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It seems like the dollar reaches new bottom lows each and every day. Has the time come for us international webmasters and bloggers to ditch the dollar ($) in favour of the euro (€)?

With all the talk that is going around, from politicians to economists about the grim future that awaits US economy and its currency it might be time to consider how you can change currency as smoothly as possible.

What do you think? For me personally, if no dramatic changes occur, I am planning on slowly changing currency from the dollar to the euro starting next year.

AuctionAds has been launched a few months ago and has been doing pretty good since the release of it’s new program. A total of 17,000+ members has joined with them since their release on March 6, 2007. Here’s a quote coming straight from it’s blog that tells you a little about them.

AuctionAds is a one stop shop for international and domestic website owners. AuctionAds provides a very simple way to let webmasters tap into the extremely lucrative eBay affiliate program without needing any programing skills. Its really as simple as copy and paste.

AuctionAds seems to be a great site to earn money but there is something that everyone must note before joining. The only and most important thing that you should most likely know with all affiliate marketing sites is that you might not earn much if you do not have a good conversion rate. This program really depends on your audience and how well you can get it to convert with your visitors. If a visitor clicks your ads but doesn’t join eBay or doesn’t buy an item from eBay, then you do not earn anything! However, if the visitor does actually buy something or join, then you will receive 100% of the commissions! A minimum earning of $10 needs to be earned in order to receive payout and payouts are sent by check or Paypal. Find out more about AuctionAds!

I have been a member of PayperPost for a few months now. And I can definitely say that it’s one of the best ways to generate an income from if you are a blogger.

With PayPerPost you’ll get paid to blog about all kinds of different things. The good thing is that you are in control. You decide which kind of “opportunities” to take and how to write. It’s that simple.

As I said before I’ve used PayperPost for a few months. But that is not 100% true. It’s true that I have been a member on payPerPost for a few months. But I have only been active with the service a couple of days now and then. This is what I think is the best with PayperPost compared to other services. You just need a few days of posting and you are set for a long time. I actually paid my hosting costs for a whole year with only 6 posts made during a 5 days period. Now I can spend all the other money I make on something else, like new domain names, useful software’s and much more.

So if you are a blogger don’t hesitate to test out PayperPost. Just don’t spam your blog with paid blog posts. Post a few posts now and then and PayperPost will be your next goldmine.

People often ask me which affiliate program has generated the most income for me. I never give them a simple answer and I won’t give you a simple answer here either.

First of all, there is no awesome-good-100%-success-money-making affiliate program. Not a single one. You often have to use several different ones.

Choose an affiliate program that is something you know about. Maybe a service or something you have had some kind of experience of. You need to know what it is you advertise. Also try to keep the affiliate program related to your sites content.

Most affiliate programs works the best when they are new. If the affiliate program has been around for a while the product or service the affiliate program is trying to sell has probably already been advertised enough and is there for well known among people.

Like I’ve said before, don’t get stuck in just one way to generate income. Use several different ways to get money. Those ways can be affiliate programs or contextual programs like AdSense etc.

My most successful affiliate program so far has been Text-Link-Ads.com. I have made over $200 from it. But just because it works the best for me doesn’t mean it works the best for you.

At the end of May this year PayPerPost launched a direct marketplace for their publishers and advertisers, something that PayperPost users have waited a long time for.

This direct marketplace works like this. If you own a blog you can sign up for PayPerPost and add a little badge that basically says “Hire Me!” and explains that people can buy a post on your blog. The good things with this are:

- You will have a new way to generate income.
- You no longer need to search for so called opportunities. The opportunities come to you.
- You will get more related opportunities and advertisers to what your blog is all about.

PayPerPost Direct is actually something that other competitors like ReviewMe have offered their users for a while now. But PayPerPost’s only charge a a 10% fee. 5% of those go to transaction fees for PayPal and various credit card processing. Other similar marketplaces can take up to 50%!

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As you probably already know by now PayPerPost is a blog marketing program for bloggers and advertisers. It’s a good program for small blogs that have a pretty good Google pagerank but haven’t really got a huge traffic to their blog or blogs.

And with PayPerPost’s new segmentation system blogs that have a high traffic will also benefit from the program. This new segmentation system could earn bloggers up to $1000 for a single sponsored post. It sounds like a fairytale but it’s actually quite real.

