Guest Blogging on Making Money Online

When it comes to making money online there are a million different ways to do so, and more being created each day. Now I have been in the internet marketing business for a little over 10 years now and I have tried many different money making endeavors over those years. Some have worked really well, some just ok… while others have totally failed, so I do know a little bit about of what works and what doesn’t when it comes to making money online.

But one thing’s for sure… neither Mark nor I know everything there is to know about making money online, and no one else does either. So what Mark and I have decided to do since there are so many different ways of making money online out there is… we need to look for other people that would like to share their money making ideas with our viewers by allowing “Guest Bloggers”.

So if you have any making money online tips or related ideas you would like to share with our readers, we would love to post them on our site. Now we are not looking for people to just write a great big ad promoting their products or services. We are looking for tips, tricks, ideas, how-to tutorials, etc… on different ways to make money online. This would include (but not limited to) things like; affiliate marketing, network marketing, selling on Ebay, advertising, memberships sites,  SEO, traffic generation, site design, online and offline marketing, networking, copywriting, blogging tips, etc…, the list could go on and on.

So why should you consider writing a guest post for MakingMoneyOnline.com? There are many reasons why you should, but here are a few:

Expose Your Name and Blog to a Whole New Audience – Guest Blogging is one of the best ways to get your name, as well as your blog exposed to a whole new potential group of viewers.

Generate More Traffic to Your Site – Writing a Guest Post for our site will definitely drive more traffic to your site as readers are always interested to learn more about the person writing the post. I know when I read posts from guest bloggers on other sites I almost always visit the author’s site to see what their site is about. I have become a loyal follower to several blogs that I have found through them guest blogging on other sites I frequent.

Build up Your Reputation – It is hard to build your reputation when you are first starting out blogging… and writing a quality guest post can only help quickly build your reputation as an expert in your field.

SEO Benefits – Guest blogging on this site or any other blog for that matter is a great way to help with your search engine optimization. You will be creating a relevant, high quality, keyword-rich one-way link back to your site which search engines love!

Free Advertising – This actually encompasses everything I mentioned above, as this is really a great way to advertise your business for FREE on our site. Yes, it will take a little work writing the post… but it won’t cost you a dime. Also, the click-through rate from a guest post link is far superior than purchasing a banner ad on this site or any other site. So if you don’t have a lot of money to advertise your business, this is a no brainer.

HOW TO SUBMIT A GUEST POST TO MAKING MONEY ONLINE DOT COM

If you would like to write a Guest Post for our website, please contact us first so we can let you know if it is something we think our viewers might be interested in reading. Simply go to the Contact Us page and send us an email with the following information.

• Your name
• Your email address
• What topic you would like to write about
• A sample of your writing (a link to an article is fine)
• The URL(s) you are planning to link to in your post

If we feel your idea for a post is something our readers would be interested in, we will send you an email with instructions on how to submit your post.

Also, before submitting your post… PLEASE FOLLOW THESE RULES:

• Your post must be completely original and not published anywhere else.
• To be accepted the post should be well written with no grammatical errors, so please run your post through a spell checker before submitting it. We also suggest you have a friend or associate read it over to see how it sounds before submitting it.
• We reserve the right to make any corrections and modifications to the post(s) that we feel necessary.
• We may not accept all Guest Posts that are submitted to us for one reason or another. If we decide not to accept your post we will let you know why we didn’t, and we will give you the opportunity to make the necessary changes to get it approved, but we cannot make any guarantees.
• We reserve the right to modify these rules at anytime.

So if you would like build up your reputation, drive more traffic to your site, help with your SEO rankings, or just feel like sharing your knowledge… PLEASE contact us today about writing a Guest Post for Making Money Online Dot Com.

MakingMoneyOnline.com August Recap – Also Only Two Days Left to Win Banner Package

Wow… another month has come and gone! Since it’s the last day of the month I guess it’s time to recap the month gone by, and tomorrow we will announce the winners of Making Money Online Dot Com’s “Who Comments Most” competition for August.

But before I get into those things, I want to remind everyone that you have 2 days left to get into the Tuan Nguyen Interview Contest where you have a chance to win a custom Banner Package (which includes 5 different size custom banners) for just reading my interview with Tuan and then just leaving 1 Comment… that’s it. I cannot believe the small number of people that have entered so far, as there is no easier contest to join that I have seen, and the prize is AWESOME! Plus, the odds of you winning this contest are way better than most contests I have seen online. If you haven’t yet… please go read the interview and leave a comment right now so you can be instantly entered.

