Technorati Favorites Exchange

With so many discussions going about improving pagerank and traffic nowadays, here is another ingenious idea by Maki over at his DoshDosh blog. After reading through his extremely indepth explanation which he is darn good at, I jump at the chance to get onboard this idea of his which has been embraced by many as you can see from over 100 comments of participation.

The whole idea is to swap Technorati favorite among each other blogs and by doing so, our blog will increase in the Most Favorited List in Technorati. The main benefit lies in the potential of gaining more traffic via this ranking list within Technorati and among fellow bloggers. Do visit Maki’s Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange: An Interactive Experiment post for more information on how you can participate as well.

Here are the steps you can take to participate:

1. Participate by Exchanging Favorites
   Favorite my blog on Technorati by clicking add Fav on my sidebar or clicking here.And then put your username and link for your blog I suggest to make something like this “http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=

   http://earn-money-blogging.com”.

   Please leave 1 blog only for 1 username.

2. Get link back if you link to this blog post with your Post on Technorati Favorites eXchange
   Create your own post in your blog that you participate on TFX (Technorati Favourites eXchange) and include the link of this post. After I noticed your post from trackback or Technorati I will include your blog post in this topic, so anyone can participate with you as well. You don’t have to worry if this post will be lost on archive as I will continually to do deep linking or maybe put small button on my sidebar, to keep this up.

Do remember to do the same at DoshDosh and the other participating blogs as well which list can be found on his post. Important thing to remember is to post a comment on those blogs you have favorited so they may return the favor to yours.

Other blogs who are offering Technorati Favorites Exchanges as well and have linked to this post:

1. T Jantunen.com
2. NiaTradingSignals
3. AskaX World
4. Foreign Perspectives
5. Bigfoot Sightings
6. Free Web Design Tips
7. The Rojak Blog
8. Blog at fyais
9. ShanKri-la
10. Digital Information Technology
11. Ramblings Of An Undisturbed Mind
12. eJabs
13. Bubba Stuff
14. The ANiTOKiD CHRONIKOS
15. RISHI RAJ
16. Serendipity
17. DOX
18. Technix Update
    
19. Tech Lock-Rahul
20. PLANET APEX
21. Mr & Mrs. Imran
22. Me and my net
23. SMS Text
24. Nukilan Jejari Azhad
25. My Online Collections
26. Techlivez.com
27. TechChee.com
28. Life in the Fast Lane
29. My Affiliate Journey
30. ReviewSaurus
31. Latina Renee Enterprise
32. Travel Blog for Business
33. India PR Blog
34. Technacular
35. AceOne118
36. Make Money Online with a 13-Year Old
37. Sleeping Princess
38. Erik Karey
39. Share Everything In Life
40. Diet Recipe For Everyday
41. Pastramiloco
42. Mom of Many Redheads
43. My Diet Methods Reviews and Recipes
44. Cosmic Photo Art.com
45. The Filipino Entrepreneur
46. TechChee.com
47. The Outsider’s View
48. Thinking Tunnel
49. LearnDomainParking
50. anja merret
51. Web University

Ride With Bloggerwave.com

Well if you are keen on doing sponsored reviews and can’t get enough of the opportunities from the various ones you’re with already, then here is a sizzling hot new comer to the paid to post scene… Bloggerwave.

They are still in the infancy stage but the good news is that blog submission approval is fast and they seem to be welcoming newer blogs such as even this 3 weeks old blog of mine. At present there are only 2 opps but lets see where this wave takes us in the next few months or so. Here is an excerpt of the payment guideline featured on their site:

Compensation of various opportunities is based on the advertiser. After 30 days as well as at random we will check to see if the blog post is still live and still meets the Opportunity requirements. After reviewing, if we observe that the blogger has satisfied his/her agreement, he/she will immediately get paid. Payment will be issued ONLY via PayPal based on the PayPal e-mail address that has been provided to us.

I do find their admin area a little buggy with the occasional error pages although it works after one or two refreshes. Perhaps they are working on it as we speak but on the bright side, we bloggers can always do with more paid to blog platforms to spread our monetizing wings.

Selling Your Own Reviews Independently

Some of you might have noticed a new ‘Buy A Review’ section on my right sidebar in the past 2 days or so. This is a new WordPress plugin which enables advertisers to buy reviews from your blog directly without going through another channel thus you will get 100% of the revenue.

This WordPress Bankroll Plugin comes in 3 downloadable format which is the free version as you can see here on my blog or paid version for single and unlimited domains without link back. For a demo of what the backend looks like: Settings | Payment

There have been a few companies that offered paid blog posts for this purpose. Obviously the bad choice with that is they take a cut of your pay. With the WordPress BankRoll Plugin you keep 100% of the money! The plugin offers a very easy to use submission form followed by a quick payment process via Paypal. The backend is extremely powerfull yet simple to configure. You have complete control over your submissions. With the payment tracking systems it makes it simple to review/edit/approve posts.

I‘ve tried setting it up for a trail basis and it works as per their instructions but it is quite restricted in terms of modifying it to suit your blog theme. Here are some basic modification you can make:

Changing the default ‘Sponsor a post’ title
- Open wp-bankroll.php
- Find on Line 124 : $text = “Sponsor a post”;
- Change to your own title

Changing Title Font and Color
- Open wp-bankroll.php
- Find on Line 124 : $text = “Sponsor a post”;
- Add the following : $text = “<h2>Sponsor a post</h2>“;
- The title would follow your blog’s header title font specs.

For more info, you can visit their support forum which isn’t that active considering this plugin being so new but you can advertise your blog review in the forum.

Now comes the golden question, why isn’t the big boys using this plugin? Well as John puts it, its because of his long standing relationship with ReviewMe and I believe Maki from DoshDosh have similar reasons as well. The simple truth is that being a part of a network is better than going it alone.

So why am I using it then? For two very valid reasons, firstly this blog of mine is relatively new and therefore no chance of being accepted into paid to post services such as ReviewMe and PayPerPost yet. Secondly, I wanted to test it out since I can’t find any online money makers implementing it on their blog.

Will I be using it for the future? Perhaps yes and perhaps no depending on how well the people behind WordPress Bankroll Plugin market this plugin to the advertisers. If they are able to build a large network of both advertisers and bloggers, then I would probably continue to use it since it is a win win situation for all parties involved. I think this is one of the most important area for Aaron and his team to focus on.

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