I haven’t given up on this blog, but rather channeling my efforts in other areas right now, to increase my online income, update myself on the massive, recent changes in the Google camp (MayDay update) and learn more about everything in general.

I am also happy to say that the MayDay update didn’t hurt my domains, and that you should not listen to doomsday-sayers  claiming it to be the end to all micro niche sites and blogs. Google now rewards your efforts richly upon posting relevant, in context content in your blog or on your website, simply as that. Also, Web 2.0 properties such as Squidoo and Hub Pages seem to attract more followers now. Why should they post their own, unique content on their own domain when they can simply post regurgitated PLR content on a lens or miniwebsite, and still earn shared AdSense revenue with it.

But, enough of that!

Today, Tuesday June 22, 9:00PM – 11:00PM EDT, Brian Johnson and Alex Goad will team up to talk about and show a live demonstration of their new product launch, the Halloween Super Affiliate system. As the Webinar will promote a new IM product, expect a lot of hype and sales pitch, but it is 100% free to join and you’ll get this:

Free Bonus Gifts for the webinar participants:

• Bonus Gift #1: Revenue Domains Exposted ($97 value)
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• Bonus Gift #3: Affiliate Payload + Advanced Training Videos ($97 + $127 Value – Free)
• Bonus Gift #4: Site Rush + Advanced Training Videos ($97 + $127 Value – Free) – Learn how to flip (sell) your niche sites for profit.

Sign up by clicking the link below, and click the Webinar link that you will find in your Inbox, when the party launches:

Halloween Webinar with Awesome Super-Affiliate Bonus Gifts

(don’t worry; it’s not an affiliate link)

Whether this trend derives from an urgent need for small amounts of money to buy virtual items in online games, or the almost arousing feeling of instant gratification the moment another “money mail” from PayPal arrives in their In-box, I can’t tell. Another and slightly more serious question, though: Is this need for a quick fix making marketers even greedier, is it something we should be worried about?

Today, with little more effort than a mouse click, most any Internet surfers can earn a couple of dollars on the Internet. With task oriented websites like MyLot, Bukisa and other GPT (Get Paid To) sites, what comes next, I wonder.

Although MyLot and Bukisa are nice places for earning a couple of dollars, your main weapon is you, and your knowledge; without at least some knowledge on Internet Marketing including sub-categories, such as SEO, article writing, back-link building, PPC advertising and so on, it is difficult to earn more than pennies!

I help inexperienced marketers almost every day, explaining how to set up a Squidoo lens, write articles, earn their first dollars online e.t.c., and I’ve come to realize that, all they sometimes want is a quick fix; a small amount of money in their PayPal account. Enough to feel they are getting somewhere, and that their efforts still counts.

What if I say that the solution is always within reach for each and everyone, who wants to earn a residual income on the Internet? It is 100% free and not even a product, just advice from yours truly:

1. Educate yourself: read free e-books, watch YouTube tutorials, read EzineArticles content.
2. Stop thinking small; re-program yourself to think success (it takes time, be patient).
3. Stop wasting time with PTC programs. Pick up a simple marketing skill and earn more.
4. Don’t let your friends or relatives put you down by saying “it will never work”. They are clueless.
5. Create an action plan and stick with it (i.e. “Write 1 new article every day, build 5 back-links e.t.c.).

My biggest mistake in the beginning, when I started learning about marketing and it’s numerous sub cultures, was falling for PTC scams. Ouch! Luckily, I used PayPal. Thanks to them most of my money was returned, which is one of the reasons I always recommend PayPal. Sure, they are not perfect, but close enough.

I am working on putting together an e-book that I will give away here on Easy Money Central, hopefully before Christmas. I’ll do it because I keep bumping into frustrated marketing beginners, who are about to give up, because they can’t see any progress at all and wonder if it’s worth it. But hey, sometimes I am one of them!

Some days they feel empty and drained of power, then suddenly and most unexpected, they get a sale! And someone signed up in their GDI downline, they receive a message from a grateful referral, with many thanks for helping them out, e.t.c. These little things helps you keep going, even when you feel like running in one spot.

Good things happen when you are PERSISTENT and DO SOMETHING, even if that something feels like wasting time, such as posting in a forum, adding a new affiliate link in your forum signatures, surfing Traffic Exchange sites for an hour or two, mailing a Safelist. All of these actions can earn money for you when you least expect it!

The secret is to NEVER GIVE UP.

Happy Earnings!