So what other stuff has happened this past month…

I got interviewed twice in one month. Now that was definitely cool, as the only other time I have ever been interviewed for anything was when my oldest son was in second grade. He had to interview me for a school project, which was cool…but it wasn’t the same, as he was forced to interview me. At least with these two interviews, no one was forcing them (I hope).

Here are the two interviews I did…

• Famous Blogger Club Interview – This is one of several interviews Hesham Zebida from zebida.com is doing on “up and coming” bloggers. It’s a nice simple 5 question interview. If you get a chance you should go read all the interviews he has done so far, as it is a great way to learn a little more about some of your favorite bloggers.
• The Money Cult Interview – This was very cool for me too. I got to be Jared’s Guinea Pig and do his first interview. Jared is looking for more people to interview, so if you are interested you should shoot him an email.

On top of those interviews I shared a little bit of how I got started online in my post, “I Used to be a Dotcom Millionaire, Well at Least on Paper”.

Here are a few other post were pretty popular, at least by the amount of comments they received:

• Making Money Online Dot Com’s First Big Milestones
• Make Your Blog More Interactive
• Learn How To Create Your Own Fun Gravatar
• How to Get More Comments

As for September, we have lots of great posts planned. We have a couple of interviews lined up already with 2 really successful Online Entrepreneurs that should make for really good reads!

As for contests, we have at least 2 that we will be running next month, but there could be more…

• One is going to replace the “Who Comments Most” contest. It is still going to be a commenting contest, but we are going to make it MUCH EASIER for people to have a chance of winning.
• We are still planning on giving away MrBlogging.com, but we are still working out the details. So please stay tuned… the contest will start soon.

Last thing… this morning I read a post from Brian of SEOMkt.com about a contest Keller Hawthorne is running over at Fresh eVenture called the Best WordPress Design 2009 Contest. She is offering several great prizes, so I thought we would give it a shot. Do I think we have the best WordPress design for 2009? Absolutely not, but our design is okay, and I have no idea how many people have entered, so we might have a shot to win something. Also, it’s just another great way to get our name out in front of a larger audience, so you might think about doing the same. If you want to enter you have until Midnight Eastern Time tonight. Sorry for the late notice, but I just found out about the contest a little while ago myself. Here is a link to the submission form.

Alright, that’s it for the update! Thanks again to all of you that have visited us this last month and we hope to see you back here in September.

How to Twitter?

This week’s “Quick Tip” of the week is really not teaching you anything, as we are hoping to learn from you.

As many of you know we are still very new at this Twitter thing, and to be honest we still really don’t know what we are doing when it comes to utilizing Twitter.

Since we added our Twitter account we have tweeted several of our posts, as well as tweeted many blog posts that we have read on other sites. But beyond that, we are a little lost and would love some help so we can catch up with you 21^st century movers and shakers. I am sure there has to be some of our readers that are in the same shape as us, but are just afraid to ask for help.

I honestly have no idea what the best way to actually check for new tweets is? Do most of you have your Twitter account hooked up to your phone or do you just post and check your tweets from Twitter’s home page? I am worried if I connect it to my phone that I will be bombarded with tweets that I can not keep up with, as well as go over my monthly airtime usage on my phone.

Also, as of me writing this… we are only following 35 people. How do you possibly keep up with tweets if you are following hundreds or even thousands of people? I just don’t get it. How often do you check your account… every few minutes, every half an hour, every hour?

How about posting on Twitter? How often do you post and is it usually business related, or do you tell people when you are eating and sleeping as well? If so, do people really want to know that stuff?

I just don’t know what is the best way to utilize Twitter?

Can you please give us some pointers in the comment section below? (The more comments the better)

We Want CommentLuv… but Need YOUR Help

I need your assistance to help make “Making Money Online Dot Com” a better website. One of coolest WordPress plugins I have ever seen to encourage comments on blogs is CommentLuv and we want it on this website.

Unfortunately, I am having some issues every time I activate it. I am not sure if it is another plugin that it doesn’t get along with, or if it has something to do with the theme design. I just know when I activate it causes a weird thing to happen, at least on my computers.

I contacted the support team over at CommentLuv and Andy was very quick to reply…which I really appreciated. I explained to him the issue I was having and he tried several times to recreate the problem on his computer, but he never could duplicate it. That being said…  if he could not duplicate the problem, there was no way he could help me. That got me to thinking that it might just be my computer, so I tried my wife’s computer and my laptop and I still had the same problem. So, I told that to Andy and he said to activate the plugin and write a post and see if other visitors experience the same issue as me, and if they do… to contact them back so he can look further into it.

