Buy and sell links with TNX

TNX is an advertising system that facilitates the selling and buying of text links at a low price. This system was created for advertisers that want to increase their website ranking in search engines fast. This system is different from other advertising system because website owners that are TNX publishers are actually selling their site ranking, and the advertisers don’t want visitors, they want to increase their website rank.

The TNX code is “very simple” and comes in two versions PHP and Pearl, and because of this spider will not detect the code easily.

For publishers TNX has some benefits, because this is an automated system, publishers don’t have to approve every link that appears on their website, but if you don’t want to link to a certain sites you can easily ban that link. Unlike other advertising systems with TNX you sell different ads (links) on every page of the site that may bring more money that the usual ads.

TNX advertisers get to improve their site ranking for certain key words by buying thousands of non-reciprocal links to their site at a very low price.

TNX advertising is based on points, publishers earn more points if they have many page with a high Page Rank, and because not all pages have the same rank the number of points that you receive will not be the same for every page. Also advertisers pay more if they want links from websites with high Page Rank, but with the same amount of points they can buy more links from websites with a lower Page Rank. The points a member accumulates can be sold to other members or sold back to TNX, from the transactions TNX takes a 12.5% commission from all its members, advertiser and webmaster.

 

If you decide to use TNX you must know that if Google will find that you sell or buy links it will penalize your site.

This system poses some dangers for publishers and advertisers, if an advertiser buys too many links for a new website, Google will figure out that he is buying links and the site will get sandboxed. Publisher will get punished if they have too many links to websites that are not related with their site content, but Google will also punish the advertisers. All do TNX has some filters publisher will get some unrelated links on their site, and advertiser will get links on unrelated pages, this can’t be stopped unless more publisher will join TNX.

If you have decided to use TNX take it slow don’t buy too many links from the start and you will pas under the Google radar.

TNX.net website isn’t indexed by Google because the Googlebot isn’t allowed to crawl the website, so al the rumors that Google banned TNX.net aren’t true.

 

Free stuff from Google for Non-Profits

Google launched Google for Non-Profits Portal that offers tools to non-profit organizations.

The portal is a shop full of free stuff, like Google-hosted email at your own domain, Google Checkout with no transaction fees until 2009, free online advertising through Google Grants and the usual Blogger and Google Docs account.

This program is only for non-profit organizations and to use some of them you need to prove that you are a non-profit and Google Grants are available only in a couple of country’s and even if you live in one of those countries Google will review your application.

AboutUs Wiki

AboutUs is a very useful wiki that automatically creates an about page for any websites.

To get listed all that you have to do is to write a website address and a robot will crawl the website. If someone searches for a website that isn’t in their database a robot will quickly gather information about the website, and thumbnail image is taken, additionally they provide external links to Alexa and to a WHOIS domain search.

This website can help you to get a higher Page Rank, and build some backlinks. Because this is a wiki you can edit the page so it can provide more information about your website and for the same reason if someone wants to spam you it can do it very easily.

When I searched FUKBlogger.com the first time my blog wasn’t in their database, a page was build and after 10 minutes I got the “Adult Content” message.



Although my blog doesn’t host any adult content the domain name “FUK” resembles with “fuck”.

I will send them a message to fix this.

PayPal Storefront Widget

PayPal has launched last year a widget, which allows anyone to show a storefront on their blog sidebar, or on any website that allows you to embed a HTML code.

The widget has many useful features:

Storefront display- you can show images of the items that are for sell.

Item navigation- back and forward buttons.

Sold Out message.

Store Closed message for temporarily close stores.

You can change the widget theme and colors; you can show your own logo and store title, also you can add to each product a description, a picture and a price.

The widget is very easy to use, it supports 17 currencies and customers can rate their buying experience and review your storefront.

I will use this widget here in the sidebar, I always wanted to have an online store, I have a couple but this will be special, people will actually buy from me.

Get in the top search results with Realmee

Realmee is a website where you can create a page about yourself, something like the White Pages. There are many websites that do the same thing, but the Realmee team will do everything they can so your page gets in the top search results.

Realmee doesn’t use cloaking, linkfarming or anything else that may be considerate “black hat SEO”, you can check in their FAQ. There you can find “we will do anything we can to rank your website high in the search engines”, I searched a bunch of people from their index, those that are on the first page are also in the top search results, but people that are on the rest of the index pages don’t appear very often in the top search results. This may not be their fault, you can’t get all the time in the top search.

