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New ExoClick advertising and affiliate program

July 24, 2007 by Tricia

I just joined a new Adsense like affiliate program. It’s called ExoClick.

Have you been using Adsense? Have you had much success with the Google Adsense program? If the answer is no then you might do better with ExoClick. Like Adsense the ads are in the Pay-Per-Click format although the ads are not contextual. The ads that are displayed in your chosen ad blocks are based on the keywords that you’ve entered when setting up the code and the category that you’ve chosen for your site.

There are a number of different horizontal, vertical, box and skyscraper ad blocks to choose from. You have to choose your own colors and there’s no drop down color list to choose from so have your image editing program open in order to play with different colors (and to know the codes for such colors). Otherwise setting up an ad block is easy. Pick your colors, border width, size of ad block, a category for the ad, keywords if you want a specific type of product to be advertised in your ad block, and they decide whether adult ads can show or not.

I created this 300 X 250 px ad block in the category Blogging. I didn’t chose any keywords:

Obviously I could have used slightly darker lettering for this ad. I’ll fix it shortly.

Along with the basic ad blocks you can choose from categorized web portals, search boxes or monetized domain parking. I’m not 100% what that last choice is just yet.

What I also like about ExoClick is that it has a great affiliate referral program. The links that I’ve added to this post are affiliate links. I’d really appreciate it, if you are considering signing up with Exolinks, if you’d sign up through my link. I’ll get a 5% bonus on lifetime earnings of those who signup under me.

While most programs pay monthly or even every sixty days Exoclick will pay weekly if you meet the minimum quota which is $10. You can receive payments by PayPal or check.

If this sounds worth trying you can If this sounds good to you, you can sign up with ExoClick directly. Just register and you’ll immediately be able to begin creating your first advertising blocks.

Monetizing our sites – trying out new affiliate programs

July 19, 2007 by Tricia

Some of you have probably noticed that I’ve been working on new ways to monetize my sites over the last few weeks.

I was lucky enough to have been invited into the Blogads program recently by a blogging friend. I’d been hankering to get into that program for some time so I’m quite pleased to have been included.

I’ve actually had quite a bit of luck with advertising companies lately. They’ve been seeking me out rather than the other way around. Perhaps they know something about my sites that I don’t know?

Emily from Kontera got in touch with me about a month ago inviting me to join the Kontera program. They worked with me to develop special codes for four of my domains. I’ve only just started adding them to some of my sites so I’ve yet to see how the program fairs against others like Adsense, but I can tell you that I’ve already made a bit of money and I’ve put the code only on the smaller less visited sites so far.

Lets see, what other companies contacted me directly?

Around the same time that Emily was writing to me from Kontera so was Jeff from Tumri. I finally got around to setting up my first Apod the other day. See the nice white box with various fashion products in it in the right sidebar? That’s a Tumri Apod. No one has clicked on an ad yet though. I’ll have to wait and see how Tumri does on my sites. I’ve only put the one Apod on this site. I’ll create new Apods that totally suit my other blogs topics and try them out on those blogs soon.

I was also invited to join the COPEAC program as well. Nina got me set up, but I still haven’t used any of their ads. COPEAC has ads from a variety of advertisers. You can pick and choose exactly which ads will go on your site. You can actually chose from a number of different advertisers or ads and then use the banner or optimized rotator code to show different ads when a page refreshes. It’s quite versatile. The link that I’ve added is an affiliate link. I’d appreciate it if you’d sign up through me if you are thinking of getting into COPEAC too.

NBCsearch also happened to contact me. I’ve signed up with their program, but have yet to try it out as well. I actually haven’t quite figured out what this is. I believe it allows you to add an xml feed to your site of the search results of your choosing. If anyone else is using this program maybe you can teach me something.

I signed up with BlogKits or OfferForge as it’s now called on my own. The ads from that site are in the middle of each sidebar to the left and right of this post. I’ve had a few clicks on those ads. No income yet. This is another one I’ll have to keep an eye on to see how it does.

There’s another site that invited me to partner with them using three of my blogs. I was introduced to them from my contact at The Glam Network. (Glam is another affiliation that’s been working out beautifully for me BTW). I’ll tell you more about that new partnership once we’re ready to set it up and introduce it on my sites. Hopefully I’ll be able to tell you about that deal within a week or so.

