More Free Traffic?

A few weeks ago I mentioned a service called Traffic Digger to gain free blog traffic (view post here). Also, you may have noticed that I removed the Google ads from the top of this site. Well, this week I joined Adgridwork. Adgridwork is a text base advertising system whose ads look very similar to Google's Adsense ads.

The system is designed to show your ad on other sites in exchange for you placing the code on your site. You show the ads for free and you get hundreds of impressions (and hopefully a few clicks) all for free. In the last couple of days this blog has shown the ads approximately 70 times. However, my ad has had over 500 impressions. The downside, those 500 impressions have resulted in only one click through to this site. Still, one free visitor in two days is fine with me. I plan to keep the ads where they are.

As usual, I will keep everyone updated on the usefullness of this service.

Carnival of Online Income - November 26, 2007

Welcome to the November 26, 2007 edition of carnival of online income.

Wanda Grindstaff presents Success Through Service, the Most Important Component! posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles.

Jason Elder presents Five Top Alternatives To Personal Bankruptcy posted at A Bankruptcy Lawyer's Blog, saying, "If you are considering filing for personal bankruptcy, stop, think and consider the following-"

Allen Taylor presents Business Investment Strategies That Work Every Time posted at Investing World Today, saying, "The secret to investment success is the consistent application of time-proven strategies, not the use of complex, hard-to-understand investment vehicles created by investment bankers out to take your money!"

Thomas Humes presents Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees posted at Wealth Building World, saying, "How is your money flowing? How are you feeling about money? What do want in relation to money? Do you think about how much you have, or don’t have, often? What kind of statements were made about money while you were growing up? Why is it that people who have a lot of money can make it so easily and those who don’t have it, continue to go without?"

Danogo presents The 2 Simple Ways to Get Your Website into Google Search Results posted at Danogo.com - Discover. Inspiring . Media, saying, "For businesses on a budget the inexpensive way to promote your site is right in Google's search results."

AdSense

Alex M presents How to make big bucks with running websites in hot niches posted at We talk on making money on the Internet.

Alex M presents How to increase AdSense earnings: easy steps posted at We talk on making money on the Internet.

Affiliate Programs

Sutocu presents Multiple Streams of Income in Affiliate Marketing : IM-News.info posted at IM-News.info, saying, "Have you ever heard or read the phrase “multiple streams of income” before? Do you know what this phrase means? For many businessmen, creating multiple streams of income online or offline is one way of securing themselves as well as their businesses in the future."

Blogging Tips

Terry Dean presents 80/20 Rule In Time Management posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.

Craig Andrews presents Just Released! Blogging For Profit And Fun posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, "Please visit my blog at www.craigsandrews.com for "Real Internet Business Solutions" and more!
Thank you, Craig Andrews"

Easy Money

Drew presents Clubcrawler Blog - Easy Money posted at Clubcrawler Blog 5, saying, "I don't get into all the online stuff for making money but this is very cool. If I can do it ANYONE can. I just found this and it's awesome. I've never seen anything as easy or cool for that matter. Just make sure you read the book It's FREE and when you get to the part about how it works your mouth will drop open."

Matthew Paulson presents Generating an Online Income: Separating the Good from the Crap. posted at American Entrepreneurship.

Merry Makowski presents Learn The NEW Think And Grow Rich and Earn Maximum Profit! posted at consciouslyhappy.com, saying, "Become Rich fast; The best money making practical philosophy; The New Think And Grow Rich"

Alex M presents Products to sell on eBay posted at We talk on making money on the Internet.

Traffic Builders

Andrew Erickson presents 7 Ways to Screw Up Your Sales This Holiday Season posted at WebSite Werx.

Carol Bentley presents Lets be frank about stamps posted at Carol Bentley.

James D. Brausch presents Some Competition From The Ranks posted at jamesbrausch.com.

