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.

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.

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.

Well I am going to tell you little thing about myself. I do not gamble. My Husband and I went to Las Vegas once and gambled $5 in pennies, because if we gambled for 2 hours we got 2 $45 show passes. That is just an example fo how tight I am with money.

I was introduced to the Auto surfing world with a chance encounter with Megalido. I joined, I added my 6 bucks in return I got $8.64, 13 days later. So I began researching other auto surfs and of course their validity. I found out a few facts, yep, they are all ponzi schemes. A Ponzi is when new members upgrades line the pockets of older members, until the point there are no new members are upgrading and the economy falls apart. When the economy falls apart the website dissappears, and whatever investments you have are lost. A good Auto surf will last 3-6 months, very few have made it to a year.

I know the paragraph you read sound pretty negative against auto surfs. The truth is you can still make money with them if you know the nature of the beast. Most webmasters will not talk about auto surfs because of their bad reputation. You can bet there are many webmasters participating in them, and just do not talk about them.

There are number of strategies to avoid loosing in auto surfs.

* Get in and get out. In Megalidos example would be like Investing $120 right away, getiing $172.80 12 days later, then reinvesting just a portion of the earnings so you are already in profit.

* Diversify your auto surf spending into several programs so If you loose at one, you may be able to recoup at another. I am currently investing with these auto surfs Megalido, DailyProfitPond, Surfatom, Frogress. DailyProfitPond being my newest favorite due to the 2 level referral program.

* Do not get Greedy. Keep reinvesting the same amount and keep the interest until you have earned more than you have invested, before considering upgrading again.

*There are many systems people use to try and beat the system and some people play with thousands of dollars.

Here are a few things I look for when joining an Auto surf.

1. How does the site look? Does it look like a 2nd grader designed it? This just shows how much  commitment the webmaster has to make a good program.

2. Block ddos- This is a very expensive protection, that keeps a website from getting hacked

3. How old is this site?, Has almost already run its course? I also read forums at Goldage. DreamTeamMoney, GlobalGoldTalk, to see if anybody is currently being paid. Forums are more reliable than HYIP monitors.

In conclusion, autosurfs are a fun way to make extra cash, but beware there are risks involved. It is like gambling with an advantage.

How does it work?

Step 1 Invest $6 ( you can invest up to $6000 daily)

Step 2 Autosurf 12 sites  a day for 12 days- When I say “autosurf”, it means just that. Hit the surf button and read your email, look at porn, or whatever else it is that you do on the internet, there are no annoying numbers or anything to click. Come back in 3-5 minutes and you are done. See what I mean by “Easy Money“.

Step 3 Day 13 get paid 144% of your investment.

The optimim earning stradegy would be to invest $6 (or higher) a day for 12 days, therefore receiving money daily from megalido. I only have $18 in the budget so I am going to go for every 3 or 4 days and reinvest until I am upgrading and getting paid daily.

You can also increase your earnings by telling your friends about Megalido. Earn 6% of your friends upgrades.

I am extremely excited about Megalido and I have probably tried 500 or more get paid to types of sites, and I know this is going to be my fave. Please join me, I promise you will not have any regrets about this one and you will be glad you got in on it early.

P.S. I will be back in 13 days to post my payment proof

Megalido Paid me in less than 10 hours

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.

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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!

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.

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?