Free Advertising For 60 Days

Best Of The Web Directory offers a monthly advertising at USD$49.95 per month. Your website will be placed at the top of the search result page to ensure maximum exposure of your URL.

$49.95 per month does seem like a huge sum especially if you are just starting out. Why not grab this opportunity and enjoy a free 2 months trial first? BOTW Directory provides you with 60 days of free trial upon signing up for this offer. Abefore 60 days is up you can cancel the sign up and no money will be decucted from your credit card or paypal account.

In another words, it is a totally free 60 days advertising and not a scam. But that is if you cancel the sign up before 60 days is up. On the 61st day BOTW Directory will charge you $49.95/month for advertising on their website.

Advertise on BOTW Directory now!

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Make Money Listening To Music

Slice The Pie is a platform which brings music lovers and music artists together. It provides an avenue for artists to raise money to produce their own music and album.

How to make money from Slice The Pie?

Through listening and rating music:
1)Listen to the first 60 second of a track
2)Rate it on a scale of 1 to 10
3)Write a short comment of about 50 to 100 characters
4)Click submit
5)Repeat the first 4 steps.

You will be paid accordingly to how high your Slice The Pie user rating is.
Level 1- GBP$0.03
Level 2- GBP$0.05
Level 3- GBP$0.07
Level 4- GBP$0.09
Level 5- GBP$0.12

Your Slice The Pie user rating level is determined by factors such as the quality of your comments and music ratings.

Minimum payout is GBP$10.00 and payments are made through paypal.

GBP$0.03 per track may seem little but i would say it is easy money. It just takes about 90 seconds of your time to listen and rate. At this rate you will be able to make GBP$1.20 per hour assuming your Slice The Pie User Rating is at level 1. And it will add up to GBP$4.80 per hour if you are at level 5.

Listening and writing a few lines of comments is an easy job, especially if you are a music lover.

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Protect Your Affiliate URLs

Here are some quick ways to protect your affiliate URLs.

By changing the affiliate URL into other forms of URLs:

1)HopUrl
2)TinyUrl
3)ViralUrl

Alternatively you may want to use MouseOver Link Hider to hide your affiliate URLs.

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Make Money Doing Homework

Make money with Student Of Fortune by providing students with answers for their homework!

Here is how it works:

Users post questions to our site, seeking help with an academic or technical subject.

They offer a bounty for what they're willing to pay for the solution to their problem.
You find their question by searching or browsing for questions, or by opting-in to email alerts in your areas of expertise.

Enter your solution for their question on Student of Fortune along with how much you'd like to get paid for it.

We'll pick a random 20% of your solution as a preview and post it for everyone to see. Don't worry... you'll a say in what 20% we're sending, and we never send the end of your solution (where we expect you'll put the conclusion).
When the other user buys your solution, we'll send you the bounty. (We'll take 18% to help us maintain the site.)

We keep your solution around forever, so if it's a commonly-asked question, you could be making money off it for a long time to come! Some of our users have made over $90 off of a single, $10 question!

After browsing through some content, this site seem like a money making heaven if you have the required knowledge to write essays or answer business and science related questions. There are users which have already make more than USD$1000 from Student Of Fortune.

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Askpedia: Make Money Asking & Answering

Askpedia provides a platform for users to ask and answer questions. It is similar to Yahoo! Answer but Askpedia pays users for answering and asking questions. This is a fanstastic way to make money online by sharing your knowledge!

There are different ways which users can make money through asking and answering quesions.

1)Asks a Question with the Most Answers
2)Asks a Survey Question with the Most Responses
3)Answers Questions and provides the Most Best Answers

Every month the top 3 users are picked for each category and they will be rewarded with $50, $30 and $20 respectively.

4)Best Answers Rewarded

There will also be questions which provides monetary rewards. If your answer is picked as the best answer you will be rewarded accordingly

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Epiffunies: Sell Your Jokes

Know of many jokes and wishes to monetize your jokes? Sell them at Epiffunies for USD$15 a story!

According to Epiffunies..

The dictionary defines an “epiphany” as:

a) a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something;

or

b) an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking.

