Infolinks: Make a blog and use ads

Millions of people have blogs but they do not know how to make money off of them. Perhaps not many people read them or perhaps they blog not for money but because they are passionate about their topic. I have blogged for years and have become a blog monetization expert in the process, so I will share three great ways that you can make money by blogging. Companies like Infolinks, Kontera, and INTENTclick are great choices to make money off of text-rich blogs. They do not work as well with video blogs but you can still put their ads in the description. Also, INTENTclick and Kontera do not mess up your Adsense ads so they are a great choice for generating additional revenue.

Write a mobile app

Android devices and iPhones are becoming increasingly popular, and the ease of writing and selling an app has brought a resurgence of small-time software developers. Many of these developers have great apps but they do not know how to monetize mobile apps, which is marketing parlance for saying that they don’t know how to make money off of their creations. This is common among mobile app developers in part because it’s so easy to bring an app to the market to sell it since all the big operating systems have mobile app stores.

Write 25 guest blog posts per day

Many companies will pay people to write blog posts for them. They do this because the backlinks in those posts will help them show up higher on search engines. A lot of companies rely on outsourced work, usually in India or Latin America, to do their blogging for them, but these bloggers usually do not have the writing skills to be published on good websites. As a result, they’ll pay a premium to American and other anglophone bloggers to get posts for them.

This is a guest post by Murray Newlands. Murray and his company – Influence People – do blogger outreach for a variety of clients from a small office in sunny San Francisco!

So we know the universal truth about making money online is you need high quality content and links to rank in the search engines. There are a million debates about how to build links, if you should even build links, or if you should just try to be social.

Anyway I’m not going to get into that because it’s a never ending fight. What I will tell you is I use web 2.0 sites to get links to my content. I write good articles on my web 2.0s, and try to provide relevant information that people will find useful, just like I do with anything I write. The sites I really LOVE to write on though are the sites that share revenue with the people who write content for them. Everyone knows about the big two, being HubPages and Squidoo. They are great sites and are easy to use for backlinks and to make money.

Introducing Wizzley.com

Anyway the real purpose of this post is to let people know about a new site that I’ve been using to build links called wizzley. This could be considered a wizzley review. It’s another revenue share site, where you get anywhere between 50-60% of the adsense and amazon impressions for the site. It’s a pretty easy to use interface as well. When I first started building on the site I was really just looking for a link (you need 5 articles for you links to become do-follow), but I was pretty surprised at how fast the articles took off and started getting some traffic. I kept throwing up articles and they kept ranking well.

The nice thing about a newer site like this is that it’s not saturated with articles. When you write on hubpages you compete not only against millions of other sites on the internet, but also with tens or hundreds of other articles on the same site. There are also just about any URL you want on the site. Using a new site like this a great benefit for sure.

Now don’t think you can go and toss a bunch of garbage up on the site and get away with it. New sites always get looked after pretty well, and so publish good content or you always risk getting banned. The only thing I’ve really seen them be tough on is adding affiliate links of your own outside of what they allow. They do provide a good service so use the adsense, and if you want an affiliate then use their amazon setup. They give a great service and you get the benefit of using a great site.

Anyway check out the Wizzley site here and get back to us with any tips or ticks you might find on the site. I’m going to keep adding to this post as I learn more and more about the service and some some tips of my own to share, so check back in regularly.

Thanks,

Justin (and Trent)

TIPS

Send in a good tip to help with our review of Wizzley and I’ll post it here and give you credit and a link to your blog or Wizzley account if you like!

1. When you start your page you have the option of setting your URL and title separately. In this day and age I would suggest you: a) set your title as something keyword related, but interesting for someone searching for information on the topic (think like you’re answering a question your searcher is asking) and; b) set your URL to your exact keyword.
2. Use keyword cousins and longtail keywords in your module titles.
3. Add an image or two, and always be sure to give them a related keyword for your image title. This is also a great place to add a link to one of your sites if you give one of your URLs credit for the image as the source URL, using your keyword as the “Name of Source”.

Wizzley can be great for making money online directly and for building links to your other sites to help you increase their rankings and earn money from them.

After going through it I decided to write a review for my blog readers (such as you) to read. So here is my review of Chronic Commissions…

To start I must say the sales letter is full of hype. It’s seriously overboard in that category. I’m not a fan of hypey products in general so that definitely gives this a negative point in my book, even though it is expected on most internet marketing products. However, on the other hand, their video is actually quite entertaining. It kept my attention well enough to watch the whole thing and that is very rare for me. So I will give them a small bonus on that aspect of the sales letter.

Now. let’s get a little more into what the Chronic Commissions product really consists of…

Basically it’s a very cool web based software that automatically builds your email list for you and promotes various products to your list so you can make money from them. I’m sure you’ve heard the popular saying, “the money is in the list” and it’s very true. Chronic Commissions can help with that.

Pretty much all you have to do is to put in your autoresponder and clickbank account information. Then, a few more quick things and you’re done. The system also has pre-loaded email swipes that can be used to send to your subscribers to make it even more effortless for you.

The setup is quite user friendly even for a complete beginner. And there’s a video for each section that is very easy to understand.

It really doesn’t even require you to have your own domain or hosting because the software is web based. All you do is enter in a few pieces of information:

* Clickbank ID – For your affiliate links
* Paypal ID (optional) – In case you want to get paid per lead
* Autoresponder Code – To build your list

After you finish that simple step, you’re ready to set up your campaigns. That part is also pretty self explanatory.

They have several high converting offers displayed for you. All you have to do is simply type in your tracking ID and decide if you want it go to the squeeze page or salesletter. Once you do that it takes you through a few more easy steps of picking and choosing what you want, and showing you what it will look like.

