The toksee Social Network Communication Widget

toksee is a new communication widget that will allow you to communicate with your friends and family online and across social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, hi5, and LinkedIn.
toksee allows you to communicate with friends in other social communities without needing accounts in those communities! The toksee Communicator can easily be added to your blog or web page giving you instant communication with all your contacts.
“toksee will change the way people are able to communicate over the internet.”  Mike Connor, Intelecom Best of all, the toksee Widget is FREE! Join Now! How do I make money from toksee? The company has just announced that they are planning to allow its users to earn money from advertising revenues generated through toksee. (Read Press Release) You can also earn money by recommending the toksee Communicator to all your friends, family, and social contacts.  toksee has a Referral Rewards Program that rewards both paid subscribers as well as free members for all purchases made from their referrals.  All your referrals, their referrals and all other future referrals on down the line are linked to you in the toksee network, which could generate income for you from advertising or upgrades to any premium services.  As part of premium services, toksee will be offering add-on tools and services that include a Communication Suite and Viral Marketing Suite.  The Communication Suite will include Video Conferencing, Desktop Sharing, and Collaboration Tools.  Members who upgrade to these premium paid features will generate Rewards Points to the Member that referred them to toksee. How is toksee doing? toksee has recently launched its own beta social network platform where members can create personal public or private communities with photos, videos, chat, blogs and more. The toksee Community Beta was just launched on May 1st and the web site has already cracked the Alexa top 100,000 most trafficked sites. Where do I sign up? Click Here to sign up! Remember it’s FREE!

Park Your Domain and Make Money

Domain Parking

If you surf the internet a lot, then most likely you have visited a parked domain. How many times have you mistyped a web site name like gooogle.com and been brought to a landing page with ads, a search box, and related links? Maybe you haven’t realized it but these are called parked domains.

What is a Parked Domain?
A parked domain is an undeveloped site belonging to a domain name registrar that is primarily used to monetize type-in traffic.

Can you make money from a parked domain?
Domain Parking is a simple way to earn money. If you have registered domain names, but they are not being currently used, then domain parking is a great way to put those domains to work earning you revenue. Your idle or under construction domain can be used to display relevant advertisements and when someone clicks on one of the advertisements you earn money. The ads featured on parked domains may be provided by Google, Yahoo, or another advertising partner.

In my opinion, to be successful at domain parking, you really need to own a domain name of a popular term or a domain name of a highly trafficked web site that is misspelled quite often (i.e. gooogle.com). It wouldn’t hurt to key your eye out and find an expired domain that has lots of traffic.

This article goes back a few years but it shows that you can really make significant money doing domain parking:. “Flashgames.com has no staff, spends no money on marketing and offers no games. All it has is a list of links to other game sites. Yet it earns $150,000 a year selling ads.” Source: Boston.com

How do I go about parking my domain?

1. If you don’t already own a domain, go to www.godaddy.com or another domain registry company. There are several pricing options but usually it should only cost you between $6-$10 to register a domain.

2. Register with a parking domain company. Here is a list of most popular and recommended domain parking companies:

• ActiveAudience
• NameDrive
• Parked (10 domain minimum)
• Sedo
• Sedopro
• TrafficZ
• WhyPark

3. Change the DNS at your registrar to point to the parking company’s nameservers and they will provide the content.

4. Customize your parked site. Select a nice looking template and make sure to choose related keywords that will get you the most clicks. Remember, choosing the right keyword is one of the most important factors in maximizing your clicks.

Can You Make Money From Yuwie?

I’ve got a MySpace and Facebook account that I started but can’t even remember the logins to anymore. I get several emails from old colleagues and friends inviting me to get LinkedIn to their network which I ignore. You could label me as an anti-social networker.

This was until recently when I stumbled across a web site called Yuwie which peaked my curiosity. Yuwie is a new social networking website similar to MySpace that started in May 2007. The twist with Yuwie is that they share a portion of their ad revenue with you. You get paid to do everything that you would normally do on other social networking websites. This includes: blogging, uploading, pictures and videos, sending messages, surfing, referrals and referral activity.
Yuwie could be categorized as an MLM (multi level marketing) as you are enticed to get others to join and in return you are rewarded with making money. For those people already involved in network marketing companies, you already have a leg up as you can promote Yuwie to all your down lines. However, the good thing about this MLM is that you are not out of pocket any money. Let me start by saying that I was not a big fan of the Yuwie sign-up or referral process. It shows a rather cheesy video which was a complete turn off but nevertheless I still joined to check out its potential. Maybe I am just a sucker for the get rich easy scheme. I tried pimping a selective few of my friends (10 to be exact) to see what they thought. The ages of my friends ranged from 21 to 40 and none of them joined.  However, I did receive almost 50 requests to be somebody’s friend on the Yuwie network in the first couple of days.  So as advertised, Yuwie is very similar to MySpace!  Some of the requests seemed legit and some were people just trying to game the system to get more profile views so they could make $0.0005 cents.  I always get a kick out of the spammers on these social networks as well, “I saw your profile, think your cool, love what I’m seeing here, email me here”.  My profile is practically empty and I didn’t even post a picture yet!   How much can you make from Yuwie? Here’s an example that Yuwie often uses. The chart below assumes you refer 3 people, and those 3 people refer 3, etc, all hey way through 10 levels, and each referral does 1000 page views for the month, and the month’s RSR (revenue sharing rate) is $0.50. Note: The month’s RSR will be different each month! Level Referrals Page Views Commission % Paid Earnings Month’s RSR of $0.50 You 1 1,000 10% $0.05 1 3 3,000 10% $0.15 2 9 9,000 10% $0.45 3 27 27,000 4% $0.54 4 81 81,000 4% $1.62 5 243 243,000 4% $4.86 6 729 729,000 4% $14.58 7 2,187 2,187,000 4% $43.74 8 6,561 6,561,000 10% $328.05 9 19,683  19,683,000 10% $984.15 10 59,049  59,049,000 30% $8,857.35 Total   88,572  88,573,000 100% $10,235.54

