Hi everyone,

My name is Tim, I live in The United States of America and I’m the new owner of monetizeguru.com. I bought this site on Digitalpoints Forum on March 20th, 2008 for $100 and I think this is a good investment because the domain name is perfect for sharing useful information with everyone. I can’t call myself a GURU because I don’t know how to write ebooks that can help you instantly make money online. What I will do though, is share my journey and experiences with you. Currently, as of this moment, there are 17 readers subscribe to the RSS Feeburner. My goal for this site is to get 200 readers to subscribe by August 1st and 500 readers to subscribe by January 1st, 2009.

In order to better help you monetize your websites, everything I do with this website will be written down with details information so you can follow. This site need a lot of link buildings and I will SEO the site so it will get better rankings in Google. Things will be documented and you will know exactly what I do with this site. I only have 1 hour a day to spent on this site because I have to run a lot of websites, but that’s enough to build a quality site.

I’m not a very good writer. To tell you the truth, I hire writers to do all my writings for me. This is the only site that I will write on and I will try to keep everything simple and straight to the point.

I have introduced myself and set my goal. The next thing I will do with this site is optimizing it for SEO. I will write about that in a few days. After that, I will start link buildings for this site, I will share with you how I build quality links. From that point on, I will keep sharing with you useful tips and keep adding links to bring up keywords ranking. Traffics will be recorded down and I’ll keep updating the stats every months.

Thank you for reading, I’ll talk to you later.

1 month ago, I started using TNX after reading numerous blog posts about them. I read them here:

http://www.jimkarter.com/2007-11-08-tnx-review.html

http://www.blogherald.com/2007/10/01/link-advertising-with-tnxnet-a-review/

You can also Google “tnx.net review” on your search bar to get FAKE positive reviews. The reason most webmasters do FAKE positive reviews of TNX.net is because they want you to sign up under their referrals. When you signed up under their referral ID, they will make commission of links you buy and sell. Remember, Google really hate sites that buy and sell links and if you let them detect you, you will lose value on their SE.

Like many publishers and advertisers before me, I signed up with TNX.net and spent the whole day trying to learn about their system. According to many reviews, TNX was suppose to be much better than TextLinkAds. Their system allows advertisers to place links on individual pages instead of the entire site. This sounds like a good idea because I can sell or buy links for individual pages. In addition “TNX claimed that their links is undetectable by Google”, so this could be a very effective way to build links to your site.

On February 27th, I started to test TNX with one of my sites. The site I used has been established 3 months and it was getting around 100 UV/day from Google. About a week ago, all of a sudden, Google devalued that whole site. I didn’t get banned, but all the pages on that site suddenly lost its ranking. You can check out the stats below to see my traffic.

I was pissed, so I spent about 3 days to look around to find the real reason why I lost all my traffics from Google. After checking all my stats and reading shit load of blogs and forums, I found out that it was because of TNX. Note: “TNX claimed that their links is undetectable by Google”, but I found this link that will detect TNX paid links on your page.

http://www.wmtips.com/tools/paid-links-detector/

I was selling links on my site and the link above detects my paid links. I think to myself, WTF? Learning this, I removed all my links from TNX and I also stop selling links using TNX. If the link above can detect my TNX links, Google can too. Google has started to come down on sites that buy and sell links and they will lower your SERPs ranking if they detect you buying and selling links.

Be smart and stay away from TNX.net. If you want to get banned from Google and lose traffics, use TNX.net. If you want to be successful at internet marketing, ask questions and work hard, don’t look for shortcuts. People who tend to look for shortcuts are the one falling behind. Stick to building quality contents and do what you love. Build quality links by submitting to directories, commenting on blogs with dofollow, submit to article directories, post on forum, and submit to social book marketing sites.

I’m not in the mood right now to write so much because TNX is giving me a headache and I just can’t believed I fall for the “Google cannot detects your links when you use TNX” lie. Remember, if a small site like the site above can detect paid links, Google can too.

Here are more honest reviews of TNX.net:

Google bans tnx link buyers it happened to me

Text link ads may kill your google page rank

What ever your blog is about the best way to earn money from it has always been the following two ways:

• Reviews / Paid Articles

Bloggers have always earned from writing about other websites and blogs for customers as its a good way for blogs and sites to get traffic and so they are easy to sell and it does not damage or effect the blog much and you can do as many of them as you want.

• Private Advertisement Selling

This is also a good way for other sites to get traffic and so other website owners buy these spots. The most popular is the 125 x 125 banner, which they normally sell six of them down in the sidebar and you can sell them for as much as your advertisers are willing to buy them for and you can make a lot of money from them with very little effort as you don’t even need anyone to click on the advertisements to make money.

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I didn’t earn much from February as I only really just started trying to make some money in February.

I only had one source of income for February which was Adsense and so I will post the earnings for February.

February Earnings:

• Adsense: $9.67

I am hoping to make more this month but I have added banner selling, paid posting & adsense and so if I make a few banner sales then I would have made more money in March than in February but I can only post, build traffic and hope

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In my last article I said about how I made a website and after a few hours of building up traffic on it, I sold it.

Costs:

• Domain = $7
• Ads = $5
• Paid Users: $0.50
• Total: $12.50

I sold the website for $30 on DP and it only took a few minutes to get it sold. The profit was $17.50 I didn’t use the ads for that website and so I will be using those ads for promoting Monetize Guru

So a few hours work got me $17.50 profit. Its that easy and if you do that loads of times you can make quite a lot of money from only doing a small amount of work. You can do this sort of thing with many different types of websites and personally I think starting up a load of proxies and making a small amount of money off them and then selling them would make you the most amount of money if your looking for a quick sale.

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