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Can you really make money blogging?

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There are so many ways to make money on the internet. With the internet’s availability on the rise, more and more people are finding themselves in the middle of this huge trend. The fact is, everyone could use some extra cash. How you get this extra cash might prove to be quite difficult. This is where blogging comes in.

If you’ve never started a blog before, it is a website dedicated to many different things that may or may not be going on in your life. An example of this being a how-to website on how to build houses because building houses may be something you do for a living. Another example would be a blog dedicated to posts about technology news because you love technology and what’s going on in the tech world is very important to you. You get the idea, but now your question is probably, “So how does this blogging thing make me money?”

The first and most important way you can make money through your blog is traffic. No, the amount of traffic your blog gets does not directly pay you, but traffic translates into money. This is probably the most important thing an internet marketer (someone who makes money on the internet, say, a blogger for example) should know. The more traffic your blog gets, the more money it will generate in the end. You can increase this traffic by increasing your search engine rankings and by social bookmarking every blog post in your blog. I don’t have time to go into the details of search engine optimization with you in this article, but it’s definitely something you’ll want to read up on before you start your blog.

So now you’ve got some traffic, but where’s the money? This is where Google Adsense comes in. Think of it as the holy grail of a bloggers wallet. This is how 90% of all bloggers make money off of their blogs. If you’ve never heard of Google Adsense, it is a text based ad firm that pays you for every time someone clicks on the advertisement of theirs that is featured on your website. So how do you start? Apply for Google’s Adsense program, and when you get accepted feature some ads of theirs on your website. That’s pretty much it! This is how many bloggers make cash off of their website, so it does work. It just requires some dedication to post new content each day to get traffic to your blog.

(This is a guest post written by Johan Deus)

List of 35 Get Paid to write websites

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I find it difficult to answer when anyone ask me “How to make money online or ways to “work from home“. There are so many ways to earn online so which one should I advise? It depends on your comfort level and your interest on respective subject. You could make money blogging or you could make money writing or you could take up freelance job to work at home. Again freelancing is not only about ‘make money writing’, as it is believed by many new entrants. There are 1001 types of job in freelancing and writing is just one category in “how to money” arena. Not to forget, there are many scams around which advises you to make your online career in ‘paid surveys‘ and ‘data entry‘. Please do not mistake me if I say survey jobs or data entry jobs are scam but most of them are scammers which I will discuss in another post.

In this post, I will focus myself on ways to make money with writing. It could be writing article for yourself or doing product review or writing about some other company or becoming ghost writer. For those who are good in writing or those who are in the same profession, there could not be anything better because Internet opens up new opportunities to show your writing skill and express yourself to the entire world and get paid for the same who are enjoy to do. You can showcase your skill either by starting your own blog in your niche or you can tie up with webmaster who are consistently looking out for writer. You get get paid either on a revenue sharing basis or you can charge based on your service.

The above hold true for those who enjoy writing but it does not mean that you can not make money if you are not into this profession. The Internet has made possible for ordinary like like you and me to write and make money. Though not very easy but it requires little bit of practice and you need to follow certain points as mentioned in my other post “How to make money by writing :: I am not a writer“. Please find compilation of 35 websites which might help you to aspire your dream – A dream to make money online with writing:

<<1>> Squidoo
Squidoo allows anyone to create pages of information and earn a little bit of money from advertisements. Here’s how it works: Members share their views or give recommendations on a topic/product of choice on one page (or squidoo lens). Squidoo places affiliate ads from Amazon, eBay, CafePress and/or SuperStore on the page and anytime a reader purchases a product through the ads, the contributor receives 50% of the royalties.

There are also Google ads on each page. Revenue from these ads are placed into a pool and half the amount is distributed to contributors based on the popularity of their lenses. Members can also donate earnings to charity.

<<2>>Hubpages
HubPages provides opportunities to write about your favorite topics and earn a revenue from Google ads, Amazon.com ads and eBay ads on sharing basis. HubPages shares revenue based on impressions (or page views) or click or per lead basis. You will receive 60% of the revenue from ads and 40% revenue goes to hubpages. Writers are paid directly by advertiser like Google, Amazon.com and eBay when minimum payouts have been reached.

