TNX.Net Review
TNX.Net is the next wave of ways to promote your website or blog through links. This can be beneficial for both publishers and advertisers. TNX tries to close the gap between advertisers and publishers offering fair rates to both.
For Publishers
What I like about TNX for publishers is that whether your page has a pagerank or not you can still display links on it for money. The price is lower because it is calculated based on pagerank, however you can ultimately sell a link on each page of your site.
TNX also splits the revenue 12.5 / 87.5 instead of 50/50 like other services. You receive payouts every month via paypal or check.
The service isn’t that smooth however, instead of the links automatically appearing with just one code, you have to manually add it. That slows the whole process down.
For Advertisers
Your links are placed on relevant pages of websites, however I did find the process to be a little complicated. I also don’t think you can pick which websites or pages you can display your links on.
The links are reasonably priced for advertisers, TNX writes that
“For as low as 11$ a month you may get up to 10,000 static links to your website.”
I’ve ordered several links for sites, however some of the websites still aren’t displaying these links, but I am apparently being charged for them. There doesn’t appear to be an easy way to let the TNX team know this and it seems like a huge hassle in my opinion. I really don’t have the time to manually monitor this.
Affiliate Program and Free Points
TNX has an affiliate program where you get points based on what your affiliate referrals do:
“When you refer webmasters to TNX.net, you get 13.3% (as long as your account is active) of all TNX-points that are generated by their websites. In addition, you will receive 5% of all payments, made by referred advertiser (this option will work after paypal payments will be automated).”
You can also get free TNX points to buy links at the Digital Point Forum. This way you don’t have to take my word for it, but you can test the system out yourself.
TextLinkBrokers.com Now Hiring!
TextLinkBrokers.com has an opening for an experienced link builder. They claim to be one of the largest and fastest growing link building /SEO companies in the world, so whoever gets accepted to this job will have their work cut out for them. Text Link Brokers (TLB) provide their services to thousands of companies worldwide. You will definitely need some experience to be considered for the job. The position they are looking to fill is Director of Strategic Link Building. Of course they are looking for the right person, so there are several requirements an applicant would need to fill.
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years hands-on experience building links
- Knowledge of the industry
- Ability to create custom strategies of the resources TLB provides
- Creativity to build the campaigns to be successful
- Capacity to organize, manage and work with the a team
- Be able to research and budget
- Advanced knowledge of SEO
Those are just a few requirements, but that’s just like any job interview. For more Click Here for Job Details
The Salary
The person who is hired for this job will earn a 6 figure compensation package. Relocation expenses will be provided.
Incentive for You
If you don’t qualify for this job, like me, you can still get in on the money $. There is a $5,000 referral bonus for anyone who refers the winning candidate. I’m crossing my fingers for my 5 thousand! Start applying and make sure to tell them Blog about your Blog sent you!
Bidvertiser Contest Winners
The long awaited contest winner announcement is here! After over 100 entries I have it all sorted, and winners chosen. Instead of cutting them out on paper, I gave each entry a number then used a Random Number Generator to give me 5 numbers.
Our winners are…
GLF wins the 200$ cash prize from Bidvertiser!
Shankrila wins 50$ cash from Bidvertiser!
Qtpies7 wins 50$ cash from Bidvertiser!
Bebemiqui wins the website review!
Blog Contest Central wins the featured blog!
I want to thank everyone for participating and a huge thank you to bidvertiser for sponsoring the contest. Those who won cash please contact me with your paypal addresses.
You can still get in on the Bidvertiser promotion and get 20$ in free clicks. Why not get a few 100 more visitors to your blog for free?
MyBlogLog Community Contest
MyBlogLog is having a contest where the community that grows the most from November 8th to November 30th will win. You must enter the contest to be eligible. I think this is a great idea for MyBlogLog and it has given me a reason to display the widget again. So far our community has grown by 6, which puts us in a tie for 49th place.
The Prizes
I was disappointed to see there is only one grand prize, no runner up. However the prize is valued at 2600$ so it definitely is nice. The prize package includes:
- 1 year Pro-subscription to MyBlogLog
- 500$ worth of search clicks on Yahoo!
- 1 year premium membership to SEOmoz
- A complete redesign from Designsbyrs
- 1 year subscription to Yaro Blog Mastermind
- “Featured Community” during December
- Invitation to SOBCon 2008
Quit a load of prizes. The current first place person has +85 members since the contest started. A few people are even running contests right now to grow their MyBlogLog Communities which is also a great idea.
