Getting small drops of money daily from articles

On countless occasions you have probably stumbled upon numerous articles and blog posts, videos and aplenty other resources for what you had typed into Google or another search engine. Well, what you also came across was nothing other than information. Or content. And if you didn’t know it by know – content makes money.




Today there are unlimited ways to even start making money with your content. That content could either be in the form of video, photos, music files and pdf files – however the dominating and most important content form remain written articles or posts. Information in the form of written words that is being picked up by the search engines for when people make a search on Google, Bing or Yahoo is important for blog owners or website masters as it brings traffic to their blogs or sites – and that means money.

The basic way in which bloggers make money remain ‘advertising revenue’. There more than 20 established ways to make money with advertisements on a blog, the most notably PPC – which the blogger is getting paid at a ‘pay-per-click’ basis. Thus each time someone clicks on an advertisement on a site or blog – someone could be paid $0.01, $0.10, $1 or sometimes even $10 per click.

Bloggers make sustainable amounts of money to their blogs as long as they keep getting sustainable traffic to it. And for that to work – they simply must get free traffic from the search engines.

Today there are also countless of websites (as well as blogs) to write for and get directly paid such as Constant Content; to write articles on and be a member of such a site in aid of backlinks or traffic as a direction to a specific landing page such as Ezine Articles. The basic reason for this is for benefits such as clicking on ads of a site, getting subscriptions to a blog – or even making direct sales from there.

Then there off course other article sites and places to write for such as Content Caboodle and Associated Content, Ehow etc.

There are even websites such as Hubpages and Squidoo which are of the popular web 2.0 sites where you can create an informative, interesting ‘lens’ or ‘hub’ and in the so doing get a share of revenue from any of the money earned from Google Adsense from these sites.

There are also other web 2.0 platforms such as Wordpress.com and Blogger.com where you can create a free blog. Add video, pictures – adding as much content to those site (although you won't be able to make money with these free blogs though).



If you keep searching over the internet – I am utmost sure that you will also come across thousands and thousands of very good blogs that will pay you to write articles and blog posts. What you can do is to type in the words “Write for us” in Google. You will get endless of websites and blogs to write for. And be paid through Paypal, Payza - or basically any way in which you would want to be paid.

To your success.

How to get bags of cash from Constant Content

Populated by the most talented writers and renowned for the best quality of written artwork online, Constant Content is by far the internet’s most sophisticated, trusted and respected content marketplace to buy and sell your unique content.



If you are someone who’s good at coming up with insightful; enchanting; constructively persuasive content – you are need by literally hundreds of thousands of small firms and companies, bloggers and website master at a constant basis – and they wanted that articles by yesterday already! And you should be in a hurry as there are enormous fluxes of individuals who are standing ready with cash in their hands to get at you.

If you know you are an unbelievably talented writer that might be able to write fluent articles, without spelling mistakes and with the most perfect sentence structures – Constant Content is your answer and you need to hurry to them. But be warned. There are numerous people submitting their articles and blog posts to Constant Content for review to put it on their site for sale – and eventually get their articles rejected.



Let this not be an issue and down turn to you! The reason is that Constant Content constantly keep a high standard of quality in the reward to leave an over satisfactory  feeling to its customers over and over again – that’s why they keep coming back.

Things you need to know about Constant Content before submitting.

There are a few freelance writers that hate sites and companies like Constant Content for the very reason that they ask such a hefty fee when they as the writers are actually doing all the hard work and get very little reward for it.

Constant Content asks a 35% commission from sales of anything that sell on their site. You who would be the owner of that particular intellectual property will get the 65%. That really sounds too much too many people – or only at first hand. If you decide to sell an article for $50 – you get $32, while Constant Content will be getting $17.50

There are a lot of people that are exactly selling their written work at these prices, while some under price it at just $5-$15 – in the very hope of getting a lot more sales, off course.

You really don’t need to go that low to get something sold on Constant Content.

Let’s take a look at some benefits at Constant Content:

• Unlike marketplaces for content such as Odesk and the likes where prices are predetermined for you, you can decide to sell your articles AT ANY PRICE YOU WISH at Constant Content.

• You can answer public or private requests.

With answering public requests it is meant that you can reply to customers looking for specific articles. Constant Content will be sending you emails daily to the email address you gave them when you have signed up as a free member, and notify you of all the requests of potential customers that want specific articles on a specific subject – and sometimes they might give the specific headline or title as well.