In a page you can add information about yourself, your address, phone number, email address, a link to your website (they follow), where do you work. You can also add 10 widgets from other websites, your blog RSS, a video, and some pictures. Right now there aren’t many features but in the future they will add more.

This is a useful website it can help you to increase your page rank, being in the top search results won’t do you harm.

 I will pay close attention to this website, who knows what they will do next.

Amazon Your Video Widget

Amazon launched a video sharing program “Your Video Widget”. You can upload videos on Amazon and add the code to your website, while playing you can show different products.

This program is for blogs and websites, not for watching videos like on YouTube, Amazon doesn't have a portal for the uploaded videos, but who knows maybe in the future.

The video must not be longer that 10 minutes and larger that 100MB, no two products can appear within 10 seconds of each other, videos that are obscene, or contain violence and nudity are not allowed, you are not allowed to show phone numbers, mail addresses, URLs, prices, or shipping information.

You make money from the referral fees, like before. So you can't use Amazon to promote your blog, you can use it only to sell stuff. Like any other type of ads this will work beater if you show products that are related with the video content.

 

Scheduled Posts at Blogger

Blogger has launched a new useful feature Scheduled Posting. Now you can publish post at any time in the future.

To use this feature you have to log from http://draft.blogger.com/, write the post and set the publish date and time using “Post Options”. I have tried this feature and it works, but it has some bugs and the Blogger team is working to fix them at some point in the future.

I have waited for this feature from the moment I started to use their blogging platform, now is too late.

 

Ning build your own Social Network

 

Ning, is a platform where you can create your own social network, you get a combination between a blog platform, a forum and a social network that don’t have all the features.

You can upload videos or embed from YouTube and Google, upload photos or you can add them from Flickr, create blogs, discussion forums, you can add RSS, some widgets and members have customizable profiles.

When you see it first time you say that this it’s all you ever wanted, it could be but is not.  This platform has many features, but is hard to use. You need some time to learn what you can do and what you can’t, to add a widget you have to create a text box, click edit button and paste the code. You can’t customize the template in many ways, you can choose from a couple of template and edit the CSS but this is all you can do if you don’t want to become a developer.

 You can use Ning for free or use the premium version, the free version has AdSense ads on the right side, and you can still show you own ads in a text box. In the premium version you can show your own ads for $20, use you own domain name for $5, remove the “Create Your Own Social Network” button for $8 and if your social network exceeds 10GB of storage and 100GB of bandwidth, you can purchase more storage and bandwidth for $10. This premium service forces you to buy everything from them even bandwidth, and it's pretty expensive.

You can get rid of the ads if you create a network for adult content, even if you don’t show any explicit content, the draw back is that visitors have to sign up before they can see more that your main page.

Ning allows any content on your network even adult content, the most visited network are adult networks, if you want to create one the backgrounds and headers must not contain nudity and you have to make the network private and add a splash screen. They don’t “police” the network but when you receive an email asking you to purchase more bandwidth and you didn’t use your quota and have illegal content on your network, you know what you have to do, pay or move out and backup the member’s information before they delete the account.

Ning is growing rapidly; there are networks with thousands of members but because of their “premium” service I would use my own network script on my own host. Ning is useful because they follow.

Wurkpal anonymity

WurkPal is a website where you can chat with your fellow coworkers, safely.

Wurkpal.com is website that allows anyone to chat in “anonymity”; this website was created as a chat room for company employees, but apparently isn’t used very often.

Users that are company employees will get a user name like “google_10101” because of their IP address, and the users that have a different IP address have names like “unknown_11010”.

Anonymity isn’t really anonymity, WurkPal will still track your IP, on the left there is a MyBlogLog widget, so before you go to that website sign out from Yahoo. The good thing is that you don’t have to create an account.

Even if this website isn’t very used, those who go there are angry workers who are expressing their frustrations, and users that are play and testing the website.

You can’t get visitors from this website because there aren’t many people around, but you could get some links back to you’re blog, just type the blog address and send the message, they don’t use the ”nofollow” tag and the pages get crawled, this could get you a higher PageRank.

Website Grader a SEO Tool

 

Website Grader is a SEO tool that evaluates the “marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.”

Website Grader will analyze your website metadata, heading, images, domain, Google Page Rank, Google indexed pages, last Google crawl, Alexa traffic rank, inbound links, searches the big web directories, Technorati blog rank, del.icio.us bookmarks, Digg submissions, this are a few of this website analyzes.

