Passive mode of income at its best

Whenever you blog about something and you update regularly, you digg your articles, stumble upon them, reddit them, etc. and then if you have a good following, chances are that you make good amount of money through adsense or similar programs. But suppose, once you stop updating and your blog eventually dies, then your readers will stop visiting your blog, your search engine rankings will fall and no money then.
A few days ago, I declared that I will take a shot at writing career to exploit the possibilities and I should say that my Triond adventure is going well but the Bukisa adventure doesn't seems to be getting going. Under one week Triond accepted my 3 articles and have earned 15 cents for 90 pageviews across all three articles...not bad money...adsense does not work for me on this blog, but Triond is starting to show hopes. And there will be no end to it because Triond is gonna pay me lifetime royalties for my articles. You can check all my articles in the Triond widget which I have installed in my sidebar. Bukisa hasn't yet accepted my first article, so there isn't any progress there.
So, the new passive mode of income is at its best for me. You too can start your Triond adventure today and make passive money for little hardwork.

Get a free easy laptop at EZlaptop!

Friends!Friends!Friends!
Want a laptop for free? Really? Good...No way! There isn't anything for free in this world and to get a Sony Vaio, well forget about it, you won't even get its case for free.
Well don't even check out this rubbish site, ezlaptop(dot)com. These guys were in business in 2005 and scammed more than 80000 victims! Now they are back in business!
(Source:http://www.scamvictimsunited.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=926)
They claim to give credits for reading their useless newsletter and for referring others. The credits convert to notebooks, 195 for the Vaio. Bet you won't even reach closer to 100.
Another site offering(????) free notebooks is notebooks4free(dot)com. They offer you with varied options like Vaio, Macbook Pro and a Dell Studio XPS. Sounds another scam, what do you think? Act now! Don't even go there...lol!

Now there's a good news for this blog. The blog has jumped 3,00,000 places at Technorati and has two authorities, thanks to an opportunity at http://missvirtualreality.net given by Sarah, my friend, a Problogger. The blog is now ranking 1,167,104 as against the 4,828,661 on June 20th, hardly 7 days. Its a big achievement for this blog. Look at the screenshot. Seeing is believing!!!

The Junkamania Best Photo Challenge!

Hey guys and girls!
As you can see in my sidebar, I have prepared a new blog contest where you have to upload a photo and Junkamania readers will vote it. The winner gets to promote his or her blog on this Junkamania blog. The winner will get 3 ad spaces on this blog for ONE month. The contest closes on 24 of July, 2009 and the winner will be announced the same day.
If a success, then there will be a prize money from the next month. So take part in the contest by clicking the ENTER NOW button and try to win it. The contest is powered by Cheddr Media.

Increase your blog's authority at Technorati!

Get authority on Technorati.
Technorati announced a new status last year called Authority to replace the each blog’s incoming link figures. Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to your website for the last 6 months.
This blog is not even one month old, but I am preparing from now on to get authorities. Currently, I have one reaction for my blog.
Now what is a reaction? Basically, it is the superset of an authority. Reactions are number of backlinks(they can be more than one from a single blog), but authority is counted once for a blog.
Is anyone interested to increase their number of Authority on Technorati? If so, then join the movement on JUNKAMANIA™ and watch your blog grow with us.

Simple rules:

1. Copy the original list into a blog post of yours.
2. Add your link to the bottom of the list.
3. Comment HERE so that we can update the list with your link.
4. The sooner you join, the more backlinks you will recieve.
   

(Copy Here - Technorati Authority–)

1. How to make money from home?
   
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3. Free blog directory-get reviewed
4. YOUR LINK HERE
   

See the original post where you can sign up at junkamania.blogspot.com

Don’t forget to promote this article via social networking and word of mouth.. It only means better results for yourself and everyone on the list.

(–End Copy - Get Pasting –)

Even though Technorati shows Authority status after 6 months, or you cant wait that much time, then read this; backlinks are also important for Search Engine Optimisation and eventually for the pagerank. So join this campaign today itself and see your blog rising.

Finally I got a backlink for this site!

