Make Money with Scratchback

Guest post by Matthew Henrickson

With the big hand of google coming down on bloggers, there has been a void left for making money. Paid to blog services especially have received a lot of attention for google penalties. Scratchback has hit the make money scene just in time.

Scratchback is Perfect for Bloggers

Scratchback is a widget you place on your sidebar that is similar to a blogroll. In the widget advertisiers can pay to display their no follow link. You can select to have 5, 10, 15, or 20 spots.

There are different options on how long you want each link to run for as well as how much you want to charge.

Benefits for Advertisers

Even though the links are no follow (that don’t pass page rank) it can still be beneficial. Some bloggers charge as low as 1$ for a link. For a dollar you can definitely get your moneys worth if you can find a blog with traffic.

At Blog about your Blog we only charge 2$ for our top spots. Our blog gets about 400 unique hits per day. With only 5 other spots displayed you are sure to get bang for your buck, or two bucks.

Scratchback Features

Scratchback is still in beta, but has made strides in becoming even better. Scratchback currently pay out 90% of what you earn. On top of that the payouts are easy, via paypal. You can also purchase links the same way.

For bloggers with little traffic, they have also made it easier for them. They have just rolled out the Scratchback Directory, which makes it easier for advertisers to find you.

In about two or three weeks in using scratchback I’ve earned 17$ and that’s only on one blog.

Make Big Money Online Winning Contests

Guest post by Matthew Henrickson

In my last post, Create Buzz for your Website with a Contest, I mentioned that you can really drive traffic, build links, or get RSS feed readers for your website with a contest. Its fun, simple, easy and most importantly it works.

Because it works so well, many bloggerss have been hosting contests, and some prizes are really appealing.

To make contests successful they really have to be easy. Bloggers are giving away large sums of money and prizes, and making it easy to win. There isn’t much of a reason NOT to enter when the reward is so high.

Win Money Entering Contests

By spending very little time entering in contests, I have personally won well over 100$ and smaller prizes including a very nice MP3 player.

In most of these contests it does take a little bit of luck, but if you enter a contest everyday, you are bound to win something. Even if it isn’t something you exactly want, you can turn around and give it away on your own blog.

Big Prizes to be Won

Blogs like INVESP are doing huge cash prize giveaways. There is 400$ up for grabs! To win that contest you must subscribe to their RSS feed. Sometime in the month of August, they will post a ‘secret word’ in their RSS feed. When you see the word you email it to contest@invesp.com. One lucky person who sends the secret word to that email will be randomly selected to win. If you win, make sure you are a member of their mybloglog community, so you can receive the full 400$.

Not Every Contest Can Do That

Not everyone can afford to give away 400$, but say you win the contest. You can turn around and re-invest 100$ of that money on your own contest. If you can market the contest right you can expect quite a few linkbacks and RSS Feed Subscribers.

Everyone likes free stuff, especially free money.

Can I Make Big Money Online?

Guest post by Matthew Henrickson

This blog poses the question, Can I Make Big Money Online? It’s very possible to make money online, but big money is another subject.

Many bloggers are starting to use other sources, than just blogging, to earn money online. They have multiple revenue streams.

Multiple Revenue Streams

The golden rule in blogging, when it comes to making money online, has become “Don’t put all your eggs in the google basket.” Monetize your website or blog in other ways. Experiment and try new things, they just might earn you some money.

Take that rule one step further, don’t put all your eggs into one website. There are other things you can do to earn money.

Surveys

I just finished writing a post about making money online with surveys. “Big” money can’t be made here, but it is an option. If you add the 30-100$ per month that could be made here to the total of your monthly earnings, you may be earning “big money”.

Multiple Blogs

I have more than one blog that I can earn money on. Blog about your Blog is getting pretty popular, and after the google rank update, I think it can be a real money maker. Blogging Addiction has become a personal blog for me, where I can do a number of sponsored posts. Finally, Fantasy Football N’ Stuff is a hobby of mine. I am really into fantasy football and the NFL, this has potential to be a money earner.

Online Stores

I have yet to really get into this, though I have seen several bloggers open up their own online stores. At the Million Dollar Experiment, he is ‘experimenting’ with free online stores. In his article, he states he spent 5$ on advertising, and made 12$ in sales. If those figures stay true, he could go bigger and spend 25$ and earn 60$. If he wanted to make BIG money online, try 500$ and 1200$!

To successfully continue to make money online, you need multiple revenue streams. A website that you count on to make money could close down. Or the online store you use isn’t getting sales. Or the blog you run isn’t getting any advertisers.

This post was guest blogged by Matthew Henrickson. You can see which blogs I write for in the body of this post. Please visit them, and I would love comments on this post.

Modern Day Approach: Finding Success With Adsense

Introduction: Who Is Garry Conn?

