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Earnosphere: Week Ending 15/12/07

Stuart — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:13:09 +0000

It’s that time of the week again, a number of readers have requested a link building guide for PHPbay Pro Sites so that’s coming up next week (it’s almost done). I’ve also had to remove the keyword lists as they were in violation of the Wordze TOS, so I’m going to have to pull future keyword information from a few different sources.

The last poll was interesting too. 29% of the voters thought that Monthly Revenue or Traffic figures are the best way to value a blog. I’d be inclined to go with Yearly Revenue though as this takes consistency into account, there’s no point paying 12k for a blog that’s only made 1k for the last month only when it’s made buttons before that. However, I do also agree that other factors should also attribute to the value (i.e. RSS, Email Lists & Traffic Numbers).

It’s also that time of the year, people are posting less & gearing up for the final push into Christmas. So Making Money related posts are becoming few & far between, but I’ve mixed things up a bit this week:

I really enjoyed this video by the Legendary Warren Buffet on the Key Points to Success.
SEO Book’s Keyword Tool now has International Data (by plugging into the Wordtracker API).
Maki at Dosh Dosh outlines 16 Different Types of Website you can Build to Make Money (there’s quite a considerable few that’s been left off this list, but perhaps we’ll go into that in another post).
Bruce Clays Blog shows some Practical Tips to Increase Landing Page Conversion Rates using Marketing Sherpa’s Data (If you don’t buy their reports you’re seriously missing out).
If you’ve been using Yet Another Content Generator a YACG Mass Installer has just been released to increase your output (I personally haven’t dabbled with this, but I’ve heard good reports).
Eli over at Blue Hat SEO has been taking Questions this week on his SEO Empire series of posts. Worth reading if you have a spare 15 minutes.
And finally, Copyblogger highlights 58 Offers that will Increase your Profits & Boost Enquiries.

This weeks poll requires a little more brain power than normal so let’s see what you got:

If I handed you a new site, $300 & told you to promote it what would you do first?

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Earnosphere: Week Ending 01/12/07

Stuart — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:35:49 +0000

What’s up everyone, things have been a bit busier this week as I’m trying to put the finishing touches to some Xmas Campaigns. So apologies that the Earnosphere is a bit late But there’s plenty of good info as usual.

Last week one of the posts I made about Al Gore’s Blog Being Hacked made it into the mainstream media. Except it was republished & reworded by a popular magazine (who naturally didn’t credit the original author). What lesson did I learn from that post? Well firstly I learnt that I shouldn’t have just emailed the post to Newspapers & Media sources. Instead I should have taken a step back & thought about which blogs would be more likely to publish the story:

Security Blogs
WordPress based Blogs
Environmental Blogs
Political Blogs

Or maybe at the time I didn’t think the story would have legs to go anywhere (since it was just something I noticed by accident).

I’m also actually quite surprised in the amount of blogs that scrape my content, check out the search results for Earnosphere alone.

Anyway, some good stories in the Earnosphere this week, so much so that you really don’t need to leave this blog…..ever

Smaxor writes a beautiful post on how to Make Money with Google’s Local Search. Basically using the Universal Search Results to help you rank above the Organic listings without much effort (other then setting up a company then a mailbox).
SlightlyShadySEO gives some tricks on how to increase conversions by Maximising your Long Tail.
This WebMasterWorld thread has some useful tips to tell if you’ve been Smartpriced by Adsense.
Gath (a fellow Melbournite) shows a neat way to code the Perfect Exit Popup which is perfect for monetising high bounce rates, I’m starting to see more & more affiliate marketers that have a good coding background really do well.

I’ve seen a number of posts floating around lately discussing the topic of valuing blog based on RSS Subscribers, so this weeks poll tackles that topic:

What factor should play the biggest part in a Blogs Value?

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Earnosphere: Week Ending 24/11/07

Stuart — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:13:11 +0000

Welcome to another edition of the Earnosphere, bringing you the best in Affiliate Tactics & Earning ideas. Hope all the American readers enjoyed thanksgiving, if you’ve been reading for a while I noted Thanksgiving as an important date for Affiliate Marketers so I hope yours was as profitable as mine was.

