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Who Called My Phone - Find Your Intrusive Caller

2009-03-25T13:32:00.002+01:00

Did it ever happen to you, that some person kept calling you with same phone number? This happened to me on several occasions, most of them were telemarketers or some kids trying a stupid prank.

Now, there's an interesting site called WhoCalledMyPhone. It's the first time I encounter this type of site. Basically, it's a site with a lot of phone numbers, you can search through their user-submitted reports an can find information on that annoying phone number. This way you can find and share information about phone numbers used by debt collectors and other intrusive callers.

The site can come in pretty handy, if you've got a lot of intrusive phone calls. It's really worth a look! Here's the site again: WhoCalledMyPhone

Making Money Online With Pay To Click Sites

2008-10-27T10:10:00.004+01:00

It's been a very, very long time since last posted on this blog, the main reason for this is because I'm trying new money making techniques that do need some time. I haven't had a lot of succes using these techniques, but I'm still trying -Rome wasn't built in one day you know....

BUT I've made some smal cash from PTC sites, that I had mentioned before. I just wanted to test them out and see if they were really paying. And after a couple of weeks of clicking I earned my first few dollars....

Here are the reports:

Neobux: $2
This is one of the most reliable PTC's I've encountered and I've read a lot of good comments and YES they pay. (already been paid $2)

I'm going to try and post some screenshots later on...

YouCubez, Click Yourself to the Money

2008-08-09T17:37:00.006+02:00

Youcubez is a site that I found some time ago, but I really didn't use it. These few couple of days I was searching the net, and read that the earned some good money using YouCubez. So, I decided to give it a try. At first sight it seems a bit of a strange site with a lot of Cubez, and it seems rather complicated if you ask me. From what I've understood is that you can advertise on it YouCubez by buying a Cube of your own for £ 1.00 a year.

This is what you can read in the FAQ for the advertisers:

Advertisers

As a member you may purchase a backlink in the form of a cube from just £1.00 for 1 year - less than 9p/month.

Cubez are arranged on the pages in order of value (There are many ways to increase the value of your cube). The higher the position of your cube, the more clicks it is likely to attract.

You may purchase guaranteed clicks for your cube (like traditional PTC sites) - from just 50p.

Unlike traditional "pay to" sites, your link will remain online even after your clicks have ended

The main reason I'm checking Youcubez is, because I want to know how you can make money out of it. It looks alot like a PTC site, by clicking a certain amount of cubez each day you earn something like £0.008 ($0.016) which is a bit higher then the normal PTC sites I'm used to. There's also a referral option that will make you £0.004 ($0.008) for every click your referrals make (you can make more depending on your referral).

MoneyMakers

Earn up to £0.008 ($0.016) for clicking PTC cubes.

Earn up to £0.004 ($0.008) for your referrals clicking PTC cubes.

Earn up to 20% commission on items purchased by your Level 1 Referred Members.

Earn up to 10% commission on items purchased by your Level 2 Referred Members.

Earn additional money completing offers.

Low minimum and daily payouts.

Buying and Selling Cubes has become an intricate part of You-Cubez.com. By purchasing a cube from £1.00, you may increase it's value (for FREE) and then sell it to another member for REAL money - no minimum payout on cubes sold.

There's also a third way you can earn money with YouCubez, which is: selling your purchased cubez to other people. To conclude, I don't think you can make a living out of YouCubez. See it as a bit of pocket money.

I'm Back, and First Income Report With PayPerPost!

2008-08-07T11:14:00.006+02:00

You may have noticed that I wasn't online this past month, the reason was simply because I was on vacation. I wanted to put up a post the day before I left, but my internet fell out. So no post.. but now that I'm back I will try to post as often as possible. One month without the internet is alot, and I still need to get used to it.

There was one good thing that happened during my absence: I got paid by PayPerPost! I'm really satisfied that I finally earned some money with this blog, and I wasn't even that hard.

PayPerPost: $35! (1 post+ 1 referral)
Bux.to: $ 1.48 (to check all the bux sites visit my other blog)
MyLot: $ 0.41

Where Should Invest My Money?

2008-07-05T13:17:00.003+02:00

I think there are many people who are asking themselves the same question. Isn't it stupid now that you have some money, you don't where to invest it. Why am I doubting? Well, there are too many options, where I can invest the money I earn. I've made a little list of potential areas where I could invest.

