Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO - pingmyblog.com

I've recently reviewed the main pinging websites for some consumer review sites and thought that I would add the info to this blog as I'm sure it will come in handy to some of you:

Pingmyblog.com

For the readers who are not familiar with pinging, it’s an activity undertaken to allow blog directories know that you have updated your blog, it’s a useful source of traffic for a blog not as prolific as backlinks or social bookmarking but useful all the same. Some blogging services such as blogger automatically send pings to the main directories each time you update your blog. Pingmyblog is a collection of around 60 to 70 directories, simply submit your name and url, as well as your feed url if you like, click on “check all” and away you go – pings are sent to every blog directory in a matter of seconds. Japan, Netherlands, Germany and Russia are all amongst the mix and may help you improve international traffic. Pingmyblog.com is not the fastest and it seems a little bit outdated as about 50% of the links don’t actually work but it involves very little effort and takes a matter of minutes. I recommend using this along with another service or two, each time you post a new post.

Poker Star (onlinepokeradvantage.com) - A Poke in the eye with a pointed stick, scam alert!

The people behind pokerstar are having a laugh, they expect you to fork out $49 for information which is widely and freely available at www.pokerroomschool.com, unless you are an extremely good player - poker is no way to make money online and this system is not at all impressive. It doesn't seem to do as though it promises and on top of that there doesn't seem to be any money in at all except for the person who is selling the book and for the casino.

Breakroulette.com - A costly scam

Breakroulette.com is a unique idea if nothing else, in no way does it follow the footsteps of the usual roulette scams but instead involves a small application which is to be run alongside the roulette. This looks impressive as does their snazzy website complete with videos supposedly in "real mode" but it fails where it matters - the results are extremely poor and you will be losing money if you follow this. What's more is that this unconvincing piece of software comes at a cost of around $50!

Add a Digg button to your blogger blog posts and gain traffic

Digg and other social bookmarking networks are a trusty way of gaining traffic to your website, if the content is valuable or interesting, the chances of it getting digged and drawing readers is more likely.

To allow someone to "digg" your blog posts without too much effort, it helps to put a digg button next to your blog posts. Even for people without any technical skills - this is quite straight forward if you have blogger.

This works best in Mozilla Firefox, as the find facility doesn't seem to work on Google Chrome.

1/ Go to Layout

2/ Go to Edit HTML

3/ Click on the box entitled Expand widget templates

4/ Press CTRL + F to get up the search box

5/ Enter data:post.body/ in the search box

6/ Paste the code from this guys blog:

http://briancantin.blogspot.com/2007/12/add-digg-to-bloggercom-posts.html

7/ Preview it, if you want to change the size then edit the part which says 10px and if you want the button on the other side of the post change the Float:right; margin-left: to Float:left; margin-right:

8/Save it! Now every old post and future post will have a digg button alongside it.

Zml.com - A rip off scam of a film site or not?

During the current financial climate, it's to be expected that one of the ways of making money is by saving money and people will be looking to cut costs in every field. Renting or buying DVD's, is bound to be one of these and there are numerous website waiting to prey on people. There have been a few reports of people being charged for their "free trial" at zml.com, a website which supposedly offers you 10 full film downloads for $0.99.

Other zml users say that zml are reasonably fast to answer queries. Because people pay for the service they assume it is not illegal to do or that they won't be caught, however Zml.com's terms of service clearly states that they don't take any of the blame if downloading films is illegal in the user's country. Basically zml.com are just charging for film downloading which is free on P2P services. Personally I would stay clear of them.

Roulettewizard.com - What a scam! Stealing in the name of charity!

This website claim to have "set up a website for £20 knowing that lots of the winnings will go to charity"! This is a lie from the start, they are forking out money on google ads so there is a profit for them. The profit is clear, like lots of other faceless websites out there trying to make you believe that this simple yet ineffective roulette system works. The only ones making money here are the casino and the website through their affiliate banners and ads. Stay away!

Does Affiliano work or is it a scam?

It's a question that I've been asking myself ever since seeing a google ad for them, they claimed to make you $50 a day guaranteed. I can't see how they can guarantee anything, so I think that the advert is immediately misleading.

Although they say "he who dares wins", I'm a bit reluctant to fork out on the hostgator fee that these guys require. They give you a website for free, you choose a template and from then on all you have to do is bring traffic to your site which in turn refers them to affiliano. Affiliano have their tracks covered with numerous of the same articles on sites like ezine articles. A google search questioning whether they work throws up all sorts of irrelevant links.

