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Knowing what you want before you dive in is extremely important, otherwise you will end up getting sidetracked, wasting precious time and energy on things that won’t make you any money, but instead bring you frustration and disappointment. Nobody ever said it was easy to make money online. Well, we think someone should have, because it is!

The thing you’ll need though is a solid game plan, to tackle any challenges, which will undoubtedly cross your path to .COM riches at some stage. Prepare yourself for what’s coming. Channeling your efforts into one subject at a time is 100x more productive than going at it like a loose cannonball.

The problem with trying to do everything at the same time is that you’re more likely to encounter multiple issues at the same time. The best way to become a unmotivated blogger is to stack up a nice pile of problems for yourself. And it’s easier to quit than to keep pushing isn’t it?

Unfortunately, quitters don’t make money online.

There’s no rush into setting up your blogging operation. Make sure you over think every step before you take it. If you’ve done your homework, and you have created a solid ground for your blog, the only way is up. If you rush through things without thinking, you will probably run into issues sooner or later.

Just imagine:

You’ve picked the cheapest web host plan you could find, only to be unpleasantly surprised at a later stage that there are tons of limitations to their service. Bandwidth restrictions, shared CPU time, insufficient memory. All these things equal downtime, pissed off readers and loss of income.

• You could have gotten a bigger or scalable plan with the right host, but now you’re looking to transfer your blog somewhere else. Most likely facing database problems, DNS issues and ofcourse, more downtime.

  We use a dedicated server from our sponsor, Top Hosting Center. Obviously this is overkill if you only have one blog, but they do great blogger hosting plans too.

You’ve downloaded the latest version of WordPress, start blogging away without optimizing the CMS (Content Management System) first. Months down the road, you find out that Google doesn’t like your site, and organic growth isn’t going as fast as you’d like to.

• You will now have to dive in and start fixing things. Unfortunately it’ll be too late for all your previous posts with the SEO unfriendly permalinks. http://example.com/?p=N just doesn’t work as well as http://example.com/best-post-ever in the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages).

Google updated its infamous pagerank, and despite your entire link building strategy, you only got a mediocre PR3 (like us). Would you have gotten a PR5 or higher, you’d be laughing to the bank because your advertising spots would have been worth at least twice as much as they are now.

• Since you didn’t bother with the WWW or no WWW preset, Google now thinks you have two separate blogs. You’ll find that the backlinks are divided between your http://www.blog.com and your http:// blog.com.

  Oops! Fortunately there’s a great WordPress plugin that takes care of that issue. Also make sure you have the right settings in your WordPress > Options > General section. Stick with either WWW or no WWW, so Google knows it has to put all the pagerank it for you has towards your one blog.

Get your own domain name! This is extremely important for any blogger that wants to build a reputable brand name online for themselves. Anyone can setup a free blog at Blogspot or WordPress.com, but again, these free options come with a lot of restrictions. Besides that, people tend to think that personalized domains are more authoritative than the free variations.

A .COM domain is the number one choice, followed by .NET and .ORG as second and third option. Stay away from exotic sounding TLDs (Top Level Domains) like .WS etc. Our sponsor is offering free domain names for everyone that signs up for one of their $6,75 hosting plans. (That’s cheaper than just the name at GoDaddy!)

Checklist:

1) Make sure you’ve got the right hosting plan, keeping your blog’s future growth in mind. A good start is half the job done!

2) Before even writing and publishing that first post, get your wordpress configuration SEO friendly. You’ll thank yourself for doing this a few months down the road when you see the amount of organic traffic (free traffic coming from your SERPs) ever increasing.

3) Set your online identity with your personalized domain name so people will recognize your blog the next time they stumble across it. If it looks familiar, chances are they’ll stick around to read it again.

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19 Moos » ~ ~ Random Post

Even with all the riots going on out there about our blog’s sale, its business as usually until we find a worthy heir to the barn. So guess what kids? You’re in for a treat today! How about a yummy sponsored review? We Got Paid To write this review about getafreeappleiphone.com (FAiP), a GPT (yes, Get Paid To) site with over 5000 active members that are really getting paid for doing stuff. FAiP has hundreds of offers for their members to complete, each offer having their own payout rate. By the looks of most of the rates, it will take a little while before you actually get your free Apple iPhone, but in the end, you are getting it for free!

This would have been a hard review to write, trying to convince you good people what a great site it is, because its quite messy in our humble opinion. For a site that is giving away free iphones, you’d expect something that just looked a little more…apple-ish. There’s too many colors, crammed text and overall a bit of a claustrofobic experience really. But that’s ok, and you know why? Because they are giving away free apple iphones! (did we mention that enough yet?)

When we signed up for free, we noticed that the site already gives you a $2 head start. All you do is collect points by clicking things or signing up for free stuff, demos and trials. There are a couple of offers that will cost you money, but if its interesting to you, obviously you should sign up through FAiP and collect the extra points you need for your free apple iphone. They’ve also got a referral scheme, where you can boost your earnings simply by signing up your friends because you will earn 30% of whatever their making. Before you know it you’ll all have free apple iphones so you can all iphone eachother!

