Make Money Online Free Fast and Easy Review
The best way to get paid online surveys referrals is to make a blog which is what this whole blog is about. I thought I would do my first blog review and I have chosen TriNi’s blog Make Money Online Free Fast and Easy as the first one.
The second you land on her blog you know that the blog owner really cares about it (and likes pink). The main reason I chose her blog is that it has the makings of a real flagship blog that she can use down the line to join affiliate networks and make money. It is better than 99% of the other CashCrate “blogs” which people slap up on Blogger.
This blog looks pretty and it looks coordinated and you can tell that someone has spent a lot of time putting it together. Most of all, the pink color helps to give it a personality and that is a good thing. The blog looks alive, it is updated regularly, and through it you get to know a little bit about the person called TriNi.
What Is The Goal Of The Blog?
The real question though, is what is her goal with the blog. Many people like to blog and just like having a place where they can record their thoughts and maybe have someone read them. They don’t care about making money. Other people blog because they want to make money and that is the only reason they do it. A third group might fall somewhere in between those two. In other words, they like blogging and would probably blog for free but they would like to make some money too.
I am going to assume the one and only goal of this blog is to make money in which case I have a few suggestions. The first is to do away with as much of the “clutter” as possible. If you have a blog that you want to make money with, you need to do away with as many of the distractions as you can. Your sole purpose with the blog is to get targeted traffic to it, have them sign up for an offer, and then leave. That’s it. Come, sign up, leave.
Get Rid Of The Clutter
In my opinion, the PayPal piggy on the right sidebar needs to be taken out because I bet not one person has ever donated a dime. It looks great but it is a waste of space and a distraction that will never make any money. Same thing for the Associated Content widget as that makes no money either and it a way people can leave or get distracted before they sign up.
I also do not like Twitter (I might be in the minority about this) and would take out the “Follow Me On Twitter” and the Twitter updates at the bottom. This is purely my opinion but I just don’t see how Twitter will ever make any money for a blog owner. An argument can be made that it does help legitimize the blog as a “social” blog but then again if you want to make money you are not going to do it with social traffic. I understand the reason for leaving it in but I just wanted to make the point that the more things you have like Twitter that distracts the viewer from signing up for offers, the less money you might make.
I would also try to consolidate the categories in the middle widget that goes way down the page. Holy cow, I have never seen so many categories on a blog and all the bottom ones only have one entry! Again, all those categories serve as a distraction. You want things simple so that they arrive on your blog, sign up for something, and leave.
Too Many Choices Are Bad
One thing you learn in advertising class if you have ever taken one is that you don’t want to give the viewer, listener, or reader too many choices. Many people make the mistake of covering their blogs with banner ads, text link ads, and any other kind of ad they can think of. The mentality is “well, I just want to give my readers lots of choices and lots of variety of choices” and “maybe they will sign up for everything”.
In actuality, too many choices is a bad thing. When presented with a lot of choices, most people usually just move on because it is hard to make decisions. Making a choice between A, B, C, D and maybe more is hard because it requires you to evaluate things and that is more than most people want to do. Also, almost no one is ever going to sign up for several or more offers so putting lots of offers up hoping that people will sign up for them all is a dream.
I rarely have more than 2 or 3 choices on any one of my blogs that I hope to make money with. Again, you want someone to land on your blog, concentrate on the one or two things you have to offer, and then either sign up and leave or just leave. If you present only one or two options for them and they don’t like either one, they will leave and there is nothing you can do about it. But you want to make it easy for them by saying “this is what I am offering you: A or B and hopefully you will try one of them”.
All this being said, TriNi’s Make Money Online Fast has 7 GPT sites that she hopes you sign up to but THAT IS NOT ALL BAD. In this case she is displaying the sites she belongs to and that is what her blog is about so it might be OK. I think the offers kind of run together too much and are a bit hard to tell what is what but that is just a layout issue. Again, make things as simple and clear as possible. I would maybe have less offers but that is a personal choice. I would for sure have the best performing offer on top and the second best one below it etc (which she probably does).
This Can Be Her Money Making Flagship Blog
One of the really good things about this blog is that she can write about anything money related and it will fit in. If she wants to change focus to some other way of making money or write posts about something else related to money it will look pretty natural. The blog looks great, as I mentioned before, and she can proudly point people to it and say “that is my blog” and get accepted into affiliate networks if she wants to. It is also something that she can continue to grow over time and hopefully be able to make into a money making machine.
In order to make it into that money maker though, TriNi will have to continue to get links, links, and more links. She needs to write articles and submit them to EzineArticles as well as a few other article directories. She needs to always leave comments on other blogs with keyword anchor text and not her name when possible (some bloggers will delete your comment if it is not your name).
Most importantly if I were she, I would try to do link exchanges with other bloggers. The problem here is that her blog is such a good blog that she doesn’t want to be linking out to many of the crappy CashCrate blogs that she might come across. 3 way link exchanges are best anyway and if I were TriNi, I would develop one of her other make money blogs a little more, and then she can offer a link from one of her other blogs in exchange for a link to this blog. If she has multiple blogs that are all decent, then she will be able to facilitate 3 way link exchanges more often.
It is too bad more CashCrate bloggers don’t have well thought out blogs they take pride in like TriNi does. If she works hard, she will be able to make it into a solid money maker and all her efforts will be rewarded. But in order for that to happen she needs a lot more anchored backlinks.