With answering private requests is when someone specifically asks you to write an article for them. This could be that they have clicked on your profile and like the subjects of articles you write about or that they had purchased previous articles from you and was very satisfied with the high quality of article you carved out.

Things to look on for passing Constant Content’s review process:

Before you ever submit to Constant Content it is important that you read through your article over and over. Even if it would mean that you will need to go through it 100 times. Check not just your spelling – but also your sentence structures. Sometime when even your paragraphs are too long – you get a rejection.

Remember – Constant Content’s review process for a quality article bypasses even that of Ezine Articles’ review process tenfold. Your article will be sold – and Constant Content’s reputation is on talks here. Your article thus must be perfect!

Before you submit, read their guidelines on article submission again – and make sure you are credible. Also go through the Writer’s Guidelines and Writer’s Tutorial before you submit your very first article for approval.

A good thing will always be to write at least 10 articles in the first two or three weeks – in aid of building up your profile. One thing that’s important to the customers who would want to buy articles is that they will need to see who the person is who they’d want to buy an article from  - and what articles he or she have written before. Thus do upload a picture of you and write something purposeful related to your work as a writer.

All these things might sound a bit complicated and difficult – but believe me the moment you start doing all the needed things you need to do – you’ll be making money. And that’s actually all that would be counting for you in the first place.

Usually it takes 3 articles with Constant Content to bypass their strictest approval process. Then you’re through and everything could go much faster. (Normally an approval review could take 3-4 days.)

Seeing to it that there are so many people that don’t really mind about the prices of $50-$250 per article – you can make an outright great big deal of money there. With articles that are always popular such as those in relationships, parenting, seo, the make money online niche, business, finance and health – you shouldn’t need to have a problem getting sales from Constant Content.

So go and create an account today, and tell me how you are doing there.

How to continuously profit from ebooks + Digital Stores

If you fail at affiliate marketing in every possible way and are bad at writing masterpieces for content or articles to profit in this way as well – chances are that you’re really not going to make money on the internet at all. I don’t want to be pessimistic – but face it. It would be understandable in not being able to have that special thing for writing, but other than that – it takes serious of continuous of hard work with marketing or promoting products on the internet – before even reaping $1 out of it. Do you agree?

From the thousands of ways that one can make money on the internet, it’s still going to pretty much remain the same as to how you would be making money in the traditional world. And by that – I mean the real world we are living in, off course. That thing is: commodity. Someone who can buy. If that thing (person) won’t be there – money isn’t going to be there. It’s simple. It’s logical. On the internet, lots and lots of people struggle and fail – because they can’t get people to see whatever they are promoting.

With Digital Stores offering you the opportunity to sell digital downloads through them – is like money offered to you on a platter. Can you guess why? They have the traffic. You have the product. You just need to trade your duplicatable products for money . . . How fascinating, isn’t it?

What are probably very ongoing great sellers, are ebooks. Caught within those digital pages are information that people just want to get their hands on. Whether it’s just another said brilliant way to make money; about how to get your relationship up back and running again; whether about how to keep your pets healthy – or how to burn those fats within a few days just before your Christmas holiday in Australia. Ebooks are knock-out sellers all the time. But with one or two ebooks you won’t be making money upfront, just like that. In fact even if it were to be a very popular ebook – you might still not make a sale.

Not even while selling it on digital stores as I say?

No. The simple thing to come off to why this is so: Just use your logic. What does logic tell you? If you can’t think of anything upstairs there, well, let me just list two inbound details:

1 By trying to sell one ebook, will dramatically decrease your chances to make sales

2 By selling a popular ebook for a lot of money, you will actually work at nullifying your chances at making a sale.

With utilizing Digital stores – you can only fully benefit from it if you’re really going to be active in it. Sorry to say if you might be someone who don’t have the time or are looking for a TOO easy way to make money on the internet!



Digital stores can let you earn anything from $1-$100 every day. That, logically, is going to dependant on how much ebooks you have stored within their databases.  If you’ll be blessed enough to have 20,30 or 50 ebooks that are interesting, expensive and deemed to sell, thrown on at least 5 different stores – logically –  you will have 100’s of chances to make sales . . .

Ha! Don’t get excited just too soon. Simply by having many ebooks on more than one store is not optimally going to skyrocket the chances of you making sales and more sales every single day.

So what exactly would that be?

That, my Friend is called . . .  Guess what? It’s called logic. Mind me talking about logic all the time – but you really need it to survive online.

Just think about it for a minute. People, and even you, everyone would want expensive products or programs or the best thing that is on the market – but they don’t exactly want to pay the market price for it.



