The Sponsored Review Post

The SponsoredReviews is one more paid reviews site that I use to make some money. The SponsoredReviews market seems to be much more competitive then the PayPerPost which makes it much more difficult that get a review. While many of the reviews in PayPerPost are targeted according to the pagerank of blogs, in SponsoredReviews blogs in English language get far more reviews than other blogs.
When you sign in you will have to submit your blog for approval and acceptance although they accept many blogs, in order to avoid saturating the market with the low competitiveness of some blogs, some are rejected. Read the conditions that appear on the page for submitting your blog. When you sign in your blog is suggested a price for your reviews. This value determines the maximum amount you can claim for each review, you can take the suggested price or put an higher price on your reviews, it’s up to you.
In your profile you can choose which categories are the most appropriate to your blog. It is important not to fill the blog with non interest articles to the target audience, and also, think that for the advertiser this cannot be an investment without return. The reviews can have values from $ 5 to $ 1000 dollar, the amount charged by SponsoredReviews it’s only 35% which means that a blogger can earn between 3.25 dollars and 650 dollars per review. Many advertisers raise the limit of their reviews with large values in order to attract more bloggers but generally only accept the minimum price or a little more than that. I do not think that is a site with authority because now I have 12 proposals to review pending, some of them already have more than a month. A common example is an advertiser put the value of its review between $ 10 and $ 50 when you can make a proposal to write a review in your blog for $ 30. There are several factors that may influence the decision of the advertiser but it is very likely to reject the proposal in the hope that someone made an offer of $ 10, meaning that you only get 6.5 dollars for the review. Personally I do not like to make proposals below $ 25 US dollars and that is that few reviews are accepted but it is a matter of integrity. They say payments are made every two weeks, but I only receive the payment for the reviews at the end of each month. Sign in at SponsoredReviews, although probably is not a source of regular income is always another source of income, and you don’t have anything to lose.

PayPerPost makes your day!

PayPerPost works in a very simple way, turning it in a very interesting idea for bloggers.
Just go to PayPerPost and sign in, after registered, you can access a big list of opportunities.
To accept what they call "opportunities" the blog must be in English. The PayPerPost has many opportunities to earn money, at this very moment there are almost 200 opportunities available. But not all blogs have access to all opportunities, those for which your blog is eligible will appear white or grey (although when they are grey mines that they are already "taken"). So you must act fast to get the opportunity. The opportunities for which a blog does qualify depend on several factors; including the Alexa rank and PageRank blog; their geographical location, by themes, and some times blogs from free platforms. The best opportunity at the moment pays $ 235. To accept this opportunity the blog has to have a PR of 6, an Alexa rank of at least 99999, and be located in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia. If you are in these conditions you can earn $ 235 with a text of 50 words. Once you have accepted an opportunity, you have 6 hours to write in accordance with the requirements of the advertiser. If you choose not to do this it will be available for other bloggers. The PayPerPost also has some very good initiatives to earn money. On Tuesday, for example, they give 10 opportunities of $ 50 and a chance for $ 500, available for all blogs, regardless of their ranking or location. At Wednesdays the have a similar initiative, but in this case only for blogs outside the USA.
Once the post is done, PayPerPost takes about 10 days to approve the post and then some 20 days to make the payment via PayPal. An accepted blog in PayPerPost can easily earn $ 100 to $ 300 per month just for blogging, and much more if the blog has good ranking. Who has more than a blog should have two separate accounts to earn more money without additional work. The way that PayPerPost works (in other companies are different), we can only accept the same opportunity once, even if you have more than one blog. My suggestion is to have two accounts, and accept the same opportunity twice. In this case all you have to do is make your home work once and then write the post in another blog with minor changes. With this strategy you can earn $ 18 for accepting an opportunity of $ 9. Resuming; PayPerPost is a good company to start earning some money with your blog, your blog just as to be at least three months old and 20 posts written in English. Have fun!