They also give you a great list of solo ads providers. Each of them shows you their testing results, the list size, costs per click, and so on. These people and companies will send emails to their lists for you at a great price. I loved this part because it is information that can be used for my internet marketing in many ways.

Once your list starts building, Chronic Commissions will send out emails to your subscribers about the various products in a way that is proven to generate sales.

That’s pretty much it. There’s a little more to it here and there, but that’s the main part of it and really all you need to know.

Also, there are some really great bonuses, but I won’t get into those since they aren’t the main part of what you are actually paying for.

So, the big question is…

Does the product deliver as promised or is it just one big pile of crap?

Well, the answer is actually somewhere in between if you ask me. It’s not quite as easy as they try to make it out to be and I highly doubt you are ever going to earn the kind of money they are claiming from it. But, it’s not worthless either. You really can make money using the system and it’s not overly difficult by any means. In my opinion, it’s definitely worth giving it a shot.

So, do I recommend Chronic Commissions? Overall the answer is yes, I do. Just don’t expect to get rich in the next month with a few clicks of your mouse as the sales copy would have you believe. But it does have great potential for building a great list and making money, so it’s certainly worth the cost.

That’s all I really have to say about it. So, I guess that concludes my chronic commissions review. If you are still interested in checking it out after reading my opinions about it, I would really appreciate you using my link. Here it is again: Chronic Commissions

Here you will find the top 7 tips for flipping websites…

Tip Number One – Buy from Well-Known Sources

When you are looking for websites to buy it is always a good idea to stick to well known marketplaces. One of the most popular and reliable sites that you should try is Flippa. As well as showcasing websites, it also offers you plenty of tips and information to get you started. Flippa is by far the most well know flipping marketplace right now.

Tip Number Two – Beware of Sites that Seem Too Good to be True

It can be really easy to get carried away when you are looking for potential sites. Some may seem too good to be true. If you find websites for sale that promise the earth then you should be very cautious of them. Never invest in anything that sounds too good to be true (e.g. “$14,000 in just 10 days!” OR “Automatic business! 0 hours a month!”). It would be worth checking Google to see whether the sites have been blacklisted on any list on the web. If they have then you would find it very difficult to make them work for you. Also check the sellers and the website background on twitter search and blogs search to see what people have been saying about them.

Tip Number Three – Ensure that you stick to a Budget

You should always stick to a budget that you can comfortably afford. Set aside a set amount that you can spend on flipping websites and do not go over it. This will help you to stay focused on what you are spending. Sometimes you can get carried by a site that looks so promising but going over your budget might not be the best thing to do when you’re just starting out.

Tip Number Four – Evaluate the Websites

Once you have found a website that you would like to invest in, you should first evaluate it deeply before making any offer. Look at how it would need to be improved, are there any usability issues, what new features would you need to add to the site, who are the suppliers if it’s ecommerce, what’s the margins, what kind of help you need to run the website and also think of everything that would need to be done to double the value of the website before you work out whether it would be worthwhile.

Tip Number Five – Understand the Work and Costs Involved

Another thing that you have to consider is how much time it will take you to improve the site. What costs will be involved? When you need to add features to a website it can be costly. If the website would need a complete redesign then it could be worth just building your own site from scratch. The investment in the website is not just the purchase price but also the post-purchase investment in the improvements you’ll be doing. So take this in consideration.

Tip Number Six – Be Enthusiastic

If you want to make the most money then you will need to be enthusiastic about the website that you are buying. You will need to want it to do well. Ideally you should choose a website that relates to something that you know about. That way you will be more interested in making it work. If you aren’t interested in the site then you might not give it your best. That’s simply how it works. So when deciding on which site to buy you should only buy those that you feel enthusiastic about and that will probably insure a nice profit for you.

Tip Number Seven – Know When to Sell

The key to selling a website is building its traffic up and making the operation easy to manage. When you succeed you need to choose whether to keep the site or sell it and make a profit. If you wait too long then you run the risk of a downturn further along the line. If the website suddenly starts to lose traffic then its profit margins will also deteriorate again. So in most cases it’s smart to sell the site when you feel it has hit its full potential. This way you can take the money from the sale and buy a larger website.

These basics should get you up and running as you enter the exciting world of site flipping!

This post was sent to us by Lior Levin, who is an advisor to a task management tool company and also works with a neon signs store at 123neonsigns.com

1 – Start out slowly: Two or three links a day for a few months. This slow rate of building also means that you should be investing some serious time in getting the links. Look for relevant sites to write high quality guest posts on. Build some pages on web 2.0 sites like hubpages, squidoo, infobarrel, and whatever else you can find. The nice things about building on sites like these is then if you get to a point where you have too much content and don’t want to link it all to your site (or if you have 2 links to send from 1 article like in postrunner) these are great places to link to your links.

2 – Ramp up slowly: Increase the number of links you send your site per day slow and steady. Stick with two or three for like two months, and then maybe ramp it up by one additional link every couple of weeks. Slow and steady wins the race.

3 – Hold off on the blogrolls: I wouldn’t suggest sending your site blogrolls for at least six months. Despite the fact that all the links are coming from one site, it is still a buttload of links to point at a site early on. You used to be able to get away with hammering a site with blogroll links, but I do not believe this is the case. Even when you do get to the six month mark I would suggest just doing one blogroll trade a month.

4 – Build for a wide range of keywords: Don’t just hit your site for your site for its main keyword but work on a range of related keywords as well. Use the odd “click here” or your site name, or even your sites URL. I also like to build links for some really short keywords that just relate generally to the category your site is about.

Anyway if you keep those four things in mind you should be able to keep your site out of hot water. If your site gets sandboxed anyway don’t feel bad, stop building links, or give up on making money online altogether (although I do love buying sandboxed sites off newbies for a fraction of their value). Just keep working until it comes out.

Best of luck!