TurboBux

Site Name	TurboBux
Site URL	www.turbobux.com
Minimum Payout	$10.00
Payment Methods	PayPal
Pay Per Click	$0.01
Ads Available Per Day	At least 4
Number of Members	33192
Forum	Yes
Forum Activity	Level 2
Payment Proofs	Yes
Referral System	1 tier.100%
Countdown Per Ad	3-30 seconds
Premium Membership	Yes
Cost of Premium Membership	$5(2 weeks), $30(1year), $75(lifetime)
Overall Site Appeal (Physical)	Level 3

Date of review: 28 December2007

There is also paid to sign up program. Members are paid to sign up at other PTC sites. Earning varies from $0.01 to $0.1 per sign up. Members can purchase referrals but there is no guarantee that referrals are active.

TurboBux is one of many PTC sites under the TitianClick Network. It seems to be quite credible. It is featured on PTC Talk and members have posted up many payment proofs.

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No-Minimum

Site Name	No-Minimum
Site URL	www.no-minimum.com
Minimum Payout	$1 for PayPal/No limit for E-gold
Payment Methods	PayPal/E-Gold
Pay Per Click	$0.01-$0.10 or points
Ads Available Per Day	varies
Number of Members	116,979
Forum	No
Forum Activity	N/A
Payment Proofs	None
Referral System	6 tier (5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, 1%, 1%)
Countdown Per Ad	10-25 seconds
Premium Membership	Yes
Cost of Premium Membership	$10,$25,$40
Overall Site Appeal (Physical)	Level 1

Date of review: 27 December 2007

Other programs:
Paid to sign up
Paid to promote
Paid to read
Online games

Claimed to have paid out $72,753.44 on date of review.

Points and cash earned at no-minimum can be exchanged for advertising banners or emails, which will be sent to other no-minimum members. There are 3 membership packages available which includes banner impressions, clicks and referrals.

Personally I feel that the site is not physically appealing one’s eye. It is not properly structured and there are just too many banner ads on the homepage. Improper color combination. It doesn’t give a pleasant user experience.

I have signed up for no-minimum just for reviewing purposes. No-minimum sends email advertisements everyday. Beware of flooded inboxes.

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Clicksia

Site Name	Clicksia
Site URL	www.clicksia.com
Minimum Payout	$2
Payment Methods	PayPal/E-Gold
Pay Per Click	$0.001=$0.002
Ads Available Per Day	5-15
Number of Members	7023
Forum	Yes
Forum Activity	Level 1
Payment Proofs	Yes
Referral System	1 tier.10%
Countdown Per Ad	10 seconds
Premium Membership	Yes
Cost of Premium Membership	$55 (Lifetime)
Overall Site Appeal (Physical)	Level 4

Date of review: 27 December 2007

Other programs:
Paid to sign up
Paid to read ads
Paid to promote
Click exchange

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Bux.to

Site Name	Bux.To
Site URL	www.bux.to
Minimum Payout	$10
Payment Methods	PayPal
Pay Per Click	$0.01
Ads Available Per Day	5-15
Number of Members	Not Stated
Forum	Yes
Forum Activity	Level 3
Payment Proofs	Claimed by users*
Referral System	1 tier.100%
Countdown Per Ad	30 Seconds
Premium Membership	Yes
Cost of Premium Membership	$59.00(1 year)
Overall Site Appeal (Physical)	Level 4

Date of review: 27 December 2007

Premium members receive $0.0125 per click instead of $0.001 per click.
Users can purchase referrals packages to increase the number of referrals under their downline.

*I have not seen any payment proofs from bux.to. PTC-Talk also does not have any payment proofs from bux.to. However many members in the forums claimed that payments are made.

Bux.to is under PTC Talk’s watchlist and scam alert list. According to PTC Talk: Bux.to - Recently added to GPT Boycott, for all of the reasons we had Bux.to on our watchlist the last time. They make fake referrals to sell to people. They DONT FOLLOW THEIR OWN TOS (they say they pay in 30 days...people wait WAY longer than 30 days). They pay a few users, and not others. This is to try to keep people from thinking they are a scam. Definitely stay away from this monster of a scam.

Once all payments are made and misunderstands are cleared i will remove the negative comments.

