Make Money with eBay - Maybe a New Project?

The last weeks I thought about making money with the eBay affiliate program. After they started their very own partner network (EPN) some weeks ago and also enabled the international usage of their program, some nice ideas came into my mind. Before that, as their program was managed by Commission Junction, I never had the chance to get accepted into their program and therefore have nearly forgotten about that possible money maker.

With the eBay partner network you earn a small percentage of each winning bid on auctions hosted on your website or blog. And you’ll also earn up to $50 for each ACRU (Active Confirmed Registered User), depending on the quality of the new referred user. With enough traffic, like in most online businesses, you may earn a lot of money from eBay.

Ok, but where to start and how? I thought about that too and I’ve already found my personal best solution. Although eBay offers different tools to develope affiliate sites for free, I’d rather choose a software called PHPBayPro to create my eBay affiliate websites. The software comes in different versions and I’ll personally choose the PHPBayPro Wordpress plugin which costs only $49 and is recommended from different people that successfully use it. Basically the plugin version let’s you create a complete eBay affiliate site right within Wordpress, easy and fast.

But the software alone isn’t all, what’s way more important is to find a niche where you actually can create sales. I already have some ideas and also managed to create a keyword list for it, meaning I’ve found some nice long tail keywords that’ll bring in traffic with less competition from other sites in the same niche. I picked a hot niche will searching on eBay’s Pulse, a page showing what’s currently hot on eBay. After that I’ve done my keyword research with help of only freely available tools like the Adwords keyword tool (which now shows search count in numbers) and Gtrends for example.

All I need to do now is registering the right domain name, writing some content and integrating PHPBayPro into a new Wordpress install. That shouldn’t be too hard to accomplish. Generating traffic to this site will be far more difficult in my opinion and I doubt I’ll see any early results from that site, although I hope to make some good bucks later on. Let’s see how it will perform, right now I only have my keyword list but I think I’ll start the new site this autumn.

I’m sure that I won’t earn enough to quit my day job from only one eBay site, but there’s nothing holding me back from creating more and more of them once they become profitable for me. Sure, right now everything is just plain theory, but I’ll do my best to accomplish this new goal.

Best Regards,
Querblogger

My (Very) Short Hostgator Review

In this post I’ll give you a short review about my personal favorite webhost that is called Hostgator. Since I moved my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted Wordpress install several months ago, I used the Hostgator service without facing a single problem. It’s a reliable and relatively cheap webhost that offers many useful features.

I’m personally using the so called “Baby” account where I pay only $7.95 per month. Although it sounds like a somewhat funny name, it offers many advanced features that are everything but being “Baby”. The best one is the option to have unlimited domains. That’s a very important fact because you can host multiple websites/blogs instead of only one while paying only a single monthly fee. Right now I’m only using it for 3 websites, but there’s no limit in the total number you can add. I’m also planning to add even more websites, especially niche sites, to my account.

My hosting account has 600GB of webspace and I’m allowed to have 6,000GB of monthly bandwidth. You’ll never reach those limits when having only some simple websites and/or blogs, and by simple I mean sites that may even have several hundred pages. You only have to keep an eye on the processing time your site’s need to show up on your reader’s browsers. Because you’re on a shared host, meaning several people having their accounts on the same machine, you can’t use much of the server’s CPU power. E.g. running the next Facebook would probably a very bad idea and you’ll be kicked if you use too much of the server’s resources.

Hostgator uses cPanel, a very popular account management software that features all the tools you need to maintain your sites. It’s easy to set up MySQL databases (also unlimited), create email accounts or watch your site’s stats via AwStats. You can even install popular scripts like Wordpress or PhpBB with a single click on your mouse via the Fantastico service. You have full control over your hosting account, a big plus in my opinion.

All in all I can only recommend Hostgator. Especially the “Baby” account is a nice way to set up multiple websites for cheap. I mean, paying only 8 bucks a month is quite affordable, especially while looking at all the features they offer. So far I didn’t have a single problem with Hostgator and I hope to not have any in the future.