<<3>>Ground Report
Ground Report is a news site thats work as revenue sharing website with 50:50 ratio. Members can publish original articles, images, and videos and earn revenue based on the number of views their submissions receive. The mode of payment is paypal. They also comes with contest where you get a chance to win good amount if you get highest number of page views in a month.

<<4>>WireTap
This is a magazine dedicated to publishing journalism by, for and about young people. They accept articles from all generations but mostly from youth and young adults, around ages of 16 to 28. Submitted stories should discuss issues important to young people today such as youth activism, war and peace, civil and human rights, race, immigration, education, environment, culture, sex and relationships, media and more.

WireTap publishes news reports, features, investigative stories, personal voices, op-eds, reviews and interviews. Stories should be between 800 and 1,800 words and pay is between $50 to $200.

<<5>>Xomba
Xomba (pronounced zom·ba), is an community that allows you to write subject of your interest, whether it is an article, blog or review. You just need to write. Xomba’s goal is to provide a supportive friendly community that helps writers develop their talent, make money, and network with other writers.

You earn money through targeted advertisements that are embedded in your pages. Most of them are Google Adsense with 50:50 revenue sharing. Based on the traffic to Xomba coommunity, It is very possible to earn up to $1.50 a day per article you submit to Xomba for months. In addition to sharing revenue with its writers, Xomba allows users to create profiles, discuss articles, participate in contests and provide readers with a wealthy resource covering hundreds of topics.

<<6>>Associated Content
Associated Content Its an online media company where everyone is free to participate and reap the benefit of online publishing. How it works is very simple, you can write an article on any topic of your interest and submit it to the website. You have an advantage of submitting your article on an exclusive (You sell the copyright to associated content) or non exclusive basis (you keep the right of your article with yourself). You also get an option to submit your article for paid or non-paid basis (You are not liable to get any monetary benefit). An excellent way to make money online. At initial lavel you might earn $3 to $4 but later when you page view increases you earning will also increase.

<<7>>eHow
Similar program like associated content where you write one time but it gives you residual income over years. eHow is the great place to start as they have variety of topics to pick up and its growing day by day. Submit your articles and get paid for it.

<<8>>LoveToKnow
In the same line of ehow, LoveToKnow offers you an opportunity to write in any of your interested topic available in this website. There is extensive list of topics available. After your application gets approved your payment will start at $20 per 650-word article, with a minimum of 20 articles required each month

<<9>>KPwriting
Though not famous, KPwriting is another site where you can choose a writer role that is best suited to you. You can pick up three different role as a writer namely Academic writer, Resume Writer and Content Writer. You can register for a role as per youe interest. Based on their requirement, KPWriting will contract writers anywhere from $6 up to $20 per page.

<<10>>RentaGhostWriter
Its not easy to make money in ghostwriting unless you are specilized and can finish up the stuff without consuming any time. You might have to work on volume sometime, but not necessarily. You can choose from a wide variety of of writing projects from clients looking to hire a ghost writer to complete their project. Registration is totally free. You will be immediately notified when a project fit your profile. After your registration if projects are available you can immediately apply for a online freelance writing job.

<<11>>Bukisa
If you are serious about making money from writing then you will find it good to write and publish with Bukisa. This online publisher offers writers around $4 per 1000 unique page views that their published content earns on an individual basis for as long as the content is published on the website. So its irrelevent wherther anyone clicks on your ad or not because they pay you on CPM method. So, the more that a writer writes, then the better the long-term royalty residuals will be month after month.

Additionally, Bukisa offers referral program also so you earn good income by simply referring their family and friends to join Bukisa to publish their writings, photography, slides, audio or videos on the publisher’s website. Be first to read terms and policies, before joining, so to be sure that this publishing opportunity is the program fit for you.

<<12>>ReviewParty
If you are writer that enjoys sharing your opinion about the movies that you watch or the music that you listen to or about the commercial products that you normally purchase, then ReviewParty is a program that you should seriously consider. It is very simple, just write reviews about the products that you currently use and get paid for sharing your opinions. ReviewParty pays 50% of the ad revenue that your review(s) generate through Google Adsense, but you must have a Google Adsense Account to participate in the program.

Rather than writing reviews for free, allowing big companies to capitalize on your hard work, make some money doing it. Instead of working hard to make content rich pages with your own Amazon links pasted on it, join the only website that gives you your Amazon affiliate links 100% of the time for every review you write.

