I can’t remember when and where I first saw it but when I saw it being offered at AdToll I just immediately signed up. Oh, I am talking about “Peel Away Ads“. I went to check out AdToll today and after the homepage loaded I saw this tear like thing located at the top right corner of the site with the words “Special Offer”. So, I moused over and it opened up or should I say, it peeled away. Okay, so I thought that was very cool and, out of curiousity and interest, decided to just sign-up with them but I did browse the site more after signing up. [...continue reading Can You Peel It?]

As a freelance web designer, I am always online and I am always searching for things that will help me with my work. In fact, I don’t remember a time or a day that I didn’t use a search engine, except maybe when I’m not online. LOL! Searching is almost like second nature to me. If I have a question about something then I’ll search for it. If I need to download a program but could only remember the name then I’ll search for it. It’s already part of my internet life and I think many of you will agree with me. [...continue reading Make Money From Searching The Internet]

I’ve heard about PayPerPlay a few weeks back but I only paid attention to it a week ago where I signed up and placed the code at SanPabloCity.net. For those who might not heard about PayPerPlay, it is a way to monetize your site by playing 5 second audio ads on your site. Well, I haven’t heard any audio ads play at SanPabloCity.net but I know they are playing because I’ve earned a few pennies from those ads. [...continue reading Let’s Hear It!]

I was doing my not so regular rounds of dropping Entrecards when I saw in one of the blogs a banner saying something like “This is a paid response. Click it to view the questions and answers.” The word “paid response” got my attention and since I am always looking for ways to monetize my blogs I clicked on it. The banner took me to dNeero. Well, I’m guilty of not viewing the questions and answers for that particular banner because when I got there I immediately clicked on that big green button with the word Blogger on it. When the page loaded, I then visited the Blogger FAQ page. After going through the FAQs and finding that there were no country restrictions or any other restrictions that would disqualify me to join, I signed up.

Signing-up with dNeero is very easy. It’s just your typical sign-up form which will ask for your name, e-mail, password, the are you human test and agreeing to their terms. After signing-up, you will then be taken to a page where you’ll need to answer some pretty basic questions like gender, marital status, location, etc. Questions that, I guess, will help them in assigning to you surveys that matches your profile. Once completed, you are now ready to take your first survey. The result of my first survey can be viewed by hitting the banner below.

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I’ve known about these paid to click/read/surf programs offered by various websites but I’ve never really taken the time to look into them deeper. Today, I visited Bux.to to see how it works and how much I’ll earn by clicking and viewing ads but fortunately, I don’t have to go far with Bux.to because a sample earnings is listed on the main page and it was like $0.01 per click. Okay, that’s not a lot of money and I felt that it will take me forever to get to $100. So, do this programs really work? Are they really profitable? Will I earn money from it?
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Looking for ways to monetize my blogs, I joined many money making and affiliate programs like WidgetBucks. WidgetBucks looks very promising and as a bonus, new members are awarded with $25 for signing up. Nice! I was so excited about WidgetBucks that I failed to read their FAQs.

Today, I stumbled upon a post at 100% Batangueno which made me visit WidgetBucks blog to check the information posted and it’s verified. WidgetBucks, per their advertisers request, will not pay for any clicks made through a WidgetBucks widget from a non-US or non-Canada blog and that is how I understand it. To be specific, read below:

What are the non-paying countries or regions?

We are finding that advertisers are not willing to buy traffic from Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Egypt, and Romania. Rates for other countries, such as Taiwan, parts of the Middle East, parts of S. America, and other regions earn under $0.10 CPM. It’s really important to mention this is an advertiser decision regarding the value of that traffic, NOT WidgetBucks’ decision. We repeat: this is an advertiser decision regarding the value of that traffic, NOT WidgetBucks’ decision. I emphasize this because publishers, for whatever reason, will undoubtedly and incorrectly draw the conclusion it is solely WidgetBucks’ decision.

So, if you are in any of those countries mentioned then any clicks from your WidgetBucks widget won’t award you with anything. If you are an Adsense or AdBrite member then it’s more profitable to replace all your WidgetBucks widget with them because you’ll not only be paid per thousand of impressions but for clicks too.

The blog post at WidgetBucks blog didn’t mention anything about referrals so it is safe to assume that we will be paid for referring new members to them. As for me, I am going to replace all my WidgetBucks widgets with AdBrite (or AdSense for my other blogs) and keep WidgetBucks for referral, until of course they too stop paying members from outside the US and Canada for referring new members but until that time comes, I will keep those WidgetBucks buttons on my blogs.

