BlogUpp! is a automated blog promotion tool to help you to get readers and traffic to your blog.

It’s very easy to do so by just following these two steps:
1. Enter your blog URL.
2. Get a short code to include into your blog.
A widget will be shown in your blog.
That’s it. You do not even need to sign up and make any efforts to exchange the traffic.

How it works:
- BlogUpp! snapshots your blog and reads your RSS regularly.
- Blog’s thumbnail shows on other blogs with the service activated.
- The thumbnail is accompanied by your blog’s most recent article.
- Each 10 blogs shared in your widget make your blog discovered by 9 readers on others.
- Your widget presents interactive content (on mouse over the widget)
- Each link clicked in the widget opens a new window, not closing your blog

More information:
- You can read the comparison among BlogUpp! and other services here.
- You can even see your blog promotion details in BlogUpp! stats, but you need an OpenID for your site to login to this stat.

Feel free to get your widget in BlogUpp!

This is the paid to post forum I have found recently, and it has the lowest minimum payout among the forums I joined, which is only $1.

Payment Information:
This forum is using the currency called GET$, GET$1 = 1 cent
- The pay rate varies from different categories.
For GPT categories, you’ll get GET$3 per thread, and GET$2 per reply.
For general topics, you’ll get GET$0.50 per thread and per reply.
Start a topic to introduce yourself: get GET$20
Post payment proof: get GET$1

- There are also many contests for you to earn more GET$.
- Referral: You’ll earn 7% of your referral’s earning
- Minimum payout: $1, Maximum payout: $2
- Pay to Perfect Money, Liberty Reserve, PayPal
- Conversion tax: PayPal - 20%, Liberty Reserve - 10%, Perfect Money + 5%
This site recommends to use Perfect Money, so you’ll even get additional 5% on your payout.

My experience:
I just joined the forum recently, and within 3 days, I have reached my minimum payout, which is $2. The forum is not too strict, also there are a general topic rooms where you can participate and earn, though it’s only GET$0.50.

Payment proof:
I have received my first payment from GET, it’s $1.56, as I requested to pay to PayPal, so it deducted the conversion tax from my payout. I’m still happy with it.
Click on the image below to see the larger view.

Feel free to join Global Earn Talk.

PayingPost is a blog advertising site that brings advertisers and bloggers together, and benefits both parties. As blogs are very popular today, there are many people visiting and reading blogs every now and then, hence it is really a good place for advertising products or services.

The blogger will write a review about the product, and then the visitors will get to know about it. If the blog is very popular and has many visitors, then the product will be known by many people. One of the advantages of blog advertising is that the blog is exposed worldwide but not only limited to any region. By doing this blog advertising, the advertisers do not need to spend much money on advertising, and the result is effective as the writing and publishing a blog post is really simple and fast. There are many bloggers write about the same product, it increases the exposure of the product too. Also, after bloggers wrote the reviews of the products, the contents will be listed in the search engines, hence more people will be able to read about the products easily when they perform a search in the search engine.

Here is how it works in PayingPost:

Advantages of advertise in PayingPost:
1. You can choose to advertise your product, service or webpage in the relevant blogs.
2. You choose the amount of money to spend on your advertising campaign.
3. The commissions are 50% less compared to the competitors, thus the advertisers will pay less and save some money, but also having better services.

For bloggers:
1. You just need to submit your blog and get approved by PayingPost.
2. Then you can blog in your leisure time and get paid by writing a review about the product.
3. There are two types of methods for you to get review jobs:
i. Login to PayingPost and check if there are any available qualified opportunities for you.
ii. PayingPost Direct is a way for the bloggers to place a badge on their blogs, and the bloggers can negotiate directly with the advertisers.

Affiliate Program:
There is also an affiliate program in PayingPost, you’ll earn $15.00 for each advertiser that creates an advertisement campaign.

Feel free to read more about PayingPost.

Want a free domain name? You can register it with co.cc.
I just registered this domain name for free - www.i-playground.co.cc via this site.