By selling your ebooks for less than their average price on the internet – you will make people want to flee to you for whatever the name of your ebook(s) are. That’s the magic. But make it even more dramatic. If people don’t know what the prices of your items are – show them. Make them understand that yours are very much more affordable versus other people who sell the exact same thing as you do. Usually this creates the atmosphere that your potential buyers don’t have any time to even think about it: They’ll just buy your product! Who is going to leave something when you know it costs $50 and $60 elsewhere and they can instantly get it at $5 or $6?

If you don’t quite understand what I’m talking about – see here at my post about how to make money without lifting a finger.

How to start making money off of Digital Stores

I don’t know many places where you can sell digital products for absolutely free for the first 30 days, other than Payloadz. Usually stores such as E-junkie and Tradebit ask a fee upfront. So I suggest you try out this way to make money with. I do have a few Resell Rights Programs at my post about making money shockingly easy with Payloadz and ebooks that you may resell for full profits and for cheaper.

There are also other digital stores such as Cerizmo, Bubdee and Modularmerchant where you can sell. In fact there are probably 100’s of them. But do choose only about 10 of them and concentrate at giving as much details about your ebooks to other.

At the end of the day, let me know whether you are making a daily $10-$50 from your flawless way of making money without the need to go look for people.

Global brand Twitter to outgrow growth Forecasts

Just like Facebook used to be a financially struggling company, Twitter was never any better off. Came 2010, it became light that Facebook got the green light for being financially sound – for the first time – whilst an impressive revenue future is waving. Now, the same good following is about to hit Twitter as traffic growth and Twitter-awareness continue to boom non-stop – beyond forecasts and expectations.


The website twitter.com grew from being ranked globally by the Alexa Company as the 11th most visited site to the 9th biggest in the world – with the short timeframe of a mere month. With this, Twitter kicked Microsoft’s search portal, msn.com, out of the top 10 to the 11th place – and left the world’s biggest gaming site, qq.com, behind at the 10th position. Within just a month. All this, while twitter.com stagnated at the 11th position in the world for at least half a year.

As more and more data reveal that over 40 corporations fall into bankruptcy every single day, many smaller companies either remain deeply indebted or keep struggling to keep business afloat, the cause of less business revenue flowing through. A solution to this worrisome state of business doesn’t seem to lie far at resolving, though. It appears that while the world is in a grip of recession and a prolonged crisis; the internet is a bustling and blossoming world that keeps attracting people like a magnet to it. It becomes clear to realize that the very same commodity of business in the traditional world, the masses of people, is continually migrating to the internet.

It is internet companies such as Twitter that heavily benefit from this. Even those new to ‘internet-consciousness’ , this evolution that’s taking place, who don’t know anything about the internet, often discovers what the web could provide them through Google and social media like Facebook and Twitter. Thus even before going anywhere more and more people from all continents are brought closer to each other via these communication tools such as Twitter. This has become an invitation to companies throughout the world to take advantage of this opportunity of the importance to migrate their business to the internet and optimally utilizing the functions of social networking services such as Twitter in aid as a powerful communication tool between companies and consumers; spurred off by customers who could ask their friends around the web for recommendations and opinions about various products and services from various companies.

Today millions of corporations are already active on Twitter, including the most smallest entrepreneurial businesses out there to even government organizations and broadcasting corporations, artists, actors, the film industry – all right trough the bank. According to experts ‘tweeting’ or chatting/communicating in general with friends and acquaintances online – creates the exact same ‘relaxed atmosphere’ from the very ‘tense atmosphere’ of financial stresses you’re in – similar to the coffee-shop boom when the recession stroked in 2008 and people felt to just relax with a cup of coffee at a restaurant or coffee-shop.


Twitter’s revenue is also about to burst, unofficially, beyond the expected $150 million of revenue this year. Also seeing to it that more people are becoming conscious of the Twitter brand and more people, especially in Africa, are connecting via mobile phones instead of desktop computers. Lastly add to the fact that the internet is at the brink of reaching 2 Billion internet users – almost a third of the entire world’s population.

With all this said, it seems as if the speculated $1.5 Billion revenue of Twitter in 2013 isn’t that far out fetched.

In the light that twitter.com managed to overpower two giant websites in the world in a single month, especially Microsoft’s msn.com that have been present with the modern internet as we know it, since the very beginning, and thus always been ranked and seen as one of the top ten sites in the world – it is arguable that twitter.com could make its way pass Microsoft’s live.com, replacing the site as the 5th most powerful site in the world in the not too distant future.