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Get Traffic & Backlinks With Referer.Org

Referer.org provides a free feature that allows webmasters to automatically link to pages that are linking to them. No sign up required, just copy and paste HTML javascript and you are done. This is how it looks like on your blog/webpage:



I created a link to webpage A and in return a backlink is created automatically on the page that i link to. This backlink will be visible to all who visits Webpage A.

Users are able to customize their widget at referer.org, but are not allowed to remove the little referer.org banner at the bottom.

How to increase my traffic and backlinks with referer.org widget?

We can make use of this little feature to get backlinks and traffic to our website.
I guess all of you will already have the answers in our mind. Just link other pages up. Yep that is right! Create links to other pages that are relevant to your site and pages who have referer.org widget installed.

How do i know if the page have referer.org widget installed?

Simple. Take a look at the picture above, there are 2 sentences that says "web pages referring to this page" and "link to this page and get a link back". Copy either of this sentence and paste it into google search engine bar. Remember to quote the sentence up. If you do a quick search there will be about 305,000 results with the term "web pages referring to this page" and 285,000 results with "link to this page and get a link back". This result indicates that all these pages do have this widget installed on them.

How do i search for relevant pages that have referer.org widget installed?

To get relevant pages, just do this search "link to this page and get a link back" + "your keywords". For example in my case it will be "link to this page and get a link back" + "make money online" there were 4730 results for this search.

Now start linking all these relevant sites up on your links section and visit the newly linked sites by clicking the links in your links section. If you dont visit the new sites through your site, the widget will not be able to track which site are linking to them. Wait for a couple of hours and your links will appear on the sites.

Bingo! You got yourself new backlinks and potential traffic!

Do i have to install referer.org widget on my site as well?

You do not need to install it inorder to get backlinks from other sites. But it will be good to install it on your site, because it gives other webmasters the incentives to link you up, just like how you linked other pages up for backlinks?

I have done everything and waited for 24 hours. Why isn't my link showing up on other pages?

Webmasters have full control of what links that appear on their widget. They may have banned your link, or you have to click on the 'expand this list' button to view the backlink to your site. This often happens when there are too many links on the widget.

Why is the Backlink not to my index page?

If place a link on your link page example: www.yourdomain.com/links, the widget will create a link back to www.yourdomain.com/links instead of www.yourdomain.com.

Other features:

Referer.org also provides information such as who are refering to your page, number of visit from these pages and PageRank of these pages.

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BloggerWave Spammed my Inbox!

Take a look at this..


And what is inside?


My post have been approved.

They send 26 similar emails to me, does that mean i get credited 26 times? Fat hope!!
Probably a technical error in their email bots.

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AdverCash

Site Name	AdverCash
Site URL	www.advercash.com
Minimum Payout	$12.50
Payment Methods	PayPal
Pay Per Click	$0.01
Ads Available Per Day	At least 4
Number of Members	172197
Forum	Yes
Forum Activity	Level 2
Payment Proofs	Yes
Referral System	1 tier (100%*)
Countdown Per Ad	30 seconds
Premium Membership	Yes
Cost of Premium Membership	$5(2 weeks), $30(1 year), $75(lifetime)
Overall Site Appeal (Physical)	Level 3

Date of review: 28 December 2007

AdverCash is part of the TitanCash Network. Members are allowed to buy referrals to expand their downline. Referrals are priced at 20 for $25.00.

Other than clicking on ads, there are offers, which members can take up. They are all cash offers, ranging from $0.50 to more than $10.00. Some of them require you to sign up for a paid trial while others are totally free. Members can also choose to advertise using AdverCash account balance instead of cashing them out.

* The 100% downline earning only applies to clicking of ads. Members only get to earn 10% of downline offer earnings, not 100%.

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Make Money Online? Be Realistic!

I was on Yahoo Answers doing a search on my favourite keywords "make money online" and found a whole list of questions about making money online. Many of the questions revolves "How to make lots of quick and easy money online?"

My answer is 'dude, if there are ways to make us rich, there won't be hundreds of such similar questions posted on Yahoo Answers'.

