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A few weeks ago i found an interesting post about “Anti marketing design“.

Anti marketing design are sites that use ugly designs, but manage to be very successful.

The example used was Plentyoffish.com, a site that makes more than $10000 each day with google adsense. According to the founder, Markus Frind , one of the main reasons of this success is exactly the ugly site design.

He evens gives examples of other ugly sites that are very successful such as myspace, craiglist, google.

Markus Frind says that sites with an ugly design tend to generate more revenue, build better brands, and are more fun to participate.

When i read this i thought to my self “what the hell!?”. But i must agree… I have stumbled with sites that in my opinion are very very ugly, but i was surprised with the amount of traffic they had, the amount of users, readers, rss subscribers, the money they made! Even the blog where i found this post had an ugly design and ranks 19,895 in alexa, and has more than 300 comments on that specific post.

Why do we tend to use ugly sites?

I can just give my opinion. I don’t like these kind of ugly sites. But there’s ugly, and there’s UGLY. myspace is UGLY, google is ugly, but extremely simple and effective. Web surfers like simplicity, effectiveness, quickness, and not to many information at the same time.

For me, ugly sites resumes only to a simple equation: ugly sites = less distractions

The users are not distracted by a “state of the art design” with great graphics, and can focus their attention into the content, in what the site really has to offer.

Think a little bit about this, and tell me what you think…

Well, im wasted… lol. It’s 5am and im drunk..

This is what happens when you go to the disco and the beer is at 10 cents!!! Oh my god… And women had open bar all night, and they gave lots of vodkas!!!

I barely can see the letters on screen…

Off to bed now… lol

One of the most profitable ways to make money blogging is selling links. But some times it may be hard to find someone that want to by a link from you. The best choice is to have a “middle man”. TNX.net acts as the “middle man”, and with surprisingly efficiency.

You may sell links not only to the main page, but for all pages of your blog/site that are indexed by TNX.

How does it work?

You just need to register, add your website (sadly, they don’t accept Portuguese websites), place the code where you want the links to appear and wait for your website to be accepted.

I did this a couple of days ago, and TNX already managed to provide me with 100 possible paid links! And i decide wich to use and where to use them.

Each link you sell, TNX will take a share of the profit. Only 25% of the link price. It is very reasonable, if you compare to other sites that take 50% of your revenue!!

Tnx works on a points system, meaning that you don’t earn money right a way for selling links. Instead, your site is evaluated according to specific page rank, and yahoo back links.

So, the better you are ranked more money you will make.

The points you earn are then converted into cash by selling them. You can choose to transfer to another user (you may sell them, for example at digitalpoint forums), or sell them directly to TNX. Currently, they by 1000 points for $0,75, and the minimum payout is only $5 payable to your paypal account.

They have also a referral system. If you refer someone to use Tnx network, then you will earn 13,3% of the points earned by he/she for life!

If you are scared by the recent google slap on sites that sell links, i can assure you that TNX links look like normal site links. It’s one of the best software that i have found that can make a paid link look natural to the google bot, and preventing the publishers for being slapped and loose their page rank.

If you want to become an advertiser, then one of the best aspects is the very reasonable price of links! And above all, you can get thousands of static links that will help you improve your search engine rankings.

I admit, the possibility to have thousands of links for my sites so easily is very tempting.

The site is clean, graphically appealing but soft. The administration area could be improved. You don’t have a personal info control panel. Instead you have an advertise and publisher panel.

As a final note, i do recommend this system. It is very easy to sell links, although i admit that if you have a PR of 0, your earnings will can be limited (try their calculator to see how much you can earn).

Happy earnings!

Some of the very successful bloggers that earn thousands of dollars each month, may some day, or already have done, some cosmetic surgery. The world we live in, is more and more turned to physical appearance, and everywhere we know someone that made some changes on their looks…

In my honest opinion, I only agree with these kind of interventions if the person doesn’t feel well in his/her “skin”, and wants to improve their self esteem.

If you leave in the USA, the options for cosmetic surgery are more than many. Lasky Clinic offers services in cosmetic surgery in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. They have a board of skilled technicians specialized in this area. The Clinic has a wide variety of interventions that may suite your need. From breast augmentation, Botox, to face lifting, facial implants and rhinoplasty. IF you want to gather more information about these subjects just visit Lasky Clinic.

SnapBomb?!? Oh yeah. Another great source to make money online and create some buzz about your site.

At snapbomb you get paid to review offers from advertisers.

But you say: “what? another paid to blog site?”

And i say: Not just another paid to blog site. Snapbomb is another valid option to make some money online, but besides this there are some aspects i want to talk:

Snapbomb couldn’t be easier. Your blog will be accepted rapidly. The control panel is simple. Don’t be “scared” by the lack of options. You get all you need. No complications. Simple and direct, and a great looking site.

There are already some reviews waiting for you! (some competitors fail to do this).

sadly, Snapbomb doesn’t have a referral program, which is not a big surprise since only a few sites like this offer a referral program.

I have only recently joined them, but so far i liked what i have seen. Register now and grab a “piece of the cake”