I have not been able to post frequently since last few months, and I don’t want to blame any thing or anyone but it’s “me” who is responsible for that. The professional and personal priorities changed a bit, leaving me meager time in hand to maintain my blogs. I think I need a week or two to come back with full force to start posting on the blogs.

There is a good reason to come back tomorrow, and talk about an online service that is built keeping bloggers in mind, like you and me. No one but one of my blog visitor is the brain behind the concept and I think he has done a fantastic job in building the system that you would be eager to know about.

Many of us has been making money online and keeping that in mind this concept has been brought to reality to explore the profits online, profitexplorers.com.

I am specially impressed by the blog comment tracker system it provides.

When you find a good blog to comment which passed on some juice back to your blog, you would want to comment o the blog often. If you have more than one blogs, it’s no harm in commenting on the blog with link backs to your multiple sits as long as you don’t make it spammish. I had more than one blogs, and I posted my comments on same blog for more than one of my blogs. You won’t believe but I have tracked my comments posted in past through excel spreadsheets. The reason was not to lose such wonderful blogs and the “add to favorite” system does not work good for me.

The system like profitexplorers.com has developed, help you at such times. Their blog comment tracker system has proved to be very useful for this purpose. It not only tracks your already done comments, but also help you to search the blogs (through keyword search) that are relevant to your topic. For example, try the system with keyword like “travel” and you would be presented with the travel category blogposts in the system that you can directly comment on. The simple rule for commentators is no spamming the blogposts with your comments. The rule for bloggers is to make sure the comments are approved. It’s not only beneficial for the commentators but for bloggers as well, as their blogs are presented to potential commentators and increase their readership.

The biggest benefit of the system is it saves you so much of time, that you can use in building your blog content, backlinks through other means and explore various profit making ideas. You can add more than one websites to the system to get linkbacks for through blog comment tracking system. I added two blogs myself, in different niche and trying my hands on this service. I would strongly recommend you to sign up at profitexplorers.com and use this service for your benefits as well.

See this guy has loads of knowledge in making money online niche, and that’s why he wanted to have newbies in blogging / webmastering arena to take the benefit of it. He has developed a community at profitexplorers.com and there are more than one ways to improve your knowledge. You can not only download various blogging tools and ebooks to improve your knowledge but you can get advise from many fellow webmasters through the community forum

The forums talk all about money making online. Rather you spending time in testing various services availble online, why not to see what other people think and learn from their experiences and reviews? The forums are becoming rich in make money online niche and search engine optimization, internet marketing areas.

Whether it’s online auctions or internet marketing, search engine optimization or affiliate marketing, you can discuss anything you want here. The system is being maintained impressively and looks like there are lot of efforts being put in behind it.

Keeping that in mind, $3.99 is not a big price to pay per month, when you can earn $100+ per month using the advice and unlimited help and experience you get from here. I am already a paid member and trying out the system. Though I claim at times that I know enough of money making online system, I still keep on getting lot of good tips that are helping me to improve on my knowledge and increasing the online income. Go and explore your profits, register with them and let me know here in comments what you feel about this system!

Many of you came here searching for money making ideas and new platforms. You would find only those ideas that I am comfortable sharing, tried and tested earlier and think that it’s worth sharing with my users.

So what’s the magic wand here?

If you are thinking we are talking about a magic wand here, it’s more or less correct. It is not clearly a magic wand but it’s a direction for webmasters to think sensibly on optimizing the revenue sources of their blogs or websites.

Being webmasters, you must have been optimizing your websites for better search engine ranking. If it’s revenue earning website, it needs optimization of revenue stream as well. And that’s where you can make more money in fewer efforts or I would say without any extra efforts.

Optimization is the key, whether large business or small business

I decided to see if I can make a little contribution in your money making strategies this year. I could compose this post only because of my continuous efforts to optimize and willingness to share the results with my users! Since I have been into online advertising, I saw so many different ways to make money online and I figured out the one suit to my needs and my blogs. If you dig down into past earning posts in 2008, you would observe that I mentioned the revenue streams each month in earning posts that helped me to reach my goals to make more than $25000 in 2008. Believe me, all this revenue is not from one source but every small bit helps in making money online. Do you think I can hold myself on sharing few of the secrets!