There’s also been some private advertisers that have contacted me as well. I’ve had requests from private advertisers for some time – for links but I don’t always take them up on their offers. Two recent offers caught my interest and I’m currently working with these two new advertisers with whom I’ve set up 6 month partnerships. I’ll tell you about each of them individually in future posts.

I’m pretty sure that I’ll be removing the Adbrite ads from all my sites. I only make a few cents each week with them. The only time I’ve made a significant amount of money was when one kind advertiser purchased an ad for a month. I think I’ve only made about $74 dollars in the year that I’ve worked with adbrite and I’ve yet to get an actual payment. I feel that I can do better with the other forms of advertising that I’ve already been using and the programs that I’ve just added.

I’ll keep you updated as to how these new programs are working out. Hopefully one or two if not all of them make me a little bit of extra money.

I’ve hit the 10,000 dollar mark!

June 15, 2007 by Tricia

You know what I just realized? Blogging can be extremely lucrative.

Ok, I already knew that, but lately, almost every single day that message has been brought home to me time and time again as I see my earnings and offers increase.

Tuesday, the 13th of June, I became the second blogger on Pay/perp0st to hit the $10,000 mark. That’s right. I’m the second highest earner on Pay/perp0st.

I started with Pay/perp0st on October 10th 2006 and by November 26th I’d made my first $1000. By the end of December I’d made $2009.35. Odd how it turned out to be almost exactly $2000 at the end of the year, isn’t it? So that means that I’ve made a little over $8000 in the last almost five and a half months.

The funny thing is that in the last several months I’ve really slowed down. I go days without doing a Pay/perp0st post at times. The amount paid per blog has increased though so I can write fewer posts and make the same or better money. Win Win if you ask me.

I started doing paid blogging because I’ve been off work since December 4th 2005 due to Crohn’s. I still have a job as an ER nurse, but I’m unable to perform my duties because I’m simply too ill. Heck, these days I can barely get out into my garden!

I was getting sick pay, and then medical unemployment for a while, but the money ran out by July 2006. We tried taking in borders for a few months, but I couldn’t stand it. One of our borders was a real nut who lied to us all the time and we had to watch her like a hawk. The stress of having someone like that in my home did nothing towards helping me get any better.

So last October, as our situation started to become desperate I went searching for another way to make money. Something that wouldn’t be too hard for me to do. I came across Pay/perp0st and decided to try it. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not easy easy work, but it’s certainly easier than a 12 hour ER nursing shift!

I already had several blogs, but I only used two of them for Pay/perp0st at first. It wasn’t until perhaps February that I added a couple of the other blogs to the system. This allows me to spread out the blogging work that I take not only from Pay/perp0st, but from several other companies across the blogs, and also allows me to be sure that the posts I choose to take truly suit the blogs that I put them on. It’s better for me, it’s better for my blogs and most importantly it’s better for my readers.

I do work with pretty much all the companies now. Some more than others of course. I also earn income on my websites and blogs from other forms of advertising as well – Amazon, Google Adsense, Adbrite, Text L1nk Ads, Auction Ads, Glam Network, private work, and a few other sources. I’m considering experimenting with a few other advertisers – some of whom have come to me directly lately.

I guess I’ve been making money with my websites for several years now. Google Adsense and Amazon being the main sources. However it wasn’t until the past year that I got my act together and really started to work at it. This year I really can see that I could make a living off my websites.

When I first started with P in October, and then other companies, I kept a daily tally of how much I was making. I think I’d set a goal to make at least $1000 a month via all my sources of income. Now, I’m so busy that I haven’t had a chance to tally things up for quite a while – although I do still keep track of every cent I make. I’m just not adding it all up.

A few months ago I saw that I was easily able to increase my goal to $3000 per month, but I do believe that I’m making close to $4000 per month at this time. So my new goal is to make at least $5000 per month by the end of the year.

You know what? I think I will make my goal! Especially since I’m only doing half of what I could be doing and I’ve got 6 more domains to develop!

