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Are you an “A” blogger or just an average kinda blogger?  It is a possibility that it makes a very BIG difference as to whether or not you can make money on Twitter with tweets that are sponsored by advertisers.

You have heard several A bloggers proclaim the virtues of this fabulous method of making serious money online.  You sign up with an advertising company as an affiliate Twitter advertiser and you input your Twitter name and real quick they will tell you how much advertisers will be willing to pay for you just tweeting their ads.

Of course the program explains that your number of Twitter followers makes a difference in the payment per tweet amount.  So I signed up, after all I have about 10,000 followers and that’s nothing to sneeze at.  Holy smokes they say that advertisers will be willing to pay about twenty bucks per tweet, do I want to activate my account?  Hell yes!

So I gave them my name, address, contacts and social security number, after all I will have to report my hundreds of thousands of dollars of income from this new program right?  All I would have to do is sit back, relax and wait for the advertising offers to come rolling in.

Chirp, chirp, chirp, not even a peep to tweet.  So I’m thinking maybe $20 is too much, lets lower it to $18, silence, lower to $15, nothing, lower to $9 per tweet.
The pins dropping around here are deafening.

Okay, so lower it right down to five bucks and lets get this sucker moving, right?
Nothing, no offers.  I could become a lot more famous by putting my hat on sideways and pants on the floor.

So I took the banner ads down.  I never promote anything that I do not believe in, and then I notice that this big time advertising company is running a massive campaign to sign up more affiliate publishers and they seem to be giving away just about every major computer toy that anyone would ever want, for just signing up with them as a Twitter advertiser.

Now this got me to thinking.  Who told me about this in the first place?  Well as I recall it was John Chow, certainly an A blogger, and I signed up under his affiliate link.   I believe John when he tells how much money he is making with this program.  After all he and the other A bloggers are the very best word of mouth promoters aren’t they?

Looking back, I have some thoughts that came to mind, lets see what you think.
Suppose an advertising company could sign up millions of affiliate tweeters, and suppose that company could build a gigantic database of names, contacts, and “Social Security Numbers”!  Would that database have value?

I seem to recall once on one of the credit card company affiliate programs I looked in to, but did not sign up for, that they considered the full name, address, contact and SS numbers as being worth $35.00 each.  Now I am not saying that this is an ulterior motive for this particular advertising company, but it does come to mind.

Lets hear it from all of you satisfied tweeters out there.  All of you average Joes, and mommy bloggers, and hobbyists, that tweet for sponsored ads.  Please share with our readers as to whether or not you have made a ton of money with this program, or if in fact you have made “any” money with this program.

I have a feeling that it will be primarily the big names in the blogging world that are seeing any cash flow.  I know that advertising on Twitter does work and that people do make money with Twitter ads.  For instance, Leo LaPorte, the tech guy, told on a recent podcast that just before he left for the CES show in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago that Ford offered him $10,000 for just one retweet of a Ford ad.  Leo being the most ethical guy that I know of on the internet turned the offer down.

Please let us know your thoughts.

No tool needed.  This is free!

Craigslist.org is set up so as to keep the buyers and the sellers in close proximity to each other in order to facilitate one on one connections, and to lessen the chances of fraud.  If you are selling or buying something you must log in with the city that you reside in or are that you are interested in.

They do not want you to be dealing with people in remote locations as there is no way to determine trust.  There is no voting system like on Ebay where you earn a trust score, so Craigslist wants to keep it local.

Now there is a way to: “Search all Craigslist Cities at Once”, using a specific Google search.

There are many specific websites that have been set up to allow you to search multiple Craigslist listings all at one time.  These tools no doubt work and the entrepreneurs that built those website tools are to be commended.

However it is very easy to do and requires no special online tool.  You already have just what you need and it is called Google.

Here is all you have to do is to enter the following in your Google search box:

site:craigslist.org [keyword]

Make sure there is no space between site: and craigslist, and make sure there is a space between: craigslist.org and the keyword.  You also can use part numbers or use boolean searches, or use quotes to narrow things down.

Then once you find what you are looking for you should contact the buyer or seller and explain that you do not live locally and make your fair and honest offering.

If you like this post, please use the tweetmeme button at the top, or your social bookmarking tool of choice to help this website gain some more readers.  If you provide a backlink to this website, make sure to let me know and I will reciprocate.

Thank you very much.

Have fun.

Rich Hill

http://linkMoney.org

OK, so if you are like me you obsess on your Search Engine Ranking Position (SERPS.)  Over the past three years I have developed a manual method to search Google by keyword.

First I would go to advanced search and set the number of returns to be 100 per page instead of 10 per page.  Then I would type in the keyword that I have been trying to rank for and do the search.  You end up with 100 search results and of course you are trying to see if you are in the top 10 or even the top 100.

So then I used to scroll down one by one until I found my own listing and count my position.  Well about a year or so ago I discovered a way to not have to actually count the returns.  When you locate your listing you hover your mouse pointer over the grayed out word: “cached” near the bottom of the listing, and in the very long string of totally non-nonsensical characters at the bottom of the screen you look for the [CD= number] and that will be your SERPS position number.

So I talked to several programmer friends and asked if a script could be written to do all of this automatically.  At first the answer was always, sure, no problem, but when I asked for an actual price quote to do this everyone decided that they did not want to do it.

I even asked a very well known internet marketer to help me develop it and we would share the profits.  Didn’t happen.  I have been doing some VA business with people in the Philippines and in India both, and had put out feelers to get a price for programming such a tool, and suddenly it appeared in front of me developed by I don’t know who.

All I do know is that this thing is very helpful and the best thing is that it is totally free to use.  You can sign up for a free account and use it as much as you like to check all of your SERPS.  They also have a backlink checker that will show you how many backlinks you have coming to any url.

The website is new as of December 3rd and I can not figure out who owns this site, but it matters not.  It works and works well.  There is a message on one screen that says they have a paid version that will keep continuous tracking of your requests and will send you an email on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.  The only thing is that link does not work and there is no indication as to why.

Perhaps it is just in the free beta version and the paid version will come along later.

So the site is http://easyseotracking.com/

Go there, check your SERPS and Backlinks.

Have fun!
Rich