So that is what I am doing now. I am asking for your help to see if you are having this issue with our site on your computer. So what is the issue I am having? Well our site is set-up so when you click on any link it opens up in the same window (or tab). But when I activate CommentLuv and go to one of my post pages… EVERY SINGLE LINK on that page when clicked opens up the destination page in a new tab.

Now there are a few exceptions…  It seems to only have this issue in Firefox, and not IE… but I have not tried any other browsers. Also, it does not happen on the “index” page, or if you end up on one of our posts from a direct link from another site. It seems to only happen when you click on a post from our index page.

So can you guys please test this out for me and let me know if you have the issues I am? If so, please follow these simple steps below and then leave a comment with your results below. I have activated CommentLuv and will leave it activated for 24 hours for this test.

**I am only running this test Monday August 10th so you do not need to try after that**

Step 1) Go to our homepage: www.MakingMoneyOnline.com

Step 2) Click on a post: You should be able to click on any post.

Step 3) Click on any link: Once on a post page go over to the sidebar and click on a link under “Topics” or click on the logo at the top of the page. Did a new window open up?

Step 4) Please let us know your results in the comment section in this post. Please let us know what “Browser” and what “Version” you are using as well.

THAT’S IT!!! Thank-you to everyone that helps… we do appreciate it!

We will have CommentLuv working on this site one day… even if we have to change themes. I promise!

Why Comment on MakingMoneyOnline.com?

As Making Money Online Dot Com is a fairly new site, we are pretty happy with the amount of comments we have received so far… but we want more, a lot more. After reading “7 Ways to Reward Your Blog Commentators” from Dan Keller of TycoonBlogger.com we took inventory on what we have been doing to reward our readers for commenting on our site. We were happily surprised to see that we were already doing most of the things that he had mentioned in his post. We weren’t doing them all though, so we decided to implement his other ideas as well and see if we can get a lot more comments.

So the first thing, starting tomorrow August 1^st, we will be running a “Who Comments Most” Contest each month, and the winner will get some premium ad space in our sidebar. Actually we will have 2 winners each month. The two visitors that leave the most comments (*see rules below) will each receive a premium 125X125 banner spot on our sidebar that will be displayed for the entire following month. Then those ads will be replaced by the next month winner’s ads… and so on and so on. In the event of a tie which would give us 3 or more winners, we will just rotate all the ads in those 2 spots.

*RULES: The rules are very simple. The top 2 people (plus ties) in our “Who Comments Most” section will win 1 FREE month of banner space in our designated area. We reserve the right to refuse anyone and any banners that we do not feel are appropriate  for this site. For a comment to count, it does not have to be long, but it does have to be useful to us and/or our readers. Just writing, “Great Post! Keep up the good work” will not count as a comment towards winning the contest. We need to know that you actually read the post. Mark and I will have the final say on what we feel is a comment. Also, the maximum comments we will count per day is 3. That way it will keep someone from waiting until the last day and posting a bunch of comments. We reserve the right to modify the rules AT ANY TIME.

Now for the second thing, Dan mentioned to create a post once a month with links back to the readers who leave the most comments on your site. We are going to give that a try as well. Either at the very end of the month (like today) or the beginning of the next month we will create a post with at least one link to the top 5 on our “Who Comments Most” section. This month we went a little crazy and are giving “Link Love” to a lot more than the top 5, but next month we want to give you guys something to work towards.

So here are some our friends who are in our “Who Comments Most” section. We really appreciate all your support!

Brian – SEOmkt.com – Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Blog

Brian (he has 2 sites) - BlogEngage.com – The idea of Blog Engage is to promote interaction between bloggers by “Engaging” with each other’s blogs.

John – ExtremeJohn.com – Posts on Blogging, Business, Twitter, Rants, MMA, and his life.

Gooroo – iBlogPlanet.com (was FinanceAdvisoryStop.com) – Finance, Internet, Marketing, SEO, and Miscellaneous Topics.

Sire – WassUpBlog.com – Tells you wassup in the blogging world in relation to blogging for money avenues, blog tips and tricks, etc…

Deneil – DeneilMerritt.com – An Internet Entrepreneur’s Journey

Asswass – Asswass.com – Ramblings of a rich donkey and his website.

Benjamin – BenjaminCip.com – Start Your Making Money Online Venture

Lax – TechZoomIn.com – Blogging and Internet Tips ‘N’ Tricks.

Sandeep – CuriousLittlePerson.com – Blogging for Unlimited Possibilities

Dan – TycoonBlogger.com – Adventures in Blogging

Lee – MyBlog2Day.com – Making Money Online with Blog

Tony – PaidScribe.com – SEO Writer

George – Serradinho.com – Blogging news, tips, tricks and free downloads.

