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Agloco, Get Paid to Surf the Net. Fact or Fiction

Reaper-X — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:39:10 +0000

I’m pretty sure most of you are dreaming on how to make money online simply by surfing around the web without creating website or anything involved in managing something, but is it really possible to make money online without doing anything ? except by surfing only ? well .. yes that is possible as long as you do not care about installing software (in this case it was a Toolbar called ViewBar) on your own computer and of course there’s a high chance you’ll trade your privacy for money because of this. And if you do not really care about that, now i’ll introduce you to Agloco which will pay you for surfing only

How do I earn cash from this program ?

First you must sign up with them, download the viewbar and then you can just simply surf the web as usual and earn cash .. easy and simple

But where’s the download link for the Viewbar ?

Unfortunately, the viewbar is still in beta stage and only some people are invited to beta test it first so as for now the only way to make sure that thing would be under control at later time you can invite your friend

So how do i actually earn money from it without the viewbar ?

Well .. just like i said before, the only thing you can do for now is by inviting other people such as your family, friends, colleague, enemies, etc to join them

It sounds like scams !

Sure is, at first i do not want to believe this too, but because you do not have to actually pay anything to join them so you do not actually lose anything by joining them

They say you can earn their Company shares, is it for real ? and what will my shares be worth ?

I would say yes after reading their faqs, as for your shares value .. that’s depend on the number of their members. That means more members more value

Can i sell my shares ?

Yes you can, you can sell them at the Stock exchange .. but do not ask me this question because i know nothing about stock exchanges and such stuff. Beside if i know a lot about stock exchange you wont see me on the web, but you can see me on local stock exchange instead

What is your opinion (my own opinion) about this ?

To be honest .. actually i doubt them too, because the only thing i know for sure on how to get money is by doing real work ! or hard work ! … because there’s no such thing as easy money, and if there’s any .. i’m pretty sure it not going to be happen in this world. Even doing illegal stuff can cost you too

But just like i said before on the above paragraph, there’s nothing to lose from joining them. Beside if you value your privacy, you can always use Virtual PC program on your system so you do not have to worry about your privacy stuff being taken

WTF ? How come you’re promoting them if you doubt it ?!

Now i get confused too, why should i promote them if i doubt that this program are going to work as it should ? well .. the truth is i’ve seen several other blogs topic about this, for example you can read it from DoshDosh Blog .. infact if you could truly earn money by surfing only, that would be interesting to try .. right ?

So what are you waiting for ? should i tell you more about Agloco or you just want to sign up with them right now instead ?

as a side note, from now on im going to change my writing style a little bit because i got inspired after reading the DoshDosh Blog

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Kontera ContentLink In-Text Ads Review

Reaper-X — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:05:11 +0000

Today i just got accepted into Kontera In-text advertisement program, and to those who didn’t know or never heard about Kontera In-Text Ads known as ContentLink before, here’s the short description about Kontera ContentLink

What is Kontera ContentLink ?

A contextually relevant keyword that is discovered in real-time on a web page from within Kontera´s vast network of publishers, and is automatically turned into a link to the most relevant ad from among Kontera´s thousands of advertisers. With ContentLink publishers generate incremental revenue while advertisers reach their most targeted audience on a Cost-Per-Click basis

What are the requirements to Join Kontera ?

Generate more than 500,000 page impressions per month
Be content-rich with more than 50 words per page on the majority of the site
Use English as the primary language
Kontera technology works in real time and therefore we work with publishers and advertisers in all content categories, and even with user generated content such as blogs, forums, social networking sites etc.

If you saw the italic part of the above Kontera Requirements, you’ll notice that your website must have a minimum 500.000 page impression per month before you can be accepted as Kontera Publisher, of course for this is a really high requirement for most publisher even for this website

Fortunately, the above requirements is no longer valid .. and this is all thanks to Joel Comm and this has been discussed over at Digital Point forums

Can i use Kontera with Adsense ?

Definitely, ever since Google updated their adsense terms of use, many publishers now can use other contextual advertising network with adsense as long as the ad format is different from the adsense format

If the ad format is quite similar to adsense ads, then you can still use it too as long as you use different color scheme to distinguish between adsense ads and other contextual ads

Can i make more money from Kontera ?

That’s depend on your site traffic itself, basically Kontera is just like adsense, if you only get small number of traffic per day then you can be sure you’re not going to make money from it. So your best bet is to increase your site traffic :)

My own opinion about Kontera

Some people might / might not like in-text advertisement, but if it’s for me i find Kontera ContentLink non obtrusive. After all it’s just a normal link but in this case it was more like Snap Preview. Some says Snap preview is useful while the other says Snap is useless / obtrusive. But i’m also interested on hearing your own opinion about in-text advertisement :)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Advertisement, Income Sources, Internet, Making Money

Did you find ads on webpage disturbing your surfing experience ?

