Saturday, September 19, 2009

One nice thing about Global Domains International

Despite the fact that Global Domains International is a MLM company (where you earn commissions by referring new people to them who purchase one or more web hosting plans through them), there is one thing you might like about GDI: the $10/month web hosting plans.

If you are looking to take up the affiliate marketing business (like I did such as the new xbox360 fan site I am making at www.xboxfreak.ws) the $10/month web hosting plans (which includes a domain name, Site builder 4.1 and other cool tools) can be a pretty invualable resource for any of you looking to build a website for less. Even if you don't take advantage of the 5 level affiliate program that GDI has to offer, you can always monetize your website with say google adsense ads and build a content rich website. Then as people visit your site, and people start clicking on those ads, you can earn extra income (besides that at GDI). Also, you can alo take advantage of affiliate networks like Commission Junction and Linkshare, and promote various affiliates from there (such as the Microsoft Store or Yahoo) and earn commissions whenever people either become leads or buyers for those companies. Of course, you still have to be able to sell the stuff and give people reason to click on the links and buy, but it does give you a few extra streams of income if utilized properly. I have started building a new niche based website (see link above), and I am already getting quite a bit of hits and occasional clicks with my google adsense ads. Of course, you don't want to over do it as people may get turned off by that. Thought htat I would point that out.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Last chance to take advantage of what my affiliates via commission junction have to offer

Just a little heads up:

I happen to be a part of the commission junction affiliate network and have been with them since last September. However, I have not been able to generate any leads or sales for any of my affiliates there since February, and so I got a message earlier today saying that they plan to deactivate my account come October unless if I can start generating leads or sales for my affiliates there between now and then. Consequently, all of my advertisers from there will expire, and you will not be able to take advantage of what they have to offer indefinitely when that happens unless if I can start generating sales or leads. There are plenty of hot deals and offers my affiliates have to offer and they will be gone forever if I lose my account there next month, and so if there are any offers or deals you want to check out, I advise you to do it soon. You can get a full list of affiliates of mine via commission junction at www.snohomish-ebook-store.net/commissionjunction. Your support for my business is appreciated and will ensure that I can continue serving these fabulous businesses for a while.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Paid to Click Sites

Clixsense is just one of several popular paid to click sites out there.

If you are looking for an easy way to make some income online, for little or no risk or costs, you might consider checking out some of the paid to click or paid to read programs. Paid to click programs are similar to traffic exchanges where you can view other peoples' ads and sites and earn credits so that the same members can view your sites. With paid to click programs, other webmasters are usually offering you some cash simply to view their ads (usually not much, but if you surf ads often, refer others to the sites, etc, earning could add up after a while). In addition, many paid to click programs also have upgrade options for more features (such as earning more from each ad you click on, free referrals, along with free credits if you want to advertise your own programs). They also have referral systems, where you can refer people to those site and earn additional cash whenever your referrals view ads as well, upgrade their membership, or buy advertising credits.

Pros about Paid to Click programs:

- no experience needed for these
- you are not required to have a website with these as you can simply advertise your ptc programs either on traffic exchanges that allow them, other paid to click sites, referral builder sites like simple refs, getor program refs, as well as special trader forums like Earn money Space (which specializes in trading referral links to the different ptc programs)
- while the earnings rates are low, highly active members can reap extra cash with these programs (more if they refer others).
- the main task is to view other peoples' ads for credits and you can either keep the cash you earn for your self of use to fund your own programs
- can be an easy way to suppliment your income if you do other forms of web marketing.
- If you happen to be an advertiser, "bribing" people to visit your site can be an easy way to get hits.
- One can join multiple PTC programs for 2x or more the earnings potiential. For example if you joined 10 of them and earn $10 a week with each of them, you would be making up to $100 a week total. Also, some sites do pay more than others.

Negative aspects about PTC programs
- don't expect to get rich with these programs. Typically ads are worth anywhere between $.005 and $1.00 each (varies by site). Also some sites have more ads you can view than others. In addition, free members will usually earn less than paid members. For example, at freebirdbux, typically, there are up to 5 ads that free members can click on, whereas paid mambers can click on up to 13 ads per day on average.
- Referrals are the key to success with these programs. If you click on ads alone, it will take a while to break $1 or more each month (let alone the minimum pay out threshold). So, naturally some people will earn more with these than others (depending on how many referrals they have and how active they are).
- you will be expected to be active at most of them. If you go too long without logging on and surfing, some times you can find that your account will get suspended and you can lose your earnings as a result.
- Joining too many programs can get overwhelming after a while too. For example, I've joined at least 10 of them since doing web marketing and it takes up to 4 hours a day to get through them all.
- If you are an advertisers, the conversion rate may be a little low with these as most people will likely visit your site for the money (after all, it is advertised that people can make money by viewing ads). Of course, there are ways to get more for your money, such as gettign as many clicks as possible for each dollar you spend, taking advenatage of the guaranteed sign up offers (where you can "bribe" people to sign up for your programs). I did that with Global Domains International and got some easy leads that way. Also, with the guaranteed sign up offers programs you can actually set your own terms for crediting peoples' accounts to weed out posers (people pretending to be interested in what you have to offer) from people actually interested in signing up (I did that with GDI, expecting people to sign up for the 7 day free trial before crediting their account and denying credit to people who fell short of that). With traffic exchanges and ptc sites, you could also expect them to be somewhat active for credit, such as requiring them to surf at least once day a week, or the like).