My point is if you want to make money online, you have to be realistic. There isnt any programs that can generate you $10k per month without lifting a finger. If you have heard of them, they are probably scams.Too many people out there are just being too unrealistic about making money online. There is no such thing as easy money or we all will be rich by now and poverty will cease to exist.

Want to make money from PTCs? It aint that simple as it seems to be. Take for example this PTC advertisement:

Earnings Example
» You click 10 ads per day = $0.10
» 20 referrals click 10 ads per day = $2.00
» Your daily earnings = $2.10
» Your weekly earnings = $14.70
» Your monthly earnings = $63.00

$63.00 of free money per month does sound good huh? But that is under the assumption that you have 20 referrals and all of them must be active enough to click on 10 ads everyday.

Trust me, its difficult enough to get 20 referrals, let alone for all 20 to be active everyday.

Take a look at PTC forums and at their payment proofs, how many of these payment proofs are big checks? How many of them are more than $50? And just look at the number members wowing at a 10 dollar check when its posted up in the forum. Many of them were unable to make good money. not even 10 dollars a month.

I have nothing against PTCs. The point i m trying to get across is there are only few people who can make good money online. And the reason is there are no such thing as easy money online!

Leave PTCs aside and talk about blogging for money. Expecting to make thousands of dollars per month after 1 week of blogging? Nope, it is not going to happen. Big names in the blogosphere takes years to establish their blogs and reputation. They did not happen to be successful by chance. It is hardwork and commitment that brings them to what they are now.

So if you are new and looking for ways to make money online, remember to be realistic!

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PTC Review Project

PTC Review is a ZoObLE project that aims to do a review on all PTC sites available. This benefits people who are interested in joining PTCs but are unsure of which PTCs to choose from.

The review will be based on the following template:

Site Name	insert info 2
Site URL	insert info 2
Minimum Payout	insert info 2
Payment Methods	insert info 2
Pay Per Click	insert info 2
Ads Available Per Day	insert info 2
Number of Members	insert info 2
Forum	insert info 2
Forum Activity	insert info 2
Payment Proofs	insert info 2
Referral System	insert info 2
Countdown Per Ad	insert info 2
Premium Membership	insert info 2
Cost of Premium Membership	insert info 2
Overall Site Appeal (Physical)	insert info 2

Forum activity (if applicable) will be rated on a scale of 1 to 5. 1 being low activity and 5 being high activity.

Level 1: Less than 5 posts per day
Level 2: 6-10 posts per day
Level 3: 11-15 posts per day
Level 4: 16-25 posts per day
Level 5: More than 25 posts per day

'Referral System' will indicates what type of referral system that particular PTC uses. For example 3 tier referral system with 100% downline earnings.

'Countdown Per Ad' is the time that one is required to view the ad before clicking the next ad.

'Premium Membership' indicates if upgrades of memberships are available.

'Premium Membership Cost' will indicate the cost of upgrade.

'Overall Site Physical Appeal' incidates if the site looks physically appealing and if navigation is easy or difficult. This will be rated on a scale of 1-5. Level 1 being least appealing and 5 being most appealing. It will be based on my personal judgement.

Other the template shown above there will be additional comments about the site and a screenshot of the front page of the site.

All links to the site will contain HTML attritube rel="nofollow".

"nofollow is a non-standard HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place."- Wikipedia

Reviews will not contain any affiliate links.

All are welcomed to contribute to the PTC Review Project. Feel free to E-mail me after you have done up a review and would like to post it up here.

The review template is not final. More review criterias may be added in next time. If any errors are spotted please let me know. Thanks.

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Simple Ways To Hide Affiliate Links

I m sure all of you know how important your affiliate link is. And how important that people click on your affiliate link and make a purchase. This means income right? who doesn't want to have higher affiliate income?

But there are many people out there who hijacks and bypass affiliate links. What do i mean by hijacking and bypassing affiliate links?

Hijacking implies that when someone visits your site and click on your affiliate link that brings them to a page to make a purchase. But instead of purchasing under your affiliate id, these people changes the affiliate URL on the address bar to their own affiliate id and make a purchase through their affiliate id.
Example: your affiliate link is www.affiliate-domain.com/ref=youraffiliateid. These people will change it to www.affiliate-domain.com/ref=theiraffiliateid.
This means fall in affiliate income.