As far as I can see, they are not really selling a product which must mean they are working in conjuction with hostgator. Perhaps the trick is that they get you to sign up to hostgator, where they themselves are an affiliate, then give you a template and require you to pay the monthly hosting fee which sends traffic to their site which in turn gets them more hostgator referrals.

Although relatively pointless, I suppose this could be profitable. If anyone could shed some light on whether it works, it would be quite good. In the mean time I will continue pondering over their authenticity.

Selling Your Twitter Account or become a dealer!

If you are inventive but lacking funds and don't want to risk buying and selling domain names then twitter accounts could be of interest to you. Twitter have made it big over the last year or so and there's a blooming market for selling twitter accounts with either good names or followings. They can sell from anything for a few dollars to thousands of dollars. This is nothing new but there's plenty of possibilities for good names which can then be used to broadcast news or send people to websites.

Go to Tweexchange.com and search for the name you desire, it will tell you if it is unavailable or available. Play around with this tool until you come up with something good.

Then go to Twitter and registered account - you'll need a different free web based e-mail account for each one you have(it's easy to set up quite a lot of them considering the competition available).

Then list on Tweexchange.com

Simple!

Why you should avoid twtad.com for the moment!

Ok, this is very contradictory as it was only a few ays ago that I was recommending twtad.com on here. There has been substantial changes to the website over the last few days though including a change in owner, the payouts altered to ridiculously low amounts and whilst they are back up for the moment - the rules have changed stating that you must post other things than ads on your twitter account. 5 normal posts between every advert and a limit to how many adverts you should put on over a certain period.

Not only this but there are several reports of people not having their earnings credited. The website might change their ways and the earning problem could be more of a technical issue. In the mean time though, I recommend you focus on something else and avoid running your good name through the mud by recommending it to others.

Oneverysimpleidea.com - A scam worth avoiding

Not every site selling a product is a scam but you just need to look at this pages layout to realise it is one of many similar sites, promising you enormous profits with it's latest way on earning money. Ask yourself, why the author is giving this info away. The fact is there is nothing new in there and they will make good money from the clickbank sale of a product with very little value after having bigged it up on their website. Stay away! All the information you need to get going is available for free on the net, don't begin paying for it!

Earn money with Photoshop

Personally I don't have the patience for photoshop, it's too fiddly for me and I can't seem to get my head around it. Some people are quite the opposite though and are able to play around with photos or edit graphics all day and the outcome can quite often be amazing. If you enjoy using and are good with Photoshop, you may be missing out on a very simple earning option. Edit photos, design graphics or website templates for others and start getting the ball rolling.

You may have to start off with menial offers at the beginning to build up your portfolio but if you are genuinely good at it, there's tonnes of work to be had and much of it reasonably paid. Put an ad on classified websites and scour similar resources to hunt out some work. It helps to be located near the person you are providing it for, so you can discuss ideas but it is not essential, so basically you can do this from anywhere in the world.

Protect your content and make a bigger profit - Stop content scrapers!

Autoblogging is all the rage these days and the chances are that your well-written thought out articles will be stolen and re-used by another blogger without them even lifting a finger. Because they will not have to think up anything, they can put their time and energy into ensuring they have a better page ranking and there's a chance they'll be making more money than you with your content. This isn't fair obviously and the firt thing that needed to be combatted are Content scrapers which are programs that scour the web for relevant content and then send them to the person running the programme.

There are 3 tools which can help combat people stealing your content.

These are:

Copyscape - A search engine which searches the internet for content which exactly matches yours. Go to www.copyscape.com and type in your URL. Then report any stolen content you find. You can also submit a banner of theirs to your site, which may ward off potential thieves.

Fairshare - This second tool is perhaps the most useful, the majority of content scraping is done through RSS feeds and this website hunts out any work of yours that has been stolen, all you have to do is go to the website www.fairshare.com, add your feed URL (if you are using blogger this can be found in the settings tab), sign up and wait 24 hours. You can then monitor it from then on.