How to use Digitalpoint forums for quick cash

Digitalpoint forums are undoubtedly the biggest forum site when it comes to buying and selling things between ordinary internetarians – however it’s also a way to make big money when you only have $0.



Apart from the various forms that one can make money from Digitalpoint, like making money with Adsense revenue (you get a share of the advertising revenue raised from your posts), selling your Avatar space to others who might think that doing so could give them some traffic exposure - or even selling your ‘signature space’, ‘recent blog space’ and even ‘location space’ – you can actually make some real money selling directly.

The usual common ways of making money on Digitalpoint forums could even quite become a large variety with even including some other tasks such as commenting on blogs and be paid a few cents per comment; writing blog posts or articles; helping with website design . . . The list could go on. What one reads out of this, is that you can become a freelance worker there – but in reality, quite an underpaid one. You can really be doing anything, anything of service that you could possibly think of – on DP. However, especially getting paid ad revenue, signature links etc., it is dependent on how much posts you would have created/ made. A person with 1000 posts will obviously do quite fine at making some decent money - just for being such an active member on DP. Alas, what are the chances that one can up with the time to post so many threads?

If you would be creating an account with Digitalpoint today – and you really only have $0 : what are you going to do?

The first thing obviously, if you don’t have an account yet to receive money into, you will need to create an account with Paypal – which is the largest form of exchanging money throughout the internet. You could also request money with Alertpay and Moneybookers from the people that will need to pay you. Most members of DP actually do create different accounts for receiving money when doing different things – so just make sure they will be able to pay you through your choice of payment before considering taking on a job.

If you’ve got that covered: you’ll need to make your way through to the “Freebies” section.


The Freebies section of Digitalpoint forums is where people interact with each other with giving out and asking for tasks and small jobs to do. In this section, just as it is referring to, is where you can also get free things or next to free items. This is where you will start at looking for small jobs to do to earn your first few dollars online! This could be blog commenting; help people to vote up stories such as Digg, Mixx, StumbleUpon, as well as linking someone’s stories clicking on Facebook ‘like’ buttons . . . There is going to be a lot of small jobs and thousands of people standing by for it – so be ready. You’ll most likely to be get paid something between $0.10 and $0.20 doing one task at a time that may take you 10 seconds or sometimes a minute or two.

Once you had generated enough money like $5 or $10 or $20 – do look for some ‘freebie’ or bargain items on the Forum or even somewhere else online. Most of the time, you won’t be getting out real value from just an ordinary software or product or information – unless it would be something that comes with ‘Resell Rights’ or ‘Master Resell Rights’.  Ever heard about those words? They are magical words! They can make you a ton of money over and over and over again. Besides, while you won’t be necessarily have a blog or website – these products won’t help you one bit. To solve this – you’ll need to resell your ebook(s)/software  - but it must have Resell Rights with it.

After you had made at least 10 posts on Digitalpoint Forums - you'll be ready to start utilising the most popular category inside DP: The 'Buy, Sell or Trade' one.








The Ebook section – how to make $100 a day with nothing but an ebook



If you by any chance succeeded at buying an ebook or two or three with the money you have earned . . . you’ll be lucky. Without a website (or blog) and no intelligent mind of a novice blogger who’s been online since a long time – you now have the opportunity to stick out your ebook and actually do something with it: making money.

One creative idea I figured out as a Digitalpoint member (but I wasn’t that smart at first doing this) was to NOT MENTION what my ebook was about.

I had been selling ebooks and random software programs on DP before but have never made $100 or more in one single day from it. Not until I did this. There are a lot of DP members who continuously do this by captivating their potential buyers in not telling them everything the ebook is about. It probably works for them all of the time – that’s why I wanted to see what this technique was all about. The results were that instead of making 3 or 4 sales, I easily made 20.

All that you basically do is to lure your audience with some fancy heading like: ‘How to get 500 PR7 backlinks in one week for free’.

This will cause reactions. People will swarm to that specific threat. They will reply by posting comments and posts, asking questions. You will never tell them everything. In fact, you never tell them nearly everything. You just make them more curious.

There will always be the ‘busy bodies’ in Digitalpoint Forums. The people whose foreheads are written on: ‘Review Copy’. Yes, a review copy is important – but I advice not to give it entirely for free. Ask them $1 or $2 for a review copy when you decide to sell your ebook for $10.

Eventually when you gave out review copies, which means that you gave a copy of the ebook to people who will be in turn reviewing your ebook, they will come back to the post after they would have read it and give their opinions about the ebook. Usually they will rate it from a score out of 10 as well.