Ah, before I forget! You can join Hostgator via my affiliate link if you will, it’s definitely worth it if you try to establish multiple (maybe money making) sites for cheap!

See you,
Querblogger

Posted on 15th August 2008 by Querblogger in The Making Money Experiment, hosting - Tags: , , ,

Five Wordpress Plugins That I Find Useful

Today I will show you 5 nice Wordpress plugins that I personally use here on my blog. I find them extremely helpful, especially when it comes to enhancing some SEO and increasing my visitor count, the main ingerdient for making money online.

Although Wordpress is incredibly powerful even without using any plugins, nothing will hold you back from making it even better. Plugins help you extending your Wordpress install far beyond its current capabilities, e.g. by adding widgets or integrating extra features like better caching. And the best thing, they are free! You can find a huge directory of Wordpress plugins by following this link.

1. All In One SEO Pack

The All In One SEO Pack is probably the best plugin to optimize your blog’s SEO. After integrating and activating it, the plugin will automatically keep track of improving different SEO criterias like setting correct meta tags or avoiding duplicate content. It will also add some new widgets below your post editor. These widgets offer you the option to write a custom meta description for each of your posts and also lets you put your own meta tags. This plugin has definitely helped my blog to rank better in the major search engines!

2. Enfore WWW Preference

This plugin is quite useful to set your preferred way of how you blog should be reached by visitors and indexed by search engines, either by having the WWW prefix in your blog’s URL or without having it. This will help you improve your SEO because search engines will only see and index one version of your blog, meaning URL’s with WWW or without it. Without the plugin, search engines may index two identical versions of your blog (with the prefix and without it), which is bad for your SEO because of duplicate content issues.

3. Google XML Sitemaps

The sitemaps plugins will automatically create and update your blog’s site map in a compatible version that is accepted by major search engines. Sitemaps will help in optimizing a blog for better search engine rankings because it’s a nice and easy way to show/submit a search engine all the posts and pages that belong to it. This way they may index your blog faster, especially after writing new posts.

4. AddThis Social Bookmarking

Although not quite a WP plugin correctly, this widget is a quite handy tool that enables social bookmarking on very blog post you’ve written. It add a small bar below each post where your readers can bookmark it on different social bookmarking sites like Digg or Reddit for example. Social bookmarking may drive a lot of traffic to your blog if you’ve posted an interesting article and may people liked it, I’ve personally seen many traffic rushes here on this blog where I got several hundred visitors in only some hours from those sites alone.

5. WP Cache

Last but not least, WP cache. This plugin adds an extremely powerful caching system to your Wordpress blog. It automatically generates static HTML pages from your blog posts and pages, which will load much faster and also give your blog slightly better chances in search engines. It will help your readers because of lower loading times and yourself because you’ll save a lot of bandwith and processing power, which is quite important if you host your site on a shared hoster.

There are dozens and dozens of different plugins you can use with your Wordpress install, those 5 above are those plugins I personally find very useful and that helped me a lot with The Making Money Experiment. Feel free to have a look a the Wordpress Plugin database and you’ll find the right plugin for your needs for sure!

Cheers,
Querblogger

Posted on 12th August 2008 by Querblogger in SEO, The Making Money Experiment, wordpress - Tags: , ,

I’m taking a vacation

Yes, also bloggers need some time for themselfes and their family. And I won’t make any difference and will leave the blogger and money making scene for 2 weeks. Me and my wife are taking our vacations in a nice bungalow at the Baltic Sea in northern Germany, a real nice place that we both visited regulary in the last years. I hope the weather will be fine so we could take a bath or two and let the sun burn our skin, hehe. ;)

Although I’m away from my regular blogging job, you won’t miss new posts here on TMME. I’ve already written some and told Wordpress when they should automatically get published, I hope it works. Please also note that I won’t respond to any comment or email you write me in the next 2 weeks!

