Earners Club

ScriptDojo is a blog, though they called it a review site, about internet marketing scripts,  affiliate tools and product launches. Each product post, in a blog format, is not really a review about it but merely a description on the product. Below each post, it has a link where it will go to the sales page of the certain product. That link is designed for ScriptDojo’s unique Affiliate Program in which you can earn 100% commissions generated from your referral URL.

Highlights and Benefits
ScriptDojo’s affiliate program concept was not new to me and as I have remembered, I knew and joined one affiliate program which works very similar with them. But in your case, their concept might be different and you may only know it by now. Below are some of the unique benefits when you join ScriptDojo affiliate program.

1. Dozens Of Products To Promote
As I mentioned aboved, the products are posted in a blog format, thus, more and more products are added on a regular basis. If ScriptDojo post another product on their site, it will automatically become one of yours. In addition, with ScriptDojo you will be one of those who will know first about new products about internet marketing.

2. Earn 100% Commissions
When someone go to ScriptDojo’s site from your referral URL and purchase one of those internet marketing products, you will earn all the commissions.

3. Earn From Your Lists
Their site is just a blog format as I repeatedly mentioned and it has also an option to join in their mailing list. When you refer visitors to them and didn’t purchase any item but join in their mailing list, you still have a chance to earn from that visitors in the future. They will send email to their list with your affiliate ID encoded in it when there’s a product launches. Therefore, if your referred visitors that joined in their mailing list buy the new product launches (which they send through email), you will earn the commissions.

4. Earn From Your Affiliates
Same with the above process, you can make money from your afiliates if they buy on the new product launches.

As you might have noticed, their biggest asset would be the products itself as they will continually add new one at a time. However, it costs just $0.01 for the first 30 days (at the time of writing) and then $9.95 per month thereafter to stay with their affiliate program. This makes them again different from others since most affiliate programs are free. Visit ScriptDojo now and start make money online today with internet marketing scripts,  affiliate tools and product launches.

written by Ramil Alcibar

When I joined LinkWorth sometime in August, I was able to recruit six referrals (I hate referring people) with their affiliate program. Thus, my earnings stats showed that I have $60 to be paid within this month. When I received their email that September payouts were completed, I thought I received the $60 but unfortunately it didn’t come to my PayPal account. I login to my account and my stats now showed it’s $0, I have nothing to complain since I did not work for it but I just wondering what’s going on.

Today, I just received another email from LinkWorth and it answers why I have $0 now and didn’t get paid. LinkWorth has just revised their affiliate program payouts scheme.

A performance based program that pays the affiliate if the referring account actually does business with us, rather than just signing up. The payout goes like this:

Advertiser Account Referrals
>> $25 payout once the advertiser spends a minimum of $100.00
>>5% payout on all recurring charges for the life of the advertiser account

Partner Account Referrals
>> $25 payout once the partner earns a minimum of $100.00

Combo Account Referrals
>> $25 payout once the advertiser side spends a minimum of $100.00
>> 5% payout on all recurring advertising charges for life of account
>> $25 payout once the partner side earns a minimum of $100.00

As you can see, their payout scheme is very much different from Text Link Ads (TLA) affiliate program. TLA immediately credit your account with $25 when a publisher signs up with your referral URL. TLA’s scheme is prone to “attacks” for those people whose goal is just to make money online. It’s because it can be easily played - pay people to join under your referral URL. An example of this “attack” was a thread in a certain forum (I forgot the link) where the thread has a title “I will give you $10 for FREE“. The thread starter did not give details in public but only through PM. In the PM (yes, I was also tricked) he will give you his TLA referral URL and once you joined him, he will give you $10 in PayPal. In return, his net earnings for TLA affiliate program will be $15($25 -$10) each referral. You can imagine how TLA was loosing money with this kind of trick since you can assume that those who joined under him (who wants the free $10) were not really potential publishers/advertisers.

With LinkWorth, it is really a nice move for them. They are ensuring that everybody who joins under you are truly an advertiser(s) or publisher(s). I think this changes are very much similar to Google Adsense Referral Program.

