My Escapades with MYLOT a Paid to Post site

In line with this Asia Earthquake where most of internet connections were affected and there are some inaccessible sites that I need to access for my Affiliate Programs plans , I gave it a rest trying and just surf the net on other ways to make money on line. I discovered Mylot a paid to post website where members are paid monthly for posting topics and responding on topics posted on the site. I don’t believe it, but through research and reading about Mylot website I found out that they are really paying members and I talked to some of the members too and it was confirmed they get paid. Some of them have 4000 plus posts on different topics, well one could not stay that long and post that much if not get paid. I joined and start posting to see what I will get. My goal on the first day that I joined is 100 posts but I end up having 70 posts only, because I also replied to almost all people who respond to my posts even without additional points to show my appreciation. I started posting at 3am and finished my 70^th post at 2am next day and I decide to stand up and retire because I already have backaches and I need to sleep.

That escapade brought me $0.83. Compared with my Adsense site, which took me a month to reach $6, that $0.83 dollars for almost 24 hrs of posting topics is much better. Although in Adsense if coupled with right marketing strategies in driving traffic on your website, it has more revenue potentials even while you sleep than any pay to post sites.

In paid to post, its very time consuming and you have to post all the time to earn. Well I stop it for a while to attend to my website creation and Affiliate Program plans but I’ll do paid to post once in a while because it’s a good site to brainstorm with people with different views and posting your own 2 cents plus it’s a good place to promote your own website and get traffic. You could not get rich on Pay to Post sites but you could earn few pennies but there are members there who claimed that through constant postings and referrals they could earn up to $1000 . I wonder how much time they put up posting there. Some made $3 in 3 months and some have $6 in only a matter of days. It requires a lot of time and those who have the time to spare visit the site and earn from there and gain new friends. Why just surf the net? Much better get paid for your opinions if you have a lot of free time.

There are really a lot of ways to earn on-line but you need to find out which will work for you and stick with it until you earn the big bucks no matter how much time is required. That experience with paid to post site is not wasted I have $0.83 to start with and will increase if I post there once in a while. One good things is that I was able to write a blog about it sharing my experience with you. This is one of those experiments I did on how to earn on-line.

Try your luck with Mylot it’s a good way to meet people and earn a few pennies. I still keep my account at Mylot and plan to post there at least 10 posts a day which will not prevent me from doing other things that I need to get done venturing into my IM plans and goals. I could say it’s a good, fun and exciting experience. Its not a waste of time to try it but still keep your priorities.

Many enterprises found themselves paralyzed without the Internet.

Internet Connection is too slow now and having problems so I just read the news and do whatever is available now.....

Earthquake knocks Asia back to phone age, and beyond

By Seth Mydans

Published: December 27, 2006

BANGKOK: It was a tsunami for the digital age, a collapse of the virtual world that radiated through much of Asia and beyond after an undersea earthquake late Tuesday off the coast of Taiwan.

People woke Wednesday to find themselves without e-mail or the Internet and, in some cases, without telephone connections, cut off from the real world around them.

The earthquake ruptured two of the undersea cables that are part of a communications fretwork that circles the globe.

Coming on the second anniversary of the Asian tsunami that took 230,000 lives, it was a reminder of the world's increasing dependence on communications technology. Financial companies and technology services suffered most directly, with banking and securities trading all but crippled. Operations from travel agencies to newspapers to schools struggled to maintain their routines.

"You don't realize until you miss it how much you rely heavily on technology," said Andrew Clarke, a sales trader in Hong Kong. "Stuff you took for granted has been taken away and you realize, 'Ah, back to the old way, using mobiles'" — an old way that itself is not so old.

In this time of rapid change, it is easy to forget how quickly innovations have become necessities, from mobile phones to the Internet to e-mail to instant messaging on both the computer and telephone.

"I'm completely dependent on the Internet," said Robert Halliday, an American writer based in Bangkok. "If the Internet goes down for half a day people can just stay in bed in terms of getting any work done."

On Wednesday he was stymied in trying to get information for a review he was writing of a Romanian DVD. It takes a moment to realize what a task that would have been just a few years ago.

