PayPerPost is a blogging advertising network. They pay you to write about advertisers who list their products or services in their directory. I am not 100% sure about the blog requirements but here’s what I know at the moment:

• You need a blog with at least 20 posts in the last 90 days. Therefore, you cannot simply create a new blog and blast 20 posts to qualify. You need a blog that is relatively popular and active to get accepted.
• You will need a PayPal account to get paid.
• You have to post a “disclosure badge” to show readers that your post is a sponsored post.

You can make money with PayPerPost in the following ways:

• Blog about a product or service in their directory.
• Refer people to the PayPerPost network. Your referrals get $15.00 once the their first blog posting is reviewed, approved and then finally accepted 30 days late.
• After you have referred a new member to PayPerPost, you get paid $7.50 if they signed up through a “Review my post” PayPerPost link.
• Advertise your blog with the “PayPerPost Direct” badge to tell prospective advertisers your blogging rate so that they may contact you to blog about their products.

PayPerPost does not enforce you to say nice things about the products and services in their directory. It is totally up to you. However, I am not sure what will happen to you if you write negative reviews about some of their products. There will be lots of opportunities in their directory that will have almost nothing to do with your blog’s target audience and I hope people do not “sell out” by blogging about something totally unrelated to their blog’s main topic just to make a few dollars.

You’ll see more and more bloggers put the following banner at the end of every post. If you sign up and get approved by PayPerPost, you have to option of reviewing this post to make money while I get $7.50 as described above. As of now, I still cannot find anything suitable from PayPerPost to promote on this blog… I hope you can find something suitable.

Tagged As: Blogging, make-money-blogging, PayPerPost, PayPerPost-review

Categories: Affiliate Program Marketing, Blogging, Internet Marketing | 3 Comments »

I have not been able to update this blog as much as I want because I am busy updating my 5 other content sites and this site has not been a top priority for me lately. I should try to squeeze in more time for this once I can outsource more of the content creation work.

I am planning to write a guide on how to install Ubuntu Server on an old PC to run the popular AdSpy Pro script without paying a dime on web hosting fees. I spent some time during the weekends to figure out how to get the geeky Linux operating system to work on my 10 year old Pentium 3 500 Mhz, 384 MB SDRAM PC. It’s a 100% pure Linux shell based operating system with no graphical user interface. Very hardcore linux stuff that I have been trying to avoid for a long time.

I hope that AdSpy Pro will be able to run on my Ubuntu Server smoothly. I estimate I would require at least a VPS web host to run this script properly. Running AdSpy Pro on my own Ubuntu Server would be like getting a free dedicated web host. Too bad my internet connection runs at 3Mbps if not it could be really fast.

How Google AdWords Spying Scripts Work

I have been waiting for a long time to have something like adspypro since I joined a secret membershp site about 1 year ago. I remember the service I used was not as advanced as the ones we have today. Previously, we had to compile a list of competitors with Keywords Analyzer and a list of keywords to input into these Google AdWords spying scripts.

What the service used to do was it compared each keyword in your keyword list with the each competitor in your competitors list. For example the keywords “green apples” could be listed in a Google AdWords advertiser that uses the domain “GreenApples.com”. When the script searches for “green apples” and finds “GreenApples.com”, you have a match and this indicates “GreenApples.com” is using the keywords “green apples”.

Nowadays, we only need to enter a list of keywords and the list of advertisers will be recorded for us with the exact keywords they are using in your keyword list. You have to understand that these spying scripts will not reveal their keywords to you unless you have uncovered them in your keyword research! The scripts only help us do manual search engine queries to Google.com to see who are advertising with your list of keywords.

As more of these PPC spying scripts become available at lower prices, it would be crazy not to use one because any serious affiliate program marketer will be using tools like this to find profitable affiliate programs and keywords to exploit. Even if you do not plan to get into PPC marketing, you could potentially uncover a lot of great affiliate programs in your target niche.