Bypassing affiliate link means someone removing your affiliate link and make purchases directly from the site. This is usually done by rolling their mouse over a text that they thinks contains an affiliate link like this: NetAudioAds.The status bar on the bottom of the browser will show the full link such as this:http://www.sellingppp.com/a.cgi?ppp=1202471545 .These people will then chop off the affiliate id off "a.cgi?ppp=1202471545", and only visit the original link: http://www.sellingppp.com/. This means that you do not receive any affiliate commission.

I am going to introduce 2 simple ways of hiding your affiliate link so that it makes them harder to be altered or bypassed.

Method 1: Mouseover Link Hider

You can try hiding the text that appear in the status bar when people roll their mouse over a text that contains affiliate link.Try the Mouseover Link Hider at HTML Basix.

They will generate a html code which looks like this:

a href="YOUR-AFFILIATE-LINK" style="font-size:12px;color:black;font-family:verdana;" onMouseOver="window.status=''; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; " target="_top">TEXT THAT CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINK

Note:remember to add tags '<' at the beginning and < / a > at the end, without the spacings. I took it off so that you can see the whole HTML code.

Just copy, paste and edit the above HTML code. This makes it harder for people to by pass your affiliate link as the full link is not shown on the status bar.

However everything has a downside and there is no exception for this method.
Although affiliate link cannot be seen when a mouse is placed on the text, but the affiliate link will be visible on the status bar when someone applies a right click on the text.

Try this rolling a mouse over. No affiliate link visible. Try right clicking and holding the right click down. Affiliate link is visible in the status bar: sign up

Further more when people click on the link it will bring you to the sales page with your full affiliate link in the address bar. This makes your link more prone to hijacking!

Method 2: ViralURL

Use ViralURL to cloak affiliate links. Don't worry the link to viralurl isn't an affiliate link. In zooble a text that contains affiliate link will have a '(aff)' beside it to tell users that is an affiliate link.
Alright lets get back to topic.

ViralUrl allows you to generate a cloaked link. It is fast and easy to use. For example my affiliate URL is: http://www.sellingppp.com/a.cgi?ppp=12024715 the cloaked link will look something like this: http://viralurl.com/eranium/Pay-Per-Play (http://www.viralurl.com/your-username/title). You can use Mouseover Link Hider to hide this URL so that it will not appear on the status bar. Cloaked Link and Cloaked link + mouseover link hider. Notice that users can still see the URL of the cloaked link in the status bar but not the cloaked link+mouseover link hider.

When users click on the cloaked link, they will be brought to the affiliate page. But the URL on the address bar will be this: http://viralurl.com/eranium/Pay-Per-Play and not your affiliate URL. Thus it makes it harder for them to hijack your affiliate URL.

Before cloaking affiliate links, be sure to read the affiliate guidelines. Some affiliate networks do not allow affiliates to cloak affiliate links.

There are still many more cloaking methods which i will be introducing to you in the near future. Meanwhile, get going and cloak those affiliate links!!

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Pay Per Play

Years ago Pay Per Click ads took the world by storm. Today there is a new form of ads called Pay Per Play which claims that they will be as successful as Pay Per Click ads.

NetAudioAds came up with a form of audio ads called pay per play (aff). As the name implies webmasters get paid for every time the audio ad is played on their site. Each audio ad will last for 5 seconds. There are also 30 seconds audio ads for webmasters to choose from.

Just like Google Adsense, pay per play audio ads will be playing ads that are relevant to the content of your site.

Affiliates who refer advertisers or bloggers through their affiliate link also stand to benefit from their affiliate sales.

Here is their compensation structure from the FAQ page.

QUESTION: What is the compensation structure for this program?

ANSWER:

25% of what the advertiser spends on PPP ads you serve on your own website(s).
5% of what the advertiser spends on PPP ads played on the website(s) of those you refer.
5% of what the advertiser spends on PPP ads played on the website(s) that your direct referrals bring on board.

NetAudioAds announce that pay per play ads will only officially start playing ads on 1st February 2008. In the mean time NetAduioAds are marketing this new form of advertising method.

The current question is how effective is pay per play ads for bloggers/webmasters and advertisers?