Here they are:

1. Publicity

So, in my opinion this should be considered very important for any blogger. I'm thinking of investing my money to buy some Entrecard credits, with those credits I could buy traffic or comments, and advertise on more expensive sites or blogs. There also maybe a small possibility that I could buy some strong backlinks from sites with a high PR. These could bring a lot of good quality traffic, and increase my Pagerank. I could buy a 1000 pageviews from PTC sites, but I don't know if this is a good idea. And last but not least I could invest money in PayPerClick sites like Adsense or Bidvertiser, but I think you need a really fat budget to do this. Remember, there's always a risk when you want to invest in publicity, it could turn out in a total disaster or it could play in your favour.

2. Domains

I don't know much about domains, but I'm thinking of buying some good domains as an investment. I want to see if I could bring in more traffic with my own domain instead of using a free blog platform, it's not that I'm not happy with my Blogger blog, but I want to see if it would be easier to bring in traffic. I also think, I will have more freedom when I have my own domain.

If you have some other ideas, I would be glad to hear them.

OR you could just use the money to buy yourself gift, or walk in your favourite pub, and buy a round. :D

I Got Accepted With PayPerPost!

2008-07-05T12:43:00.007+02:00

get paid to blog with PayPerPost! My blog has been approved by PayperPost! The first time I applied I was rejected, because my blog didn't met up with the requirements ( 30 days old, with a minimum of 30 posts). I signed up with PayPerPost, because I read a lot of positive comments about PayPerPost on several trustworthy blogs. I think that PayPerPost is the best way to monetize your blog if your blog is still young.

One of the main reasons I joined PayPerPost is to earn money, with PayPerPost you can earn from 5$-100$ by just writing a good review. You get paid 30 days after your post is accepted, and all payments are made with PayPal, so be sure to have an account ready. Second reason why I joined PayPerPost was because they have a good referral program, each time you refer someone you get paid 15$, after your referral makes his first post.

Now, what am I going to do with the money I earn with PayPerPost? Well, I'm still considering several options, but I think I will reinvest a part of it into my blog, maybe make some publicity. I'll put the rest of the money on my bank account, hoping I can one day buy myself a new computer, because the one I'm using is a bit prehistoric (in computer terms).

Commission Junction Taking Your First Steps In the Affiliate Business

2008-07-04T14:29:00.007+02:00

I've been using Commission Junction for quite a while now, but haven't had any success yet, mainly because I've stopped putting them on my blog. For those of you, who haven't heard of Commission Junction, I'll give a little explanation.

Commission Junction is the must-have website for every blogger or webmaster who's interested in joining the affiliate market. Commission Junction has a wide range of affiliates programs stored in their database, and it's really easy to use, if you want to find an affiliate program that matches your niche, you only have to click on 'get links', and type in your niche in the search bar. After you've pressed enter, you'll find a list with a whole bunch of affiliate programs, most of them related to your niche. When you've found the affiliate program that you want, just click on the little square beside it, and then click 'Apply To Program'. Sometimes it will take a while before you get accepted, but most of the affiliate programs will accept you immediately. Once you've been accepted, you can place the different Banners or Text Links on your blog.

There are three ways, that you can earn money with Commission Junction:

1. Sale

This one pretty self-explanatory, if you sell one of the products that you're promoting, you'll get a commission on that product. Sales give you the largest commission, if you can sell a lot of products, you can expect a large amount of money (Depending on the niche of course). The highest paying affiliates are the web hosting sites, if you can sell one of their products you could earn a serious amount of money lets say from 50$ to 150$ per sale.

2. Lead

If one of your visitors signs up with the site your promoting, but doesn't buy anything, you'll get commission, because you gave them a 'Lead'.

3. Impression

Every time your ad gets viewed a 1000 times, you'll get a little commission, just like Adsense.

4. PayperClick

I've noticed some of the affiliate programs using PayperClick, but there aren't a lot of them out there. I think they paid 0.1 per click, but I could be mistaken.

To conclude, Commssion Junction is in my opinion a really good program to make the first steps in the affiliate marketing world.

