Thursday, March 19, 2009

Sharepic

Shareapic’s model is pretty simple. It provides free storage facility for you to upload and store photos, shares them publicly and at the same time, get paid when someone view your photos.

Shareapic has the following features:
• Upload unlimited pictures
• No file size restrictions
• Create unlimited galleries
• We pay $0.22 per 1000 pic views.. that’s more than some major ad networks pay their publishers!
• We pay out within 7 days!
• One click posting to Myspace, Blogger, Xanga, Hi5, and more!
Referral Program

Shareapic has a referral program. By getting your friends to join under your referral you get to earn 10% what they earned, and according to Shareapic, that’s for life time.

Promote with RSS Widget

The tool comes in handy for blogger who are shareapic users. The widget allows you to further promote your galleries, and the reason why you want to do that - create more exposure, thus more

Squidoo

Squidoo is a website that lets anybody create a page (lens) on any topic. A Squidoo lens is a bit like a web page (or mini blog) that you can fill any way you like. The great thing about Squidoo, is that it has Adsense already set up, so any lens you create will make you earn money. You can also use affiliate programs such as Amazon or Ebay, and easily display the products you like on your lens: people who buy those products will help you earn more money from your lens. The income generated by those ads is split between Squidoo, you and charities as follows: 45%, 50% and 5% (well, you didn’t think they would let you make money that easily for nothing, did you?). I think this is a pretty good deal, as we all know how difficult it is to make a name for yourself in the big web world and being on the Squidoo website will give you and your lens a boost, as other user lenses get promoted on your lens (which means that your own lens gets promoted on other people’s lenses as well).

One thing I like about Squidoo lenses is the layout: you can add different modules on your lens and each module can be used for a different purpose. Module are a bit like paragraphs; you can use one module to write some text, another one to add your blog’s or your articles’ RSS feed, one to promote Amazon products and anything else you can think about. You can add, change the order of or delete modules as you like, and Squidoo’s advice is to update a lens at least once a week; any lenses that are not being updated regularly risk being deleted out of the system, meaning any money accumulated on those accounts will be lost forever by the lensmasters.

On top of the money you earn from programs such as Adsense, Amazon and and a few others that can be integrated in Squidoo lenses, you can use your own imagination to fill those modules with anything you fancy and that you can make money with (or not). The text modules let you include html so if you know a little about html, you can promote your affiliate links: the best example I can think of is Clickbank. I already wrote an article on how to write Clickbank reviews that sell, so I won’t explain here how this affiliate programme works, all I will say is that if your lens is mostly about pets, you can write an article about pets and include a few pet related affiliate links in there.

You can use your Squidoo lens to advertise your freelance services, Ebay auctions, books you wrote and whatever else can be promoted on the Internet. There is no limit on the number of Squidoo lenses
you can create (as long as they are not duplicates) and it doesn’t cost a cent, so you can create your own Squidoo money-making empire, but if making money is not on your list of priorities, you can just talk about anything you like, use your lens like a small personal blog, and even set up your lens so that the money earned by it is sent to charities.

If you have a little bit of imagination, there has never been an easier way to make money online than this, and the main thing to remember if you want to make money with Squidoo, is to have fun doing it!

Click here to sign up and make participate

Youtube

Do you have a YouTube account? Have you wondered how to make money off of YouTube, even if you are not one of the few YouTube “celebrities?” How can you make money serving up videos online to YouTube?

With the help of Google Analytics, you can turn a pretty penny on one of the world’s most popular user-generated video content web sites.

YouTube is one of the most popular web sites online. Every day, millions of people logon to watch clips of their favorite web comedians, or other random videos generated by the huge YouTube user community.

Some people have found a way to monetize their YouTube by creating a YouTube channel that serves up advertisements that pay the user every time he or she encourages a viewer to click on his or her video. For example, Google’s AdSense program has long offered contextualized advertisements for YouTube videos.