Today I checked my blog's Technorati progress and found rank of Junkamania to be 4,828,661. I have got one backlink for my homepage and I am looking forward for more...
So if you like any of my posts feel free to backlink. I may return the favour to you if I find your posts interesting. You can also add this blog to your Technorati faves and I will surely return you the favour...Just comment here after you add me.
In the meanwhile, I checked my earnings for the article posted at triond.com and found that I have accrued $0.02 for 11 unique views in 2 days. As far as Bukisa is concerned, my article is yet to be published in their network... So I am looking forward to it.
Today, in the hope of promoting my blog, I joined Twitter. So, if you would like to follow me on Twitter, there is a banner above so that you can.
Now you can also chat with me whenever I am signed on Google by just clicking the banner in my sidebar under the title 'Chat with Junkamaniac'.

Lets try Bukisa and Triond!

These days I don't know why but I am very much motivated to blog. I have realised that researching a topic and blogging on it can be fun. Many of my blogger friends have suggested to start freelance writing and one of them has even posted a nice post about freelance writing. To exploit the possibilities of this career, I have decided to give it a shot. That is why I have signed up with sites like Bukisa and Triond. I have already written a post on triond.com here, but many still doubt its credibility. So, I am thinking about writing my progress with them on this blog every now and then.
The site called Bukisa which also comes with its referral system is worth a try. They allow contents already published to be published in their system only if it is your original content. But, I would prefer writing something new than cutting and pasting. Remember, its in its beta stage. Unlike triond.com, which has many sister blogs(eg. writinghood, authspot, etc), Bukisa publishes all its contents on one site only. As far as their referral system is concerned, I could earn more at your expense if you signed up under me, but I won't do that, because I believe that you should get your hardwork's full worth. You can sign up at www.bukisa.com and start publishing your content on their site an start earning.

Free Image Upload

Mnay bloggers, be they on any platform, always are worried of image hosting and stuff like that.
But the nice thing is that you can do free image upload and host images for free. Today I am going to discuss with you a method to how to upload images for free here on Blogger which can be used anywhere on the web, meaning even on your wordpress hosted blog(hehe!). Blogger has its very own image hosting service Picasa Web Albums which you might be knowing. Whenever you upload images here on Blogger, they are actually saved in Picasa Web Albums.
Now the funny thing is that you can use it anywhere.
How to upload images for free? You can do it in following steps:

1)Go to 'Create' under 'Posting' tab in Blogger
2)As you can see in the image below, you can upload images to Blogger with the help of the 'Add Image' graphic button.

















3)Browse for the files you want to upload by hitting the 'Browse' button and then click the 'UPLOAD IMAGE' orange button.












4)After that your images are added to Blogger...Beneath you can clearly see powered by Picasa Web Albums.
















5)After your image is uploaded you can go to the preview mode and then mouse over the image preview and right click to go to 'Copy Image Location' and click it.













6)Then you are done. For your convenience, you can copy the link and save it in a text editor like Notepad for future references. You can either save this post as draft or delete it forever, the images upload don't get deleted till you decide to delete them from your Picasa account.

The header you can see on this site JUNKAMANIA was uploaded by this same method on Blogger itself!














Now you don't need to create an account at photobucket.com or imageshack.us. Blogger is superb and at its best too. Give it a try. You can save images for free.
While going, I am going to share an SEO tip with you related to images... Always rename the images you use to upload to your posts with the keywords to the related post topic. For Example, the images uploaded to this post have names like free image upload.jpg, etc.
Let me hear from you guys about this.

How to make money from home?

A question that seems to be eating your mind is How to make money from home?Well I am just going to direct you in your mission to pay your bills. Yes, this article is going to show you how to make money from home?

There are basically two ways according to me to make money at home. Those are Online ways, for this you require a computer and an internet connection. The second way is to fetch your local newspaper and find a 'work from home' job in the classifieds section and try your luck. Neither of them is easy. Both have their own pros and cons. But the most risky are the Online jobs, where you may be working for a company which is on the other side of the hemisphere, which may or may not be a scam.