It causes a tremendous response from those who are at this stage very, very curious.

As more reviews come through, while not yet revealing what the ebook that you are selling is about – curiosity will eventually kill the cat. In other words, you will be making easy peasy  sales.

If you had thought that it would be too hard at making real money on the internet even without a website and no money –you’ll just need to reapply your knowledge once more.  It just takes a little bit of effort and time – but it never needs to take a week or two to start making money online. Even while just being a Newbie.

How to create pieces of artwork for posts? Use PLR articles

If you’re not that good at writing or are bad at coming up with mind-blowing, unique ideas for content – just start looking around for PLR articles – and you’d be amazed at what you would be able to carve out of old dusty content.

PLR (Private Label Rights) articles are common to be published, usually, by what I would refer to as desperate bloggers and webmasters in need for content – and I don’t even need to mention why – but I’m going to anyway. It’s to generate as much advertisement revenue as possible from it.

In an internet world driven by content and information – every blog or website must regain continuous of these, in order to survive and keep getting a sustained amount of traffic. Content is thus the lifeblood of a blog and can’t exist without it. Take everything away – and the site dies. No-one visits it – and it becomes of no use. Seed it with lots and lots of overflowing content – and it flourishes.


Every blogger and webmaster knows about this story. That’s exactly why some of them would even go about doing lots of unwanted or unimpressive things to save them at getting content easier and cheaper ultimately in the hope to spare them the time and effort to do next to nothing. . . Are you one of those bloggers?



The most common, odd advice I would like to give you is to settle down. Relax. And to start from scratch all over again. This time at a much slower and organic pace – all in all to build up the ‘reputation’ of your blog.

Go and do a search for PLR articles online related to your niche, whether about blogging or whether about gardening. Mostly you will come off of websites where you will need to pay for these articles. That’s not a bad thing, in fact: I strongly suggest you actually do pay to buy them. Usually these articles would come in ‘packs’ of 10,20,25,50,100 even 1000’s. Seeing to it that they are so affordable – it is not even mentionable that you should go for those bigger packages such as 500 or 1000 that will only cost you $5 or $10. Just make sure on whether you buy that what would be within your niche. For whatever package you would be deciding on, at a per article basis it’s probably going to cost you $0.01 or less.

Most novice bloggers might not totally agree with me on all I say here that PLR articles might be one way to further trigger your ideas for writing. It’s a total fact that these type of articles, widely distributed and largely free to everyone, would give your blog any standout presence – neither is it to help improve building your blog’s reputation for that matter. In fact, in most cases they would tend to be so bad that one can hardly call it an ‘article’.

At first, that’s exactly why I advise you to rather buy these articles, instead of looking for a free one – to make sure that you’ll sort the bad ones from the good ones right in the first place. Logically, these would just be good-for-nothing weeds growing on hundreds of other websites.

Secondly – I’m not suggesting (and never did) that you should ‘publish’ these articles you buy! I’m merely coming up with an idea here on how you can let your creative juices flowing again.

Don’t you think it’s one way to at least try it out: Paying $0.01 for per idea? Off course you’re really not going to like every article. But it’s about the insights, the ideas locked up within those articles.

Who knows? Maybe you’ll be able to really carve something quite unique from those articles. It might even create unthought-of unique content opportunities rarely being discussed by even novice bloggers . . .

Shouldn’t we be more conscious about the outer world?

Just yesterday as I was walking towards a parking bay on my way home, I was passing a tramp, and at a distance, he was waving and screaming at me: “Just wait there, just wait there!” Almost as if giving me an order. And yes. I froze. Stood still. But being unsure. As while this tramp nears me, his friend, further away also comes closer. They seemed tempered; at the same time in rags and tatters. And yet still. I immediately felt a bit threatened by this homeless neglected middle-aged man’s informal approach. A bit drunk, but with a strong body-build for someone who rarely gets something good to eat – not to be mistaken about. Suddenly I became aware of his hand suspiciously “hidden” in his pocket and his odd body language. Perhaps a knife he is hiding and just wait at the right moment to do what he needs to do?, I asked myself quite anxiously as the other one also came closer.



“I don’t have any money”, I said in haste and became in a hurry myself. He stopped me again, and then politely asked me: “Don’t you have a R2 for me. I don’t have any bread – I live on the streets.”

As he talked a daily routine, I realized, I only then at that instant moment also became aware of how bulgy my wallet stood in the left pocket of my jeans, and quickly tried to hide it with my sweater, my silver watch on my arm.