Earnings = Month’s RSR x ( Page Views / 1,000 ) x Commission

As you can see, Level 10 is the place to be but I know I will never get there.  Given that Yuwie only paid out about $8000 for around 17 million page views back in September 2007, I’m not sure how anyone ever reaches that 10K per month amount. 

Where do I sign up?
Personally, I think you should find a friend to sign up under as they will be very thankful you did. Yuwie really advocates signing up using referrals.

Conclusion
I do like the concept of sharing the revenue with the member base although it does seem to attract people trying to game the system. I am curious to see is if the advertising model can sustain itself for Yuwie and their members,  Right now, the quality of ads shown on the network are not that great and I had read that they were banned from the Google Adsense program which is probably a huge hit to the RSR. 

If you are looking for a new social network to possible make some new friends or promote yourself then Yuwie might be worth considering. However, if you are looking to make a quick buck, I doubt it will happen here unless you are seriously networked.

The Yahoo! Publisher Network – YPN

The Yahoo! Publisher Network (abbreviated YPN) is a beta contextually-targeted ad network, launched back in August 2005.  Basically, Yahoo needed to keep pace with Google so they created an ad network very similar to Google’s Adsense.

To sign up, go here: http://publisher.yahoo.com/

Here is a detailed demonstration or tutorial of how YPN works:
 http://publisher.yahoo.com/sell/FlashTutorial.php

If you are interested in how the ads look live, here is an example (scroll to bottom):
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/

After reading several posts on how the Yahoo Network worked vs Adsense on WebmasterWorld, I decided to sign up for this promising program.  I wanted to place ads on one of my web sites to see how the program performed.  However, my web site did not get accepted into the program.  I knew I should have signed up for the program when it first launched as it appears that Yahoo! is now only accepting a limited number of new publishers. 

Here is the email from Yahoo! regarding my application:
 

Thank you for applying for the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program. We have reviewed your request and we regret to inform you that you were not accepted into the program. As the program is currently in beta, we are accepting a very limited number of new publishers. We will keep your contact information on file and let you know when we launch to the general public, or if we are able to invite you to join the beta before then. To maximize your chances for approval in the future, please make sure:   You have a valid U.S. Social Security or Tax ID number, and web site content that is predominately in English and targeted at a U.S. user base. Your site provides a good user experience. Please see our complete list of guidelines for a positive user experience here. Your site does not contain problematic content. Please see our guidelines for displaying our ad results here. Thanks again for your interest. We look forward to welcoming you into our program when it is open to the public. Sincerely, The Yahoo! Publisher Network Team

The irony in all this is that the web site I applied with currently advertises and sells several of Yahoo! services such as Yahoo! Personals, toolbars, and Yahoo! Autos.  I am even able to sign up new advertisers for Yahoo!

I’m guessing at this point that Yahoo! is looking for more advertisers than publishers for their program as they have a promotion running. Sign up and get a $25 credit into your new account. Learn more.

So if you have ever thought about buying keywords before, maybe this is the time to do it!

Compare Pay Per Click Advertising Networks

PPC (Pay-Per-Click) Advertising Networks

When you are paid per click, you are only paid when a visitor on your web site clicks the advertiser’s banner or text ad.  On most networks, the amount you get paid is generally determined by how much that advertiser is willing to pay for a click thru.  The network will serve contextual ads (either text or images) relevant to your web site content, and then you will earn money for every click.

In order to be profitable using PPC advertising, you need a high conversion or click-through rate (CTR).  You need to have ads that entice or attract people to click it.  The ads really need to be relevant to your audience.  For example, a football web site that displays ads for football picks or cheerleaders will have a higher CTR than ads about refinancing your mortgage.

Our experience has also shown that ads blended in with your content and ads made visible without users having to scroll tend to get the higher CTRs.  It doesn’t hurt to have a high traffic web site either.

The source of your web site traffic can also affect your overall CTR performance. Traffic  that comes from search engines tends to perform well because these visitors were already looking for something, and they tend to click on ads more often.

List of most popular PPC  advertising networks:

• AdBrite
• BidVertiser
• Chitika
• Clicksor
• Google Adsense
• Kanoodle
• Kontera
• TextAds
• Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN)