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NetAudioAds is a new scheme that adds audio ads to sites. It is simple to use and easy to earn Residual Income for promoting big companies such as Taco Bell, Harley Davidson, HBO etc through your blog by broadcasting a 5 second audio ad every time your blog gets a visitor. There is no need for visitors to click on your ads for you to earn.

The ads are only 5 seconds long, so they ought to be acceptable for most blogs/sites and are only played once per visitor. As mentioned earlier, the payout is per play, not per click, so if you have a good amount of traffic the payout is likely to be quite substantial.

They are currently closed for new members. However, if you are interested, you can add yourself by submitting your email address at this link.

For more details, check out the NetAudioAds website and do leave your comments here.

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If you are a blogger and looking to make an extra buck, then Smorty is yet another way to do it. While all of us know Google Adsense, Text Link Ads, Review Me are popular ways to turn your blog into a money making machine, Smorty is a interesting concept where it serves as an interface between the Blogger and the Advertiser.

For a Blogger, there are some fairly simple criteria that your blog needs to satisfy to be approved by Smorty. Once you are through with that, you will get campaign offers which will be presented to you by Smorty on behalf of Advertisers who have signed up. So based on the requirement of the campaign offer and your blog’s content you can accept the offers that you think are relevant.

You are required to post an opinion article based on the details given in the campaign offer. I however noticed an error in their FAQs. While the FAQs state that each article that you post will bring you a minimum of $6, there is an opportunity for $4.80 that I can see when I login. Coming back to the topic, Smorty states that depending on your blog’s page rank, you can receive offers of higher value, even upto $100. Once you are done posting the article, you will have to submit it to Smorty admin for approval. The approval process takes about 5 days.

An interesting thing that is in favor of Smorty is that they pay you every week and the amount is directly credited to your PayPal account, which is free for everyone to use. This is one reason I think bloggers must use Smorty to blog for money.

From the Advertiser’s perspective, in order to advertise on blogs, you are required to bid a minimum of $10 per opinion post. The higher your bid, the better would be the quality of the blogs that will be involved. As for a particular higher bid, Smorty filters and targets only blogs which have a higher pagerank.

This is a great opportunity for any Advertiser to increase his back links to his/her site which directly contributes to increased visibility and popularity of the website on the Internet.

Overall, I feel Smorty will cater to all the new bloggers who want to get paid for blogging and help them sustain till they are accepted by Review Me, PayPerPost etc which have higher requirements and larger payouts.

Declaration: This is a sponsored post.

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Ankesh Kothari has developed an interesting Wordpress Plugin called ‘Buy Me a Beer‘ that allows my blog readers (as well as him!) to buy me a beer via Paypal. The plugin has options to add a ‘Buy Me a Beer‘ button to

1. The sidebar

2. At the bottom of all posts

When the readers click on that button, they are taken to the secure PayPal page from where they can donate money to buy me a beer! For those who prefer non-alcoholic drinks, there is an option to replace the beer mug with a coffee cup.

Quoting Ankesh on why use a ‘Buy Me a Beer’ button instead of a ‘Donate’ button,

Why add a “Buy Me a Beer” button instead of a simple “Donate Money” button?

Past experience shows me that asking people to donate money by giving them a specific reason increases donations by 200%!

So what are you waiting for? I’m thirsty … Buy me a beer!

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Text Link Ads have introduced a new feature called the ‘Hotlist’ which allows you to save inventory that you are interested into a list that will always be there when you login. As an introductory offer, not only can you save 15% of new ads purchased this week, the discount holds good for the life of the ads. Do remember to use the coupon code ‘hotlist’ (without quotes) at Checkout. This is the mail i received today from Patrick Gavin, one of the founders of Text Link Ads.

Narayanan, we are excited to announce a new feature that will make it easier to navigate our marketplace. The new feature is called the “HotList”. The HotList allows you to save inventory that you are interested into a list that will always be there when you login. This way you can save items that you are considering without putting it into your shopping cart or worrying about losing it in our ever growing marketplace!

You will see the HotList icon when browsing our marketplace after you hover over the “reveal” link of a listing. We hope you try it out and to celebrate our new feature you can save 15% off new ads purchased this week only. This discount is good for the life of the ads and you just need to use the coupon code: hotlist at checkout. Head over to TLA now.

For all those who haven’t heard about Text Link Ads, Text Link Ads or TLA is the premier targeted traffic and link popularity ad firm. They specialize in placing static html links on high quality, high traffic web properties. They work with a wide range of clients from Fortune 500 firms to individual website owners.

You can sign up for Text Link Ads by clicking on the banner below and start monetizing your website. Do note that it is one of the highest performing ad networks for bloggers. Start monetizing today!

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