Or, one might say, it is when two ideas — or an idea and a perception — come together in a flash of understanding to form a third, new understanding, like two atoms coming together and forming a molecule, giving energy off in the process.

With that in mind, an “ePIFfunny” must meet the following qualifications:

It must be based on an actual experience.
It must be funny, clever or insightful.
It should not be in the form of a “this is the way it is” or “this is the way it should be” lecture. Rather, it must help the reader to gain an “epiphany” or represent an “epiphany” on the part of the writer.
It must meet the “So what?” test. In other words, it must be significant.
It must not be offensive.
It must be original.

So if you have something that can fulfil the criteria, go a head and submit them.

Here is a sample of an epifunny..

According to the Wall Street Journal, French lawmakers have passed a bill that makes incitement of “excessive thinness” a crime. Lucky most Americans don’t have to worry about that!

There is no limit to how many funny stories you can submit. Submit one funny story a day and you can mame up to USD$450/month and it hardly takes any effort!

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Riffeo: Pay To Teach

Riffeo is a video music lesson and jam track community. Basically it teaches users how to play musical instruments through online videos.

So how is it going to help me make money online?

Riffeo is offering to pay USD$50 for 10 instructional video lessons on how to play a musical instruments. Any musical instruments. A base guitar, flute, piano, double bass, viola, cello, harp and the list goes on. Make a 10 instructional video lessons and upload them onto Riffeo.

After uploading all 10 videos, send an email to Riffeo and they will credit you with $50 through paypal! It is easy money for those who are skilled in their respective musical instruments.

Lets say you know a couple of musical instruments. Making 2 sets of instructional vidoes can get you USD$100. And it takes less than a couple of hours to make a set of 10 videos. So what are you waiting for?

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Sell Your Lyrics

Aspiring song writers! Here is your chance to make some money off your lyrics. Selling Lyrics Dot Com is a place where you can sell your lyrics and make some money online!

Selling Lyrics is not officially launched yet. Details such as how it works are unclear. Leave your email address with them and get the latest information about selling your lyrics!

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Quick Cash At Search Cactus

Search Cactus have a lot of quick cash offers. Currently there are more than 30 cash offers which are available. These quick cash offers ranges from a mere $0.50 payout to a high $50.00 payout. All you have to do is to sign up and get paid.

Users may have to wait anywhere between a day to even 3 weeks before these quick cash offers are approved. I guess it doesn't really live up to the name of quick cash offers. Nevertheless the offers are pretty attractive.

Members can also earn money from referring people to join Search Cactus. However the referral earning seems quite low. Its only $0.20 per referral and the maximum limit is up to 20 referrals. Therefore one can only make up to $4.00 through referring people. Upline also do not get downline commission.

Minimum payout is $20.00 through cheques only. These services are only available to USA and Canada.

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Be An ExpertVilliage FlimMaker

ExpertVilliage is one of the world's biggest "How To" instructional video sites. It is some what similar to VideoJug but the videos are mostly produced by users.

ExpertVilliage is looking for experts who are willing to share their skills and knowledge with the world and they are also looking for flimmakers who can create instructional vidoes for ExpertVilliage.

As an ExpertVillage Filmmaker, you can;

- work on your own schedule, from anywhere in the world,

- fill in gaps between your larger paying gigs,

- receive worldwide exposure for your work,

- work on the assignments that you choose,

- make an average of $300 per assignment,

- get paid every Friday,

Being a flimmaker at ExpertVilliage is just a side job. You get paid $300 every friday for each completed assignment. That is one pretty good job i must say.

As a Certified Expert Village Filmmaker, there is no limit to the number of assignments you can produce. We have several members who make full-time incomes as Expert Village Filmmakers. Whether you are looking to pick up extra work between jobs, or are interested in becoming a full-time internet content producer, sign up today and put you skills and equipment to work.

And there is no limit to the number of assignments you want to pick up. Sign up to be a flimmaker now if you are interested!

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My Search Fund: Get Paid To Search

How many time did you do searches on the internet today?
Once? Twice? Or maybe so many times that you cant keep track of your searches.
What if you are paid to search?

That will be great isn't it?