Indeed, the words "instant" seems to have lost some of its edge. It has become the norm, and anything else seems agonizingly slow. The word "global" has shrunk to the size of a computer screen.

When Halliday's mother, a woman in her 80s, wants to reach him, she taps an instant message into her telephone from the United States. "All of a sudden," he said, "there's a message on the phone, 'Oh, you should be here, the azaleas are out.'"

Without e-mail, Ken Streutker, a Dutch-Canadian actor and producer in Thailand, had no way to arrange an airport meeting with a friend who was flying in to Bangkok.

"Now I'll have to stand there at the airport with the traditional handwritten sign and hope that someone notices," he said.

Many enterprises found themselves paralyzed without the Internet.

In Beijing, Wang Yifei, an independent television producer, sent instant telephone messages when her Internet connection was down."I had a horrible day," she said. "I've been complaining about this all day. This high-tech world of ours. It didn't happen in the old days. In the end I can't do anything."

In Manila, Abe Olandres, who owns and runs a Web-hosting company, just about gave up. He said he planned to try a Wi-Fi hot spot in a coffee shop after struggling at the office all day. "This is killing me," he said. For his customers, it may have been worse. When their service went down, they tried to reach the help desk, but it was down, too.

In Hong Kong, Niall Phelan, the creative director of APV, a media production company based there, said he usually received about 300 e-mails a day. On Wednesday, he said, he got none. Without e-mail, he was back to the old-fashioned way of communicating, by telephone, which greatly multiplied his work. "Usually, one e-mail is cc'd to lots of people," he said. "But, with calling, you have to contact all six involved people individually." With their work day disrupted, he said, "Most people I spoke to in Hong Kong today are just twiddling their thumbs." He made the best of it.

"What I did today was eight hours of filing," he joked. "I had a year's worth of paperwork. If the Internet is still down tomorrow, maybe I will finish it."

Even without the help of technology, work seems to have its own momentum.

Carolyn Mison-Smith, director of a language center in Singapore, found in the communications crash a concrete demonstration of the interconnectedness of the world.

"Cables all over the seabed," she said. "I don't know if your average dude appreciates that fact."

"Who puts them there and how long does it take and how many kilometers is it?" she said. "If they've got cords going all over the seabed I think that's fascinating. Who designs it all, who's the engineer that designs it and who are the laborers who go down and do that?"

My Questions and Experiments

I’m in limbo right now and stuck in $5 earnings after a month at IM and have a little traffic especially this last 2 weeks. I’m trying to find out what went wrong or what I need to do to duplicate or multiply that $5 I made. I know I achieved that $5 from socialbookmarking and posting on my blogs, but how can I multiply that? That is my big question now. I haven’t made a cent for 2 weeks now. I’ve been reading e-books (have downloaded quite a few free ebooks) and then visiting forums for tips and information. I don’t know where to focus now.

I am not a writer; I’m still learning and trying to write. Have visited writers’ forum and read e-books. Right now I don’t know what topic to write and end up writing this new blog. I’m planning to write about the products I want to sell as an affiliate. There are a lot of questions in my mind, most of them are about driving traffic to my website and I’m still doing a lot of experiments to find the answers.

These are some of the questions and experiments I did and still doing while I haven’t figure out what to do next.

• How about buying keyword ads on PPC Search Engine?
• How does this work? I’ve read about Miva.com in an e-book but when I visited forums, and read reviews on Miva.com which is formerly Findwhat (I wonder why they change their name) there are a lot of IM’ers who encountered problems having insignificant traffic from torrent sites and encountering click frauds. I’m still new and still haven’t experiment on this and don’t know if I will try this one.

• Will Banner Exchange Program drive traffic to my site?
• I register in a free exchange banner program and I didn’t see any drastic change in my traffic as of now and what is annoying me is that my site is a health related site and the banner being posted in my site are mostly not health related. I guess that is one disadvantage of banner exchange program, you have no control of the banner Ads that will appear on your own site. I have not removed the banner and still giving it sometime to drive traffic to my site and besides I cannot connect to my server now to edit my website, so I let the banner sit there for a while and see if it will work wonders in driving traffic to my site.
  

