I have spent the last couple of months surfing the web looking for ways to better myself a blogger. There are so many people out there who just write these little dinky articles about things they know nothing about and expect to make money off the links that they place in them. They don’t realize that people are smarter than that. Most people are able to quickly assess a page of copy and easily diagnose it as garbage. They are looking for content and information about the things they are interested in.

This article is designed to give you a few pointers on how to write a better blog entry. If you can write something that people want to read then you will be able to honestly send them to links that might actually generate income for yourself. If they don’t like what you have written or don’t even stick around long enough to read through what you are offering, then there is no doubt that your offer will be left wanting.

Check out these simple tips:

1. Write about what you know. This is the big one. If you write about something you know nothing about, you will discredit yourself before you even get started. If you sound like you know what you are talking about and actually seem genuinely interested in what you are talking about, then most people will continue to read.

2. Don’t be dry or dull. Joke around or tell stories that go with your subject. Be entertaining. People want to enjoy what they are reading. They don’t want to just read dull facts. (I know, I haven’t joked around or told any stories in this post, but that brings me to my next point.)

3. Get to the point. Watch the length of your post. People surfing the internet generally have short attention spans. So hit them with the facts first. This will lead them into whatever you have to say after that. Separate your points so they can skim through your long windedness and move on to the next point.

4. Offer a prize. There should be something that will get them excited. Giving them something for FREE will usually entice them to keep reading, or will at least make them wonder what other stuff they might be able to find on your website or blog.

5. Mention other blog posts you have written. If you mention other blog posts (like How to Stack Pennies) or groups of blog posts (like Online Business), your readers will more likely hang out on your website longer. Mention the links and categories that they can find in the sidebar of your blog. Make sure you make these suggestions in the context of your post. If they see that you are blatantly advertising stuff, they will just pass the link by.

6. Suggest links that support the context of your post. If I were to suggest a link for this post, I would suggest to my readers to visit PayPerPost.com. I would support that suggestion stating that if they enjoy writing and would like to make extra money while posting blog entries, PayPerPost.com would be a great way for them to do that. I would also mention that they could get paid if they review this blog post. People like to get paid, especially if its easy to do so.

I hope these tips are useful. I plan to keep searching the website for ways to better my own writing. I will continue to post my findings here on my weblog. If you want to get email when I post new entries, go to the main page and type your email address in the space provided in the sidebar. Also, feel free to comment on what I have written. I would love to hear from you.

There are so many gimmicks out there that it’s hard to find one that will actually make any real money for you. I have tried a number of them. Here is what I consider the Top 10 Ways to make money online:

1. eBay.com - You can get rid of all the things that are cluttering your house. You can buy stuff cheaply at yard sales and resell them on eBay for a profit. Do your research first. Only buy stuff if you are sure they are going to sell.

2. lulu.com - I have written a few books and have published them on this website. The cool thing is that you can set the amount of royalty you receive for each unit and you don’t have to worry about buying a large number of units to begin with. The only downside is that because they make the book when someone buys it, the cost of the book can sometimes be a little high (You can counter this by taking less royalty).

3. payperpost.com - This one is amazing. I have written 11 articles and earned about $80 with them. It has been the fastest way I have found to earn money on the internet without having to buy anything beforehand. Not only that I get paid also when people review my postings. Check out the link at the bottom of this post for more details.

4. MyPoints.com - This is the only pay-per-email program that I have found that actually pays you a reasonable rate. I usually can get a $15 gift card about every 4 months just by reading the emails they send me. If I take any of the offers that they mention in the emails, they give me a whole lot more points meaning I cane earn a whole lot more money in gift cards. It is great for receiving target gift cards. I Love it.

5. SilverJewelryClub.com - This site gives away FREE Silver Jewelry. All they charge is a small shipping fee. With them I earn $.50 on every unit they buy. It is an amazing program. Check it out.

Hope this was helpful. I will add more to this list when I find programs that are actually worth my time.

I discovered last week that Google actually ranks your website pages. It looks at a lot of different factors, but it basically comes down to how many people have read your site, then found it interesting enough to place a link to it on their website or blog. Usually this means that you have not offered to place a reciprocal link on your own website to theirs. Google sees that if you have traded links with another website, they don’t raise your Page rank.

How do you check your page rank? That is the easy part. Scroll to the bottom of this page and type in your web address in the space provided and hit the button called ‘Check PR’. That is all there is to it. If the results tell you N/A, that most likely means you have a Page rank of zero. (To check to see if you are banned from Google, go search for your website on Google.com. If your site is there, you are fine, you are not banned.)

How do you raise your Page Rank? First, link to my Blog on your website… (OK you don’t have to do that, but I would appreciate it if you would. This will help raise my page rank.) Then place an advertisement on every page asking your readers to link to your website. The readers that really take interest in what you have to offer will link to you in one fashion or another, whether it be on their website or their blog on in a forum somewhere. The more links you have out there to your website, the better.

Soon as I learn more about this whole PageRank thing, I will post the information here on my blog. Feel free to come back any time to find out what I have learned.

Ever since I found this website, have seen nothing but good things. They have given me so many ideas to write about. They have new subjects for me to write about everyday. Not only that but when I write about the subjects and give my own personal opinion, provide a link or two to the sponsor’s website, I get paid a few dollars for my trouble.

