Adsense Addict

Starting April i have decided to to trial Tnx.net for a month.

Now i know there is a lot of talk about Tnx.net and how Google frowns upon ‘paid links’, but if used correctly i think it could have major benefits.

In this post i will describe a little bit about how Tnx.net works, but also my tips on how to use Tnx.net and hopefully make some money online and not get into Google’s bad books.

Publishers

One of the main advantages of using Tnx.net is that you can sell links on every page of your site, instead of just the main page.

Whenever a link on your site is sold to one of the tnx.net advertisers, you get paid in points. When you collect enough points you have three options available on what you can do with these points

Build up points and watch the price grow.
Sell points back to Tnx.net or any other member.
Advertise your website.

Tnx.net has a special offer on digital point forums where you can receive 5000 points to advertise on 5000 websites.

But if you would like to make money online with Tnx.net, the price at last look was about $0.61/1000 points. $5 is the minimum payout for Tnx.net and is paid via paypal.

Tnx.net also has a affiliate program which offers 13.3% of all Tnx points he/she earns in the future.

Advertisers

Once you have collected enough Tnx points you can use these to get backlinks from 1000s of sites.

- 20 000 different PR0 pages from different websites
- 400 different PR1 pages from different websites
- 200 different PR2 pages from different websites
- 100 different PR3 pages from different websites
- 40 different PR4 pages from different websites
- 20 different PR5 pages from different websites

Tnx.net also offers a free tool for advertisers to make paid links look natural. Tnx.net also has some good tips which helps advertisers to rank #1 on Google for highly competetive keywords.

My tips for using Tnx.net

Please don’t quote me on this, but i remember reading somewhere Google’s Matt Cutts commenting on ‘paid links’,

“We are concerned with paid links that flow PageRank and attempt to game Google’s ranking. We are not worried about links that are paid but do not affect search engines. Google likes clean and relevant search results”

What you need to do as a publisher is only have relevant paid links on your site. Tnx.net allows you to approve advertisers, so make sure you only have relevant links showing on your site. You can read more about this feature here

Tnx.net currently has 50 672 users with daily growth: +0.26% so you are bound to find something in your niche.

As an advertiser your first impulse is to go out and buy 1000s of back links to your site. DON’T! Google likes clean and relevant links (there’s that relevant word again, but sorry i can’t stress its importance). Again, only advertise on sites relevant to your niche.

Also do not go and buy links to 1000s of sites at once. Google will not like the sudden appearance of 2000 back links to your site. So try and limit your advertising to a maximum of 8 relevant sites a day and have a total of about 80 links to your site going at once.

So we will give Tnx.net a go for a month and will let our readers know the outcome May 1st.

This is a free review to help an amazing artist Rachel Keslensky get her webcomic promoted.

Rachel is one talented artist. Rachel’s comic is not like most comics out there. Last Resort is a science fiction webcomic set in the future, where Rachel has sort of crossed Stephen King’s Running Man with a bit a Disney magic thrown in.

Last Resort – A Tale of High Crimes…And Higher Ratings.

Last Resort is about a reality show set in the far reaches of our galaxy. The story begins when a small Talmi violinist comes to Last Resort Station for a job only to find out she’s qualified in all the wrong places!

Check out Last Resort with 16 contestants, 12 criminals, 4 volunteers and one confused furry vampire. Characters also include Jigsaw and Addy – The new executioners and and my favorite Slick.

Some of Slick’s crimes include Illicit Smuggling of Leather Products, Manufacturing of Illicit Leather Products, Sale of Illicit Leather Products ( better save all your leather now, it looks like it might be valuable in the future) and First Degree Murder. Slick like most criminals says he is innocent and that he doesn’t even like leather. One thing i found funny was that his family has apparently been making assorted bondage products for years. Not only is Rachel talented, it appears has a good sense of humor.

Last Resort is a webcomic with weekly Sunday updates and is well worth the read.

Here is a copy a Rachel’s Entrecard logo which first attracted me to Last Resort.

Blog of Last Resort

Blog of Last Resort is where Rachel has combined her talents as an artist with different ways to make your webcomic successful. But Rachel’s blog is not only about webcomics. It also includes some very useful tips including how to advertise your website using ad networks such as Project Wonderful and Entrecard and also how to attract visitors to your site using Stumbleupon.

Rachel also talks about her own comic Last Resort and in her own words “How pushing a comic brand gets done”. This section covers Rachel’s real life experiences, when you are trying to advertise your artwork at conventions, trade shows etc. Actually some of the tips we might modify a little to promote our zippo lighter stall when we open at the markets.

So if you need a little relaxation after dropping all those Entrecards, check out Rachel’s webcomic Last Resort, it is one that i will be following in the future.

After having seen some blogs about Entrecard and bounce rates i thought i would offer this free review on Entrecard.com being a beginner to blogging.

I dont know about you guys, but lately i am finding myself spending more time searching Entrecard than searching Google.

Please i am not comparing Entrecard to Google, it is just that Entrecard, in my opinion has three features that i found worked better for me.

Let me explain.

1) Searching

When i started my first website about 2 1/2 years ago, i spent weeks searching Google for Adsense tips and SEO advice. Most of the results that turned up sent me to either forums or to sites that just told you how much money they made.

Now please dont get me wrong i learnt a lot from some of these forums and websites but it was time consuming.

Entrecard.com on the other hand has categories for different niches. So if i need tips on marketing my website, i can just search the “internet marketing or marketing” section. Easy! At least i know that i will find something relating to the topic, not just pages of websites that are fully SEO optimized or ranked well and may just contain the keyword or phrase once or twice.
Some of the blogs i found on Entrecard, actually show you step by step on how to set up a BANS site for instance, which saves the beginner an enourmous amount of time.

2) Free advertising.

When i visit a site on Entrecard and want to learn about affiliate marketing i can drop a card and collect credits to use to advertise my site on other blogs.

So i learn and earn at the same time.

Put it this way, when i first started this blog about 6 weeks ago, and not having heard of Entrecard.com, with the marketing methods i had down on paper, i was expecting 300-500 visitors a month for the first few months. Well now its 3000 – 4000 a month and still rising. I also did not expect Adsense earnings to almost double so quickly, so that is another bonus.

3) Entrecard is more personnel.

Thanks to Entrecard i am visiting some pretty good blog sites i have never seen before. And let me tell you, there are some really talented and decent folks out there.

All of the blog owners i have got in contact with, have replied very quickly. Unlike my other site zipposuperstore.com, where i just send an email and maybe half the suppliers will respond. Oh well, their loss, they are the ones who are losing money by missing out on my purchase.

In closing who cares about bounce rates when your blog is not even 3 months old. If i make money online thats all i care about. Sorry and of course i care for my fellow Entrecard members.