How Do You Make Money?
You make money for:

• Joining - 150 points
• Invite friends - 250 points
• Searching - 1 point
• Every vote on search - 2 points
• Every comment on search - 3 points

All the addition of points are in real time and you can see them accumulating. When you reach 6500 points you can exchange them with $25 gift visa credit card. Or, when you reach 12,500 points, you can exchange them with $50 visa credit card. Similary, 25,000 points for $100 visa card.

You can also refer friends and earn 25% of what they earn. That is really good affiliate program I would say.

So does this Scour actually pay? To be frank, I don’t know. I joined them recently. But the site looks professional. I will surely try them. There is no harm in trying. I think you should also give them a try. There is a cashout option in the control panel. I will try cashing after I make total of 6500 points. Then I will write a detailed review on the site. So, go try them.

Yaro is providing some great FREE tips on “how to make money from your blog” in his conversion blogging video. It is little longer but surely worth the time. Yaro has made more than $10000 by using just this method.

If you are not very experienced blogger, I suggest that you also have a look at 10 free video lessons at becomeablogger.com.

[Yaro also runs Entrepreneurs-Journey.com blog which has around 28,000 RSS readers]

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Thats a total of $250 in free advertising. I am sure this will help people who are advertising on facebook or planning to advertise.

If you are looking for more coupons on other search engines and advertising networks, this post can surely help you. It seems there is lots of free money lying aruond.

Best of luck.

Few days back, after seeing my post about making money in herbal business through MarketHealth, he tried few of the campaigns through PPC and made some money. He was not very happy with PPC and decided to go for regular SEO. He decided to give it a try in a different manner. I asked him about how he is planning to do it. This is what he said:

I am not planning to spend any money on it. But I am a good writer and can write very good reviews. So this is what I am planning to do:

1. Create 1 Squidoo page every day for one of the products available from MarketHealth. They pay 50% of the sale price.
2. Then write 5 article for it, the same day and submit it to ezine articles.
3. Repeat this for 50 days for all the 50 offers of MarketHealth. Thats is one squidoo lens and 5 articles each day.
4. Then start again from first offer and do it again and again (This time targeting different keywords but for same offers). This time with hubpages (or again with Squidoo only)
5. If the time permits in between, submit all the Squidoo lenses and ezine articles to all social networking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Technorati etc. Will also comment related blogs (with or without nofollow)
6. Thats it, keep repeating it every 50 days. I plan to pay the quantity game here (when I know that my writing skills (quality) is good enough).

This is what i call “Do your Karma, Don’t Wait for Results“, as suggested by Geeta. Creating one Squidoo page and 5 articles every day. And keep doing it without worrying about the past article on how they are doing. Saturate the market with your reviews and articles only.

I think it will surely work in long term and is really a good strategy. Best of luck for him. What do you think? Do you think this is going to work for him?

• First of all, as always, content is still the king. So get good and unique content.
• Introduction is the most important module of your lens. Use it for pre-selling. Highlight the keywords is in to let the people know that they are at right place.
• Use the introduction module to give a short review of the product you are going to sell in the content.
• Squidoo allows the use of 40 tags. Use the all 40 with all the variations possible. But use ONLY relevant tags.
• Create one Squidoo page per account. This will help in lensroll and ratings.
• You may not be knowing about a feature called lensroll (similar to blogroll, on the right bottom side of page). Add all your Squidoo lenses here.
• Enable the “Contact me” button in your profile. This will help people contact you (may be for lensroll).
• Submit your lens to sites like lensroll.com, squidom.com and squoogle.com.
• Use stumble, digg and del.icio.us to bookmark it.
• Let people know (ping) that you exist with the help of pingoat.com and squidutils.com
• Update your lens at-least a month. If you don’t have anything to update, just change a tag or image. It will keep telling squidoo that your lens is fresh.
• On the “stats” page, when you click on traffic, you will see some keywords. Some of them are the keywords with “+” in front of them. These are the keywords people used to reach you, but are not in your lens. Add them by just clicking on “+” sign.
• Market each of your lenses with at-least 5 ezine articles.

I think these are the points which are coming to my mind right now. If I remember some more, I will add them in the comments section. Do you have some more Squidoo tips of creating good Squidoo lenses? If yes, please feel free to add them by commenting.

First of all thanks to Jim Karter for providing me the opportunity to make this post. I was thinking of asking him but his instant message made the things a lot simpler.

So after some serious thinking, I have decided to write 2 short posts on SEO and linking Mistakes which most of the people commit (mostly new comers). Please do note this is in no way any kind of exhaustive list or complete list. In the future, I may write a better version of it on this blog. So here we go.

6 SEO Mistakes You Should Avoid

1. DO NOT change the title of pages which are already doing well in SERPs. I had done this mistake in the past and suffered heavily. The moment you change the title, your page will surely go down in SERPs and will may or may not come again (in few weeks time) depending the extent of change you have done to it.