Ian Richardson presents What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? posted at Make Everything EzyAs123.

monertize yourblog presents Blogging Zoom - 5 Tips To Get Your Next Post Zoomed posted at Monetize Your Blog.

Mitch McDonald presents Free Reprint Articles: The Secret to Increased Site Revenue posted at FYI About.com.

Robert Phillips presents Get More Traffic Automatically posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.

Uncatagorized (but good!)

Christine presents The Exchange Rate - The Euro vs The Dollar - The Declining Dollar posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France, saying, "Living in France off the steadily declining dollar. One woman's experience with earning an income online via US dollars while living in France and paying in euros."

Woody Maxim presents Get rid of outsourced data entry workers, use macros instead posted at Woody Maxim.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents Copywriting Technique: Blow It Up… posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Marco Richter presents Be Flexible posted at Work From Home Concepts.

Stephen Dean presents Copywriting Technique: Blow It Up… posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Charles Eglinton presents eBay Photos Simple Studio posted at AuctionIncome.com - eBay Bidding Tips & Selling Tips.

Vladimir presents Website Investing posted at Netvestor - Internet Niche Investor.

Joshua C. Karlin presents Missed Marketing Opportunities - Israel?s El Al & Your Business posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas.

:: Suzanne :: presents works for me: how to sell on ebay posted at :: adventures in daily living ::.

chica with issues presents How do you make money online & can you make a living online? posted at One Snarky Chica with Issues, saying, "Just found your carnival and not sure what category this article would fit in exactly. Thanks"

Larry Russell presents Where's Waldo? - The illusion of superior professional mutual fund manager performance. posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog, saying, "The effort to find those few supposedly superior money managers willing to sell their services sufficiently cheaply is a costly, time consuming, and futile, "Where’s Waldo?," searching exercise for the individual investor. Many money managers will claim to be superior and few or none actually will be. If such superior money managers did exist, then there should be dozens or hundreds of them who prove their superiority year after year after year. Unfortunately, the scientific finance literature indicates that this is not the case. This year’s star money manager tends to be next year’s average or laggard money manager."

Jim presents When To Kaizen posted at The Kaizen Business.

Sutocu presents 7 Steps to Profitable Website Planning posted at Your Website Profit, saying, "These seven steps outline how you should grow an idea into a profitable website."

Kenton Newby presents The Biggest Mistakes People Make When Starting Their Online Business posted at KentonNewby.com.

Fred Black presents Milk the Cash Cow! posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..

Mark Riffey presents The Customer Vanishing Act: Where’d Your Customers Go, and Why? posted at Business is Personal.

Ron Ruiz presents Stay-At-Home Mom Creates Million Dollar Product posted at The Business Ideas-Making Money Blog.

Richard Lee presents Your Product Idea Incubator posted at Richard Lee.

Gley Yahya presents How to Start an eBay Business posted at Work At Home Start Up Guide, saying, "Few years ago I was considered as a power seller on Ebay (I stopped working on eBay. Reason I stopped work, due to bad events). My secret to being a Power Seller was “Building Trust in The First Place”. To help you start an ebay business and reach the same level as quick as possible, I've developed a step-by-step guide you can use to learn how to start an ebay business the right way and become part of… The "Best" Of eBay Power Sellers – The Ones Who Actually Make Big Money on eBay!"

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Cash Parking

I own a couple of domains that I purchased in the past. I recently learned of a process called cash parking. Basically the organization you work with will put ads on your domain page (replacing everything else). You then get a portion of the income generated from the traffic still coming to the site. I chose to use godaddy.com.

Over the past few months I have been able to generate about 20 visitors a day to The Astronomy Ranch. Godaddy.com is charging me $3.99 a month for this service and I will receive 60% of the revenue. They also offer a higher level where I could keep 80% of the revenue. This level costs more so I will experiment with the lower payout for now.

Carnival of Online Income - November 19, 2007

Welcome to the November 19, 2007 edition of carnival of online income.

