BlogsVertise is another way to earn cash and generate extra income from your blog. Their Advertisers want YOU to mention and talk about their websites products and services in your blogs and journals. They want the publicity, the exposure, the Buzz! that online bloggers and internet journals can generate for their web site products and services. In exchange blogsvertise pays YOU in paypal per task/blog entry, for writing / talking about / mentioning their website in your blog.

Something the most of people skip when they sign up in a program are the terms of service. I will be honest, I joined to BlogsVertise within reading the terms and I was thinking that BlogsVertise could be scam. Why I though BlogsVertise could be Scam ? Thats because I posted some campaigns the last year, ending November and Starting December more and less, and in about 2 weeks I get that posts approved. So then I read the terms and I found this:

• Blogsvertise payments are made after 30 days your assigned task has been approved.

I pissed when I read that but I wait the stipulated time. Do you know when I received my payment? this week!! just like they say “payments are made after 30 days your assigned task has been approved” I received an email from paypal just 30 days after the posts were approved.

Sign up to BlogsVertise!

Moral: BlogsVertise is not scam, it’s just another program to get an extra income from your blog but is not the fastest on the payments. If you want quality and speed on the payments, you can consider joining to Smorty.

Every blogger knows about Google PageRank and Alexa Rank, the two ranking systems most used on internet. But what about Google slaps ? all we know about the “war” between google and bloggers, decreasing our pageranks just for using keywords like “get paid per post”…The thing is your rank is constantly changing to Google but is not to Alexa. Instead Alexa rules! giving statistics of your site and ranking you for the number of traffic, unique visitors etc etc… and not for the keywords.

Which one can give you the real rank of your blog ?

IZEARanks can! RealRank is the first site ranking service that focuses exclusively on measuring the traffic and influence of individual blogs throughout the blogosphere. The service is designed to help advertisers analyze the relative reach of blogs and make informed online advertising purchasing decisions in the long run. RealRank aims to replace historically unreliable influence indicators such as Google PageRank, Alexa and Comscore by providing more accurate statistical data collected directly from the source.

While other services report rankings based on traffic sub-sampling, inbound links and external data, RealRank utilizes the IZEA Toolkit (ITK) to provide real visitor data collected from a piece of code blog owners embed on their blog. The data is used to define an individual blogs overall standing relative to other blogs participating in the program as well as in specific categories such as entertainment and technology.

Unlike other ranking systems, the RealRank scoring algorithm is public. The system weights blogs 70% on daily unique visitors, 20% by daily active inbound links and 10% by daily page views as reported by ITK. Participants can choose to expose just their RealRank score or expand reporting to include other data such as pageviews and visits. This provides advertisers with the most comprehensive and relevant view of a blog’s ability to meet specific campaign goals. RealRank is the first site ranking service that focuses exclusively on measuring the traffic and influence of individual blogs throughout the blogosphere.

RealRank is a more accurate ranking than Alexa and Google PageRank because it isn’t based on a small sample of a site’s visitors or on a censored link-weighting algorithm, instead it’s based on real traffic.

Finally, there’s a blog ranking system that uses real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on the web. Sign up to meet your RealRank see where you stand in the Top 100 blogs.

What’s Social Media Networks ?

The Social Media Networks are a great tool for all us, the bloggers. With them, news, blog posts, photos, videos, and podcasts are made public via social media websites through submission. Thus networks are big communities online, normally accompanied with a voting process to make media items become “popular” and be shown on the popular or hot list.

The Importance Of Social Media Networks

You should know in the blogging world, be referred on other sites is the key to expand your blog and attract more readers. And what’s better than social media networks? All them are really important to get new readers because their system makes easy the promotion task, showing your link for everywhere and letting to the people rate your post/blog.

All thus latest days I was joining to many networks, the next is a list with some of them:

• Digg
• StumpleUpon
• Reddit
• Delicious
• Mixx
• Propeller
• MyBlogLog
• BlogCatalog

When someone give you a digg, a stumble or tagged you, your respective post will be show in their social media profile as a recent activity. Everybody who check their profile, will see your post and the reviews about it, and there is good possibility that visit your post. But how can you get this points, reviews or comments? very simple, you need to start to add people to your profile, look for who has a good mount of friends and review their profile. Giving good reviews about their posts and commenting on other profiles will help you to make tons of friends and you will start to attract them, getting their attention and get tons of traffic by there. Yesterday, Tal Siach from www.walyou.com stumble my post Introducing OIOpublisher Pluging For WordPress and I got a dramatical increase over my traffic, see the graphic:

As you can see, on my first days I was getting ~100 visitors by day, and you can see how my traffic exploded from ~150 to almost 300 visitors yesterday! and that was with a simple stumble, imagine if you get many stumbles, diggs and reddits everyday…that is to get 5000+ visitors by day ! think about it.

Social Media Advantages

• Cost: you need to pay for nothing, all those stuff is free!.
• Improve Traffic: get tons of visitors by day, getting more readers and expanding your network exponentially.
• Make Friends: make new friends and partnership. This will help you to future actions/deals.
• Share Your Media: your media will be public shared: posts, photos, blogs and everything you want.
• Discover: discover interesting sites with the big directory.

Disadvantages? I don’t think so !!!

Moral: Using social media networks you can easily share your media with people around the world. Those networks are perfect to get a viral traffic, being linked in too many different profiles, you can explode your traffic in few days, you noticed it, the changes are instantly .