What you will get:
- register a domain name free for life
- register up to 2 free domain names
- You can transfer ownership of your domain to another person

Steps to set up your domain:
1. Go to Domain Settings, then click on Getting A New Domain link.
2. Enter the domain name that you wish to register, and click on “Check Availability” button.

3. You will be told if the domain name is still available, and if it is available, click on “Continue to registration” button to continue setting up your domain.

4. There are three methods to set up your domain:
i. Manage DNS
Here you need to enter the name of the host server.
This might take up to 48 hours for name server changes to take effect and fully propagate through the Internet.
Currently, I am using this method.
ii. Zone Record
I am not sure how to do this.
iii. URL Forwarding
The simplest way is to use the URL forwarding, you just need to fill in the following information:
- Redirect to: your web page or blog’s real address
- Page title: whatever you want
- Frame: You can choose URL Hiding, so that your real address is hidden from visitors
- Meta Description & Keywords: If you set these, your domain would be exposured in google site with high ranking automatically.
5. It’s done!

Referral Program:
- free domain: $0.10 USD
- for sales: 10% ~ 40% commission (40% for PayPal, 10% for Credit Card)
- payment will be sent by paypal everyday once you accumulate $1 ~ $10,000 USD.

My experience:
Just want to share this with you, I’ve tried to register iplayground.co.cc, but the site asked for $6 per year. Someone told me, it may because of I was trying to register a popular domain name. Then I changed to i-playground, and it’s really free.

Feel free to get a free domain name from co.cc.

This is a new targeted advertising network where it is just launched in 1 January 2009, and it is still in beta version.

What so interesting about this site is that, if you sign up now, you will get $10 advertising credit for free. (for limited time only)

When you sign up for AdclickMedia account, Advertiser and Publisher account are all in one. You can earn money as a publisher and also advertise your ads with the site at the same time. Since the site is offering $10 free advertising credit, you can always place your ads in other sites, and meanwhile you can also put the ads for others in your blog.

For Publishers:

- You earn 50% ad revenue from the advertisers.
- You can transfer your earnings to your advertiser account
- You can customize the ad panels to suit your website
- Minimum payout: $50
- Pay to your PayPal account or pay through Check

Affiliate Program:
- You will earn an extra 10% of from your referral revenue. This is really great, as we can earn from our referrals.

For Advertisers:

- You pay only for actual click to your website
- You can control your pay-per-click using daily budget feature
- Show you ads to only the demographics you want

Feel free to join AdClick Media and claim the free $10 advertising credit.

Website Grader is a free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website.
It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors.
It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

It’s really good to analyze our blogs or websites, so that we can make it better especially when you want to gain more traffics to your blogs or websites.

You just need to enter the URL of your website, and your email address, then a report will be sent to you.

You can also put a badge on your website, like this:

I am currently at 69%, I wish I can improve my blog soon.

The site is also offering a free kit of marketing tips about how to improve your websites. You can download the Internet Marketing Kit here.

You can submit your blog to myLot, so that your blog will be exposed to the myLot members. Here are the steps to submit your blog to myLot:

1. Go to myLot blogs page.

2. Click on the “add your blog!” tab.

3. Fill in the information below, then click on “add blog” button.
- blog title, feed URL, viewing URL, upload avatar, polling frequency.

4. After adding your blog, you need to claim the blog and verify this is your blog.
There are two methods to claim your blog:
Method #1: Post Claim
i. write a new post in your blog, and copy the code provided, then paste it in the body of your new post with any title.
ii. publish the post on your blog.
iii. check to make sure your new post is live, then you can click on the “Claim Now” button.
Method 2: Embedded Claim
i. Add the code provided in your blog homepage template.
ii. Make sure the code is on your live blog, then you can click on the “Claim Now” button.

5. Then you’ll be seeing the following screen, and your blog is now awaiting final approval from the myLot Administrator.

That’s it! Now, just sit back and wait for the blog to be approved.

My myLot user profile