Hello. My name is Garry Conn. I have been following George’s blog for quite some time now. I own and maintain well over 100 various dot Com ventures. However, my heart and soul gets spilled into my personal blog. I enjoy helping people. I hate to see people down on their luck. And when people, especially bloggers, who work so hard to achieve a goal but can’t succeed, I totally feel for them. I want to see people achieve success. I want to see people reach their goals. And I know from experience what it feels like to be down on your luck and I don’t wish that upon anyone.

Agenda: Why Am I Blogging Here?

George and I have known each other for over a year now. We communicate back and forth between our blogs and through email. George and I have a lot in common and I am here to provide some breathing room for him. We all know how busy of a guy he is… and I am too for that matter. However, in May of 2007, I have set a goal to venture out and make guest appearances on other successful blogs. And after talking with George about this, he invited me to come on board and help pull some of the weight here on his wonderful and highly successful site. It is a privilege to be here, and I want more than ever to see George lead the way in teaching thousands if not millions of people about the many different ways you can make money online.

A Modern Day Approach: Finding Success With Google Adsense

I spend quite a bit of time visiting other blogs. Typically these sites are authored by bloggers who share a very similar interest: Making Money Online. However, on so many of these sites, when I contact the authors and get to know them better, they typically say the same thing: “I want to make money online, I have joined and participate in many programs that are supposed to make money, but none of them do!” 

Because I am such a caring person, I really feel their pain and in most cases I spend time with them and show them what they are doing wrong and provide solutions to help them gain success. The most common rant that people talk to me about is their failures with Google Adsense. And with that being said, this is what my first article is about here on Can I Make Big Money Online.

The root of most failures with Google Adsense is caused largely by the fact that most people who participate in the program also roll out and launch the program on their sites that attract readers who already know about the program. Think about it… when was the last time you clicked on a Google Adsense ad? Granted, it happens, and I click on a few here and there as well. But because I know about the program, it is human instinct for me not to click.

...When Was The Last Time You Clicked On An Adsense Ad?

Why Don’t I Click On The Ads? Well, I am not sure what your reasons are, but for me, the main reason why I don’t click very often is because I know that they are advertisements. They are sponsored links that have nothing to do with the owner of the site. Yes, they are relevant… but they are ads that link to pages outside from the site I am visiting. I don’t do this on purpose… it’s just an instinct or habit.

How Do I Find Success With Google Adsense?

I find success with Google Adsense simply for the fact that I author and maintain numerous dot Com websites that attract people who don’t know about the program. The fun part of this is the fact that most of my sites don’t even generate over 100 visits per day. But because of the time I invest into each of my sites by providing creative, unique and strategic writing, I generate extremely relevant ads. Having all this coupled with well thought out and very strategic placement of the ads in addition to highly micro-managing my content and incoming/outgoing links, I produce an unbelievable click through percentage. And to be honest… I have only been doing this for a few months now. On the flip side, it has taken me three years to discover what I have learned. I have participated in many programs on the Internet that make money online. However, Google Adsense has been my golden brick. And three months ago, the blind was removed from eyes and today, I know how to be successful using Google Adsense. I stand by the program 110% and now that I know how to use the program, I am now starting to reap the benefits.

Again, my name is Garry Conn. I write primarily about successful blogging tips. I am a guest writer here for my friend George who runs a very successful, useful and informative blog. If this is your first time visiting the site,  or if you are a regular reader and haven’t already done so; I strongly recommend that you subscribe to his feed. Sit back and join the fun and witness George Manty archive his goal of making big money online. He wants to make $1000 dollars a day! This blog documents his progress and also draws you a map so you too can make money online and follow along the way!

The Bottom Line - End of the Make Money Online Series

Originally, in this series I planned on reviewing various ways of making money online. I was going to include surveys, selling on ebay, selling products and services, using Adsense, blogging, forums, informational sites, drop shipping, ecommerce, affiliate programs, and the like.

I have decided to cut this series short, because what most of you have told me in a previous poll is that you are interested in making Big Money.

You can’t expect to make big money online with some of these things. In fact, making big money online almost always takes hard work and a unique business idea. So with that said, I am going to drop this series and instead focus on other things like reviewing products that will help get both you and I to the point where we are making Big Money.

To start things off, here is my list of the top 10 things that I believe you and I need to do to make Big Money Online:

1. Be Remarkable!
2. Be Remarkable!
3. Be Remarkable!
4. Be Remarkable!
5. Be Remarkable!
6. Be Remarkable!
7. Be Remarkable!
8. Be Remarkable!
9. Be Remarkable!
10. Be Remarkable!

I have mentioned in the past Seth Godin’s book, the Purple Cow and how important it is to be remarkable. While there are many ways to monetize a site:

1. Adsense
2. Affiliate Links
3. Products (Software, ebooks, etc.)
4. Services
5. Various Pay Per Click services like Chitika, etc.
6. Selling advertising
etc.