Håvard L. Lund / Splinterbiz

In Part 1

I believe the survey companies that you find in this list send out new surveys on a pretty frequent basis, and that they pay in reasonable time (a couple of days, 1-2 weeks perhaps). My focus is on companies accepting International users and PayPal. Bear in mind that the number of surveys you receive from these companies depends heavily on targeted demographics, such as: where you live, age, education etc.

Survey companies accepting International users and PayPal

Company: Survey Head
About: Founded in 2008, adds $5 in your account upon verifying it.
Minimum payout amount: $25
Note: I received the confirmation e-mail an hour later. Earned $6 during that time.

Company: Lightspeed Panel
About: Available in selected countries. Current point exchange rate is 115 points for $1.
Minimum payout amount: Around $5
Note: Worldwide, but not all countries are eligible. Supposedly trust-worthy, with some ups and downs.

Company: Esearch
About: Founded in 1995, Esearch was one of the pioneers in online market research.
Minimum payout amount: None, and the money is automatically PayPal’d.
Note: Easy to sign up, nice and clean website layout.

Company: Brand Institute
About: Brand Institute was founded in 1995 and pride themselves on being experts on branding. Sign up using the Register link on their website, update your profile and participate in their surveys.
Minimum payout amount: Not sure.
Note: Panel members have different opinions, but they all seem to agree that Brand Institute delivers. Their payouts are pretty late, by up to 1-2 months, but they pay pretty well.

In conclusion
Filling out online surveys is but one of many easy ways to earn some extra money online. From what I have observed in the last couple of days, while researching survey companies welcoming International participants and PayPal, I realized it’s not easy to find them. By all means: join them; you will earn enough money to cover a GDI membership, web hosting etc., which is why I brought this up in the first place. A few dollars with little effort.

In my experience, so far, the Cint Panel clients are more eager with sending out new surveys, and they pay almost immediately to my PayPal account upon requesting a payout. I almost wish the rest was like them.

Many of the jobs or business opportunities on the internet aren’t in reality businesses at all, but advertisements intended for courses, seminars, etc. which claim to train you for a lucrative profession in a given industry. While several training programs are valuable, you ought to know that there is no assurance that you will find a position at the last part of the program. It can be frustrating attempting to sort through the various home based business ideas out there and figure out which ones are genuine and which one would be the correct selection for you.

The great news is that there are a lot of legitimate high income business opportunities to pick from and that hundreds of thousands of individuals are already earning a very great livelihood at them. In a number of cases, these people are working merely a few hours a week. One of the major advantages of working for yourself is that you are in control – you can select your own hours, your work environment, as well as the type of job you want. Your success in a home based business is a direct result of your motivation and hard work and is not dependent upon others.

There are numerous different types of high income business opportunities which are presently well-liked. The most frequently advertised home based business opportunities are for affiliate programs. If you join an affiliate business, you will make cash in two ways – one, by sending traffic to a site offering products or services and two, by getting others to sign up in to the affiliate network. If you are social and comfortable with the Web, this could be the perfect style of work.

Marketing for a site can involve some expense, but you can additionally do a large amount of it for no charge. By posting on forums and blogs and getting involved in social networking, you can get your name out there without investing too much money. Being an affiliate can earn you a healthy income and you make cash whenever someone links to the website through your ads or posts 24 hours a day. If you recruit other individuals to join the affiliate network, you will additionally make a percentage of the sales from their referrals, as well as the people which they refer and so on.

Of course, this business is not for everybody. It does necessitate a level of comfort in selling individuals on a product and talking to strangers, even if it is over the web via email. If affiliate marketing is not meant for you, don’t despair as there are a lot of additional high profit business opportunities waiting for you in fields like administration/ business, transcription and customer service. Check out a website that reviews work-at-home jobs for the best tips on valid opportunities to earn a high income from your house.

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When I joined my first affiliate programs, I did everything wrong: I joined under lazy uplines, I used Traffic Exchange websites and free safe-lists to promote it, yielding poor results. One of the lessons I learned from the start, was to find the right sponsor or mentor. I found mine and signed up under her. I did mistakes still, especially one that a lot of fresh marketers still do …

My biggest mistake was promoting GDI (Global Domains International). Even though it is a solid affiliate company rewarding their users for their efforts, you have to both work smart and hard to achieve good results with it. With no results and no sign-ups, other than those from my sponsor, my frustration was mounting. I was told that, writing articles works well for traffic, and as my endeavor into the minefields of PPC advertising left me flat broke, I wrote my first article ever, on ACME People Search and GDI, and submitted it to a directory. With the help of a few back-links, my article climbed to the top-three positions on Google’s first page in few days and pulled in several new referrals in my ACME People Search account, one of whom also signed up in my GDI downline. I realized by then that, submitting articles to promote ACME People Search works much better than promoting GDI alone.

