This handy tool does actually work to add your domain to about 30+ sites, many of which are stat and information sites. It does save a lot of time for those that have just built a new website.
And here is another tool for adding new domains to commonly used or forgotten sites.
Reading about home prices potentially not recovering for decades to come and millions of job losses can be downright depressing, if not scary. Now, more than ever, we must look for other ways to supplement our dwindling income. There are legitimate ways to earn extra income via affiliate links, referrals, and advertising. Not only that, but you can earn extra money just by having a program running in the background on your computer. If that’s not enough you can also make money by providing a service via the internet.
These are my favorites:
Squidoo – Squidoo has a fantastic platform and is very easy to use. It does pay 2 months behind, but once you get going it is steady income, even if you take a break for a while. Join SquidU and ask questions, share your latest pages (lenses) and ask for critiques and suggestions. If you are a WAHM (Work At Home Mom) then you are especially well off. Join Rocket Moms for an already built exclusive community of friends.
HubPages – HubPages is easy to use and has a different payment scheme than Squidoo, but according to several people I know, you can earn much more than on Squidoo. Many of us are active on both.
Associated Content - It’s pretty simple, you create the content, which are typically short articles, and Associated Content automatically distributes it to their huge list of topic-related Publishers. Write about your favorite sponge for cleaning and it will be published on someone’s kitchen website. Nifty! You earn money based upon how many visitors (hits) it received. You could also link back to other related pages (such as your Squidoo or HubPages). It’s win win!
Blogger – Sign up for Amazon Affiliates and you can easily display Amazon product links via their built-in tools. You can also link to your other sites.
You will find that the months leading up to and including December are the most lucrative, being that it is Christmas shopping season. All of the above sites pay into your PayPal.com account. Then you can set PayPal up to transfer to your real bank account down the road. It took a few months of part time work and I was earning a few hundred dollars per month. My results are probably typical for an active member of these sites. Some people earn much, much more than me.
The key is to become part of the affiliate community by taking part in forums, social networking sites, and within the above sites, so that your friends will visit and hopefully bump up your pages or whatever. For example, if you like to be on Facebook, look for and add Squidoo friends. If you are a person that likes forums, then join SquidU (Squidoo), HubPages Forum, and others. You will find very active members and probably become good internet friends with a few dozen people. A lot of these folks are even meeting via Meetup.com and becoming “real life friends”, after all it’s always nice to make a new friend or a dozen.
I’ve made a few new Squidoo lenses that I’d like to share. Please take a look, stop by, and leave a comment, if you like.
Notice the variety of topics? Yes, I’m trying to spread my wings and see how the visitor rate and click-throughs differ. Also, I used different inline CSS to enhance them with borders, different colors, and other webpage spice.
I’m going to develop and try to review a list of non-Adsense revenue sharing sites. What I intend to mention would be sites that primarily provide revenue sharing opportunities, but do so via other sources, such as Amazon, Zazzle, and others as a way to make extra money online.
If you have suggestions, please leave a comment below and I will add them.
Already to be considered:
Looking for a fun way to find others with similar interests on Twitter? You should check out Twiends, built by Dave Sumter of Webcandy fame. He developed Twiends as a great way to build your Twitter community. As he says, they “focus on making the introduction, and you focus on deciding who you want to be friends with in the long run. You get to choose who you friend and they get to do the same. In saying that though, you will find that a lot people will follow you because you are on [Twiends]“.
So, if you are looking for more potential followers, sign up for Twiends!
There are quite a number of traffic exchange sites, but I am going to review three of the top ones.
The first one is TrafficG. It is not the largest or most popular, but the layout is immediately easy to understand. Unlike so many sites out there this one does not try to confuse you into clicking on something else.
The main page shows you your current credits (how many you have earned), the sites in which the credits can be distributed, and the Start Surfing button.
The Start Surfing is also available on the left side of the screen, along the menu. Each page you visit uses a Captcha in the upper left corner, in order to deter automation. You simply click on one of the three Captcha choices that you see. Currently it is set to 20 seconds minimum between sites.
Features include:
EasyHits4U is the most popular traffic exchange around. It has existed since 2003. The layout is pretty easy to follow, with a menu bar at the top of the site.
Features include:
StartXchange looks like it will catch up to others because of the founder very aggressively comping up with creative ways of gaining visitors and members. He also hosts a very popular traffic exchange directory, which certainly helps. It is the oldest, having been created in 2001. Many of the traffic exchange sites out there are using a script written by the founder, Tim Linden. He created the first version of StartXchange when he was 15 years old. If you’re looking for an innovative traffic exchange then this is it. They set the standard.
Features include:
There are two great ways to build links while providing comments on blogs. One is called CommentLuv and the other is Top Commenter. As you will notice, I have added both to my blog to encourage thoughtful blog posts.
CommentLuv, which is a WordPress and Drupal plugin that allows you to comment and then have your most recent blog post or RSS feed post to be included at the bottom of your comment. To have this work, just type in your URL into the appropriate URL or URI field. Once the comment is accepted then you would see a link.
This works very well for any web page, blog, and other sites, such as Squidoo.
The other is a Widget for WordPress blogs that is called Top Commenter. It allows the blogger to display the most prolific commenters on the blog, over a period of time, often a month. In the case of my blog, Top Commenter is only on the front page, so the link value is not diluted throughout the site.
Both can be set by the blogger to be dofollow (meaning your link will include the linkjuice from the search engines), which includes this blog as well.
There are various linkbuilding programs out there, free and otherwise:
In addition there are great online search tools and listings:
The important thing here is to not abuse these sites. Spamming hurts everyone and if a blogger finds too many spammers coming from a certain region of the world easily can block an entire IP range. Also, both of these widgets/plugins allow the blogger to block certain people automatically.
In addition, the spam-blocking plugging known as Akismet and the process of manually authorizing each blog post will eliminate any post deemed as spam. The important part when posting on blogs using either or both is realizing that its simply not worth taking the time to spam, as your comments will assuredly not be allowed.