I have uploaded a video tutorial on youtube the explains how easy it is to create websites that are populated with eBay auction merchandise. The video is primarily a tutorial on how to use BayRSS and how to embed auctions into wordpress posts. This is my first video and it’s really a test to see if I could get some material up on youtube using Camtasia.
What do you think about the video. Did it move you? Would you watch it if you were searching around youtube? Tell me what you think..
Last week a run into a very interesting youtube video that really caught my eye. The video explained the world of facebook and how a affiliate marketer like me could make some substantial money on Facebook.
Now, for those that may want to use Facebook in their affiliate marketing career, Facebook is not a beginning way to emerse yourself into this career. Making money with Facebook is a very advance technique for making money and it involves either programming an application yourself if you have the expertise or hiring out the project to a programmer.
To most programming themselves is not an option, but hiring out the project is an option is you have the resources. For me a perfect place to get a facebook programmer is to start at your local college. College students don’t demand as much as an pro and they are easier to negotiate with. Also, their looking for strong project that they can put on their resumes. So don’t be scared to approach a computer science department offering a project that a student can really sink their teeth in.
Now that is out of the way and if you would like to program an application yourself. Well, here are a few good resources to take a look at that can help you out. One of them walks a beginner through a entire .Net project on creating your first Facebook application. I recommend that this be the first exercise that you do.
These are just the tip of the iceburg. Their is such a brave new world when you embrace the social network and definitly their is a lot of money to be made.
What is your opinion? Have you ever made any money on an facebook application? Lets talk about it if you have..
I ran into this question today while looking at the latest news of the day.
What are some alternatives to Google Adsense?
If anyone has any better ideas please add to the comments section. I would love to see how others are making out.
Personally, I don’t know if your going to get anything better than adsense at the moment. But their are a few alternatives out their that I use.
1. shoppingads.com - If you have a high traffic site this alternative may give you a higher payout than adsense. One thing, the ads have to be highly visiable like in the top left of articles to have this to work for you. Also, high traffic sites get a better deal from them.. They evaluate the sites that enter their program and if the site does not produce traffic they will doc the site and only give a return if someone buys something after clicking through their links. Higher traffic sites will get a click through rate that pays per click.
2. Kontera - I love kontera’s program. Right now kontera in conjunction with adsense has increase my return on a few of my sites 2% to 5% depending on the traffic.. Their program is based on the same click model as adsense. But they don’t provide banners or kontera boxes. Their code will look at your site and turn keywords into links that redirect to paying customers in thier system. Their payout is consistant and with the right model you can make a lot of money with them.
These are two of my best alternatives.
And their is alway yahoo.. But their program is a little harder to get involved in.
What do you think? Do you have any better alternatives to speak of?
She still has it. Tina Turner has just released that she is going back on tour. She broke the story earlier this week on Oprah with one of her friend Cher.
Did you know that Tina has a record as one of the highest attended concerts of all time. According to Billboard Boxscore, her tour in 2000 was the year’s highest earner. It made almost $110 million with attendance of approx 24000 people per show. The only artist to ever beat here attendance record has been Madonna and Cher.
If you have never seen Tina Turner in concert then you are definitely missing a treat. She is high energy and she will keep you entertained right through the end of her show.
This is your chance to see a living legend in action.
Here are the dates:
October
1 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
3 Chicago, IL United Center
6 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
13 Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center
14 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
19 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
22 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena
24 Phoenix, AZ Jobing.com Arena
30 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
November
2 Fort Lauderdale BankAtlantic Center
5 Orlando, FL Amway Arena
9 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
13 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
16 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
23 Washington, DC Verizon Center
26 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
December
3 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
8 Montreal, QB Bell Centre
This concert is worth the trip.. If you get a chance take a leap of faith and go see Tina Turner live in concert.
Yesturday I reported that I just got onto twitter and I wanted to get a plugin that would update twitter every time I update this blog with new information. Follow me on twitter.
Well, while looking for a twitter plugin that do this for me I run into another wordpress plugin for MySpace.. Let me tell you right off the back.. I am not a MySpace guy. I just put up a mySpace page but I have not found out how to use it or even populate it as of yet. I don’t even have any friends.. :-( Would you like to be friends with me?
Anyways.. I wanted a way to update my myspace page with my blog post.. Another way to promote this site and hopefully bring in the myspace traffic.. So, I run into this myspace crossposting plugin.. It is pretty neat.. Every time I update this blog with new post it creates a post blog post on my myspace page.
Very simple… A way to target mySpace and get more traffic.. I hope this helps you..
If you have been following this series then you know about my little DJ Systems site.