Benjamin’s Affiliate Marketing Journal on AffEarners – This is a superb Journal by an ASP Programmer & his journey into Affiliate Marketing, you’ll notice the logical progression that Ben is having from learning from his own mistakes (Mistakes are good, f they don’t happen you don’t know what you did wrong). You’ll learn everything from Keyword Researching Tips to keeping targeted adgroups for Specific Keywords.
A while ago I wrote some tips for Increasing Views on your Youtube Videos, check out this post on Techcrunch showing some Viral Video Secrets. This post actually caused quite a bit of controversy in the comments, however I think this is a classic example of how Affiliate Marketers can learn to think outside the box.
UberAffiliate posts about an interesting glitch with Adwords & International Traffic. This personally isn’t something I’ve ever experienced but as he mentions, it really does pay to check your logs & analyse your traffic as you may be wasting money. If you use Adwords you can auto append the gclid tracking to the URL which will allow you to further analyse your PPC Traffic & visitor behaviour in Google Analytics.
I’m generally not a fan of many posts you find on Digital Point but I quite enjoyed this post on alternative Traffic Tips. Some of them are perfect for your niche Affiliate Marketing websites. Some are also the kind of things you only learn by making mistakes, such as redirecting your 404 pages.
I found this post on Wickedfire quite disturbing. Let it be a lesson to anyone who is using keywords or traffic sources as subids, I’ll probably write a more detailed post on this at some point.

And if this list wasn’t enough to wet your Thanksgiving appetite then check out The Mad Hat who gives great Weekly roundups with a comical twist.

In my Adsense eCPM poll a whopping 57% of you have seen a significant drop in earnings over the past month. No doubt you’ll all be coming over to the Dark Side of Affiliate Marketing where rewards are sweeter? Don’t forget to subscribe to my feed.

How many Hours per Day do you spend Reading Blogs & Forums?

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Earnosphere: Week Ending 10/11/07

Stuart — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:08:11 +0000

Welcome to another Earnosphere, bringing you all best Making Money related posts from across the web.

You can submit your own posts for consideration in the Submit a Guest Post section, under Earnosphere. If you link to any of my posts it’s more likely that I’ll come over & check your blog out too.

This weeks Hot Offers:

Yahoo Search Marketing – If you’re doing a lot of PPC (or failing miserably with Adwords) & aren’t using Yahoo then now is the time to start. They’re giving away a $60 signup bonus until the end of November. If you get good conversions on Adwords don’t be afraid to try Yahoo, I normally convert 50% better for the same spend & there’s less competition

This weeks posts:

PPC Blog writes an incredible post on how to master Blackhat PPC
Tim at Emonetized shows you how easy it is to Cloak with Google Adwords
I wrote a post a while ago on Dominating Email Submits, here’s another good twist on that concept at Wickedfire (you may need to register to read this)
CDF Networks explains how to use Dynamic Keyword Insertion to help boost your Adwords CTR
Widgetbucks have released a statement saying that they’re not accepting Non English Publishers into the network now. Naturally this has made a few people unhappy.
For those of you that are putting my Ebay Affiliate Site post into action. Here’s a great tool that allows you to see which products are selling from your CJ reports.
Ant over at Turkhitbox shows how to increase onpage CTR with a simple CSS Effect.

Weekly Earnopoll, cast your vote:

How many Hours Per Day do you Work?

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Earnosphere: Week Ending 3/11/07

Stuart — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:00:46 +0000

I’d thought it’d be good to give some other blogs some love at the end of every week, thus the Earnosphere is born. Basically any posts or techniques that I think have the ability to help you increase your income I’ll try to include.

You can submit your own posts for consideration in the Submit a Guest Post section, under Earnosphere.

This week:

Rob at Seocracy shows how to make $50 a day with Google Custom Search
Maki at Dosh Dosh explains why the entertainment niche is great for making money
Cash Quests shows a nifty tool that allows you to find the PR for all your internal pages
Dee at Net Business Blog writes a great post on how PPC is not just for Affiliate Marketing I’ve touched on this Paid Search Approach before.
Jim Kukral has created a nifty Blog Widget to help you Make Money called Scratchback. Is your back itchy?
CPA Affiliates discusses how Spybot Search & Destroy may be killing your CJ Commissions, I’ve also touched this subject before with Spybot & IE7 Nuking Clickbank Links.
Jon dexplains why you should use new domains for Affiliate Links.
Bruce at DayJobNuker shows how he made his first $2,000 in Affiliate Marketing

Weekly Earnopoll, cast your vote:

What’s your Monthly Affiliate Income?

