What NOT to do to Earn Money with your Blog.

Posted by Blog Earnings on August 29th, 2009 in My Crazy Ramblings & Philosophies on Blog Earnings

What NOT to do to Earn Money with your Blog.

I have tried many methods of earning money online, some of them work and some of them do not. Outlined below I will talk to you about some of the mistakes I have made along the way. Hey, buy the way everyone makes mistakes so do not laugh to much.

If you don’t want to make any money then here are some sure fire ways to keep yourself in the poor house.

* Do Not Have a Plan- This blog is a perfect example of this. I bought the blog-earnings.com domain without a clue how to earn money with your blog. So I wrote a few articles, then perplexed I left it sit, and sit. While it sat, I went off and created other blogs, with a plans and go figure I started earning money.

*Do no research-Trust me research can save you allot of Heartache. For example, if you created a blog about “making money online” without researching you would be oblivious to that fact that there are 5 million other people blogging about the same thing. Where as if you did some research you might have found out that fewer people are blogging about “Making Money online with Social Networks”.

* Hate your Chosen Topic-I will not say you can not make money with a hated topic But it surely makes life a chore. I absolutely dread writing on one of my blogs because the subject matter is mind bending freaking boring.

*Take no Action- Read and research and never do nothing. I have gone through spells of this. Reading of peoples success stories, and day dreaming about how cool it would be to make the same kind of money. There is time when you have read everything, and know what to do, now is the time to stop day dreamming and just get out there and do it.

* Get over involved with PTC (get paid to) type programs- This was my meager beginnings in the blogger field. The whole get paid to industry is full scams and shams. The whole goal is to join as many sites as you can to get as many referrals as you can, then just before that big payout, the site disappears. I will admit I still do ptc sites, but I do not join many new ones, I pretty much still use Marketing Pond because all of the programs have been around for years and many times I can cash out for free advertising.

*Selling without letting people get to know you- Facts with out personality. People enjoy human interaction. Here is an example, There is a friend of a friend you know that does home repair jobs, you have talked to him several times about sports and you share some common interests with him. Then there is is this sales person that keeps calling you on the phone, trying to sell you his repair services. Now your washer broke, who would you call?

*Do not get your own Domain-Yes, it is possible to make money without your own domain. But I think getting your own domain is like a commitment, like a marriage. It means you have made commitment to yourself and you are serious about making money online, so you are ready to take the next step. Plus many affilliate programs and advertising agencies require you to have your own domain. Yes it is good to practice on a free blog like blogger, etc… but the ultimate goal should be to aquire your own domain

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Pyrabang Earnings- The best online Money Maker

Posted by Blog Earnings on July 4th, 2009 in Advertisments For your Blog

Pyrabang Earnings- I do not think I made it clear on my last post about the earnings potential of Pyrabang.

Let me tell you something about myself first. I have done about everything on the net to make money. I have done PTC, PTR, GPT, affiliate programs, made for adsense websites, and I even sell lingerie. I have joined hundreds if not thousands of programs. I have to tell you I have been waiting for something like pyrabang to come along. Just take a look around my blog and you will see how choosy I am. GDI was not even good enough for me. So for me to promote a program with all my heart is nothing short of a miracle.

Now that you realize that I am speaking with my heart. This time I am going to talk about the business opportunity with pyrabang. I am not going to tell you that you can make $5000 a month , and lay o the beach and become a millionaire, I will tell you that your efforts will pay off .

You can join Pyrabang for free but for a gold membership of $5.95 you will gain so much more. $5.95 is a price everyone can afford, which makes it easier to promote.

For your $5.95 this is what you get

For each gold member you refer. You get $12 ($4 a month for 3 months). after you get your $12, then you earn $.95 a month on the fist 2 levels of referrals for the life time of the member. Once you have sponsored 3 gold members then 10 levels of earning open up where you will earn $.45 a month 10 levels deep.

There is a since of urgency, at pyrabang to go gold as free members are passed up by gold members.

Pyrabang has also added a 1 time fast start bonus of $10, when to pay the one time $10 every referral that chooses the same option will earn you $8.

Needless to say I am earning a 20% profit posting my own ads

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Pyrabang Review Excellent Advertising and Earning Opportunity

Posted by Blog Earnings on April 26th, 2009 in Advertisments For your Blog, Blog Traffic

Pyrabang Review Excellent Advertising and Earning Opportunity

The Pyrabang program is very confusing at first. I am going to begin by telling you the main product is 400 bangs of advertising monthly for a fee of $5.95 ( Gold Membership). You can sign up as a free member but you will be missing some really cool goodies.