For bloggers/webmasters pay per play ads means 100% 'click through rate'. Every time a visitor visits the page with a pay per play ad, the ad will be automatically played. Visitors have no control over if they want the ads to be played or not. Unlike traditional pay per click ads, visitors can have the freedom to choose if they want to click on certain ads or not. This spells high conversion rates for bloggers/webmasters.

Advertisers can stand to benefit too.In pay per click ads, advertisers will only stand to gain if their pay per click advertisements catch the eyes of the visitors. In another words, advertiser's ads will be ineffective if people did not see them. These cases are frequent in pages that contains too many text, ads, or ads are placed in less noticeable locations. Unlike pay per click, visitors will be exposed to the ads upon entering the site.. unless they have their speaker muted or they are hearing impaired. well this is the down side of pay per play ads for the advertisers but it does not affect bloggers/webmasters revenue at all since the 'play rate' will still be 100%.

Lets talk about how visitors will feel when being exposed to audio ads. Irritated perhaps? well i will definitely be irritated even though it is just a 5 second audio ad. Imagine listening to your favourite song on the music player and to be interrupted by a 5 second or worse, a 30 second commercial! However NetAudioAds claims that complains are few and it will not cause traffic drop in sites with audi ads because ads played are just 5 seconds short.

I am going to try pay per play audio ads out, perhaps on this blog, no matter how much it irritates me. Just to see how the system work and if it is an effective way to make money online.

We can only see how effective pay per play audio ads are after it is launched on 1st Feburary next year. So in the meantime we will just have to wait.If you are interested in becoming a member feel free to sign up (aff).

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Coke Zero: Life as it should be

I m sure everyone knows the brand Coca-Cola right? recently Coca-cola has launched a project titled 'life as it should be'along with the release of their latest product Coke zero a sugar free variation of Coca-Cola. It is clamied to have zero calories, hence the name Coke Zero. Campaign 'Life as it should be' allows you to make your mini movie and share it with all your friends. Coca-cola provides some old B/W video clips which you can manipulate using a voice recorder. Create your own movie and compete with other movies by other directors.

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John Chow Dot Com Rocks!

Been reading on how to make money online but have never heard of John Chow Dot Com? Then you must have been living under a rock!

John Chow Dot Com is one of the most popular blogs that guides you how to make money online. You will be able to find many reviews on useful ebooks, softwares and webpages that helps you in your quest to be the next John Chow.

What i love about John Chow Dot Com?
The content are fabuluous. Nope, John Chow do not copy content from the net and make it his. He create his own content and his own ideas. And John Chow have a unique style of writting. He has got sense of humour that makes boring learn-how-to-make-money-online-guides interesting!

John Chow has fully utilized the spaces on his blog. Almost every inch of it contains either text links, ads, or images. So it may take alittle more time to load the page if your computer is laggy. But no matter how laggy it is, it's still worth your time to visit his blog!

If you want a backlink from John Chow Dot Com just create a review for John Chow Dot Com, like this review and get a backlink from a pagerank 6 blog!

So what are you waiting for? Visit John Chow Dot Com!

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DiscountClick The Webmaster's Soultion

Starting up an online business but have no idea how to market it? No fear, DiscountClick can provide you with the right solution! DiscountClick provides quality online marketing services such as Search Engine Optimization, List Management and Ad Servers.

DiscountClick's SEO services includes Link Popularity Campaigns, Webmaster's SEO Tools all these are offered at affordable prices. Did i mention that DiscountClick guarantees customer's satisfaction? Yes, satisfaction guaranteed!

DiscountClick's List Management services helps webmasters to manage and deliver Email and newsletters in bulk to all the subscribers. It is fast and easy to use. Get more returning visitors with DiscountClick's List Management service.

DiscountClick is the right tool for webmasters. Build your online business with DiscountClick's affordable services.

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PTC-The Lazy Man’s Job

This article contains my random thoughts about PTCs. A few days back while I was surfing Friendster Groups about making money online and I come across this public group with just 1 member. He was advertising one his sites and he went something like “hello! Visit this site for more money making opportunities”.