The Small List Of Social Networks

2008-07-03T19:38:00.005+02:00

As I've said in the past, social networks play a big role in getting you traffic. There are hundreds of them spreaded out on the internet. The only thing you got to do is to sign up with them, and make a lot of friends. Why, should you make a lot of friends? Well, they are the ones who decide if your article will get any attention at all. No votes, no traffic.

Once you've added some friends, you'll see a great increase in your traffic. Keep in mind, that this traffic will slowly decrease. So, you need to be active on these social networks to constantly get traffic. You'll be thinking that's going to take a lot of work, and time. Don't despair! There are plenty of groups out there, that have been made to exchange votes like for example this one on Blogcatalog. Remember, all of these groups are based on give, and take.

Google loves social networks, these past few weeks I submitted some articles of mine on several social networks. I've noticed that a lot my articles got a pretty good ranking in the Google search engine, all thanks to the high PR of these social networks, that attract thousands of visitors each day.

My personal top 3 of social networks, that gave me a good amount of traffic.

1. Digg

This is my absolute favourite out of the three. It's easy to add friends, and you can reach 200 people with a simple shout.

2. StumbleUpon

Still trying to figure this one out, but I've heard a lot of positive reactions. I see great potential in this one.

3. Reddit

And last, but not least, Reddit. Great source to submit all of your articles, but I personally still prefer Digg.

Earning Money Writing Articles: Associated Content

2008-07-01T10:39:00.009+02:00

Associated Content is a web platform that allows you to submit several different types of content like text, video, audio and images. You can write about almost everything, and you could get paid for it. If you don't like to write, you can always use Associated Content as an information source, there are a huge amount of interesting articles in their database on almost every topic.I just signed up with them, and I hope I will earn some money by submitting my articles.

Associated Content pays all of his members through Paypal every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but you must have a minimum of 1.50$ in your account. There's no limit on the amount of money you can earn with them. There are 3 ways, that you can earn money trough your content.

1. PPM (payment per thousand page views)

A lot of the Associated Content members earn most of their money through this feature. The more your content gets viewed the more you will be paid. When your 'Clout' level begins to rise you're payrate for every PPM will also rise, thus earning you more money.

More information click here

2. Upfront Payment

This is an advanced payment offered, before your content is published. To receive such a payment you have to be an United States citizen.

You may be unable to submit content for Upfront Payment for one of the following reasons: 1. You are under 18 years old. 2. You are not a citizen or legal resident of the United States. 3. You selected a submission template for a type of content for which we do not offer Upfront Payment (video, audio, slideshow or short story/prose).

'So, I won't be the one earning any money from this'.

You must focus on promoting your article to receive as much PPMs as possible. Here are some tips from Associated Content. Most of them are very useful. You can find them here.

Advertising

Free Annual Credit Report

Introducing Squidoo

2008-06-30T12:34:00.005+02:00

If you never heard of Squidoo, imagine it as Blog, but with a little less options. Squidoo has been reviewed by The New York Times, Mashable, BoingBoing,... and is one of the 300 most popular sites in the US. Like on a blog, you write articles about the things you love or the things that inspire you. Every article that you write on Squidoo, is called a Lens, that is divided in several different modules. Every module is sponsored by a company like Ebay or Amazon, where you can promote their products, and earn a commission if you sell one of them. There's money to be made! You could keep all of the money for yourself, or you could donate a percentage of your profit to charity.

Squidoo has a large community with a forum. I would advise you to participate in this forum, certainly when you're a beginner, to attract readers and to learn more about Squidoo. The first thing you should when you've signed up is to make a nice profile, this way you'll get more attention. Squidoo is a perfect opportunity to get traffic to your blog. If you can make a good lens with links to your blog, and maybe reach the Top 100 lenses, you could get a good traffic boost to your blog.

Useful links:

Getting Started with Squidoo
The Squidoo Forum
Lens of the Day

I'll try to make a more detailed post soon.

Traffic Swarm And Fast Easy Traffic Any Good?

2008-06-28T11:34:00.008+02:00

Like every Blogger I'm searching for new visitors from various sources like BlogExplosion, MyLot, Linkreferral. A couple of days ago I've signed up with Traffic Swarm another traffic exchange program. The main difference with other traffic exchange programs is that you choose the blog category that you're interested in. For instance, you like web hosting sites. You go on TS, and choose the category web hosting. Now you'll surf on blogs that talk about webhosting. Be sure to put your blog in the right categories, or you'll attract the wrong visitors. Like every other manual traffic exchange program you need to surf in order to get credits to 'pay' your visitors.