Ok, enough words. I’m busy preparing our trip! I’ll see you soon, have some nice two weeks too! :)

Cheers,
Querblogger

Posted on 8th August 2008 by Querblogger in The Making Money Experiment - Tags:

Tenth Month Report!

Wohaa, I’m slowly heading toward one year of doing my Making Money Experiment! Ten months are already over now and today it’s time again for another monthly update on my current progress and earnings.

In July I earned $278, that’s even $72 more than back in June. Although far from letting me quit my day job, I’m happy again. I can slowly feel how things start rolling and I’m now somewhat more fluid when it comes to spend some bucks for my hosting, software and other things I need to build up my small online business.

July was ruled, and my earnings show that, by my efforts in building a nice downline in NeoBux. You can read about it on my NeoBux Squidoo lens if you will. After directly referring a total of 120 people so far plus 220 rented refs, I now make around $5 each day. This month I made a total of $141 from NeoBux alone. It’s a great PTC, probaly the best PTC if you ask me. They pay instantely, introduce one new feature after the other and the earning potential is quite high. I have already upgraded my account to a Golden membership, something I would highly suggest everybody who wants to make some good money with them.

I also earned $50 from Bux.to, but to be honest, I more and more doubt that it’s really worth it anymore. Although they have promised to clear their payment backlogs, nothing special happend so far. Sure, current payment dates for premium members with a Bux card have moved to the beginning of April, but that’s quite normal in a near 4 week time frame… ;) (insiders may know what I’m talking about, otherwise move on reading more interesting stuff).

This month I also made my fourth affiliate sale from my niche site, it brought me $30 on Clickbank. It’s quite good because I haven’t done anything with this site for several weeks now but I still earn some bucks.

Another $20 I made from writing some articles for a friend from Belgium. He actually wanted me to write articles about NeoBux in both English and German. It was a nice work and he already paid me, no problems, perfect! Thanks again Stijn! ;)

Around $30 were earned from selling links on my blog (yes, I am that evil). No need to further talk about because I won’t get into trouble with Google, hehe. :)

The rest, around $10, came from contextual ads (Speedyads, Kontera) and several other minor activities like my articles on Triond for example.

In July my blog received 3,500 unique visitors and this number isn’t moving in any direction right now. My Alexa ranking is at around 180,000 and my Pagerank hasn’t changed after the last Google update some days ago (although my backlinks have increased, needs some time).

Ok, enough? I think so. I try to write some new posts the next week before I go on vacation for two weeks. Maybe I’ll write some more posts that will automatically published while I’m away, let’s see.

Thanks to all my readers for your support and commenting. Keep on reading, tell your friends about your findings here and have some nice days!

Bye,
Querblogger

Posted on 31st July 2008 by Querblogger in Reports, The Making Money Experiment - Tags: ,

Ninth Month Report!

Time is running and already 9 month are gone since I started the Making Money Experiment. I’m still happy with my money making progress and I’m currently working on even more projects that will hopefully bring me even more cash.

Because I’m currently heavily involved in creating a new website, this report should only be a very short one (also because not to bore you all)!

The best money makers for June 2008 were as follows:

  1. $100.00 from Bux.to (also I won’t see this money anytime soon because of many delays)
  2. $38.50 from Selling Links on my blog (no details or links about it, sorry)
  3. $37.00 from Affiliate Sales (thanks to my niche site)
  4. $13.44 from NeoBux, an amazing new PTC. They pay within seconds! :)
  5. $10.67 from My Homepages Friends, a nice Get-Paid-To-Search service
  6. $03.22 from Speedyads, contextual ads like Google Adsense
  7. $02.94 from different other sources like Triond and such

That will give me a total of $205.77 for the month of June, not as much as last month but still very nice!

My blog is still ranked with a Pagerank of 2 and my Alexa rating has levelled of at around 183,000. At the moment I get an average of around 120 unique visitors per day, the last days even more than 150.

