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.

Making Money Online Subscription Contest – Win Professionally Designed Logos or a Character Mascot

If you read my post yesterday you know that one of our goals is to build up Making Money Online Dot Com’s Newsletter subscriber list. In that post I mentioned all the cool benefits you get for being a subscriber, which are many (and growing).

Well today we have decided to up the ante a little and give you one more BIG reason to subscribe. PRIZES! That’s right… PRIZES! We know everyone loves a chance to win something good, so we are going to give away some AWSOME PRIZES. This is in addition to the raffle we will be holding at the end of each month for our newsletter subscribers.

Starting today we are going to be running a new contest called, “Making Money Online Dot Com’s Subscription Contest”. Entering this contest is extremely easy, and unlike our last contest… all participants in this contest can win more than once.

There are 2 MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS to enter this contest (which gets you one entry), plus ONE OPTIONAL ACTION which will get you one additional entry into the contest.

1. Subscribe to our Newsletter (Mandatory)
2. Leave a comment below letting us know you are subscribed and want to be in the contest. (There might be some subscribers that don’t want to be in this contest, so only subscribers that leave a comment in this post will be entered to win)
3. Follow us on Twitter @mmodotcom and get 1 extra entry (Optional).

If you are already a subscriber to our newsletter and/or follow us on Twitter and would like to be entered in the contest, just let us know in the comments section below and you will be entered as well.

Now that you know how to enter, I am guessing you would like to know what the prizes are…

Our buddies over a LogoNerds.com have generously offered us several prizes to give away and we have decided to use some of them for this contest.

Here are the prizes we will be giving away for this contest and the days we will be giving each of them away:

(Friday, September 18th)
Professional Designed Business Logo ($47 Value)

• Web Ready Formats
• Print Ready Formats
• 6 Different Concepts
• Free Revisions
• Delivered in 3-5 Business Days
• Satisfaction Guaranteed

(Friday, September 25th)
Professional Designed Business Logo ($47 Value)

• Web Ready Formats
• Print Ready Formats
• 6 Different Concepts
• Free Revisions
• Delivered in 3-5 Business Days
• Satisfaction Guaranteed

(Friday, October 2nd)
Character Mascot Design ($97 Value)

• Web Ready Formats
• Print Ready Formats
• 3 Poses/Concepts
• Free Revisions
• Delivered In 5 Business Days
• Satisfaction Guaranteed

Starting next Friday and continuing for 3 weeks, we will be holding a raffle similar to what we did here, and we will be giving away the custom design logo and mascot packages above from LogoNerds.com. So if you are in need of a high quality logo or mascot for your business and/or website, you definitely should be entering this contest.

Here are some samples of LogoNerds.com Mascot and Logo designs below…

Characters
www.nomadceo.com/
www.bidkong.com
www.whowantsgold.com
www.DropoutJoe.com
www.hockeyhermit.com
www.savercertificate.com

Logos
www.premiumfinanceclub.com
www.avirtualedge.com
www.garyhuntinsurance.com
www.thecleverwordsmith.com
www.ccarticles.com
www.thethriftygrad.com

So what are you waiting for? Sign-up now for our newsletter and let us know that you’re a subscriber in the comment section below and you will be instantly entered into the raffles. Also, if you would like to earn an extra entry, simply follow us on Twitter @mmodotcom.

* * * The sooner you enter, the more chances you have to win! * * *

Please make sure to let us know in the comments if you subscribed to the newsletter, and if you are following us on Twitter as well.

Great Reasons to Subscribe to Making Money Online’s Newsletter!

We have MANY GOALS for Making Money Online Dot Com (like any other website out there) and we are always trying to find new and fun ways to achieve them. One of our goals is to build a large opt-in subscriber list so we can easily communicate with our readers.

We know there are several of you that prefer to sign-up for our RSS Feed which we really appreciate, but with the RSS Feed you only get to see what the regular viewers see. Signing-up for our Newsletter gets you access to lots of other cool benefits that are regular readers will never even hear about, and we have listed some of them below.

