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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.

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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.

1. Sony PlayStation Move | Games and Accessories – All about the upcoming Move motion detecting game system.  I’m very happy with this lens, as I’ve worked very hard on it.
2. The Best Wii Fit Games
3. Silly Bandz
4. A Review of the Top Gaming Mice
5. Neighborhood Watch – This is raising money for the Inner City Scholarship Fund
6. Winter Emergency Car Kits

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.

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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:

• Zazzle
• Cafe Press
• Brighthub
• Squidoo (via affiliate modules/links)
• Hubpages

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I have to say that Squidoo has proven to be the most enjoyable, profitable, and enjoyable (emphasis on enjoyable!) internet venture to date.  There’s virtually no commitment, unlike running your own ecommerce site or moderating a forum, and you get to take advantage of a huge list of excellent prebuilt tools that have been created by Squidoo.

An offer to you:

If you have not yet signed up for Squidoo, I will even make an offer to mentor you, by giving tips and explaining things about Squidoo. All I ask is that you do your best, be fairly patient, and sign up via my referral link (click HERE).

My Experience:

Currently, I have 2 lenses within the top 100, out of a total of over 700,000 lenses in existance.  I’d say I’ve learned a thing or two by now.

In just the past few months of being an active member I consistantly make over $100 per month in Squidoo payments, not including affiliate royalties from Amazon, AllPosters, and others. It will only grow from there!

The Benefits:

There are so many ways to make money within Squidoo, it’s amazing.  The nice thing is that you don’t have to sign up for any other affiliates, if you don’t want to.  You can simply sign up for Squidoo and you will get a portion of the revenue.

If you don’t care to make money for yourself, you can also have your earnings automatically submitted to various charities too.

One of the benefits is the ability to focus on SEO down to the page level, unlike being concerned with entire sites. This really helps in understanding (better) the effects on on-page SEO and the value of backlinks and the internal linking structure.

The other is more from an affiliate point of view. you get to experiment with a multitude of different affiliate programs, most of them without signing up for anything. Just use Squidoo’s own affiliate modules and reap the rewards.

And last, but not least, you get to make lenses about whatever you feel like making.  I look at many of the topics of my lenses as doing a “research paper”, in that I may not be an expert on the subject, but have a curiousity about it.  I then research it and make an informative lens on the subject.  By the time I’m done, I am quite familiar.  All in all, it’s really fun!

I should also point out that the Squidoo community is very supportive and fun.  It’s one of the best experiences you could have online.

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TagFoot is a fantastic new social bookmarking site that is currently in private beta.  However, you can sign up by clicking here.

TagFoot is similar to Del.icio.us, Digg, and  Squidoo, but has it’s own unique features. It is designed in the smooth and easy to use Web 2.0 format.  Currently, visiting the main page will only bring you to the video, but you can still sign up and take part.  Once the site is fully operational (out of beta mode), then the search engines will crawl and rank the pages.

The supports staff are super friendly and very rapid to work on issues or ideas that the users think up.

Another nifty fact is that they have a 50% Adsense Revenue sharing program. The links are also dofollow, so you not only get traffic from your friends, but get a good backlink.

• Import your existing IE and/or Firefox bookmarks (you can import all as private and change later)
• easily manage and access all of your bookmarks from any computer
• quickly share anything you find on the web with your friends
• share what you want, when you want, with whom you want
• tag all of your imported bookmarks so they are more easily found
• If you’re using Firefox, you can drag and drop links onto your sidefoot – onto a specific tag or section.
• tag your friends and you can send a message and/or share with that tag – everyone you tagged will get your message as opposed to you having to remember everyone’s member name. I use this when I post the Adsense articles – I share with “super users.”
• go to Amazon, find something you like and add it to your tagfoot wishlist. Watch as tagfoot scrapes the page and grabs all of the possible prices for you.
• Play with privacy settings. Add something to your wishlist that you want to buy for a friend, tag it with your friends name, and set it to private. You just created a private shopping list for that friend!
• It’s 100% free!

TagFoot Signup

This is the time to sign up so you can give them your feedback on what you would like to see!

