Friday, May 22, 2015

Best Traffic Exchanges 2015

I do not want to follow anybody to get followed back, therefore I am leaving out places like Twiends. Most people on those places will unfollow you, and they are fake traffic anyway. One thing you will realize if you ever actually use Twitter is that there is no way to follow more than 30-50 people and actually keep up.

Originally I wanted 100k followers and I got them, but I ended up using bot (which no longer works as Twitter changed ToS and API) and it ended up with me having to follow nearly as many people. That makes that Twitter account utterly worthless.

So what I am going to list here is low quality/fake traffic. Its also not something for your main account as there is always chance that you will mess up and lose your account.

How To Get Your Own Affiliates and Referrals

There are two main reasons internet marketers who fail to make money (which is something like 99%) remain unsuccessful. And those are: quality converting traffic and motivated skilled affiliates. Traffic is far more complex issue that I will address in another article, so in this one we will concentrate on affiliates.

Main problems with affiliating are trust and ignorance. If you are brand new on the scene nobody will trust you, we ALL went through that period, nobody got born a guru, and as you are unknown your target market will have to be people who are willing to take a chance on you, most of which will be ignorant about what you are doing and why you are doing it.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

24 Of The Most Popular Business Books In 2015 Summarized In One Sentence Each

This is a list of books you perhaps did not have opportunity to read yet, but that you will see mentioned again and again, many times over, in business magazine articles, blog articles and even other books. Are they any good? Well, some are. Some, made me laugh, or zone out.

Once you've read them you'll realize that there is basically just one strong idea each of these books tries to get across.

Perhaps buy and read ones that you think you will like, but if you do not, at least now you will know what basic idea of each book is. To me, most of it is common sense, and I actually read all of these, but it appears that to a lot of people things are not as obvious as they would benefit greatly from reading these books in entirety.

Monday, May 18, 2015

NASA Wants To Give YOU 2.25 Million Dollars (3D Printed Habitat Challenge)

NASA Wants Your Help Figuring Out How to Build Space Habitats

This is a real competition, by real NASA and the America Makes, and it is open right now. Competition is split into two levels, and set for September 26th and 27th 2015.

More info:

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Best Paid To Click (PTC) Programs 2015

PTC programs basically pay you to see ads. If you just randomly go around joining PTC programs you are going to waste lot of your time and get nothing to show for it. YouTube is full of people trying to promote various programs that they themselves never succeeded with just so that they will get commission.

I am going to be very upfront and tell you that if you go for PTC just to make quick cash, you are wasting your time. Honestly, go to Fiverr.com instead and look at what other people are offering, pick things you think you can do, and you’ll make more than any PTC will give you if you do not take advantage of offered affiliate programs.

There are two main reasons to why I suggest PTC programs I will name in this article to people. First reason is that there is a value in experience gained by trying things personally. If I was just to describe process to you as ‘well, you just click and they pay you’, it would be too oversimplified, yet it is what it is. Second reason is that if you do this my way, you will gain experience at easiest form of affiliate marketing in existence, one that does not require your affiliates to spend ANY money. Practicing gaining affiliates for these programs will make you some money, but more importantly it will teach you skills that directly transfer to more complicated forms of affiliate marketing.

Easiest Way To Mine Bitcoin

To fully explain Bitcoin Mining would be technical article most people would not get in the end anyway. So what I will attempt to do here in this article is two things. First give you a basic idea of what Bitcoin Mining is, and then explain very simple way to do it on a Microsoft Windows or Linux. If you own a Mac, buy actual computer that is not a toy.

This is a simple, non technical, detailed explanation that you can get started with right now:

9 Ways To Get Your First Bitcoins

This is probably the second most asked question about Bitcoin, right after ‘What is Bitcoin?’

1. Bitcoin Faucets. This is the simplest way of obtaining your first Satoshis (1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC it is smallest unit of Bitcoin currency that can be sent) . You are not going to get rich off of faucets, but you might get enough to buy something small. There are literally hundreds of faucets out there, funded by donations from people, but there are at least tens of thousands of users and so amounts given out are really tiny. On top of that most faucets show annoying amount of advertisements and unless you have unlimited time on your hands, nothing better to do and unlimited bandwidth (as those ads will kill it) you are far better off with one of other methods.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

11 Free Online Courses For Internet Marketers

Below is a list of 11 free online courses which might be of interest to you if you have any interest at all in internet marketing:


TSU is a SCAM and here is why (you will NOT make money on TSU)

About twelve months ago, somewhere in mid 2014, I wrote few articles about why, mathematically and socially, TSU, an alternative to Facebook, was most likely going to fail. And as of few months ago, gradually, number of folks who keep trying to promote TSU fell over 99%.