Reaper-X — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:20:47 +0000

Few years ago, i always dislike ads that’s placed on various website .. although i never ask the owner to remove his ads, but i do find that advertisement is disturbing me and so i decided to use various filtering program to remove advertisement immediately so i dont have to see it. And if i do saw ads goes through the filtering mechanism, i always add new rules to filter it right away

But now ? ever since i started this site. I know that ads can be useful to generate extra revenue for your pocket or at least to pay your monthly web hosting bill or your internet access bill. And does it change my own opinion about ads placed on various website ? the answer is “yes” but i still use the filtering program

Why did i say that ? the answer is because if you decided to make money online (whether by coincidence or not), there are only 2 ways to generate revenue for your site. The first one is by placing ads, while the other method is by placing donation button but the second method is definitely harder for you because donation button can only useful to website that’s really giving valuable information such as Wikipedia. But if you get extremely huge amount of visitors to your site, it could be a big problem too if you decided to only use donation method only and a good example of this is also Wikipedia (to read more about their financial problem, you can find about it from here and here)

So what’s the point of the above paragraph ? simple, at first maybe you just want to create a website so your visitors can enjoy your website without the disturbing ads, but at some point you’ll know why ads are important for your site because that’s the only way to generate revenue from it even if you just want to pay for your monthly web hosting bill. But in order to experience this feeling, you must first create a website too, and make your website get more than 500 unique visitors daily

But please keep this in mind, eventhough you’re placing ads on your website. You must carefully select ads that’s appearing on your website because there are some ads type that’s really disturb your site visitors experience such as Pop Up ads

And what about you, did you still find ads disturbing from your point of view ?

0x87485B96 | Tags : Advertisement, Income Sources, Internet, Journal, Making Money, Opinion, Personal

Amazon Unbox for Associates, are you going to use it ?

Reaper-X — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:58:09 +0000

I just received an email message from my Amazon Associates account today which looks like this :

Dear Amazon Associate:

The Associates program is excited to announce that Associates can earn 10% in referral fees on Amazon Unbox Video Downloads! Now you can take advantage of the online video craze and present your customers with a downloadable offering for the hottest videos, and receive the highest referral rate possible on every sale

What is Amazon Unbox ?

Amazon Unbox is a video download store that has thousands of high quality TV shows, movies and more for you to purchase or rent. You can view these downloadable videos on your PC, your Portable Media Player, or your TiVo DVR. In addition, Amazon Unbox stores a copy of all purchased videos in an online storage locker for re-download at any time. So, videos do not have to eat up hard drive space, and no matter where you are you can download and play your videos

Unbox on Tivo

Unbox videos can now be downloaded directly to TiVo DVRs! Using Amazon Unbox’s unique RemoteLoad feature, consumers can now remotely load their TiVos with purchased or rented movies and TV shows—no more trips to the video store!

Because the videos are still purchased on the Amazon.com website, this represents a great way for Associates to take advantage of the large number of Tivo DVRs already in use. To learn more, including how to get great deals on Tivo DVRs and $15 of free downloads, please visit our Unbox on Tivo page

Earnings from Unbox

Associates are eligible to earn 10%, 1.5% above the highest earnings tier, on all Unbox referrals (up to $1.50 per item). There is no limit to the number of items on which referral fees are earned

While personally i do not get much luck from my Amazon Associates account, i think i should try this one (but we’ll see about that later because im still in doubt whether the Amazon Unbox can bring additional income to my pocket). As a side note, i’m interested on hearing your personal experience whether you can really make money using your amazon associates account or not :)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Advertisement, Income Sources, Internet, Making Money

Minimum Requirements for Text Link Ads ?

Reaper-X — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:23:04 +0000

I’ve been wondering this for a while, even i’ve searched Digitalpoint forums about text link ads information. But none of the results are giving me accurate information about Text Link ads requirement (link)

Some of them are lucky :

oserymour – I just got accepted immediately for a PR4 site that has 3 pages and gets no traffic… weird

While there’s an unlucky one like me :

Duilen – They denied my PR3 gaming blog with 1k+ uniques per day

Well .. i guess after waiting for several months without being accepted into Text Link Ads program, i decided to forget about Text Link Ads. Simply because, i’ve tried contacting them a few times and i always got the same message about my site link popularity is too low :(

I do not know what tool they use to judge website link popularity, but currently my blog is PR5 (at the time i wrote this post) but still got rejected by them. Other than that, i’ve also tried emailing them too and after a few days waiting for their reply .. i still got the same rejection message

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Using Feedburner MyBrand ? Why not

Reaper-X — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:10:14 +0000

Feedburner MyBrand is a premium FeedBurner service that allows publishers to showcase their feeds by serving them from their own domain. And i think most of you already know that if there’s premium words attached to every service, that means you’ll have to pay for it

Now the question is, why you should use Feedburner MyBrand instead of using the default feed address from your blogging platform or the free feedburner address ?

