The ShoeMoney System Review
So, If you haven’t heard of it yet, Shoemoney have just started up a new product called The Shoemoney System. This is a course that goes over 12 months and the goal is to learn how to make a living on the internet. (with affiliate marketing)
So, Shoemoney is a big name, and he have earned a lot of money on the net, so this should be a great product, right? Well, the thing is that the system is really expensive, in total i costs $2 364. ($197 per month)
Well, I figured out that since he offered a 60 days money back guarantee I diden’t have anything to lose, so I’m currently one of 500 “students” that are taking this course. Shoemoney decided to not take more then 500 students, but you can leave your name on a waiting list if you wish to get contacted when more space are avaliable.
The course is based on video. Each 3 or 4 day he will release a new video. When I first logged in, there wasen’t really any content. Well, there was one video, telling me how to create an Gmail-account. Wow!
Today he released a new video, where he talks about affiliate marketing at a very basic plan. He basically tells you what affiliate marking is. So, still nothing useful.
I can see that the next video will be telling me how to create an affiliate account, and the next one there after will be one called “Behind the Scenes at Epic Advertising/AZN Network”. So basically there will not be any content the next week that I will learn something from.
The third video coming is called “Completing an Affiliate Offer”, and that might be interesting.
What happened to the $2500 in free advertising coupons?
Well, you don’t get the coupons to start with. He said that he will give out the coupons after he have talked about a advertising program. I do actually understand this, since if he was giving out the coupons to start with, people could have just used them, and the used the money back guarantee.
For beginners only?
So far it looks like this system is for people that haven’t done anything with affiliate marketing or anything online before, and it might not be worth the money from my side. I will wait a couple more weeks before I decide if I will use my money back guarantee or not.
Sold my Soul – Joined PayPerPost
Update 1. mai 2008: I are no longer using PPP services. I want my PR!
As I’m looking after ways to monetize this blog, getting paid to do reviews are a natural way to make money. Today VikingBlogger.com finally got approved at PayPerPost. Long story short they provide bloggers with reviews, where they pay them (the bloggers) between $5-$200 per review. (Usually in the $10 range)
There are several houndreds of offers avalible to get rewied, but you can’t pick them all. The advertisers that makes the offers can set some terms which your blog have to meet. The most used one is page rank. If you don’t have x high page rank you don’t get paid to review the product.
Since VikingBlogger.com don’t have a page rank yet I’m not looking on a high income stream from PayPerPost yet, but it might get alright with time. And don’t fear, I’m not going to fill this blog up with paid reviews of all sorts. If I’m doing a review it’s going to be something that has to do with the theme of the blog, or something that I’m really interested in. (ex. phones)
$20 sign-up bonus (kinda)
When you get your blog approved you got at least one offer avaliable for you, and thats PayPerPost themself. Write a little “I joined PayPerPost” post at your blog, and get paid $20 doing so. (Like I am now!)
Are you selling reviews on your blog? Thoughts?
TNX Just Made Link Building Easy And Affordable
TNX.net is a gem on the Internet that everybody should know about. Basically it’s at text link selling program, where you can buy and sell text links. You earn so called TNX-points if you use their program on your site. With this points you can either sell them and earn money or use them to put your links on other sites. TNX got a whooping 43378 users and 32100329 links in their system at the moment.
Buy Cheap Text Links
In my opinion the best part about this program is the solution to buy text links. You could end up getting several thousand links for only $10. To test out their system I added $10 to my account, and paid with PayPal. You might have to wait up to 24 hours before those founds are available on your account, but I only waited about half an hour. Still, this possess should be automatic, and hopefully it will be soon.
It’s pretty easy to start an campaign. Firstly you choose which category you want your links to be placed in, then you choose the geo targeting and lastly you choose how many Yahoo backlinks and what PageRank the sites should have. The higher PR the page has the more you have to pay for each link. What category you choose will also determine the price of each link.
Screenshot of the campaign window. (Click to view full size)
Example; If a page has PR0 you can buy 10.000 links for 10.000 points which equals $13.40 per month. If you want your link on a higher PR page it gets more expensive. For the same amount you get could 50 links on pages with PR3. If the site has a high number of yahoo backlinks that will also make the price higher.
The Link Generator
When you have done the steps above it gets more interesting. It’s time to choose your keywords! On this step I recommend you to use the Advanced (with generator) function. You will find it in the menu. Here you can generate loads of random links. You only fill in the words/sentences you would like to use, and the generator will randomly make different links. This is a great way to do it, since it doesn’t look right to Google if your site suddenly gets thousands of links pointing to your site with the same anchor text.
Screenshot of the linkgenerator. (Click to view full size)
When you have filled in your keywords the generator will make many different link solution, and you can choose which one to use. When your happy with your selection add them all to cart. On step 3 which are the last step you decide how many links you want, and what kind of sites to place them on. (PR, backlinks and category) What I miss on this step is the actually price you have to pay for them, I couldn’t find that anywhere. Anyway, after you have decided how many links you want, you send in your request, and hopefully it gets approved. My first campaign actually didn’t get approved with the following reason:
“Ads link to pages that do not contain any information related to the keyword”.
The keywords I used where “monetizing” and “Make Money Online”, and a couple other. (Actually don’t remember, and theres no option to go back and re-edit the campaign) Anyway – they checked the campaign pretty fast (about half an hour) and i guess it’s a good thing that they are strict when it comes to keyword relevance (for you as a webmaster), but I don’t understand why my campaign wasn’t approved. I guess I have to try again. 
So, there you have it. The best way to get knowledge about the power in this system is to try it yourself. Make an account now.
Get 5.000 Points For Free
TNX are running an special promotion where you get 2.000 points for free just for signing up, and 5.000 points if you sign up one of your sites, and use their program. The only thing you need to do is sign up, and post your TNX ID in this DP thread.
How To Make Money With TNX
You can of course not only advertise with TNX, you can also sell links on your site, which will generate money for you. The thing is, you don’t sell sitewide links, you sell links on each page you got. If you have a lot of pages this could mean easy money for you. You can even choose which links to place on your site, making it really targeted, and even a resource to your visitors. If you don’t have a lot of high PR pages you will not earn a lot, but what you could do is use the points you earn to buy links on other sites pointing to different pages on your site, making them higher PR and even help you rise in the serps. Since I’m not going to sell links on VikingBlogger.com (yet) I haven’t tried their webmaster system, but it looks simple enough. Just copy paste a code-snippet to your site. The only requirement your site has to meet are the following:
- Your site can not be hosted on server without PHP and/or Perl support.
- Your site cannot be banned by Google, and have to be indexed.
How Much Could I Earn?
An easy way to find out how much you could earn selling links on your site is to use their income calculator located in the left sidebar on their front page.
Here you choose how many pages you got (not sites, but page aka sub-pages) and what PR those pages got.
Sure, the numbers I have used are not real for my site, but you get the drift. PR0 pages are almost not worth a thing, while higher PR pages are worth quite a bit. Try it yourself and check how much you could earn!
Lifetime Referral Program
When you refer webmasters to TNX, you get 13.3% of all the points they earn. You will also earn 5% of all spendings your referred advertisers do. This commission is for lifetime, so start sending people to TNX now!
This is a paid review. The fact that I got paid to write this post does not affect my opinion on the program. Order a review of your site/product today!
