A New Way to Organize the People you Follow on Twitter (Beta)

Just recently I open my Twitter account and I have notice something on  the header of my twitter page. See this.

Yes!, it is a new way of organizing the people you follow on twitter. Just Click the Create a new list then a pop up will open asking you to put your list name and the privacy of your list.

After creating your list, then start searching for people and start adding them up on your list. You can also add people from your Following page or anyone’s profile page.

Make Money Writing on Associated Content

Associated Content, known as the The People's Media Company is a get-paid-to-write articles website. It is a place where you submit your articles and earn money. But that's not all, you could also submit your videos, photos, and audio.

To be able to participate as a contributor on AC, you must be 18 years old. If you are living in the United States, you are eligible to be paid both Upfront and Performance Payments. If you are living outside United States you were only capable to be paid on Performance Payments. Your account must be verified and you must have a Paypal account to receive payments.

What are Performance Payments?

Performance Payments are payments based on the traffic to your content and allow you to earn unlimited cash from your text, video, slide show and audio submissions long after they have been published. You earn money for every one thousand page views your content generates (PPM™ rate). The baseline PPM™ rate is currently $1.50 - meaning if you generate 30,000 page views, you're paid $45.00 in Performance Payments. As your library of content grows and your total page views accumulate, your Clout level increases. When you reach Clout 7 and beyond, your PPM™ rate will gradually increase up to a maximum of $2.00 per thousand page views. Visit your Account page to see your current estimated earnings and track your page view statistics per piece of content from the Content section of your Account page.

What is an Upfront Payment?

An Upfront Payment is a payment for your content offered before it is published. It is in addition to the money you can earn via Performance Payments. You must be a citizen or legal resident of the United States with a verified account to be eligible to receive these offers.

How much do AC Pays

AC pays upfront ranging from $1-$20 per article. AC does not pay upfront on photos,videos and audio. AC pays $1.50 per thousand page views of any type of contents. If your clout level reaches 10, that is equivalent 1,000,000 page views, you will be paid $2 per thousand page views.

These are only basic information you need to know on AC. If you want to know more about AC visit their FAQ page here. http://www.associatedcontent.com/help.html

6 Steps on How to Find Legitimate Paid Surveys Online

If you are looking for extra bucks using paid surveys online, then this guide will help you find which is legitimate and which is not. These are the specific things you should be looking before joining paid surveys online.

A well designed website. The website should be professionally designed and easy to navigate. It should not be a website that looks like a drawing of a 5 year old kid.

Privacy Policy Page. The survey site should have a privacy policy page stating that they will not sell your private information. It should be define how your email address is use and how your information is shared.



The FAQ section. The FAQ section of the survey site should contain the frequently asked questions with clear answers. If the questions and answers are not clear, then you should be suspecting if they are legitimate.

Contact Form or Support Page. There should always be a contact form or support page. Some sites also put there company number. It is an indication that the site is legitimate.Of course the Contact form or company number should be accessible.

Forum. There should be an active forum where users can discuss everything about the site and other matters like payment proofs, tip and tricks to maximize earnings etc..

Membership is free. If the site ask you for payment in exchange for your membership, then you should be staying away. The site will only eat your bucks and leave you crying. It should be free since the site have already a cut on the advertisers payment which is paid unto you.

Are Paid Surveys Online Real Or Scam?

Most likely, you've seen many ads spread all over the internet about online surveys. The question is, are they real? Or just a scam? I've tried joining survey sites like surveysavvy and surveyspot but never cash out a single cent. Why? I've never had a survey to be answered. I have never answered one because most surveys are not available in my country, Philippines. And one more reason it doesn't fit my profile. They look for professionals and not a student like me.

Even though I've never cash out from these online survey sites I can guarantee you that there are legitimate survey sites that really pays. It does not make you rich but it will make you earn couple of hundreds. It is okay because is is free and they do not spam you. You can try these survey sites that really pays: Greenfield,brand institute, surveysavvy, Synovate, pinecone, NPD surveys, Lighspeed, Your2cents, opinion outpost, ipsos, American consumer opinion, Surveyspot and globaltestmarket. Or go to this link for top listing of paying survey sites: http://www.paidsurveyworld.net/top-paid-surveys.htm

Tips and Tricks from http://www.paidsurveys.co.in/surveytips.htm


•Signup with as many paid survey sites as possible. Be honest with your personal details while signing up.

•It may be better if you use an email address specifically for this purpose.

•Bookmark any sites that have a login section, creating a separate "Surveys" folder in your favorites. That way you can easily access all you survey panels

•Many survey sites have a "profiles" section where you can answer questions about your interests, home, job and other details. Be sure to fill out all profile surveys as this increases your odds of being selected for a survey.

•Check your email daily for survey invitations. Many surveys will remain only as long as the required number of respondents are reached. So, if you are early, you can get more surveys.

•It is better to participate in a survey, even if it for a drawing. The odds of winning the drawings are quite good as the number of participants are limited and the prizes are also good.


•Be honest while doing the surveys. Your opinions are important for the company conducting the survey and as they are paying you. They are entitled to get an honest opinion from you in return for the rewards they give you.

•Get a free personal Paypal account as many sites pay by paypal.

•Roboform is a nice program that will store information such as your name, email, address etc. and will save you lots of time while registering for paid survey sites. It will also save your login names and passwords so you need not remember them all.

Google Doesn't Care About Our PageRank Anymore?

Just recently I have posted about my quest in achieving a PR3 in 90 days. Then I run a blogsearch about page ranks then I read an article saying that Google Quietly drops PageRank from Webmaster Tools. Google had indeed remove Page Rank statistics on Webmaster tools.