Samir Bharadwaj presents The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships posted at SamirBharadwaj.com, saying, "Is your website layout or blog template remarkable, and why it should be."

AdSense

Christine presents GoogleAds, Keywords and Website Content: Making Money Online Using Web Content, Keywords and GoogleAds posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France, saying, "Writing about what drives your spirit and allowing that force to generate an income for you!"

Robert Phillips presents More Than 123% Increase in Opt-Ins posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.

Easy Money

kdickson presents InvestorBlogger: Monetization Monday posted at InvestorBlogger, saying, "A post to inspire you to do something!"

Sandra P. presents How to make money with your personal blog posted at Free Cash Quest.

Everything Else

John W. Furst presents Key Success Factor Number One: Speed Of Implementation posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, "No matter how you are trying to make money on the Internet! The key to success factor is, how quickly you can apply what you have learned."

Taylor presents 6 Reasons Why You Should Use Images In Your Blog Posts posted at Super Blogging, saying, "If you want to make money online, writing articles on a blog works like a charm. But if you want to be successful, learn how including images in those articles does the trick."

Aahz presents Timing Is Everything When Being Paid To Blog : Philaahzophy posted at Philaahzophy.

monertize yourblog presents How To Enable Expandable Post Summaries On Your Blogger Blog posted at Monetize Your Blog, saying, "Pros and Cons of Expandable Post Summaries and how to implement them on your Blogger blog."

Caroline Middlebrook presents A, B or C? Grading Potential Niches / Markets posted at Caroline Middlebrook :: Livin' Online.

Marco Richter presents Effective use of the Internet posted at Work From Home Concepts.

Stephen Dean presents Price Testing posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Charles Eglinton presents eBay Holidays Selling Tips posted at AuctionIncome.com - eBay Bidding Tips & Selling Tips.

Ian Richardson presents Ten Top Strategic Internet Marketing Tips posted at Make Everything EzyAs123.

Mark Riffey presents Competitors: How to easily keep an eye on them. Free. posted at Business is Personal.

Richard Lee presents Richard Lee » Tools Of The Successful: Reviewing posted at Richard Lee.

Jim presents Eliminate Waste, Increase Profit posted at The Kaizen Business.

Andrew Erickson presents Taking the Long View - Are You In Business? posted at WebSite Werx.

Carol Bentley presents Here’s 8 elements for a powerful sales letter. . . posted at Here’s 8 elements for a powerful sales letter. . ..

Woody Maxim presents What's making me money? right now posted at Woody Maxim.

Residual Income

Tim King presents What It’s Like to Finally Finish My First eBook posted at J. Timothy King's Blog, saying, "It sounded so simple, conceptually. But the devil, as they say, is in the details. And there were more of them than I can count. Actually writing the book was indeed the easy part. Here are 9 additional points I had to deal with in releasing my ebook for sale on the Internet."

James Alenteal presents What messages are your site?s colors communicating to your prospects? posted at James Alenteal's Conversion Rate Clinic.

Matthew Paulson presents Thinking About Signing up with Quixtar or Amway? Read This posted at American Entrepreneurship.

Traffic Builders

Ron Ruiz presents One Roll of Stamps=$45,000 In Sales posted at The Business Ideas-Making Money Blog.

Tiffany Colter presents Reaching more people with your blog posted at Writing Career Coach.

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Fusion Cash Update

Yesterday I received payment from Fusion Cash for the offers I completed last month (see '$26 in Only One Hour). The money, $26, was posted yesterday to my PayPal account. This is my first real payout of the project and I am very excited!

As an update on the offers I signed up for, I called and cancelled Stamps.com and FreeCreditReport.com this week. Both were still in the trial period so no charges had been made to my credit card. When I called Stamps.com, I spoke with someone in India whose voice was not very loud. I had a hard time hearing and understanding him especially with my two boys crying and hollering in the background.

Fusion Cash is definitely worth the time. I will check back later as they continually add new offers.

