Entries fromFebruary 2007

Do you want more traffic and links to your website? Perhaps you’ve got a lucrative affiliate program that you’ll like to promote. Or maybe you just want to increase the number of readers for your new blog or boost it’s reputation in a specific niche.

Here’s a solution. Try creating an “Ultimate Collection or Guide” for a specific topic. If you can provide a comprehensive list of a large collection of resources, people will link to and visit your website.

Odiogo is a Web 2.0 service that allows you to transform your blog entries or textual content into high quality podcasts, which your readers can download for easy listening on mp3 players, PDAs or computers. Odiogo downloads the latest articles from your website’s RSS feed and extracts the text to convert it into high fidelity sound clips.

Best of all, Odiogo is completely free for all publishers and offers a revenue share program for bloggers and webmasters.

Some other very cool features from Odiogo’s website.

• Automatic podcast generation
• Near-human quality text-to-speech

Word is out that there’s a new Pay-to-Search website in town. SlashMySearch is a website which allows you to earn money by using their search engine to surf the net. There’s been a plethora of search engines that offer similar rewards to users. Some of them include the now defunct Kazook, Zotspot, Blingo and Winzy.

I’ve been covering get paid-to-search websites for a few months and I think it’s about time to review pay-to-search websites as a means to make money online.

I was recently leaving a comment on another blog in regards to MyBloglog (MBL) and decided to leave the URL for Dosh Dosh’s MyBloglog community instead of doshdosh.com. This was because I wanted the owner of the blog to have easy access to my community page. Looking back, I thought that this would be a great method which you can use to promote your MyBloglog community or increase the number of readers who subscribe to your blog.

How do you implement this super easy method?

I was browsing Digg this morning when I came across a 5-page article written by a business consultant on a 101 ways to earn money on the internet. Some of the methods he/she listed include creating niche business websites, domain parking, site flipping, Myspace marketing and even accepting bribes.

A interesting read. You might find some ideas that might be useful, athough several of them are just rather devious and downright unethical. For a more informative and helpful article, check out this list of ways to make money online.

I’ve put together a lot of these ideas from thousands of hours discussing businesses for sale with their owners. They’ve shared with me how their businesses operate, how they make money, how they built their businesses up etc.

They’ve given me access to their traffic stats, their earnings and accounts and tax figures… Most of these business ideas can be run from anywhere in the world, even the United States, Australia and other non-English speaking countries. For consistency sake all figures are quoted in US dollars.

HubPages is a revenue sharing web community that allows you to create web pages (known as hubs) about specific topics. You can then earn money through Google Adsense or by promoting Amazon and eBay products. When anyone makes a purchase through your listed Amazon or eBay products, you’ll get commission from that sale.

Your Adsense id show ads for 60% of the time anyone views your hub. Ad revenue for the other 40% will go to HubPages.

What can I do with a Hub? Or why should I even bother?

I recently declared in a previous post that I will be giving all the affiliate commissions I receive from promoting Pageflakes (aff) to charity. Pageflakes currently allows you to earn $1 for every person that signs up with their website through your affiliate link.

The goal of this experiment is two-fold: Firstly, to test Pageflakes’s affiliate program in order to confirm if it is legitimate or accurate with their data reporting.

Secondly, I thought it’ll be a creative way of getting everyone to contribute to a good cause - namely to support Mercy corps ’s effort in helping the recent massive flooding in Indonesia, which has made around 200,000 people homeless.

Most of you would have already heard about Text Link Ads, a popular ad marketplace where publishers and advertisers can meet to sell or buy text links on websites or blogs. TLA’s affiliate program allows you earn US $25.00 for every publisher or advertiser that you refer to their website. In order to qualify for a payment, a publisher you refer must install an advertising script on their website for the minimum period of seven days.