Being new to blogging, I am just learning the ins and outs of blogging and one interesting subject in blogging is Blog Contest. I’m not totally new to this blogging technique to gain traffic and popularity but since I wasn’t yet blogging before I did not take any interest in it until now.

I also thought that prizes should be in monetary form like Blog About Blog’s Christmas Contest where you’ll get a chance of winning $100 USD courtesy of their sponsor NeverBlueAds.

But I was wrong, I learned that anything of value to your visitors or audience can be made into a prize in a contest. For example, at Chinoyray.com and Kabalyero.com their prizes are not in US Dollars but in Linden Dollars which is the in-world currency of Second Life and it is very valuable to Second Life residents. Not only that,I’ve also seen blogs that use Entrecard Credits as prize.

There are various kinds of Blog Contest from Top Commentators to Guess the Picture but what’s important is that your visitors are having fun and at the same time getting some value from their contributions and loyalty.

Just received an e-mail from AGLOCO informing members that the program will be discontinued due to lack of revenue from advertisers.

We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO’s operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com.

We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.

AGLOCO Development Team

I guess those active with AGLOCO felt cheated when they got this e-mail. Why shouldn’t they? AGLOCO promised that members will earn from their program but they failed to deliver. Me? I’m not sour about it, simply because I never spent anytime with it. Yes, I downloaded and installed the toolbar but did I used it? Maybe a couple of times and that was it.

AGLOCO’s concept is still very interesting and maybe, in the not so near future, another company might pick up where AGLOCO left off and this time make it work.

It’s funny because instead of owning the internet, AGLOCO got owned! LOL!

Recently, I signed up with SponsoredReviews.com and the first thing I noticed after submitting a blog is that they don’t have pagerank in their list of metrics used to gauge a website or blog’s value. They use Technorati, Alexa and Link Popularity. There is no Pagerank.

Does this mean that advertisers doesn’t need to rely on Pagerank all the time? Does it also mean that bloggers doesn’t really need Pagerank to earn from blogging? I guess for advertisers, if Google continues to penalize bloggers by dropping pagerank then using pagerank as a gauge or metric would be useless, right? Hmmm… I guess it depends on the advertiser. If the advertiser is in it for pagerank then pagerank would be important but if the advertiser is in it for traffic and promotion then pagerank wouldn’t be important because a site can have a low pagerank but still have a high traffic rate. For bloggers, not relying on pagerank means a continuous steady flow of income from blogging but they’ll have to do a lot of extra work to get traffic in specially those blogs that get their traffic from Google.

Well, if SponsoredReviews.com doesn’t rely on pagerank but instead uses alternatives like Alexa, Technorati and Link Popularity then I guess other paid-2-blog sites can drop pagerank and use alternatives too. Once these sites stop using pagerank as a metric then I guess Google will stop (hopefully) targeting them.

This is what I’ve noticed with SponsoredReviews.com when I submitted a blog. They could be using pagerank in their evaluation of blogs behind the scenes but on the front end they clearly didn’t indicate it so I’ll safely assume that they are not using it all.

Do you own a blog? If you do then did you know that you can make money from blogging about things that interest you? Yes you can through a program or service called paid to blog. Websites that offer this service seeks bloggers to blog about their advertiser’s product, service, business or website and they pay bloggers to do it.

Here are some of these get paid to blog sites:

• PayPerPost - Get paid for blogging. Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers. Disclosure required.
• Smorty - Make money from your blog by writing opinion articles about available advertiser campaigns. Opportunities are sent directly to your personal admin panel and email account.
  Turn your daily blog updates into money. Between 5 and 20 minutes of writing sends money directly to your PayPal account after posts are approved. Apply with multiple blogs to write more opinions and receive more payments. Get paid to blog weekly
• ReviewMe - Bloggers get paid to review products and services on your site. You control what you review.
• BloggingAds - Paying bloggers money to advertise on their blog sites.
• Blogitive - Earn money with every posting. Get paid weekly via Paypal. No advertising required, just your opinions. Only post the stories that interest you. Create multiple blogs to earn more. Does not conflict with ad campaigns on your site
• SponsoredReview - Earn cash by writing honest reviews about our advertiser’s products and services. Write reviews in your own tone and style, and gear them to your audience’s interest.

Bookmark this page! This list will be updated!

Update: The Lord of the Internet, Google, is currently waging a massive war against these paid-to-blog programs. Blogs that are found or reported to Lord Google are being stripped down of their pagerank rendering these blogs valueless in terms of link value.