Carnival of Online Income Vol. 1 - November 13, 2007

Welcome to the first edition of the carnival of online income. Thanks to everyone who submitted articles. If you missed this edition, be sure to submit to next week's edition by Friday afternoon.

Let's get started. Enjoy!

Edith presents 53 Ways to Make Money on the Internet posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Jim presents Common Cause Variation posted at The Kaizen Business.

Living Off Dividends presents How I Made $1,836.90 Last Month (Excluding My Salary) posted at LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS, saying, "After toiling away for 2 years, I finally made enough to pay the rent! Although only slightly less than half came from online income, its still a step in the right direction."

Amanda presents PJM.Com October Earnings Report posted at the so called me.

Christine presents My Teenager's First Job, Teens and Work, Self-Employed Teens, Teens working For Themselves posted at Me, My Kid and Life, saying, "Teen's first job: creating an income online!"

Robinson Go presents How to Rank #1 in Google through On Page Optimization posted at Advice, saying, "Skyrocket your traffic base with these invaluable tips. Rank #1 in Google now and subscribe to RSS."

For my own submission, I present Free Traffic for Everyone posted at Online Income Project.

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Top Secret Tactic to Retire Earlier

Today I am using a guest author, Kimberly Patrick. She has great experience in the mortgage industry and has written this intriguing article. Enjoy!

The dream of owning a home is becoming very difficult for some people. Although everyone would like to have a home that is paid for free and clear, most people must acquire a mortgage that will be paid over 30 years into the future, and they make that monthly payment and that is it.But there are better ways to make your money work for you, and I am going to show you how you can benefit by "saving" your money more effectively.

Most mortgages have no pre-payment penalty clauses built into them unless it is of the sub-prime variety, in which case, your first and foremost goal should be to refinance into a conforming loan. But for today's example, we are going to focus on the "conforming loan scenario". And as I was saying, most conforming loans enable the borrower to pay more than the minimum amount of the monthly mortgage payment without any penalty.

To do this, you simply pay more to the lender than the usual mortgage payment every month. The benefit to this is that every extra dollar paid against the mortgage will lower the outstanding balance of the mortgage. This increases the equity in your home faster over time. Also, by lowering your outstanding balance, you will save on interest charges.

Here is an example based on the scenario of an average family.

If you are an average family making $50,000 per year, let us assume that you are saving, annually, at the same rate as most Americans. This rate of savings as reported by our government is about 4% of your income every year. This would mean that you are putting $2,200 in the bank every year for retirement. This breaks down to around $183 per month.

For the sake of this example, let's take this one more step and figure out what you would save after 30 years of saving $183 per month...the answer, without figuring out any interest is $65,880.

Right now, you are probably receiving at or about 1% Annual Percentage Rate in a basic savings account. And if you are depositing this into a 401k-GREAT-but it is still growing slowly. Why not take $100 of this money that you would normally save and pay down the mortgage on your home?

The following example shows why this is in your best interest. If you take out a mortgage on a house for $250,000 at a 6.5% fixed rate for 30 years, your monthly principal and interest payment would be about $1,580. Factoring in interest, after 30 years, the total amount you will have paid is...are you sitting down?... $568,870! Wow...hard to imagine.

But look what happens when you take $100 of your monthly savings and pay it towards the balance of your mortgage. When you add $100.00 to your mortgage payment every month you would save $58,863 in interest charges over the life of the mortgage! Now that is no small chunk of change!!! You would also be able to retire your mortgage about 5 years earlier...so now you have turned your 30 year mortgage into a 25 year mortgage...and it gets better.