Well here is your dream come true.
MySearchFund.Co.Uk(aff) pays you to do your searches on their websites. They promise quality results and in addition pays you in pounds.

How much does MySearchFund.Co.Uk pays per search? This is not stated in their FAQ or any where in the site. However, they claim that any active users will be able to make more than GBP$50 per year.

After checking out with some other bloggers who utilise MySearchFund.Co.Uk, they receive USD$0.90 for 20 searches sometimes or $0.60 for 15 searches. Payment varies between USD$0.04 to USD$0.45.

This is just the begining. You can also refer people to join My Search Fund and earn off them. My Search Fund offers a 3 tier referral level. You get to earn 10%,5% and 2.5% from the 1st,2nd and 3rd tier referrals respectively.

One can actually earn more than USD$200 from My Search Fund every month if they have an active referral base.

Lets assume that you have 10 friends each in your 1st, 2nd and 3rd tier referral level. And each of them is only going to do 5 searches per day. In 1 month you will be able to earn GBP$120 which is approximately USD$236. And this is only based on the assumption of 5 searches per day. I am sure most people does more than 5 searches a day!

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VideoJug's Monthly Contest

VideoJug is a site that host and produce 'How To' videos. It basically aims to cover all the 'How To' topics that one will encounter in life. Videos ranges from"How to kiss someone passionately" to "How To Make Chicken Tikka Masala".

Initially videoJug produces all of its instructional videos. However it realises that there are users out there who have better ideas and are professional in their own fields. So VideoJug opens the floor to the audiences allowing them to produce their own instructional videos.

As an incentive, VideoJug conducts a monthly 'top 3 video' contest. Top 3 videos will be rewarded with $2000, $1000 and $500 respectively. The cash prizes does sound sweet isn't it?

$2000 for 2 minutes of videos is easy money! So if you have any specific skills and would like to share it with others, get that video camera out and start filming!

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Crazoo: Paid To Post

Crazoo is a forum that pays users to post. It is similar to MyLot but in a smaller scale. Unlike MyLot that does not reveal how much they pay per thread or post, Crazoo pays members $0.02 per post, $0.03 per new thread and $0.002 for each referral post.

Currently Crazoo has 3886 members, 8996 threads, 130,070 posts and have paid $1239.30 to date.

Lets see how much one can make from crazoo. Assuming you having 100 active referrals who post 20 posts a day and you posting 20 posts a day, that will give you $120 from referral earnings and $12 from your own post. This adds up to $132 per month. Wow it does sounds good but not exactly possible.

Having 100 referrals is not an easy task let alone active referrals who makes up to 20 posts a day. Based on the statistics, on average each Crazoo member is only paid $0.3188 to date. That is 32 cents only!!

Assuming only 1% of the memebers are active. Each member would only have made an average of about $32 ever since Crazoo started a couple of years back. While browsing through the forum i come across this member who joined in January 2006. He/she have 4000 posts and have made $42 so far. That is 2 years 4 months and 4000 posts to make $42.

My point is it is not possible to make lots of money from forums like this because pay per posts are too little. However you can try it out if you wish.

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Blogvertiser: Pay Per Post With A Difference

I m sure all of you know what is pay per post. Sites like Bloggertizer, Blogsvertise, Smorty, Sponsored Reviews and the list goes on. All these sites pay bloggers to put up a review on products, services or another blog/website. It is a good way to make money off your blog.

Today i m going to introduce a new form of pay per post. Blogvertiser. Dont mix it up with Bloggertizer or Blogsvertise. I know they sound the same.

Blogvertiser does not require bloggers to write a post or review. Wait. Isn't this suppose to be pay per post? How am i suppose to get paid if i m not required to write a post?

well according to Blogvertiser..

All blog site owners have to do is either have us post the mini review automatically or you can just get our email and post it manually. Mini reviews are only sent to appropriately matched blog sites. So that means if you run a tech blog, only tech related mini reviews will be sent.

Blogvertiser is going to post it automatically! No work needed!

Here is a sample of how a mini review looks like..

