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 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.

Join TNX now.

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.

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.

I got a mail from Patrick about Shopping Ads with the invite. The login requires the same User ID and Password that you had used for logging into Auction Ads. If you are not already a member Auction Ads, then you can join Shopping Ads from here(Affiliate Link).

What makes Shopping Ads different from Auction Ads?

The main difference is that Auction Ads is CPA(Cost Per Action) but Shopping Ads is based on CPC(Cost Per Click). So that means more earnings with Shopping Ads. It used to be very tough making money with Auction Ads but I hope Shopping Ads will be an easy money-maker.

Their Affiliate Program

Your referrals will be tracked by cookies. You will earn 5% of the income generated by your referral. You can refer people by using the referral link. Also those who join Shopping Ads by clicking the Ads by shopping ads link in your ad becomes your affiliate.

Payment

Payment is through Paypal and you get paid on first day of the month.  The minimum earnings you should have for withdrawing money is $50.

The question that you have in your mind

Can I use Shopping Ads even if there is Google AdSense in my site already?

The answer is Yes! you can use Shopping Ads on a site which has AdSense. According to their F.A.Q. page, “ShoppingAds is not a contextually based ad product and is compatible with all other ad systems.”

I have just installed the code in my blog and you will be able to see a 125X125 ad in the sponsors column. I will make a post on how it worked for me in the coming days. If you want to try Shopping Ads, you can join from here.

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When asked any one way of earning money, the idea of doing paid reviews strikes my mind(not first though). Paid reviews are the easy way to make money and is also one of the mostly used ways to earn money. Paid reviews are not very easy to get directly if you are having a less popular blog. But this doesn’t mean that you can never do paid reviews. There are websites like Payperpost, SponsoredReviews, Smorty and many more which makes this process easy acting as a mediator.

Though these websites are in existence for a pretty long time, there never used to be so much opportunities as it is there now. Everyday when I check mail, I get a message from Smorty or SponsoredReviews stating the new available reviews. I haven’t tried one yet. In fact I’m yet to join those sites with this blog(I’m a member with my previous blog).

Sponsored Reviews:

This website has started to send me mail about the new opportunities available everyday. I had the notification option checked before also but never got so many mails. Now there is at least one mail from them everyday. Though this sounds really good and brings a feeling that one can earn a lot of money, it really isn’t so. You can bid for the opportunities, but the chances of your bid getting approved is very low.

How To Get More Opportunities With Sponsored Reviews At This Time?

1. Lower your amount per post.
2. Write good reviews and by this I mean “write true reviews”.
3. Give a good intro about your blog to the advertisers using the About Your Blog option.
4. Try mailing the advertisers, your previous reviews.

Smorty:

Smorty makes it really easy for you to earn if you have your eyes open all the time at your mail box. They mail you the opportunities available and the number of posts remaining which payperpost had in its admin area. If you are quick, you can grab the opportunity. There isn’t any thing that you can do to get more reviews. You can just try being alert all the time.

So there are really so many offers available in the “Paid To Write Reviews” market, but the thing is that are you really making any money? Are getting anything out of it?
And should I also grab few opportunities which are in subject to this blog’s niche? I welcome you to share your thoughts in the comments.

First an Affiliate program is one which will make you money by means of commission when you sell a product. There are many individual affiliate programs in the net. But choosing the best is really tough. The program that makes me hundreds of dollars can be failure for you and also the vice versa. So choose the best affiliate program, the one that suits your blog and your audience.

I have been testing out affiliate programs in the recent days and also I have been noticing the affiliate banners in many blogs. After seeing all those and with my own experience, I have listed the 3 Best Affiliate Programs Of August. These affiliate programs suit the blogs that focus on blogging, making money online, SEO and other related stuff.

3. Text Link Ads:

Text Link Ads is a site that allow advertisers to buy links and bloggers to sell links. They have a good referral program. If you refer an approved publisher or an approved advertiser, then you will be credited with $25. You might see 50 clicks on your referral button, but not all of them become your referral. Few might have joined but they may not have got approved for the publisher program. There is also a case where the publish might not have installed the script for at least 7 days. If you can get 4 referrals, then you earn $100. Though this program has been in existence for a long time, bloggers are starting to use this more very recently. You may want to read about ‘Earning With Text Link Ads Made Easy‘.