1. Easy to set up and easy to manage

Your blogging platform software doesn’t provide stats tracking, and you’ll have to use another service / software to track it. And if you decided to track everything using various free stats tracking script on your own host, you’ll have to set up everything first, and managing it so it not causing more load to your host or server

2. More visibility to your domain

If you choose to use the free service from feedburner, you’ll notice that the url of your Feedburner address would be like feeds.feedburner.com/your-feed-name . And what’s the big deal with that address ? here’s a good explanation written by Jennifer Slegg from Searchengineland (tip #22) :

Don’t always think your free blog hosting company will be around forever. What will you do if you build up a loyal readership then one day you discover yourblogname.examplebloghost.com no longer works because examplebloghost.com has gone out of business? You want to make sure the search engines have a URL they will always find your blog at, rather than have to worry about them re-indexing your previously well-ranked blog on am entirely new domain… that is if you are lucky enough to get your blog posts from your free hosting company. Both Google’s Blogger & Wordpress allow you to use their hosted blog service while displaying it on your own domain instead of their own branded one.

She said don’t always think your free blog hosting will be around forever. And of course this applies to Feedburner too (see Danny Sullivan post about this for more info), and so that’s why i prefer to use my own domain name, instead of using feedburner address. And if you ask me why i choose Feedburner MyBrand instead of using default feed address from Wordpress, see point #1

3. Do i need to use it if my blog only has a small number of subscribers ?

Well .. actually it’s up to you, whether you want to use the default feed even without tracking it’s statistical data, but if it’s for me i’d rather choose to use hosted service from elsewhere (Read: Feedburner) simply because by using Feedburner i can also track who’s scrapping my site content without permission and try to make money from it (by placing Adsense next to it, of course) ..

4. How much does it cost ?

$2.99/month for up to 3 feeds
$6.99/month for 4-9 feeds
$13.99/month for 10 or more feeds

Well .. if it’s for me, i signed up with the plan number 1 .. :P .. and that’s all about it, if you need to get more information about Feedburner MyBrand you can read more about it here

0x87485B96 | Tags : Advertisement, Internet, Opinion, SEO, Webmaster Tools, Website

Google Adsense with Amazon Omakase & Chitika

Reaper-X — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:52:03 +0000

A few days ago i sent an email message to the Google Adsense team regarding the use of Chitika contextual ads and Amazon Omakase on the same page with Google Adsense (if you’ve read my previous adsense tips, you’ll know why i prefer to ask adsense team). And today i just received a reply from them (it’s took a little longer than usual to received this email message, but im fine with that because in their auto-generated message, it says that due to the long holiday weekend in the U.S., there may be a delay in responding to your email. Please be assured that we’ll respond just as soon as we can) ..

and here’s what they said about using adsense with other contextual advertisement :

Hi Aditya,

AdSense publishers may display ads from other contextual ad networks on the same page as Google ads only if the formatting or color scheme of these ads is sufficiently different from the layout of the Google ads. In other words, if you choose to place non-Google ads on the same site or page as Google ads, it should always be clear to the user that the ads are served by different advertising networks and that the non-Google ads have no association with Google. If the formats are naturally similar, we’d ask that you use different color schemes for the competing ads.

Of course, we’re constantly investing in our advertising technology, and we believe that Google ads will monetize best for most publishers. Be aware that the addition of third party ads to your site may cause fewer users to click the Google ads on your site and thus your AdSense earnings may decrease. We’d also recommend that publishers be careful not to place excessive advertising on their sites, as doing so may result in fewer repeat visitors.

Sincerely,

Sean
The Google AdSense Team

As you can see on that email message, it says that it is possible to use Adsense with Amazon Omakase and various Chitika product, as long as the other contextual ads are using different color schemes if the competing ad service offer similar format like adsense

Other than that i also agree that plastering your site with various advertisement will reduce your site visitors, but in my opinion … my site is still better than many other site / blog which is using advertisement on their site .. ;)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Advertisement, Google, Google Adsense, Income Sources, Making Money

Making Money from Blog with Pagerank

Reaper-X — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:48:03 +0000

Almost every webmaster already know about Google Pagerank. And thanks to it there are various opinion on whether pagerank should be used to judge a website value. Some of them are saying that the most important thing in a website is it’s content, while some other says that pagerank is the first thing to look when judging a website (indirectly, and the truth is i’m included in this category too :D )

And what about Alexa Rank ? .. well most people always said to not trust Alexa rank because they’re also not providing accurate result for your website statistic. And that’s simply because Alexa rank can be manipulated easily.