So if you read my post, “The 5 Best Bribes to Build a Subscriber List” you know I am a big believer in giving our readers something of value so they’ll want to join our mailing list, and we need to make sure to treat them very well after they have joined so they’ll want to stay a subscriber. So that is what we are going to do. Here is an ever-growing list of reasons why you should sign-up for our newsletter today…

1. We use Aweber (one of the top autoresponder services on the planet) to manage our subscriber list. If you do not know much about Aweber just do a Google search and you will see what a well respected company they are. On top of that they make it SUPER EASY to unsubscribe to our list at any time and you would never receive another email from us (unless you subscribed again).
2. We will NEVER EVER EVER share your email address with anyone, no matter how much money they offer us. Seriously, NEVER EVER EVER!
3. We will not flood your email in-box with affiliate offers of the next latest and greatest thing. We belong to many email lists ourselves and we hate it when we get on a list where all the owner does is send us email after email trying to sell us something.
4. You will get our FREE COURSE titled “PLR Secrets”. It is a 2-week email course where we will teach you all sorts of ways to make money with PLR content, as well as drive massive traffic to your site, build your own subscriber list and much, much more!
5. You will be entered in a raffle each month to win a FREE PRODUCT OR SERVICE. At the end of each month we will put all the subscriber’s names in a hat and pull out one lucky winner. The winner will win something cool. It could be a great piece of software, a new product that has just been released, perhaps access to a premium blog theme, a book, maybe even a t-shirt (if we ever get some made), etc… it could be almost anything. Each month we will try and give away something different.
6. You will receive free stuff for no reason at all. We purchase all sorts of products online and many come with unlimited PLR or Master Reseller rights. Every so often when we purchase these type of products (and as long as they don’t come with restrictions to keep us from doing it), we will send you the product as a surprise gift for being a loyal subscriber.
7. You will get discounts on products we sell on this website. We have plans for lots of cool products in the upcoming months. As a subscriber, not only will you be first to know about our product releases,  but we will also send you discount coupon codes so you can get the products at a cheaper price, which our regular readers won’t have access to.

Alright… so that’s what we have so far. We plan to add to the list as we come up with new and exciting ideas. The point you need to get from this is we plan on taking very good care of our subscribers and we promise not to abuse the list in anyway! So what are you waiting for? Sign-up today and join us on our journey to fame and fortune! Just enter your first name and email below and click submit.

Please Tell Me When I Have Something Hanging From My Nose

Be honest… did the title of this post intrigue you a little? I am sure it is not the best title to help drive search engine traffic to a site about making money online though. But I do think it is the perfect title for this post, as it is about helping out your fellow blogger, or anybody for that matter and that is what today’s “Quick Tip” is about.

Have you ever had something hanging from your nose, or maybe a little ranch dressing (from whatever you ate earlier) dried up on your chin and no one tells you about it? I know I have. Usually, the only way you find out is when you are going to the restroom and see yourself in the mirror. You think… “How embarrassing, how come no one told me about it?”

Of course you do have those certain friends that will give you a little nudge, point to where it is on their own face and then whisper in your ear… “Hey, you got a little something right there”, and you thank them, grab a tissue or napkin and give it a little wipe and that would be that. I really appreciate those types of friends, and that is the kind of friend I try to be.

So where am I going with this post? Well like the “there’s something hanging from my nose” analogy, I really appreciate it when someone tells me when something is wrong with one of my websites, or they think something can be done better. Three times in the last week I have had people tell me that something wasn’t working correctly with this site.

First Lax from over at Tech Zoom In emailed me to let me know that in my Feedburner Emails, at the bottom it was showing the word “Array” nine times in list format for no apparent reason. I did a little investigating and found out it was a simple setting in my DamnSexyBookmarks that was causing the problem and with a simple uncheck of a button the problem was solved. I am sure other readers probably noticed this for weeks, but no one ever let me know before Lax, so I never knew to fix it before then. Thanks Lax!

Also, in regards to my Email RSS Feed, not only was it not displaying correctly to the subscribers I already had, but the subscription form on the homepage was not working either. Alfredo over at Asswass.com contacted me last week to let me know about that. We probably lost a bunch of subscribers in the last few weeks because that was not working. We won’t lose them anymore. Thanks Alfredo!

