ClixSense associate program

In addition to just viewing ads to earn a little income from ClixSense, users can also earn money by referring others to ClixSense. The ClixSense website states:

Refer others to ClixSense.com and earn even more. All ClixSense.com members are automatically enrolled in the ClixSense.com free affiliate program. You earn 10% of the revenues collected from your referrals and 50% commission on any member you refer who upgrades their account to premium status.

This is something that can compound, and if people who sign up through you actually follow through and make a little dough, you can make some for basically not doing anything. Almost like a pyramid thing, but it doesn't flow down past the first level, so it doesn't seem so unsustainable.

Anyway, if you want to sign up for ClixSense, please use my referral link here - I'll much appreciate it!

As always, thanks for visiting!

Some great opps from PayPerPost

No, this isn't an advertisement or PayPerPost, but I wanted to pass this along anyway. PPP is having some great opps right now. Special stuff. One is a Police opp (the band, not the other ones). As you may know, the Police recently kicked off their reunion tour. PPP has a Police opp (I haven't actually looked at it yet, but they sent me an email, so I know about it). Where 1/2 of the posties who take this opp will recieve a "Postie Pack" which includes the new 2CD box set of the Police's greatest hits. Get paid to blog, AND get free bling. Can't beat that.



The other deal is an opp that they will put up between noon on 29 May and noon on 30 May - where you have the chance to get a 50" Grand WEGA LCD HDTV. Man, that would make a great monitor for my PC!



Once again, I'm not getting paid for this, this is not and advert, I just wanted to get the word out for anyone who might have missed their email or what not.



Thanks for visiting!





Technorati Tags: PayPerPost, Income, blogging, paid to blog

Stumble into more page traffic

A couple of years ago, when I first started using the Firefox browser, I found this add-on, a toolbar really, for something called "Stumble Upon." I thought it was pretty neat. One signs up at the SU site, and declares their content preferences. Then, when one are bored, or has a couple of minutes with nothing much to do, they click the "Stumble!" button on the toolbar, and it takes them to a page that somewhat fits the preferences they declared.

The toolbar has several other options on it. It has the "I like it!" button and the "No more like this" button. Plus it has a comment button. These are the main ones. There are others to assist narrowing down what one is in the mood to view, but I'm looking at these because they can assist in increasing traffic to one's blog.

I hadn't even thought about it at all since I started blogging. I wasn't 'stumbling' much, and hadn't even installed the toolbar when I migrated to Vista or on my new machine at work.

But, as I look at more and more ways to 'get the word out' and generate traffic for my blogs, I thought about SU. First I started by just adding my blogs main pages to SU, but that really didn't generate much traffic (ok, zero traffic). But then I got the idea to click the "I like it!" button for individual posts. WHAM! that generated some huge traffic. The day after I "liked" an article I had written, I received 161 hits on that specific article. Wowsers, I never expected anything like that.



The good thing is, that many of those visitors, went on and visited other pages. Granted, SU hasn't generated that traffic consistently. The day after that post, I got only about 75 folks from SU, then about 50 people from SU. But the third day SU sent about 115 people. So it seems a bit up and down.

So what I am getting at here, is that StumbleUpon is a way to generate traffic to your site. Unfortunately, all of the links back to the articles are 'nofollow' links. That means that spiders do not follow these links, and thus, they don't get counted towards the PageRank. But for the time it takes to click the "I like it!" button, one can't beat the traffic.



Technorati Tags: StumbleUpon, Site Traffic, Page Traffic

Why I love PayPerPost

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Everyone knows one of the best types of marketing is word of mouth marketing. This is because word of mouth advertising comes from a (presumably) trusted source. That is, if Jimmy Joe Jim Bob likes something, he tells his best friend Bobby Joe James. Bobby Joe James is much more likely to believe in the product recommended by Jimmy Joe Jim Bob because he trusts him.

PayPerPost deals in word of word of mouth marketing exclusively. They pay me to post an ad, and you, the loyal readers, read the ad, and you are (presumably) more readily acceptable of the product because you (presumably) trust my opinion.

I made my first PayPerPost ad on December 8, 2006. I received my first payment on January 7, 2007. It was an ad for some optics place. They sold ultra cool stuff like night vision goggles and the like. That $6.01 payout was my first online income. Since then I have posted 34 ads for a total of $243.03. That doesn't sound like much, but it is just over $7 per ad. Take into account that it takes roughly 10 minutes to write a review of whatever site or product is being advertised, that isn't too shabby.

I could have done quite a bit more by this time, but other things in life (like flooded basements) sometimes (quite often) make PPP take a back seat.

Currently, I have been saving my PPP money and am trying to get up to $400 so the 5/8 and I can each take $200 and hit one of the casinos up north. If I try, we can probably look at the end of June for the trip.

Stay away from text-link-ads.com

Back on 11 April I posted about Text Link Ads. Any blog I attempted to sign up there was rejected without explanation. I wrote them an email for explanation, but to date, nearly a month later, there was zero response from these people.



I could not, in good conscience, recommend these people for a revenue stream. While I have absolutely no problem with companies like these accepting or rejecting blogs for whatever reason floats their boat. I think that the reasons should be clear and posted. Also, if a company takes your social security number, they should have the decency to answer your email for cripes sake.



I would recommend that people avoid this site. I can't be sure what they are doing with the information of people that sign up, but I can be about 80% sure they are not protecting your information. My guess is that they are selling every bit of data they con you into giving.



Technorati Tags: text-link-ads, non responsive

Tooting my own horn

For my blog The Bigsibling Blog I was looking at the stats over at MyBlogLog and in the referring section I found this URL: I didn't know what it was, so I clicked it to see what this "sphereit" thing was. What I found was, that of 5,642 blogs posts that related to an article on ZDNet titled "The artificial nature of national borders" The post I did on illegal immigration was the #1 link!

This simply amazes me. I didn't even know that site existed. Now I have to spend some time and find out what that whole sphereit thing is about.

In other news, the Bigsibling blog has achieved a Google PageRank of 3/10. I don' t know how. That whole PageRank thing is still a huge mystery to me. On the other hand, the blogspot blogs I have (this one, and myownhometown.blogspot.com) now show "No PageRank information available" in the Google toolbar. Go figure.

I think the single biggest thing I have done to boost the PR is joining some blogger communities. MyBlogLog - in which my profile page has a PR of 3 also, and BlogCatalog - which also gives the no page rank message. In addition, I have participated in some link exchanges (but with the My Home Town blog - not the Bigsibling blog - go figure). And some Technorati favorites exchanges.

Oh, this just in, I just discovered that the bigsibling blog has TWO different page rankings. I don't know why. It seems that the root address http://www.bigsibling.com has a PR of 3 and the page address http://www.bigsibling.com/index.php has a PR of 2. See what I mean by mysterious and confusing?

At any rate, I will give huge credit to the blogging community sites for my rise in PR status. I'm now going to head out and find other places where I can boost the PR of these blogs.

Thanks for visiting & keep her twix the ditches!


Technorati Tags: BlogCatalog, Blog Communities, Google PageRank, MyBlogLog, PageRank

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!