If you want to know more about LinkWorth tips and specifics, Ades have blogged about them:

• LinkWorth - Alternative Money Making Program for bloggers (it works!)
• Some LinkWorth Tips…
• LinkWorth’s 50/50 and 70/30 scheme clarification, you should know this
• LinkWorth Tutorial, how to submit your blog/site

written by Ramil Alcibar

DigitalPoint Forums (I preferrably called DP) is a popular and high-traffic search engine optimization and internet marketing forum - but it seems that this description is too little and may not actually fit compared to what actually DP is, because it goes far far beyond with it. At the time of writing, it is the 160th most popular site in the world according to Alexa, which has also a traffic rank of 156. In addition, if you go now to DP, you can see for yourself how popular it is by just looking the current active users. DP is 100% free to join and there’s no payment at all no matter where you would like to read or post, unlike other forums that offer subscriptions to access private forums. And the best part of DP which was not directly stated in any page of their site is that you can actually earn hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Listed below are some of the ways on how you can make money online with DigitalPoint Forums.

• Make Money With Your Services (Freelancing)
  DP has a dedicated forum category where everyone can offer or look for services - this acts like a freelance site. If you know how to read and write English then you may also be able to make money at the Services section. DP does not charge you any fees to offer your service, whether it is successful or not. Here are some of the services which you can offer to DP members:
  • Web Design
  • Programming
  • Scripts Installation
  • Article Writing
  • Article Submission
  • Posting (Forum Posting, Blog Posting, Blog Commenting, etc)
  • Submission (Directory Submission, Social Bookmarking Submission, Press Release Submission, etc)
  • Data Entry
  • Any job that you can think of

  

• Google Adsense Revenue Sharing
  As stated on Making Money In Google Adsense Without a Website, DP is listed as #1 for Adsense Revenue Sharing program. If you are a regular poster and create threads that can catch attention and replies, you will be able earn with this program. Your Adsense ads will be used 50% of the time when your thread is viewed. A detailed infomation can be found here.
• Maximize Adsense Earnings
  If you are new to Adsense or just simply want to improve your Adsense earnings, just read or ask a question in their Adsense forum and for sure you will get replies of useful information you need.
• SEO, Marketing, Link Building
  Real traffic is your source of income for your website(s), but how can you get traffic? Simply read a lot of stuff in their Marketing forum - believe me that you will find information not found on eBooks you bought.
• Drive Traffic To Your Sites
  Again, traffic, traffic and traffic is one factor to make money online. At DP, you can drive traffic into your website(s) by advertising it in your signature and participate regularly in the forum. DP has also a Link Exchange section if you are seeking link exchange. If you want instant traffic, you can exchange other members with Stumbles, Diggs, Netscape votes and other similar things - please take note though that this seems an unethical method of getting traffic and may not also allowed by the terms of each site such as Digg.
• Sell Your Websites
  If you have website(s) that you cannot manage anymore or you just simply want to sell it, then offer it here.
• Resell Domain Names
  If your into a domain names business, you can find some cheap domains at DP for sale, which of course you can resell. Or maybe you have some domains for sale, then offer it at their Buy/Sell Domain section. Please don’t get so addicted on buying domains like me
• Sell eBooks, Softwares & Other Digital Products
  Do you have eBooks with resell (or master resell) rights? Or do you have a software recently developed and want to make some money with it? Or do you have some images, photos, wallpapers, etc.? Make money from that stuffs by selling it in the main Buy/Sell/Trade section. Or if you’re so nice,
  you can give it away for free but with a hidden price. What I mean is to offer it as FREE but let potential users of those products register first (& let them opt-in to subscribe) before they can download. This way, you will be slowly building a list - and remember the phrase “THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST“.
• Sell Your Content
  If you have PLR articles, databases (preferred is in MySQL format) you can also sell it on DP. Hundreds of potential buyers are waiting for your contents.
• Sell WordPress Themes & Other Web Templates
  If you are good in web design and you can make WordPress Themes, phpLD templates, proxy templates, portfolio designs then you can earn hundreds of dollars or even thousands from it. From my own experience, it is very rare that designs cannot be successfully sold at DP.
• Get Sponsors With Your Free Themes
  If you put yourself in a worst situation where no one will buy your pre-made designs, then just give it away for free. You can still make money with your free themes by selling text links in your theme. Usually, the text link(s) will be embed in the footer of your themes. Even with the issue of WordPress sponsored themes (this and this), many are still eager to buy sponsored links on your free WordPress themes. However, we are not talking only WP themes here, you can create others such as free VB skin, free phpLD templates, etc. and sell text link(s) on it.
• Sell Advertisements & Links In Your Site Directly
  If you have website(s) and would not like to use text link borkers such as TLA, you can find customers at DP by posting your offer in the Link Sales forum. Most users preferred sites with high PageRank.
• Sell Signatures, Location and Avatar
  Yes, DP allow you to let others rent your signatures, location, avatar and even recent blog section. If you are a regular poster and make thousands of posts, you can really profit on that arena.
• eCurrency Exchange
  “I need $100 in YourProcessor and I’ll pay you $110 via MyProcessor” - this is an exchange in eCurrency. If you have a lot of funds in your payment processor which others don’t have (let’s say e-gold for example), you can also offer this at DP. Just be careful with scammers (though there’s an iTrader system) and most importantly, this may not allowed on the payment processor you used. For example, PayPal does not allow this type of exchange. Do this type of business at your own risk. THIS IS VERY RISKY, REMEMBER IT!
• Offer Your Affiliate Programs & Other Business
  Do you started your own affiliate program? Or do you have web hosting business? Or even a new web directory? Announce this at DP in an appropriate forum category and you can have partner/customers for sure.
• Join Contests
  Unfortunately, contests at DP are usually for designers. Logo, banner, header and template design contests are among those that are available and are always in demand. In a rare occassion, members post easy contest such as Slogan Contest. Usually you will get money if you are choosen as the winner, others just offer eBooks, text link, etc.
• Discounts on Vouchers & Coupons
• Sell MySpace Bulletins / hi5 Comments