<<14>>Triond
Again a well tested program in get paid to write list. The covered subject is so extensive that you can write about anything. And Anything really mean anything. The payment pattern is not something different than other. You will be rewarded with 50% of the ad revenues that is generated from the author’s published articles.

<<15>>LetterRep
This is quite different from other get paid to write websites. You do not get paid based on revenue sharing or fixed pay, Instead you get paid based on the sales. The LetterRep program pays writers to write letters that are designed to sell to companies or individuals who are in need of professionally written letters to be used as possible mail outs or other marketing needs. Writers are paid every time a LetterRep client purchases or request one of the letters that you have had published through LetterRep. The payouts vary depending on the type of request that you receive.

<<16>>Boddunan – Only for Indians
You have several ways to make money which includes writing article or publishing link and they have a referral programs also in place. Payment is not so good, its about Rs. 100 per article but ok to start with. Though not tested well, a worth program for Indians to look into.

<<19>>PickJack
PickJack is different again and you get paid for writing new questions and answering questions which are quite similar to Mylot. The questions are general in nature and you can also ask questions and make money. Payment method is by paypal.

<<20>>Digital Journal
Digital Journal offers everyone the opportunity to get money to report news about Digital Journalist. At that time, they offered to pay Digital Journalists written by journalists, blogs, images, groups, and other activities designed to create a community (they are not paid). The minimum payout is $ 10 and you can get through PayPal.

<<21>>Daytipper
Give a tip and earn money through Paypal account. Earlier days Daytipper paid you $3 per tips if it is approved, but they changed their strategy now. They pay only for three best selected tips and the prize money is $100, $75, $50 for the first three members respectively.

<<22>>Gather
More like a community to share your interest. At the same time, you get compensated for your effort.

<<23>> Articles Revenue
Nothing different than name, like others article website where you write and get paid on revenue sharing plus you get benefit of sites promotion, traffic and backlinks.

<<24>>Article Income
Write and get paid, I dont see much differentiation from other article submission directory website. You can earn extra from contextual advertising. An advt revenue sharing website.

<<25>> Flixya
Flixya is a social network that puts 100% ad revenue in your pocket. We’ve built the tools for you to share your videos, photos, and blogs. Your place to make friends, earn money, network and more.

<<26>>Youtaz
A “Really” Social Website – is pretty simple, the more you write or add quality content, the more votes you’re get and the more money you’ll earn! 50% of all income earn’t by the site is given directly back to our members!

<<27>>Constant-content.com
At the Constant Content website you can buy and sell articles. The site boasts that it has sold over 10,000 articles to date, with most of the articles getting purchased by website owners to be used on their sites and blogs. You can join the site for free and start writing content on any kind of topics, you can even write product reviews if you wish. Then you can set a price for your piece of work, and then sell it on the site…

You decide own price for your articles, the best price would probably be about 50-100$.Do not forget to add attractive graphics and pictures or maybe charts. They will help you to make your articles look more professional.

<<28>>Commonties.com
Commonties.com will pay you 50$ to answer 20 easy questions (click the banner to see them). The questions are tricky, but that is worth doing! You can answer them in like 50 minutes and get 50$ to your PayPal or back account. Sounds very good to be truth. I haven’t tried it yet, but I do want (can’t manage to find some time), but if you had tried it, please let us know, we are very interested in this one. Feedback would be greatly appreciated or even rewarded!

<<29>>Suite101.com
Suite101 is the Web’s leading online magazine for expert advice and independent journalism . You can join Suite101’s team of freelance writers by submitting your resume and filling in the application. The website and the company itself seems to be very good and they do have some requirements :

<<30>>SoftwareJudge
Make money by writing original review on software. You can make up to $50 by reviewing software. The money you earn can use for download software or otherwise you can withdraw your money. Minimum payout is $200 and pay by Western Union method.

<<31>>Shvoong.com
Shvoong.com is a company which pays people to write short reviews and guides. The main point of your articles is the shortness. The key to success at Shvoong.com is the quality and quantity of your articles and guides, so try to do your best! Money are sent via PayPal or check which is also nice.

<<32>>Mommythink
Get paid to write about pregnancy and parenting. I think any mom could do that (this program is for mommies only, guys, just close the browser tab. So you will get money writing articles about pregnancy or other general parenting articles. You sure need some experience to write those.