2. SEO Book Affiliate:

SEO Book is written by SEO Master Aaron Wall. The book is about how to increase website traffic with easy steps. If you search for ’seo book’ in Google and Yahoo, this is displayed as the first result. Aaron Wall will let you know the secret if you buy the book and he will also teach how you can rank well in search engines. Now coming to the affiliate program. You can join as an affiliate in SEO Book for free. The book costs $79 and you will get $25 for every sale. There is more about their affiliate program here.

1. Blog Mastermind Affiliate:

Blog Mastermind is a program conducted by Yaro Starak. He earns a stable income of $5000+ per month fro his blogs. This program has got many users and is still increasing. Yaro will teach you how to earn $1000+ per month from blogging. Now coming to the affiliate program,it is free to join the Blog Mastermind affiliate program. The Blog Mastermind program membership is $77 per month(Note: This is not the cost for affiate program. Affiliate Program is free). If you refer a person to the blog mastermind program you will earn $20. This won’t stop here. You will earn $20 as long as the person is a member in the program. So if you can refer a person to Blog Mastermind, then you will earn $20 every month(till he/she stays in the program) without referring any more people. This is the main reason why I have listed Blog Mastermind in the first place. You can also see my post on ‘Blog Mastermind And Thirty Day Challenge- What Are They About?‘

Whatever I have rated here is only my opinion. For few SEO Book would have worked well and for few Text Link Ads would have worked well. As I said, the affiliate programs work differently for different blogs. Do you promote any affiliate products? Which worked for you the most? Share with me.

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My friend Benedict of TechCorner was happy to help me. I added few codes and the ads that were displayed in that post had high relevance. Today I saw my AdSense earnings two times more. The relevancy of ads is very important if you want to earn a better income from AdSense.

Here’s what you can do to get more relevant Ads. First backup your blog and take all safety measures before doing any changes. Now, go to sidebar.php file and enter the following code:

<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>

your existing code in the .php file

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

This will ignore the words in the Sidebar and will get you ads based on your content. Here’s an easy way to do section targeting. Your codes should look like this:(according to Google)

<html><head><title>Section targeting</title></head>

<body>
<!– google_ad_section_start –>

This is the text of your webpage. Most of your content resides here.

<!– google_ad_section_end –>
</body>
</html>

Though this is old news to few bloggers, there are still many who don’t(Till yesterday I didn’t know). You can also use the Google’s AdSense Help Center Solution. If you have not applied for AdSense, then I recommend you to Apply now. It is one of the best money makers for bloggers.

Text Link Ads is the premier targeted traffic and link popularity ad firm.

You can be an advertiser and buy quality links or be a publisher and sell links. If you have a blog with good traffic and a much better PR, then you are going to earn without any guide. Advertisers are willing to get a link on your blog. But what if your blog does not get accepted? You can still earn money.

They have an affiliate program which many already know. The affiliate program will look simple but it is not as simple as it sounds. All you need to do to earn money with their affiliate program is to refer a Publisher. The publisher will be counted as your referral only after their blog gets accepted and they run the code for seven days. You can also refer advertisers. When the referred advertiser buys an advertising, then he/she will be considered as your referral. I have tried various placements of Text Link Ads. Most of the times you get clicks on the referral link but not everyone becomes your approved referral. In fact, getting an approved referral is very hard. And once you get an approved referral, you will be paid $25. We have to place these at the right positions and at right posts so that you won’t disturb your regular readers with the banners. Here is an easy way to get the best out Text Link Ads affiliate program.

1. Write a top notch content. Most of the Top notch contents will go hot in any one of the social bookmarking site or even more than one. You might even get linked by bloggers with huge regular readers(like Darren).
2. At these times, you get very huge traffic. At the end of your top notch post, put a small banner or button of the Text Link Ads referral(Thanks Shankar). I normally recommend you to add a referral for both advertisers and publishers.
3. You will surely get many clicks on the referral. What is the probability of one in 50 clicks become an approved referral. It averages $0.50 per click which is not bad at all. This tip really works well and I have tried this.

Try these and just wait for the result to show up. It takes time to show people as your approved referrals. Hope this tip was useful for you.