Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Reviewing A Site Like "The Thinking Blog" Can Bring Traffic to Your Blog

Look around for offers like the one at The Thinking Blog's Review Contest.

In exchange for doing a review of his site and posting it at your blog, he gives out two links to your blog plus the chance to win a free redesign (for the best review) or a free favicon for the honorable mentions.

The blog author, Ilker Yoldas, is a whiz at graphic design and there are a lot of samples of his excellent work at the site.

Even if you don't win the blog redesign (where he gives your blog a visual makeover with a new template) nor the icon, just getting the two links prominently placed in his post is already worth it. After all, The Thinking Blog claims to have the 5th largest community at MyBlogLog. Think of the traffic this could bring to your blog.

It will also give you a new topic to write a post on. This is handy because there are days when we, bloggers, just get stumped at what to write about.

Well, here goes my review then.

If The Thinking Blog's primary purpose is to showcase the author's graphic designing talent and skills, then it definitely is succeeding.

The sample site makeovers shown - with before and after screenshots - are enough to convince anyone of this. Ilker even redesigned John Chow's blog and I like his version much better. Too bad John Chow hasn't taken up his offer to use his redesign for free.

Aside from promoting the author's graphic designing services, though, the blog also offers many interesting posts.

The video on the polar bear cub is just adorable. My kids demanded that we watch it over and over.

Far from cuteness but very insightful is the post on the evangelist marketing technique using apple's ipod campaign as an example. This is a post that resonates well with the blog's title.

I like the mix of informative and entertaining posts on the site. It makes very interesting reading.

I was initially concerned with the "ToplessWomen" link at the upper part of the sidebar but I clicked on it to investigate first before commenting and I'm glad I did. It actually leads to a very interesting discussion which includes the issue of breastfeeding in public. (My comments would be off-subject to this review so I'm just going to comment at the site.)

All in all, I would be visiting The Thinking Blog regularly with or without the contest. It was a great idea, though, and I'd like to thank him for it.

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Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: Trying to Get More Traffic to My Blog, I Made a Big Booboo at MyBlogLog

I am so embarrassed!

I discovered MyBlogLog a few days ago when I saw those nice windows in other blogs with pics or avatars of Recent Readers. I clicked on the link and joined immediately to get the same widget on my blogs.

I got even more excited to discover that MBL enables you to build a community for your blog. Members just click to join.

I am also able to join as many communities as I want. The only limit is joining 15 per day. No problem, I thought. So I started clicking on pics and avatars and joining communities of blogs I found interesting.

And then I got this notice on my page saying these people had added me as a contact and that I could reciprocate or just ignore it. They were strangers but, hey, they found me interesting enough to add me as a contact so I thought it just polite to reciprocate. And since I was flattered by what they did, I thought it was fine and normal at MBL to add other strangers as my contact, too. So I started to do that.

Then I got messages from still other strangers inviting me to check out their site and join their communities. No problem, I thought. I checked out the sites and joined the communities of those I thought interesting. Then, because I thought again that it was the normal thing to do at MBL, I also began posting the same invitation to the communities I was joining. When I reached my 15 communities limit, I even posted the same invitation to communities I intended to join the following day.

What a neat way to do networking, I thought. So I planned to write about MBL on today's post. I planned to write about exactly what I did.

Good thing I checked out the MBL blog first.

What do you know! I found that a big controversy had just happened that I was unaware of. Reading through the whole thing I found to my horror that many experienced bloggers hated just what I had been doing. That it was even considered spamming! Oh. My. God. What have I done?

Apparently, it isn't kosher to make total strangers your contact and you're not supposed to leave messages inviting people to visit your blog or join your communities. I wouldn't have done this elsewhere except I thought it was the normal thing to do at MBL.

Perhaps MBL should give clear guidelines to new members upon joining. Something clear and easy for newbies like me. The Terms of Service link just won't do.I did scan through that but I thought it just dealt with legalities and such.

Now those people who have read my invitations at MBL could be thinking of me as a cheap spammer. I hope they do visit just to see that it ain't so. This blog may not be much but it's an honest effort of a newbie to learn the ropes and help other newbies along the way. It's not a get rich quick gimmick relying on dirty tricks.

I hope my blog doesn't get burned by this. I'm barely taking off here.

I guess it's true here as elsewhere. You'll learn by doing. And it isn't always pretty. You'll stumble sometimes. I just have to get up, brush off the dirt and get on with it, a day wiser.

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- Get your own internet business using a proven worldwide income system with a 20-year track record. No experience required. No risk.

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- Earn $5 immediately just by signing up at Paid Forum. Earn more from each referral, each thread you start and each reply posted.

- MyLot also pays you to participate actively in their forum. Earn further from your referrals.

- No-Minimum.com pays you to click, read email, and sign up for offers. You also get paid when you refer new members.

Trying to Earn Global Online from the Philippines: I Earned 5$ Just By Joining "Paid Forum"

You can, too, with a free sign-up.

And if you do, you stand to earn even more. Each referral you send to them resulting in a free membership sign-up gives you a dollar.

Furthermore, each thread you start on the forum earns you 5 cents while each reply brings you a cent.

This may not seem like much but remember that if you have a blog or site, participation in forums is a must to drive traffic to your site. So in effect, Paid Forum is paying you to promote and drive traffic to your own site, resulting in a higher probability of clicks to your ads and more income for you. If you look at it that way, isn't it just perfect?

Even if you don't have a blog or site to monetize, you can still make money from Paid Forum. The sign-up bonus, for one, is easy money from the start. Then you can talk about anything you want in the forum (within bounds of decency and legality, of course) and get paid for it.

Furthermore, you can continue to invite people to join. You don't need to make them buy anything. It's free. In fact, you are giving them the chance to earn $5 automatically, and yourself to earn $1. It's a win-win situation.

So how do you refer people to Paid Forum if you don't have a blog or a website?

I suppose you use email? Most email applications allow you to add a signature to your every message. Write in an invitation to Paid Forum like the one I have at the bottom of this post. Make sure to include your special referrer link so that people can click on that to join. This will ensure that the sign-up is credited to your account. You'll get your referrer link when you sign up at Paid Forum.

This is also one of the few paying opportunities in the net that does not exclusively use PayPal. For those of us in the Philippines, and in other countries not allowed to receive money from PayPal, this is a relief.

I chose to receive payment through Western Union. You could also opt for a check mailed to you.

Okay, then, off I go to Paid Forum.

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- Send and receive money anywhere around the world with e-gold. Earn from referrals.

- Get your own internet business using a proven worldwide income system with a 20-year track record. No experience required. No risk.

- AGLOCO will pay you for just doing your normal surfing routine. You can earn even more with referrals.

- Earn $5 immediately just by signing up at Paid Forum. Earn more from each referral, each thread you start and each reply posted.

- MyLot also pays you to participate actively in their forum. Earn further from your referrals.

- No-Minimum.com pays you to click, read email, and sign up for offers. You also get paid when you refer new members.