Susan Moskwa from the Webmaster Central team explained it was removed by Google because Google doesn't want webmasters to focus too much on pagerank. This is a good thing for webmasters since they worry so much about page rank. I myself become so obsessed about how will I rank high.

And since this is what Google wants, I will not continue anymore my quest on PR3 in 90 days and getting a PR10 backlink from Adobe. Was my decision right or wrong? If Google truly don't want us to worry too much on our rankings, it is much better if Google will give us all a PR of 10.

The Quest for PR3 Ranking in 90 days

Our goal is to climb up to the top of the Search Engines.Some got a very competetive niche and they have to prove to the Search Engines that their blog is more relevant than the others. Bloggers are  having hard time to promote their blog because of lack of time and lack of money. Having a thousand of quality backlinks doesn't have to be time consuming or costly. There are many ways to generate free PR backlinks. In the  next 90 days here is what you will do to achieve the goal of PR3 Ranking in 90 days starting now.

1. Submit your blog to directories. Submit your blog to directories as many as you can that is related to your niche. Submit it manually or automatically using semi-automatic softwares or services.

2. Write atleast three articles per week and submitting to article directories. In short, you will do article marketing. I've read that this method is very effective. Article directories also bring extra traffic to your blog.

3. Post to social networking sites.  Social networking sites are best tool for fast indexing and also bring in tons of traffic. Social networking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Propeller have a high Google Ranking. There are available softwares that you can use to speed up your submissions to multiple sites at one time.

4. Submitting RSS feeds to RSS directories.  Rss feeds are important in backlink building. If you don't have one have it now. You can again use RSS submitters to submit your RSS feed automatically. If you don't have RSS feed, you can do blog commenting to do follow blogs.

5. Joining forums related to your niche.  Post to forums atleast 10 times a day. Forums are indexed by Search Engines and have high ranking. Make sure to leave your link at your signature to gain backlink.

Having yor blog rank high to search engines will bring you tons of traffic. Thus increasing your income!

PR10 Backlinks from DP and Adobe: Is It for Real?

Last June, I wrote about Free PR10 Backlink from Google. Then just now I Googled how to get a PR10 backlink aside from that method. Then I've found out this post about getting PR10 backlinks on howtorankhigh.com. I've read that there are rumors that someone can get you a PR10 backlink from Digital Point Forum. Also I've read that you can get a pr10 backlink by utilizing Adobe. Hmmm..Let us try these methods I've found on howtorankhigh.com. I'll report back if anything happens to my ranking.

…if your company has done some development using Adobe products, here are a few examples of how you can get involved and subsequently rewarded….

1. Apply for the 2008 Adobe Max awards. Their 2007 site has a PR8 and both winners and honorable mentions get a PR7 backlink. In fact you get more link love if you are an honorable mention then you do for winning, so it pays to have a good but not great submission.

2. Take part in Flex Camp!

Hang around and get interviewed for quotes and you can get a backlink from a page like this one.

3. Get involved with the Flex dev community. Submit content, and you get an “About the author” plug at the bottom of your entry – write a very long entry and they break it into multiple parts – more links for you.

4. Another option is to write some content for the Edge newsletter!

See, just because a full flash web site makes you cringe does not mean you should stay away from using Adobe products for development. I’ve seen a new site come out of absolutely nowhere to a PR7 with just a few Adobe.com back links.
(Source: http://www.seowrench.com/pr10-adobe-free-backlinks/)

In another post from bayaw.com on Aug 08, it lists down the actual steps to get there by going through the Adobe forum/ communities.


1. Go to http://www.adobe.com then click “Communities”

2. New page will show, Click the “Forum” link, on the new page click the topic you want to join, I prefer Acrobat because I regularly used the said adobe product so for sure I can relate on it.

3. Click the “register” anchor link. You need to register to the site forum to gain back link and post some thread from it.

4. Once you’re done registering and you’re in the forum area where you can modify your profile information, click the “Preferences” link then click “Personal Information”. This is the place where you can add back link to your site. There are two field where you can add your link first is in the Your homepage field and second is the Your Favorite URLs field. Used this two fields wisely because they can provide you good do follow back link.

5. Now you have a back link from a pr10 site, all you have to do is explore the forum and post some question or answer some thread to provide a way bot find your account where your back link is located.

(source: http://www.bayaw.com/2008-08-31/how-to-get-backlink-from-pr-10-website.html)

5 Steps in Choosing Your Twitter Name

Your twitter name may attract or repel  followers so it is important that you choose the right name to success on Twitter. Follow these simple steps.

1. Your twitter name must be your message. This works well if you are promoting a product. Say for example a follower is looking for pc's. Then your name will be on his search results if you have a name with pc or something related. Your real name works well on Facebook but not much on Twitter.

2. Always check if the name you chose is available. People are buying and selling popular names now on twitter. Thousands of popular names are already taken. You can place numbers and will still show on the search results but you may not want to be accused as a copycat of that popular name. So try to be unique instead.

3. Make your name short. Often people search name with only one or two phrases. So if your name has three, I don't know if they will be interested in  following you. Also, retweeting your updates won't fit since your name occupies most of the characters on the text message. A 12 - 15 character limit is a good choice.

4. Fit your bio on your chose name.  Imagine a company with a pc on his name but selling something not even related on his subject. Catchy isn't it? ahahaha. You account will be suspended for doing so. Your bio on Twitter must be almost the explanation of you chosen name.

5. Stick to one account. If you are promoting a single product, using many accounts will be confusing for your followers. Use multiple accounts if you have several products to promote that are not related with each other.

There they are! The 5 steps in choosing your Twitter name. I need your feedback readers.