I am sure you are wondering, “What the hell is a Bang ?” A bang refers to the economy at Pyrabang. 1,000 bangs= 1 dollar.

* You can earn bangs by posting good ads that other members would like to invest in. Members can invest in ads they thing will receive traffic and the investor will earn a percentage of future bang of the ad. The investment can be cashed out by the ad poster. The cool thing here, is experimenting with ads, to see which ones receive more traffic and investments, is actually a marketing challenge, training you to create ads that people will read.

The unique thing when you post your ads, you remain anonymous so you do not have to show face for your flops, this also insures that truly desirable ads get seen. You only use up a bang when a gold member clicks your ad. The advertising reach of pyrabang seams endless I only play aroung with 10 bangs at at time, and get thousands of impressions.

Only $ 5.95 for some really good advertising, Great deal, right?

But wait there is more! Pyrabang is also an awesome business opportunity.

For each gold member you refer you will receive a $12 bonus, plus $.95 per month every month there after that member remains gold. You will get $.45 a month for every gold member 10 levels deep.

When you upgrade to gold you bypass all of the free members in your up line, and they become your sponsees.

Once you have referred a few gold members you may have enough money in your pyrabang account to pay monthly membership without having to pay with your paypal or credit card again.

There are several ways you can post your referral link. Your standard ref link Like I have used throughout this post, a customizable google adsense type ad shown to the right on this page, a banner, a news ticker or a rss feed .

For those of you whom have read any of my previous writings, will know I am a scrooge, and do not invest my cash in programs readily.

Here are 4 reasons I think Pyrabang will explode

1. An Awesome Product

2. Low Price

3. Great Business Opportunity with residual Income

4. Out of every $5.95 Membership Fee $5.40 goes back into paying members . $.55 is kept at pyrobang. Seeing the company making a profit is sign of sustainability, and a great indicator that Pyrabang will stay in business and not become another ponzi scheme.

Quick get started Guide

1. Join Pyrabang

2. Gold for $5.95

3. Start getting referrals ( look under the widgets section to find links)

4. Post your best ads, experiment with 10 or so bangs at a time

5. Keep repeating steps 3 and 4

I will not tell you that you are going to gain absurd amounts off money by joining Pyrabang. The possibility is endless and it depends on how much effort you put in to it.

Well I am off to Pyrabang to post this article and see If I can get any testimonials and/or bangs.

Pyrabangers Please feel free to leave a testimonial or comment,

Thank you

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Bloggertize Review – Advertising for India

Posted by Blog Earnings on January 4th, 2009 in Advertisments For your Blog

I have been asked to do a review of Bloggetize by a reader.
From what I gather from reading the website and forum, Bloggertize is selling ad space and the set up seams to target India as the market.
The current advertising fees are as follows for 3 years.
Blue 2000 pixel button $15
Green 4000 pixel button $40
Yellow 6000 pixel button $80
Red 8000 pixel button $150
These advertising spots are due to go up in price January 31, 2009.

Bloggertize is promising to put up a shopping portal/ affiliate program in the first week of April in which would be the time your ad space would go live on the shopping portal. The shopping portal/ affiliate program is promising bloggers 75 % of profits- this is where they are expecting to get the bulk of their traffic.

Pros
Cheap advertising

Targeting a niche market
Cons
Affiliate Program/ Shopping Mall- No one knows exactly what is gong to be sold here. (Personally I do not want my site advertised with scammy biz ops). The other thing to consider is the overall design of this porthole could be bad to the point that shoppers would not want to shop here.

Ad flexibility- Once you place an ad there is no way to change or sell it.

Wait time – Paying now for an uncertain start up in the beginning of April. Quite frankly it disturbs me that they have not at least started giving exposure to those whom purchased advertising slots.

Unknown information about the owner/ owners- There is absolutely no information about the owner or previous endeavors or any business name associated with with Bloggertize. This one really sends up the red flag for me.

Bloggertize seams to be very popular and many have put their trust in them by ordering ad space and there is long a discussion at Blogcatalog going on right now about them. Here is the link to the blogcatalog discussion if you are interested in what others have to say.

Personally, I would not touch Bloggertize.

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Twisted Marketing can be Business Suicide

Posted by Blog Earnings on December 28th, 2008 in My Crazy Ramblings & Philosophies on Blog Earnings

Do you think I am stupid? Bloggers study marketing tactics, why would you use text book marketing ploys to try and win over marketers?