Tagged As: adspy-pro, affiliate-programs, google-adwords, linux, ppc, spying, ubuntu-server, web-host

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I haven’t posted about Google AdWords info-products for a long time. Here’s one of the latest ones I got my hands on. Matt Levenhagen shares his “Campaign Blast Method“. I find it quite similar to what Barry Stein was trying to tell us in my September 2004 blog entry about spending as little time and money as possible creating “test campaigns”.

Matt goes deeper than what Barry Stein mentioned. Even though I know this cheap and quick testing method since 2004, I still make silly mistakes by trying to stubbornly promoting an affiliate program after listening to some friends who told me they are making money with that particular affiliate program. I won’t repeat the same mistake again. If a campaign doesn’t sell, I will delete it as soon as possible and test other markets without any emotion attached at all.

If you would like to discover how you can run cheap and effective market tests with Google AdWords, read my full review of the Campaign Blasts ebook.

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I have been using Keyword Elite for over a week now and it has been a bittersweet story. I am very impressed with Brad Callen’s customer support and his commitment to making this software the best keyword research tool in the world. Keyword Elite has been updated several times since I purchased it so reviewing it has been difficult because of the bug fixes and new features added in.

I purchased version 34 and now Brad Callen has updated it to version 63. Keyword Elite has been useful for me in the following ways:

1. Research the top 10 competitors of Google.com for a keyword phrase that does not have a lot of big time competitors so that I can target a less competitive keyword phrase for my web site. I used to have to do this manually by going to Google.com and copy down the PR rank of each top 10 result and note down if they used my target keyword phrase in the HTML. Now I can do all this in less than a minute.
2. Create a huge list of keywords that my top competitors bid on. I do not find the huge chunk of keywords returned by Keyword Elite to be very useful because it is a such a pain to sort them out when you have 40000 + keyword phrases. I simply research who my top affiliate competitors are in my target market and spy on them to see which one of my 40000 + keyword phrases they are bidding on over a period of time.
3. Create a larger list of related keywords for Google AdSense related web sites. Sometimes my other keyword tools only return me a small list of keywords because they all use Overture as their keyword source. With Keyword Elite I am able to expand that small list to a slightly bigger list.

Learning how to use Keyword Elite to make money can be a bit challenging. You have in your hands a very powerful tool with an instruction manual on how to use the tool but not how to make money with the tool.

This post is not a full review of Keyword Elite. I am testing version 63 and discovering new things about the software. Even though I feel Keyword Elite needs a lot of upgrading to make it work more intuitively, I still believe this is one of the best advancements in the keyword research software and you should get a copy as soon as possible before the retail prices goes up to $297 in the future.

Categories: Affiliate Program Marketing, Google AdSense, Pay Per Click Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization | 7 Comments »

I wanted to see what all the Keyword Elite hype was all about. I went to the Keyword Elite pre-launch blog to check out the videos. Boy was I blown away by video number 5!

You see, there isn’t any software out there that can spy on your Google AdWords competitors to this level. You could program Keyword Elite to spy on your competitors daily or multiple times per day if you like. When I say spy, you can actually see which keywords they are bidding on and what ads they are using.

This is great news for anyone who uses Google AdWords to promote affiliate programs. We can now see which keywords our top competitors are consistently bidding on for a period of time so that we can literally “steal” his keywords and ad for our own benefit.

I am still reviewing the software so I can’t give you my full story on this software. From what I can see right now, it is way ahead of all the keyword research software I currently own. Mind you I own 3 keyword research software..

• Keywords Analyzer
• Keyword Locator
• AdWords Clever Wizard

None of them comes close to what Keyword Elite can do for you. Stay tuned for my full review!

Categories: Affiliate Program Marketing, Pay Per Click Search Engines | 3 Comments »

I purchased the ebook Blogging to the Bank about a week ago and I have since read it 3 times. Its a unique way to make money with affiliate programs without paying for any form of traffic. The blogging part is about creating a bunch of blogs to increase the web site traffic to one of your blogs that refers someone to a desired affiliate program.