Let's say that after the 25 years are up and you are living in your home that is PAID FREE AND CLEAR...now let's say you pretend that you still have a mortgage of $1,580 + your $100 additional payment, for a total of $1,680. Let's say you keep paying that, but now you are paying yourself! Let's say you keep doing that for the next five years...now you have a retirement account (after five years) worth $100,800! Now we're talking big bucks-and I mean big bucks in your pocket versus big bucks in "The Man's" pockets! To sum up the benefits of using this method, the borrower in the example above saved:$ 58,863 in interest on their loan

$ 24,900 in passbook savings ( $83.00 per month X 1% APR X 300 months )

$100,800 is additional savings instead of paying "The Man"

For a grand total of $184,563! Holy Mackerel...now that is a number that can get you excited! Now let's revisit the other option if the family had just paid their mortgage as agreed, and continued saving $183 per month. We already figured out the amount...$65,880. The difference is $118,683! Now THAT'S a difference! There are many ways you can use your money more powerfully, and this is one of the best ways that I know! Just imagine if you applied $200 more to your payment each month...hmmm...

About the Author...

My name is Kim Patrick, and I have worked as a Loan Officer in the mortgage industry since 1994. I have helped countless people, over the years, achieve their goal of homeownership.

I am a Financial Advisor, and regardless of whether or not my customers are first time homebuyers, or experienced homeowners, I look at their whole financial picture and make recommendations on how they can best achieve their financial goals.

My goal is to help folks who have credit "issues", as they call them in my business, find their way out of the proverbial "paper bag" and achieve the American dream of owning their own home.

If you want to read more articles like this please visit my blog a http://creditrepair4u.wordpress.com

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Carnival of Online Income!!

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Free Traffic for Everyone

One of my sources of income, of course, comes from the traffic generated from this blog. Google Adsense and affiliate links both are potential income producers. Therefore, it is imperative that I get people like you to this site to share my strategies with as well as increase my chances of reaching my income goals.

I ran across a site called Traffic Digger. This site promotes viral advertising. Don't fret, viral advertising is not going to crash your hard drive or send thousands of emails from your computer. Viral advertising, like MLM, works on a pyramid scheme. The more people who sign up under you or I, the more times our ads will be shown thus increasing the possibility of more targeted visitors. Through Traffic Digger all of this is free!

I'm using Traffic Digger starting today and encourage you to as well. You can click on the links in this post or on the banner at the bottom of the page to sign up.

I'll keep you posted on my success with the service.

Good luck to all!

$26 In Only One Hour

I ran across a site, FusionCash.net, that allowed me to make $26 in less than an hour. If I wasn't stuck with a slow dial up connection, the time would have probably been as short as 15 minutes.

Fusion Cash partners with many companies including NetFlix, Stamps.com, and FreeCreditReport.com just to name a few. These companies offer free trials or discounted initial offers and free money for signing up! For example, I signed up for Stamps.com's free trial and received $8. For FreeCreditReport.com I received $10. These offers required a credit card to sign up. If I don't cancel before the free trial is over, the card will be charged the monthly fee for the service. Either way the incentive money is mine to keep. I also signed up for a few survey sites which paid between $0.75 and $1.50 each. These and several other offers do not require a credit card.

Fusion Cash pays out on or before the 20th of the month in which the money was earned. The method of payment can either be PayPal, check, or direct deposit. I chose PayPal. There is a minimum payout threshold of $25.

I also received a $5 sign up bonus which is also available to anyone when they register.

I performed these offers in late October and cashed out my $26 balance. I'll keep you posted on whether I receive the money by November 20.

I think Fusion Cash will be a great addition to my quest.

The Online Income Project - Welcome!

The goal of this blog is to outline my progress in generating an income online. I will try several methods and review them here for your convenience. You can learn from my mistakes and losses while deciding which methods to use on your own. As an initial goal, I would like to be make a profit of $200 by January 1, 2008. From there I will increase the goal until I reach a level that I feel is comfortable. I would also like to point out that I recognize all gifts and blessings in my life come from my Heavenly Father. As with all of my income, 10% of the profits from this project will go to my church.

I hope you will join me on this quest. It should be full of ups and downs. However, I hope it will be rewarding and helpful to everyone.

Let’s get started!