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Last week, during my scarce free time i decided to search for a wordpress plugin that could manage my ad sales on this blog in an almost automated way. I found a couple of them but none gave me exactly what i wanted.

So, i decided to invest some money to buy a tool for the first time to use on this blog. I decided to buy OIOpublisher. I knew this wordpress plugin for some time now and read good reviews about it. So it seemed the right choice for me.

The plugin is somewhat cheap, it costs only a one time fee of $37 dollars, and you can use it on an unlimited number of blogs, the buying process is extremely fast. But to talk you into buying this wordpress plugin i need you to show you exactly what oiopublisher is.

Oiopublisher lets you cut the middleman in your ad sales. The plugin is a direct ad sale platform that can manage a the majority of advertising deals you want to use.

WIth OIOpublisher you can sell in a easy way:

- Banner ads (Like the 125×125 button im using on the right side);

- Text Links (home page, site wide, single post links);

- Inline ads (video, image);

- Reviews (written by you or by the buyer);

- or you can customise your ad deal;

The plugin even comes with a referral system that allows you to reward your members that refer advertisers to your blog! pretty cool huh?

As you can see, by managing ads itself, oiopublisher will take down the headache of managing who bought ads from you, or if they have paid you or not. For the days i have used this script, i could see that was a good investment, it is a time saver. But it is not only that. You can now have more advertising options, that before you wouldn’t have the patience or the right script to do them.

The plugin installation couldn’t be easier. Just download (after you paid the $37 fee), unzip and upload to your wordpress plugin directory and activate it at the plugin panel in your administration area. Then you just need to go to the business tab and configure your ad spots. After that, go to your widget configuration and choose where the ads are displayed.

It is as simple as 1-2-3. If you buy this script you won’t regret. This is by far one of the best plugins i have found for wordpress. It is cheap, and you even get 50% for every new costumer you sent to oiopublisher.

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!

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”

In the end of the last week i decided to drop adtoll. I was not happy with the results and performance of the adtoll code. First, i had no revenue at all these past weeks, and secondly, and a important aspect of my decision was that the adtoll script often “lagged” the page loading. Sometimes more than 3 seconds. Very annoying.

Adtoll as recently upgraded their servers but they are to late for me :p

With my demise from adtoll, there was an opportunity for project wonderful to perform on my blog.

What is ProjectWonderfull?

It is a new service, that we can compare slightly with adtoll, but in my honest opinion, it is way better.

You can buy advertsing (text or image)… oh… correction. You don’t buy advertising. You bid for an ad spot.

For example, lets use this blog. When i installed the code here, i decided to make the minimum bid at 0 cents. Free advertising is always good huh? These free spots where almost immediately taken, but for a short time. Because someone outbid them by once cent! ( cheap!) If a new advertiser want to place the ad here right now then it would have to bid more. in this morning the minimum bid was at 7 cents, but now it is only at 2 cents.

Why?

If you bid for one cent for one week for example, but another advertiser bids 2cents for this day, then you will loose the spot for the day, but in the next day, your bid will be the highest again because the 2 cents bids expired.

This is very interesting because it can increase the advertiser competition, and our earnings

Till now i am very happy with the results, but sadly for you, my minimum price to advertise will no longer be 0 cents.

Unfortunately, there is no referral system….

GIve it a try and register at ProjectWonderful

A few days ago i stumbled with an interesting site called Focial.com

This site is an auction site specialized in selling advertinsing for your blogs (but not only that!). If you know ebay, than all that was said about ebay its in focial.com except focial.com is a niche auction site.

What can you do there:

• Buy and sell advertising
• Advertise for guest bloggers and become a guest blogger for someone else.
• Focial has paid and free listings
• Advertise your graphics skills
• Sell anything else that could help bloggers

If you register you will have a free $25 credit to use in your auctions. You can use them to feature an auction for example.

This site is relatively new and has few members., but a think this site can evolve a lot, and i want to be one of the first there.

I have made some auctions and let’s see how it will go for me.

oh, and by the way, if you register please consider placing lossehelin has your referrer