The truth is that the hopes and dreams of the honest hard working people making a better life for themselves trying to work at home, have fallen victim to these work from home opportunities online. From a source, it is found that 30% of the average middle class are spending about $275 per year on work at home scams.

But, hey listen, not all the online sites are scams. There are lotta genuine sites also. To earn from home, from your computer, online, there are many ways to do it.

MAKE MONEY FROM HOME BY BLOGGING:

The first and foremost and the easiest thing you could do is set up your blog. Search Engine love blogs . Choose a topic(niche) for your blog and post daily. After making enough posts submit it to blog directories like blogadda.com, blogtoplist.com. Blogging is a very powerful tool. Now, what is a blog? It is short for weblog. And you are currently reading an article from a blog, yes this is a blog. You could make one for you.

There are many free blogging platforms you can decide to choose from like blogger, wordpress, typad, joomla, etc. blogger.com is by far the best because it can be customised very easily.Just follow these steps to make for yourself a free blog:

1. Go to http://blogger.com
   
2. If you already have a google account, no need to sign up, Just Click the 'CREATE A FREE BLOG' option. If you don't have a google account already, then create one. Its free of cost.
3. Follow the instructions, its easy.
4. Post on your blog.

Now, the main question is, what are you going to post? Well, you thought it was easy? Man, you can write anything you want in your blog, its yours.
Now, how will you earn from it???

Many methods to earn from your blog are available. They are:-

• Placing CPM(COST PER MILLION) and PPC(PAY PER CLICK) ADS on your site:This process is easier than creating a blog. There are many publisher companies which serve advertisements to your site. Google Adsense has the biggest network of advertisers and the ads placed on your blog will be according to your content. Go to http://adsense.google.com and register for your adsense account. Now, you get an email confirmation within 2 days. Here you need patience. Now, the main question arising in your mind is, what if I don't get a confirmation? No worries. You get confirmed. You just need to wait. Once you are confirmed, login with your adsense account, create a new ad, generate the code and place it in your blog(All that information, you can get in Adsense help. If any problem, comment and I'll answer) and then cash checks on monthly basis. The minimum payout is $100. It first takes time to reach that much, but once you reach there, its like clockwork.

Other such programs to make money from home from your blog are

1. http://adbrite.com
   
2. http://bidvertiser.com

, both are genuine sites and both pay their members.

One thing you should always keep in mind is to read the Terms of Service of such sites, so that nothing goes wrong. Like for example, you get a life ban on Google Adsense if you click on your own ads.

• Sell Ad Space on your blog :If you start getting say about a 1000 visitors per month to your blog, you can even start selling ad spaces on your blog, so passive income at its best. You can sell your ad spaces on money making forums. One of my favourite which I use for my blogs is Digitalpoint. There are many people over there ready to market their products for reasonable price. So, if you could sell spaces at a reasonable price, then you will surely have a deal and can add a few bucks to your kitty every month.
  

• Sponsored Reviews:There are several companies which needs review for their product and they pay well, up to $5 per review. But for this you need to wait a minimum three months with atleast 30 posts for some pay per post sites. Some good pay per post sites are payperpost.com, reviewme,blogvertise,etc.
  

• Affiliate Marketing:Hordes of internet marketers are spending and investing in the Affiliate Marketing. This is the big industry where millions of internet marketers are promoting affiliate programs. Affiliate Programs consists pay per lead, pay per click, pay per impression and pay per sale offers which we have to promote. There are thousands of Affiliate Network which pays good amount per sale. I have listed some of my favourite affiliate programs here(). They are the best earners and they can sometimes earn you more than what Adsense has to offer.Any affiliate program can earn you a lot of money. It's about finding programs that fit YOUR niche, i.e. finding programs that fit your blog topic.
  

• Sell your blog-The last thing you could do to make money from home :I know its painful and irritating to sell your blog, your baby after it comes very close to your heart. But, you can make a huge amount of money from it in a short amount of time. This is the last thing to do to attain your goals. You can sell your blog site on popular online forums like Digital Point. There are many of potential buyers active over there. Your site's value can be set by some factors like the amount of revenue generated by your site per month, the quality of your site, your niche topic, etc.. You can do the reverse too, i.e. you can buy someone else's site on the same factors mentioned above.

