Traffic Tips for Beginners

As you have all noticed, I have taken a break from explaining my experience of making money online. This is not because my experience has stopped, nor because I have no advice to give you. It is in fact because I have been so busy finding out about new methods that I have had not choice but to make 'short n sweet' posts.

A very useful way of making money online is by bringing more traffic to your website/blog. This can be done a number of different ways, all off which should be utilised.

1. Get higher ranked in the search engines.
2. Have your site listed in the main directories.
3. Have your site listed in niche directories.
4. Publicise your site in forums e.g. Mylot.
5. Publicise your site in free classified ads, e.g. Vivastreet.
6. Have your site jam-packed with useful, original content.
7. By getting links to your site displayed on other sites of prominence.

Number 1.(debatably the most important) can be achieved by using the other methods. This is because each link to your site acts as a 'vote' in the all-seeing eyes of the search engine. You can go about gathering links by browsing blogs and requesting link exchanges to blogs that are related to yours, have a high quality of content and (hopefully) have a higher level of web traffic than you. This method, although rewarding (as you develop a more personal relationship with your fellow bloggers) can be very slow, and ineffective.

Untimatly, it all comes down the OC (like everything in the world...) ORIGINAL CONTENT. If you content is good enough you will find people coming back for more, and if its REALLY good they will tell their friends and you will have to spend less time completeing the tedious other methods.

I will be explaining more about the other key ways in the near future, so stay tuned!

Review - John Chow Dot Com

Who is John Chow?

Believe it or not (I didn't at first) John Chow is Canadian. Despite this he knows how to party. This very minute he is getting his groove on in Las Vegas. So is he a computer geek or a party animal?

Well, according to him, he is a "dot com mogul". The precise meaning of this is debateable, but terms like 'blogger whore' and 'Google whore' come to mind. Hishomepage, which, despite being jam packed with ads is very informative and clearly laid out.

It will not take much reading of Johnchow.com to realised how much there is for you to learn from the site. He gives out advice freely, with a number of very helpful posts about getting traffic to your site, as well as more recent posts on ideas to maintaining a good, novel site content. He also gives advice about AGLOCO and provides very persuasive arguments to join, which everyone can learn from.

Sometimes the site does feel like it is 'all about the money', what with the Google adsence ads, the AGLOCO updates and his monthly overview of his earnings. However, every now and then he makes a post that wins me back, e.g.Effects of drugs and alcohol on spider webs. He also has categories about his family, and the recent birth of this baby daughter, with a heart-warming photo. The donation of much of his earnings to charity, combined with this, all adds to the 'John Chow effect’, which keeps his site firmly in my bookmarks.

He recently has offered to link to anyone who writes a 200+ word review of his site, which is currently ranked 1320 on technorati. Find out more
here

Mylot

Hi everyone,
I have briefly mentioned the Mylot forums before, but I do not feel I did them justice. They are one of the many free money-making tools available to us on the net.

What is Mylot?
Mylot is a forum, with over 51,000 members. It is growing very quickly becase its users get paid in US dollars per post.

What exactly do the members get paid for?
Members get paid for:
1. Starting a new discussion. (the more replies they get the more money is earned, so they have to make them interesting!)
2. Uploading relevant images to their discussion.
3. Uploading relevant images to a reply they make to someone elses discussion.
4. Replying (posting) to someone elses discussion (better the post the more is earned)
4. Uploading images to their 'interests' section.

This can make posting on mylot actually quite enjoyable, as users strive to make a community that discusses only topics of interest.

Note: There is never any fee, I only ever talk about free ways of making money online.

My Tip:
Invite people to be be in your 'freinds' section, (dont worry you dont have to know them personally). You can then post in each others topics with benefits you both.

You can join mylot here:

Mylot

Best of luck!

Textlink Ads

Hi everyone,
As i'm sure you all already know, My blog contains my experience about making money online which I hope will bring you success with your online quest.

My latest positive experience has been with Text Link Ads . They specialize in placing static html links on high quality, high traffic websites. They work in a similar way to google adsence, and target specific ads to your website.

The advantage is, that you can put up to 10 of their ads per page, which you can place in strateigic locations to maximise revenue.

The downside is that you need to have a developed blog/website, with a fairly high rate of web traffic in order to qualify to display their ads. However, if you do, then they are another usefull method of increasind your revenue, and contain little/no risk as it is free to sign up with them.

You can apply to get textlink ads here:

Text Link Ads

I hope you find this useful. Let me know about your results and ask me any questions you may have, I am interested to hear about your experiences online too.

My Online Money Making Experience

I have tried a number of different methods of 'making easy money online' and I can assure you, none of them are all that easy. This is true, given that the few that actually work have taken months of sifting and experimenting online to even find them and separate the wheat from the chaff.

NOTE: NONE of the sites I have listed EVER charge a sign up fee.