“Please, we won’t hurt you.” the other one replied as the first still talked non-stop. I asked questions such as Why do you live on the streets? And Why are you not living at your double story house anymore? “I don’t have any money.”, I replied in finality, anyway. “No, I’m not lying.”

Should I just give the R2 to these people just so that they can see I have more? Will they grab my wallet at this time . . . Will giving them what they want let them learn that they will need to work for themselves? . . .

At the intrusion of my thoughts, a hand came out of the pocket of the man who approached me first. There was no knife. In fact. He looked even more . . . Desperate? For food? Or was it sympathy they had sought? Or was that vulnerability? Did they fell vulnerable? To whom? Vulnerable to their selves? Of life?

“I don’t have any money.”

This incident urged me to realize how vulnerable, in conclusion, we all as human beings really are. And how desperately we need each other more than our worldly possessions. Of how we must also, at the same time, become more aware of the things that we can prevent in our future life. Because it’s only us. We decide how we want to live our lives. Then we are also fully responsible for whatever happens alongside and inside of our lives.

I cannot give anyone the blame if it would have came that I was mugged. Because I didn’t really thought about the fact that I can get mugged. I can’t say it would’ve been anyone else’s fault when I would have lost my credit card and debit cards and never took the time to plan and write down all those details down and store it in a safe place.

At the end of the day, we must become aware of the things around us. The little things we cannot see with our fast bypassing lives.

Make abundant money with affiliate marketing

Apart from making money through blogging, affiliate marketing is one of the most common ways to make staggering amounts of profits from the internet and one of the easiest sources to get money from.

Many internet dwellers, at least 70% of them, must have read some article about internet marketing before – or most likely – came off of an affiliate product itself. Offering the moon and the stars. (Or at least most of them do). People always tend to get the “too good to be true” feeling from this – and immediately leave – distrusting any possible opportunity it might have had to realize.




Making money from affiliate sales, apart from the uncertainty of the reputation of individual affiliate products, is one market affluent that shouldn't quite be underestimated when it comes to wealth potential. There are literally hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through the internet – just from sales dedicated to the affiliate marketing niche alone.

The chances that you'd already know what affiliate marketing is, even though you'd think you don't know, is more than 50%. The concept of affiliate marketing is nothing new; it has just been revolutionized online. In its most simple form: it's when you market/promote someone else's products and as a payment/reward you get a certain amount from the sold item(s).

So it's just like selling Avon products or as another example, selling health products.  The only revolutionized difference from Avon products which are physical products is that affiliate products are virtual. This changes everything. It changes the world. With promoting, distributing and doing word-of-mouth marketing with example Avon products, plus keeping those physical goods at your home, you'll need to go through the trouble meeting and explaining to dozens of people face to face, one by one about the product(s). You'll need to order those products and probably pay for courier or postage costs. Going through quite a lot for just a tiny little commission of 10% or sometimes a maybe 25%. With becoming an affiliate, marketing virtual products, you'll note that almost everywhere you'll look you'd be offered a 50%-75% share of the money.



But let me just share with you something which is most probably the interesting part of affiliate marketing: Whatever you're doing, you actually DON'T sell anything.

One thing, in particular, I have noted, is that some dubious bloggers and article writers tend to make public that by becoming an affiliate or affiliate marketer, you are a “seller”. This is misleading – as you aren't selling anything. You have no payments to process, no place to store whatever needs to be downloaded – in fact at first you don't even have the website to create the sales copy for it. When you're an affiliate marketer and reach your possible customers via an article through an article directory or on a web 2.0 interface such as hubpages, or a blog – you are merely going to redirect them to the page where that specific product will be situated. That is not selling. That's merely recommending something to someone - in detail. Assisting that person with something he/she, most likely, would have been interested in buying and made a search on Google to see whether there are a few people who have been using it or someone who could tell him generally more about the product.

Providing the consumer with information other than that what he/she would have been getting from the sales page. If you can create an insightful atmosphere through your words, advice and recommendations of your products, the person reading it would feel as if he'd want to sit down on his couch and seriously take into account what you have to say there. On the other hand, force the product to your potential customer – and he'll totally ignore you.

Where to get Affiliate products from

The biggest role players on the internet in the field of affiliate marketing is big names such as Amazon, Clickbank, Commission Junction and even Ebay. They even have 10,000’s of different products for you to choose from. However, there are thousands of other affiliate networks that simply must be taken advantage of, as well.

