Helping You Make Money Online!

If you’ve been trying to learn about making money online using a blog and haven’t heard about Text Link Ads (afflink) yet, you’ve been living in the cave for quite some time now. It’s the blog monetization of choice for both the less-earning people who earn from blogging and the top earners. There are a dozen of Text Link Ads out there that can help you earn more from this online ad network. Here are some of the most popular ways to get the most out TLA:

1. Choose a niche that has a great demand from text link advertisers.

Of course, this is for those who’s only trying to make money from TLA and definitely has no issues on doing it that way. From what I checked with the Text Link Ads Calculator, gambling-related and finance blogs get excellent response with text link ads advertisers. If your blog has a gambling theme, you might not get much from AdSense because I think it’s against their policy. But with TLA, it earns the greatest single link value according to the TLA calculator.

2. Place your text link ad codes on the upper fold of your blog.

It’s just logical that the advertisers would prefer publishers that have their text link ads on the upper part of the site where readers can find the links more easily. This is especially helpful to new blogs which are not as established as LiewCF’s and JohnTP’s yet, which both discuss these tips on maximizing the earning potential of a blog if monetized with TLA by the way.

3. Post more on your blog.

The more pages, the better inventory you offer your potential text link advertisers. Also, along with more posts, the greater chance that you earn a better traffic rank from Alexa, which is one of the measures that TLA uses in gauging the quality of a blog. Consequently, as your traffic gets to love your blog posts’ quality and quantity, it’s easy to get a high Google pagerank which is another site appraisal tool that TLA makes use of.

4. Editing your listing can help you up your TLA earnings in “so many ways.”

Now one my recently discovered way to earn more using TLA is editing my listing. Sure, it’s already long known that you have to set the best category for your blog if you want your potential advertisers to notice you. However, it’s just a few months ago that I noticed that you can also do more if you want to use the ”edit your listing” section to work for you. Here are two ways: Continue reading →

Aside from my freelance SEO writing gig, I also welcome any new ways that will allow me to make money with only my time and Internet connection as investments. Just this May I was blessed to get some new clients because of simple additions to my blog. Let me tell you about these three winning blog tweaks.

1. I Mentioned My Email Address A Tad More Often

I have been hesitating to mention my email address anywhere public because of my fear of getting bombarded with email spam, which I patiently check one by one because I sometimes miss client inquiries which get filtered. But when people who are not so accustomed to looking for the ‘about the author’ page inquires, I can’t help but mention it every now and then.

Obsessive compulsive spam checking has been my online vice for quite some time. But I believe what triggered it (almost losing one important client) is not so irrational so it’s justifiable, right? As I’ve mentioned this is the very reason I don’t want to keep on dropping my email address anywhere. However, I realized that it’s more rewarding when you get to be up close and personal with your blog’s visitors in any way you can, e.g., telling them to contact you via email if they need to communicate with you for any reason than having to deal with spam. Although I already have a ‘contact me’ page, there are those who fail to check it out and ask via comments how they can get in touch with you. When I started to become a bit loose on leaving my email address, I received more reader reactions together with client inquiries than when I left my contact page do all the work.

As for Flood of Dollars readers, please leave a comment if you have to ask me about anything and you’d rather that you receive my response via email. FOD’s layout is again under construction that’s why I can’t complete my ‘About Me’ just yet. Continue reading →

In-text ads services, which offer text link ads that are inside a site’s content usually linked on keywords, like Kontera, Intellitext, and Adbrite’s are now joined by another in-text ad program - LinkWorth’s LinkInTxt 2.0.

When it LinkInText was launched, it’s required for a publisher to enter each web page that he or she would like the intext ads to appear on. However, just today, I’ve received an email that it now has its own search engine that will crawl the webpages of a site to automatically include intext ads in stead of manually entering each web page.

Here are the steps to take advantage of LinkInTxt’s automatic crawling:

Here’s what you need to do: Continue reading →

If you think you can do what the Gizmodo bloggers do - posting short but very hot gadget news several times a day, then you might want to apply as a gadget blogger here.