You also can compare you’re web site with other competing web sites.

The results aren’t always accurate, they don’t grab all the data from some websites. But you can still use them to improve you’re blog or website.

On the first page is the submission form and they will ask what is your email address I don't recommend you complete that field unless you want to get spammed.

Who is behind ProjectWonderful.com and can you make money from it?

Ryan North is the person behind the ProjectWonderful.com, I write about this because in the last month the number of Project Wonderful users has skyrocket. Almost every blog you visit from Entrecard.com you see ads from them, the two websites are similar on ProjectWonderful.com you buy ads with real money and on Entrecard.com you buy with entrecards.

The number of Project Wonderful (PW) users has increase because the use of PW ads on Entrecard.com

How Project Wonderful works

It works something like eBay (the bidding part), you bid for a spot and your ad will stay there until someone outbids you, when the price for that spot drops your ad will be showed again. The process is more complex, but this is the basic.

The advertisers opinions are divided some say that this program brings them traffic and some say it doesn’t.

Publishers can make some money not much, a big website like Entrecard with 3,500 users has four spot available, at this moment the price for one spot is $2,6 and the price has slowly dropped from $10. So if you have a website with 33,000 page views a day you can earn $10 to $40 a day. These isn’t to bad you could earn $1,200 a month, but prices on the majority of blogs that use PW range from $0,02 to $0,5 a day, if you use only this program you wont get much money out your blog.

PW gives you 75% of what you make and they pay through PayPal when you have $10 in your account.

I won’t use this program to make money soon but as an advertiser maybe, paying $0,02 for a day doesn’t sound to bad.

The only thing special about this program is that advertiser can set the price.

How to use File Sharing Programs

If you want to share your ebook or any other file there are a couple of programs that are easy to use.

P2P programs like eMule, LimeWire, Kazaa and DC++ are easy to use, just copy the file in the download folder and you are done, all you have to do is to wait for someone to search and download the files.

BitTorrent clients like µTorrent, BitLord, BitTorrent are not as easy to use. You have to create a torrent file with the description and the tracker address which you can get from the website that's hosting the torrent; here is a list of torrent tracker. Upload your .torrent file to that website and start the seeding task.

Azureus is a BitTorrent client built in Java and is much easier to use, create an account, click publish and select the file or folder. The only thing that I don’t like is that you can share only audio or video content, but this won’t stop you to share other file, by selecting a folder you can share anything you want.

At Azureus you will find movies and other things to buy, because it is a commercial website, the good part is that you can make money by selling or by showing ads of your page, $5 for every 1000 Qualified Ad Impressions for viewers from United States, Canada or the European Union; this was until December 31, 2007. And you can receive money through PayPal after your account net balance reaches at least $20.

Remember don’t share stuff that you don’t own, this is illegal.

Use P2P Programs to get Traffic

P2P is used every day by millions of people, why don’t you use these networks to get traffic. Sharing on P2P is legal if you share your own content.

What you have to do

Get some P2P programs like Gnutella, eMule, Kazaa and a BitTorrent client. Decide what you want to share your ebook, you’re home made movies, a mp3 file with you singing under the shower or some program you made. You can share any file you want, and haw many you want. Share the same file with the name slightly changed “shower song” and “shower song-your name”, this way people who download the files will trust the source.

Now if you are thinking to share you’re CDs and all the programs you bought and add the blog address to their name or in a txt file, don’t do this because you are making easy for other to find you and sue you. Add the blog address to the shared files only if you created the files.

The most popular P2P programs are the BitTorrent clients, create a torrent file and submit it to BitTorrent search engines and keep the client running so others can download.

If you think that this method won’t work you are wrong, P2P networks are used by big companies to promote their products, they share a pdf or doc file that contains a short presentation of their products. By doing this they don’t have anything to lose. Another thing that this method dose is that after a person downloaded a couple of files with the same content “go at somesite.com and buy it” he is thinking to buy that product because he can’t find it anywhere without paying.

If something went wrong it isn’t my fault that you FUKed Up.

FUK Traffic Tips -January 2008

In January I told you from where you can bring traffic, so if you didn’t read all the posts here is a summary.

If you don’t have a blog just a website, make one on the same domain.

 
Now that you have a blog sign up:

BlogCatalog soon will become greater that MyBlogLog.com, maybe Google will buy it.   

BUMPzee is almost dead but you can get your blog indexed faster.