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Quick Links for Monday

Stuart — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:10:45 +0000

Been quite busy the past few days to update so I thought I’d post some links of what’s happening in the earnosphere, I’ll probably be doing more of these types of posts over the next few weeks:

Martin kindly let me know that Matt is Selling Net Business Blog. Will be interesting to see how much it goes for, even though I have no plans to sell up BIN is $20,000, currently bidding at $5,600.

Linda over at 5 Star Affiliate is holding a Blog Buzz Contest that might enable you to win $400. If she needs a bit of help ranking for Affiliate Forum I can only help but oblige.

Ever wanted a script to generate every city & state combinations for PPC (works real well for PPC ) or Content Websites? PHP pimpdaddy Chatmasta over at Wickedfire has posted a Dynamic City & State PHP Generator.

Joe Whyte writes an interesting post on how to get free .edu backlinks

Darren writes about the Melbourne Blogger Meetup which I didn’t make down to this time, hopefully next time

Plenty of stuff to read to keep you all hungry, now get back to making money!

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Earnosphere – St Patricks Day Tomorrow!

Stuart — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:42:16 +0000

Some of you may know that I’m originally from Ireland & currently living in Melbourne. So I’ll probably be one of the first Irish people to celebrate St Paddys day tomorrow. Along with the Melbourne Grand Prix this weekend there’ll probably not be much time for posting! So I’ll leave you with a few interesting musings to check out:

Is the SEO Book Sales Letter Working? – Personally I sent over 800+ referrals to SEO Book & didn’t get one conversion. How about you guys?

Auction Ads have officially announced over 5000 signups already. Impressive. Thought they might have referenced my article though.

Sugar Rae & a few other high profile internet marketers had an awesome discussion about link development over here. It’s definately interesting to read how everyone treats “paid links.”

Bumpzee is still kicking ass! Get over there & check it out.

Bloglyne shows you how to get One Way PR9 Links for Free. Interesting & good out of the box thinking there.

I’ve been hit up a few times this month to do Reviewme Reviews at $300 a pop. Which is awesome it’s great money to write a review, unfortunately a lot of the reviews have been very off topic & I’d rather not get paid $300 than to write something that my readers won’t appreciate. For example I usually read John Chow’s blog but I’ve been very put off lately by the amount of paid reviews he’s been doing. What’s your thoughts on this?

Then finally, I’ll be submitting the last of the Blog Reviews next week then picking a winner very soon! So thanks for all the input into that & have a good weekend

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Revver: The Future of Making Money Online?

Stuart — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:01:28 +0000

Revver is similar to Youtube in many ways. You can upload movies, watch them & share them with your friends. However there is one fundamental difference that sets Revver apart from Youtube. You can make money.

I really don’t know why Youtube didn’t think of this first, I mean only monetizing their website with Banner Ads & Adsense when they’re serving I don’t know how many millions of video hits per day?

Revver works like this:

You can make a movie, upload it to Revver. Whenever someone watches the movie right to the end, a clickable ad is displayed. If they click on the ad (which is usually targeted to the topic of the clip) then you get a royalty. The CPC is currently averaging $0.70, which when you consider how badly video sites pay out on Adsense it should be easy to cash in.

You can also make money by being a publisher. This means you can display other peoples movies on your site & you get paid a smaller royalty when someone clicks on the ad displayed at the end.

Personally, I think the possibilities are huge for this type of advertising. Especially when you think how easy it is to syndicate video content. Scripts have already been made that integrate Revver into Drupal automatically updating with hundreds of videos per day. The only flaw I can see is that you need to be selective with the videos you syndicate. Why? Well since the ad is only shown at the end I see a few problems with getting users to click:

The video is boring so the user doesn’t watch it to the end
The video is too long
The ad doesn’t relate to the video content

However, if you’re making your own videos you’re going to need to make it as viral as possible. You want everyone to want to syndicate it onto their site, because that’s where you’ll get the big bucks. Look at someone like Ask a Ninja, he’s syndicating all his stuff on Revver now after building up a big following on Youtube.

Some iconic Youtube members like lonelygirl15 have also made the switch to Revver (Why moan when you can make money & moan at the same time eh?).

So if you’re an avid Youtube user & you’re interested in making a few more dollars to fund your late night video binges check Revver out

Site: http://www.revver.com

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