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Coke zero is introducing their new home page where you can create movies from old black and white clips. In addition to cutting and pasting the visuals you can write your own dialog for your movies.

When done, all movies will enter a competition to get the highest rank.

According to TechCrunch Shoppero launched in Germany two months ago and are already among the top 3000 sites in Germany.

Shoppero is a mix between a shopping site and a community. It is possible to link directly to products, making it very similar to an affiliate sale, and advertise on a blog with Shopperos widget.

A blogger making money from Shoppero would 20% in commission for direct sales and 60% in commission for advertising using their widget. There is also some money to be made from writing reviews. I didn’t really understand if that was based on generated traffic or if it the content that is paid for.

This seems to be nice train to catch. I assume this is the kind of community it pays well to be in on from the beginning.

Since this blog is new and lacks a decent page rank the traffic based revenue opportunities are quite limited. Even if I have a high click through rate on contextual ads and affiliate links the absolute numbers are low.

I have found that writing reviews for those review networks accepting low ranking blogs is the best initial monetizer. Since every review is also a post it will increase your search engine surface and generate more future traffic.

A big mistake I believe I made when writing my initial reviews is that I focused only on the requirements of the opportunity. If the requirement was 100 words I wrote 101 words and submitted the post without giving it a second thought.

Now that I have thought about it a little more I am a bit sorry I didn’t do more. Future advertisers will read those reviews and only see some words surrounding the advertisers link. My uninspired writing made the reviews look more like bought links than real reviews. By writing good reviews the price will be higher than other blogs with the same page ranking. The reviews will be more than just paid links.

To become a better writer you need to read a lot. The magazine business these days is all about writing in a way that will make both readers and advertisers happy so MagsDirect can surely help you making more money from your blog.

Since writers for magazines are treated as journalists, in contrast to bloggers, there is still lots of information that you will read first in a magazine.

MagsDirect is a site that sells subscriptions to a wide vareity of magazines. Whithin their 100% satisfaction guarantee they credit an ammount coresponding to the outstanding issues to the original payment.

If you are dissatisfied for any reason, you can cancel your subscription and we will credit you via your original payment for all issues that haven’t yet been sent to you.

Your contact and personal information will never be sold or rented or used for direct marketing or spamming.

The business section offers almost a hundred different publications. That may be a bit overwhelming to browse, but I found the full category listing on the first page to be well balanced.

In my search for ways other than Google Adsense to make money from this blog I found an ad network called Bidvertizer who’s ads looks a lot like Google Adsense. I’ve added it to the Swedish counterpart to this blog and to my other English blog to test it out. Neither of those blogs make much money from ads so I can’t say much about the click through rate in comparison with Google Adsense.

The range of ads that Bidvertizer offers is far from Google Adsense, but you get far more information about the advertisers. I guess it would be hard for Google Adsense to be equally transparent since they have so many advertisers.

Bidvertizer has referral programs going both for getting advertisers and publishers. Advertisers get free clicks for $20 when signing up.

One big thing I think is in favor for Bidvertizer is that their threshold for doing payments is as low as $10 compared to Google Adsense that waits until the month after you have earned $100.

Another cool thing in favor of Bidvertizer is that you can customize the ad units a bit more than in Google Adsense. That might make your click through better with Bidvertizer than Google Adsense.

clixGalore is an international affiliate network based in Australia and they have quite a large number of advertisers. Their home page targets readers from Great Britain, USA, India, Japan and New Zeeland, so I guess they target mainly sites in English.

Payments are done when you reach USD 50, a threshold I find quite low compared to other affiliate networks. You can get the money transfered to a PayPal account (which you should have if you’re serious about making money online) so you don’t have to pay any extra fees for checks or wire transfers to your domestic bank account.

The majority of the programs offers compensation for sales. I saw some that pays for leads, but I haven’t found any one that pays for click yet. It seems ‘pay per click’ is a model that is going away. I see less of those each time I check out the offers from my affiliate networks.

Once I had applied to become a publisher in the clixGalore network they replied shortly with a confirmation that I had passed and I have gotten very quick replies for the programs I have applied to.

I have read some comments on the Internet that clixGalore doesn’t pay their publishers properly, but the buzz doesn’t seem louder than for any other service bloggers can use to make money online.

I got to know about Desi Baba when I read a paid review on johnchow.com that Desi ordered via ReviewMe.

Desi writes, amongst other things, about blogging.

At first glance I subscribed to his feed since he has some really good posts about blogging and making money, but after reading some articles and some headers from the archive I removed the subscription. The blog seemed a little bit unfocused to me. That would not have been a surprise if I would have read John Chows review a little more careful.

The blog has a wide range of topics, spanning from Cars and Entertainment to Technology, money and politics. It might draw some users, but since it is so easy to start a blog, readers are getting a bit spoiled with heavily niched blogs.

Desi also runs a link exchange program where you can review his site and get a link back by using ‘blogging‘ as the link back to his site. Since desinotes.com has a page rank of four it is a good deal for the newly started blog. Desi will surely gain from all the back links too, so that page rank of four will probably a page rank of five  very soon.

Bloggerwave is a new service offering bloggers to write reviews (such as this) for payment and advertisers to spread knowledge about their offerings through the blogsphere.

As a blogger I found the interface easy to navigate and my blog was accepted well within the stated 72 hours. Payment seems to be withheld for up to 30 days to check the availability of made reviews, but there is no lower limit for payments to be made as far as I can tell.

I haven’t signed up as an advertiser but the described workflow looks equally simple. I’m not sure about the stated SEO opportunities though, since the search engines might classify these reviews as paid links.

There is some buzz that Bloggerwave is a scam, but since it’s free all a blogger needs to do is remove the post after 30 days if the payment doesn’t show up.

Update: On june 24:th I got paid for my reviews on my other blogs, well within the stated 30 days.