MyBlogLog will bring visitors and spam.

Entrecard.com brings many visitors just to drop their cards, some will stay.

SQUIDOO will get your website crawled faster and you can make some money.

HubPages.com will get your website crawled faster and make some money.

Associated Content get your website crawled faster, make some money and visitors.

Scribd.com share documents and get visitors.

EzineArticles.com will bring traffic if you’re articles are approved.

SEO tips for bringing organic traffic.

The next step is Social Bookmarking sites; SocialMarker.com will take you on the “best” 32 websites, this will get your website crawled faster. But if want traffic and visitors submit your website to:

Technorati.com

reddit.com

Netscape.com

Propeller.com

Digg.com

Mister-Wong.com

Jumptags.com

IndianPad.com

Sphinn.com

This websites will bring traffic, you’re blog will get crawled faster, will increase your page rank. By submitting to this websites you are making people trust your blog, and doing so they will become regular readers. Remember you have to write on your blog every day, if you don’t write for a couple of days your will get less visitors, they will not come because you don’t offer something new to read, post every day don’t get lazy.       

There are more websites and networks that can bring visitors, I will write about them in the next posts.

Search engine optimization for Beginners

In the past I wasn’t interested in SEO, this explains why I didn’t have any visitors, but now this has changed.

“Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results for targeted keywords.” from Wikipedia.

If you optimize they will come, I am not an SEO expert but I know a couple of things, that I will share with you.

For people to find your website you must include in your articles the terms they are searching. When you write an article on your blog you can use AdWords Keyword Tool, with this you will find what the most valuable keyword are, search with Google websites that contain a similar subject and then use AdWords Keyword Tool and add in your post the most searched keywords.

 

Very important factors in increasing your page SERP are high ranking keyword in Title tag, keyword use in Domain Name like keyword.com, keyword in Page URL like fukblogger.com/traffic-keywords, keywords in Alt Tags and image titles will help to get traffic from image search, keywords in Meta Description tag and in Meta Keywords tag and bold characters.

Cheap search engine submission, or other search engine submission programs won’t bring much traffic if you don’t have high ranking keyword in your page. If you thing that this is to hard and want to try a search engine optimization company, or SEO training you will pay a heavy price, you don’t need a specialist you can do it, you can improve search engine rankings without paying, you just have to analyze search trends.

If you try search engine marketing AdWords or any other program let me know haw it works.

eBay Opportunity

You already know about the eBay.com online store, but do you sell something there?

I see people bragging that they can make $3,000 a day, and others professional sellers say that they make $15,000 a month. What is the truth?

You can make money from eBay without buying any e-book on “Make Money on eBay Fast” or something like this.

How to

The first thing you see on eBay when you search something is that there are many people selling the same stuff, you can’t stop this but you can be the first one that sells a certain object.

People buy from eBay because some things are cheaper and because they can’t find it anywhere else. To make money you must sell cheap and sell things that people can’t find.

Don’t know what to sell?

Sell used things, your personal items that you don’t use any more, if they are old and “special” don’t through them, sell them. New things that other people around the world can’t buy but you can, like the iPhone, Wii or video games that are released first in your area, eBay is the place where you can sell them (before you do this make sure is legal).

If you buy from Wholesale Companies their prices are lower that in regular stores, there you can find anything at lower prices.

When you sell something remember: don’t over price because you won’t sell, give as much information as you can in the product description, add picture of your product, and write the full name of the product, if you sell a LCD screen don’t write only “Big LCD” write the producer name, the model and the condition of screen.

To make money you have to sell many things, if you sell headset don’t sell just one sell ten from different brands.

And don’t forget to add you’re website address in the product description. More traffic doesn’t hurt.

Get traffic from EzineArticles.com

EzineArticles.com is another website where you can post articles. This is similar with Associated Content, but you can’t submit video and audio files and make money from page views.

EzineArticles has strict policies; you must be the “sole owner and author of the article and own 100% of all copyrights pertaining to it” meaning that you can’t submit your articles at AssociatedContent.com. After 10 approved articles they “may” upgrade your account to "PLATINUM UNLIMITED STATUS" which allows you to send unlimited articles that will get reviewed “faster”, between 2 to 10 business days.

This may be a good source of traffic, because at the end of the article you can include something about you and a link to your website. Additionally Ezine Publishers that get content for their website or ezine must include your signature and the link to your website.