Well, I wanted to give you a little update as to money earned on the site. It has not been a winfall of money thus far. Quit frankly it is one of my under achievers at this time. But on the positive it is making some money. Just not a lot..
Drumroll Please… To date the return has been:
eBay - .35 cents
google adsense - $5.35
Wow.. not a lot of money.. To some they may say just give up on the site. No.. I don’t give up on my site I just keep posting and adding to it till it makes money.
Also, I am getting traffic on the site. A lot of it is outside of the United States. So, since the site is targeted more for the United States I believe this is the reason that I am not getting to many eBay sales. Something that I will have to work on.
As of today, this site has not indexed very well either so I know that I still have plenty of work to do with it. I will continue to work on getting it indexed better and see what happens.
As for advertising, I have not done nearly enough. I have not written not one article for the site nor published anything. I have not promoted it my gaining more backlinks but it is still getting traffic.
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Yesturday, 45n5.com wrote a post about google and getting pages indexed. Although, I already started testing this technique 45n5.com actually gave me inspiration to write about this.
Now that is done lets get into the content. Google has given content writers a easy way to get their content indexed in their search engine. And it does not take much coding to make it happen. As stated in the google adsense blog http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/05/adsense-for-search-now-powered-by.html, all content writers have to do is install google search on their websites. Now, once this is done google will send a spider to index your whole site, granted the spider can get to all the pages on the site.
But what makes this so good is that not only will google handle all of your sites search needs, they will also serve google adsense adds to users of the search. So, if visitors don’t like the content that your site has and decide to visit another site on the search form you get paid.
This is a win/win proposition. I like it and I have implemented it on my cheap concert blog as well as a number of other blogs. Sweet… And I have actually made some money from this switch.. Even better…
Have you every tried this? If so, leave a comment about your results?
Now, I am not a expert on using Twitter, but since I read so much about the service and with a recommendation from one of my friend I signup and got an account.
But working with the system I did not want to manually update my twitter account each time I wrote a new post to any of my blogs.
So, doing some searching around the net I found a net little wordpress plugin that updated my twitter account automatically every time I either made a new post or updated a post.
This is a pretty slick plugin that is easy to setup for any blog..
Take a peak and see what you think. Visit: http://blog.victoriac.net/blog/twitter-updater to get the plugin..
Are Free Blog Sites The Best Choice When Starting A Blog?
I remember when I first thought about this question. It was about 3 years ago when I first started my first blog. Back then wordpress was not as popular as it is today. Nor, did I have the expertise to put even start and configure a wordpress blog. So, I figured… Sure, it is ok to start a blog with a free blog hosting site.
For a while it went great. The blog reached the top of the serps for my keywords and I was earning good money daily without much trouble. So, I decided to start adding more free blogs. Before you knew it I had about 7 to 10 blogs running at the same time.
But little did I know my time was running out. Till, one day I logged into the admin site for these blogs and every one of the blogs were GONE. I mean vanished, no more money coming in.
Can any guess what service I was using.. You guessed it blogger.com. Blogger does not like people to use their server primarly for generating money. And they state that in their signup notice. It just happens that I did not read the fine print. So when they find out that someone is going contrary to their beliefs they cut them off.
So, I had these blogs running for approx a year and had put a lot of time and effort into the blogs and in one swift move all of the work was GONE!!!!!!!!!! It was devistating..
So, to the question: Are Free Blog Sites The Best Choice When Starting A Blog And Why? I can truly say a definite NOOOOOOOO…. Because you have no control over if you live or die with these services don’t start with them. Blogs are so cheap to start it is just not worth it. The blog software is free (wordpress).. The domain name is a minimal cost $9.99 or less for a year. And the hosting fee $5 - $9 dollars a month is nothing…
Going this route you control your content and interaction with you website. It is your own destiny…
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I am a computer programmer that got fed up with the corporate life. While I write the post I have since removed myself from the corporate life and am now doing affiliate marketing full time. It was not easy. I took a lot of slack from bosses that did not have the same vision that I had. But I continued to rock on and follow my dream.
She still has it. Tina Turner has just released that she is going back on tour. She broke the story earlier this week on Oprah with one of her friend Cher.
Yesturday I reported that I just got onto twitter and I wanted to get a plugin that would update twitter every time I update this blog with new information. Follow me on 
Are Free Blog Sites The Best Choice When Starting A Blog?
I am a computer programmer that got fed up with the corporate life. While I write the post I have since removed myself from the corporate life and am now doing affiliate marketing full time. It was not easy. I took a lot of slack from bosses that did not have the same vision that I had. But I continued to rock on and follow my dream.