Aw thank you! And yes I agreed with most of what you said. I know I need more links. I’m lazy.. it’s a fact lol. I really hate that part the most about SEO but I’m working on it. I try to spend at least half hour or more a day working on getting some links to my blog. I need to do more.. but I really REALLY hate it lol.
As for the categories.. I definitely agree and I’ll try to clean it up a bit! It’s long due haha.. I know I have a bunch of stuff that shouldn’t even be there.
As for the goal of my blog, yes it is to make money. But I try not to leave out my personality too much so sometimes I might include “clutter” but I try to keep it at a minimum. I think little personal things sometimes make my blog more interesting to people so that they can see that I am in fact a real person with a real life and not some “money making guru” that talks about money all the time. But I do see your point.. it can distract people sometimes. I guess it is a personal choice.
With the 7 banners I have on my site at the top, I actually make more money having them all there. Most of my referrals sign up to at least 3 or 4 of them once they choose to sign up to one! I often thought about removing them, but I decided against it. Also many people come to my blog and find that they are already a member of one site, and choose to sign up at another they might have never heard about or tried before. Ex, there are so many people that are already members of cashcrate, but when they visit my blog they might find that their are other sites as well that they can make money with. Again, another personal choice.
With the Twitter and the Piggy, I like Twitter, cuz it’s where I show personality. Again, I don’t want to become one of those people that ONLY show their money making side online. I only say so because I myself tend to move away from people like that. I wouldn’t want people to feel the same about me. I’ll give you an example, you said you aren’t familiar with Twitter. Now if someone follows me on Twitter, and I choose to follow back, but then they are ALWAYS just posting links to their blog or anything else, with no personality what so ever, I automatically “unfollow” that person. As for the Piggy, I got a penny one time lol.. but maybe I’ll think about removing him.. or at least moving him lower down the page and not in the upper fold. As for the associated content widget, since I talk about writing articles on my blog as a way of making money, I thought I’d keep it so that people can see a sample of what my writing is like. That you don’t have to be an expert to do it. But I understand that it’s just another means of exiting my blog. I’ll reconsider having it there.
In all seriousness though, I really appreciate you reviewing my blog.
Thanks alot, and I take all that you said into consideration cuz hey.. after all.. you’re the expert here 
Thanks again!
TriNi
Yes, you make valid points about those social things and I do agree they may help people like you and thus more likely to sign up under you. The more personality you can show has to be good I would think.
I didn’t think people ever signed up for more than one offer but if you say they do, I may be wrong. Again, it might be because they like you and your blog and don’t leave as fast as they leave my blogs.
And you need to change your habit of leaving your name in front of your anchor text on comments! ONLY do that if you have determined that the blog owner will not accept your comment unless you leave your name too. When you comment on other blogs or where ever you leave your links, try to determine first whether you can just leave the anchor text by seeing what others are leaving. If you see other comments with just anchor text then leave out your name. If you see only comments with real names in them then add your name like you are doing to the anchor text.
Remember links are money, they are what will get you paid. Yes they are super boring to get but they are what will end up making you money as they help to get your site to the front of the search engines.
Ok thanks.. yeah I know I tend to always leave my name because I think owners might think I’m just commenting to get a link in and then delete my comment :/
I will work on building backlinks.. Told ya, I’m in this for the long haul.. no matter how long it takes
Thanks for all the help! REALLY appreciate it!
I would appreciate it if you could take a look at my blog and let me know what you think. I’m going to get a custom domain for it and make it my flagship blog in about a week. I’m working on gaining back links through more posts, blogging on other sites, commenting other blogs, and link exchanges. I have similar blogs on about 8 other sites and will begin creating a hub page targeting students, the jobless, and people wanting to earn some extra money. I’m also thinking of changing my keyword phrases. Any tips would be helpful. Thanks.
I think I already looked at your blog and commented about it before. I’m sorry but I don’t have time to do it again. Just do what you say you are doing and keep adding content that is different than everybody else’s. Target those other groups of people and get lots of backlinks that are anchored for different keywords. Try several keywords as some may be easier than others. I spend 80% of my time trying to get links so that should tell you what is important. Of course you have to spend time writing new content for a while until you have a fair amount and again, it should be different from the “I got paid, sign up under me” that everybody has if you can.
Too much clutter is definitely a turn off. It’s just a distraction for people who check out your blog or website. You want most of their focus to be on your posts/content.
Alright so you said that you need to put your main keyword as an anchor backlink in your name but what if you put your name a hyphen and then your keyword would your blog still be found without typing your name. For example if you put your name as Bob – Make money online free and someone type into google make money online free without putting the word bob will my site still be found and is it okay to do that? I always wanted to find the answer to that question.
That kind of a link is better than no link but not as good as a link without your name. You are referring to comments on blogs I think and so your best “name” would be “make money online free”, second best is what you left “Jerry- make money online free”, and worst and worthless is just your name “Jerry”. Of course the link you get from this blog is no-follow so it is of not much use no matter what you do.
Oh okay thanks and I have three more questions
1. How do you tell if a website is no-follow or do-follow?
2. How do you find out if the author is against or allows you to put only your keyword as your anchor backlink do you ask them or something?
3. Can you tell me how my blog is overall you don’t have to give me a full review but just some feedback because I want to know if my website is optimized and how is it all in all?
1) use firefox and get the seoquake plugin which is free
2) look at other posts and comments on the blog. If others are only using their name then maybe that author doesn’t allow keywords. If you see others using keywords then it must be OK.
3) maybe later but I don’t have time right now. Just keep getting anchored backlinks for the keywords you are targeting