Ezine Publishers must not modify the content off the articles they publish, or reprint more that 25 articles per year from EzineArticles.com, you don’t have the right to translate any content of the website in other languages, or add more links to the articles, and you can’t include the rel=nofollow tag.

Anyway these rules won’t stop anyone from copying your articles and removing the links.

I can’t say which website is beater for you

At EzineArticles.com you get more exposure, but you can’t share the copyrights.

At AssociatedContent.com you don’t get as much exposure but your articles get reviewed quicker and make money from page views.

Digg changed the algorithm

Finally every one can have his story on the front page of Digg.

The algorithm that runs Digg has been changed to allow every story a chance to the home page, until now groups of diggers could get a submission on the front page, with the new algorithm unrelated diggers have a beater chances.

Now having friends that vote your story isn’t a good strategy, being voted by strangers is the best option.

If this algorithm will stay, the diggers that controlled Digg will need a website where they can met without Digg interfering in their plans, a “Digg friend’s” website where the user can see who has voted his story and return the favor.

I talked about Subvert and Profit in a previous post, the new prices $2 for a vote on Digg and StumbleUpon, has left then without advertisers, $2 for a vote is too much they should lover prices if they want to stay on the market.

Scribd.com spammed by Internet marketers

At Scribd.com you can share any documents online, is a big user generated library.

Why Scribd got abused?

Not long ago you could upload Word, PDF, plain text, HTML, JPEG, PowerPoint, Excel, Postscript, LIT, and even audio format. But in the recent weeks a video appeared about spamming techniques, and in the preview video the Scribd.com was mentioned as a good way to increase you page rank by putting link in the file you upload.

 

The consequence

Scribd got angry and now you can’t upload HTML files and have links in your documents, you can upload document with link but they will converted in bold and underline words. Now search engines wont give you a higher page rank from Scribd documents because they dot have links.

 

The partial solution

 

Even if you don’t have links in your document you can get visitors, all you have to do is to write the full website address “mywebsite.com” where you wanted a link.

Add at the top and bottom of the page an image with the website address. For this methods to work and make money online you have to write good quality material.

 

Before this abuse Scribd was spammed in many interesting ways, remember don’t send money to strangers because they say you can make money. Unless is me.

Take Advantage of China's Internet Population

At the end of 2007 China had 210 million Internet users and its online population is on course to become the world's largest at the beginning of this year.

There was only a gap of 5 million between the Chinese and U.S. internet populations, according to a survey released on Thursday on the web site of the China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC).


China's Internet penetration ratio has risen to 16 percent. The number of rural Internet users was raised to 52.62 million at the end of 2007, up 127.7 percent year-on-year. The rate was much higher than the 38.2 percent for urban areas.

 

86.6 percent of the total, used the Internet for musical entertainment, while nearly 170 million, or 81.4 percent, used it for real-time telecommunications.

73.6 percent browsed for news, 72.4 percent used search engines, and 59.3 percent played games. E-mail services were utilized by 56.5 percent of the Internet users.

The CINIC website said that last year, the number of users under age 18 and above 30 increased rapidly, but it did not give any details. At the end of 2007, users aged 18-24 accounted for 31.8 percent of the total and those aged 25-30 made up 18.1 percent.

Students accounted for 28.8 percent of the total Internet users, while unmarried people made up 55.1 percent.

Of the total, 57.2 percent were male and 42.8 percent were female.

 

Asia soon will have the largest Internet population; China represents more that 20% of the world's population and increases each year by approximately 12-13 million people.

India the world's second most populated country is expected to surpass China’s population in 2040.


China’s Internet rarely links to foreign websites: Out of 40 million external links on 5 million pages of 15,000 sites in China investigated, only 6% leave for websites geographically situated outside mainland China.

 

Out of all links investigated by Professor Jonathan Zhu:

81% of them head for sites within the “home province”;

13% head for sites on “other provinces”;

6% go “overseas”.

“Overseas” does not mean outside all of geographical Greater China. Inside Greater China, there are four customs territories: the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

 

Submit Your Website at Baidu

Baidu.com it known as “Chinese Google”, after you submit a website or blog you still have a problem, the majority of China population doesn’t speak English.

Adding at the top of page translation tools won’t bring you more visitors, you have to translate the whole website, and this will bring visitors.

For the moment advertising companies don’t pay much for visitors from outside USA, Canada. This will chance rapidly, be prepared and start learning Chinese and hope that your blog will not be banned in China.