Another traffic exchange program is Fast Easy Traffic. It's easy to sign up with, and it even has videos on how to use it. Again you'll have to surf sites to get visitors, most of the sites you visit offer money making schemes, that promise you to make tons of cash in only one month. So, it's really annoying to every time see those SCAM sites. If they have the 'program' to make someone rich, why don't they use it themselves? Now, back to the program, once you've gathered some visits you can allocate the credits you've earned to a site of your preference. I can assure you that you'll get visitors! You'll think, WOW, this is wonderful I'll sign up right away! Then when you go to your Google Analytics page at the end of the day, you'll see plenty of visitors from Fast Easy Traffic, but all with a bounce rate of a 100%. How did that happen? Well, all of those visitors are just like you: they want traffic, and won't mind checking out your blog for five seconds to get one credit to allocate to their blog. Maybe Fast Easy Traffic would be a better program if they insert categories like TS.

I'm not so sure if traffic exchange programs can bring you good traffic. You could get a 1000+ visitors of those programs, and get maybe only 10 visitors who really read your blog. Is it worth spending hours on those programs for just 10 'real' visitors?

Get paid for reviewing my post!

How Contests Can Spice Up Your Traffic

2008-06-26T13:47:00.006+02:00

Creating contests on your blog can bring you a big traffic boost. Giving away things for free has always been a good way to attract people to a blog. Who doesn't want to get something without really doing anything? Tons of companies promote their products by giving away free samples, authors of ebooks always offer a little preview of their book. As you can see giving away free things is a common used promoting technique. Ok, you'll think 'what do I earn from it?' First of all you'll get a lot of visitors who could become potential subscribers, and therefore could make your blog more popular. Ultimately, you could generate a lot of backlinks to your blog if you play your cards right.

The first thing you should consider before starting a contest is : "Do I have the means to start a competition?" People want contests who are worth participating, if you can't offer them a good price, they won't join. If you haven't got anything you could always search for a sponsor, there are always some generous bloggers who would like to give you a hand, obviously you should mention them in your contest. Haven't got the means or the sponsors? You could always try to be creative, and who knows what could happen. Plenty of people have managed to set up a succesfull contest simply by using their imagination.

Once you've set your price you should promote your contest to the max. You can promote your contest by putting it on forums, social networks, communities, emails, ....Try to do your best in promoting it, thus your contest will have a lot of benefits.

Secrets To Quality Blogging

2008-06-26T11:40:00.010+02:00

I hope I have your attention. For me there's no real secret to blogging, but as Juvenal said 'Mens sana in corpore sano' translated a 'healty mind in a healthy body'. This especially applies to bloggers. A blogger needs to find a balance between blogging and real life. If you achieve this, then you're well on your way to becoming a successfull blogger. I personnally impose or atleast try to follow these 3 rules:

1. Time

Many bloggers spend hours on their blog, checking every 10 minutes if someone clicked on their Adsense ads. I admit the first day I put ads on my blog, I checked every 5 minutes. The result was always the same 'a big fat zero'! Eventually I stopped checking my account, and decided to maybe look at it every two days. I applied the same thing to Google Analytics, and other traffic statistics. Remember blogging takes time, work, and a lot of patience. Everyone who starts a blog to earn money with it shouldn't expect to see any income the first days ( there are always some exceptions of course), but don't be discouraged by this.

2. Healthy Lifestyle

I'm not a doctor, but if I were one I would certainly tell you to get out of that lazy chair, and take walk outside to refresh your braincells with some high quality oxygen. Join a sportclub or go drink a beer just make sure you get away from your computer, and forget everything about blogging. A healthy diet also contributes to a healthy lifestyle, don't fill yourself with junkfood this will only make you fatter, and not a better blogger. Eat black chocolate in small portions, it's scientifically proven that it improves your little braincells and makes you feel happier, just read this.

3. Too long in front of your computer

Staying too long in front your computer in a wrong position could cause you a lot of problems like: back and neck problems, cramps, and you'll be amazed what problems a computer mouse could inflict to your hand, read this if you want to know more. I don't want to scare you, but I just want to remind you that too much blogging isn't healthy.