Being curious of what is in the site I clicked and checked it out. Guess what? A whole list of referral links to almost all the PTCs that you can find on planet Earth. My first reaction was “Oh my god! Imagine the number of sign-up forms this guy have to fill in”. After taking a more detailed look at what PTCs he joined I realized that many of them were unreliable PTCs according to PTCTalk.

This leads me to ponder if PTC is a lazy man’s job. Why do I say so? All this man is doing is hoping and waiting for people to join his downline and start earning off them. Successful members who earn big bucks on PTCs did not do most of the ad clicking. It is all done by their referrals! You may argue that he spend lots of effort trying to get more referrals. Yes I do agree that PTC members have to put in large amount of efforts in getting huge amount of referrals to generate big bucks. But you are missing out on one point, how many of these people who got referrals manually actually generate good money?

Let me answer this question. Few.

Let me clarify what do I mean by getting referrals manually. It simply means publicizing your referral link and persuading people to join. Ok, so is there an automatic way of getting referrals?

Yes. Buy referrals. And what do you do after you buy referrals? Hope that they are active and wait for they to click on ads. I came across this forum thread posted by a user who claimed that he earned 960 dollars in 43 days with his 1052 referrals of which he bought 1000 referrals. 960 in 43 days isn’t that some good money when you did nothing? At this rate he would be able to recoup the money spend on referrals on the following month and even have left over money.

Tell me isn’t this a lazy man’s job?!

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Tutoring@Ehill

Ehill.org is a online tutoring portal and they are recruiting tutors to teach their students online. Tutors can choose to teach from a list of subjects. student's academic level ranges from kindergarden to university level.

Students at Ehill.org pays tutors USD$10-25 per hour depending on the complexity of the subjects. Ehill is however not responsible for any payment process, students will have to pay tutors directly. Tutors who are interested will have to apply by filling in the application form, attach proofs of your qualifications and send it to Ehill.

If you are interested in working from home, academically qualified and interested in tutoring, Ehill is the right stuff for you.

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Blogsvertise

Blogsvertise is another paid to blog site. It is totally free to sign up and upon approval your blog will join all other blogs in the assignment queue. Payment ranges from USD$4-25 but most people will fall in the USD$5-15 category.

Each post only requires2-3 paragraphs of about 100 words and at least 3 anchor link back to the advertiser's website. The anchor links are compulsory.

Blogs that are new (less than 30 days), inactive or contains pornographic materials are not welcomed at Blogsvertise.

I am suprised that Bloggvertise did not stat requirements like Google PageRank and Alexa Rank. Most of the paid to blog site that i went to requires blogs to attain certain Google PageRank and Alexa Rank before they are approved.

If PageRank and Alexa Rank is not the main Blogsvertise's main priority, it can benefit many bloggers who own small and less popular blogs.

Visit their FAQ page or Guidelines for more information.

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Rent A Ghost Writer

Rent A Ghost Writer is a site which brings ghostwriters and clients together.
Clients are the people who needs articles on certain topics to be written and the ghost writers are paid by the clients to write the articles.

What is a Ghost Writer?

A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, or reports which are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written material. In music, ghostwriters are used in classical music, film composition, and popular music such as hip-hop. The ghostwriter is sometimes acknowledged by the author or publisher for their assistance.
-wikipedia

Clients seeking help will post their projects with requirements and project descriptions on the site. Interested ghost writers will place monetary bids for the offer. This bid indicates how much the client will have to pay you if you are selected to write the article. Clients will then choose the most qualified ghost writers based on their skills, experience and bid.

I have checked the site out and it seem quite promising. There are alot of opportunities out there for you to grab. There requests for ebooks or biography to be written and the payout is over thousands of dollars.

Feel free to check out their FAQ page to clear your doubts.

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Wikimmunity

Wikimmunity is a wiki that provides information on different communities. Just like all other wikis Wikimmunity allows viewers to edit and start new pages but they must be based on your local community.

Wikimmunity hopes to develop a comprehensive online guide to all the communities in the world. You can write about your local food, where to get the best deal, local shopping malls and so on.

The best part about Wikimmunity is that they pay you to start a new article. Each approved new article will earn u $1. $1 seem to be a small amount of money but all you need to write is a 200 word new article.

I have signed up as an wikimmunity affiliate and currently experimenting with how their system work. Personally i m alittle confused about how they track affiliate's contributions. I have already submitted a new article and lets wait and see if any credit is given. will keep you updated on any progress.