• Regarding Affiliate Programs, is there any other reliable affiliate networks than Clickbank? My country is not included in the allowed country to register in Clickbank, so what are my options?
• I have registered in Paydot.com. but their site is too slow, I don’t know if it has something to do with their server, but I still signed in and get some products as an affiliate there but haven’t made any sales yet. Commission Junction and Linkshare are highly recommended too, so I am planning to join there.
  

• Another Affiliates Program issues I have is:
• Do I need my own website to promote as an affiliate? I am on a tight budget now, and been thinking to create a sub domain on my health related domain but will it look good? Having a health related root domain and the sub domain will be about the products from Affiliate Programs. I’m still resolving this or might consider a blogsite to start with but of course I prefer my ownwebpage.com domain.
  

• Of course, my ongoing experiment is writing articles and to submit them to some of the respected article directories out there. Do I need an article auto submitter software? Well, I need to answer that if I already have 10 or more articles composed.

There are times I’m having this negative feeling and just stare on my computer and wondering what to do next to increase this $5 I have right now. I’ve been a victim of spammers too (so this is included in IM world.). Oh well, it’s been a month now and some have been here in IM for years before enjoying the fruits of their labor. It is true success will not happen overnight and there are a lot of work and experimentations to do but I do hope to find the answers and see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Social Bookmarking: Drive Traffic to Your Website

Social bookmarking was introduced to me through a forum. Just what I said before, read forums and ask people around here in the net who have the same interest or field as yours and there are people who are willing to share their knowledge.

I included Social bookmarking icons at the bottom of my blogs here even on the very first time I created this blog site. My mistake is that I did not fully utilized these websites or familiarize my self on how to use these social bookmarking tools until I was reminded again by another marketer a few days ago about the power of Social bookmarking in driving traffic to your web.

I only explore Stumbleupon before and it increased my page impression and clicks from 1 to 21 clicks as of this writing. I was very excited at first to see that improvement but I get depressed lately because the traffic and clicks slow down so I stopped doing it for a while. I never realized that I have to repeat what I have done in Stumbleupon in other Social bookmarking sites every time I have a new post in my blogs or in my website.

This is the advice from one of the marketers I met and reminded me of the power of Social bookmarking. This is exactly how the advice was written for me, he wrote it as a post and I guess he wants to make it public to help new marketers like me so I’m sharing it with you.

If you want traffic for your blog within hours or minutes try the following:
1. Submit your blog posts to newsvine, tailrank and reddit. Do this every time you have a new post
2. Claim your blog in Technorati.
3. Submit to as many blog directories as you could

Utilize the power of Social bookmarking and make social connections with other like-minded users and create massive back links to your website.

Article Writing: The Key to Drive Traffic to Your Website

After creating this blog account, which is my first publishing in the internet sharing my thoughts and journey, I started working on my own website and uploaded it. I created a website about Asthma, my mother and I are both asthmatics and I found it useful to research more about it and share it to people.

I get depressed driving traffic in my website after uploading it for almost 2 weeks now. I don’t want to quit since this is something I love to do and what I love most about it, is that I can do this at home. Although I have all the passion for this, there are times I‘m in doubt if I really have a place in this IM. For days I’ve been reading and researching on how to maximize my earnings. I’ve been visiting forums and asking people who have succeeded in this Internet Marketing. I got positive inputs from the forum I got into and found out that most marketers have experienced being on this stage when they have less traffic and no income at all. Some quit before they could realize the fruits of their labor.

I’ve learned that one way to drive traffic to your website is through Article Writing and submit it to Article Directories with back links to your website. Now that’s the problem, I’m not a writer by nature and English is just my second language. Could I do it? Another problem (which works in my advantage) is that I want to do it; I want to write articles even if I don’t have the experience and not a writer at all. So I tried researching on “how to write articles”, “how to start being a freelance writer” etc... In the morning, I even pray in front of my PC, for me to acquire knowledge and meet people who could guide me on this.

I was blessed I met Marketers who are willing to share their knowledge and help aspiring Web Marketers and writers like me.

Now I’m working on being an article writer and following the research and advise I get from these people.