To end this post with a bit of humor:

MyLot

2008-06-25T11:08:00.004+02:00

Social community sites are very important for every blogger. They can help you get traffic, and also help you to get in touch with fellow bloggers. In this post I'm going to talk you about MyLot. MyLot is a growing social community with 133,900 members, who are relatively active.

You could compare it with BlogCatalog, like Blogcatalog you can add new friends, start discussion, share your interests, ... One major difference is that you can get paid for contributing to the community by posting, commenting and starting new discussions. You can even get paid by referring new members to MyLot. However it takes a lot of effort and time to earn a decent amount of money. When you reach the minimum of 10$ you can get paid, but don't be fooled by members who say they earn 100$ a day, even if you post and comment on MyLot 24/7 you can't get that amount of money.

MyLot is not only good for earning something extra, but it could give you a lot of referrals to your site if you put your link in one of your discussions or comments.

Update Best Bux Sites List

2008-06-25T10:37:00.012+02:00

This is a bit of an update for yesterdays post. So, yesterday I found some new Pay to click sites, and I signed up with all of them. Most of them only pay 0.01$, and I even found a PTC site, that was supposed to pay me 0.5$ per view, but I ended up with only 0.0015 in my account. Like I said before most of the PTC sites pay you for surfing sites and getting referrals. The payout is not much and you can only click a certain amount of ads each day (13-20 views). If you want to earn something from PTC sites, you'll be forced to register with more then one PTC site to maximize your 'income'.

For the people who want to try this. Here are some links: Great Quality Bux list

Bux3
WorldBux

Link	Members	Per View $	Time View	Payout
Adbux	873.700	0.003$	10 sec	10$
Neobux	120.363	0.01$	30 sec	2$
Xclix	100.488	0.01$	30 sec	10$
foxcash	72.988	0.015$	30 sec	10$
Earn3	43.731	0.01$	30 sec	10$
Plusbux	35.043	0.015$	30 sec	10$
Pay2surf	17.549	0.13$	20 sec	40$

With Adbux & Earn3 you can earn extra money by surfing for offers.
This means that you get paid to register. These payments are arround 0.1$-2$.

Bux.to Earning Money To View Ads

2008-06-24T19:29:00.004+02:00

I found this free program by coincidence, while I was surfing on BlogExplosion for credits. It's a free program that pays you to view ads. I had never heard of such a program, and the idea of getting paid to view ads was surreal to me. So, I read the TOS and signed up immediately, and started viewing these ads.

Bux.to works like this: every time you visit a website for 30 seconds you get paid 0.01$. If you can refer someone to Bux.to you'll get 0.01$ for each website your referral visits. Bux.to can pay you every day through Alertpay (You must register for an AlertPay account, or you can't get paid), but you have to have a minimum of 10$ in your account.

Here's an example from Bux.to on how much you could earn per month:

Earnings Example
» You click 10 ads per day = $0.10
» 20 referrals click 10 ads per day = $2.00
» Your daily earnings = $2.10
» Your weekly earnings = $14.70
» Your monthly earnings = $63.00

It will not make your rich, but it's a fast, free and an easy way to earn money.

Bux.to
AlertPay

Adsense Vs. Bidvertiser

2008-06-23T12:30:00.006+02:00

Adsense Vs. Bidvertiser

I had been advised by the Webloglearner to try Bidvertiser on this blog, next to Adsense. So, I decided to check it out (I already had an account but didn't really get a chance to explore it). I already had some referral ads from Bidvertiser running on my blog, but I had never used the normal ads.

Bidvertiser?

Bidvertiser is an ad network, that works with Payperclick and referrals. The Bidvertiser ads really look like a perfect copy of normal Adsense ads, but it doesn't have the popularity of Adsense. I've put some Bidvertiser ads on my blog, and I've got to say that Bidvertiser shows more relevant ads to my blog then Adsense. When signing up with Bidvertiser you can choose between Publisher and Advertiser. If you're a blogger, that wants to run ads, you should signup as Publisher. If you sign up as an Advertiser, you must pay a certain amount of money to get your ads displayed on other blogs. You only have to pay for the clicks you receive.