- While most ptc sites are legit, there are going to be some scam ones out there, and so you will have to be on your guard (if you join earn money space, the admins have compiled a list of sites that are considered scammy).

Partial List of ptc programs I use (subscribe to my newsletter at www.snohomish-ebook-store.net for a full list of ptc sites I use):
- Free Bird Bux
- Neobux
- Bux-Matrix , note that if you plan to take advantage of their matrix program (with spillover referrals and all, you will need to get an upgraded membership there, otherwise it will be more like a traditional ptc site).
- matrix mails - they actually have a 6 tier affiliate program for up to 6x the earnings potiential just for your info
- Click or Sign Up this site has 3 programs: paid to click, guaranteed sign up offers, and paid to sign up. They also have a forum where you can interact with other members.
- Bux Wiz - getting referrals can be easy
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It's worth the boast. One cool thing about Rich PTC is that they actually pay you $1 for each ad you view, $10 for each paid to sign up offer you take advantage of, $10 per referral (plus commission if they upgrade), along with a percentage on what they click. The only downside is that the minimum payout ammount is $1000, which means that you will need to view at least 1000 ads to get paid (less if you get referrals, upgrade, etc).

There are plenty of other ones I use, but I will only give out a full list of the ones I use per request (pm me at ryansjones@hotmail.com for more info).

Resources you can use for ptc sites:

Traffic Tornado - this is a very useful downline builder site that lists most of the well known traffic exchanges out there, along with classified ads directories and other advertising venues.

Classified ads sites. You can use craigslist at http://www.craigslist.org/, but you will find that affiliates are frowned upon there (see tos), and so you would have to mask your promotional efforts there. You can also use Us Free ads , which is more affiliate friendly, though for best results, you will probably want to upgrade your membership. More advanced webmasters can also host their own classified ads directory at Business Free Ads if they want .

Global Domains International - GDI is a one of a kind multilevel marketing firmsthat sells affordable web hosting packages to its members. This can be handy for 2 reasons: 1) if you want to build your own website to host the ptc programs and other programs, you can do so for as low as $10 per month with GDI (which is cheap when compared to many other web hosting firms), and it comes with basic hosting, site builder 4.1 (unless if you have your own sitebuilding tool), up to 10 email boxes you can use, etc. Also 2) they actually pay you to promote their services on a 5 tiered affiliate program (you can get more details about that by clicking on the link above) for at least 2 potiential streams of income (I've actually built a review page about GDI at http://instantsqueezepagegenerator.com/displaysp.php?m=48334&s=39468 along with a squidoo lens that talks about the opporunity at http://www.squidoo.com/gdicommentary and so, there really is no point to going into all of the details about GDI. Of course, if you don't like GDI, I also happen to be an affiliate at Yahoo, Site Build It (which is geared almost exclusively towards novice affiliate marketers(, Go Daddy and Lunar Pages, and so feel free to shoot me an email at ryansjones@hotmail.com. If you need help putting together a niche specific website, two sites I recommend are daily niche idea (which gives you ideas on niches to build your site around) at http://www.dailynicheidea.com/?rid=7081 and http://www.hypervre.com/?affiliate=158202 (which aims to help you to build a nifty website around a profitable niche) .




Earn Money space is a unique trader forum that specializes in paid to click and related sites.


Benefits of Earn Money space:

- referral links are allowed in your signature (gives you easy hits for your affiliates if you are active), unlike many other forums.

- there is a downline builder thread you can take advantage of

- you can also exchange referral links with others for easy sign ups for your program. The only downside is that you will be expected to be active at the programs you join and so you will probably not want to overwhelm yourself with PTC programs (unless if you plan to earn solely on those).