Here are a few things irritating in the marketing arena today.

1. List builders. Someone promising you all of this great information if you join their list. Once you join, you realize you gave some idiot permission to spam the hell out of you.

2. Limited time offers. We all know if we come back tomorrow or the next day the offer will still be available.

3. Comment suicide. I really hate this, and I can not believe how many bloggers still do it. “Nice site visit mine” argh, talk about worthless information!

4. Marketing Videos. If you want to know what I have against marketing videos, I have written another entire article on that I am not Watching Your Marketing Videos.

5. Hype. “$300 in 20 minutes”, give me a break.

6.Trickery and Deception. Have you ever payed for or joined a program to find out it is not at all what you thought. Totally annoying.
This leads me to my inspiration for this post. I recently logged into my Blogcatalog and had a private message that went something like this “I was reading your blog today and was inspired to write a post”. Of course I was excited and clicked over to read the post. The subject line was, 3 Reasons Why Blogging is not for You. Okay, somewhat insulting but it was a decent article. I jog down to read the comments and to my dismay the first comment stated “It is good that my blog inspired you”.
Oh boy, is this twisted in a few ways. A personal note is a good thing, but when it really isn’t personal it becomes deceptive.

The bottom line is be careful not to commit business suicide by being watching how you market and project yourself to potential prospects. The market has gotten smarter so you need to get smarter yourself. Just because other are doing it does not mean it is not self destructive.

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Advantages of Posting Amazon Links

Posted by Blog Earnings on November 17th, 2008 in Advertisments For your Blog

I have been an associate with Amazon for many years now and I have really never done nothing with it. Yep I played with the a-store features and a few other things, I never really made much with it. I made $10 a few years back promoting a free after rebate item- never much luck after that.

Recently, I put up a vertical banner on my high traffic lingerie website front page with a related search term. You can see it here at www.ladystrange.com. Note: this is the only page it shows up on. I was checking out Big Screen TV’s & laptops for the Christmas List and decided to check out my associate account and Low & Behold I made $6.72 Since October 16 through November 16. None of the products sold have anything to do at all with lingerie. It has something to do with cookies and if someone clicks one of your amazon links and then later that day buys something you get credit for the sale.

I know $6.72 is nothing to write home about but it has given me inspiration to display more Amazon Banners.

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Change Banner in WordPress Greed Theme

Posted by Blog Earnings on October 24th, 2008 in Wordpress help

I could tell by google analytics that a few of my readers wanted to know how I changed the banner in my Greed wordpress theme, this may work with other themes as well.

Actually this is the only downfall of this theme where it says ” GREED OF THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS SERIES”. There is no easy way to change this.

1. Right click the banner and click “view the background image”. You will be able to view the banner only, and take note or the banner URL. Mine is like this

http://www.blog-earnings.com/wp-content/themes/greed-09-rc2/images/bg_banner.gif

2. The bold part of the url is the name of the image So I saved as bg_banner.gif

3. I opened up the banner in paint and proceeded to use the large spray paint can and spray in shades of yellow, green and white until I could no longer see the words. I then saved it again ( I am not an artistic genius so I know there is probably better ways to do this).

4. I searched google for a free banner generator that allowed you to use your own background. Sorry, I can not remember which one I used.

5. I made sure to save my banner as bg_banner.gif and that it remained the same exact size.

6. Log into your Cpanel files and find the original banner by following the path of the url above I told you to take note of.

wp-content/themes/greed-09-rc2/images

at this point you should see the file bg_banner.gif- delete bg_banner.gif now upload your new file bg_banner.gif

You could actually skip the paint process in #3 and just create a banner of the same proportions. I just liked the background texture and tried my best to blend it.

Note: For Some reason my banner showed up left of center, I do not know how to fix this, but you may keep that in mind as you are designing your banner. I kind of like mine there anyways.

Choose the Right Color for Your Blog Theme

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One Link a Day

Posted by Blog Earnings on October 21st, 2008 in Blog Traffic

Here is a simple policy or goal to do. Post One link a day to your blog or websites. I have been doing this for a while I have a total 15 Blogs and websites now so I have widdled it down to posting links to the newer ones.

Do not analyze this information with page rank and S.E.O., just do it. It takes a while to get down the art of gracefully spreading your links. Once you craft your art it becomes second nature and you do it without thinking.

*Commenting on other peoples blogs is one way to spread your links. Like I said earlier do not think to much about S.E.O. You can comment on a blog about purple frogs, if you like the article. Just remember that your comments reflects you and your blog.