Mommythink.com pays 25$ per 30 day article executive rights for your article (the pay is very high, so make sure to do your best) and 50$ for 90 day rights, more info could be found at their website if you are really interested in this program!

<<33>>Auctionbytes
Auctionbytes.com is looking for stories to help people conduct online auctions more efficiently, both as buyers and sellers. So if you have any experience selling stuff at Ebay, Yahoo auctions or at any other online marketplace, why don’t share your experience and make money for it. Just write some tips to success with online auctions and get your money.

<<34>>Helium
Helium is very similiar to the Ciao paid product review website, except with a few important differences. With Helium you don’t have to just review products – you can write about any subjects, such as sport, food, technology, etc. You receive a share of the money that Helium generates through the advertisements shown on their pages. You can also earn money from participating in debates and contests on the Helium website. There is also an online marketplace where people request articles written on specific subjects – paying a set amount of money for completing the work

<<35>>Writers Share
Writers Share is another new and exciting website where people can get paid simply for leaving comments on a variety of different subjects. On Writers Share there will be a choice of subjects, such as money, celebrities, sports, etc, and you can choose any of these subjects and then go on to leave a comment on a sub-topic. For example you might go to the Money category and be asked to leave your opinions on credit cards. For every comment you leave (that gets accepted onto the site) you will earn a minimum of £1, which will be paid to you by Paypal. Anyone can leave comments and there is a variety of subjects to comment on

Make Money Blogging and Top Earning Blogs

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Is it really possible to make money blogging and make it a full time profession? This is the most common question and answer is ‘YES’, Blogging is nothing but a business and business is meant to be full time profession (even part time).

Almost everyone get fascinated about the blogging world when they really get to know about the worth. In recent times, Blogging has become quite popular and most of my surrounding knows about it but still that most does not comprise more than 5% of the people who know this word. And even if they heard about it or read blog on an daily basis, they are unaware of income potential. Very few people know that blogging is the best way to make money online. This is quite evident with search engine driving good traffic to get paid to blog phrase.

Earning online is very popular term is search engine and many individual are keenly looking for the ways to work at home online. This is quite evident from the fact that similar words generate more than 20 million search in Google alone (as per keyword tool). No wonder, this is the best online business to start with NO CAPITAL. This is one of the cheapest way to build your online empire and earn residual income from your one time effort for the rest of your life. Please don’t mistake me with the word ‘One time effort’. One time effort does not mean that you develop a blog and leave it and it will be generating income throughout the life. But what I meant was what you write today will be read for many years and in turn will generate residual income for you. Of cource you need to keep your blog updated to make it search engine alive.

When I mentioned ‘No capital’ business. It is really a no capital business where you dont have to spend more than $10 initially. Though many blogger take the free route e.g using publishing platform like ‘blogspot.com’, I am counting $10 for the domain name registration. and hosting charge which does not exceed $5 per month (you can even start with free hosting service provider like limedomains.com).

The income potential is so huge that I have taken this as my full time business leaving my good career in marketing (I have spent 10 years working in a bank, real estate industry in a responsible position). It also does not mean that blogging could be for everyone, No it is not. Like other business it also requires some basic skills like patience, time and learning skill.

Patience: As the saying goes “Rome was not built in a day”, here also you can not think of huge money coming in right from the first day. You need to do planning and then you need to develop, maintain it and use proper marketing strategy. Many individual fails in blogging becasue they put their effort in the beginning and when they fail to market or monetize, they leave it and goes to their previous job.

Time: As mentioned It requires time. The popularity of the blog goes word of mouth and search engine result. You need to nurture your blog through effective mix of SEO, PPC, word of mouth tool etc and success will come with time.

Skill: I dont see this as a major hurdle like other profession requires. You just need to know the basics of whole like blogging platform, bit of html, pinging, trackbacks, Seo trick, monetization, social bookmarking, tagging, use of meta keyword and description etc.

How to start Blog, this is the most basic question and I will prefer to start with this so that even newbie in this arena gets a juice of it.

(1) Blog Publishing Software: You should know the basic of blogging and publishing platform like wordpress. You can also start it with free blogging platform like blogger.com, wordpress.com or google, but there are limitation in terms of layout selection, monetization and long term benefit. If you are serious about blogging and want to take it like your business, you should preferably use your own domain instead of abc.blogspot.com or abc.wordpress.com. It is not only about the total control on layout and monetization and also about your brand value which you are going to create in
long run.

