reports. A positive report doesn't mean the company is definately a legitimate one, but on the other hand, companies with negative reports should be avoided.
Rip Off Report - file a report about any fraud or rip off scam you have come across. The report you file will be placed online for the world to see!
The National Fraud Information Center - this site is US based and is specialised in dealing with most kinds of internet and telemarketing frauds/scams.
Fraud Watch International - seeks to reduce the incidence of Internet fraud by educating consumers, shutting down fraudulent and scam sites and prosecuting frauders.
Federal Trade Commission - allows you to file a complaint about a particular company or organization, using a secure complaint form. Although the FTC does not resolve individual consumer problems, the complaint helps in fraud investigation, and can lead to law enforcement action.
ScamWatch - an Australia based site that covers all sorts of scams from financial and investment scams such as pyramid schemes to miracle cures and instant weight loss treatments. Scamwatch keeps a look out for new scams, rorts and rip offs and provides the locals places to report it.
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
6 Ways to Make Money Blogging
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.
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. They are good payer currently. Good way to make extra money together with CPC.
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.
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 to sign up an account (and get $100 free), 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
Friday, 30 November 2007
myLot
| Advantages: | Paid to discuss anything, no limit in number of post per day |
| Disadvantages: | needs more involvement at the begining |
myLot is a Paid Chat Forum
1.Current total member: 114,285
2.Members are accepted from all over the world.
3. myLot pays members via paypal, egold or moneybookers.com
where you can earn by
1. Starting new discussion about virtually anything . Yes discussion with mature content is also allowed when you check some special options.
2. U can also earn by Responding others discussion
To increase the income you have to respond as many new discussion as possible. You should respond in as much descriptive way as U can. Not just "Thank you" or 'Fine"-this kind of single word response.
There is no limit how many you can post or respond in a day
3. You can make friend network just like ciao here and use your friend network to boost your earning. In mylot it is better you respond all of your friends post and then they will also respond to each of your post. When you get more than 10 responses to your post, they will pay per each response. If the response is lower then 10 then they will just pay a few cents gross, for the posting.
So More powerful your friend network, more responses you can get means more earning.
4. You can attach picture to your post which will add up few more cents for the posting
5. Uploading pictures separately only to allow the members to see the picture in picture page, this will also add few cents to total earning
One picture earns minimum a cent and can increase if many members click it to see and leave some comment. Bigger your friend network, better traffic to your picture.
6.Referring anybody to myLot when they sign up and take part you will get 25% of their mylot earning.
Other benifits;
1.As you can make your friends network there, you can spread your referral link of other program you are associated with and build your downline for those program. This can be done in two ways; you can add your own blog, website or lens to your myLot profile so that when somebody goes to check your profile, can find your referral link (or money making program) and join under you
2.You can often send personal message to the special friends within your network. Therefore you can send them your referral link requesting them to join under you and this can be done thru private message not violating mylot rules.
Dont's:
1.You cant copy or paste discussion to post it or to respond at the beginning. After you rsponded 500 threads you can copy and paste there.
2. Dont create more than one mylot account per person. They will
cancel your mmbership.
3. Dont make multiple posts on the same subject for the purpose of getting attention paid to your issue.
4.Start meaningless discussions or give meaningless responses to try and boost your rating. Discussions like “What’s your age” will be deleted as well as short responses like “ok” or “no”.
5.U cant start any discussion like a poll, jokes, recipes, game to get more members attention or U cant post recipes here.
6.No post to Request donations, post charity requests, petitions for signatures, chain letters or letters relating to pyramid schemes, advertising or solicitations for funds, or mass mailings.
Members' reputation in myLot:-
1.If you often can start your discussion on any interesting topic and it can engage other members for long time
2. If you can respond properly to other discussion making the discussion longer and more interesting
3.If you can maintain your friend network actively and regularly respond specially to all your friends, myLot will rank you with some score. The score is defined as;
you will be a a blue star(10, highest rank/top rant) when your csore is ~95/100. For a red star(9) for about 93/100, green(5) for ~53/100, Pink(6) for 61/100, grey(7) for 65/100 and yellow(8) for 85/100.
So when you achieve the blue star you are among the best member catagory of myLot and so on...
My membership and earning:
1.My first star was red (9) though!!!
2.I am there for two months now
but I am very much irregular. Still a I received $15 for the last months activity and this month I worked last 5 days only seriously and made $10.
3.I am now a blue star after a red one and I achieved it very fast.
My opinion:-
It is a good, clean and healthy forum. Payout is not very hard if you are serious and active. The most important thing in my opinion is: The site is very clean and reliable, no cookies, no pop-up advert. Very responsive and they really pay their member. I have used many paid forums and other kind of sites so far and mylot is the best paid forum yet.
You cant be reach but you wont be upset ever for wasting time and losing effort.
If anybody from you are helped by this review that will be my pleasure.
You are most welcome to send me a message if you want to join myLot as my downline. I enjoy it very much.
Saturday, 17 February 2007
Scams
What is a scam?
A SCAM is a fraudulent attempt to steal your money or to deceive and manipulate you into giving your money to an individual or corporation who doesn't deserve it. A scam typically promises a large return with little or no risk involved.
How do I avoid scams?
Various research has shown that 95% of scams originate from spam (spam scams). With this in mind, our single most important piece of advice would be to ignore all spam. Remember, if it's spam, it's a scam! For more information regarding spam, check out our spam page.
Always be cautious of any company that asks for money even if it looks like a legitimate reason (registration fees, instruction manual etc). There is absolutely no logic in paying to work!
Don't trust everyone. Just as you wouldnt trust a stranger with your money in real life, there is no reason why you should do so on the internet.
Research each company well, checking the whois details as explained in the the tips page, and always ask for a few references you can call. Call each person and ask about their experiences with the company. Avoid PTR scams by
checking out our list of paying PTR programs.
Finally, when a good opportunity comes your way, remember, the basic law of nature, what looks too good to be true, normally isnt true!
Do you think you have been scammed?
According to recent statistics from the National Consumer League?s list of Top 10 Net Frauds, online auctions seem to top the list of Internet scams for a few years running. Many people have got scammed on the Internet, but today the scammed person is not necessarily the loser. Stop blaming yourself and fight scams NOW.
Start by reporting scams to the local police, FBI, Secret Service, post office, phone company, local newspaper and tv station, your bank and credit card company, your lawyer and the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Besides, consider reporting scams to the following agencies which are specialised in dealing with Internet scams.
Internet Fraud Complaint Center - this is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), that strives to address fraud and scams committed over the Internet.
Better Business Bureau - file an online complaint against any company or charity that has treated you unfairly. The site also provides a national database of reliability reports. A positive report doesn't mean the company is definately a legitimate one, but on the other hand, companies with negative reports should be avoided.
Rip Off Report - file a report about any fraud or rip off scam you have come across. The report you file will be placed online for the world to see!
The National Fraud Information Center - this site is US based and is specialised in dealing with most kinds of internet and telemarketing frauds/scams.
Fraud Watch International - seeks to reduce the incidence of Internet fraud by educating consumers, shutting down fraudulent and scam sites and prosecuting frauders.
Federal Trade Commission - allows you to file a complaint about a particular company or organization, using a secure complaint form. Although the FTC does not resolve individual consumer problems, the complaint helps in fraud investigation, and can lead to law enforcement action.
ScamWatch - an Australia based site that covers all sorts of scams from financial and investment scams such as pyramid schemes to miracle cures and instant weight loss treatments. Scamwatch keeps a look out for new scams, rorts and rip offs and provides the locals places to report it.