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Making Money Online Is Blogging The Key? Should I blog with the sole intention of making cash?

Free eBooks on Affiliate marketing and SEO. This post is inspired by Mr Jeremy Steele who runs an SEO Blog Jeremy commented on my post to announce the winner of my Blog Cash competition

And he said "I think it is a huge mistake to create a blog strictly because it might get a single $12 click. Enough people already do that and fill the 'net up with absolute #**= content."

Now I don't take this as a dig at my baby financial independence and I hope it wasn't meant as one but its and interesting subject, a subject that I'm going to try and address for you right now before I do let me tell you about the free ebooks.

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Buying and selling ads without the middleman

When selling link and text ads on your site you have 2 options sell ads privately or use an agency such as linkworth, textlink ads or PPP. Their are benefits too both ways of selling advertising space on your website.

Benefits of using a middleman

Using an agency or middleman means you don't have the hassles of trying to find advertisers, telling them about your site, negotiating the price and then looking after them when they keep emailing you to say their links aren't there and THEY ARE THERE.

Ad Agencies

Selling ads using a middle man means you might have to sell them slightly cheaper, all publishers sell ads at a slightly lower price to agencies even large newspapers and TV Channels they don't have the costs involved with trying to find ad buyers. Rupert Murdoch would sell you an ad cheaper if you were an agency.

Alexa Redirects whats the point

For about 3 Days I have redirected my url through Alexa on Mybloglog, Stumbleupon and DP it looked like the below which is ugly and is diverting linkjuice away from my url. http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://financial-independence.net/

I haven't seen any change in my Alexa rank at all then Lord Matt made this post SEO Basics some good points and I have to honest whats the point of jeopadising my pagerank and Search Traffic to make a few more squid from ad sales.

Thanks for making me see sense Lord Matt the Bloggers Friend who still hasn't explained to me the benefits of an ad server.

Yesterday I found a opportunity to make cash

Always looking for ways to make cash I found a site called linkworth and I like it they have several ways in which you can monotenise your blog, you can sell text links, place inline contextual ads on you site and promote their affiliate scheme.

Linkworth allow you to set your own pricing currently I have listed run of site ads on the right hand side of financial independence for $40 a month. They seem to have a very busy and active site in order to sell more links you can pay to feature your site on the home page.

You can both by and sell ads from the same account this as you know helps your seo and increase your pagerank.

I signed up last night and like the user area/control panel, somehow I've made $10 Already

This is a sponsored review for smorty blog advertising where you can get paid to blog.

How's it work?

Well Smorty is like many other paid to review sites on the internet, advertisers pay for bloggers to write posts on their blogs for them this increases their link popularity and sends traffic to their websites, bloggers can get paid by paypal.

How do they work out how much to pay?

I am not sure I presume they look at factors such as your pagerank, link popularity and Alexa ranking.

Your site needs to be over 3 Months old to register and thats it they pay you to blog

get paid to blog