(2) Domain and hosting: If you have decided to take it as full time profession, you should book your own domain name (preferably name should reflect what you are going to blog about) and then choose hosting plan which are available in plenty. You just need to make sure that the hosting service provider is providing good support and maintain 99% uptime. I will write separately on domain registration and hosting service provider in a separate post.

(3) Application: The most popular application for blogging is wordpress, so you should know the installation process of it. But this should not be of very importance because you can always choose to have Cpanel in your hosting which gives Fantastico installer and you can install wordpress with just 2 clicks (even 10 years kid can do it without any problem). Even if your hosting service provider does not offer Cpanel, most of the service provider now a days help you in application installation.

(4) Maintainence: As mentioned earlier, you need to give time for layout selection and learn more about plugins used in wordpress from the designing aspect. The easiest way is to look into successful blog and copy the layout and plugins used for your to make it easy. Just one word “Copy with intelligence”. I remember Johncow.com who copied from one of the most successful blogger johnchow.com and is very popular now.

(5) Feeding: You need to nurture it and feed with the original content regularly. This is the key as most of the people say “Content is king”.

(6) SEO / Marketing: If content is called as King, I dont have word for this. Marketing is the most important stuff you need to think of. You might create one of the best content in online world but it is not a penny worth if no one knows about it. To make the world know about your content, you require proper strategy which could be a mix of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Email marketing, PPC, Social Bookmarking, Inbound and outbound linking etc.

Do you know the Earning Potential
Its all about how much you want. The salary of successful blogger is in many times multiple of regular 9-5 job. Just to give you an overview, I will love to share few of the blogger and their earning. This list is not exhaustive and contain only few names who have shared their income. Apart from this, there are many small bloggers who are making high five figure income. Also would like to mention that this is the not the most recent list (sourced from incomediary) and contain past data. So the earning might be much more than listed below.

20 Blog’s That Make A Lot Of Money Online

Rank Website Owner Monthly Earnings Main Income
1
Techcrunch Michael Arrington $200,000 Advertising Banners
2
Mashable Pete Cashmore $180,000 Advertising Banners
3
Timothy Sykes Timothy Sykes $150,000 Affiliate Sales
4
Perez Hilton Mario Lavandeira $140,000 Advertising Banners
5
Gothamist Jake Dobkin $80,000 Pay Per Click
6 Venture Beat Matt Marshall $62,000 Pay Per Click
7 Slash Gear Ewdison Then $60,000 Pay Per Click
8 Life Hacker Nick Denton $60,000 Advertising Banners
9
Smashing Magazine Vitaly Friedman $58,500 Advertising Banners
10 Tuts Plus Collis Taeed $55,000 Advertising Banners
11 Dooce Heather B. Armstrong $50,000 Pay Per Click
12
Steve Pavlina Steve Pavlina $45,000 Pay Per Click
13
TPM Josh Marshall $45,000 Pay Per Click
14
Car Advice Alborz Fallah $42,000 Advertising Banners
15
Problogger Darren Rowse $40,000 Advertising Banners
16
JohnChow John Chow $35,000 Affiliate Sales
17
Kotaku Nick Denton $32,000 Advertising Banners
18
Shoemoney Jeremy Schoemaker $30,000 Private Advertising
19
Coolest Gadgets Allan Carlton $30,000 Advertising Banners
20 Joystiq AOL $18,000 CPM Advertising

I hope this would have convinced you enough why you should blog. It could be about blogging about your passion or about work at home or about seizing the online earning opportunity or about starting your full time career or about changing your profession. Whatever the reason be, if you have the ability to sit in front of the computer and learn about the tips involved in the development of blog, this will be the best online business to be ventured into. I wish all of my reader all the best and will love to hear your comment.

How to monetize your website

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I am sure most of you would have realized the potential of having an website. This may help you to earn an income, what you can not have from your regular job. There are many people who would have said you this and finally they would have tried to sell you something of this sort. They would have tried to convince you that with the help of their product, you will start earning six figure online income. Hold on!!! I am not a sales guy and don’t want to sale you any product like others. I am saying you what I believe and what I have found true after spending couple of years here.