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Generate Income From Your Blog

I am going to introduce you a few ways which you can earn money from your blog with minimal or even no start up cost at all.

Cost Per Impression (CPM) Advertising Programs

CPM Advertising Programs places relevant ads on your blog and pays you accordingly. Payment is dependend on the Click Through Rate(CTR) of your ads. CTR is measured by taking the number of clicks on the ads divided by the number of page impression multiply by 100. For each CTR value there is a coressponding CPM value. For example if your CTR is 10% the CPM value maybe $10. This implies that for every 1000 page impression you will make 10 dollars if the CTR is 10%. Google Adsense is undisputedly the most popular CPM Advertising Program around. Second to it will be Yahoo Publisher Network which works almost similarly to Google Adsense.


Cost Per Click Advertising Programs

Instead of calculating revenue using CPM and CTR these programs pays you a certain amount of money for each click on the ads displayed on your webpage. The amount of money you get paid per click is dependent on how popular your blog is. If you have a popular blog, many advertisers will be vying to place ads on your ad space, your revenue per click will definitely be higher. BidVertiser is one of the more popular advertising program of its kind.


Affiliate Links

Join an affiliate program and place your affiliate link on your blog. Everytime people click on the affiliate link and purchase an item, you will earn commission from the sale.

Sell Text Links

Offer to place text links for other websites and collect a fee from them. Finding suitable and interested websites may be difficult and time consuming but if you are successful it can generate some decent revenue.
You may also be interested to try out Text Link Ads. Text Link Ads automatically places ads on your ad space and pays you. Join Text Link Ads Affiliate Program, refer other users and make additional money.

Embed Media Feeds

The Voxant NewsRoom allows users to place text, image or video news feeds on their blogs or websites and pays the blogger or webmaster a certain amount of money per thousand views on these media. Find appropriate materials from The Voxant NewsRoom, embed it in your site sit back and wait for revenue to pour in.

Pay Per Post Program

PayPerPost Pays you for every relevant post you write in your blog. Read Zooble's PayPerPost Introduction for more information.

Use GPIX

"GPix is a FREE yet powerful million pixel script, based on the popular marketing concept of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/, by Alex Tew, the college student from England who first started this trend."

If you are not familar with MillionDollarHomePage, let me give you a brief introduction to this site. MillionDollarHomePage's webmaster Alex Tew offers to place pixel ads on his website, selling $1 for each pixel. His aim is to make 1 millon dollars to pay for his universiry expenses.

Now you can also do the same with GPIX. It provides a pixel script which allows you to place pixel ads on. You can choose to charge advertisers who are interested in advertising on your blog a certain amount of money for each pixel sold to them.

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How To Increase Site Traffic? (Part 3)

Post video in YouTube

There are million of visitors viewing YouTube videos per day. Imagine having your URL exposed to millions of visitors. Wow! Here are some tips about posting videos helps market your website.
1. The video that you post should be related to the theme of your web page. This helps you to generate relevant visitors who are potentially interested in your content.
2. Videos should be attractive and original.
3. Post funny stuff. YouTube visitors love funny videos.
4. Post videos that touches on controversial topics. However be prepared to receive some unfriendly remarks.
5. Give you video an attractive title.
6. Submit relevant description and tags.
7. Submit the most attractive video still image.
8. If possible make this video and video response to other popular videos to increase viewer rates.
9. Place your URL in the description box, or even in the video itself. URL can appear at the end of the video or during the whole course of the video.
10. Post more videos!

Set up reciprocal links

When site A and site B both agree to place each other’s URL link in their website a reciprocal link is being set up.

Reciprocal links are important in determining your site traffic and more importantly it determines your Google PageRank. It will be good if you are able to set up reciprocal links with other sites that are of similar theme to yours. Setting up of reciprocal links to website which does not have relevant theme will only harm your Google PageRank.

Here are few basic steps to setting up reciprocal links.