Well that is all for now, and hope you found this post useful.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Frank Bauer's New Ad Tracking & Split Testing System

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Need fellow downline members to join my GDI team and help promote their services

Here is one thing worth sharing with you all: if any of you are looking for work and want to earn money online, I thought that I would offer three cool internet marketing opportunities to you all: GDI, The Spider Web System, Yuwie, and Zenzuu. All for of them are network marketing opporunities, and if any of you are comfortable with doing mlm, these just might be right up your alley. Here is an overview of each of them:

Global Domains International



Video about GDI:




Global Domains International is essentially one of the few legitimate multilevel marketing opportunities out there, and if any of you have at least $10 to invest each month and want to get your feet wet with mlm, I highly recommend GDI for you. Here are some tidbits about GDI:



- they offer $10/month web hosting packages for all of its members, which includes a domain name, site building tools, domain parking services, basic hosting, and all (which can be handy if someone is looking to build a website without having to invest a lot of money). In fact, the website I just finished, http://www.snohomish-ebook-store.net/, is hosted by GDI. By the way, GDI does offer a 7 day free trial to all new members so that they can try out the system to see if is the right fit for them or not.

- they offer a 5 tier affiliate program, where you can get people to sign up under you and get 10% monthly commissions if they buy into their services. Also, the customers you refer become downline members, and so whenever they refer new customers as well, additional commissions are available, spanning at least 5 levels deep. For example, in the ideal sense, if you referred 20 customers to GDI, and they did the same, all of the sudden, you would be making at least $400 a month in commissions, and that figure can go up significantly for each levels worth of customers you or your downline refers (going back to the 20 customers you refer, who also refer 20 customers each as well, and that spans the full 5 levels, by the time you get to the 5th level worth of customers, then the $400 per month in commissions would turn into about $3,200,000 per month in commissions. Of course, naturally some downline members will be more active than others, and big bucks usually do not come overnight with systems like this one.

- $100 bonuses are available to high performing affiliates who refer 5 or more customers in a given week, which can be handy if you have a good conversion rate with this system.

- also, the websites you build can be monetized with other programs and the like (such as google adsense).

You can join my GDI team at www.website.ws/ryansjones

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

On to the next part of web marketing: traffic building

As you know, I just finished my website yesturday, and it is up and running, and so now with that done, I am going to take a break from adding to if for a while along with completing another website I am building (which focuses primarily on downline systems), but once I can get a good rate of solid traffic an an acceptible conversion rate going (say a 2% conversion rate or higher), then I will plan on adding to my site as well as competing my other site. Here are some promotional methods I am considering:

1. Getting active in forums
2. Social networks
3. invest in Zenzuu, Yuwie, and Squidoo. Those three are all social networks similar to myspace, but they pay you to help promote what they have to offer as well as getting quality traffic to your profile pages.
4. Blogging often. They say that you should post at least 1 blog entry per day for maximum exposure.
5 . Traffic exchanges and ptc programs - I will plan on spending at least 2 hours a day doing those. Traffic exchanges can be a good cheaper alternative to adwords since they are free to join and all you have to do is to view other people's websites and ads for an hour or two to build page views, and then you are done.
6. Offline advertising (such as putting up flyers and distributing business cards).
7. Spend more time writing articles that are acceptable by ezine articles. The main downside to ezine articlesi s that I find that they are quite picky as to what articles get published, and they can reject articles even for the slightest mistake (such as it looking more like an advertisement, too long articles, etc).
8. using twitter

Some methods I will probably hold off on without an acceptable conversion rate:
1. paid advertising - I actually tried that several months back with www.ryansjones.com but ended up running my credit card bill because of that. PPC advertising can be profitable if some of them buy from you or your advertisers, but it can also get quite expensive after a while without. Also, depending on key words you bid on, some can be more expensive than others, especially if your website covers a competitive niche.
2. banners - I might do that eventually
3. paid press releases - I will www.free-press-release.com for now as it is about as cheap as they get, but you are welcome to write press releases about my site if you want.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Snohomish Ebook Store Website is now fully complete


Over the last several months, I have been putting together my websites and as of today, my main website, http://www.snohomish-ebook-store.net/, is now officially up live and open for business. The website a collection of more than 6000 different ebooks up for sale and are being promoted on behalf of a variety of authors and similar merchants, just waiting to be purchased and downloaded. They are geared towerds a huge variety of audiences, whether it is body builders, people needing advice on relationship issues, or even people needing help when it comes to web marketing (along with many other niches). Besides ebooks, the website also hosts an associate store from amazon.com (which has plenty of related content to the site), as well as related affiliates like ebay, ebooks.com, and other sites. In addition, the website also has an affiliate program that you are welcome to check out an take advantage of if you are looking to make extra cash. All you have to do is to come to my website, use the tell a friend wiget (creates a log whenever someone emails a friend my website) to refer people you know or your subscribers to my website, and if they buy from at least one of my advertisers, I will give you a 30% cut off of those commissions. Feel free to come to my website, check out the advertisers presented, support my site if you see offers that interest you, and if you know people that might be interested in what my site has to offer, please feel free to refer people to my site, and I will split my commissions with you at 30% off of what I make.


You can visit the Snohomish Ebook Store at http://www.snohomish-ebook-store.net/