Having said that, I never meant you just make a website and money will start pouring in. No way! if this would be the case, no one would have struggled to make extra source of income. Making money online requires disciplined and focused approach. Of course your hard work too… At the same time, you should also know all the basic facts related with making money online. Once you start practicing the basic tactics, you will discover your own way to make it more advanced tactics day by day.

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So the question is what all it requires to earn a living online from your website. As discussed in my other article, you have to have a good content and marketing strategy to get traffic. “Good content in a website” is like a “Blood in a body”, without which it can not survive and traffic is something without which content will be worthless. To appreciate the good content, you need to have visitors and this will also help you to make more and more earning. Your earning is directly proportionate to traffic. Once you are ready with your website, you need to work on monetization carefully. Different types of website requires different strategy and you have to clearly understand the psychology of your website visitor before you go ahead with your monetization plan. You also need to understand what sort of advertisement you need to select to appear in your website. For example, if your website focus on health, it does not make any sense to put a advertisement of “Dating” website.

What all you could include in your website, which will help you to earn? Believe me there are 101 ways and I will pick up few among these to start up with and will keep on adding in the coming days.

(1) Advertisement: Advertising can be in different forms like Banner ad, Text Link ads, Descriptive ads etc. There is a myth among newcomers that how it is possible to get an advertising from any company, if they have just started a website or if their website has very less traffic. Although it is true that you may not get offer directly from the company due to stated reason but you can always use the resources of intermediary (known as ‘Advertising Network’). There are hundereds of advertising network services available and signing up does not require much hassles. Once it is over, you are ready to display thousands of advertisement in your website. Most of these providers have almost all type of companies with them and you get a fair chance to pick up advertisement matching your website theme.

(2) Referral Programs: There are large number of websites who runs referral programs, wherein you get paid if your website visitor perform certain action by clicking on your affiliate banner. You just need to register with a company who has affiliate programs and you need to place banner in your website provided by them. There are some companies who have specific criteria to become affiliate of them like ‘number of hits per day’ or ‘how old your website is’ etc. Also Each company has different crieteria to make you eligible for the payment. Broadly they are:

(a) Pay per click: Here you get paid based on how many of your website visitor click on your affiliate links.
(b) Pay per sales: In this case you will get paid flat commission say $50 on per sale
(c) Percentage earning per sales: You will get paid certain percentage of transaction value, it varies between 10% to 75% depending on programs.
(d) Pay per leads: these programs pay their affiliates based on the number of visitors they refer who sign up as leads. This simply means the visitor fills out some requested information at the merchant site, which the merchant site may use as a sales lead or sell to another company as a sales lead.

Many affiliate programs also pays you in slabs. For example, if you have done 100 sales in a month, you will get paid 40% of the transaction value, for 100-149 sales in a month the commission will be 50%, while for 150-199 sales the commission will be 60%.

However you should always be careful in selecting referral programs. Make sure the company is genuine and paying to its members. Also you should promote only those programs, which relates your website theme. If your website deals in ‘Home Furnishing’, you should not promote ‘Dating Websites’ in that page.

(3) Contextual Ad: This is one of the most popular ways with least effort from your side. The most popular in this segment is ‘Google Adsense’, however there are many others like ‘Bidvertiser’, ‘adbrite’ etc. The main advantage of using contextual ad is you don’t have to put any effort towards selection of the advertisements. You just need to paste the system generated code and advertisement appears in that space based on your web page theme automatically.

We will discuss some other monetization options like Paid content, Endorsement advertisement etc separately

Sponsoredreviews – Get Paid to blog

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Make money blogging: Another great website to make blogger monetize their blog more effectively after PayPerPost and Reviewme. The concept is same and work as an intermediary between bloggers and advertisers. It provides a platform to the blogger to earn money by means of writing reviews of advertiser’s products/services. However, there are some uniqueness between these websites. PayPerPost lets advertisers set the price, ReviewMe sets the price automatically based on how popular the blog is and in sponsoredreviews, You set your own price and have the ability to reject or accept any offer.

Here the bloggers is going to set their own price and advertisers will pick up blogger who they feel are offering a reasonable price with other parameters like quality of blog, readership base etc. This is going to create a competition between the blogger itself and most of them will keep their review charges reasonable, if they would like to receive consistent offers from the advertisers.