Tracer - The last one is probably the most ruthless and also the most succesful but the efficiency comes at a price, it slows down your webpage considerably. To get this one to work you have to go to http://tcr1.tynt.com/ - then you have to add the java code in to your blog somwehere, this nifty gadget picks up on people copy and pasting or saving photos from your blog and automatically adds a link back to your webpage.

bigprofitfast.info - A very fishy possible scam

I was alerted to this website by an adsense ad and whilst it claims to be forex, the fact that it seems related to various other websites and promises large quick returns lead me to believe it is a HYIP. Whilst some people play games with HYIP's, hoping to get in and out early. I think that if you play with fire, your fingers will get burnt and this is not the answer to a stable online income at all. I would stay away, if I were you!

millionsinstore.com - Not a scam as such

Millionsinstore.com provides you with pages and pages of information which is relatively complicated to decipher, the information is widely available on the net for free but is just given a new face and collected properly here. They offer a $1 month trial, the thing to look out for is that they don't automatically charge your credit card for the next month at $29.99. Most people don't actually use the information that is available, the chances are you won't either. Answer this question. Did you really read all of that long pitch? If the answer is no, then the chances are it's not going to be your thing and therefore will be money wasted.

zarabiac.com - A Polish casino scam

Zarabiac.com is a Polish version of the common roulette scam, the website may be in Polish but the template is extremely similar to more international ones. This website makes you submit your details which will most likely be sold on to spammers, they then take you to a page explaining that you can earn 300 euros per day with a well-known roulette system that doesn't work, whilst smartly adding their affiliates to the webpage. That's how they make money. You won't!

make2s.me - Another version of the cash maker scam

Earlier on in the day, I mentioned the cash maker method website being a scam, well another one that I came across which suggests high earning possibilities through the information on its website is http://www.make2s.me/2956/0/en - this website is a carbon copy of cashmakermethod.com and also acts as a front for signing up via affiliates. Do not follow the casino related instructions that it relays to you. Don't even bother visiting the site!

www.martingale-roulette.fr/win - Another tiresome roulette scam

Roulette scams are plentiful on the internet, webpages promising to tell you a secret of betting odd then even or switching from one colour another or to stick with one and keep on increasing the bet. The fact is this simple system does not work, this website which is usually in French (www.martingale-roulette.fr) also has an English page which is being advertised through google ads at the moment. I recommend avoiding the information he tells you, it's merely a front so that you will sign up through the affiliates on his page.

Cashmakermethod.com - A posh website which boils down to a scam

Cash Maker Method have really done their utmost to avoid looking like the typical roulette scam site, their flashy pages and videos, promises to teach you techniques that will make you rich. What it really is, though is several roulette systems which should work on paper but don't work in reality. The only person making money here is this website through affiliates. Stay away from the online casino, if you want to get rich or earn money!

Build up your blog with reviews and earn money from Amazon affiliates

If you are one of many of the review writers on consumer sites such as dooyoo and ciao, then you may be overlooking a very simple and straightforward source of income. Cross posting has probably become a nice little earner for you but there's an additional way of earning more.

Here is the lowdown on what to do:

1/ Choose your niche - French films, Sony electronics, old computer games, books of a certain genre.. it can be anything.

2/Title your blog appropriately - both the title and the url should bear some resemblance to the topic.

3/Use an interesting template for blogger from btemplates.com

4/Begin writing posts designed around your site and then re-post them on review sites. Try to do at least one a day, preferably a few more.

5/Add adsense to the blog

6/Sign up as an amazon affiliate and begin including advertising links to the product you or reviewing, above, below or to the side of your review. They pay 10% of sales that come through your site and if you have enough traffic, this can soon mount up.

7/Treat the blog as your baby - do everything in your capabilities to fill it up with good unique content and gain traffic. Put thought in to your niche, layout and content.

Bux.to - A hugely succesful scam

I've come to the conclusion that bux.to has to be a hugely succesful scam, you still have numerous people claiming to have earnt well on there and I can't fault their claims but I think this may be one case of paypal seeing through them succesfully. It seems that because they have paid some people, they are

Personally as it goes for me - I withdrew money in February 2008 and it was supposed to have arrived in my alertpay account some months afterwards but I checked my alertpay account and saw nothing at all. I made another withdrawal of around £79 and there's no sign of that either. Having invested in the premium package for $59 and paid about $16 for referrals. This basically means they have stolen $75 from me. They refuse to reply to my e-mails, which at the best is unprofessional. If they do this to hundreds of members, they'll surely have enough to payout a few to keep promoting it and who defend bux.to because they've received a pay out, slagging off anyone who has been ripped off by them!

They change their terms and conditions as and when they like and actually write in their terms and conditions that they can do that. This basically means to me that if they want to change it to "people will not be paid their earnings" - they could.

I definitely recommend avoiding the whole pay per click world.