Update: Tagfoot is now adding, not only Adsense revenue sharing, but also has plans for adding other ways of making money (along with being a part of a fun and growing community).  They are asking the members for input right now on other ways, such as Ebay, Amazon, Cafe Press and many more.

Read this:

Additional revenue sharing
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
So, we’ve got our Google Adsense sharing program setup and we’re thrilled so many have jumped on board. We’re now looking forward to getting tagfoot out into the wild so we can start making you guys (and us too) some real money. Until then, it’s going to continue to be pennies no doubt.

First, we need to quiet down the “messages overload” noise we spoke about last week – and we’re on that hard core right now. While we’re banging away on that, there are a couple of other things we can get into regarding moving to a public beta.

One of the most important, is making money.

Revenue sharing
We’ve got a ton of options beyond Adsense and we’re hoping some of you pros will help us whittle it down a bit. Here are a couple of ideas we’re tossing around that we think have the most potential – both keeping in mind the same type of impression based sharing we’re currently doing with Adsense.

1. Amazon
2. iTunes

Amazon
Your personal tagfoot wishlist can end up being a virtual treasure trove in more ways than you think. Not just a place for your friends to find stuff for you on your birthday, your wishlist can make you money all year round by driving traffic from your blogs, MySpace, Facebook etc.

It’s an easy setup. Simply pop in your Amazon affiliate ID, just as you did with your Adsense ID, and we’ll attach it to everything in your wishlist. Next, plug your tagfoot wishlist RSS feed into your personal blog, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and you’re done.

iTunes
The tubefoot is being used to play free music all day long right now by quite a few. We’re guessing it’s going to get hit pretty hard once word gets out. We can set up the tubefoot with a “purchase” link for each track – linking directly to iTunes.

Same drill – plug in your iTunes affiliate ID, we attach it to the tracks, members copy your tracks and potentially buy’em.

Let’s do this
We’ve got a couple of other ideas we’re throwing around but, we thought it best to hand it off to you guys at this point. We’d like to get most of this stuff solidified over the next couple of weeks so we have a chance at generating some holiday revenue for every one – let’s act quick.

1. What are your thoughts regarding the methods above?
2. What other options would you like to see us consider?

No holds barred.

So, if you want to be in on the discussion, NOW is the time to do it!  Sign up and make your ideas heard.

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I am now experimenting with making Squidoo lenses based upon lyrics of songs.  There are a number of benefits to their simplicity, including:

• The potential that you could rank higher is the way in which your lens is constructed and the fact that you could have more related content, thereby probably ranking higher in the SERPs than a competing page.
• You can add easily add the song’s Youtube videos and other content that is not included on other lyrics sites.
• Another benefit includes your including Amazon links to the album or MP3 single.

First, take a look at How To Make A Lyrics Lens.  He did a GREAT job describing how you can make one and the benefits of it.

My modifications include:

• Using the Amazon Spotlight module for the album
• Using the Amazon module for the singles (mp3 singles of just the one song)
• Adding a Blackbox module at the bottom, pointing to other related lenses
• Lensroll your related lenses together
• Adding a Flickr module and set it to a slide show (for the artist or band)

I just started and am already seeing good traffic.

After you’ve got your lenses out of WiP status (work in progress) add them to the following groups.

Lyrics Headquarters – add your lyrics lenses to groups, including this one

Here’s some of my current lyrics lenses:

Beck – Replica

Beck – Modern Guilt

Beck – Volcano

Beck – Orphan

Portishead – Hunter

Portishead – Silence

Constantines – Our Age

Constantines – Hard Feelings

Constantines – Trans Canada

Usher – Moving Mountains

Fleet Foxes – Your Protector

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Plus you get a 25 to 30% commission!

First of all, many webmasters are often looking for ways to legally use images for their sites. The beauty of this is that you can actually make money with those images!

In addition to your own hosted website, you can use these images on the free Blogger, WordPress, Squidoo, and Hub Pages accounts. *Squidoo and Hubpages are revenue sharing too!

If you add that all up, you can have quite a package for making some extra money to supplement your income.

Please select this link to sign up: All Posters

Reasons to join and use All Posters:

• High commission rates: 25-30%
• Large inventory: 400,000 of posters, prints and photos
• International program: Sites in six languages
• Affiliate banners and tools in English, French and German

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