Blogging for Blood Cancer
I was notified about this great opportunity about blogging for cancer. Bloggers are more powerful than they realize, I always like putting blogging to good use.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Recently several people that have been in my life have either been diagnosed with cancer, or have, unfortunately, already passed away from cancer.
A huge percentage (It was on the news, something like 60%) of people will have cancer at some point in their lives. Sadly it’s a real possibility that you or someone close to you has cancer. Something needs to be done about it.
To raise awareness of the program, you can blog about it. At Friends of Heroes they have different information about different events to help out. The latest is their light the night walk.
I really wish there was more information on the contest post. To get the “good” information you really have to click a few links.
Donations
I’m guessing this whole contest is to really get people involved, and increase donations and participation in this community. At Friends of Heroes, every 75 cents of a dollar is spent towards supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission of a cure. You can find out what your donations do.
Also, make sure you to, blog for blood cancer.
By blogging I can also chose which prize I most want, which doesn’t really matter. For the sake I’d have to select any gift card or a nice gift for the newest addition to the family, my nephew who is expected any day now.
Vote For Me $25 eBay Gift Card
Vote For Me $25 Gift Card
Affiliate Obsession just finished up their contest where someone can win a $25 eBay gift card. Now it’s up to votes to determine the winner.
Head on over to the contest page and vote for ff_n_stuff so I can win the gift card.
Affiliate Obsession
This blog is run by a great online contact of mine, John Sukowaty. He has a handful of blogs, with one of his newest being Affiliate Obsession.
He has a few interesting articles about DealDotCom and his PPC campaign with the free facebook ads he used. You can also follow how he is doing with his new eBay website that seems to have become popular with affiliate marketers.
Bloggers Selling ‘Sex’ Like Prostitutes
Browsing several blogs I’ve noticed many are using images. That usually is a good thing, images can really compliment a post. However, the going trend has been adding “hot chicks” and celebrities to posts.
Bloggers Selling ‘Sex’
I’m not sure how making money online has to do with Carmen Electra or Paris Hilton. I’m not going to display the images as it would kind of defeat the purpose, but if you’ve seen recent MMO bloggers you’ll know what I mean. It’s kind of offensive for readers trying to learn about the latest plugin or the newest affiliate program, and have a huge picture of an almost naked woman posing at the beach.
Although there isn’t as many women MMO bloggers as there are men (althought that number is increasing) I’d have to imagine it would be a turn off for women to read those blogs. If I was posting men in speedos every other post, I’d have to imagine I may lose some readers. I lost a read over the mention of adult images, how would it effect readers by actually posting them? And yes, some of these bloggers images are, in my opinion, ADULT.
Hot bikini models and cars fell together (somehow), so is making money online and models/celebrities next? Or am I just overreacting?
Has anyone else noticed these images and felt they were innappropriate as well? Or is it a good marketing tactic to include these women?
Contest Roundup: August 10th
Easy cash for everybody. Use your mail or your blog and win! And don’t forget Heckler and Jamie Kennedy Contest as well…
Cash + Free advertising
Win up to $50 via Paypal plus EC credits and free advertising at AnotherMMOBlog.com. As always, follow the rules and get as many points as you can by subscribing, commenting and writing about the contest.
Ends on August 29th.
Free Gas Card
Another Gas Card giveaway ($50) from Save Money. Subscribe to his RSS by mail and blog about it using this link: save gas articles.
Ends on August 31st.
Cash
Three cash prizes for you ($25, $15 and $5) from Thacash.com. To enter you only have to write a post about this competitions and leave a comment.
Ends on August 30th.
If you’re looking for blog contests, if you want to promote your own competition, don’t forget to visit About Blog Contests!
The Release of the Entrecard Toolbar: Entrebar
Entrecard is moving forward with bloggers. A huge percentage of bloggers are utilizing Entrecard as a traffic source, as well as a way to network. Entrecard is making new tools for bloggers to do that. They have just hit a homerun with their latest release, the entrecard toolbar, the Entrebar.
Entrecard Toolbar / Entrebar
The Entrebar has gotten me back into Entrecard. Sometimes I would drop if I felt like it, but now it has given me an easy way to browse new blogs.
