Making Money

Payperpost: Posts do really ‘ad’ up to successful ‘ad’vertising!

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You have a great website with attractive products, good support and sales… but you do get people to visit your website? Where do you get traffic from?

That’s a question that has perplexed me from time to time as I slave away on my latest brainwave. One solution that I have been working with as a blogger is Payperpost.

Boost your PageRank
My experience with Payperpost has given me a great deal of confidence in them. It seems to be a great way to find bloggers who can write top quality posts that will drive traffic to your websites. With links from good quality blogs, you should find that your PR ranking in Google will increase as well, not to mention your Alexa ranking.

Payperpost is different
Payperpost model is different from, say ReviewME or some of the others. It is a marketplace where you can post your request and terms of acceptance. Bloggers log in to see what is available and find what they are interested in, or is suitable for their blog. The Opportunity allows you to specify the kind of posting, including length, tone (+/-), your link, any photographs and one or two other features that you may wish for.

If you are looking to increase your pagerank then I’d suggest choosing a permanent link, as nearly 100% of the bloggers will leave your posting in their archives, giving you a chance to build some extensive and deep links. You may, though, need a little help in placing your first opportunities to get the best value for your dollar.

Quality checks
There are many checks and balances in the system that prevent bloggers from submitting substandard postings, and advertisers from posting undesirable opportunities. So, quality standards are maintained by both system checks and a hands-on editor.

If you are on a tight budget, Payperpost may offer a more affordable, targetable and controllable way to reach readers than Google Adwords. The posts will be more extensive, longer lasting and more effective.

This is so NOT-A-SPONSORED page! 100% pure Investorblogger!

Domain Locking: Do you?

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Dreamhost sent me their usual newsletter and in it I noticed this:

But how? Doesn’t a registrar have to get explicit permission via email
to transfer a domain to themselves? ‘Tis true!

But somehow, scammers like “Domain Registry of America” … get thousands of people to switch their registrations to them every single month.

Which is why we (finally) now offer a FINAL line of defense against
having your domain registrations transferred away from us… domain
“locking”! (Domain Locking Feature)

…When a domain is locked, it simply CANNOT be transferred away from us. You’ve got to go back to that page and specifically UNLOCK it before requesting a transfer away.

I wondered how many people had been tricked into moving their inexpensive domains by some scammers like DROA. So, for those of you who have your own domains, and receive spam either in your mail or e-mail from someone demanding ‘immediate’ payment for your domain renewal (this may occur around your normal domain renewal time), please just ignore such a spam. Have a look at this google search.

Have you ever been scammed? Add a comment below and tell us the story!

Oh, and I am a Dreamhost customer.

December 2006: Scorecard

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Well here are the results for December 2006. I’m still working on the form for the information, but I’ll present it now and tidy it up later.

Payperpost $212.17 52.92%
Google $7.53 1.88%
ReviewME $15.00 3.74%
Blogitive $5.00 1.25%
Adlinks $13.32 3.32%
Stockbroker $74.67 8.63%
Hosting $61.54 15.35%
Bank A/C Interest $11.66 2.91%
Total $400.89 33.41%

So, overall, December was a good month in many ways, but the numbers are deceptive. Payperpost raised a lot of cash for me, but in practice, I doubt that I will reach that amount of money in January. There aren’t so many exciting posts to write about. The ReviewME system has in fact only awarded me one opportunity, as has Blogitive. Adlinks show a lot of promise but will only succeed on a longer term and more stable blog! My stockbroker paid me both December’s and January’s dividends so naturally January will net not very much. February should be a return to form. Hosting is irregular. I may have another couple of clients, but it isn’t a great deal overall. So, I reached about 33% of my target, this month. Can I achieve this on a regular basis? Well, we’ll see.