However, how are you supposed to make money on YouTube if you are not one of the few YouTube “celebrities?” Unless you already have a huge viewer audience, which takes months (if not years) to build, the few pennies you make off of ads will hardly make it worthwhile.

Thankfully, a new tool released at the end of March 2008 allows you to analyze your YouTube audience and figure out what appeals to viewers. In this way, you can direct your videos at niche markets or certain demographics where you have a higher chance of being successful, thus boosting your viewers exponentially and making money off of YouTube.

This new tool is called YouTube Insight. YouTube Insight harnesses the power of Google Analytics, a tool that Google’s AdSense and AdWords advertising business has long offered webmasters who used its services. Just like Google Analytics, Google’s YouTube Insight tool is great for YouTube video creators to see a breakdown in YouTube traffic to popular videos–data that has never been offered before with such simplicity and ease of use!

YouTube Insight lets you see certain data about popular videos on YouTube. For example, you can breakdown YouTube video traffic into its various geographic locations so you can see where viewers are coming from. For example, you can breakdown your YouTube audience by states (in the United States). You can also compare the popularity and audience numbers of videos in comparison to other similar videos over a historical timeline, as well as a sort of analytical forecast on when a video will become popular on YouTube. Practically speaking, let’s create a scenario. Let’s say you survey your YouTube Insight analytical data and discover that your videos are most popular on certain days. You can then ensure that you have new content uploaded before hand, so that on those days you maximize your videos’ potential.

“With this information, you can concentrate on creating compelling new content that appeals to your target audiences,” says YouTube’s blog (source).

YouTube Insight is free and available to anyone who owns a YouTube video account. At the moment, you can pull up YouTube Insight data by going to “My Account” and navigating to your “Manage my Videos” page.

So how does this make you money on YouTube? As Google puts it, YouTube “Insight gives the creators an inside look into the viewing trends of their videos on YouTube, and helps them to increase views and become more popular” (source). The more views you get as your YouTube video’s popularity soars, the greater the revenue your YouTube video will earn as more people click on your account.

With Google’s data and YouTube Insight, you can capitalize the monetary value of your YouTube account. Making money on YouTube has never been easier!

Ebay

Marketing on auctions is nothing new. Although Ebay is the most popular auction site on the internet, plenty of auctions sites have sprung up because of Ebay’s success.

Many people are quietly making thousands of dollars per month marketing their products on Ebay. What isn’t really well known is the number of people who are making thousands of dollars every month through the Ebay affiliate program.

Ebay offers one of the most generous affiliate programs on the internet, paying up to 65 percent per transaction. Not only can affiliates make more money by recommending the program, but they can also make a lot of money from people buying and selling on Ebay.

To get started with Ebay, you first need to join the affiliate program. You can do this by either joining through Commission Junction or Mediaplex.

Once you’ve joined, then you’ll need to decide what you want to market. Ebay has plenty of tools to help you decide, like categories, as well as wishlists, marketplace research, and Ebay trends.

Some of the services offered here are free, and some of them are paid. You will need to decide if you want to spend money on these tools when finding your niche.

Once you’ve decided on the segment of products you want to market on Ebay, then you need to decide what type of site you want to build.

You can buy scripts that will make it easy for you to sell various segments of the Ebay marketplace. This is probably the easiest way to get started.

You can also use the affiliate center at Ebay to help you with building your site. Again, Ebay has a lot of tools to help you make these decisions.

Ebay’s affiliate center offers everything from RSS feeds you can integrate into your site, to the Editor Kit and Product Kit. Be careful here though. Although RSS feeds are search engine friendly, javascript is not. Javascript will make your website dynamic (the content updates automatically), but the search engines can’t read it. It won’t help your search engine rankings.

Once you’ve built your site, then you need to market. How you market your new site will depend on which internet marketing techniques you believe will be the most effective for you. You can start by optimizing your site for the search engines and then submitting to the search engines.

You can also use free classified ad sites like Craig’s List, as well as US Free Ads.

If this seems like too much, you can also search Ebay and simply buy websites outright. How you decide to build your business from Ebay is totally up to you.