What's the earning potential of your website? With CyberWyre's WebSite Value Calculator you can quickly find the potential monthly value of any website by typing in its url.
The calculator shows Alexa and Google page rank, back links and suggested ways to increase the site's income.
This site is valued at at $58 a month. I guess the new Porsche is going to have to wait. CyberWyre offered some useful links on text advertising and affiliate programs to help me make more more money online with its calculation.
By comparison, MSNBC.com is valued at $5,584,884 a month! If your site is making that much a month you probably don't need any hints on how to make more. Heck, you should write a book and tell the rest of us how you did it.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Review: Suite101-Not Worth Your Time
Suite101.com is another revenue sharing, paid-to-write site (PTW), similar to Gather and Helium. However, the terms of agreement at Suite101 so favor the company and deprive writers of revenue I’m giving it a big thumbs down.
These PTW sites work by placing ads on the pages and sharing whatever revenue is generated with the authors. The exact percentage is often hard to determine, but it definitely favors the website owners. The real advantage to a blogger is that by posting material on multiple sites you can drive traffic to your own site.
And that is where the fault in Suite101 lies. Other sites allow duplicate posting. You can post a article about Tom Cruise’s latest movie on your website, Gather, Helium, Xomba, Hub Pages and Thisisby. Suite101 demands exclusive writes to all your content and does not except previously published material.
For exclusive rights to original material, they pay $1.50 per thousand page views. One writer posting on the sites forum said he had 100 articles that received 34,000 page views in a month. Fifty-dollars a month for all that work. Ridiculous! Had he sold those articles to Associated Content, he would have received anywhere from $4 to $50 a piece. AC also pays a performance bonus of $1.50 per thousand page views in addition to the upfront pay.
I recommended selling non-exclusive rights to AC, then posting the same article to to Hub Pages and Xomba. Both those sites alternate showing Google Adsense ads with their account code and yours. The fairest revenue sharing model for making money writing online. I wrote this article on Associated Content for Hub Pages. It has received 193 page views with my Adsense account code, making $2.50. That's about $10 a thousand views for comparison.Sunday, November 4, 2007
Make Money With A Personal Quest
If you are serious about making money online, it won't take you long to figure out you need your own Website or blog. The next step is figuring out what your site is going to be about. And that's where it gets tricky. Name an idea and there's a good chance that at a thousand people have put one up already.
So what's a would-be blogger to do? While, you could go head and start your site with the idea that building a reputation that can compete with the top sites in your niche is going to be a long hard slog without much monetary payout in the beginning. On the other hand, you can come up with an original idea with little or any competition.
But what, in this age of hundreds-of-millions of websites could possibly be original enough to draw hordes of visitors to your site and make you rich, or, at least able to afford a movie and popcorn on the weekend? The answer -- a quest, your own personal quest. Your journey doesn't need to be epic to attract a huge following.
In 2004, Julie Powell, decided to work out her frustrations with life's disappointments by making every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year. Her blog about the undertaking quickly developed a huge cult following.
Eventually she turned it into the best selling book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Powell doubled-dipped on her success in 2006 when the paperback version titled Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously hit the racks.
Also in 2006, Powell won a Blooker, a prize for bloggers who have turned their blogs into books. So far, her books have sold over a 100,000 copies. Build a popular quest blog, and it can translate into a built in readership for a book farther on down the road.
Powell didn't take on anything of epic proportions; she wasn't climbing Mount Everest, swimming the English Channel or sailing around the world. And you don't need to either. Maybe your quest is to break 90 at golf, write a screenplay, or lose 50 pounds while getting in the best shape of your life.
People are fascinated by other people's attempt to accomplish something. Blog about your quest a regular basis and who knows, you might just win the next Blooker prize.
So what's a would-be blogger to do? While, you could go head and start your site with the idea that building a reputation that can compete with the top sites in your niche is going to be a long hard slog without much monetary payout in the beginning. On the other hand, you can come up with an original idea with little or any competition.
But what, in this age of hundreds-of-millions of websites could possibly be original enough to draw hordes of visitors to your site and make you rich, or, at least able to afford a movie and popcorn on the weekend? The answer -- a quest, your own personal quest. Your journey doesn't need to be epic to attract a huge following.
In 2004, Julie Powell, decided to work out her frustrations with life's disappointments by making every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year. Her blog about the undertaking quickly developed a huge cult following.
Eventually she turned it into the best selling book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Powell doubled-dipped on her success in 2006 when the paperback version titled Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously hit the racks.
Also in 2006, Powell won a Blooker, a prize for bloggers who have turned their blogs into books. So far, her books have sold over a 100,000 copies. Build a popular quest blog, and it can translate into a built in readership for a book farther on down the road.
Powell didn't take on anything of epic proportions; she wasn't climbing Mount Everest, swimming the English Channel or sailing around the world. And you don't need to either. Maybe your quest is to break 90 at golf, write a screenplay, or lose 50 pounds while getting in the best shape of your life.
People are fascinated by other people's attempt to accomplish something. Blog about your quest a regular basis and who knows, you might just win the next Blooker prize.
Thisisby--Paid to write and comment site
A friend recommended I sign up for Thisisby and post my articles. It looks like a great place to get paid not only for writing but commenting on other people's writing.
Members are paid 50 percent of the ad revenue their stories generate, and people who comment get 10 percent of ad money. It is explained this way in the FAQ section:
Basically a goodness is the same as a vote that someone likes what you wrote. Thisby allows links in your writing so you could drive traffic to your own site by linking to it. In your profile you can also put a link to your Web site in, so if people like what you write and check you out, they'll probably be interested enough to click your link.
Just about everything is allowed, poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
I've posted one article so far. I'll post my earnings every month.
You can sign up here.
Members are paid 50 percent of the ad revenue their stories generate, and people who comment get 10 percent of ad money. It is explained this way in the FAQ section:
How do I get paid?
Every day, we credit half of all the money we earn from ad revenue to our writers. Posts earn a share of that money based on the current goodness of the post relative to the current goodness of all the posts. If, at the end of a month, you have accrued $25 or more, we will contact you so we can pay you.
Huh?
For example, say the site earns $40 in a day. $20 of that money goes to the writers. If you write one post and it earns 250 goodness that day, and all the posts together earn 1000 goodness that day, then you earn $5.
Basically a goodness is the same as a vote that someone likes what you wrote. Thisby allows links in your writing so you could drive traffic to your own site by linking to it. In your profile you can also put a link to your Web site in, so if people like what you write and check you out, they'll probably be interested enough to click your link.
Just about everything is allowed, poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
I've posted one article so far. I'll post my earnings every month.
You can sign up here.
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