The big advantage with Bidvertiser is that you don't need to reach a 100$ like Adsense, but you can already get paid when you earn a minimum of 10$. They pay monthly by check or instantly through Paypal with a minimum of 10$. You can
choose which ads you want to use on your blog, or you can even use your own customized ones. Bidvertiser is one of the best alternatives for Adsense, and is maybe a little better.

Free Traffic With BlogExplosion

2008-06-23T12:16:00.005+02:00

Blogexplosion

Genrating quality free traffic is one of the most difficult things to do when you're a blogger. You could choose to pay for your traffic or you could generate free traffic without paying a dime. I read some good reviews about Blogexplosion. So, I decided to sign up immediately, and see if my traffic would go up. I'm still testing Blogexplosion, and I'm pretty amazed how easy it is to receive traffic.

Before you can get traffic you first need to 'work'(if you call surfing work) a little bit. Blogexplosion is based on a credit system. The main way for earning credits is to visit other blogs from Blogexplosion members. Like StumbleUpon you can choose the types of blogs you want to visit. When you start surfing with BlogExplosion you have to stay a minimum of 30 seconds on that blog, before you can earn any credits. After you've waited 30 seconds you can go own to the next blog by clicking on a number in the upper left corner. Fortunately, there is a less time consuming way to earn credits. Namely by referring other users to BlogExplosion, each time you refer someone you get up to 15% of that persons traffic for life. There's also a Blogdirectory which you can use to promote your blog.

You can add several different blogs to your Blogexplosion account to maximize your traffic. There's also a possibility to exchange credits between your own blogs. I think 1 assigned credit = 2 visitors, correct me if I'm wrong. You could also create your own banner, this banner will then be displayed 36(impressions) times for 1 credit (1= 36) on other blogs. I would like to add that Blogexplosion is not only good way for getting traffic, but it's also a large community of bloggers, where you can make friends or chat.

Free Traffic Advertisement

2008-06-21T15:17:00.005+02:00

As you know I'm always searching for new methods to gain traffic on my blog. I was searching the internet, and I found some Free Advertsing Networks. You may, or may not have noticed those small widgets on the bottom of my page. So, I tried a lot of these free advertising networks. I can tell you most of them didn't bring in the visitors I expected.

But there was one exception called Adgridnetwork. It brought in a consistent amount of traffic compared to other free advertising networks. I was pretty satisfied with my increasing traffic. I threw all of the other free advertisement networks into the garbage can. Most of the free advertising networks had very amateuristic sites
compared to Adgrid. I experienced several problems like registering issues, navigation...

How do free advertisement networks work?

It's really simple and plain. First you add your site to their network, write a little review of your blog. So people can get an impression of your blog. After the registration you will be able to display targeted ads on your blog. These ads will contain URLs of other more or less related blogs. At the same time you will have your own ad displayed on several other sites. The ads, work like normal ads, but they don't generate money. The more clicks you have on your ad the more your ad will be displayed on other blogs.

To encourage our user's to take their advertising campaigns seriously (as opposed to just slapping the Ad Code on some hidden page where visitor's won't see it), we have established a Merit-Based Ranking System. The idea is simple: Sites that generate higher numbers of ad clicks will be displayed more on other sites.

Free Advertising

Comment Exchange

2008-06-21T14:37:00.007+02:00

The rules are very simple.

You write a comment about one of my posts at your choice. The comment need to be at least 4 lines and it must be relevant to the post. Once you did those things you leave your link in this commentbox to your site and I will write you a comment.

Ps: I'm always open for link exchange.

Smorty

2008-06-20T17:28:00.005+02:00

To continue in the area of Pay Per Post services here's one you musn't miss. Smorty is one of the younger Pay per Post services on the net, but this doesn't mean it's that bad.

How does it work?

With Smorty you have the possibility to show PayperClick ads or to write your own posts. Not only can you earn with it, but you can get a lot of inbound links with the PostExchange service. You just have to write a post with a keyword link for another blogger and he will write one in return (at least that's the theory).

Blog Application Rules:
You must have a blog setup with written content in order to use Smorty’s service. Unfortunately we do not provide any hosting.

A Smorty administrator may approve or decline your account and/or blog post for any reason. It is the sole discretion of the administrator.

