My friend just made a great new blog! GIVE IT TO ME FOR FREE is a new blog that has different categories such as free online information, free web hosting, free marketing, free social networks, and free survey sites! Under these categories, anyone can list their site. This is free advertising! Get more traffic to your site!
In the previous post I was talking about ways to advertise your site. Blogging is a great way to find other people who are interested in what you have to say, and you can create a fan base. A really good blogger can post his referral link and get 10, 20, 30... referrals just from his blogging site!
Well, how do you get readers to your blog?
Great question. I'm still trying to figure that out. One thing I've found to be really helpful is blogging communities. These sites allow you to post your blog site and it gives you the tools needed to meet other bloggers who are into the same things you are. You can build your list of fans from there. Here are links to 3 blogging communities:
Blog Catalog
Blog Cave
My Blog Log
Look up InnocentObsession when you get there!
Referrals are your biggest money-makers. Most programs will track who your referrals are and pay you a percentage of what they make. That means you can make more money faster! That's the goal, right?
So how do you get referrals?
I'm learning most of this myself, so if you have any more suggestions that I didn't cover, please post it in a comment!
1. Refer your friends
2. Social Networks
3. Advertise on other PTC sites
4. Guaranteed Signups
5. Click Exchanges
6. Autosurfing
7. Blog
8. Other Tips
1. Refer your friends
You can send e-mails to your friends and relatives to share in your discovery of the latest money-making sites. However, let's face it. Your friends list is not going to be that long. You may get a few responses, but it's not going to be very effective.
2. Social Networks
Places like Myspace and Facebook are a great place to fin a lot of people who are interested in the same things you are. This can help you find a more targeted group of people and get better results. You have to be careful though, because people don't like spammers. Posting a million bulletins and leaving messages and comments to check out your site may make your friends aggrivated, or your account could be frozen.
Other networking sites such as DollarSpace, Lazzeo, and Bizpreneur are great to advertise because they are targeted to people who want to make money online. These sites encourage promoting your money making websites! They even pay you for every blog, comment, and forum you post. It's not only free advertising, they PAY you to advertise. Then you can also meet up with more advertisers who can introduce you to more places to advertise. I've met some really great friends who have helped me out a lot through these paid networking sites.
3. Advertise on other PTC websites
PTC sites thrive because of advertisers. I know a lot of you don't like to pay for advertising, but sometimes you have to. Prices for advertising can start around $1 and work it's way up from there. The best part about paid advertising is that you KNOW it will increas traffic to your website. If you look at the right site at the right time, they may be promoting special advertising specials where you can get even more for your money. The most effective advertising is the Links and the Ads section of the page. For these you pay per click and the clickers get paid to click. Some sites allow people to click on your link a second time after a 24 hour period, but a lot of sites only allow unique hits. That is another point to look at before you pay for your advertising. It's always better to get unique hits because you can get your site out to more people.
4. Guaranteed Signups
This is the ONLY GUARANTEED way to earn referrals. However, this can cost money. You can go to a forum where you can exchange referrals. You can sign up for a site and in return that person will sign up for yours. However, it may be difficult to find someone who isn't already a member and you aren't already a member of their site. It is possible, and it is free. A slightly easier way to do this does cost money. Some websites will offer the option to "buy signups". You can buy credits from 20-50 cents per referral and then a person can sign up on your website. They do not get credit until they are verified, so it is in fact GUARANTEED that you will recieve that set amount of referrals that you paid for.
5. Click Exchanges
This is another feature that can either be found on PTC sites, or a site on it's own. It's also called Manual Surfing. How does it work? You go to the site and it will offer a ratio. This ratio can vary from 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, or 1:2. If it's a 1:1 site, for every site you visit, you will earn a credit. You then use these credits to put your own website through the click cycle. The downfall is that you have to sit there and click on the credit button every 10-30 seconds. This is Free Advertising!! A lot of people surf without really looking at the ads, but considering this is free advertising, it's worth it. It really does produce results.
6. Auto-surfing
This is by far the EASIEST way to get more traffic to your website. There are trafficing websites that will refresh the page for you automatically so you don't have to click a credit button. This means you can sit back, relax, and earn credits towards your own advertising campaign. The best way to do this is to open more than one window so you can do other things while it surfs. I wouldn't suggest running more than 2 auto-surf pages at a time because it starts to slow down the computer. If you don't want to have a lot of pages on your menu bar, try using tabs. I'm not sure if Internet Explorer offers the Tab feature, but I know Mozilla firefox does! The downfall to this approach is the fact that a lot of people auto-surf without watching the pages. This means that although people are visiting your site, they aren't actually viewing your page. But, again, this is free advertising. There are pros and cons to every type of advertising.