1. Search for relevant sites that you want to set up a reciprocal link with
2. Create a link in your website to theirs
3. Send an email to notify them that you have placed their link in your site and hope that they will place a reciprocal link. Remember to include the page that you have placed their link in and your site URL.
4. Wait for 1-2 weeks.
5. Check back their site to see if they have created a link to your web page.
6. If there is not any link created, delete their link in your site. The Webmaster is most probably uninterested in creating reciprocal links.


Traffic Exchange Sites

Place your URLs in traffic exchange sites. Read Traffic Exchange Sites for more details.

RSS/Email Subscription/Newsletter

Make RSS, Email Subscription to new updates and a Monthly Newsletter available to visitors so as to get as many returning visitors as possible.

Place links in Social Networking Sites.

Place your site URL in MySpace, FaceBook, Friendster ect.

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Get Paid To Share

Wouldn’t it be great if you can get paid when people view your uploaded videos, photos or audio files? Well there are indeed such programs online! Let me introduce you to a few media sharing sites that pay users for uploading their media files.

MetaCafe

MetaCafe starts paying users $5 per 1000 views. Payment only starts after the video has 20000 hits and a rating of 3.00 or higher.

The Voxant NewsRoom

Basically all you need to do is to embed news in the form of text, images or videos on your site and you get paid when people view these media.
http://www.thenewsroom.com/get_paid
Visit the above link for more information.

VuMe

VuMe pays $3 per 1000 hits on your media. The minimum payout is $25.

Flixya

Flixya shares 100% of ad revenue generated from the ads around your video, photo or blog postings. Ad revenues are generated via Google Adsense, thus you will need to have a Google Adsense account. You will get paid whenever someone clicks on the Adsense ad that is on your Flixya page.

Photrade

Upload your photos and generate revenue from selling your pictures online and the ads around your pictures. Photrade is still in its beta version thus you will need an invitation from members or the admin to sign up for an account.

EasyShare
Upload your favorite files (video, audio, image ect) or software and share it with everyone. EasyShare pays $10 per 10000 download of your files. So, if you have a popular file to share, EasyShare can be one of your choices

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How To Increase Site Traffic Part 2

1. Submit articles to article directories
2. Submit URLs to directories
3. Submit URLs to search engines
4. Submit your E-book to E-book directories
5. Submit testimonials

Submit articles to article directories

While submitting articles to article directories, you will be required to fill up a biography text box. Provide a short paragraph about yourself and add a link to your web page. Links can also be added in the article itself where appropriate.

Submitting articles to directories is a good way to reach out to more audience. If your article provides valuable content these audiences will most probably be interested about your web page and thus pay your site a visit.

Do not restrict your submission to just a few directories. Submit to as many directories as possible. Backlinks from these articles provides vital flow of traffic to your site.

Here is a list of article directories that you may want to submit to:

List of Article Directories

Submit URLs to directories.

When directories place a direct link to your web page it helps to improve traffic to your page and also your Page Rank. Submission of web page must be submitted to the correct category in the directories for maximum traffic flow. It will take some time for you to decide on which category your web page belong to but it is worth the time spent.

Some directories will require users to place a small button or a text link to the article directory. Remember to place the links if it is required of you to do so or else your web page will not be approved.

You will be able to find a giant list of blog directory here. The directories are ranked according to their Google PageRank and Alexa Rank. Very useful website.
List of Blog Directories


Submit URLs to Search Engines

There are billions of web pages online and thousands of them spring up like mushrooms daily. Crawlers from search engines may not crawl into every web page to check them out. Some web pages may not even be listed when a search is done. Hence it is vital for you to submit your URL to search engine so as to remind crawlers to check your site out.

Talking about search engines, the first search engine that pops into your mind will most likely be Google. Yes indeed, Google is the major search engine with probably more searches done than all the other search engines combined.

Submission to major search engines is a must.

Google
Yahoo
Msn

After submission to major search engines you may want to submit your URLs to other search engines.


Submit your E-books to E-book directories

Make your e-books widely available for the public. Write a short biography about yourself and place a link in the e-book back to your website.

Submit Testimonials

If you have tried out some software and feel that it is useful, feel free to email a testimonial about the software to the software creators. Leave some good comments, your name and a link back to your site at the bottom. If the creator find your testimonial useful they will publish it at their website along with your website link.

There are thousands of people who will be reading these testimonials before trying out the software. This generate lots of exposure for your link.

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