* Another way to spread your links is through forums. The best way to give your link good exposure in forums is to generally be helpful. Forums are found by people searching for answers to questions or problems. So If your suggestions or information is helpful, it will be looked at by many others with the same problem. Once again, forget about S.E.O. I am sure there are other topics you are interested in other than earning money with your blog. Here you can search forums by topic. Boardtracker.com

* Another good way to spread your links is with social networks. Most social networks allow you to have a signature line, and any comment, article or movement you make leaves a link back to your website.

Some people will tell you to only comment on high ranking websites, or ones that rank high for particular keywords. I say forget about all of that because your post will become more mechanical, and less sincere. Say no to Robotic writing.

The benefits of posting one link a day are tremendous. The whole practice teaches you to come out of your shell, and become more social. At the end of the year you will have 365 links back to your blog and maybe just as many new blog friends. People have a tendency to comment back at your blog, which really helps it look more lively. It is an all around win win situation.

Just think you can begin right now by posting a comment to this article. Go for it!

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Blog Earnings for September 2008

Posted by Blog Earnings on October 16th, 2008 in My Blog Earnings

Here is the report I made Zip, Zero, Zilch at Blog-Earnings.com In September 2008. I am not worried, because this blog is just a baby. I am still getting comfortable here with my website theme, and I am still playing around with which advertisers I want to use and how they will look best on my site, so my bet is that my Blog Earnings will remain the same for October 2008. Really I am still working on content before I go for the traffic.

I have copied my google analytical traffic statistics for a comparison along the way

This pie chart says that I got a total of 31 Visitors in which 13 of them where me ( I am in blue). 9 Visits where from search Engines ( Orange). 9 where from referral sites

Referral sites Break down

5 from MyBloglog

3 from EntreCard

1 From Yahoo Organic

Search Engine Break down

Google 8

Yahoo 1

The reason I am adding the traffic reports is because blog Earnings are greatly effected by traffic and will be nice to watch how things grow.

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Are all MLMs,Pyramid Schemes, and Matrix Programs the Devil?

Posted by Blog Earnings on October 15th, 2008 in Advertisments For your Blog

MLM, Pyramid Schemes, Matrix’s, are all taboo or as soon as the topic is brought up, people run for the hills because they think the devil is on the loose.

Lets face it folks MLM is everywhere in the big business world. Let me give you an example. There are 5 canned food factories across the US that you can by at rock bottom price, the only problem is you must commit to an order of 1 million cans a year plus the cost of shipping . Well obviously most retail stores can not commit to orders like this. So separately owned warehouses across the US, called disturbers buy the 1 million cans a year, mark up the price a little, then deliver the goods to several grocery stores and chains throughout the area. In some product categories there can be a chain of 5 or 6 middlemen involved before an item goes on a markets shelf.

There are many more smaller distributorships through out the US that are like this. Avon, Mary Kay, Various vitamin businesses, and recently energy drinks are being sold this way.

So now we know, that MLM is not the devil. MLM is big business and is not going anywhere soon.
The problem is finding a MLM involved with a product that you are comfortable with.

Probably the most popular online MLM is GDI. The problem I have with GDI is it involves over priced hosting and domains with a .ws extension instead of a .com and large monthly or yearly payments. My thought is this, I could instead refer someone to bluehost (through their affiliate program) and my customer would get a great deal on a hosting package, and I would get $65 right now. I would not have to find 10 more suckers to sign up just to cover my monthly expenses.

The new one in the feild is Freebie Force. I joined this one for a month, and it really annoyed me. You basically have to pay $10 a month for a discussion board of freebies. Every direct referral you sign up you get a dollar a month. I am a freebee aholic and a coupon ahaulic and this stuff has been available online free for years. If you want freebees get them here for free Volition, deep discounts here Slickdeals, shopping rebates here Cashbaq, and finally grocery savings here Hotcouponworld. I guess to me a freebee aint a freebee if you have to pay for it.

I also should tell you that FreeCardMatrix is a scam for more info on that check out his article Freecardmatrix.

I did join 1 MLM that is not to bad, the $1 Matrix. I thought, whats a buck?. I have not had much luck getting anyone to sign up , I will admit my promotion of this program has been really minimal

In conclusion, when you join a MLM it is not necessarily the product you are paying for, but the business opportunity. I am not totally turned off to MLMs, I remain open minded. I just like to see one come along with a product that makes sense.

So, what do you think are MLM’s evil?

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