But let’s put that aside, shall we ? .. okay .. at first when i’m still building this website, my site didn’t have a pagerank (or at least it’s not appearing on the Google Toolbar or many other site that provides service to display your site pagerank), and of course with that status i’m having difficulty especially if i want to submit this site to various directory (although some of them are nice by giving a free link, but most of them require you to have a pagerank first), doing some link exchange, etc

But the worse part is, if you’re trying to monetize your site by submitting your site to various advertisers. They always check your site pagerank first (except for Google adsense of course, because adsense always accept any site as long as your website is using english language or any other language as long as it’s still supported by adsense), and some of them also check your Alexa statistic. And the results is, if your site doesn’t have a pagerank or low alexa rank .. you can be sure that they’re going to reject your website

And now what if your site already has a pagerank on it ? and even better your site get a pagerank of 4 and above ? Simple .. you can do various method to make money from it. But the easiest way is of course selling ad space on your site, such as text link or place the advertisers banner on your site. You can try offering your ad space from various online forum

But what if you don’t like or don’t want to advertise your site in every online forum by yourself ? It’s easy, you can simply join third party site that is automatically offering your site to various advertisers, and the best part is you don’t have to do anything because all you have to do is just wait. And for this part i recommend Text Link Ads (aff) because they’re the easiest and all you have to do is just placing their code on your site

Okay, that is all about using your pagerank status to make money from it, but please keep this in mind. Having a good pagerank status doesn’t guarantee your site will be making lots of traffic because Google pagerank value always changed (dynamically) although the toolbar value is only exported after several months at Google update

0x87485B96 | Tags : Advertisement, Alexa Rank, Blog, Google Page Rank, Google Pagerank, Income Sources, Making Money, SEO, Tutorials

John Chow Love Darren Rowse

Reaper-X — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:13:56 +0000

By the looks of that Google adsense ads i found while browsing the Problogger site, it seems the dot com mogul John Chow love Darren Rowse .. erm .. i mean .. his blog :-P

Now .. that’s what i call interesting ads .. maybe other Adwords user should use the same method like this too .. lol

( Fortunately i temporarily disabled the ad filtering program, because if those ad filtering program activated .. there’s no way i could see something like this )

Maybe Darren Rowse should create something like this too on John Chow blog … :-D

0x87485B96 | Tags : Advertisement, Google, Google Adsense, Journal, Personal, Website

Using Ads on website may reduce your site visitors ?

Reaper-X — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:02:11 +0000

A while ago i read various topic (sorry can’t remember the exact url but it’s in some forum, but i think you’ve already seen some topic like this because it’s an old topic) about placing advertisement on site and what makes me interested on writing this is that because some people say that by putting advertisement to your site may reduce the number of your site visitors daily, while some other also say it’s useless to put ads into your site because you’re not going to make money from it .. and various other reason

As from my point of view, if someone say it’s useless to put advertisement on your page, that’s really depend on your site too and the ads type. Because let’s say if you run a non profit organization site, then i think you should get a sponsor instead of placing advertisement because your site visitor are questioning your site credibility because of those ads. With the exception no matter what your site is, as long as you never use popup ads, your visitor will not get annoyed by those popup

But what if they say, by placing advertisement on your site, you’ll lose your site visitor because they simply don’t like advertisement ? … well that’s an easy answer ..

First off .. if they’re saying something like that, don’t listen to them because if they do really hate advertisement .. instead of saying something useless like that .. maybe they should use ad blocking software installed on their machine. Even if they say, they can’t afford to buy a good adblocking program, they can always use freeware / opensource program like me (i never see my own ads or someone else ads) .. why did i say this ? simple .. that’s because if they don’t want to donate to your site, at least they use ad blocking software ;)

But back to the topic .. does advertisement really reduce your site visitor ? no .. i dont think so, simply because most internet users don’t really know about ads eventhough it’s already labeled clearly as advertisement (even lots of my friend doesn’t even know about it) … The only people that know about advertisement on your website is a just a small percentage of internet users … other than that your loyal site visitor don’t really care about your ads because they’re already enjoying what your site can offer

0x87485B96 | Tags : Advertisement, Internet, Opinion, Personal, Sponsored