July will be a month full of work for me. As you may have noticed, me and Tiberius have stopped our project called Shrtnd.com because it wasn’t really worth it. I’m now working on creating a completely different website at this domain and you may already guess what it is about, no? :)

Ok, should be all for now. Thanks to all my readers, subscribers and especially the many commentors on my blog posts!

See ya,
Querblogger

Posted on 1st July 2008 by Querblogger in Reports, The Making Money Experiment - Tags: , ,

Eighth Month Report!

Month number eight of my Making Money Experiment is over and my earnings have increased a lot compared to the last month. I have more than doubled my money in May.

This report shouldn’t be too long, because I don’t have too much time at the moment. But let me tell you in short about my best money makers for May 2008.

In May I made $192, that’s more than twice the amount of my April earnings ($75). I’m really happy with it, although I hope the numbers will rise in the future.

My Money Makers

My best money maker, like last month, was Bux.to. With help of 72 referrals and my own and almost daily clicking, I made $105 on Bux.to alone. Sure, that’s not the money I already have received in my bank account, but the payment should arrive soon. For now I would call it “theoretical” money… :)

I made $30 from my second affiliate sale. I already reported about it some days ago. Another 30 bucks came from a review I’ve written and published on my blog. Sorry I can’t reveal more details about it.

Also worth to mention is NeoBux, a fairly new PTC site I’ve joined. With help of 31 referrals I made $6.50 from it. Not much compared to Bux.to, but this is mainly because of many inactive referrals in my account.

$13.5 came from selling links on my blog. Although Google doesn’t really like that evil stuff, I think it’s a good way to make some extra cash, as long as the placed links are relevant to your niche.

Finally, around $5 came from contextual advertising with Speedyads. The rest of the money was made from my articles I have published long time ago on Triond.

Some Statistics

In May nearly 3,000 unique visitors came to my blog, most of them searching fro information about Bux.to and NeoBux. Within the last days my blog received around 120 visitors per day.

My blog still has a PageRank of 2 (thank you Google) and my Alexa ranking gets better and better. I now have a ranking of 191,411 with a weekly average of even 164,000!

Final Note

I’m very lucky with how my efforts worked out so far. While constantely working on my blog and other projects like Shrtnd.com for example, I already reap some fruits from it. I make some good money, although I’m not yet able to quit my day job (but I’m working on it). :)

If you too want to make money online, all you need is patience and some strictly set goals!

Cheers,
Querblogger

Posted on 1st June 2008 by Querblogger in Reports, The Making Money Experiment - Tags: , , , ,

Affiliate Marketing - How I Made My First Sale

Today I will give you a real life example on how I made my first affiliate sale from a niche site. Before you read on, please don’t expect some secrets in this post on how to become rich overnight! If you really want to earn money online, you have to work hard for it!. Ok, now I will tell you everything I have personally done to make my first sale online, but please notice that I’m still a noob marketer! Warning! Long post ahead! :)

Although there are different techniques around, affiliate marketing basically consists of the following steps:

  • Choosing a product you want to promote
  • Finding and joining an affiliate program for that product
  • Taking some time for keyword research on phrases people likely would type into search engines
  • Creating a website, blog or landing page around your main keywords, filling it with usefull content while adding your affiliate links
  • Driving traffic to your sites, the more the better
  • Keeping your sites updated and optimizing them for better search engine rankings
  • (Optional) Choosing the next product and repeating the whole process

Sounds easy and understandable? Well, it is easy, but that doesn’t mean there’s no work involved. Trust me, it’s hard work to reach a point where you earn a good amount of money (and I’m still working on it), but in the end it pays off for sure.

Ok, let’s go! See what I’ve done to make my first bucks from affiliate marketing…

Finding a product and affiliate program

The first thing I have done, was searching for the right product to promote. I must admit, this was the easiest step involved in starting my affiliate “career”. As I’m already a member of Clickbank, I thought: “Why not choosing a software title to promote?”. After doing some research on the CB marketplace, I finally found the right product for my upcoming niche site. I won’t reveal too much details here, all I can say is, that it was some kind of system optimizer for the Windows operating system.