You can only apply for a blogger account with a root domain. e.g. www.domain.com you can not use www.domain.com/myblog , however you can use subdomains e.g. www.myblog.domain.com

A Smorty administrator may terminate your account at any time. It is the sole discretion of Smorty to do so.

Blogs that are not indexed, have little or no content, are banned from search engines or contain hate related and crude content may be rejected or put on Probation until corrected. Your blog must be older than 30 days and have at least 10 posts to apply.

We are aware that bloggers can buy a high page rank domain and start a new blog. It is against Smorty rules to use a new blog with a high page rank, the page rank must be obtained naturally. If your blog is caught, please be aware that you will be instantly banned and any pending earnings will be lost.

One of my favorite things with Pay per post services is that they have.. Yes, you guessed it! Referral links! As with normal referral links each time you reffer someone to Smorty you get a commission. But it's a little bit different like most pay per post service referrals.

What do I get?
You earn 5% commission of the total payments made to your referred blogger by Smorty. This is ongoing, so you will earn commission for the life of your referred blogger.

Yes, you've read it correctly you'll earn 5% commission on how much your referred blogger earns for life. So, it's not that bad at all. Get those referrals! :D
To conclude this post I would strongly recommend that you try it. It doesn't matter if your a noob or an expert blogger. If you have any experience with Smorty, I would like to hear your opinion.

If you want to give it a try here's the link:

Free Blogger Templates

2008-06-17T15:53:00.004+02:00

Attracting visitors from socialbookmark sites and other referring sites is one thing, but you need to convince your visitors to stay. As I mentioned before most of my visitors, just drop by without even reading or commenting my posts. Now think, what is the first thing a visitor sees when he enters you blog? Exactly, the homepage of your blog. Now every homepage has it's design, and it's plays a key factor in convincing your visitors to stay. You can find several default designs within Blogger.com, but you're not required to use them.

Free Templates on the internet

The internet is filled with free templates, and if you can use Google you can find some pretty good ones. It's really easy to insert them in your blog, just click on the layout tab of your blog and then click on Edit HTML. Here you can upload your template (you off course need to first download the free template from one of the sites, and then save them to a location on your computer, like your desktop.) Be sure to first back up your current template, this way you won't loose your blog if something goes wrong.

Translated in 3 little steps:

- First go to the Layout tab, and then click Edit HTML

- Backup your current template, so you won't risk losing anything when something goes wrong.

- Search the location where you saved your free template, and upload it

And voilà you got yourself a new fresh template!

If you can't find any good templates try checking these sites:

Final Sense
Geck and Fly
The Style Contest

Join my daily Entrecard List

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To join you only need to leave a comment and drop me daily.
In return I will add you in my daily droplist and drop you each day I can.

I would be very happy if you would put my link in your blogroll or put this html code under your Entrecard widget.

Bloggerwave

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Today my blog got approved for Bloggerwave. Bloggerwave is somewhat similar to PayperPost, but it's a European ad program. As in PayperPost you get several opportunities each with a unique assignement. Bloggerwave approves your blog really fast and you can immediately start earning money. The first assignment you'll get will be one of Bloggerwave, in which you have to promote Blggerwave. They'll give you 10$ when you complete the job, so it's not really bad for a start. You have three types of posts namely Review, Buzz and Opinion.

Everything will be paid trough Paypal, and you can earn a minimum of 1$ per post. You can add up to 5 blogs, they will only be accepted if they're good quality blogs. The better the quality the more blogs you can add to your bloglist in Bloggerwave. Just accept your first assignement of Bloggerwave, and add the two links to your blog. It's definitely worth a try!

Summary

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It's a bit soon to write a summary about my blog, but why not? 'Make your blog popular' is almost two weeks old, and still making it's first steps into the Blogosphere. The first week was really satisfying seeing the first visitors coming in, and seeing that some of them were actually reading some of my articles! After my sign up with Entrecard I saw a Big Boum in visitors. Following the succesfull weekend there was a little drop, but nothing to worry about. My main visitors are coming from Entrecard, but the thing that's upsetting me is that most them don't even look at my blog or take the time to read some of my articles. 90% of my visitors who visit my site just come to 'drop my card'. Entrecard, Blogcatalog and the SitepointForums are in my opinion still the best traffic 'givers'. Now my blog is reaching a 'steady' 20 visitors a day.