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Smorty, a paid to write review site, has come up with the In-Text advertising method. The site which is well famous for it paid to write reviews opportunities has started the In-Text advertising which Kontera is pretty famous for (made famous by John Chow actually!).
What Is In-Text Ads?
In-Text Ads is something that appears like a normal link but with a double underline. It will show a popup advertising when the mouse is placed on the link. It looks more like a normal link that readers, sometimes, get confused and click it unknowingly and gets redirected to a new link.
When You Get Paid?
You don’t get paid when someone places their mouse over the link or you don’t get paid for every impression on your blog. You get paid only when the ads are clicked. The difference between Kontera and Smorty is that smorty will be showing products that are available in Ebay, Amazon and such sites in the popup box.
Surely something for bloggers who are trying to make money online. Will you be trying Smorty’s In-Text advertising or mini store (as they call it) method? Please share your views in the comments.
TNX.net is a site which allows bloggers/webmasters to earn money and helps advertisers to place their site in front of millions of internet users for a little price. While there are many other services like TNX, what I liked about this service is that bloggers can place links in any page of their blog. They can place it in homepage and also in the separate blog posts.
TNX is a very different and unique system. You, as a blogger, will earn points when you sell a link in your blog. You can use the points to pay for advertising your website and getting good SE results. You can also use the points to earn money by selling it to TNX itself. You will earn $0.78/1000 points (at the time of writing). The minimum payout is only $5 which you can easily reach. You will need around 6410 points to reach the minimum payout.
What Advantages Does Bloggers Get?
Bloggers can place links of advertisers in each and every page of their blog or even on selective pages. Bloggers also get the rights to choose which sites should be advertised in their blog and which ones should not, so that they can stay away from linking to illegal or irrelevant sites. Bloggers can also use the affiliate program of TNX to earn money. When you refer someone to TNX.net, you get 13.3% (as long as your account is active) of all TNX-points that are generated by their websites. In addition, you will receive 5% of all payments, made by referred advertiser (this option will work after paypal payments will be automated).
What Advantages Does Advertisers Get?
Advertisers can get thousands of backlinks for a less price. Advertisers can get backlinks on many different keywords easily. There is a post in the DP forum on how to #1 in Google for highly competitive terms which is posted by TNX. Advertisers also get a free tool which will help them to make paid links more natural.
TNX are also offering free points for those who join their system. You can view about it here.
TNX has many positive reviews and a few negative reviews when you search for it in Google. So I thought I should give it a try in my other blogs and maybe in this blog too.
Scratchback is a new site started by Jim Kukral. It is a site which can be used to sell links. Signing up for Scratchback is free. Before that, I have decided to try this site in my blog and to get a link in the sidebar which will be displayed in all the pages, you have to spend as little as $10 and your site/blog will be displayed for 30 days. I have 5 spots in total and one is already sold. So there are 4 places remaining and you can get one easily by just clicking the Get In My Spots. Hurry and you can get one easily.
About ScratchBack:
You can display the widget in your sidebar using a code and you can choose how many spots to have in your blog. I have chosen 5 so that the links will get maximum exposure. Also I have placed in a way that, one need not scroll to see the links. Scratchback is at its beta and hence you will get 90% amount of what you earn. It is to be noted that, Text Link Ads cuts off 50% of what you earn.
The Options Available:
Scratchback offers various options like auto-bump. You can choose the number of days every link should stay in the blog and also the rates. The payment is very easy for advertisers. Advertisers have to enter only the keyword, URL and the amount. Once you click on buy now, you can easily pay it in few steps.
Register in Scratchback and earn 90% amount what you earn.
I have earned $9 (90% of $10) and this is most probably the easiest money I have earned. Hurry and you can get a link in this blog for as less as $10 per month. Good luck to you with the site.
As I said before, in this blog, I’ll be trying out various money making methods. First I tried Shopping Ads and I will blog about its performance in a couple of days. Now I have decided to give Bidvertiser a try. I already had an account with Bidvertiser and now I’m trying it on Blogging Tune.
Bidvertiser is a PPC program (Pay Per Click). It works just like all the other PPC programs. You can display ads in your blog/website and get paid per click on the ad. The cost per click varies with the niche. I have seen $0.75 for some ads and I have also seen $0.05 per click. But the blogs about making money online need not worry because the cost per click for this niche is good though not the best.
What I like About Bidvertiser:
Bidvertiser has a very less payout of $10 if you choose paypal and $50 if you choose check/cheque. For bloggers who have less traffic and think reaching the payout using AdSense is very tough and will take many months, then Bidvertiser is for you. If you have a traffic of 200 page views a day, then you can easily reach $10 with few days or probably a month. But I cannot give any guarantee on that. It depends on the was you choose ads and place it.
What I don’t Like About Bidvertiser:
They don’t have as many advertisers as Google AdSense but still they can earn you. Their Cost Per Click is sometimes less than AdSense. At the start of registering your blog, you need to select a category for your blog. Once you select it, you cannot change. You have to contact them to change and the process is long. I feel they don’t have many ads for few niches. But as I said, if you blog is about making money online, then you can earn easily.
So I’ll be trying various ad types and placements for the next 15 days. I hope it will perform well and hope to reach the payout in the 15 days time. If you want to try out Bidvertiser, you can join from here.
Before talking anything about Shopping Ads, I would like to tell that this is not a sponsored review but it is just an opportunity to make money online. Shopping Ads is a site which is from the same company that owns Auction Ads. With many people making no money out of Auction Ads, they have introduced this money making opportunity called Shopping Ads. Continue Reading ->
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