Besides the free apple iphone (we won’t say it again, promise!) there’s a familiar ‘buy a pixel’ page, where you can buy cheap pixels to place your ads on. We’re not quite sure how this fits into the whole idea of the site, but people have already started buying spots, so there must be a good reason for it. Its probably a part of the contests they are currently running like the Paid to Click contest.

So anyway, FAiP says that they’ve shared $14,740.75 with their members (here’s the breakdown) and with 1471 offers available, there are about 510 apple iphones (sorry, had to mention it one more time) to be handed out for free to the members. We’ve signed up and when we get a bit of time on our hands, we’ll be sure to start completing the offers to get one of those…well you should know what you can get from getafreeappleihone.com by now.

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21 Moos » ~ ~ Random Post

You don’t have to be good or lucky with poker to make a killing with it. There’s a smarter way to go about it, Just ask Jim who is now making mid six figures ($50,000!) per month thanks to the poker industry. Within 2,5 years, he’s managed to get rid of his debt, loans and buy a brand new house because he’s simply endorsing poker as an affiliate. Hopefully Jim is smart enough not to put all that money back in the game, we’d be so tempted to start playing high stakes.

Poker affiliate programs always seem to have way higher payouts then any other product, probably because onlne gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry, and there’s plenty of moolah to go round. We’ve just stumbled upon a great resource for those of us tha would like to try their hand at becoming an online poker affiliate. PokerAffiliatePrograms (PAP) is a fantastic site, packed with all the stuff a newbie poker affiliate needs to know. We’re not saying you will be making 50K per month soon, but that’s because we don’t know how hard you’re willing to work for it. PAP provides you with so much information, there’s really nobody else to blame but yourself if you can’t make it work for yourself.

Not interested in becoming a poker affiliate? No worries, PAP has plenty of other cool stuff. We found a contest where you can win a trip to the PlayBoy mansion, a great interview with Shoemoney, tons of SEO stuff and general business tips. These guys are professionals, there’s no doubt about it, and we’re sure there’s plenty of things we can learn from them as successful online entrepreneurs.

We read somewhere that the forum they’ve attached to their website is the biggest online gaming affiliate forum online. Another hangout to educate your brain. We’ve just signed up for the RSS feed because its clear to us that we’re getting quality stuff from these guys, poker and no poker related. This feed is John Cow approved, and we recommend you subscribe too if you want to become smarter at what you do

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12 Moos » ~ ~ Random Post

Contradicting title isn’t it? Don’t worry, we’ll try to explain to you how exactly you can make money online by giving away free stuff in this review of Netline’s RevResponse. It has caught our eye as a viable replacement for bloggers that still use Adsense. Even though there was a time that bloggers and webmasters alike were cashing in 6 figure adsense checks, those lucky few are becoming an endangered species. With Google smart-pricing most of us, even a 1000 clicks a day won’t guarantee that you’ll be shopping for a new laptop next month. Perhaps RevResponse is the answer we’ve been waiting for?

Making Money Online doesn’t have to be complicated.

The system is quit ingenious in all its simplicity - by tapping into the largest B2B (business to business) focused content distribution network online, RevResponse enables you to handout tons of freebie resources to your visitors. Think along the lines of free business magazine subscriptions from eWeek, Profit Magazine, PCworld, tons of business whitepapers on Information Management, Communication, Security… basically everything an aspiring entrepreneur would want! Besides the magazines and whitepapers, they’ve also got plenty of podcasts and free software downloads in their free catalog. Want a peek in the catalog?

Signing up, creating your offers and making a profit, it’s that simple! A Guaranteed minimum payout of $1.50 for every qualifying signup, subscription or registration, some of the offers will go as high as $20. Lets see Adsense beat that. They do have a $50 minimum payout, but thats very achievable. Payments made by checl or PayPal, whichever you prefer.

To help you make the sale, RevResponse’s system will help you generate widgets that will suit your blog. There’s a right banner size in there, with 9 color options, for any of their 600 products to promote on your site. Just like any other publisher, all you do is paste a bit of code into your blog and you’re good to go. Making money by giving way other people’s stuff for free We love it!

Anyone, Anywhere.

Besides the straight forward process of signing up and starting to make money with the free offers, another great thing about RevResponse is that you’re not limited to the way you promote the offers. They don’t care if you use your mailing list for promotion, they encourage it. They don’t care where you’re from, or what language you speak. Everyone is welcome to join RevRespose’s money making business for free. Google Adsense who?

See For Yourself.

To see one of the widgets in action, you might have to refresh the page as we have a 300×250 in rotation. Our application was approved within minutes and we had the ad up in seconds. Now lets see how much money we can make with these guys. We recommend you invest a few minutes of your time to sign up today and see for yourself how easy it is to get started with the RevResponse widgets.

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32 Moos » ~ ~ Random Post

Errr…we just saw this rather disturbing video of our hero, the reason why we blog, the epiphany of the blogging underworld, Mr John Chow. We’re not exactly sure what to think of it. Its a pretty crap video and he’s basically talking a lot of shit. He’s saying this is an attempt at a viral video, but that’s just bullshit if you ask us - he’s been sniffing glue for sure. Lets face it, if he had one, we wouldn’t recommend the Big Beef to give up the dayjob to start a career in standup comedy. And who is this Gary that shit his pants he keeps talking about?

*This was a sponsored review

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