ClickHOST Web Hosting Now Unlimited
Sponsored Post from Blogvertiser.com
ClickHOST is a web hosting company based in Canada that has been in operation for over 8 years. They have recently released a new unlimited web space hosting plan for individuals and small businesses. More information about ClickHOST Web Hosting can be read here.

And you get paid 5 dollars for ever mini review posted in your site!

Blogvertiser have not been launched yet. The launch date is still unclear. Interested users can leave their particulars at Blogvertiser's homepage and they will contact you when there are any news. Check Blogvertiser out if you are interested!

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Winzy: Search And Win

Winzy is a serch engine similar to search engines like Google and Yahoo but they give away prizes to users who search with Winzy search engine!

3 ways to win on winzy

1) Search and Win instantly

Winzy picks a random winning time each day. If you happen to search at the right time you will win a prize.

2) Invite a friend to join with your referral URL. If they search and win a prize you get to win the same price too! The trick to winning prizes is to invite as many friends as possible and get them to search more on Winzy!

3) Earn Points To Enter Monthly Sweepstakes

Everytime you search you get to earn 1 Winzy points up to 30 Winzy points for non-exclusive members and 2 Winzy points up to 100 Winzy points for exclusive members. These points acts as raffle tickets which enters you into the montly sweepstakes. The grand prizes are extremely attractive. This month (april 2008) grand prize is $1000 in cash and all you have to do to get this is to do searches. The trick is to do 30 searches everyday to get the maximum number of winzy points in order to increase the chances of winning.

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New Blogger Features

Blogger rolled out 2 new features namely the scheduled posting and a blogroll feature on 2nd april 2008.

Scheduled Post Publishing If you write a post on Blogger in draft and set the post’s date and time to some time in the future, we’ll schedule the post to appear on your blog at that time, and not before.
Blog List Add a blogroll to your blog’s sidebar. The Blog List is powered by Google Reader, so it can show when each blog was last updated and even include post titles and snippets.

These are new features which are not available in the current blogger but they are available on Blogger in Draft. In order to use this features now you will have to log in to http://draft.blogger.com.

Currently in order to schedule a post and post them automatically one will have to install wordpress plugins. But with blogger's scheduled posting it makes things much more convinent.

Alright you will ask what is so great about scheduled posting?

Believe me, scheduled posting does wonders!

For example you away on a vacation but wants to update your blog regularly, schedule posting can come into play. Just write all the articles in advance, set a time/date stamp and leave it there to work automatically.

You can also post throughout the day without even switching on your computer. Write articles in advance and set a time/date stamp on each article. You can make a post every 6 hours if you want, you can even publish a post while asleep!

Still not convience of how convinent it is? Try it out for yourself then!

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JargonFish: In-Text Traffic Exchange

JargonFish is a In-Text Advertising widget that helps you get more traffic to your blog. This is how it works.

Once on your blog, the JargonFish widget highlights keywords that you select. When a visitor click on those highlighted keywords, a small JargonFish window is launched providing the visitor with a variety of helpful resources related to that keyword including related blog posts from BlogCatalog members, as well as some other leading content providers, including Digg and Technorati.

What does this means? This means that you will be receiving traffic from other members who add the JargonFish tool as well as providing your blog readers with more reasons to visit your site. For your site to appear on JargonFish widget you will need to be a member of the content provider involved.

Widget such as JargonFish may be useful in helping you to increase your site traffic. However it may limit bloggers the number of keywords available for in-text advertising such as Kontera. Text taken up by JargonFish cannot be used by Kontera and vice versa.

There may not be any significant increase in traffic. When viewers click on the highlighted keywords a small JargonFish window will be opened and it contains relevant links to different websites. There may just be 1 link or even more than 10. If your site happen to be in the window with 10 other sites there are slimmer chances of visitors clicking on your links and visiting your site.

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BlogRush: Success or Failure?

This question have been raging on for quite some time. BlogRush the blog syndication network that have promised bloggers traffic to their blogs have failed in their promises or have they not?

Many bloggers are shouting out loud that BlogRush have failed miserably and are removing the BlogRush widget from their sidebars, while there are few who still believes in BlogRush and said that bloggers are to be blamed for low BlogRush traffic because of the unattractive post titles they gave to their blog posts.