Jared – TheMoneyCult.com – A No B.S. Blog about money, the tools, and people trying to make it.

Please make sure and check out the blogs above, if you haven’t already.

Another thing we did today was add “Linky Love” to our site to also encourage visitors to leave some comments. After you leave 3 comments the “NoFollow” rule will be lifted and you will start receiving some much coveted SEO “juice”.

Unfortunately, we are still having some issues with this theme and CommentLuv, so it is still not working, but we will eventually figure it out. The plugin works fine when we activate it, but for some reason when it is turned on… it makes EVERY LINK on the site open up a new tab when clicked and that really bugs me. Has anybody else experienced that problem, and if so… did you find a solution you could share?

Ok… I think that covered everything. Anybody have any more suggestions for getting more comments? If so, please let everyone know in the comment box below.

What’s New at MakingMoneyOnline.com?

It’s Sunday afternoon and I am sitting at my new favorite spot to write… by our pool watching my boys having fun. It is about 95 degrees out today, so we absolutely had to get wet. We started the day by going to the movies (where there is great air conditioning) and we saw Ice Age 3 which was actually really good.

Today I am writing about what is new at Making Money Online Dot Com and to celebrate the first month anniversary of this site. It has been a pretty good first month, but we have a lot of really great stuff planned for the upcoming months, so we hope you keep coming back.

First off… this weekend we have finally joined the world of those of you who “tweet” and created a Twitter account for the site. It is http://twitter.com/mmodotcom. We wanted to get twitter.com/makingmoneyonline, but unfortunately that was too long. Please take a peek and let us know what you think of the background and let us know if there is something you think we should change.

Now for you veteran Twitterers out there, how do you guys use Twitter? Do you post what you are doing all day, just links to your blog posts, or do you do something else? Since we are new at this, we are not sure how to actually best use Twitter to our advantage while making it something worthwhile to our followers. Also, do most people have it connected to their cell phone? That seems like it would get annoying rather quickly if you receive everyone’s posts to your phone.

In regards to our Twitter account, we would love to have you follow us. We would also like to follow anyone who has some of the same interests as us. So if you have a blog or website that is in the “making money online” niche, “blogging” niche or something else you think might interest us, please leave your twitter address in the comment section below. We would love to see what you are up to, plus it will let our readers know about you as well.

Also this weekend, we expanded our “Footer” to include 3 widget boxes which now include, “Most Recent Comments” and “Who Comments Most”. We will be using the second one to start running some contests in the upcoming weeks to encourage commenting, so stay tuned!

The one section of the site that we are still behind on is the “Business Spotlight” section which will be located in the top left widget box on the homepage. We actually have several people lined up to interview, but we have not decided what the best medium is to bring that to you. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.

Since this is our one month anniversary, we thought we would list our favorite posts that you might have missed if you are brand new to the site. Here are some of the ones we really like:

- Gurus Make More Money Online and Have a Lot More Fun While Doing It!

- Buy, Test, Review, Earn Your Money Back, Profit, Use Forever, Keep Making Money… Sound Good?

- How to Come Up with Blog Post Ideas

- Sometimes it Pays to be a Nice Guy

- Hey Bloggers, Scratch Our Blog and We’ll Scratch Yours

- Making Your Blog More than Just a Blog!

Well that’s it for this post. It’s time for me to jump in the pool myself!

Bloggers: Do You Want to Make Money With Your Blog?

I love reading blogs to see what people are writing about, and I like to check out the different bloggers writing styles. I also want to see the different ways people have setup the overall design of their blogs; the colors they use, the layout of the blog, the way they display ads, if they have a newsletter/rss subscription box, etc… I just like to get an overall feel for the blog.

With all the blogs I visit, I always wonder how the blogger plans to make money with their blog. I understand that there are many bloggers out there that don’t think you should make money with your blog, (which is fine) but I am not one of them

The reason I am writing this post is that I visit lots of blogs that are in the “Make Money Online” niche and I am not sure how they plan to make money online with their site. Some might have a few affiliate banners up and some Adsense ads, but nothing more. I wonder if they have any long term strategy to do so.

Since today is Friday this is not going to be a long post. I just want to ask you a couple of questions.

The first question can be answered in the following poll. I am assuming the answer would be “Absolutely“, since you are visiting a site called, “Making Money Online Dot Com“, but it might not be.

If you answered Absolutely, (and if you wouldn’t mind) please share some of your ideas for how you plan to make money with your blog in the comments below, other than just displaying banner and Adsense ads. I am sure our readers would love to hear your ideas.