Then just yesterday, Jared over at The Money Cult let me know about a problem that was happening with the comment editing plugin that we were using. When you clicked the edit your comment link, it opened up someone else’s comment, which was not good. So I ended up deactivating that until I get it fixed. Thanks Jared!

As for me, I am notorious for letting people know when something is wrong with their site, or if I think doing something another way might be beneficial to them. I honestly just like to help people out, and I probably overstep my boundaries sometimes, but no one has ever complained (at least to my face) about it. If you read my post “2 Simple Fixes that Could Increase Comments on Your Blog” you know I am NOT a big fan of Captcha in the comments sections of blogs, and from reading all the comments, most other readers are not either. So whenever that I am surfing the net reading blogs and leaving comments… if a person is using Captcha in their comments section (after I write my comment) I usually mention to them that they might get more comments if the get rid of it.

Now that is just one example of things I do. I also send out emails if I notice something doesn’t look right with someone’s site in my browser or if a link is not working correctly. You name it… if I see something wrong, I usually try to let the owner know. Now I am definitely not trying to brag here that I am this great guy, because that is not what I am trying to do at all… even though you would probably say that is you met me.

What I want you to get out of this post is we are all just one big giant family on this planet, and the Internet has brought us a lot closer together. We all need to help each other out and if you see something hanging from the nose (you know what I mean) of one of your fellow bloggers or website owners, let them know about it, as I am sure they will appreciate it. Remember, what goes around comes around, so the nicer you are… the nicer people will be to you!

I also read a great post the other day from Liane over at Better Blogging for Bloggers where she talks about how friendly most people are on the Internet. I have found in general that usually is the case.

So how about you guys? Do you go out of your way to help your fellow bloggers or website owners out? If not, maybe you should!

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.

Our First Meetup.com Experience

I was searching for a local internet entrepreneur group in my area, and I found one called Meetup. I asked Doug if he knew anything about it, and he thought it was a networking group. It did sound interesting, so we talked our wives into letting us go out to do some research. Research usually means a few beers, so we packed up the laptop and headed out the door.

Our Meetup group was held in a quaint coffee shop (quaint meaning small) and the room was packed. The host charges a minimal fee (only $3 in our case) and he provides a one hour presentation from a well outlined series of topics. Our host was very welcoming, entertaining, and we felt like we fit right in. He wasn’t selling anything, which I liked, and Doug asked several questions during the presentation that were quickly responded to. I am the internet entrepreneur virgin, but I like to talk a lot. Doug has the knowledge and experience, but he prefers to let me handle most of the verbal duties. We work well together in this way. My motto is “Ignorance is bliss” and I usually live up to the task. Take this short story for example:

I used to go to a nightclub hypnotist with a group of friends for the entertainment of it. While I was always a willing participant during the show, my skeptical friends could not allow themselves to get hypnotized. I enjoyed being a willing volunteer rather than a witness to the volunteer’s stupidity. At the end of each show, the Hypnotist would thank his audience for attending, and especially those who allowed themselves to follow his “Power of suggestion” which is also known as hypnosis. Then he would tell us that each show is only as good as his subjects, and this is also true with each Meetup group.

Nice segue, huh? I hope I didn’t lose too many of you with my story, but it does prove a point. You get more out of life when you participate in it. I hope that by reading this article, you look up your local meetup group and give them a try. Try different topics, and you may just meet some very interesting people. That is what we are all trying to do in the first place, isn’t it? Making connections, sharing thoughts and business techniques. If you have a great idea, share it with us and our viewers.

We are definitely not the first people to mention Meetup, but we do want to share it with you and hope you give it a try. What have you got to lose? You should go in prepared with a list of questions, and also bring an open mind. You find some of the brightest things said are not the ones that you bring with you. I am usually reminded that I talk too much, and I don’t let others into the conversation. I am working on this one, really I am. My father used to tell me that God wanted me to listen and not to speak, that’s why he gave me two ears but only one mouth. So here I sit quietly, but I can type pretty fast with my two hands! Always trying to out smart the fox!

Have any of you been to a Meetup group? What was your experience? My dad also said it is nice to share, so let’s have it!