Real People Making Real Money Online
Well who would have thought it, week 2 of the weekly round up video…
Messed about with this one a little bit as it was a bit windy outside today, I think next week I’ll go on location and take you to lunch
If you want me to talk about anything in particular just let me know before friday morning
Here we have another new feature, a weekly round up video. In these videos i’ll discuss happenings in the forums, ideas for making money and anything else I can think of.
In this first videos I talk about how I promote my sites, draw your attention to a couple of inspirational threads, setting up businesses and talk about a few other things. The video is 10 minutes long so grab a coffee.
Are sites like this the future of Site promotion?
It’s safe to say that there are certain tasks that most of us hate. For the majority I suspect that that task is site promotion.
however there are alternatives, outsource to remote workers or find tools that will do the tasks for you.
There are 2 tools that I have been testing for the past few months that are providing me with great results. The thing I really like about them is that they both allow you to start with a free account and “work your passage” what I mean by that is that in return for you providing them with resources the allow you to use the system. One distributes your articles to hundreds of quality article directories which have lots of back links pointing at them. The other distributes your bookmarks to 17 bookmarking sites without you lifting a finger.
Let me explain more.
The first tool is EzArticleLink.
EzArticleLink is a unique article distribution service. There are 2 parts to it , firstly you add an article directory to the back end of some of your sites, for this I use old sites that are of little use to me. EAL will post articles from other members to these sites (you can monetize these). In return for doing this you can then submit articles for your main sites which are then posted to other peoples directories.
Additionally for every article you post you get 100 additional anchor text links if you are a paid member.
You need to add spun articles but the service has it’s own in-house article spinners who do an excellent job.
Free members get 100-200 distributions per article and paid members (currently $29) get 200-300.
One side effect I’ve noticed is that the sites I’ve added the directories to are starting to perform slightly better. Most probably due to the back link that EzArticleLinks provide to ensure that Google indexes the directories regularly. I’ve added 20 directories which gives me unlimited article distribution for my other sites so If I can earn $1 a month from each of these directories I will have covered my monthly fee 
In summary:
Read More about EzArticleLink…
The next tool I like is Socialadr.
Socialadr also has a free and paid business model. The service provides back links to your site from social bookmarking sites. Free members earn credits by setting up accounts (Takes about 1 hour) and then logging in everyday and pressing a button which adds bookmarks to the sites for free members. It takes less than 5 minutes per day to do this.
If you are like me and are basically lazy and don’t want to press any buttons then the paid service is for you. You just need to set up the bookmarks you want distributed and then sit back and all the work is done for you. The sum total of your work is opening the email that tells you what has been distributed.
Read more about SocialAdr
To have outsourcers do this work for you would cost a lot more than these services charge. The results I am starting to see means that these are no brainers. You can use them for free until they pay for themselves then upgrade to paid status.