2. Meta Tags spamming. Don’t waste time in meta keyword stuffing. Its useless. Just keep very few keyword in it, if you want to.

3. Have same title and description for all the pages. Title is probably “the” most important element of your page. Sometimes, by mistakes (from newbies), either the title of all the pages becomes same or the description becomes similar. I have seen this a lot, in forums specially. So you better fix it.

4. Too many links on a page, and worst, too many useless links on a page. Make sure you nofollow your registration pages, login pages as well as footer and other useless links to avoid PR leak. Also try to avoid those site-wide menu links which don’t add much value in terms of usability.

5. No proper formatting of content. Try to use all H2, H3 and strong tags to make the content look better, not only to the user but to the search engine bots as well. Tell the bot, what the page is about.

6. Excessive use of ajax, javascript and flash. Avoid using them too much, at-least not on content rich pages. Its alright to use them but make sure, they don’t “get” your important content.

6 Linking Mistakes You Should Avoid

1. Avoid unnatural links. I remember, in 2006, people were fine with any kind of links as Google didn’t used to give very high weight age to neighborhood and was only concerned about PR but in 2008, things are a lot different. Now a bad neighborhood can seriously damage your search engine rankings so be careful to what you are linking and from where your links are coming from.

2. Automated link exchange programs are dead. DigitalPoint coop and LinkVault (I am not even sure they are running now) are dead and as Link Metro and similar sites. I haven’t checked them since months and now no one talks about them. So you too better don’t talk about them.

3. Reciprocals don’t work anymore. In most cases, blatant reciprocal from links.php pages or running linkman and similar reciprocal scripts wont work, so don’t waste your time on them. You may get link partners (mostly pharma links) but you will be better of without them.

4. Never spam, as it doesn’t work. In the wonder years of 2005 (and before) people used to spam guestbooks heavily and it also used to work. But now, its sure shot method of getting kicked out from Google index.

5. Don’t use blackhat techniques unless you know what you are doing. (Jim Karter: Dont’ use them even if you know. ) There are people who make tons of money by spamming and doing black hat, but they know what they are doing and are pro players. You being a rookie, can do serious harm to your good sites. Saying that, there is nothing wrong in testing the grey area of search engine rankings, just make sure you don’t do this on your good sites.

6. Be careful in buying posts and links. Are you even getting what you are paying for? Do not blindly buy any link seeing its PR. Ask yourself, is the cost of that link justifiable? Also, do not buy 1 month or 2 month links but if you really want to buy links, look for at-least 6 months to 1 year links. Do make sure that you only get link from related website and sites which can also give you some traffic. Avoid getting site-wide and footer links, but look for natural links.

You may like to check my SEO Tips section to know more about link and traffic building SEO Tips.

For the time being, this is all.

As much as I want to go into the depth of this subject, I wish to keep it concise for 2 reasons.

1. My limited time
2. To prevent the audience from yawning.

Before, I resume, bear in mind, I am not a good writer, and hence you won’t find my writing sequential. I may lose the flow in between, even though I will come back. That said -

Let me delve into it straightaway. Majority of the individuals believe the following to be the key to success online -

1. Keyword rich domain name
2. Good website
3. Good content
4. On-page SEO
5. Link Building Campaigns

and many more.

Little do we ponder over the fact that there is another ingredient that comes way before all of the above. Attitude. I bet you have heard this before. I have too. Yet, how many of us have pondered over the reality of this word? I did not, until recently.

In our personal lives, Attitude is what makes our day, or breaks the day. It is attitude that keeps us in good feeling and positive. It is also the element that drives us to fight with our neighbor or the grocery store owner. Our Attitude governs our life. Yet, does anyone of us realize how much we can channel this very element to create the success we all crave for.

I can’t remember how many cases I have come across where a person invests in an online business, strives hard for months together and ends up disposing it off. He fulfills every need, every criteria of a good business, yet fails miserably. No one is able to help him. No one knows where he went wrong.

So, where did he go wrong? Attitude. He never had the attitude to succeed. This lead to a mistrust inside him about the end goal. It lead to a disaster.

So, what do we need to do? We need to build the below formula.

A=1
T=20
T=20
I=9
T=20
U=21
D=4
E=5

=100%

Good Luck!

If you have some websites (irrespective of their age, quality and PR, all are accepted), you can make $30 (£15) per month from it by just adding their banners on 5 of its pages. And, you are allowed to do that on 5 of your sites. All the sites and pages are auto accepted. Here is how it works.

Matched.co.uk is a UK based advertising network which is accepting publishers and affiliates from around the world (any country as far as you can accept paypal) for their network.

Follow these simple steps to make $150+ (£75+) every month:

1. Register with matched.co.uk as a publisher and get you $10 (£5) bonus.
2. Add a website and its 5 different pages (5 pages can be any pages on your site (not much visited pages)) to your account.
3. Similarly you can add 5 more sites. Everything is auto accepted.
4. You will see “We are trying to match an ad to your page” message. Don’t worry, these will get matched soon. Then you can add the code into those 5 pages on each site.
5. This will make you £3 * 5 * 5 = £75 = $150/month for you.
6. Now for the same account, just click on the “Affiliate tab” and become affiliate as well. Affiliates are paid $10 (£5) for every person they refer to them.

