Favorite Articles, Follow-up Regarding Affiliates

Here are some of my favorite articles for today about ideas to help me with my blogging.

A No Click Necessary Alternative to Adsense
"And because it costs you absolutely nothing to sign up and benefit from the system, Pay Per Play gets our 5 star recommendation this time around."

Google Profiles
"They're coming and it will be difficult to get away without having one. Google Profiles will be integrated in most Google services so you have a coherent identity and a simple way to manage your contacts."

Now, I'm not having any luck with any of the four affiliate programs that I have attempted to sign up for thus far. They all want me to have my own domain and webpage and of course, they are willing to take care of it for a fee. All of these were affiliates that did not say that upfront in their information. I'll keep trying.

I think I'm burning myself out, trying to network like crazy. It all goes back again to managing that time. I just need to set better boundaries for myself.

Regarding affiliates...
The dish affiliate that I had ads on my site with for a few days would not let me log in after a few days and quite a few hits. They only left me a message on my gmail account with a link to their web page development department. Again, they did not have that information on their site when I first signed up. You just gotta love resources that seem to be a bit misleading, eh?...not!

I want to keep blogger as long as I can, however, I see that I may have to create my own pages sooner than I thought if I wish to make any money blogging.

Have a good Saturday Night.

Affiliate Directories & Interesting Articles

Well, it seems that my networking is taking much of my time these days. The more contacts I have and the more time I spend on my blog articles, the more I find that I spend on networking.

Working on my latest articles from my two blogs that I've submitted to my networking sites, I find that I am making great contacts by following-up with people (who have left their information, instead of anonymous) who have left comments.

Regardless of the comment, unless there was something extremely offensive involved, I give a simple thank you and try to look at their interests or submitted articles to see if I may add them to one of my networks to help them out. I like this more personal contact and it seems to be creating some great relationships where I have obtained regular subscribers and have subscribed to some of their blogs.

With networking, there always needs to be give and take. If you expect it all to come your direction without giving any back, expect to fail.

Additionally, I was wondering if any of you have tried Amazon.com and their "Partners" affiliate program? I have been giving it a good long try on both my sites and seem to be having zero success. Over twenty-thousand impressions on one of ad widgets, and thousands on others, but no orders, no referral fees paid, etc. I was looking over their discussion board and others seem to be complaining about the same thing, with others commenting that Amazon is just using bloggers to gather their customers for them without paying them.

I don't know if that is true. However, I am looking into other programs to try. I have found two great directories for affiliate-type companies. Be careful, however, because they will seem to be free and then you will be required to pay them to build a web-page and give you a domain, or you'll be required to purchase their tracking/reporting software, etc. Just a word of caution because it seems that every Tom-Dick-and-Harry want to offer an affiliate program.

Here are the two directories. I can't say much about them yet, since I am still exploring them myself. I will give my results once I've played around with it a bit.

Affiliate Scout

Commission Junction


Here are some interesting articles that I found that I thought I'd share regarding blogging, technology, etc. as it is important to always stay on top of the latest news if you want your blog to succeed...which you do, or you wouldn't be putting in the work in the first place.

The Next Social Network: WordPress
"Could open-source blogging platform WordPress serve as your next social networking profile? Chris Messina, co-founder of Citizen Agency, thinks so. He’s started a project called DiSo, for distributed social networking, that aims to “build a social network with its skin inside out.” DiSo will first look to WordPress as its foundation."

SEO Spammers: Leave Social Media Sites Alone!
"They always submit. They never vote/Digg/upmod anyone else’s submissions. Their submissions get 1 or fewer votes (unless they are a MASS - a Multi-Account-SEO-Spammer, in which case they will have more than one, but it will always be the same amount and always voted by the same “people”)."

Increase Earnings By Upto 30% With Google Coop & Adsense
"Here is a way that would allow you to earn higher and even turn a portion of first time visitors who come from search engine and after reading the content just close your site up."

I hope, as always, that this information is helpful and contributes to your blog's success.

Happy Blogging.

Opportunity Knocks

Here are some interesting opportunities for anyone trying to make money on their sites.

"What is Pay per Play?
PPP is a brief audio advertisement that is purchased by major branding and direct response content advertisers on a "per play" basis. A website owner places the PPP code on any web page where it is appropriate for a visitor to hear audio advertisements and is paid on a per play basis.

There are 2 ways you can get involved and earn:

By placing the PPP code on individual pages of your website you will now share in revenue that was formerly distributed to major television networks across the world.

By referring other website owners to place the PPP code on their website(s) you will earn a percentage of everything they earn on a residual basis.

This is a limited opportunity. Once we create our core marketing group then nobody else will be able to market this opportunity to other webmasters and earn off of their effort. This is a time sensitive offer and it costs nothing to get involved."
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Pick Bee
"...free icons with quality is sometimes hard to find. Look no more, because now we’ve selected free, quality and well designed icons that scattered on the net especially for you."

"Icon is one of important visual element for web design or application. Appealing icon can easily draw your user attention and telling message in more effective way, therefore by using them properly you can help your user quickly find information that they are looking for. A well designed icons and proper use of them surely will help increasing your website or application value which lead to increase in profits for your product and business."
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Plug-N-Profit Site
PlugNProfit
a site that is somewhat misleading, seeming that you can choose affiliate options that are free or minimal cost, however, once you get down to the bottom of the form, etc., you find that you must sign up to have them create your webpage and manage it at a cost.


Hope you enjoy these options for opportunities.