Tag Directory: Get a link from a PR4 directory

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Tag Directory allows you to add text and banner tags from their site to yours. It is currently a PR4 site and it does not have a requirement to link back to their site!

From their about page:

The tag links directly to your website. This is great for your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and will improve your ranking with the search engines.

• It free!
• High traffic
• You can choose how must spend on your tag
• Using image tag you can express your website to internet world.

I’ve submitted this blog to the directory. Lets wait and watch how much traffic it generates.

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The Mantra of Paid Reviews

Its been a while since I been blogging and I have done some unbiased paid reviews as well. I thought its time to share my experiences in doing paid reviews with all of you. If you want to make money online, this could simplify your paid review blogging experience.

The Do’s:

• Its a good idea to include screenshots of the product or website even if its not been asked for. This brings in some level of seriousness and character to the review.
• If its a product that can be evaluated (website, software, etc.), do try it out for a brief period before writing the review. This should make the review that much better! The amount of time you spend in evaluating it could be proportional to the payout for the review. As an example, don’t spend days evaluating a $5 review. Its not worth the time.
• Its not necessary to stick to the minimum words to be written. Well, I meant there is no harm in going beyond that limit. Good quality reviews will help you in the long run as more advertisers will eventually flock to your site for reviews.
• Stick to the time limit. Don’t leave it to the last minute prior to your review expiring to write the review. Spend quality time upfront to complete the review. Writing last minute reviews will more often than not lack in quality.
• Include as many linkbacks as possible to the site you’re reviewing. After all, that was one of the purposes of the review.

The Don’ts:

• Don’t have embedded advertisements in your paid review. I learnt this the hard way. You’re being paid to review a certain product and they won’t like to see advertisements of other products in their review. So how do you handle this scenario in your WordPress template? I have figured out a simple mechanism which is a one time effort to enhance the template. I have created a category called ‘Paid Review‘ and I tagged all the paid reviews with this category. For this blog, this category has an id of 37. In my theme, wherever I embed advertisements, I check against this category:

if (is_single() && !in_category(‘37′)) {
/* Include advertisement here */
}

• This is a simple mechanism to control where you include advertisements. If you check the Paid Review category, you’ll not see any advertisments in the post, be it banner advertisments or inline advertisements. This is a one-time change and ensures you spend more time in blogging rather than controlling when the advertisments should be shown or vice-versa. After all, time is money!
• Stick to your niche. Do paid reviews for topics that are within your niche. Some advertisers might be okay with you doing reviews for their products even if its not in your niche. This is not a good idea for your blog in general as it will dilute the focus you have for your blog.

If you have any experiences in paid reviews that you would like to share, please do drop a comment.

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BlogMasterMind: Learning the art of making money online

Yaro Starak recently launched a free eBook titled the Blog Profits Blueprint which enables you to learn the art of making US$5000+ per month working as little as 2hrs every day.

This is a highly recommended eBook for all of us.

Yaro Starak is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

As quoted by Yaro:

In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

The Blog MasterMind program will train you through the process of building traffic and making money online while working just part time. Some inputs directly from Yaro is given below:

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling. Read more

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Free eBooks on Blogging

Its just wonderful when successful bloggers share their secrets and that too for free. This post has some links to free eBooks that talks about the success stories of a few bloggers.

How to build a sucessful blog brand
This 15-page eBook from Shane Navratil of Zoomstart covers the importance of branding and how it can make or break your business/blog.

Make Money Online with John Chow
John Chow makes loads of money every month from his blog. He is one of the most successful bloggers around. He has consolidated some of his hit posts into a free 59-page eBook for the benefit of all.

Blog Profits BluePrint
Another great eBook for all from Yaro Starak. Its got 50+ pages on how to build a blog and monetize it.

Aaron Wall’s SEO Book
Even though this is not available for free, the money spent is well worth it. I’ve personally bought a copy of the eBook and haven’t regretted it a bit.

Do you know of any other good eBooks on blogging which are freely available? Do share the links.

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A large collection of WordPress Themes

To be able to make money online, you need to have a good looking website. If its too cluttered, visitors could be turned off, and even if you have good content, the traffic just won’t be there.

In this post I’ve tried to put together a list of Wonderful WordPress Themes for all of you to use. There have been many posts written on this topic on other sites, so I’ll rather just link to the existing posts out there which have good themes covered. This list is quite exhaustive and should give you a good choice of themes to choose from for your blogs. Read more

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Speed Linking: 29-May-07

Some great links to share today:

• Did you know there is a Domain Mogul who owns over 300,000 domains and makes over $70million from these domains annually. Its like one guy owns the Internet. This guys know how to make money online!
• FuzzyFuture has an interesting post on how to reach the front page of Digg. Ensure your servers can handle the load before you attempt this! ;-)
• Want to be an A-List Blogger? Read this article to understand how Google will treat you.
• If you’re using Wordpress.com and want your blogs to use the Google Webmaster Tools, this post will teach you a trick on how to get your blog verified at the Google Webmaster Tools website.

Enjoy!

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Get great discounts at CouponChief

If you are into buying products online, then look no further than CouponChief for some great deals on a variety of products.

CouponChief provides you with coupon codes and online shopping discounts. This makes it a good site to visit before you make an online purchase decision.

What I liked a lot was that they provide RSS feeds. This makes it very convenient to get real-time updates from CouponChief on any great deals.

If you’re wondering why I’m writing about CouponChief on a site on how to make money online — Well, you do “make money” if you save money and that is all what this is about.

I look thru the site for some good deals. I’ve always loved shopping at BestBuy and you can find some great BestBuy coupons on notebooks.

Visit the CouponChief website for great coupons on other products as well.

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Google Trends: A bloggers delight

Google recently launched Google Trends, which enables all of us to compare the world’s interest in our favourite topics. We can enter upto five topics and see how often these have been searched on Google. The frequency of occurence of these topics in Google News is shown as well; and not to forget the geographic regions from where these topics are being searched.

This is a dream come true for all bloggers since they can search for topics in their niche to get a better understanding of what people across the world are looking for. This can help all of us tailor blogs in our own niche better. Cheers to Google!As an example, given below is the trend for the term “Make Money Online“. Its quite interesting to note the search volume of this term over the years!! I tried to narrow down the search for this term for those coming out of India. Not surprisingly, Google threw up its arms mentioning there are not too many searches for this term for India. I guess, I am one of the very few! ;-)

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Text messages on your phone: A new medium for making money

A company in India called mGinger has launched an interesting new product in the market. Those staying in India can signup for an account with them to receive text advertisements on their mobile phone with a maximum limit of 10 ads per day. For each ad, they pay 20 paise.

This can nicely add up to an amount that could be sufficient to pay your monthly mobile phone bill.

If you don’t find it inconvenient to receive these text advertisements, do go ahead to their website and signup for this service. [This is only available in India currently]

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ClickHeat: Clicks Heatmap for your site

Many of you might have heard of the popular CrazyEgg software application that provides visual heatmaps of clicks on an HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. These tools help you better understand your visitors and how to organize your page content.

For those who cannot afford to purchase CrazyEgg, worry not!! ClickHeat is an open source software that does exactly the same thing.

I have this installed on OnlinePresence presently for tracking the the regions where all of you are clicking on this site! :-)

If possible, do try to have this software installed for your blogs to get a better understanding of how your blogs are being used.

Popularity: 12% [?]

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