Another experiment will be with SocialSpark. I have registered two blogs for testing there and will publish my opinions soon.  I can beforehand say that it is one of the most attractive designs and has the best functionality in “paid to blog” websites.

Before buying a domain name, it is essential to make a basic niche search. According to my experience minimalism is the future for the small websites and blogs for survival. So, it is a better idea to open a website about volcanos of Mexico than simply web hosting offers because you will have easier traffic from search engines with much less content and efforts.

Revver pairs videos with targeted ads and tracks them as they spread across the web. So no matter where your video travels, you benefit because they share the advertising revenue with you. What I especially like is that you are paid when the shared video starts whether it was watched until the end or not. I guess Revver makes a great amount of money because of the embedded Google adsense ads are very targeted and matched. So, making a regular money isn’t so hard if you advertise them extensively with textual targeted content.

I have opened a free blog targeting “Learn Playing Guitar with Videos” niche and happy with the impressions / video earning rates until now. The next task is to generate more textual content to increase search engine rankings for certain keywords.

Revver pays with Paypal system and minimum amount is $20.

The other embed source is Voxant : TheNewsRoom.com website. I use their targeted licensed and free video feeds for vubx.com science & tech news section. You don’t need to update anything regularly. Just prepare a video feed page and advertise it with links and SEO techniques. That’s it. The best part of this system is the availability of referral scheme.

They pay $3.50 for 1000 video impressions on your site and $1.25 on the referred website. Minimum payment amount is $50 with Paypal.

Actually Flixya and Metacafe also other two programs where you can possibly make money. But, I personally think that monetizing at those sites are rather difficult and don’t use them.

Anyway, I will recommend you to join RocketProfit affiliate network; especially for those who failed on affiliate marketing up to now with no sales or very little amount of sales. I know many Commission Junction, Amazon affiliates who are in this situation actually.

The main advantage of RocketProfit is that you don’t have to sell anything with the 90% of the programs there. To be specific, CPL (Cost Per Lead) type ads. All you need is to get reasonable US (In some cases UK, Europe or Worldwide) traffic for completion of profiles, email captures, cell submit, free trial program downloads, registrations. It is much easier to convert there. To be specific, with some programs you can make $4 with a completed profile, or $1 for just an email. Minimum payouts are $25 . It is easy to reach that, you should think much more here.

The other most important point is about incentives. Most offers ‘CANNOT be incentivized’, but there are still ‘CAN BE incentivized’ opportunities. DO NOT miss them.

At RocketProfit, each affiliate has a manager assigned to them. So, you can ask recommendations, share your thoughts. That’s a really advantage to be in contact with them through AIM. It gives confidence and more passion to generate more income.

There are tons of campaign offers from reputable companies including ‘exclusive’ ones which are expected to perform very well.

The design of the site, offers tracking, real time report pages are excellent, in brief.

If you are looking for an affiliate network which will bring you good money, I recommend RocketProfit network. If you join with my RocketProfit link I will be happy. Write a comment to this post and I will help you making money using RocketProfit.

Affiliate Hint #1: If you have a network of sites and blogs, do not separate your forces on different ads at the same time. Choose one and pump it everywhere possible to see the results on high volume. If you succeed then continue to attack with it; if you don’t, change it with another.

Affiliate Hint #2: Do not run many networks at the same time hoping that you will get checks from all of them someday. No, you will end up with a good sum of money residing in many places in small amounts without checks. I suffered it about also before.

I will share my experience on evil ways of money making with viral Facebook applications on the next post.

What are your opinions on the future of paid posts for bloggers?

1)  Have an English technology, science related website, full of Adsense advertisements with good content. Your Adsense boxes should be upper of your content and right of it. 

2) Find the common technology, science related 500 keywords on other languages. In my example, it would be Turkish. You will see that Google Adwords market isn’t very competitive for many countries and languages as well as Turkey.

3) Prepare a good advertisement in Turkish targeting these keywords.

• Choose your ads target location as Turkey
• Choose your target language as Turkish
• Choose only show ads in content network option for 0.01 TL (Turkish Lira)

4) Run the advertisement and check the results after a month.

The common ROI (Return on Investment) calculation is like this:

Let’s say you had 10,000 unique clicks(visitors). So my Adwords expense is: 10,000 x 0.01 TL = 100 TL = $80 (According to exchange rate)

Calculate your Adsense earnings: Let’s say you got 500 clicks x $0.20 (We assume we have middle paying keywords) = $100

I assume that you have a nice content and enough page views per visitor to get the clicks.

So, I have in this example: 100 – 80 / 100 = 20% ROI which is very high and you should continue doing it.

Let’s say we had 13,000 page views for 10,000 visitors. So my Adsense CTR would be: 500 / 13,000 x 100 = 3.84 which is a reachable target for nicely optimized pages.

The additional advantage is that you get traffic and boost your Alexa rankings. If you run on these pages other advertisements which works in bidding model such as Project Wonderful, you can get additional money because you have high traffic.

Second, you can have new readers for your blog or website.

The only bottleneck on this model can be the identification of international traffic. So, if you get traffic from other sources as well, you can not differentiate how useful was your campaign and who was really clicking your ads. I suggest you to run such pages only for Adsense at first and not to submit to search engines at all even Google. After you see the guaranteed success, you can submit to search engines for income boost. There are also some tools for click tracking. But, you have to be sure that these tools work correctly and not violate the big boss Google rules to not be punished by them.

I call this model as 0.01 Adwords magic.

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What he has forgotten is to change or delete my affiliate links. I have many Amazon links in my articles and this scraper website helps to market the products to my advantage. On the other way, he gives my SEO harm because search engines will punish the duplicate content. I will wait some time to reveal that website to EC community and my readers. Dear thief, Further, I will take the necessary steps. You are warned!

First of all, Stumbleupon users are more experienced than the others and are able to catch the advertisements on your pages, and naturally escape from clicking especially Google Adsense ads. If your website gets a page CTR of 1% on average for Adsense, for stumbleupon traffic, it can down to 0.10% level easily. So, forget about it.

Maybe, you will not believe much but the best way to convert is Amazon product links. You should write a very specific quality post including innovative, quality Amazon electronics that many people would like to have one. To be concrete, I will give you a real example that I experienced this month.

I have written an article about How to read books at night without disturbing your partner with the lights in one of my gadget blogs. I have given 2 related Amazon products namely LightWedge Paperback and LightWedge Mini as sample links. Stumble users much liked it.

Here is the screenshots of my earnings for latest 7 days only from this article. Amazon Sales Commissions totaled on $42.71

As you see, I sold only 5 of the products I directly advertised bringing commissions around $5. The other items are totally different. One person bought 15 books for $400 and this brought commission of $25.95. I earned around $12 for other products. Note that not all the orders were shipped yet, the commissions will increase. There are 1066 product clicks were at that period and experienced 3.75% conversion rate.

StumbleUpon Traffic + Amazon Affiliate Links Benefits

• StumbleUpon users like to shop on Amazon regularly. Even they don’t buy your direct link, some of them will buy another
• Even you don’t sell that day, you will sell another day because of the Amazon affiliate cookie set on their computers.
• They can’t always understand that it is an affiliated link because Amazon links are (hopefully) really long.
• There is always possibility of a huge spending some of StumbleUpon users at Amazon

These are only affiliate benefits of Amazon. You can make money extra with your traffic using Pay per Impressions Ads. Because your traffic increased, it is likely that you will get more reviews chances and advertisers will approach you naturally. You can convert to RSS readers for a future investment.

Note that if your article is not high quality your StumbleUpon traffic will never increase and die much faster than naturally.