How to Drive Traffic to your Blog

I have previously explained about ways of profiting from your blog and about affiliate programmes like bestcashrewards and AGLOCO. It is all well and good to be a member of such programmes, but how are you going to promote them without have a constant stream of traffic to your site?

Well, a major contributing factor is Search engine Optimisation (SEO). Traditionally this has been done by link exchanges, because each link is viewed as a 'vote' in the all-seeing eyes of the search engines. However this is all changing. The search engines are using more and more complex algorithms to help separate out the wheat from the chaff.

This does NOT mean link exchanges dead. You simply have to more picky when making them. There is little/NO value in having a link from a unknown, unrelated site. It will bring you no traffic because it doesn’t get any itself, and it is worthless in the eyes of the search engine because it is unrelated and is considered almost a sort of spam. This is BAD news for your site.

The solution is to attain links from RELEVANT AUTHORITY SITES. This means sites that are popular, get large amounts of traffic (you can find this out by using and Technorati, the biggest blog ranking site on the net). And as you know by know, they must have RELEVANT CONTENT.

This need for relevant content is why in some lines of Internet business, link exchanges are dead. If you think it through, if you are trying to sell a product, you are just putting links to your competitor’s sites right there for your customers to run off to. So DON'T use link exchanges if you are selling something!

For those of you who are not selling something, you can get link exchanges from authority sites by e.g. offering to write a review of their site containing links to their site and putting it on yours. For an example of this see my review of JohnChow.com

For more advice on making money online STAY TUNED!

Successful Blogging For Money

Whether you are getting 100s, 1000s or 10,000s hits on your blog per day, you are GARENTEED to make more money if you DIVERSIFY.

What is Diversification?

It is when you generated MULTIPLE sources of income. This does not have to mean e.g. selling a physical product AND having adverts, it simply means don't put all your 'eggs in one basket'. This means you must not ONLY rely on adsense as your source of imcome. There ARE other ways to get ads on your blog out there. On of them is:

Text Link Ads

Text Link Ads have a far more stable level of income and can be displayed on the same page as adsence. The only 'down side' is your site needs fairly high levels of traffic, and good site content. In the wider schemes of things this is actually a good thing, because it motivates bloggers to fill their blog will original content and actually make them worth reading.


I have given you an alternate source of income from ads, now for another source of income altogether.

To generate income from this method you do NOT need any product to sell.

This method is known as AFFILAITE MARKETING. As everyone knows, there are scams out there so you must judge carefully. There are some affiliate programmes that have become so popular, OTHER people have taken the risk for you. One of these programmes is AGLOCO. You only have to read a few of my previous posts to understand the potential of this programme.

However this is only one affiliate programme and seeing as the lesson of the day is to DIVERSIFY, I will let you know about 1 more. This one is called bestcashrewards. I have a post about this in my archives. You can either go take a look at that, or click here to take a look.

And there it is. People ask me; 'why do you do all that stuff online?'. I used to have no choice that to say 'because I can' in a dramatic manner, now I can say, 'because I make lots of money'. And YOU can too!

The AGLOCO Member Calculator

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If you haven’t already read my posts about AGLOCO then go ahead and read them. I am introducing you to the AGLOCO member calculator, which, believe it or not, allows members to calculate their monthly earnings.

Above is a screen shot of what my monthly earnings would be if I were to have 3 referrals, who each made 3 referrals them selves. If you cannot see that clearly enough it says 458.75. That is if each referred member spends just 5 hours per month using the AGLOCO viewbar, which will be released at the end of February (see previous post).

NOTE: If those figures where increase sightly, to 5 direct referrals and 5 extended referrals, your monthly income would increase up to 4886.25!

To sign up for AGLOCO click here

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!

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!

Decent Free Link Directory

Hi everyone,
It was in the early hours of this morning when I stumbeled upon a promising directoy, which has a stonking list of sites that you can submit your blog/website address too. Some of those sites are free, some are not.

This is the site:

http://www.manhattanservice.com/freedirectories.html

They offer to have your link submitted to all of them for a fee, which I declined as I am learning and teaching how to make money online for FREE. Instead I have been going down the list 'manually', submitting my site to the free directories. This may seem boring and slow (and it is!), but I have no doubt it will bring me more traffic.

Hope this is helpfull!

Matt Jones

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!