The first thing you should be thinking about upon deciding which company or individual's product to start promoting is finding out when exactly you'd be getting paid and through which way. The basic cash-out form is via check or Paypal. In the case that you live in a non-Paypal country (where you can't link your local bank account with your Paypal account for withdrawals) – you're going to be forced to get your money through check. This will result in you eventually receiving your money 6-10 weeks after you have actually earned it. (Depending on where you live + the bank clearance time after you received your check.)

Or you could also look for affiliate networks that will pay you through other payment forms such as Payza or 2Checkout – something that will still be faster than a check and a payment system that is supportive in the country you live in.

Believe me. When you'd be receiving your money two months after the time you earned it – it will impact your appetite for affiliate marketing and will kill your desire and spirit to continue.



How to promote affiliate products

I have seen lots of affiliates that, recklessly, promote their products in several of forms. Some of it being at such very eerie places – I don't even want to mention it. It's also not such a good idea to post ads in free classified directories. It's free and it's easy – but there's really not anything rewarding about any of the two. I'll give you two good reasons why to not do this: You're wasting your time posting ads. So many ads are continuously being placed by thousands of people, causing that your ad will immediately drop to the 10^th, 50^th or even 100^th place – to the bottom of the list. It's unnecessary to mention that no-one will see your ad. Number two, is that by merely posting ads – you aren't providing any real quality of information about the product you promote – and you thus nullify your chances at someone buying your product(s).

Some affiliate would even go as far and bet their money on Google Adwords. If you don't know what Google Adwords is: It's a way to get immediate people to wherever you want them to go – but this comes at a cost. A cost of a per-click basis. By using Adwords, you will need to pay for every person that will be visiting your  product's page a certain amount. By experience – this will be around $1 per click. It means that you would need to pay $100 for getting about 100 people to see your products . . . If you don't know anything about Google Adwords – you're going to cry like a baby as Google will spare you no cent all the while, in most cases, be left with nothing.

There are thousands upon thousands of affiliates who are making use of article directories – writing very informative and triggering articles. The reason they do this is because they utilize keywords at their full advantage at gaining as much people to read their article(s) as possible. Article Directories usually rank very high in Google (or at least those with a good Google Pagerank). By combining research about what people type into Google and writing about exactly that – affiliates thus succeeds at gaining sales this way.

Things to note for when also writing articles:

Ezine Articles is known for being the premier article directory online – however don't support affiliate links at all. I advise you thus to make sure that when following this way to get people to see your products – to check for article directories that do support your links.



How to increase your chances to make affiliate sales?

There are numerous small things that you could implement to improve the chances at getting a bigger chance at making sales, by way of a bigger response percentage. To all the people visiting your product pages.

However, the most important thing will obviously be the way in how you will approach the person who will be reading your presentation about the product – and the way it will be presented is going to be seriously important. It could determine whether that person would be intrigued, would stay longer, even click through on your links to your product – or would just be leaving the soonest he had landed on you recommendation of the product. Whatever that would be.

Utilize web 2.0 websites in conjunction to your article marketing practices.

This is one of the biggest things that will impact a sale. Are you only going to have an article? With no picture and stuff to enchant your visitors? With web 2.0 websites such as Hubpages you could really go a long way in preparing yourself exactly how the page is going to look what your potential customer is going to look at. Squidoo does seem to be the most popular when it comes to providing more informative content, called lenses. Thus, if you don't have a blog or a website to do your own things – just use Squidoo. You could also make money (although very small amounts) with Hubpages and Squidoo – but then again, this post is nothing about it.

Also upon deciding exactly which product to choose, choose logically. Choose something that isn't so widely marketed by others – but something that do seem to yourself as a decent product that is without fluff. And then – also very important – the price. Would you be thinking about getting that $100 product and get the 75% commission – that will easily give you a $75? Think logically. Choose a more reasonable amount of product to buy – people don't have money to just throw around. Something between $20-$30 would do just fine – and $15 would trigger a suspicion about whether it's that cheap.

Upon deciding to become an affiliate or not – should be yours and no-one's decision but your own. So if you think that affiliate marketing is really something that is just over hyped and that one can't really make $3,000 or more with it – thanks for making more space for others that think different.

To your success.

How often does Google crawl and update your blog?

In the blogosphere, there are basically three things most bloggers are quite concerned about – nervously almost all of the time:

• The amount of backlinks that are pointing to their blog, that in turn,

•  Determines the PageRank of such blog’ front page.

These two factors dramatically impacts Google’s overall standpoint of view of a blog and what rankings it should apply towards it; which directly reflects:

•  At how often Google would crawl and update it.