PAID ONLINE SURVEYS:
are the first way I tried out, with mixed success levels. I signed up to about 15 or so diffferent survey sites, all with the promise of 'regular surveys and exiting prizes!' All was not to be.

Below is a brief summary of the sites I signed up to, and actually sent me anything at all, (the other 5 or so didn't even send me a welcome email). I have been a member of these sites for over 3 months now.

NOVATRIS - Would NOT recommend, they sent me a welcome email and nothing else.

SURVEY CLUB - Would NOT recommend, they are claimed they would send me surveys which and advice about survey sites, all they sent were a couple of very unuseful adverts in my email and were not very helpful at all.

ACOP or 'American Consumer Opinion' was moderatly unsucessful. They sent me a couple of surveys, but not enough to even requestt a pay out. This may be becasue I was not in their target market, so you may have better luck.

SURVEY SAVVY - Would NOT recommend, they sent me a welcome email and nothing else.

GLOBAL TEST MARKET - Have given me a mixed message, they have only sent a couple of surveys, but that could be because I am not their target market, you may have better luck.


TEST AND VOTE (TO LUNA) - Would recommend. At first, to get started there are a number of fun ways to gain points(exchangeable for cash, or lottery tickets, amoung other things) on their site without even answering any surveys. They started sending me surveys after about 1 month of being member and these surveys were woth a lot of points.

LIGHTSPEED PANEL - Would recommend. This is my favourite and most reliavle survey site. They send me a survey every couple of days, each woth 100-200 'lightspeed points', which are exchangeable to money on paypal, and lots of other things.

IPOINTS - Would recommend. Ipoints, however, is not really a survey site. They have other offers online, and reward you for signing up with their affiliates and 'pay' you with unusual gifs, e.g. a cruise to Spain.


CIAO - Would recommend. They send me surveys fairly regularly, worth REAL money. You can build up a profile on CIAO, it has great potential that I am yet to explore.

NPDOR - Would recommend. They dont send me very many surveys, perhaps 1 every 2 weeks, but they have a sweepstakes that makes winning more likely.

NOTE: These sites do NOT reward you for getting referrals, what I have said here has no hidden motive.


AFFILIATE MARKETING
I am a member of 2 affilate marketing schemes.

AGLCOCO rewards you for browing the net using their trademark 'viewbar' (once availabe).

The way it works is simple. If you browse the net using their viewbar for 5 hours per month, they pay you whether or not you have ANY affiliates. You also get paid for when your affiliates use it, and when their affiliates use it. In this way it is possible to make a fair sum of money. However to be sucessful you must be able to get affiliates, although this is not especually hard because AGLOCO is a name that carries respect and people seem to know isn't a scam.

1 HOUR OF SURF TIME = 1 AGLOCO SHARE
AGLOCO are planning to be on the stock market by the end of 2007, which presents us with an oppoutunity. Members get 0.25 shares per hour people in their network.

There are therefore 3 possible outcomes:
AGLOCO sinks, and doesnt grow fast enough, resulting in its members getting their earnings from their browsing using the viewbar, and nothing more.
or
AGLOCO grows like crazy and the IPO is successful, in which case the members shares which they have accumulated may be worth a fortune.
or
AGLOCO grows like crazy and attrats the attention of the big boys like google and yahoo. AGLOCO would then be bought out, like youtube, except the members of AGLOCO will make big money from it.

Unfortunatly we do not know which of these 3 scenarios will actually happen. I believe it is worth being a part of.

You can sign up for AGLOCO here:
www.agloco.com/r/BBBK6378


The second affiliate scheme is BESTCASHREWARDS.
On BESTCASHREWARS you get paid by viewing online seminars, (1 or 2 30minute seminars per week).

Unfortunatly you can not earn anything without affiliates, BUT the overall income potentiall is MUCH higher ($3000-$40000 per week!, once you have enough referrals).

It is multi-tiered, which means that you get paid for referrals your referrals have made several steps down the line. I.e. you get $1.44 for each person in your downline who watches that seminar each week. So, if you were to get 3 referrals, and those 3 to get 3 more, and those 3 to get 3 more etcetc, untill you have a matter of 1000s. Therefore if say 2000 people below you watched the seminar, ...well you do the math.
This programe does require more commitment than AGLCOCO, but I belive it will be worth it in the long run.

You can sign up to BESTCASHREWARDS here:
http://bestcashrewards.com/affiliates/t.php?rid=2080



The Final way I have used to make money online, is on the MYLOT forums.
On these forums you get paid per post, and for uploading relevant images to discussions. The amounts earned here are small, but it is fun, and you can built a friends network.
You can sign up to MYLOT here:
Mylot

and there you have it. All of my experience written down on a page...I hope you find it useful and I wish you all sucess in your quest to make money online!