This website is not just great for bloggers (by giving great content to write about and cash benefits to those who write about the sponsors), but it is also great for advertisers. Advertisers are able to have bloggers from all over the world write about their products or services and receive continuous traffic flow to their website.

Take a look at the following press release. This is no fly by night operation. They are backed by some large names in the advertising industry, they have some very strong blog ethics, and they are not going away any time soon. If you are interested in blogging or advertising with PayPerPost.com, visit their site, sign up and see what they can do for you.

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The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored
Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B

Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors

ORLANDO, FL (June 12, 2007) PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company’s Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors.

PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader, said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.

Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.

PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future, noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.

To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace
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The Math is Easy. $1,000,000/365.25days=$2,737.85 per day. That is all you have to earn everyday to make One Million Dollars in one year. The trick is to find that special business that you can do to earn that kind of money.

I have yet to find this special business. I do know that it is not going to be a pay per click program of google adsense or amazon’s affiliate program. I will never get enough traffic through these programs to make that kind of money. I am going to have to find that special product or group of products that everyone is going to want to buy. I just don’t know what that is yet.

Even if I did know what that products was, I would have to make 200-300% profit on the product to actually get anywhere near the daily total to reach one million dollars in a year. I would also have to sell, package and ship a lot of this product everyday. I don’t know if that would really be worth it.

The only other real way that I can think to make that kind of money is in the real estate business.  The only problem with that is that you have to have money to earn money.

I am going to keep looking for a way to earn that $2,737.85 per day. If I ever figure it out, I will make sure that I post my results here for you to read.

I found out about how to advertise on blogs when I discovered payperpost.com a little more than a week ago, and I have to tell you that it has been one of the coolest experiences of my life. I have written 6 articles and 4 of them have already been approved. When the other two articles get approved I will be scheduled to be paid $32.86. This is some of the easiest money that I have ever made. I am just writing about things that I know about, plugging a product or two in the midst of that writing and I’m getting paid for it. What else could be better.

The money that I receive will go into my stake for doubling my way to One Million Dollars. honestly I am looking to save enough money so I can pay off some furniture that will be due at the beginning of next year. If things keep going the way they are going I am planning to save up some money for christmas this year. I would like to make it the best one yet.

Anyway, please keep coming back and I will do my best to continue to blog about interesting things. Keepin’ it real and makeing as much money as I can while doin’ it.

Are you tired of getting all those get rich quick schemes in your inbox or via snailmail? I know I am. I have tried so many of them that it seems that I can sniff out the flaws in any program that is sent my way. I thought I would take the time to write a post about all the different things that I have tried and eventually discuss how to make One Million Dollars.

There are a lot of different programs out there on the internet that claim to make you money. Most, if not all of them, will make you very little money, if any at all. There are several different types of programs that I want to talk about on this blog post: Pay-per programs, Affiliate programs and sell it yourself.

I have tried just about every type of scheme there is on the internet and the Paid-per programs are probably the worst bet ever made. They usually do not make you any money unless you take advantage of the offers they provide. The offers that they usually provide are their own affiliate programs that make them money, not you. You get few measly dollars after spending who knows how much completing their offer. The only paid-per program that I have ever found that really works is MyPoints.com. I get a $15 gift card from them for Target about every 4-5 months, just for checking my email. I don’t ever have to sign up for anything else.

Affiliate programs are a little more promising. You sign up for whatever program and try to sell their product on your website. This actually works if you have a lot of traffic coming to your website. If you don’t, then you can’t expect anyone to actually buy anything. The other thing is that everyone and their mother are trying to sell the same thing, hoping to make the same measly commission on one or two items. When there are 50,000 people promoting the same thing, it is rather difficult to make any money. Take the Walmart ad to the right of this post (you can see it on the main blog page if you came to this post directly). Thousands of people have actually seen this ad, but because everyone just goes to their local Walmart or has seen the same ad on umpteen thousand websites, they just pass it by without a second glance. Affiliate programs, like paid-per programs are designed to make the owner of the company rich, not us.

The last thing I want to discuss on this post are the websites that let you offer your own products. Two of my favorites are ebay.com and lulu.com. Ebay.com allows you to take something you already own and set it up in an auction and hopefully making a little money on it. I spend time at thrift stores and yard sales looking for things that I believe will make a profit for me on ebay. On Lulu.com I actually sell books that I have self-published. They let me set my profit and I can advertise the book as much or as little as I want.

Both Ebay and Lulu are great ways to earn a little bit of extra cash, but they are not going to bring in any kind of major income. For one, ebay is so saturated with sellers who do it for a living that it can be difficult to actually earn any kind of real money. Lulu.com will earn you money if you are able to market your books. This is the real trick to earning any kind of money. Letting everyone know that you are out there. I am still learning about this and plan to write a more in-depth article about it in the near future.

So where does this leave us on the road to making One million Dollars? Well the only real way that I have found on the internet to make a Million Dollars it to create your own website (like this guy did) with a unique product that everyone is going to want and advertise the heck out of it.

Other than that I suggest trying the program called “Double Your Way to One Million in 28 steps” You can do this on the internet, but you definitely do not have to. Check out the free ebook and start doubling your way to that goal.