All of the lists above, the most profitable for me until now is on Web Design. What’s yours?

Those ways does not sum up to 101 ways to make money online with DigitalPoint Forums as the title says. I intended it to be just a short list because I will let some DPers share some thoughts on how can they make money online with DP until it reaches a total of 101. To start with DPers interactions, I would like to add one to the list I created above: Make Money To Digg, Stumble, etc. There are still ways that I knew of that can add up the list but it will definitely fall under the Services (freelance) forum.

written by Ramil Alcibar

To build quality backlinks, which is very crucial for SEO success, website owners usually do submission to directories, article submissions, posting in forums and many more techniques as mentioned by Andy Hogans and Aaron Wall’s 101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website. In that great post, they have also mentioned about renting some high quality links directly from web sites. In reverse, this gives website owners (in this case, bloggers) an opportunity to make money from blogs by selling text links.

Direct Text Link Sales
You can directly sell text links in your blogs if you want a total control of your ads. Selling text links directly also cut off the middleman’s share and therefore you keep 100% of your sales, plus, you will have direct relationship with your advertisers. However, there are also some disadvantages with this type of selling text links. First, this is not an option for low traffic blogs or those that are new, thus only popular and high-traffic sites may used this method. Second disadvantage is that your potential advertisers are very limited - that is, only your visitors.

Bloggers usually put an “Advertise” page on their blog and put some details such as prices, traffic stats and other useful informtion that could catch attention to potential advertisers. Others also advertise that they are selling text links by posting on various webmaster forums such as DigitalPoint and SitePoint or placing it on classified ads sites. JohnChow has also a nice article on How To Make Direct Ad Sales.

For WordPress users, there are two plugins that could automate your direct selling of text links. These are OIOPublisher (free) and WP TextAds (free or $127/license - more review soon). You will also be able to get listed on the marketplace of these sites.