Strategic change in my revenue streams – In-text advertising

Out of few new ways I tried in 2008, one of them was in-text advertising. I always try newer methods of making money online and after proper trial and error, I finalize on the ones I like to stay with for longer term. To be very honest with you, initially I was not happy with the in-text advertising while I started with Kontera and the simple reason was more investment and fewer returns. The ROI numbers were so low, that I was almost at the verge of getting rid of in-text advertising.

Can I bother my users for like $5-10 in a month taking me a complete year to reach to the minimum payout levels? What the heck, I decided to simply get rid of it until I happen to talk to one of my blogger friends back in July’08 about this problem. He suggested me to try Infolinks, a better pay-out in-text advertising so I thought to give it a try back then in July’08 and added the Infolinks code within minutes on one of my blogs. I think even I had talked about it on this blog back in August’08 about how I dumped Kontera and moved to infolinks after I started to see the results immediately. I wish Infolinks affiliate program could have been in place back then, to get him his rewards to refer me to a legitimate money making program. This is kind of revenue I see in Infolinks compared to other services.

Note: Updated with latest revenue report

It was a piece of cake for me (and am sure would be for anyone with little technical skills) in moving to new in-text advertising provided by Infolinks from Kontera. Therefore I almost added the code in all the blogs I have, without making even smallest change to my existing wordpress themes and website templates, except copying and pasting the Infolinks code at the footer of my blog.

If you are not comfortable in editing the code and have a wordpress blog, you can even take help of Infolinks wordpress plugin that is specially developed for easy Infolinks integration in your blog.

So what was the difference between “Before Infolinks” and “After Infolinks”?

Three important words – Multifold revenue increase! Am I talking about millions of dollars change here, not really! Not every webmaster has same size of websites and blogs, so I am talking in terms of eCPM, percentage change with simple comparison of revenue without change in traffic or click through rate. Unfortunately, I can’t pull my last year’s reports from Kontera (and those were not worth sharing proudly as well) but I remember I am talking about few cents of revenue every day accumulating to around $5-10 every month for me. I don’t want to say bad words about any other services that are not doing well but then it’s my own experience and Infolinks is working much better for me than Kontera and for many webmasters like me as well. So it’s YOU who decide what to opt for.

When we talk about different services, we shall talk about eCPM as its common terminology to compare the revenue potential. That’s where Infolinks won the battle, by giving me steady $2 – $2.5 eCPM compared to few cents in Kontera. My reports show an eCPM in the range of $8 to $13 since I incorporated these ads in my blogs. With little tweak in the appearance of the ads (with the help of their integration guide), I am hoping to see an average $2.5+ eCPM here onwards. The integration guide not only helps me to choose the appearance of my ads, but also allow me to decide how many ads I want to have appearing on my blog pages.

I happen to read some complaints about Infolinks showing ads from same advertiser many times. In this case, I would suggest trying this integration guide and choose the content category of your website to see more targeted ads. Many times webmasters chose to ignore such simple tweaks, and lose the potential revenue. Optimization is the key, you see!

Am I in love with Infolinks?

By the time you read the detailed analysis above, you might be thinking that I am in love with them. I can’t deny that fact, and there is no reason why I should not. Especially when I talk about their quality of support team that give personal attention to your queries and … almost immediately.

I had an excellent experience of their support team at the time when they introduced their affiliate program. My referral link was not working initially and I had already posted a blog post about Infolinks affiliate program. I was bit worried about losing track of potential referrals due to this technical issue. I was contacted proactively by support team when they fixed the issue and my referral link started working. Not only they stopped here, but were generous and professional enough to add my blog post in their page of testimonials.

By now, I did not experience any problems in Payments from them either. I was not surprised when I received my payment in my Paypal account in assured time lines after reaching $100 first time. So would you think that I would have anything to complain about? Updates: I just received my March payment in my Paypal today on 27th April 2009

Finally it’s call of your online money making strategies. With my own experience, I can certainly assure you to see better performance by Infolinks than using any other in-text advertising service. If you have not done so far, sign up with them and see yourself. Always keep in mind, optimization is the key!