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Other advantage of Sponsored reviews

+++ While Reviewme charges a flat 50% commission from the transaction value, Sponsoredreviews is offering lower transaction fees which is 35%. fairly good deal
+++ Sponsoredreviews also stands unique in terms of payouts, wherein they are offering Bi-Weekly payout instead of monthly
+++ Once advertisers decide to put their product/service review on your blog, Sponsoredreview system allows two parties (advertisers and publishers) to negotiate on the pricing issue.
+++ Although publishers are free to set their own price, sponsoredreview system will allow you to see recommendation based on their automated rating system.

Why advertisers buy a Sponsored Review?

* To launch a new product or service.
* To create buzz about a new website.
* To get honest and constructive feedback from professional reviewers and their audiences.
* To build high quality links in order to increase your websites search engine rankings.
* To create direct traffic from a highly targeted audience.

How it works for bloggers
You sign up for a free account and submit your blog for approval. By adding your blog to their network, advertisers can find you and purchase reviews directly. You set your own price and have the ability to reject or accept any offer. Once accepted you must write the review within 7 days.

You can also search opportunities to find advertisers with products or services that you would like to write a review for. Once you have placed a bid, an advertiser can either accept, decline, or make a counter-offer. If accepted, you must write the review and place it on your blog within 7 days.

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How much can I earn Writing Reviews?
With SponsoredReviews, you set your own price. Depending on the size of your readership and the quality of your blog posts, you can earn anywhere from $10 to $1000 per review. If you are a major site, you might be able to get even more.

Am I expected to write only positive reviews?
Absolutely not – you are paid to write in-depth, honest reviews. Your constructive criticism is not only appreciated, it is expected.

How do I get paid?
You will receive your cash earnings via PayPal on a bi-weekly basis. These funds can be easily deposited into your bank account. If you don’t have access to a bank account, you can receive a check in the mail.

How do I know when or if I have been paid?
You can check your payment history and a summary of your outstanding earnings on our site at any time. You will receive your outstanding earnings two weeks after your review is completed.

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Reviewme – Make Money Blogging

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The concept of Reviewme is same as of PerPayPost (PPP) and is in area of make money blogging or get paid to blog. It gives a golden chance to bloggers to make extra income. At the same time, it provides an easy way for website/blog owner to register as an advertiser and build exposure for their websites.

Any blogger can become a member of reviewme and submit their blog. Reveiwme team decide on the price to an advertiser for your website based on many parameters which includes Alexa rank, technocrati rank etc. After your site is listed, an advertiser can view your website theme and will decide if they would like you to write their product review.

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  • How Blogger benefits

+++ It is free to create an account
+++ A blogger has every right to accept or reject an offer from an advertiser
+++ You need not to write positive review. So, you say what you already wanted to say, someone else comes up with the topic, you disclose the sponsorship,
+++ You get paid for your feedfack. Reviewme share 50% of advertising revenue with blogger

The minimum amount you get for each review is $20 and it could be as high as $500 depending on your website quality. However blogger has to be careful while reviewing the product. One has to make sure that the review is in line with their blog theme and the review should not look like spammy.

  • How advertiser benefits:

+++ Advertiser get a link for their website in many blog, which helps in improving his website popularity
+++ Search engine visibility becomes high
+++ They get genuine feedback of their product from the bloggers
+++ Their product gets promoted on the blogosphere community

Its very easy to sign up as an advertiser. After sign up, an advertiser can view listed blogger and can pick up blogs where he would like to get reviewed and will send you the order. A blogger will decide whether he accepts the advertiser offer or not. If blogger accept the order, the advertiser will get notified for published review.

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Does website really helps to make money

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Even wondered how people make money with their website. Many individual have understood the secret and utilizing the potential of making money with a website. There are many ways to monetize your website to make a living out of it. There are countless individual who are making extraordinary income by leveraging the power of Internet. You too can benefit by way of earning decent income from your website or blog. Having said that, its not just about making website containing few pages and minting money from that. It requires a clear focus and right strategy.

So the question is “What type of website can be monetized and will help you to make decent money”. There is no specific classification on this. The answer is “Any website on any topic can be monetized and will help to earn regular income”. However you need to follow some guidelines, which will help you to achieve the same. Although there are many to point out, the main aspect is website content and traffic.

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Content: “Content is King”. Website without a content is like “human without heart”. You have to have a clear focus on type of content based on profile of visitor. You need to work on content regularly to keep your website / blog updated. The more number of pages you have, there are higher chance of earning more and more income.