7. Blogs
Blogs are a great way to advertise anything. However, you don't want to make your blog full of advertisements and no content. That won't attract many people to revisit your page. You can use this blog to give reviews of pages, or write other information while including referral links in your posts. This is what I'm trying to do :). There are a few blogging communities that can help you target viewers. You can also find other blogs that are related to your own and arrange to link back to eachother's blog. Now that you have a lot of referral links in one place, you can advertise your blog instead of each individual website that you are a member of. Remember to update often with new content. You always want your reader to come back for more!
8. Other Tips
While advertising with links and ads, it's a good idea to write something other than the site name. You should write some of the benefits that may not be found on other sites. For instance, Paid4Clicking.com is having a $500 referral contest. When you write the title of the site that will appear to your clickers, write Paid4Clicking.com - $500 referral contest. That will catch more attention than if you just write Paid4clicking.com. Also, while you are advertising, look at what other advertisers are linking to. For example, everyone is promoting AdBux. If you spend all your time promoting adbux, you won't get a huge response because they have most likely already joined under someone else. Make sure your website provides something different than all the rest. It's also good if the site you are promoting has a neat and simple yet attractive appearance. The majority of your clickers will have seen millions of PTC sites. Most of the important information on the site should be on the top half of the screen. In 10 seconds, not many people are going to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see what kind of benefits this site offers.
That's all for today. I hope you found this information useful. If you have anything to add, PLEASE leave me a comment. Thank you so much!
Hey guys, I'm bringing you the latest breaking news!!
A PTC site that I belong to just sent me a message telling me of a HUGE referral contest! the top 150 people will win prizes!!! It ranges from the top lifetime membership all the way down to 100 click exchange credits. This contest will end at 10,000 members or on their one year birthday (Jan. 6, 2008). If you haven't joined yet, I suggest you do! The top referrers are posted on the website so you can track your progress straight to the top!
Check out the contest here:
Don't you love it when people celebrate their birthdays by give YOU a present?
Here's another paid to click website: Used10.com
Here is the e-mail I just recieved from them:
Hello members,
To celebrate my birthday this week I'm giving away a free membership everyone that makes atleast a $5 purchase gets this membership free for a month which isn't sold on the site. This offer is good from now until Saturday night at 11:59 PM CST.
Birthday Upgrade
# 550% Downline Earnings
# 500 X-Credits Upon Joining
# 50000 F. Ad Credits Upon Joining
# 50000 Banner Credits Upon Joining
# 50000 F. Banner Credits Upon Joining
# 50000 F. Ad Credits Weekly
# 50000 Banner Credits Weekly
# 50000 F. Banner Credits Weekly
Thanks,
Mark
Mike
for $5, you can get all of that!! That's an UNHEARD of 550% downline earnings!!!
Another feature on this site that is fairly new is called Paid to sign up!!! This is a great way to earn fast money, or earn fast referrals.
In this section you can click the link and it will take you to a page where you will see a box for your new username and another box for the welcome message. All you have to do is click the Complete Offer button in the right corner and it will open the page in a new window. After you complete the joining process, you go back to the previous window, fill out the information, then voila! You got Paid! Most sites payout 10 cents per sign up. This site however is paying 25 cents!!! Sign up for 4 sites and you earned yourself a dollar! How easy was that?!
You know what I did? I bought $5 worth of sign up credits, then got the Birthday Upgrade for FREE! What a great deal! Plus I get 10 garanteed referrals to one of my sites! How can you go wrong?
Try it out today!
Hey guys, I know I already posted today, but this site is so awesome, I couldn't let you wait any longer!!
A. W. Surveys
This site is awesome! First of all, it's COMPLETELY free to join. After you join, you automatically get a $6 welcome survey!
These surveys are only two questions long. They give you two sites to look at, and you give a 2-3 sentence response based on your first impression of the site. That takes 2-3 minutes to do BOTH questions! This site is by far the best survey site I've ever seen. Why you ask?
