Thursday, August 27, 2009
YouSayToo
If you are interested in how to make money blogging, you say to seems like a very feasible option. I am not exactly sure how YouSayToo is able to transfer ad revenue generated from the site to its users considering the minimum cashout for services such as AdSense are very high (at $100USD). YouSayToo has some serious potential for the future in that like I said it does not take much work on the part of the blogger to use YouSayTo. As of now, YouSayToo is relatively new and for a blogging community is still not generating very much traffic. In fact, despite the many users who have become a part of YouSayTo, the website has a google pagerank of 4 which is good, but still weak for a community blog…particularly one that is purported to be a money-making strategy. While I have made money blogging, money is not my purpose for blogging. Sure I would love to make money blogging, but writing is more of my passion. In other words I write because it is a hobby, not because it is a job. Of course if it was true that YouSayToo paid its members a massive amount of revenue, what blogger would possibly refuse? However, it does not yet seem that way and the features on YouSayToo are still limited. There are a few cool things such as sending buzz to the YouSayToo community and increasing readership through visitors of YouSayToo; however, like I mentioned before, YouSayToo still does not have a very big community yet.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Linkworth
Linkworth is an advertising network with multiple opportunities available for bloggers and webmasters to monetize their site. They have sponsored post, text link ad, and banner ad options available.
To recieve sponsored post or text link ad opportunities you must sign up for these options after you register an account. Then you wait for opportunities to come to you. They have 2 options on how much of the commission you want to get per transaction, 50/50 or a 70/30 split. The advantage with the 50/50 split is even though you only get half instead of 70% of the money, you should get a lot more opportunities. This is because Linkworth gives these accounts priority. Try the 70/30 and if you haven't received opportunities for a couple weeks, I recommend switching it to the 50/50.
Linkworth also has an affiliate program for referring publishers. If someone you refer earns 100 dollars you get a 50 dollar bonus. Linkworth does payments by check, paypal, or direct deposit. They do require U.S citizens to fill out a tax form online before they are paid.