Annoying Big Banner Ads (ABBA)

These are not new they are whit us since the 90’s. However, they quickly reached a saturation point, and the users almost became “immune” at they, “mentally filter them” when browsing web pages. But the worse was still to come, in the attempt to fight this “blindness of the announcements” advertisers did the worse that they could done – they made banners more difficult to ignore by making them more irritating and intrusive. Instead of being a simple static image of 468×60, they became alive, the use of Flash or Java to be “interactive” (Punch the Monkey and win!), whit irritating sounds, or worse, to appear in new windows - the bad and ugly “popups” that, until appearing browsers as the NetCaptor, Mozilla, Firefox and more recent versions of Opera, they were a nightmare for anybody that surfed the Internet. But the advertisers greedy didn’t end there, when noticing that the people was starting to be accustomed to close windows of popup without at least looking, they continued to create forms to force the people to see the announcements, inventing such horrors as the “popunders” (popups that they appear under the current window, and there they stay until the window is closed), announcements of an entire page, “not closable popups”, popups that, when closed, make appear new popups.And then they wore surprised that gradually the advertising had fewer results, and less money.With Google and AdSense things surprising started to improve for the advertiser and for the normal user. This was because Google made the unthinkable (at the time) making the announcements less intrusive, instead of more.In steed of live full screen windows with sound, that resist to be closed, the AdSense announcements wore, in its majority, text. Thanks to the data in its search engine, the announcements are contextual, related with the page or site in question. The formats and colours of the announcements are configured by the owner of the site, to better integrate the same, or, in alternative, to call the attention all determined by the owner the site, not by the advertiser.imagine the result, the advertisers had made a ton of money, the owners of sites had made immense money, and Google made K’s of money, and, more important, the announcements in sites had come back to be bearable. Many that absolutely hate announcements start to click in some, and the owners of the sites that had given up to have announcements, because these annoyed the users and made them not want to return, they wore back having a form to gain some money with the sites.Yahoo and Microsoft seem to be following the steps of Google, since both are at this moment starting to use non intrusive and based contextual announcements in text. This is very positive, since the lack of competition tends to provoke laziness, negligence, arrogance, and a gradual reduction of the quality (just look to Microsoft). But, for the time being, I’m just going to focus in AdSense.

Submit URL

To start, go to your favourite search engines, and look for the link that says “Submit URL”, or “Add URL”, or “Add Link”, or “To add Address”, or something like that . Sometimes the link can be hidden, and not in the main page; for example, the Google it’s here.This method functions. But it is more efficient and faster if yours blog is linked to other sites already indexed, better if they are popular sites. (This also will increase your PageRank, but this is for a future article). Perhaps it’s better if you already have some sites that you can use for this effect, or can ask for to one or more friends to add one link to its sites or blogs for yours. Other lists exist where you can add your URL, if the blog subject is appropriate. There you can comment other blogs, including one link for yours.
Summarizing: if possible, try to get as many sites as possible to link to yours. But do not make Spam! It’s not only little ethical, but you can be harming your blog, its popularity, and its reputation. The search engines can remove your blog for Spamming. Therefore, don’t try to add to your link to everything that you find.And, above all, you do not walk blog in blog to leave commentaries in the more recent post like “Hello, I adored your blog. Go see mine in http://…”. This is Spamming of worse kind.Beyond search engines, they also exists directories. For the experience that I have, do not wait a great volume of traffic come of them, but some is better then none, right? More links always helps.
Note: all these things take time. Do not expect to submit your blog to the Google today and start having visitors from there tomorrow. Exactly after the search engines having indexed your site, still it will take some time (1-2 weeks) until the indexed pages start to appear in the search results. And normally more recent posts not get indexed in the hour - one more time, it has a delay, and, in general, only the articles with 2 or more weeks receive visitors from the search engines.

Hire me, I’m cheap

Looks like the winds are changing and the luck its coming back, using the power of Google search I found blogsvertise an incredible site that promotes the art of blogging and getting paid for it. And all a have to do is offer my blog space to the advertisers that will pay me to write about them. The nice people in blogsvertise made this very easy and simple, I register for free in the site and submit my blog and after approval I then just chose an assignment and blog about it. Thanks to blogsvertise it doesn’t get better then this.

Street advertising

After spending too weeks trying to find out the right way to make the people come to my blog, I finally find out that I have to offer something to make them come to my blog. At first I thought in offering candies (everybody loves candy) but it’s not easy to give candies away thru the internet, at least not with my internet connection. So I thought “I’m going to put ads on the street advertising my blog, it has to be a good idea”.

Blog Counter

Since it ad passed one day after the “great creation” of my Blog. I decided to add a blogcounter button to my blog, just to count the millions of persons rushing to be the first to see my blog, after all it was my first one. After almost melting my brain with the HTML code for the button (thanks to the nice people of blogcounter.com it didn’t melt), I was ready to go watch the blog traffic.
Made my login and for my surprise there was 5, it must have been a mistake or probably the 5 means 5 millions and I didn’t see it in the FAQ. I decided to send a text message to a friend asking him for help, his answer was “you need PUB” and as always he was right, I definitively need a drink.