- free to join
- $6 welcome survey
- no credit card required
- short surveys
- $4 - 25 surveys
- no promotions to complete in order to get credit
- Referral program
Personally... I made $26 in my first 15 minutes! It's been a full two days and I'm up over $47!! No Lie!
Interested?
Welcome back to my blog!
I wanted to share with you a great new site. It launched June 7th, 2007, and it already has over 500 members!
For all you affiliates out there, Steve (the site owner) is offering a $500 referral contest!! This is the most money I've ever seen for a referral contest! The contest will run until the site has 10,000 members. With 500 current members, it's still anyone's contest!
For all the advertisers, Steve is running a special advertising campaign to introduce his new site.
** Site Launch Special **
# $2.99
# 1000 Link Credits ( $3 Value )
# 1000 Email Credits ( $3 Value )
# 2000 X-Credits ( $2 Value )
# 25000 Banner Credits ( $2.5 Value )
# 25000 F. Banner Credits ( $2.5 Value )
# 25000 F. Ad Credits ( $2.5 Value )
That's $15.50 worth of advertising for only $2.99!! What a great deal!
Along with clicking links for cash for 1/4 - 1 cent, he also offers a click exchange program. Currently you can recieve 2 credits for every 4 sites that you view through the click exchange. You can then use these credits to advertise your own site in the click exchange program!!
One more contest - He's asking for people to send him banners to steve@paid4clicking.com and if he uses your banner, you can become a Lifetime Member! That's a $24.49 value. As a lifetime member additional benefits include:
# 20% Bonus Of Referral's Purchases
# 20% Bonus When Referrals Upgrade
# 1000 Link Credits Monthly
Sweet deals!
What are you waiting for? Sign up today!
Welcome to my blog. My goal in creating this blog is to help you, my reader, and myself to keep track of the many online money making opportunities. By sharing my experiences, perhaps you can have success too!
Who Am I?
What Is My Focus?
What is PTC/PTR?
How can I earn money FASTER?
How do I get these referrals?
Where do I start?
Who am I?
I am a 20 year old college student. I am living with my boyfriend and our two "fur" kids. I have a 1 year old boxer named Rocky and a 9 month old siamese kitten named Mimi. While my boyfriend works offshore, I get to work part-time, go to school, take care of my pets, take care of the house, and take care of bills. That doesn't leave me much time for myself!! I am hoping to one day be able to make enough money online to quit my part-time job so I can concentrate more on school and my pets.
What is my focus?
I like to focus on the things that have NO fees and do NOT require a credit card. I have enough financial problems as it is. I don't want random $50 monthly charges to accounts I had long forgotten about. Right now, I am looking at the PTC/PTR opportunities. There are MILLIONS of PTC/PTR sites out there. My goal is to find the best ones where I can be paid the most.
What is PTC/PTR?
PTC stands for Paid To Click. PTR stands for Paid To Read. For those of you who have never heard of these sites, here is a summary of how they work. First, you sign up for a free account. Many of these sites offer upgraded accounts for a small fee, but All are free. After signing up, you will gain access into your new money-making opportunity. What you do next varies on the site you joined. Most sites have a page devoted to links. You can click on a link from a list. It will open in a new window and a bar will appear at the top of the screen with a timer. This timer varies from 10 to 25 seconds. After the timer runs out, you need to follow the instructions to earn the credit for viewing the page. It's that simple! You can earn 1/10 of a cent - 1 cent for clicking on links and viewing pages. After earning enough money, you can cash out and recieve money through paypal or e-gold.
How can I earn money FASTER?
1/10 - 1 cent per click can take a while to add up to enough money to cash out. So, how can you make money faster? There are two ways that I've found so far. You need to sign up with multiple sites, and you need to get referrals. Referrals are people you directed to the site who join and start making money for themselves. ALL sites have a special referral link that will give you credit for directing people to their site. They may only pay 15% of what your referrals earn, but if you refer 7 people, you can double your money! If you refer 14 people, you can TRIPLE your money!
How do I get these referrals?
You can advertise on these PTC sites! For as little as $1, you can have other people click on your link 500-5,000 times! Not all of them will join the site, but some do! If you don't want to pay for advertising, you can always tell your friends or post it on your blog, myspace, friendster, facebook, and other community websites.
Where do I start?
First, you should sign up for a free paypal or e-gold account so you can get paid!
Here are a few links to get you started:
ReadersPaid
ClixSense
Paid4Clicking