It’s not like I am running out of blogging ideas, instead I have started one more blog in last few months and have plan of starting one more, but problem is I have few resources at hand that can do all this together – specially content developing and blog promotion at the same time whilst I fight with the time.

While I think about my posting frequency at this blog, I realized that I did not post too often in last couple of month for whatever reason and deviated from my focus. It should not happen, and I shall try my best not to let it happen. I have so many ideas to pen down on this blog, but just could not put it all together.

At the same time, I was thinking running out of time is still alright but how difficult it would be to run out of ideas? Everyone has their own thought about this situation, so here are my five blogging ideas to fight with this lull period for your blogs.

1. Share with your users what you learnt in your journey.

There are some very specific tips that you come across, and that are sometimes unique as no one really pays attention to minute things. Share such ideas with your users, believe me they prove to be unique – just like my idea about dofollow links from technorati

2. Write Link Baiting posts like lists

It’s very easy to list down the ideas on specific topic. Normally you come across reading few, you have to brainstorm some more and come up with a killer post on lists (10 best ways, 5 worst ideas, anything like that). This not only helps you in attracting traffic but make it more interesting to read as well.

3. Link back to top posts in your niche

Browse through the top blogs in your blog’s category and read choose good articles in that week on these blogs. This would not only give your users more resources to use, but also connect you to good bloggers as everyone likes back links (specially free). You would be certainly noticed and that would help you in increasing your social network. You know how important it is.

How to find top blogs in your category though? Two simple ways – search for specific keyword of your niche in Google and see the blogs coming up in search engine results or use services like blog catelog or entrecard to browse through various blogs in your category.

4. Communicate with your audience

Just by simply putting up a poll, or asking them questions on the topic discussed in blog post, or putting up a post together to answer questions from your readers asked in past. By any way, such direct communication with your users would help them bond tightly with your blog.

5. Review the websites

I know you might not simply like to go ahead with it, specially if you charge for paid reviews on your blog. But keep another aspect of reviews which I always wanted to discuss with you in detail. Reviews would help to make your blog keyword rich, the comments attracted to such blog posts are also keyword rich if you allow anchor texts. I have observed the benefit of search engine traffic due to such anchor texts allowed in my comments or due to keywords in review. Believe me, it’s good way to pull search engine traffic – I would talk in detail about it soon.

What you think about this 5 posting ideas? Do you some more – write it in comments.

Today, while I am traveling across many cities, I received this mail from Ryan at CellPhones.org about selection of this blog as semi finalist in cell phone contest. This is what he says -

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So thought to share this with you

Online world is very competitive now, same thing applies to blogging. Four years back when I started blogging, there were only few renowned bloggers around, and now I see many of them. Online visitors have got variety of choice in blogs to read through. They are not dependent on few of them for quality content.

The competition is tough now, and in efforts to establish yourself as blogger – you would need to build your authority online as a well-known blogger. Developing an unique and quality content is a default key in this process. There are some supporting activities that we should not ignore as those can help you to establish quicker. You are lucky if you come across those who are finding freelance writers like you and can popularize you or if you don’t come across, I can help you in there.

One of my online friends has started a website to find good freelance writers to provide them a platform establishing them as authors. Keep in mind, there is a thin line between a blogger and author. It’s a journey you have to take, that changes you from a blogger to author. Author is someone who has an authority, correct? Not every blogger around might have that authority! I am cent percent sure that you want to build that authority.

If you have that aspiration for yourself, what you write about is not a restriction. You shall strive for the quality in your articles in your favorite subjects, and those can be published in relevant categories on popular websites. Your content will get a platform that can promote your authorship online for no cost. As I start my new ventures in online business, I am inclined in informative business related writing to share my knowledge with others and also establish myself as business blogger.

Not necessarily, the subject you choose should be something very popular only, but you can focus on what is your favorite topic. That gives you an inbuilt authority to write quality articles due to your interest in that subject. To understand this better, you can check out this article written by one of the authors, Marius at edubook.com. The article talks about the latest Blackberry news that might be of the author’s own interest and the article appears in a flow. The topic if you see, you might think that even you can write about it. Exactly the same thing I want to emphasize on! You just needs to get motivated to bring out the writing instinct in you and use article publishing websites like edubook.com to get a free platform and build an authority as blogger.