Key points I’ve learned which got me out of depression in driving traffic to my website.

• It takes time to promote your website and you have to find the techniques that will work for you and stick with it.
• If you don’t know what to do, research and ask around, there are experts who are willing to give their advice and help.
• Put aside your negative thoughts, you will accomplish nothing and just wasting time being sad about it. DO SOMETHING and don’t get depressed.
• Don’t put limits to yourself or on the things that you can do. Don’t say..”I don’t know this”..”I am not good at it.” Others have succeeded on this Internet Marketing, why wouldn’t you? There’s a lot of room for everybody here, you just have to work hard and find your place.
• Article writing is a talent, there are those who are born with it, but still…. it’s a talent that can be learned by anyone who has the passion for it.

I’m still in the learning stage and testing the waters in writing articles and blogging which are the proven ways to drive traffic to a website. I am willing to learn and stay on the job until I succeed, no matter how much time is required. As a friend of mine remind me that “Rome was not built in one day.”

Create Your Own Website and Earn from it

I used to do webpages (about 10 yrs ago) from free web hosting for my friends. I never really experience making my own website, buying a domain and uploading it into the web.

I recently uploaded my own website (just yesterday) and still doing a lot of work and researching on how to maximize my earnings. You could earn from it by promoting products and putting Ads or advertisement, but seeing my work being viewed on the web and receiving encouraging comments and advice on how to improve and earn from it is an accomplishment in itself and I feel good about it.

Here are some points I would like to share in doing your own website.

First step would be the decision that you are willing to commit your enormous time in doing all the hard work in making a webpage especially when you are still new and starting out on this. (I created my own write up, header and a lot of research and still learning). Some professional web marketers and webmasters have ghost writers and graphics artists but if you are still new, like me, you have to do everything. So it’s also important that you love and enjoy what you do to commit long hours in doing it. I sit around 10-15 hrs in front of my computer for a week now, but I love the new things I’m learning and discovering other capabilities that I never thought I could do (like writing and composing long blogs here)

After deciding that webdesigning and marketing is the thing you want to do in your free time or doing this full time, think a subject for your website. It might be something you love to do or something that you have an expertise. If you are not an expert on the subject that you want to create on your website, don’t get discouraged, research on the idea or subject and you will come up with a write-up or contents for your website. Before doing a write up on your chosen subject, think of a good “key word/s” for your write up to secure you a good place in a search engine. If you decide to create a website about diabetes, you have to think of a good keyword like “diabetes symptom” or “diabetes treatment’. There are a lot of Keywords selector tools or program here in the net that you could download for free. Then you can start composing the contents of your website. Make a timetable or plans when and how to meet your goals. Remember that you are working at home and it’s easy to procrastinate, set a schedule on when to finish the write up for your website, in this manner you can keep track of your progress.

Creating your own website involves spending money. You want to earn money from your website and like in any other business you have to invest before you could get your gain or profit. You need to buy or register your domain and pay for webhosting and expect a little change in your electric bills since you are using your computer 10-15 hrs a day. Shop and look for cheap domains and web hosting that you could afford since you are still starting and have limited funds. I bought my first domain 2 days ago for $2.98 and luckily have a free webhosting from a friend but still.. I know that eventually I need to pay for webhosting. With regards to your domain name, try to come up with a domain name containing your “keywords”, like for diabetes for instance, and your key word is “diabetes symptom”, domain must be “diabetessymptom.com”. There are also free domain tools in the net that you could use to check the availability of domain names that you want.

After deciding on the keywords, acquiring a domain name for it and organizing your ideas and write up you are now ready to create a website. If you don’t know HTML or JavaScript, don’t worry, you could still create your website. I have HTML knowledge but have forgotten it since I never use it for 10 yrs and have zero knowledge in JavaScript but I was able to create my website. There are software you could use to create your website, I use Microsoft FrontPage, and you could use other programs you are comfortable using like Dreamweaver or Netscape Page Composer.

