blog catch: onlinetop5

As promised, I will be featuring one blog a week on this corner and our blog catch for this week is onlinetop5 owned by one of my friends at Mylot. A visit to the site gave me information of value especially for people like me who want to find some good paying sites online. This is actually a very new blog hosted by blogger.

The blog owner is sharing with us his top 5 moneymaking sites, some tips on how to augment one's income on them, as well as honest information as to the things he does not like about these sites.

The template is very simple, no attempt was done by the owner to give it a more personalized look, and the background is quite dark. All in all, I would like to say, that given more time I think the owner here will be able to make this site a much more visitable site in the future. To all those whose sites are scheduled for review, please find time to visit to read the short review. You just don't know what even short reviews like this can do to your site in terms of traffic.

the least visited

Of all the four blogs I have, this one is the least visited based on the numbers that the counters show. What does this mean? It could mean many things actually:

1. People are tired of all this money talk that leads them nowhere.

2. Sites or blogs of this nature (money-making) are just too many. The market is saturated and there is no more room for one more.

3. People know everything there is to know about money.

4. People are no longer interested in money.

Whatever the reasons are, I respect them. People do get tired listening to the same hype over and over again. I was into that situation a lot of times until I thought of having this one which will be the catch-all of topics I have regarding money---getting , losing , retrieving, finding money. Although this blog is the least visited in comparison to my other blogs (take note, I am only making my blogs as reference here), I still will keep on posting and talking about my favorite subject: MONEY.

One day, who knows, I might just have a golden story to share with you. In the meantime, why don't you look around and do your treasure-hunt right in this very page. They're everywhere! Come on, start digging! (wink)

Money talk is in

I love money talk. I am sure many of you share this passion especially for online moneytalk. It is everywhere and is spreading like wildfire. Why don't you try visiting blogs and websites and you will be bombarded left and right with posts and invitations to sign up for this and that because it gives you instant money. Hurry, hurry, hurry!

This is precisely what this blog is for---money, money, money talk. Don't get me wrong. I do not have money, but the fact that I keep talking about it makes me feel like I already have heaps of it.

Money talk gives one the feeling of being rich, of one day replacing Bill Gates in the world record as the richest person.

Online, it seems like opportunities to make money are unlimited. But are there real people here who are making real money online? The answer is yes. The next question would be how and where? There are only two words for this: Google Adsense.

been tagged---5 reasons why I blog

Hmmmm...5 reasons. I can only come up with two but I will try.

I was visiting my blogs when I saw this tag from a friend asking me to write 5 reasons why I blog after which I am supposed to tag 5 other bloggers asking them the same question. You know, I could easily junk this and not heed to the request but no, I have 3 reasons why I feel that I have to do this tag:

1. I'm game. I do not lose anything if I do this.

2. This is one good way of developing links with other bloggers.

3. I can use this as topic for this blog.

I have chosen to write this in my moneymaking blog because I would like to emphasize the fact that there is money in blogging.

As this is supposedly a site that aims to motivate people to make money offline or online, I am listing it as my first reason for blogging. Here's my list of 5 reasons why I blog:

1. to make money from ads and other sources

2. to be of help to others by reaching out to them through my blogs which target readers' specific needs

3. to fulfil a long-time dream of having an outlet for the crazy things I think

4. to make more friends :)

5. so my family can still get connected with me through my blogs when I am long gone (heh--do you think I will still be writing here when that happens? fit topic for Offbeatmom.LOL)

Please take note of my first reason. Blogging may not turn up thousands, but it's still money.

the richest man in the world

Who is the richest man in the world?



In a recent estimate done by Forbes' Magazine among the world's richest, William Henry Gates III or Bill Gates still ranks no. 1 in the World's Billionaires' list with net worth near $56 billion.



Gates was born on October 28, 1955 (we're about the same age and also with Oprah). He was born in Seattle, Washington and is the founder and chairman of Microsoft. He is married to Melinda Gates with whom he has three children.



With his wife he founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 and had donated large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution.



Bill Gates comes from a wealthy family, the son of William Gates Jr., a lawyer while his mother was a leader in the corporate world.



Like me, I am sure many of you are curious to know more about the world's richest man in the person of Bill Gates.



Who do you think is the next man to be ranked by Forbes' Magazine as the richest man on earth?