Traffic: Once you have a monetized website, it does not entitle you to earn automatically. You need to work hard to get a visitor for your website. Even if you have a great site and no visitor, you will have zero earning. So you need to proper marketing for your website which includes but not limited to “Search Engine Marketing”, “Email Marketing”, “Off line marketing”, “Online Marketing such as Text Link Ads, Banner etc.”, “Forum Signature”, “Online Classifieds” etc. And the most important aspect is free traffic through search engine. So you need to take special care on search engine optimization and make sure that your web pages are search engine friendly.

Once your website or blog is ready, there could be two main ways to monetize it. First is Advertising revenue, which could be either direct advertisement from companies or using third party programs to get advertising or using affiliate programs. Second is earning revenue through selling your own product or services. Discussion on utilizing this opportunity and making the revenue are getting discussed through other articles in this blog.

Payperpost (PPP) – Get Paid to Blog

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Payperpost (PPP) is not a new name in Get Paid to blogging arena and offers an excellent opportunity to make money to blogger. I have seen many bloggers, who are not so positive about this concept and hold many negative points. But the fact is payperpost has a sound business model and has helped thousands of bloggers to monetise their blog in more effective way. For many bloggers, PayPerPost has become more profitable way to monetize their website compared to Google Adsense, Content Link, Kontera etc.

The concept is simple, Payperpost (PPP) acts as an intermediary between advertisers and bloggers; advertiser provides guidelines to review their website in a blog; Blogger need to write post keeping those guidelines and providing link to advertiser website in his post; Your post will be revieded by PPP; The post should be live atleast for 30 days and thats it, you will be paid the committed amount.

PPP define themselves as below:

For Advertisers: PayPerPost delivers online word of mouth marketing, brand building and traffic generation through the world’s largest consumer generated advertising community and marketplace.
For Bloggers: Get paid for blogging. Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers. Disclosure required.
Payperpost offers two level of service for bloggers with name ‘PayPerPost Marketplace’ and ‘PayPerPost Direct’. PayPerPost defines these two level of service as below:

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PayPerPost Marketplace - “Join over 35,000 other bloggers who have started a new blogging revolution! PayPerPost is an incredible new self-service marketplace that allows you to get paid to blog about the products, services and websites you love. You can easily earn $500 per month or more with your current blog!”
Once you sign up with PayPerPost and your blog get accepted, you can see all listed opportunities and the complete guidelines to review the website and amount you are liable to get for that review.

PayPerPost Direct - “Do you have enough traffic and influence to appeal to advertisers on your own? The PayPerPost Direct widget can help you facilitate direct relationships with advertisers. Use the system to negotiate terms and help ensure you are paid by an advertiser for the work you perform and maximize the amount of money you make per post.”
In PayPerPost Direct, you need to add the widget to your blog and advertiser get a chance to pick up blog where they would like to get reviewed.The widget then transmits that offer to the blogger, allowing the blogger to accept, reject or negotiate different terms. Once terms are agreed and a sponsorship offer is accepted, PayPerPost Direct facilitates the financial transaction for each party in exchange for a one-time 10% service fee — providing each party with a useful negotiation and tracking platform, and safety that the other party will perform. PayPerPost does not review Direct posts, instead their team is there to resolve issues if they should arise. PayPerPost Direct is recommended for smaller, highly niched campaigns. For larger blog outreach campaigns they recommend using their Marketplace.

+++ Excellent interface and ease to navigate
+++ Interactive forum wherein you can discuss your view with other bloggers and learn the tips and tricks of this trade.
+++ Provides you variety of topic to choose for your blog. It also helps you to get new topics for your blog to make it interesting and you get paid for it.
+++ The payout amount is decent and it grows as your blog popularity grows. You can expect very good offer if you have good Page rank (PR) and Alexa ranking.
+++ Helps you to become better blogger and gives you an opportunity to start new blog, when you start interaction in community and come across other bloggers.

Myth:
There are many bloggers who think that they have to write about the topic which will not go as per their defined model of blog. But the fact about PayPerPost is that you can pick and choose whatever topics that you want to write about. There are no obligations to write about anything. However, if you see something that relates to your blog then you can write about it.

Wish you all the best and happy earning with PayPerPost (PPP). Please feel free to write me, if you need support in any kind to start with PayPerPost.

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