After creating and uploading your website, you still need to modify and continuously improve your website and look for ways on how to maximize your earnings and get traffic for your website. You need to study, read a lot and seek help from people who succeeded in internet marketing and web designing. I’m still in this stage and keep learning. Give yourself sometime to learn the ins and outs of this business and stabilize your earnings. I read somewhere that most people give up within 3-6 months and never actually realize the true potential of what their hard work and efforts could bring them. There are endless possibilities and opportunities in the internet, you just have to find your place and work on it.

Can You Really Make a Living Without Leaving Your House?

Yes you can…I’ve seen and chatted with people enjoying the comfort of their homes and still have managed to earn a living. Most of them admitted that they are earning more now working at home than when working with someone. Home-based business, it is everyone’s dream…to be your own boss and no longer tied in the regular 8-5 jobs.

Choose your home-based career. What is your passion? What idea you have? Most importantly, what would you like to do? What are your current interests? Isn’t it rewarding that you get to do what you want to do and get paid for it?

In my case I am always interested in web publishing and designing. And I am inspired to know that there are people who create web pages at home and earn from it through marketing and advertising. I still have a lot to learn about Internet Marketing and Advertising, it requires a lot or research, experimentation and studying. But like in any other business you have to learn and study the business you want to get into. The good part of it is that it’s your own business. You’re doing it for you; not for the person who signs your paycheck.

It is a major decision to start a home-based business. Can I really make a living without leaving my house? Yes I can…. and I am taking the first step to be my own boss…

My Discovery of Internet Marketing

I was busy all these years working for a multinational company and later on realized I contributed a lot for the benefit of the company but not for myself. When finally, a major turning point in my life happened, it’s a defining point where I have to convert this temporary defeat into stepping stones for new opportunities. I call it temporary defeat because before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and some failures. You are only defeated when defeat has been accepted as a reality.

I realized there are a lot of opportunities outside that multinational company waiting for me to discover. I was able to connect with old friends again and meet new friends. Those old and new friends opened the doors for new opportunities to explore…“Internet Marketing.” After almost 10 years I was able to get back to the things I love to do, and that’s web designing. I made my presence online again and it was a shock to know that those days where people use the internet for personal reasons, just surfing for information, connecting with friends, reading news etc. are all gone…. Internet is now so powerful that people can actually make a living out of it. Gee, where was I all those years….

When I heard about this “Internet Marketing” from a new friend, I am so excited and enthusiastic to venture into this new discovery. I give myself 2 weeks to arrange all the things I need to get started into this new opportunity. It’s important that if you are passionate about something you act on it immediately and don’t just think about it…Dreams are important but you have to convert dreams into its physical counterpart. I immediately get my PC back into working condition again (my PC was idle for years) and arrange for an internet connection at home.

I know there are a lot of things that I have to learn about this “Internet Marketing” but what’s important is that I have the will and the enthusiasm to succeed in this new discovery and there are people who are willing to help and teach me. I am testing the waters now and learning to swim to reach my goal.

To succeed is not an easy feat. I know success is not going to come overnight. It requires patience, passion, faith, learning and lots of experimentation. It is estimated that only a fraction of a percent of the people involved in “Internet Marketing” can make a decent income out it. Still, like all good things it’s worth a shot.

The People you meet…

Throughout life you will meet many different people, all with different characters, responsibilities and interests. You will meet nice and friendly people, those you want to keep and became your long life friends. In this life, I happen to be blessed with a lot of good friends, the kind of people I treasure and love. They are the true demonstration of what was written in the Bible in Proverbs17:17

“A true friend loves at all times.”

Unfortunately, life is not a bed of roses…You will also come across with mean people that you would want to avoid but somehow these people have managed to get into you at all cause because of the single fact that “they are mean.” I also happen to meet the two meanest people in this life…the kind of people that would be happy on criticizing on others that minding their own business. They are usually more into being mean and devilish than being nice and polite. Sometimes I find it hard to understand why there are people who are sooooo mean and hostile. They are beyond reason, but somehow I finally came in to realization that it’s the way they are and it’s their nature.

But life in general is still beautiful. With the exception of these two people, I still believe that the world is still filled with nice and kind people. As we travel though life we will meet these nice people and there’s no other way but to be nice in return…as the golden rule says…”Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”..