Category: Making money

Affiliate program question

| June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments

I found myself wondering something about internet affiliate programs recently. I applied for the Disney Movie affiliate program, thinking I’d place it on my entertainment blog. My application was declined. Now here’s my question. If it’s free to join an affiliate program, and if both the advertiser and the publisher make money if someone clicks [...]

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Does anyone call Godaddy back?

| April 10, 2008 | 4 Comments

I have most of my domains registered with Godaddy. I’m very happy with their prices. I like their interface for domain registration and management. I log in, do what I need to do, and log out. I don’t have anything on auto-pay, I don’t like that. I get reminder emails when things are due and [...]

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My thoughts on permanent text ads

| March 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

I have been getting numerous different offers lately to place text links on several of my blogs in the form of a post. The content of the proposed ads would not be completely mine. The advertiser would write the ads. In this instance I would have been allowed to change text in the ads but [...]

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Paid blogging – Blogsvertise

| January 6, 2008 | 4 Comments

Fifth in my series on paid blogging is Blogsvertise. I personally have not hear from them much, I don’t think there are many opportunities there. Blogsvertise, at www.blogsvertise.com, accepts applications for blogs that are willing to write about websites, products and services. To be accepted applicants must have a blog older than thirty days that [...]

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Paid blogging – Pay Per Post, part I

| November 21, 2007 | 0 Comments

Third in my little mini series on paid blogging is Pay Per Post. I am doing a review of Pay Per Post as it works now, because it is going to change in the near future. After the changes have been made and have been in place a short while I will probably review it [...]

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Paid blogging – Smorty

| November 3, 2007 | 0 Comments

Continuing my mini series on paid blogging, I’d like to tell you about Smorty. Smorty is another popular company that offers both the chance to advertise on blogs and to blog for money. To blog for money there are some requirements to get your blog approved. Some of the mandatory ones are that your blog [...]

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Paid blogging – PayU2Blog

| November 2, 2007 | 0 Comments

Since this blog has covered how to install wordpress and some other related things, I thought it might be a good time to start a mini series of posts on paid blogging. The first one I will cover is PayU2Blog. PayU2Blog assigns bloggers opportunities, rather than bloggers choosing opportunities. When a blogger signs up he/she [...]

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How to create an Adsense video player

| October 12, 2007 | 0 Comments

Logged in to Adsense, click on video units. It will bring you into YouTube. You’ll see a message saying you haven’t created any AdSense players yet. Click on Create Adsense Player. Fill in the name and description of the player. Choose a color theme. Choose a layout. Be careful here. Once you’ve saved the player [...]

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How to apply for Adsense video ads

| October 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

After learning that Adsense was going to include video ads, I wanted to learn more and try it out. It isn’t automatically approved, so you’ll need to apply. Here’s the steps on how to do apply to use Adsense video ads. Log into Adsense and go to the Adsense setup tab. Click on Video Units. [...]

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