This will be a lengthy article, I will explain how its supposed to work, how it actually works and why you will NEVER get minimum payout of $100. Therefore, it is a scam as TSU founders are well aware that mathematically their scheme is basically a pyramid scheme where only they can make money.

Here is how TSU is supposed to work:

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Google AdSense Leak

Before we get into anything else, I'll post Google's denial of this. This is statement Google sent to bunch of tech ezines:

This description of our AdSense policy enforcement process is a complete fiction. The color-coding and ‘extreme quality control’ programs the author describes don’t exist.

Our teams and automated systems work around the clock to stop bad actors and protect our publishers, advertisers, and users.


I do believe in always hearing both sides of the story, but that's just weak response considering the accusations.

Accusation:

8 Best Google AdSense Alternatives (May 2015)

Fact is that Google as a company has probably one of most unfriendly and unreachable customer support teams on internet. If your AdSense account results in message:

“Your Google Adsense account has been disabled or temporarily banned”. 

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

102 Inspirational Quotes To Keep You Going

1. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. -Kevin Kruse

2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

Make Money By Shortening Links

Upfront I feel that I should mention that while I tested dozen different services over past few years, I currently opt to not use them. I will explain why, and I will also point you to a couple of the best ones should you choose to use them anyway.

URL shortener is service that masks your links and generally allows you to see how many times that specific link was clicked. Some offer more options and better click tracking.. Free ones like bit.ly or goo.gl do not do anything but send person who clicked to intended destination. URL shorteners that pay you for using them force ads on your traffic first.


Monday, May 11, 2015

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Saturday, May 9, 2015

How To Change Label (Category) Name In Blogger

For some really strange reason Blogger does not allow you to simply rename label. I always considered that one of most basic functions in Wordpress. However, there is a workaround, which Google calls simple, and which I disagree with as simple would be just letting us rename the label directly.

Anyway, here is how to do it:

Friday, May 8, 2015

First Editorial On New Site

For couple of years now I have been trying to streamline and reduce number of websites/domains I own. Reason is probably obvious to anyone who has been making money online for past two decades. Times changed.

In late 1990's the way to make big bucks was to simply have as many different domains as possible. Lots of them with no more than 5 pages. That was before blogs, but you can consider them basically blogs with 5 posts, never updated, never changed.

Million search engine updates later, and the way internet functions is very much different now. Instead of going to old, reliable page to get information, people expect constantly updated and new information as legitimate source. That does not mean that old page with good article on it will no longer get hits, because it will, especially if it keeps being linked to, but it does mean that what gets shown to people tends to be newest information for selected keywords.

Static websites get lot less traffic now and its all about blogs. Therefore I am moving number of articles that are still applicable, and some that will be after minor rewrites, to this blog, as part of larger streamlining project.

That means that you might be going to one of 30-40 of my old domains (until they expire, 12-24 months from now), and will be redirected here instead. Old content will no longer be available on those domains. If its still applicable, it will be reposted here, probably soon. If its not, then its gone. If it really matters, then you can try to use something like "the way back machine" (just Google that) to see if they have it.

For now, this will be simply moved to Google Blogger, then it will take zenwealthnow.com custom domain, and then, depending on how things go it might either just stay on Blogger (as that means free hosting, and self hosting some 1700 sites like I am doing now, most of which barely earn what it costs me to run them, just makes no sense any longer and neither does $10 per domain name when they can be all merged down to maybe 20) or moved to Wordpress.

There might be a while between updates as I am currently busy dealing with selling off most of these domains I've been holding for past 10 years for no good reason. Domaineering changed as well, and its far too much hassle for too little return to flip domains in bulk these days.

So, make sure to subscribe/follow or whatever Blogger has as options as you will probably want to be aware of new posts on this blog. As usual, stuff I post here 100% free is stuff that others try to sell you in WSO's and ebooks.  No filler, just actionable reality.