Money making from blogging is not difficult. It just needs common sense, consistency, content and confidence and above all, patience. Because, it is a long an continual process. Its not a 'Get Rich Quick' scheme. It surely needs hard work and it can be fun at times. So, enjoy blogging if you have started already.

MAKE MONEY FROM HOME WITHOUT A WEBSITE:

Now, the point is that, it is not necessary to have a blog always to earn online. And to blog you need the the 4 C's I mentioned above (common sense, consistency, content and confidence). and it is certainly not in the interest of lazybones(like me you'll say! hehe!). So, I am going to show you HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM HOME without a blog.

• Join the following social Networking sites that pay:

1. MYLOT.COM. Click Here for the review of the site.
2. YUWIE.COM - Pays to post and upload pictures.
3. YOUTAZ.COM-pays to write and post videos.

• Join PTC(Paid To Click) sites :These are sites which pay their members when they click certain amount of advertisements and visit the webpage for certain amount of time. Some pay referral income, which is a good money earner. You can even buy referrals who will click ads under you and earn you money while earning for themselves. You can find many PTCs by searching. Beware, most of them are scams.

• Join paid to read email sites :These sites pay upto 2 cents to read emails delivered to your mailbox. You select the topics of which emails you want to read. The most popular one internationally is donkeymails.com. For Indians, rupeemail.com really pays.
  

• Join paid to perform tasks sites:There are many get paid to sites which pay to sign up, pay to shop online, some pay to test products, some to drive a car, some to take snaps, some pay to read text messages on your cell phone and many other things to do. Some sites known worldwide are gptreasure.com
  

• TAKE Online Surveys - This can make easy money by taking simple online surveys, some survey recruitment companies pay well for product surveys. Ciao.com is the best online survey site which pays its members handsomely. The UK site of Ciao Surveys even pays some amount for writing product reviews.
  

• Sell Products : You can create your digital products and sell them on the internet via forums like Site point and Digital point. For example you can create an informative e-book and sell it online to earn big bucks. You can even make money by selling your things on sites like Ebay.com. You can sell your stuff such as books, old collectibles, DVD’s, etc. You can also try other sites that help facilitate selling books such as BookHolders.

• Freelance Writing: Sarah does a lot of freelance writing. You can read her article on freelance writing here Tips for starting a freelance career. As Sarah also suggested that there are sites looking for bloggers and writers. Some of them are digitalpoint.com, problogger.com and more. You can get more info on her blog.
  

• Get paid to Upload Files:-Get paid upload your files and posting your links in worldwide forums. You get paid $10 per 10000 US downloads of your file. Surely its a passive mode of money and to make money from home.
  

Following sites pay you to upload files:
1.Ziddu.com
2.Bizhat.com
3.Netload.in
4. Uploadjockey.com

• Get paid to surf:The article is here.
  

• Get paid to search:The article is here.
  

This post required a lot of hardwork and research. I feel that this list is just comprehensive one and think that you could suggest us some more methods. If so, please let us know. Please comment on this post how to make money from home?

Article writing-Another great source for genuine traffic

Writing articles for sites like Ezinearticles and Isnare is a great way to help create traffic to your website. I mentioned them last month in the College kid's cool Traffic Tips. You can check it here. I want you people to go to the tips and complete a potential conversation waiting for you since days.

Sites like ezinearticles.com don't pay anything to you for the article, however they do allow you to include quite a bit of self promotion down the bottom of the piece that you submit to them.

Its better that you don't abuse the actual content you submit to them filling it with your links. They simply won't allow the piece to be published if you go against their terms of service. You are allowed to place your links at the bottom of your article as your signature. I guess each of those readers will be certainly interested in the topic you write about, and they will surely see the links to your sites at the bottom. Who knows but they could end up being your regular visitors.

Certainly a great idea if you are looking to build long term traffic, and quality links to your website. I am thinking of submiting some of my articles from this blog to them, and so I require your help. Please suggest me the articles from this blog for the same.

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