The way I see it, you have to find a way to make your online business stand out over the long haul to make big money online. Whether you create a blog, website, wiki, etc. The bottom line is that to make Big Money online you have to be remarkable.

Start thinking of ways to make your current website or a new website remarkable, make it stand out from the crowd. That’s my current plan for making big money online. I will let you know how it goes…

Making Money from Google Adwords - Ways to Make Money Online Series

When I first started out I set up a website that had a store and had various affiliate programs from Linkshare, shareasale and commision junction. It did ok, but nothing extraordinary at first. Then one day I came across this system called Google Cash.

After learning that system, I started making money online from eBay’s affiliate program.

Here is what I did.

I ran Google Adwords ads using my affiliate link. After Google changed it’s terms of service so that only one affiliate ad for the same domain could be run per campaign, it became much more difficult to make money from this and since I was already making money from other things I changed gears and started working on the other ways to make money. However, for a good 6-12 months I did make some decent money doing this.

When you do this you need to keep in mind the following things:

1. Run your ads for the lowest cost you can
2. Keep a close eye on the campaign, make sure you are making money and not losing it.
3. Be sure to write good and relevant copy for the campaign.
4. Target focused keywords, rather than general keywords.
5. If you decide to promote ebay, use eBay’s flexible destination tool to create a direct link to the products you are running the campaign for.

I no longer make money using the Google Cash method. However, I may purchase the book sometime and try it out again. It provided a pretty good stream of income.

It is a lot of work. It’s not a get rich quick scheme. You are likely to lose money at the beginning (I did). That said when I tried this, I did not have a book to guide me. I may buy the book sometime and test out the recommendations in the book. Maybe I will see more immediate and better results that way.

Learn how to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing

The first method that I ever learned how to make money online with was affiliate marketing.

The first really good book I ever read on affiliate marketing was SiteSell’s Affiliate Master’s course. It is hands down the best FREE affiliate marketing guide you will find.

I suggest that every beginner start by reading this free guide. After reading it you can learn more about affiliate marketing from various sources (including this blog).

Here is a short list of my favorite affiliate marketing resources ranked by my personal order of importance:

1. SiteSell’s Free Affiliate Master’s course


2. Free Affiliate Classroom Magazine


3. Allan Gardyne’s AssociatePrograms.com

If you know of other good affiliate resources let me know and I will check them out.

Both my wife and I use the techniques that we learned from SiteSell’s affiliate marketing guide to make most of the money we make today from affiliate programs.

In my next post in the “Ways to Make Money Online Series“, I will describe the first method of affiliate marketing that I ever made decent money from.

Getting Started - Ways to Make Money Online Series

How do you get started making money online?

I plan on presenting various methods of making money online in this series. I can tell you from experience that there are so many choices it can be a little bit overwhelming.

So what is my first piece of advice for someone trying to make money online?

DO WHAT YOU LOVE!

My first piece of advice is to make sure that your first online business venture be related to something you enjoy doing! It could be offering a service that you enjoy doing for people or it could be writing a book about something you enjoy, or it could be writing a blog about something you enjoy doing or it could be filling out surveys (if you enjoy doing that), etc.

Whatever you choose for your first online business, make sure it is something you enjoy!

The reason that this is so important, is that you are MUCH more likely to stick with it. Quite frankly making money online takes persistence and patience. In fact, many studies have shown that the one thing all extremely succesful business owners have is Persistence.

Choosing something you love doing will help you to be persistent with it. That’s why you must, must, must do what you love!

The Key to Making Money Online

Here is a simple formula that I have seen work for my websites in regards to making money:

GOOD CONTENT+GOOD LINKS = TRAFFIC

TRAFFIC = MONEY

GOOD CONTENT+GOOD LINKS = MONEY

In other words, the more quality content and quality links that my websites have recieved the more traffic they have recieved. The more traffic my websites have received the more money they have made. Therefore to make money on the Internet you need quality content and quality links.

Pretty simple formula for success on the Internet.

Making Money Online Series

I plan on starting a series of posts that will discuss different ways to make money online and what I think about them. In case you can’t wait for the series, I thought I would let you know that my favorite way to make money online is Affiliate Marketing. In particular using the techniques that I learned in the book:

The Affiliate Master’s Handbook by Ken Envoy.

Additionaly, I love Google Adsense. It is great! For those of you looking for good Adsense keywords to design a website around you will want to check out these two websites:

1. http://www.iotaweb.org/ – Free tool to search for high paying adsense terms.

2. Keyword Explosion – Database of 2.4 MILLION high paying niche keyword database. It is a great resouce for people looking for high paying keywords to profit on.

Anyone who has success with a particular system/book/training/etc. feel free to tell me your online succes story and we can discuss using it in my upcoming series about making money online.

That’s it for now…