I’ve been using AuctionAds on my blogs pretty much since Auction ads started up in March, 2007.

Do you see the widget in my left sidebar? About a third of the way down? There’s photo’s of items and it says “Current Bid $” below them? Well that’s how I’m using AuctionAds on this site.

You can create vertical or horizontal widgets to use on your site. You can use them in posts, pages or in your sidebars if you’d like. It’s very easy. Plus, once you sign up you not only instantly get $25 added to your account immediately, but you are also automatically entered into their referral program so that anyone that signs up via your link gains you a referral.

You pick the keywords that fit with your site, article or post and AuctionAds finds products on Ebay that are being sold that fit the keyword descriptions.

For example, I just quickly created a widget that would display items listed under humor and this is what my widget looks like:

So what are you waiting for? Try AuctionAds Today!

BTW anyone who signed up, but hasn’t earned anything is apparently getting $25 added to their account too, so check your accounts! and yes, all my links are affiliate links. I’d love it if I could refer you and help you start making some money too.

I just signed up to a site that’s going to allow me to add some great content to my blogs. The site is called The News Room. This site will allow me to include news stories in the form of video, video feeds, images or text articles to my posts.

The content is fully licensed and comes from major content providers such as the Associate press and Reuters.

What’s really great about The News Room is that by using content from the site I can actually make some money. Yeah, content and some extra cash too. I think it’s a pretty sweet deal.

If you want to join in, all you need to do is visit the site and sign up, and then simply browse through the various categories until you find an interesting news story that suits your site. All you need to do at that point is Mash to content. By this I mean just push the mash button in the top right corner of the content and then follow the instructions which allow you to set up how the content looks on your site and then copy the code to paste into your article. It’s really easy.

I was happy to see that I could even find cool video content that suits this site like this news story about Criss Angel the magician. Yesterday he climbed into a cube encased in concrete that suspended 40 feet over the ground near Times Square:

The bonus part about using content from The News Room is two fold.

1. I get paid a certain amount per every thousand views (CPM) for the content I add to my site, and the payout is decent. The lowest is $1 per CPM, and the highest is $4 per CPM. When you consider that a lot of affiliate ads that you can run on your sites, perhaps in your sidebars only pay about .15 per CPM you realize that this could be a pretty good way to make some cash.

2. If someone comes along and they like the video or text article that you’ve added to your post they too can click on that Mash button in the top right of the added content and add it to their own site, and you still make some money by their using the content that they got from your site.

Check it out for yourself. It’s free to use and there’s a great selection of news items to chose from. You won’t be disappointed.

My wife Tricia writes for a blog network called 451press. She’s been writing a blog called Watching House, and she earns a bit of money off the advertisements on her site.

451press just announced that they have openings for several more writers. They’d like to hire new writers for several new and existing blogs. It’s an easy job - just write posts regularly on the site and 451press does most everything else for you. The blog topics range from Arts, internet, crafts, life and current events.

If you are interested in seeing what blogs and blog topics are available scoot on over to Tricia’s site to see the list of 451press blogs that need writers, then visit the 451press site and apply for the job.

Best of luck to you!

Back in December Payperpost introduced a really nice affiliate program that would easily allow any new people interested in writing for Payperpost to sign up. See that banner over in the top right of my sidebar? That’s what Payperpost introduced in December.

Now they’ve introduced another interesting feature. See the badge at the end of this post? It says Review my post. Well, if you click that you can review this post.

I’m sure that you realize that by reviewing one of my posts on your site you’ll be helping to increase my blog traffic, but what’s in it for you?

Well, how about some money? Payperpost is willing to pay you to review my post. Sounds interesting doesn’t it? Payperpost will pay you $7.50 if you review my post. I’ll get a link from your site, maybe a bit more traffic, and $7.50 as well for introducing you to payperpost.

To use this new feature all you have to do is click on that button below. I believe that it will take you to a page where you will sign up for Payperpost. You’ll need to submit the blog that you wish to write your review of my post on at the same time.

I think your blog must be approved before you can write the post. So, please be sure that your blog is eligible for payperpost before you go ahead and do this. Your blog must be 90+ days old, and have at least 20 posts with no gaps of 30 or more days. Payperpost has stated that they are approving new blogs that come in through the Review my post system quickly so you shouldn’t have to wait too long before you can write a post on your site reviewing my post.

I’m pretty sure that they will pay you 30 days after your review is approved - just like they do for all of the posts that I write for them.

Once you sign up with Payperpost and have a blog accepted you’ll be known as a “Postie” and you’ll be able to add this nifty new “Review My Post” badge to your site as well. Then you can start earning money when others review your posts. You can of course also write some of the paid advertising opportunities that you’ll find on Payperpost’s system once you are a member, but if you want to just be an affiliate that’s fine too.

So … who would like to be the first to review one of my posts?