Text Links Brokers
If your blog is not so popular, you can use text link brokers which act as a middleman between you and a thousands of advertisers. This is a preferred method by most of the bloggers even if they received huge amount of traffic everyday. It’s because if they used these text links brokers, their blog will be listed in the marketplace of these sites thus it will be exposed to thousands of potential advertisers. Even if there will be a cut of your sales (you will not received 100% of your sales), the exposure it brings would outweigh the disadvantage. Listed below are some (there maybe new one that is unknown) of the popular text link brokers:

• Text-Link-Ads
  Sell relevant text link ads on your website. You can approve or deny the advertiser links that appear on your site. They pay you 50% of the sale price for each text link sold on your website. Additionally, earn $25.00 for new paid client or new publisher referred.
• LinkWorth
  Sell text links and other form of ads and make money. Earn up to 70% of ad revenue recurring monthly in most situations, suggested is 50/50 split. Earn more by referring advertisers to LinkWorth. You can earn $10.00 for each new advertiser signup and 5% of each recurring transaction amount for the life of the advertiser account.
• BackLinks
  Monetize your web site by selling text links to related web sites. Unlike most text link brokers, they DO NOT CHARGE any fees or commissions. You decide what to charge for your text links and you keep 100% the revenue. As usual, you have the control to choose what sites you would like to be advertised on your site. But, BackLinks only accepts sites with PR3.
• Adbrite
  Approve or reject any ads purchased for your sites. You also have the ability to sell direct ads with “Your Ad Here” links. Unfortunately, they have no option to pay your commissions via PayPal.
• Direct Link Ads
  You can earn 75% of the revenue of the link ads sold on your site. You may use your earnings to purchase links from other sites, or you may withdraw the funds at any time if your account balance is more than £50.
• LinkAdage
  Already teamed up with Text-Link-Ads.
• Buy-Sell Text Links
• Text  Link Brokers
• Live Customer

Empty/Looks-Underconstruction/Seems-Inactive/Beta Stage Text Links Brokers?

• Permanent Links
• LinkMonsters
• TextLinkAdvisor
• Text Link Ocean
• Buy Sell Trade Links

If you knew any other programs not listed above, please let us know by posting in the comments area. Additionally, you may share your experiences with us which among the programs above perform well with your blog.

Part 3 of monetizing your blog is coming soon next week. You can read Part 1: Making Money In Your Blog - Contextual Advertising here.

written by Ramil Alcibar

Zlio is a service that let you build your own online store and start selling thousands of products from their approved merchants. Currently, Zlio does not offer selling your own products, you must browse their existing products catalog, choose and add it into your own-built shop. Before I give a little more chit-chat, just take a look at this Online Health Shop I setup to give you an overview of what Zlio can do.

How Does It Work
Building your own online shop with Zlio involves a few mouse clicks and you can have your own online store in just a couple of minutes. The shop I setup above took me about 25 minutes to complete, it may not took too long if I decided immediately what products to be added.

1. Register free at Zlio.
2. Create a new shop in your control panel. This is basically providing some details of your store such as the URL (in http://yourname.zlio.com format or you can also setup with your own top level domain), shop title, template to used and more.
3. Add products to the shop shop created.

How Can You Make Money
Zlio provides four (technically only three) ways on how you can make money with your online shop.

• Pay Per Sale
  Earn commissions on every sell you make from your online shop. Commissions varies from 0.6% to 20% (the highest and lowest I’ve seen) depending on the merchants you choose.
• Pay Per Click
  You can also earn commissions when someone click on the products on your shop. Unfortunately, you cannot earn at all of the products on pay per click basis. Some just pay only on pay per sale basis.
• Referrals
  You can earn a lifetime 10% commissions on the earnings of your direct referrals + 5% of your direct referrals’ referral earnings.
• Google Adsense
  You can also display Adsense on your online shop. However, 40% of your Adsense earnings on the shop will be deducted.

More Zlio Features
Zlio has many features that let you maximize your online shop. Some of the important features are listed below:

• Thousansd of products to choose from, just select your interested niche that you think you can market.
• You can also display the products in your blog or website.
• Make your online shop more professional by putting it in your top level domain.
• You can have multiple shops with only one account. This means that you can have http://shop1.zlio.com, http://shop2.zlio.com an so on depending on the availability of the subdomain you choose.
• Nice templates are ready to use. You can even drag and drop elements around your page the way you like it. If you have some CSS skills, you can also customize the look and feel of your online shop.
• Shoppers may leave their reviews of the products on your shop.

I still have to make customizations and play around with the shop I created above. Sign-up now with Zlio and please post your experiences in the comments area below.

written by Ramil Alcibar