I had choosen this product not only because I personally like optimizing my PC everday (I’m not a geek), but also because the product has shown some high gravity on Clickbank. Gravity? Yes, gravity! It’s only another word for the popularity of a product, so to say if it’s hot or not. Another reason for choosing it, was a high commission rate of 65% from the selling price, not bad compared to other affiliate programs.

So, first two steps done. Choosen a product, choosen an affiliate program. Perfect! Now, for some harder work…

Keyword Research - The free way

Before even starting to develop my niche site, I first had to do some good keyword research on the product I’ve choosen short before. I was mainly interested in the number of competing pages and the actual daily search volume for a particular keyword.

So I went to the free Wordtracker Gtrends Tool (unfortunately down at the moment) to enter some keywords that just came into my mind after thinking about the product’s features and benefits. It turned out that the actual name of the product (sorry I really can’t reveal it here) had the most searches and a relatively small amount of competing pages. I started the Gtrends tool for that keyword and found some other long-tail keywords and phrases that had nearly no competition, but at least some searches each day. Perfect keywords for a niche sites, chances were great to get some visitors to my site!

So, I now had the right words and phrases for my affiliate site. I’ve checked how many searches occured each day, and also found the possible number of visitors to a site that is ranked #1 in Google for a given keyword.

All in all, my niche site should get some visitors, even without optimizing it too much…

Creating my Website

After I had found the right keywords and key phrases for my future niche site about a system optimizer software, all I had to do was building the actual site.

The first thing I’ve done was searching for the right domain name for my site. Luckily, I found ine where I could directly put my main keyword in. I simply took the product name (again, I won’t reveal it here), added the words “review” and registered it on Namecheap, a very reliable domain registrar. Please note that I’ve asked for permission to use brand names in my domain, that’s really important in order to stay safe from legal issues!

The hosting for my site wasn’t that problem, because I already had an account on Hostgator, where I was able to host unlimited sites for cheap. So far, they are very reliable and I haven’t faced any downtimes or problems yet. I can only recommend them, especially if you want to start many small websites to make money from!

Ok, domain name bought, hosting ready. Now I had to build my niche site.

I thought about the best way to create my website and although I’m able to program a website by myself with help of HTML and CSS, I’ve choosen a far easier option, Wordpress.

Yes, Wordpress isn’t only a blogging software anymore. You can use it as a full-blown content management system (CMS) if you will. There are dozens of great plugins and themes available online and the best thing is, a Wordpress based site is easy to manage, even for a newbie!

So, I had set up a Wordpress install for my product review site, had choosen a nice template (which shouldn’t be too fancy and graphics loaded) and installed some useful plugins like the All in One Seo Pack or a Sitemap Generator for some SEO (Search Engine Optimization). The site was now ready to be filled with content, the main ingredient for getting quaility traffic and sales…

Content for my Niche Site

The next step involved in setting up my first niche site, was writing the actual content. After setting up the Wordpress install, which I use as some kind of a content management system, writing the content was nothing more than writing skills (also I’m far from being a perfect good average writer) and including the right keywords.

My main focus was writing search engine friendly content that also appeals for readers who like to get a honest review on the product I promote on my site.

So, I’ve written only two blog posts that describe features and benefits of the system optimizer software, the product I choosed to promote and make money from (what else, hehe…)

Each post had a lenght of around 500 to 600 words and contained my main keywords, distributed throughout the whole text. That’s really important for your search engine rankings. Google, to name the big boss on the search engine market, gives more weight to sites that closely rely on given keywords. So, stay focused, but don’t look too spammy with too many keyword phrases.

After the posts were written, I added my Clickbank affiliate link, a banner in the left side menu of my site, and an advertising blog from Speedyads to monetize every kind of traffic that will come to my site.

I also cloaked my affiliate links with a simple PHP redirect. So, instead of having ugly and long affiliate links, I managed to get much nicer ones like domain.com/download.php for example.

