Here is another way for earning money blogging that I use quite frequently. InPostLinks is another blogger / advertiser marketplace from the Izea family.

InPostLInks comes from the Izea family, the same as PayPerPost. But, they are quite separately different.

For a start, InPostLinks does not just accept any blog. You have to have a blog that has at least 20 content posts, spread out over at least the last 90 days. Your blog will be reviewed by their support team, who will reject it if it is obviously just their to make money. They want quality blogs.

Earning Money
This is easier said than done! You must keep logging onto the system and looking to see if any opportunities have appeared that you are eligible for. If there are any, you reserve a slot and are given a link.

You then write a post about this link. Anything will do, as long as it is on the theme of the provided link, but it must not review the website in the link. You are expected to write about 200 words, although quite often posts as short as 160 words are about all I can manage and they are accepted.

You can submit as many established blogs as you like and can take up to 4 opps per day per blog. Once you have completed an opp in 1 blog, your account is then benched for that opp (you cannot take the same opp in another eligible blog).

How You Are Paid
Submit a link to the post, the post title and tick the terms box. The post is later approved and then 30 days later the whole fee for that post is automatically transferred straight to your PayPal account. No minimum fees, even if it is a $0.50 post it is sent on the 30 day mark and you don’t pay any fees.

Who Is It Suitable For?
Bloggers with established blogs (90 days plus) with some PageRank (ideally PR2 plus seem to get most ops) running blogs that are genuine content blogs.

The Disadvantages
The only way to get ops is by logging on throughout the day and reserving one the moment it appears. One day I tried to reserve over 20 consecutive different ops and between seeing they were available and hitting the reserve button, other people beat me to it. Very frustrating.

The other problem is the price. Considering you are expected to write around 200 words, I’ve seen offers for PR3 blogs as low as $0.50 and even higher PR requests in very niche areas for next to nothing. The payments the advertisers are offering can be very low. If you are lucky, you might grab a $5.50 task for a PR3 blog, but these don’t appear often.

So with the bun fight to get work and the low prices that exist on a lot of it, it is not my favourite system.

Summary
The lower prices and the fight to get opps plus the account benching mean that the potential earnings are far lower than through its sister PayPerPost, but it is very easy to work with as there are no individual post requirements every time you do an opp.

Low PR blogs are going to get next to nothing in InPostLinks and new blogs / spammy blogs / those just for money are not going to be accepted, so there is a good quality control. If you are none of these, then you can sign up and logon each night to see if there is anything there for you.

Well worth joining, even if you are only earning $50 per month.

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I promised a couple of weeks ago a series based on ways to turn your blog into a money making machine, so about time I actually started to put down the ideas!

So, to start with, my most successful and probably my favourite way to monetise a blog is via PayPerPost.com. I’ve already talked in a lot of detail on these pages about using PayPerPost, so what is it that makes it so good?

Well the latest version, PPP4, is just an open market place between bloggers and advertisers. There are absolutely no acceptance criteria, other than you own a blog. That blog might have been created 10 minutes ago on a free system and you can still submit it to the system and hope for work to appear.

Earning Money
You earn money quite simply by posting on your blog. The system provides the link (or links) that you have to post to your blog, maybe a few requirements and a minimum word count. You write the post, submit the link and the advertiser approves it within 3 days, or can request changes or just reject it outright. Should they not approve it in 3 days, it is auto approved.

30 days after submitting the post, as long as it is still found on the same URL and the link is still in place, the fee for that post is transferred from your confirmed balance to your earned balance. When this reaches $50 you can cash it out, although if you are desperate, you can cash out less than that for a $2 fee.

How You Are Paid
By PayPal. There are no PayPal fees to cover – these are all prepaid by PayPerPost, hence the minimum cashout or $2 fee. Payment usually arrives in seconds into your PayPal account.

Who It Is Suitable For
One word – bloggers!

Whether you are low or high traffic, low or high Page Rank, few or many Yahoo backlinks you can sign up and get posts. Recent changes have made it easier for advertisers to pick those bloggers who are from native English speaking countries, which seems to be moving opportunities to these places and away from non-native speaking countries, so if you are from one of these then you might not get as much work.

Also, there are many complaints from bloggers about low levels of opportunities. But, usually the blog is full of spelling or grammatical errors, or too much advertising or other aspects that are putting advertisers off.

If you have a good blog, say PR2 or above, then there can be plenty of work at a price that you set yourself.

The Disadvantages
Yes, there are a few problems. Advertisers set up the opps themselves and sometimes get the setup wrong, demanding hundreds of words per post having clicked the option for just a link only. However, maybe there has been a system change as I haven’t seen that recently.

On the same theme, some advertisers request 30 word posts and 3 links and other equally silly requests which do them no good and can harm the blog.

Summary
If you have a well written blog with a few Yahoo Backlinks showing, then you should be able to get at least a few opportunities from the system. PR0 / PR1 blogs seem to get a lot less work, but there is some there for them to get going. As with any of these systems, the work is in fits and starts. But it is well worth joining and probably the best of the lot.

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Making Money From Your Blog

Over the next few weeks, in an occasional sort of series, I will be looking at a variety of ways to turn your blog into a money making system.

To follow the whole series, keep an eye on the RSS feed, or just keep coming back and watching the Blog4Cash tag. In summary, the different ways of turning a blog into a cash system are:

Sponsored Posting – in return for writing a review or an article and a link the advertiser pay you some cash! This method is possible for both high traffic and high Page Rank blogs, plus even low traffic & rank blogs can make an income. You just need to know where! PayPerPost, ReviewMe and others are the sites to look at here.

Pay Per Click – Google Adsense is the leader in this system, in which you can drop a few blocks of adverts on your page and the system works out the best adverts to display, these being those most likely to interest your visitors and tempt them to click on the advert. Once they click, you earn cash! But Adsense is not the only option, with infolinks and others offering the adverts in your existing text.

Affiliate Selling – Only really suitable for sites with plenty of traffic, you can display adverts that you choose and when someone clicks on the advert and then makes a purchase, you earn a sales commission.

Banner Adverts – There are also system that allow you to display banner adverts for them and you just receive a regular ‘rental’ payment. As simple as that!

That’s just a taster! More details on the relevant companies involved to follow!

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