Alex Sysoef is one of those who believe that it is blogger's to be blame instead of BlogRush. He did a little experiment by writing an article on How to Get $27,497 In One Hour Blogging. This fetched him a 11% click through rate from BlogRush. His rationale is to show bloggers that an attractive title is all that it takes to get a high CTR and the fault lies in bloggers not BlogRush.

Personally, BlogRush haven been a success for me. BlogRush have syndicated my last 12 post 6400 times but there were only 22 readers which makes a low CTR of 0.354%. This is pathetic!

BlogRush also came up with a new site called TrafficJam. TrafficJam also serve to help bloggers increase their site traffic. Popular posts, according to the BlogRush buzz meter, will be featured in TrafficJam.

No doubt being featured will get you more traffic. But this only applies to blog posts which are doing well on the BlogRush buzz meter? What about blog posts which are not doing well on the BlogRush buzz meter?

At the end of the day. More popular blog post on the BlohRush buzz meter will get even more traffic from TrafficJam, while others which are less popular will be denied of extra traffic.

So, how successful BlogRush and TrafficJam are in getting more traffic to all blogs? You decide.

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Smorty slaps duplicated content

Ouch i have been slapped!

Smorty really does what they preach. Smorty's rule 15 for bloggers,

"Bloggers caught submitting posts with duplicate content will be banned from
the Smorty network for life, there are no excuses"

Believe me, they are serious about it. I received a new opportunity yesterday to review on ashopcommerce dot com. I remember reviewing ashop dot com dot au 2 months back. Both websites are totally identical except for their domain name. Being curious and to a certain extend lazy i duplicated the whole post and made some changes to the anchor text only.

Guess what suprise i have in my email inbox the next day?

Unfortunately your blog was declined due to the following reason(s).
duplicate post content Once you fix these errors you can re-enter your
blog(s)
from your admin panel under the My Account section. Smorty."

Gosh!

And another email from Smorty saying the post have been declined too.

Double Gosh!

This serve as a reminder to all users out there who are into pay per post programs. I am sure that most of these programs will not allow duplicated content and they do check if contents are duplicated. Dont try this if you dont want to lose a valuable source of income.

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Burn Your Blogs And Make Money?

BlogBurner lets you host your blog for free, places Google Adsense on your blog and shares 50% of the ad revenue with you. You can write on any topic you want, yes i mean any topic EXCEPT pornography and drugs! All you need to do is to sign up for a blogburner and google adsense account, submit your adsense publisher ID, start blogging and start making money from your blog!

You can also make money from referring people to join in blogburner. This is how it works. Your google adsense ads will be placed on your 1st tier referral's blog for 10% of the time, on your 2nd tier referral's blog for 7% of the time and on your 3rd tier referral's blog for 3% of the time. All these google adsense profits will go to you!

The referral concept sounds good. Placing your adsense on other's blog and earn off their blog. But can we really make money through such methods? From making money i mean a full time income. BlogBurner mentioned "Imagine: You refer 10 people. Let's say that half of them sign up and start writing. In a year each of them is making $1,000 per month. That means you're making an extra $500 per month WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING and that's just the first referral tier!"

Refer 10 people. 5 signed up and $1000 from adsense per month? What are the chances of these 3 cases happening to you at the same time? Too good to be true! Making $1000 off adsense per month? Majority of the people just cant do that.

Some simple calculations. Assuming a click through rate of 1.5% (which is the average CTR for most people) and cost per click of $0.20 (which is an above averave CPC for most blogs) one will need 333333.333 page views per month in order to hit $1000 in adsense revenue. Only A-list bloggers like John Chow can garner more than 300,000 page views per month.

My point is that it's extremely difficult to generate $1000/month from adsense. Only few are able to achieve this. This implies that income through referrals are low as many bloggers can only hit a low adsense revenue each month.

Even if you were able to make $1000/month through adsense from your own blog BlogBurner will be taking 50% off leaving only $500/month. That is half of your hard earn income gone. I would rather forsake earning through referrals and set up a blog at other free blog hosts.

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