Help us out by joining our community. If you are entered I’d be happy to join yours. Good luck!
Voxant Problems With WordPress
Just a quick post following on from my last one about making money with Voxant.
It appears that there is difficulties running Voxant videos if your blog is on WordPress, which is the case with BAYB.
I tried to show a sample video in my previous post but it messed things up after a while. The video played fine when I first published the post and also 10 minutes later. Unfortunately after an unknown period following this something happens and the video goes wrong.
What I would say is that Voxant seems to work elsewhere just fine – on Blogger etc.
Okay, that’s it!
Good luck,
Mike
Mike’s Money Making Mission
Celebrity Insider – Photos & News
Making Money With Videos
As I haven’t written a post for BAYB for quite a while I thought I’d do this one on a money making program that I joined recently, well on the 21st of September to be precise.
The opportunity is Voxant Newsroom. What I can say straight away is that I have received a payment from them so feel confident now to mention it to other bloggers. You can see a copy of my cheque here. In the six and a bit weeks since joining I have made $338.36.
Okay, so what is it all about?
Voxant provides content to include within your posts. These consist of images, photos and videos. Personally I would avoid the images and photos as they are too dominated by adverts.
I have made my money from their videos – don’t worry they aren’t blue or anything like that! The videos come under various categories and therefore, with a bit of luck, there should be something suitable for your niche. Categories include: U.S., Local and World News, Business, Politics, Health, Sci-Tech, Entertainment, Sports, Life and Odd. It’s a decent range and there are sub-categories as well, though it must be said that it is weighted in favour of the USA.
Obviously you put the videos on your blog (using the provided code) and get paid for doing so.
The crunch is what do you get paid?
This is where you either say: ‘Is that all?’ or ‘That’s not bad’ considering how much traffic your blog has.
For a video it’s $4 per 1000 plays and a video story is $3 per 1000 plays. Now note this is ‘plays’. In other words your visitor has to click and watch the video. However, there is another way – which I am using, though not on all of my blogs.
There is a choice to have the videos on ‘auto-play’. In other words they switch on when anyone goes to your blog. This way every impression is a play.
As I said, I do this on some of my blogs only, where I don’t think this will cause a problem or mass revolt. Oh yes, nearly forgot, there is no money to be made by referring others to the program – so writing this won’t benefit me if you join. But there can be a viral effect if you are lucky and have the right videos at the right time.
On each video you place on your blog there is a clear embed button. This is to tempt others to also run the video and, if they do, you get some commission per 1000 plays (or part of).
So, in brief, that’s Voxant!
Good luck, Mike.
Mike’s Money Making Mission
Comment Friday for November 9th
TGIF. Recovering after an intense game of softball. I haven’t done that much running in a while. I’ve been wanting to do a little more, to try to get ahead, but I’ve been having some annoying computer trouble I can’t seem to get rid of. Might be time for a new computer.
Each friday we usually give one lucky person a free blogroll spot for a week, however last week we didn’t get that done. This time we will definitely be featuring a new blog. Want your free link? Get noticed, go above and beyond commenting.
I’ve been neglecting the movie theater and haven’t been able to see anything new. However with our blockbuster total access I can keep up with new releases. In the past two days we’ve seen Ratatouille and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Both were good in their own way, I’d have to give the edge to the Rat.
What’s the last good movie you’ve seen?
Banner Advertising
When blogs sell banner advertising, many of them offer space for banners with the dimensions 125×125. I am terrible with graphics so I set out to look for the graphic designer bloggers. After outrageous price quotes just for a simple banner (someone told me 200$) I gave up.
A Graphic Artist in our Own Backyard
I was on Garry Conn’s blog and noticed his right sidebar. There is a huge banner for Me and My Drum that looks pretty awesome. Definitely check it out. I quickly contacted Mark to see if he would make a banner for me. Within a few days he had three different ones to chose from. I’m going with number two.
I’m not sure what Mark is charging, but if your looking for some graphic work, you should definitely contact him.
Where to Advertise
As I mentioned there are a lot of sites that are offering banner space. My first test for our new banner is going to be Blogging Truths. For only 6$ per month, might as well give them a shot to impress me.
We also offer a 125×125 spot on the right sidebar. For the first person interested I will let the spot go for only 20$ for the first month.
Does your blog offer banner advertising? Plug yourself in our comments section along with the price, maybe you’ll find yourself with a few sales.