Please check out my Blogging to the Bank eBook review to find out more about this unique blog and ping plus affiliate program marketing system. I cannot give a review of this system without honestly applying it so the Blogging to Bank “system review” has to wait till I have implemented the ideas mentioned in the ebook.

Categories: Affiliate Program Marketing, Search Engine Optimization | 4 Comments »

Thanks to someone who left a comment at my previous post on Studio Traffic & 12 Daily Pro, I now know that 12 Daily Pro is in deep trouble with the FBI. It seems like 12 Daily Pro has got their StormPay account frozen along with thousands of members’ money in it.

I personally checked out the 12 Daily Pro web site and it doesn’t seem to load. Maybe it’s down or something due to the investigations. The last time I saw the web site, the designed was changed. There was no FAQ link or the “trust seal” on the web site. I fear Studio Traffic will be next if the US government decides to shutdown these “auto surf” or “paid to surf” schemes that look like ponzi schemes.

I believe if 12 Daily Pro didn’t use StormPay as their payment processor, none of this would have happened. Studio Traffic is actually based outside of the US and they have their own payment processing unit called StudioPay. It’s going to be a lot harder to get your money back if Studio Traffic goes bust.

Check out ABC 4’s coverage on the 12 Daily Pro scandal for more information.

Categories: Affiliate Program Marketing | 1 Comment »

I just registered a new domain name at NameCheap.com. The domain prices at NameCheap.com is $8.88 but if you enter the NameCheap.com coupon code found at this forum topic, you will get a discounted price at only $7.99. That’s the same price as RegisterFly.com.

I’m a bit fed up with RegisterFly.com. They have not refunded me my error charges even after multiple support email requests over a period of 1 week. I had no choice but to issue a chargeback request from my credit card company!

I just realised NameCheap.com also has a free “privacy protection” service when you register a domain. They also have an “instant name server” feature that allows you to add a domain to your web host immediately after purchasing a new domain. Maybe all web domain registrars allow this today? I am not so sure. The last time I purchased a domain at GoDaddy.com and other places, I had to wait 1 or 2 days to get my web domain “attached” to my web host.

I purchase domain names to appear unique when I am promoting affiliate programs in Google AdWords as Google does not allow duplicate domains names in their ad listings. Furthermore, it’s a good way to hide my affiliate ID from my competitors.

I will be posting more posts about affiliate program marketing at this blog from now on. I will create a network of “niche blogs” to cover different niche areas of internet marketing. I believe this would make my blogs more targeted, organized, and easier to digest for my readers.

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I added 2 more bonuses… A basic introduction to Google AdSense and a typo generating software. I will send them to you if you’re an existing subscriber in the next newsletter issue.

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I scratched 1 more item off my 2006 to do list. I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.0! I urge you to upgrade your WordPress blog if you haven’t done so.

Here’s why you need to upgrade to WordPress 2.0 as soon as possible:

• WordPress 2.0 has a blog comment spam plugin that will help you filter out blog spam. I get about 5 of these blog comments every week. Very irritating indeed!
• WordPress 2.0 has a built in WYSIWYG HTML editor that makes posting and edit blog entries and pages really easy.
• WordPress 2.0 has an improved interface. I find the blue layout a bit ugly but it has a couple of usability upgrades with the new interface that makes it easier to use.
• WordPress 2.0 has a built in Blogger.com import tool. If you’re still using Blogger.com, you might as well switch to WordPress.com and get your very own free hosted WordPress blog.

That’s all I can think of right now. WordPress is the best PHP blogging and content management script I have used. I keep telling everyone to use it because its really easy to use and customize to your needs.

In a bid to combat email spam, I have installed a WordPress Contact Form plugin. Please use my contact form to contact me from now on. I used to leave my javascript encrypted email address on my contact me page but somehow I have been receiving weird spammy emails. Not sure where they came from but I am not taking any chances because it could get really bad and I might be forced to abandon my email address.

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