The toolbar is full of features to make your Entrecard experience easy.
- Easily go to your dashboard, messages, and more
- Browse blogs in any category
- Browse blogs by any price (+more options)
- Jump from blog to blog, or open 10 windows
- Add a blog to your favorites with one click
- Advertise on a blog with just one click
The benefits of installing and using this toolbar was enough for me to upgrade to Firefox 3 to use it.
What has always been a problem for me is logging in to my account everytime. By logging into the entrecard toolbar I can stay logged in.
The toolbar also makes it a lot easier to spend those credits. Don’t go broke!
Have you downloaded the Entrebar?
WP Affiliate Elite WordPress Plugin
I’ve noticed more and more bloggers are turning to affiliate marketing to make money online. Of course, a popular way to promote the affiliates is through blogging. Why not make that process easier?
Turn Keywords Into Affiliate Links
With WP Affiliate Elite you can simply choose a keyword that you’ve used on your blog and make it an affiliate link.
Here are some bonuses with using WP Affiliate Elite:
- Takes only a few minutes to install (very simple plugin)
- Hides your affiliate links to avoid losing commissions.
- Tracks each click making it easy to analyze which are the most profitable keywords/links.
Timesaving and No Follow
I hate backtracking on posts. Sometimes my affiliate links change and then I have to go back and fix them. If I’ve put the link several places, it can take a while to track down. With the plugin, you can do this all in one spot.
No follow is another problem I’ve had. The same thing with updating affiliate links, sometimes I have to go back and add no follow. With simply one click, you can add no follow to your links or affiliate links!
Price Check
The cost for this plugin is $47, accompanied with a 60 day money back guarantee. I generally have a hard time paying for a plugin (although I did buy OIOPublisher) but this particular plugin may just save you the time and effort to pay $ for it.
Buy and download the WP affiliate elite plugin
Take a look at the video in case I missed anything.
Bloggers Adopting PerformancingAds as the Newest Money Maker
PerformancingAds everybody wins.
Performancing is taking that “everybody” thing seriously. No matter how big or small your blog is, you can sign-up for free. With PerformancingAds you can sell your empty banner spots.
PerformancingAds for Bloggers
Performancing Ads is kind of like the poor mans OIOPublisher. It provides you with a free alternative, as well as a “market”. This will send you potential buyers.
What is a bit unique about this, is it also has a banner exchange program. So it’s basically like entrecard, with the possibility of selling that ad space. Exchanging ads may be perfect for your banners that are getting clicks and whatnot, just no conversions. I’ll be working on this aspect throughout the day and will report my results.
PerformancingAds for Advertisers
To try to gain some new advertisers to the network, Performancing has a great promotion.
You can now take $25 off your first purchase of $100 or more.
Targeted Blog Advertising With PerformancingAds
PerformancingAds Affliate Program
The PerformancingAds affiliate program is definitely something worth participating in. You can earn $10 for each new publisher or advertiser you refer.
On top of that you earn 5% recurring revenue on all advertiser ad buys for life. As long as the advertiser you refer keeps buying, you’re set. $5 for every $100 they spend.
Contest Roundup: August 3rd
Welcome back, dear BAYB readers! It’s time for some new and easy-to-win contest for you all. Let’s start!
Win Godaddy Gift Cards
Runts Life is giving away five $15 GoDaddy Gift card each over the next 5 weeks. You have many ways to gain points and increase your chances of winning: blog about this competition on your own blog, comment on any post on his blog, Digg/Stumble the contest post and subscribe to his RSS feed.
Win a garmin GPS
Win a Garmin nuvi 350 GPS navigation system sponsored by Market Leverage and tons of other fantastic prizes at MeAndMyDrum. Among the prizes is a free 125×125 banner ad for a month here at BAYB. See original contest post for details on getting entries.
Ends on August 15th.
Free Gas Gift Card
Three $50 Gas Gift Cards (or Amazon Gift Certificates) from MoneyNing. Many options to enter: comment, Stumble/Digg/Mixx the contest post, write a post about it, subscribe to his RSS feed by email and follow him on Twitter.
Ends on August a8th.
If you’re looking for blog contests, if you want to promote your own competition, don’t forget to visit About Blog Contests!