ClixSense an easy, but time consuming opp.

An extremely easy way to earn a little bling online is through
ClixSense. ClixSense is an easy to sign up for and easy to use program.
Basically, they have a list of ads. You sign up, go to the list of ads,
and click an ad, then you look at the page for 30 seconds, then you get
from 1 cent to (they say) $5 per view. The highest I saw was 3 cents.

They have a "premium" service which costs you $10/year. I haven't
signed up for the premium service. I believe that is where one would
find the $5 ads (but probably only one a year or so, I don't really
know).

So, for about 5 minutes of browsing, I earned 10 cents. Not great, but if you have some time to kill, could be worth looking into. Their ads open in a new tab or window (depending on your browser) in a frame and their is a clixsense timer in the top frame so you know when you can close the window/tab and go back to get another ad.

I like these places that don't take your SSN, but they don't pay via paypal either, they send a check. Personally I would rather go the paypal way, get the money faster and easier.

At any rate, if you have time to kill, ClixSense is an easy way to get a little extra bling by surfing the web.

Oh, and nothing to download/install. That is always a plus in my book!

7 dollar offers banner ads

I came across a site called 7 Dollar Offers. This is a banner ad site
(see above for an example of the banner). You can color and customize
the banner several different ways. It can be a banner like the one
above, or a tower (like the Google AdSense ads on the left).



Signing up was easy as pie. You go to their site, click on the "Put our products on YOUR site in seconds" link, enter your PayPal email address, choose the layout and style you want, and voila! The code is generated and you copy and paste it into your blog template.



I do not know how well this works, though I have seen their ads on other blogs (that is how I found them...DUH). I guess I'll see how well it works. Seems like it should be ok, they have the means to send the payments (and didn't take the SSN - so I'll have to make sure to keep track so I can make the tax payments <wink><wink>).



I'll let you know, how it all works out.  Oh, and they have a link on their site to view your Ad stats. Of course, since I only started like, 6 minutes go, i have no stats.



Hey, lets try this out, click the links above and then I can look at the stats, and we'll see if it actually works. Come back often and click lots and we can see if it builds faster than AdSense (which, BTW, I have earned a whopping $3.86 from in the past...oh..when did I start this? 5 months? woo hoo).



Thanks for visiting, it is greatly appreciated. And don't forget to tip your waitress.





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A domain for your blog

I have been noticing that lately quite a few of the advertisers on PayPerPost want to exclude domains like blogspot, typepad, wordpress, myspace and other "blog warehouse" kind of places. Hey, I have nothing against them, I have two blogs right here on blogspot, but let's face it, if more and more advertisers are excluding these domains from acceptable bloggers, then it only stands to reason that in order to get these ads, one needs their own domain.

I can help - somewhat. I have server space. I have not done much with it. Mostly I host websites for some non-profit orgs (like some Boy Scout troops) in exchange for a donation receipt. I can host top-level domains (that is www.yourblog.com - or some such) for $5/month, paid annually (that is $60/year).

For domain names, I use www.aitdomains.com - they charge $7.99/year for domains. There might be less expensive places out there, but I have used these people for about 6 years now, and don't really see any need to change just to save two or three bucks.

For the $60/year, you get your own email accounts that you control, 100MB of space - that is quite a bit of space. And you can have ASP, ASPX, HTML, PHP and ColdFusion based websites. Available databases are MS Access (highly UN-recommended), MS SQL and MySQL. Most blogware is written in PHP and uses MySQL databases. You will have FTP access to upload your site.

As for blogware, I would personally recommend Wordpress. It is free (yippeee!), is written in PHP (does not need to be compiled and can be edited with any text reader - like notepad) and uses MySQL database server.

If you have any interest in having your own domain, affordably hosted, please drop me a line (you can leave a comment, or email me at bigsibling2k5 at gmail dot com).

Oh, and the sever is located in the United States (if that makes any difference to you).

Blog Catalog - the mea culpa

Have you ever done something exceptionally stupid? Something that, no matter how you try to spin it, it just can't come out in anyway other than making you look like a dork?



Ok, then you know what I'm talking about. In a previous post I was talking about BlogCatalog.com - another blogger community. In the post I had mentioned how my bigsibling blog could not seem to get approved. I had submitted it several times, always with the same results.



The last time I submitted I decided to actually look at, and read letter for letter all of the blog information. What I discovered was I had misspelled the URL for the blog, I put it in as www.bigsbiling.com instead of www.bigsibling.com.



I am such a dork, and I apologize to the blogcatalog folks.



Sheesh, crow is not an acquired taste. No matter how much I eat, it is always...off.





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Yet another blogger community

Yet another blogger community can be located at BlogCatalog. I am not sure what it takes to get a blog listed with this site. My blog My Home Town, was approved for listing, but my blog The Bigsibling Blog was not. The Bigsibling Blog has more traffic and more frequent posts. BlogCatalog does not offer any real explanations as to why a site is declined. The give a list of reasons, and there is no way to know which reason it was, or how to remedy the reasoning. The email they send for a declined blog is as such:

Thank you for submitting your blog (The Bigsibling Blog) to BlogCatalog.

Unfortunately upon reviewing your blog we are unable to grant it access to the directory.

The most common reasons for not getting into Blog Catalog are:

• You did not add a link back to Blog Catalog from your website.
  
  To add a link visit: http://www.blogcatalog.com/buttons.php
• The URL you submitted is not a blog, is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam.
• Your blog is brand new and doesn't have enough content to make it truly valuable.
  
  If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings.
• Your blog contains pornographic material.
• At the time of review your blog was unavailable or there was a typo in your submission URL.
  
  Please make sure the URL submitted is correct and accessible

If you believe this to be a mistake, you can login to Blog Catalog ( http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/manage_blog.html ) and change anything which may have caused it to get declined. After updating your blog, it will be put back into the submission queue.

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions/ideas please feel free to contact us.

Thanks,

BlogCatalog

BlogCatalog.com · 7162 Eckhert Road · San Antonio · TX · 78238

I am unable to find any real information on what they consider to be acceptable. The URL works, there is a button pointing back to blog catalog, it is not new and has plenty of posts, it is not for commercial purposes only, and it does not contain pornographic materials. So this blog should meet all the requirements listed. But still gets declined every time I submit it.



I have submitted this blog (you might notice the little blog catalog button to the left), but haven't heard anything yet. I have also re-submitted The Bigsibling Blog to see if they accept it. I have been having problems with each morning - for some strange reason - the template for The Bigsibling Blog being reverted back to the default wordpress template. This might cause some problems with that. I'm still looking into why this is happening. It makes not sense, for months it runs perfectly, suddenly it starts going all haywire, but that is a different monster all together.



I'll post the results here. As I find more and more resources for getting exposure, and earning some income via blogs, I will continue to post them here after I have researched and/or signed up for them so I can report on the processes.



I know that I have not been as frequent with this blog as I have in the past, and I apologize for that. So many things, so little time. Also, I am going to, again, try and treat the advertisements, and blogging in general, as a second job. That means I am going to set aside specific time each day to do this, write adverts, and research ways to make a little more income.



Thanks for visiting!





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