So far I was lucky with my efforts, but something was still missing. Yeah!, traffic…

Getting Traffic to my Site

Now you probably think the hardest part of the work was finally over?! Well, I would say the work now really just began.

Driving traffic to a site is a very critical part in making affiliate sales. What would a well-written and keyword rich site be without any traffic? Nothing special in my opinion (and something you won’t ever make money from).

On my first affiliate marketing journey, to give it an other name, I mainly focused on getting organic traffic, meaning visitors from search engines like Google for example. In other words, everything but paid traffic. In order to get organic traffic, a website must at first be listed in search engines, which shouldn’t be a problem. But it must also be listed as high as possible in the search engine results pages (SERPs) , the higher the better.

There are different things you can do to improve your rankings. Besides wrtiting quality content, which I’ve already done, you have to gain backlinks to your site. Each link back to your site counts as a vote to your site.l The more votes you can get, the higher your rankings get and therfore the more traffic will reach your website.

Because the best backlinks come from high PageRank sites, my goal was to focus on gaining exactly those links.

The first thing I’ve done was submitting my site to some hundred online directories. I used a software called Directory Submitter to automate a huge part of this hard (and boring) work. I can only recommend this tool, the free edition includes some hundred directories to start with, worth a try!

The next, and probably best step was submitting articles to high PageRank article directories like Ezinearticles for example. This strategy, also known as article or bum marketing, helps alot in increasing your search engine rankings. I’ve therefore written some articles that deal about the system optimizer software I promote, most times background information and benefits from using that software.

Most article directories give you the option to include a closing paragraph, where you can set a link to the site you’re promoting. This way, after publishing the articles, you’ll get free high PageRank backlinks to your niche site. I submitted three articles to three different article directories. I haven’t submitted them all at once, but one after another over the course of one or two weeks.

The last step worth to mention, was writing a Squidoo lens about the software. Especially Google really loves Squidoo lenses, most time they rank very well in the search results. Of course I’ve also included links back to my site! Squidoo even allows affiliate links within your len’s content, a great promotion tool.

There are many more ways to drive traffic to your sites, including paid campaigns for example, but I won’t go any deeper here. Feel free to google your way to more information, I’m sure you’ll find what you’re looking for!

All in all, after some days my site received its first traffic from Google. I checked my current rankings and found my site at position 14 from over 300,000 directly competing pages. You see the power of article marketing?

Althoug my site rank wasn’t the best, I still received 5 to 10 unique visitors a day. It’s not much, I know, but mainly because I focused on a reall tiny niche. Anyway, the traffic was enough to bring me my first sale after only one month after starting this site. I was really surprised to see $30 in my Clickbank account!

Conclusion

Now you know how much work is involved in setting up even a small niche site. From searching a product and affiliate program, over keyword research and writing content, to driving traffic to your niche site, it’s a long way to make your first sale.

But it’s also really worth it. With some routine and a good amount of passion, everyone should be able to set up a niche site within only a week or so. If a site works out and makes at least some money, start the next one and repeat the process. It’s up to you. But don’t completely forget about your already started sites, optimization should be an ongoing task for you, although you won’t have to spend your whole time for it.

I hope you found my post at least a bit helpful. All things I’ve achieved the last month are nothing compared to what a “real” affiliate marketer deals with everyday. I knwo about this, but I’m proud enough to tell you my noob story here, it’s another goal I’ve reached. I now know that affiliate marketing really works and I would be dumb if I wouldn’t put any more efforts in it. Other projects are already in planning phase, so stay tuned!

See you soon,
Querblogger

PS: I’ll soon write about a new project from my friend Tiberius Burciu, owner of My PPC Advertising. Well…you’ll see! :)

Seventh Month Report!

Once again it’s time for a new report. April is over now and I’m glad to say that it made me the highest monthly income so far. It’s also the first time I made an affiliate sale, I will tell about it in short.

Besides porting my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted Wordpress install, April was mainly characterized by two things I’ve done to make money online. The first things was buying more referrals for Bux.to in order to increase my daily earnings, the second thing was setting up my first niche website to generate affiliate commissions.