But you shouldn’t forget that disclosure is required from all bloggers. That means that you have to in some way inform your readers that the post is a sponsored post, either by a site wide disclosure policy or on a per post basis. I personally believe this a good thing as there are ethical questions about getting paid for posting.

Another good thing about PayPerPost is that they only charge a 35% service fee. Similar programs such as ReviewMe charges a 100% markup. That means they are taking half of your money for each post. And that isn’t fair. It’s you that have done all the hard work, not they.

So if you got a high traffic blog and want another way to make money from it you should join PayPerPost. You don’t have so many reasons not to anymore.

I talked about PayPerPost.com in a previous post called “Big News at PayPerPost?” where I shortly explained that PayPerPost is a blog marketing program for bloggers and advertisers.

A few blog friends of mine have nagged me about joining PayPerPost for a few weeks now as it apparently have been very successful for them. But I have always said no because I thought that it was like lying for your readers if you posted paid posts just for the money. But my friends won, I eventually signed up for a PayPerPost. Stop right there! Don’t think for a second that the dark and greedy side has won over me and that I only post paid posts and articles now and that I lie and cheat on you. I actually realised that PayPerPost offered a few topics that I was planning on writing about anyways and that my post could be negative or good. So I could basically tell you the reader what the site or product that I was getting paid to blog about had for kind of downsides and still getting paid. Okay, so maybe you don’t care about the ethical questions about getting paid for posting. That’s fine too, I still like you.
So how much money has I made from PayPerPost so far? Well I haven’t really made any money yet. I have posted a total of three articles for a total worth of $65.00. But only one of them has been approved so far and I won’t get paid for that one until about 30 days. It seems it take a long time until you get your posts approved, but so far so good.

PayPerPost offers two different ways to get paid. One way is that you get all the money yourself. The second option you have is to donate your money to charity (You can also just donate small amounts of your money to charity). I really like the idea about this. But unfortunately PayPerPost only offer two different charities, American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity. But what if I want to donate to Greenpeace or another environmental organisation? PayPerPost should really add more charities to the list. If they did I could be able to donate more and on a regular basis.

So my question for you: How much have you made or donated from PayPerPost?

PayPerPost.com created a lot of buzz in the blog world when it was released. If you don’t know what it is here is a very short explanation: PayPerPost or PPP as it might be called on a blogs is actually an online advertising company that pay you as a publisher and blogger write blog posts about something that their advertisers want. It can be all from pet related stories to IP phones and websites. In fewer words: You get paid per blog post and advertisers can increase site traffic via your blog post.

Now PayPerPost is planning on introducing “some big news in the near future”. So what can these “big news” be all about? Well a rumour wouldn’t be called a rumour if it wasn’t one. Personally I have no idea what they are planning on releasing but here are some of my ideas that I would think would make sense (remember that you heard it from me first if it all turns out to be true :P):

PayPerPodcast
At the moment PayPerPost is only accepting blog posts. Something that would be possible and really interesting and useful would be if they started accepting podcasts. Ordinary blogs are so ordinary nowadays and podcasts is just so web 2.0. This would also be a great possibility to earn some real money for podcasters.

PayPerVideo
This would be something similar to the PayPerPodcast but for video bloggers. I do think that it’s more possible that the podcast thing will turn out to be one of the “big news”. This video area is still too young. Maybe we will see something like this in a year or two.

This is just a little quick warning letting you know that you should beware of STA-ADS. Several publishers haven’t got their payments from them and they rarely respond to support questions.

They seem to be a very suspicious company. You have been warned!

Adbriteforum.com has today been released! It’s an online forum where you can meet other AdBrite publishers and advertisers from around the world. Get useful tips, ideas, suggestions and help.

It will be a great place where people can meet their fellow publishers or advertisers. AdBrite Forum also plans to have several contests this year with prizes like domain names and more.

You will also be able to discuss other AdBrite alternatives like AdSense, YPN, Clicksor etc. If you are an AdBrite publisher or advertiser or just a bit interested in AdBrite, please come and join the fun. Registration is of course 100% free and takes just a few seconds.

http://www.adbriteforum.com