Is it going to be you?

real traffic, yes vs. artificial traffic, no

Traffic. How does one gain real traffic in one's site?

This is one problem all new web owners have to face and solve if they are really serious about getting money from their sites. Advertisers want sites with many visitors. Obviously. The more visitors, the more chances their products or services will get the much-needed visibility to their targetted market. This also means more chances of earning more for the web owners whose sites carry ads for certain advertisers. Considering the relationship between visitors and the earnings derived from their visits, it is no wonder therefore that the primary concern of newbies is to have traffic in their sites. Because of this need or problem, a new breed of online marketers have come up with fast and easy solutiions to this problem. Thus, you get invited to sites that sell traffic or promise you this much traffic in exchange for something, money or service. But the purpose is to drive artificial traffic to your site.

Paying a certain site in order to drive visitors to your sites is not playing the game clean and square. Google does not condone this type of artificially-driven traffic. You need to work out ways of increasing traffic and the best guarantee is having first of all, a very good site so that a visit will result to another visit in the future. And always believe in word-of-mouth. Once some people notice how great your site is, they will refer it to others who will also do the same thing with their other friends. A good site will never let you down. Another way of getting in visitors is by having link exchange. Have your site linked to as many sites you know, and if possible, do all your mighty best to get linked to sites that are popular, sites that already have many visitors.

Never, never make the mistake of submitting your sites to sites that promise to give you thousands of visitors if you pay or accomplish the task of clicking 250 sites a day. That will be against the rules.

Is there real money here?

That is the usual question whenever a newbie gets inside Mylot, a community of more than 90,000 members where I am also an earning member. Let us avoid sweet talk here and get down to the truth of the matter. Earnings at Mylot depend on the users' amount of participatiion or activity everyday. Let us be honest. The payout per post is only a couple of cents. Not much if you're looking to earn big bucks. But this is one site that ACTUALLY PAYS every 15th day of the month via Paypal or e-gold. I had received my first payout last month and will be expecting to receive my second on May 15. It is true that the earnings here will not make you buy a new car but there are other benefits that you can get for being a member here. You will find out why if you sign up. That is the only way to know more about this community of very opinionated, vocal, and overall nice people from all over the world. It is a very user-friendly site. You might want to take a look at it at http://www.mylot.com./?ref=funny52f No registration fees, all is free. The moment you start discussing after signing up, you start earning.

word of warning

Just in case you intend to start your own blog and you are looking for a site that will host it, look no further because www.blogger.com will host as many blogs you want to make for free. Setting up a blog is an easy three-step thing. You get to choose your template (also for free) and if you want to be more flexible and different in your page make-up, you can also change your template anytime. If you want to make money from the blogs you have set up, you can do so by putting Adsense ads on your site. No problem.

A word of warning to all those who are in a hurry to earn big bucks. There are many blogsites that offer you quick and easy money by blogging on their sites but which, after you have put in much time and effort, will drop you like a hot potato just when payout time comes around. These sites will just disappear and will no longer answer your e-mail queries and you will be left whining in one corner because you have put in so much of yourself to this blog, only to be cheated at the end of the day.

I used to have two other blogs. One is hosted by this site while the other one was hosted by another blog site called Blogchex. I am still keeping my other blog here at http://everydaywear.blogspot.com.
but I have already junked the other one. So officially as of this writing, I have now two blogs hosted by blogger. What do I have to say on this blog called http://speak4money.blogspot.com. That, my dear friends, will be the subject of my next blog. Hold on.

another one is born!

Before I came back to old reliable blogger.com, believe me, I was into three other blogsites hoping there to find the pot of gold. I did go through the signing up stage and actually had started my first blog entries on those three blog sites when an alarm was set off. Sensing some danger, I went to a community where I am actively participating in discussions (I will tell you more about this later), started a discussion about those sites and learned that the members of those blogsites are having problems with them and are now planning to pull out their blogs. Am I not lucky today? I was saved from another trouble. I will talk about the scam site I recently got myself into, how I had wasted so much of my time and effort in that site, having revealed there my life and my soul in all my more than 300 entries and all for nothing.

This thing is not going to happen again, for, no matter how many blogs I intend to make, I have decided to have them all here at blogger.com. I will explain what I intend to be writing on this new blog which I call "Speak4Money".