In April I made a total of $75, where $40 came from Bux.to, $30 from affiliate sales and the rest from other money makers like Triond or Speedyads (contextual ads on my blog) for example.

The last days I have bought 65 referrals for Bux.to and I’m currently making around $3.5 a day. I’m also waiting for my second payment of $75 to my brand new Bux.to Mastercard. Bux.to is definitely the best PTC at the moment. It has incredible huge income potential (it’s not a scam, I already got paid and many others too). I will invest more into this site in order to increase my daily earnings even more. But I will only invest money that I already have earned from clicking ads on this site.

This month I’ve also set up my first niche site, which I use for affiliate marketing. I won’t reveal the site’s address here (I don’t want more competition). All I can say is, that I have around 300,000 competitors for my choosen keyword and the site is already ranked at position 24 in the Google SERPS. That in turn means, I get some targeted search engine traffic and therefore sales. This month I made my first sale, which brought me an instant $30 to my Clickbank account (yes, I promote a Clickbank product). All I have done for starting this niche site, was setting up a Wordpress blog with only 2 keyowrd oriented posts on it. Combined with some articles that I’ve published on different article directories, I have increased the overall site ranking very fast. I will tell you more about my attempts in one of my next posts.

In April my blog received his first Pagerank. I now have a PR 2 blog, thanks Google! My Alexa ranking has increased to 427,078 with an weekly average of around 200,000. This month 1,610 unique visitors found their way to my blog, that’s an average of 50+ visitors a day. I have to definitely increase this traffic for the future. My feed subscriber count shows 20 at the moment, well…far away from perfect.

Ok, this should be all for now. Check my latest post about NeoBux for a brand new money maker! More information will come this month, I’ll go into some details about affiliate marketing (or call it “serious” money making) and many aother things. So, stay tuned!

Bye,
Querblogger

Posted on 1st May 2008 by Querblogger in Reports, The Making Money Experiment - Tags: , ,

Will Stumble for Links!

Everybody likes them, everybody needs them. Free Stumbles! You don’t know what I’m talking about? Ok, let me tell you in short and find out how to get free Stumbles from me!

First of all, a Stumble is comparable to a vote on a website or blog you like. If you have installed the StumbleUpon toolbar, you can rate any site you stumbled upon with a so called “Thumbs Up” if you like it. The more Stumbles a website gets, the more popular it will be for the online community and therefore receive more traffic. Sometimes it’s possible to get some thousand visitors within hours (as I’ve seen by myself on this blog).

Anyway, you may be interested in getting those free stumbles and can’t wait any longer? Well, read on!

Today I will start a nice “service” where you can receive up to 20 free Stumbles from me. All you have to do in exchange, is linking back to my blog from your blogs or websites. Easy, isn’t it?

Ok, all you have to do, is to provide a link back to my blog (http://www.makingmoneyexperiment.com) with the following anchor text (choose one randomly please):

  • Make Money Online
  • Money Making Infos
  • The Making Money Experiment

The next step is to write a comment on this post. First you have to provide the website address where you placed my link, so I can first check it. Use the provided field in the comment dialogue where you can enter the address. Second thing is to write down up to 20 websites/blogs/blog posts you would like to have stumbled from me.

That’s all. I will check if you have set the backlink to my blog and then start stumbling your sites!

Another thing worth to mention is that you’re sites should already be stumbled at least on time (if there’s one link that isn’t already stumbled, I’ll “discover” it for you…but no more). You also shouldn’t remove the backlink immediately after I’ve stumbled your sites , I will give you a “Thumbs down” then. The best would be if you leave it there forever ;).

Ok, this should be all for now. You set the link, I will give you the Stumbles!
Querblogger

StumbleUpon

PS: Please allow some days before I’ll stumble your sites, I’m a busy person! :)

Posted on 17th April 2008 by Querblogger in StumbleUpon, The Making Money Experiment - Tags: , ,