All you have to have is a flexible schedule and sheer passion for what else but techie gadgets. Here are the specifics of the posting requirements:

It’s a daily posting job and you must write a minimum of 13 posts per day on weekdays, and a minimum of 6 posts every weekend, we’re talking about simple posts, like the ones you can see on Gizmodo for instance, not 3000-word original articles. Plus, 6 posts at least must be written and published from 8am-9am to 12pm EST on weekdays only.
 

How much is the salary? $500 and more if you can make the blog grow. By the way, don’t forget to mention that you got it from FloodofDollars.com since I may also earn $50 as a referral reward if you get hired. 

Here’s more about making money online as tech blogger.

via LifeHacker Jobs

As I promised on my blog goals for June post, here are what readers can expect to be regularly posted on Flood of Dollars:

Make Money Online Blog of the Week (MMOBW)

This is where one fairly new blog (started not later than January 2007) which in some way or another help in informing people how to make money online are given the Flood of Dollars spotlight. 

This featured blog will have a backlink at the end of all the blog posts that Flood of Dollars will publish that whole week. This is similiar to getting free text link promotion for your blog. So if you have a blog or any blog that you know that meets the following requirements, you can either email floodofdollars (at) gmail (dot) com or leave a comment here so I can check if it’s a good candidate for this weekly feature.

- A blog started not later than January 2007

- Has posts mostly about ways to make money online

Just those two criteria.

Affiliate Program Tip of the Week

I don’t know until when I can consume all the tips out there that are available for affiliate program newbies like me. But it’s great to learn a thing or two weekly to improve your chances of earning from this one promising way of making money online, right? If I get to find people to interview about tips, you will definitely find them posted here on FOD.

I think this will be one great feature because I’m planning to make a small project out of it.

Feel free to send me some tips about the two feature projects if you have any thoughts.

Those who would like to get more traffic for their sites but are obsessed with keyword-stuffing can definitely benefit from this information I have just recently confirmed.

Link building is a better traffic booster than writing web content made for search engines.

How did I find out about this? I have been experimenting on a blog that I stuff with keyword-rich content for more than a year now and it has never reached the first spot of the only 20,000,000 search engine results although it sometimes reaches the first page.

I think that many of the sites that are consistently on the first page are not even targeting the keywords that I have been tweaking my content with, these sites are still on the first page of the search engine results for the terms that I thought my blog deserves to be found with. 

After analyzing what it is with those sites that causes them to outrank my content SEO’ed blog, I discovered they have more backlinks or inbound links compared with the number of IBL’s my blog has. 

Want more proof that link building still rules when it comes to getting that coveted SERP (search engine results pages) placement? Continue reading →

Do you blog just whenever you feel like blogging? That’s fine if you are blogging for the sole purpose of venting out or expressing thoughts. Or simply put, that’s fine if you intend to keep your personal blog just that - a personal blog.

But what if you want to augment your income with the help of your blog? Definitely, blogging just “every now and then” won’t work. You have to have a plan on how to make your blogging for money endeavor take off.

In view of this came the decision to set up my own blogging goals, which is a list of to-do’s which may not be too ambitious but will most likely help me in keeping things in perspective.

Since Flood of Dollars is about making money online, it’s only logical that I try to make money online from it, while keeping a symbiotic relationship with my current and future readers. Although even without any motivation I’ll still do my best to make FOD as resourceful as possible, it never hurts to get incentives whenever it reaches some milestones. Without further adieu, here are what I’m planning to get at with this blog for the month of June:

Here is a snapshot of the Google Analytics stats of FOD. Continue reading →

Hoping to win Lorelle Vanfossen’s (the A-lister blogger from whom many can learn from when it comes to blogging and the ethics of it) book - Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging through the Work at Home on the Internet Blogging Project.

If you want to give it a shot while helping those who are running home businesses, all you have to do is write an article on how a blog can aid home business owners. You have until June 2 to submit your entry. Guess which blog post here is my entry.