Most probably you would ask, who is just a reader, the internet guy who visits multiple websites daily – why on earth these bloggers would be having such a huge infatuation with these three ranking factors as if their lives are at stake?

The simplest answer? It’s money. But I’d advice not to even ask this question out loud. As I’m sure that some bloggers would probably bite your head off. (Even just for asking – as how could you even be asking that??) Ok. Perhaps I’m just (slightly) a bit paranoid. (Typically just like them.)

But really – why, specifically, would bloggers be so worried about how often Google would be updating their blogs?

With Google, which is definitely the strongest search engine on the planet with most earthlings going over there – it makes perfect sense why. Especially, while Google easily get well over two thirds of the search engine market’s traffic share moving between its location-based websites – Google also remains being the easiest search engine to rank for.

I haven’t quite lied to you that ‘money’ is the answer to bloggers’ stress that is directly linked with fast/immediately updating blogs’ concern within Google’s search engine. As it is. But significantly more important – it’s traffic.

Contention rich Blogs are always crawled instantly

Traffic is vital for EVERY website. In fact, without it there’s not JUST no money. A blog/website is made for showcasing and sharing whatever there is on it to show. If people won’t be able to visit a website or there are no-one going over there for whatever reason – it makes absolutely no sense. You can try considering closing your blog and throw it away as it won’t do anything or provide any value for you.

But please, let’s just cut through the cake now: “If Google won’t be updating your blog the soonest you would be updating it – could it mean that your blog isn’t quite yet important through Google’s eyes?

That question is so spot on!

Blogs (or at least those with a wordpress interface) have an automatic ping function build in.  What this means is that Google will immediately know when you have published a new post or article on your blog.

For those who don’t know what pinging means: You’re actually notifying or telling Google’s web crawlers with a specific demand code: “Oh come, come quickly, come and check out my new stuff I just released.” Google’s content-hungry, lighting fast web crawlers would respond instantaneously - and would go and have a look on what all this sudden craze would be about.

Depending on how much backlinks you have pointing towards your blog – you might be one of those bloggers with a low blog score reflecting in Google’s bots (web crawlers) responding as such: “Are you kidding me? Is this all you have to throw at me? I can’t believe this was what all the excitement was about!”

With this type of reaction, it means that Google WOULD have crawled (visited) your blog but will only be showing (updating) your published post later in future.

Now here comes the importance of a fast updating blog in its full blown reality. Bloggers who come up with new content – don’t see it when they’ve released it. Not within an hour. Not even the day after – or the day after that. It causes frustration, but more importantly – what if that post or article was (supposed to be) news for the day – and only actually shows up a week later?

This not-so-impressive reaction that Google gives blogs like these tells a story of low amounts of backlinks and/or most probably that the quality and relevancy of it is weak. It could also suggest that the blogger don’t update his/her blog regularly – that gives Google an idea that the blog is really not that important. And so it really don’t show content fast for that particular blog.

On the other hand, you might get the opposite reaction from Google’s web crawlers when they came off of something new on your blog: “Oh this is freakin’ awesome! I must JUST show it to everyone so that the entire world can check it out!”



What this means, judging from the huge amount and quality of backlinks (lots of good votes) pointing towards your blog, is that Google’s thinking a whole lot of your blog and really adores it. So much so that one of its many web crawlers would put up your written work you made yourself (your brand new stunningly unique,, fresh content) in its search engine index – the very second you would be releasing it. That’s why you’d note just after hitting publish’ and checking that post up in Google – you’d see something like ‘a few seconds ago’ or ’30 seconds ago’ or something like that. It just tells the person seeing this (the googler) when last it visited that particular website or blog.

And the googler seeing the post might just visit it - even while just being indexed.

These facts are enough reason for bloggers to always ensure that Google respond fast and immediately when they release new posts or articles.

It triggers the question: How capable is your blog at releasing content and traffic?

A blog that is updated instantaneously could easily spark new traffic. And just by example: If it could release 100 new posts – it is arguable to say that it has 100 new chances to gain new (and more) traffic. Oppose to a blog that don’t get updated the same day.

Let me leave you thus with one thought of question and finish this post off: Would you say that based upon how fast or slow a blog is updated (cached and crawled) when a post is released – should it give you an idea of how important it is – and how much traffic it could generate?

Go try and release something new on your own blog and in the so doing investigate the update time and importance of it. I think you’d know exactly what to do after the impact of reality (that sudden shock) will be kicking in!