In addition to the new sign-ups, I earned $25 with that article, which is still sending traffic to my sign-up page. Imagine what you can achieve with 10 articles, 20, 50 … This is powerful!

Where to start when writing articles: Research the keywords you want to use for your articles, write a new unique article, publish it on your website or blog and index it. Use an article spinner: Easy Article Rewriter (free) and spin five to ten different versions of your article, submit to the top article directories using your anchor keyword (i.e. “How to sail a boat”). Build new back-links to your articles from websites, blogs, forum signatures e.t.c. on a regular basis, and your links will receive free “laser-targeted” traffic when done right. For more SEO information and tools, I suggest that you sign up for free with SEO Book.

About ACME People Search:

People Search is free to join and has multiple income streams. Tissa Godavitarne, the creator of the People Search engine, adds $125 to your People Search affiliate account when you complete the three steps in your account. To avoid any misunderstandings: Tissa’s money is a reward for those with a genuine desire to earn money with ACME People Search, and it requires that you sign up for a paid affiliate program in step two. Those who are not serious about making money online should not bother in the first place, but it is perfect for those who are. I recommend that you choose GDI in step Two, because at only $10/mo for a membership it is affordable, and it is much easier to build your GDI downline using ACME People Search. Setting up your People Search engine is an easy and straight-forward process.

Tissa is a strong believer in teaching others how to educate themselves, and ACME People Search together with GDI, is one of the most rewarding affiliate programs today, with its multiple income streams. Both have their own support forums. Tissa’s ACME forum offers a nice bonus for the most helpful members, and he puts emphasis on helping others. With ACME People Search and GDI, or as I like to call it: “The power of two and Internet Marketing”, you can learn and earn from the beginning and at no risk. Watch the video below for an introduction by Tissa:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8vwxplR3Qo&feature=related

Click here to sign up with ACME People Search

Recipricol linking is like a establishment project between two or more sites. The essential premise is that you commune with a different website owner and agree to give a link to his or her program, seeing that long as they agree to link back to yours. The philosophy here is that, if you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

There are basically four ways for acquiring recipricol links.

1. The first strategy is the long way. With this first method, you send gmails to the webmasters of any buisness websites you are engrossed in linking with. The webmaster will either say yes or disagree to do the exchange (or they might just take no notice of your email altogether). If the webmaster agrees, then you just exchange links and you are finished.

2. Strategy 2 would involve using 1 of the numerous software buisnesses out there that basically semi-computerize the recipricol linking process. I surely recommend the software strategy as it will save you a enormous quantity of time. Also, the software should be able to check that the links coming back to you as of your partner sites stay active. If you had to continually look for lively links yourself, it would show to be extremely time consuming. If a partner website link becomes inactive for some reason, then there is no benefit for you to remain associated to them. Keep in mind that websites come and go, so you need to have a method to precisely check your exchanged links.

3. A third method involves purchasing recipricol links (By the way, you can as well purchase one way links). I would advise care with this strategy. The search engine crawlers are —————- very smart these days. Search engines such as Google be predisposed to frown upon purchased links.

4. A fourth strategy involves the many recipricol link swap services out there. These consist of networks of hundreds of webmasters with sites on a diversity of topics. Through these services, all of the buisness websites link to each other. The trouble here is that you will end up with a lot of unrelated recipricol links. The search engines actually don’t like these services and they have sophisticated ways of detecting them.

One especially crucial consideration when assembling recipricol links is that you simply want to hook up with sites that are linked to yours. For example, if your buisness website is centered around partner advertising programs and you exchange a link with a buisness website on cake baking styles, then that link swap is simply not relevant. If you begin connecting to unrelated sites, the search engines will consider this to be link spamming. Do not link spam, as this will wipe out your reliability in the long run and possibly get your program excluded.

In summary then, recipricol linking is still a great SEO method if completed properly. It ought to be carried out in conjunction with other SEO advertising strategy such as one way linking, key word optimization, blogging and article advertising, just to name a few. Great luck with your recipricol linking campaign.

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