So, I think this is the easiest way to make $150/month ($160 for first month). If you can refer more affiliates to them, there is no limit how much you can earn with them. Payment is through paypal.

So go ahead and join matched.co.uk now.

Edit: Some readers have reported that you may not get the ads easily on your websites. Some people have even reported issues with payment. So please act on your own discretion.

This guest post is written by Harshad, who is running his blog related to technology and exclusive blogging tips named Tech Exclusive. He has two years of experience in blogging. He runs several blogs on various other niche.

If you want to make a guest blog on this blog, contact me.

Nowadays, People are trying to earn money from every possible way of income even though it is unethical way, some people don’t hesitate to go for it. Earlier man used to depend on a particular business but now money factor is so huge that people can’t depend on single business. Many people do blogging to earn few bucks so that they can pay their bills or whatever maybe the reason.

As I said earlier also that earning money from blogging is not easy thing to do and it needs your patience. If you are greedy about money then blogging shouldn’t be your choice. Yes! I have to say that because blogging will not make you a rich person over the night. It needs lots of experience and efforts to make your blog popular in the world.

All knows that money can be made by blogging but you should have ample amount of visitors and not only visitors but potential visitors! If you are thinking of making serious money from blogging then you have to take decision of putting advertising on your blog. Advertising ads on blog is an effective method to make money online and you should know when to put ads on your blog. You should ask yourself before putting ads on blog that when should I put advertising ads on my blog? What will be the right time to put ads? Such questions will surely help you out.

What is the best time to put advertising on your blog?
I thought a lot about it before putting advertising on this blog. I read lots of articles on internet about this topic and made some conclusions from them which I want to share with you guys. According to me, you should have at least 150+ unique visitors per day to put advertising on blog. To get that much visitors is very easy. If your content is good and unique then you will get visitors for sure. Keep adding new content to blog and you will get more visitors.

Well, it is also depend on the niche of your blog. For example, if your blog is related to technology, make money online, health, celebs etc. then you’ll get good visitors and will also keep visiting but if your blog is a personal blog or any other general blog then it will be little bit difficult to get visitors and also to maintain same number of visitors regularly.

Why 150 unique visitors per day?
I said that 150 visitors per day but this is also very less number. Many different niches require much more visitors so that they can start advertising on their blog. When you get that much visitors, you can start advertising slowly on your blog.

Many visitors just come to get knowledge on your blog and will close the window after reading content or getting what they want. This type of visitors are always more in numbers i.e. around 85-90% and this percentage is totally depends on content of your blog so it can vary time to time. So remaining will just try to find what else they can get from your blog. Your blog should have strong and interactive content so that large number of visitor will surf through more content and will also come back to see what is new on blog. Even from these remaining visitors there will be extremely less percentage of visitor who will be interested in you advertisement and clicking on your ads.

Even if you are planning to put advertising then don’t put ads from more than one or two advertising network. I will recommend you to use combination of one PPC ad and one text link ad which will give better results. Give more time to your blog to grow, add new content on regular basis and slowly experiment with ads of different networks. Don’t be a greedy person and much excited or else you will not get anything. People who are visiting your blog will think that you are just blogging to make money from it and refuse to come again on your blog. So don’t do blogging just for the sake of money.

According to you, what should be the best time of putting time? When did you first put ads on your blog? What do you think? Share your thoughts and experiences below.

But then what am I going to talk about forex here?
I am sure most of you must have heard about eToro and how many people have made huge money with them trading forex. But I am not going to ask anybody to trade in forex. I am a webmaster and I prefer to remain like that. And, I am making some good money with eToro’s affiliate program.

So how can you (as a webmaster) make money with eToro without trading forex?
eToro has a great referral program where they pay you $100 per paid signup or 25% of the revenue earned by them (and they earn huge revenue). If you like you can just contact them to select you for $2 per free signup program. They also have the 2nd tier program where they pay you the 20% of the earnings of webmasters you refer. This ads up quite fast.

So to make money with them, just register with them as an affiliate and promote their program.

Why is it different from other affiliate programs?
These days many people are making huge money with forex. Everyday many more people are learning the art of forex trading. It is the hot niche and the keyword these days. The conversion is very easy.

Why the lead conversion is very easy?
Because eToro provides free practice account which is exactly same as real account but the money is not real. People see that how easy it is to make money in forex. They see the money being made daily, so the just convert into paid member and start earning the real money.

So, I am making money in forex, but not by trading forex but making use of all the buzz around forex and referring people to it. The banners they have are also quite tempting and attract very high CTR. The best part is that this program is actually for people AROUND THE WORLD. Not just one country. Here are some sample banners:

So, go ahead and register with them as an affiliate, through my referral link. May be I can help you in getting more referrals below you, so you can also earn big.