What I find kind of amusing is that in the comment section of one of the recent posts on Michael Arrington’s Blog, Techcrunch, one of the commenters stated that the majority of blogs listed in Pay/perp0st are very small, run by stay at home moms and only get 3 visitors a month. Right!

That’s totally untrue considering that Pay/perp0st’s demographics state that the majority of bloggers in their system are men and I know that there’s quite a variety of blogs, large and small, writing on a vast number of topics within the system.

This blog is the main blog on the Feverishthoughts.com domain. I’ve got 7 blogs on this domain (5 of which will move to the new domains shortly), but by far, this site, and As the Garden Grows gets more than 80% of the traffic that my Feverishthoughts.com Network brings in.

The stats for Feverishthoughts.com for May 2007 state that there were 130,141 unique visitors, and 513,524 page views. Traffic is increasing weekly! My main website, not a blog – a website, on a different domain, had 46,788 unique visitors, and 106,669 page views.

Those stats are nothing to sneeze at, and I know there’s other bloggers using Pay/perp0st and similar services that have similar stats.

Certainly with stats like that on one of my websites, and a few of my blogs (I didn’t list everything), and the sites I’m developing if I don’t make my $5000 per month target by the end of the year I’ll clearly have been doing something wrong!

Writing overload!

June 8, 2007 by Tricia

I feel so out of it this week.

My Crohn’s is acting up and I haven’t been sleeping well at all. At the same time it feels like the internet work that I have is increasing and increasing.

I think I need to add a few more hours to each day in order to get things done and get enough sleep that I’ll feel better.

I have at least seven major articles that I have to write over the next day and a half, and I’m fairly certain that I’ll have more assignments from another company within a few hours.

I think, other than getting those articles finished, I might just take the weekend off to relax if I can.

It’s just so weird. Here I am home sick, unable to work because of my illness, yet I seem to have too much work at home? Kind of ironic isn’t it?

Add current news video and feeds to your post and make money

June 4, 2007 by Tricia

I just signed up with a site called The News Room. This website allows website owners to publish news content on their sites. Not only does The News Room provide content that you can use to enhance your posts, but it also allows you to earn some money just by using the service.

So how do you make money by using The Newsroom? It’s simple really. Just sign up for the service and then browse through the current news listings until you find news that’s relevant to your site, or find a piece that is something you’d like to post about and add a feed or video to your article.

CPM (cost per thousand) starts at $1 which means that for every thousand views you’ll be paid a dollar – at the very lowest, for the content that you chose to provide on your site. You might also be interested to know that the payout for placing a video feed on your site is $4 per CPM. This payout is excellent compared to many other affiliate type programs, and what’s more, you’ll be adding content to your site that will enhance your articles.

One of the really cool things about The News Room is that if someone visits your site and they like the news story that you’ve posted they can take a copy of it right from your site. That’s called Mashing. You’ll make some money when they Mash a story from your site too.

For example, I decided to post this news video in this post to demonstrate to you how you can use news content in your articles, and to show you how the story can be mashed from my site.

You know that artist that gets large groups of people to pose naked for photographs in public places? Well he did it again. If you watch the video I don’t think you’ll find anything offensive on it – naked body parts have yellow dots on them.

Do you see that Mash symbol? Well, if you want to put this content on your site too, you can just Mash it.

How does mashing work? The diagram that I’ve included below shows how a person can make money when a great news story is shared from site to site:

There’s yet another bonus to this program:

I’m not sure how this works, but there’s a loyalty program that allows those who use the site to provide content on their own websites a chance to win prizes such as vacation, electronics and even cars.

When I first signed up I spent some time on the site trying to find out exactly how to get the video on my site. It’s simple really. As I said earlier, just browse through the sites content, find something that you want to add to your site, decide if you want just the video news story, a full feed of the section you’re in, a text story or even make up your own feed of news stories then hit the Mash button and follow the instructions. Easy.

There are hundreds of thousands of news stories to choose from and all are fully licensed new stories from major content providers such as Reuters, Associated Press and so on.

Give it a try. There’s lots of great news content available and you can earn money by adding it to your site. Start by mashing the video that I placed in this post if you like.

New ExoClick advertising and affiliate program

Monetizing our sites – trying out new affiliate programs

Writing overload!

Add current news video and feeds to your post and make money

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