In my experience, any email you receive that begins with the words "Due to prevailing conditions..." is not going to end well.

If, like me, you've joined Freebies4Webmasters then the chances are that you'll have received an email that begins that way in the past 24-48 hours.

In case you don't check your inbox, here it is.

Dear Webmaster,

Due to prevailing conditions for our advertisers, it has been decided we can no longer accept new applications to Freebies4webmasters, and that some existing accounts will be closed.

Some or all of your domains accepted in your publisher account may be removed in the following days due to our advertiser requirements.

Please note that all removed domains that were due payment up to the 1st of October have already been paid.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you in your participation of Freebies4Webmasters and give our best wishes to the further success of your website. Publishers who will remain in our network will continue to be paid as normal.

Best Regards,
Freebies4Webmasters Team

Now the way I interpret that message is that due to the recent page rank update, Freebies4Webmasters will be reviewing publisher accounts, and removing those accounts that don't meet "advertiser requirements". I'd suggest that if your site has taken a page rank hit since the last update then you'll likely find that you no longer meet "advertiser requirements" and will receive a follow up email. How long the process takes is anyone's guess, but I'm wondering if they'll pay out pro-rata if you get booted from their system halfway through the month?

In short, good luck to anyone wanting to stick with them, I hope you don't get booted. For everyone else, I hope you cashed in while you had the chance.

I have now officially made over $1,000 USD with PayPerPost. It's been quite a while since I took an opportunity on this site, largely in an effort to avoid the Google turkey slapping (which seems to have happened anyway), but I've been using it a little on a blog that I've basically just "whore'd" out to pay the bills. The irony being my "whore'd" blog got through the last page rank update unscathed, while this one took a bit of a dive.

I realised a long time ago that page rank is largely irrelevant, besides the warm fuzzy feeling you get when you see your sites page rank go up, the only other thing it's good for is that it means people are willing to pay more for a post or a text link. The idea of Google attempting to control what I do bugs me. Lets not kid ourselves, by penalising people for selling links, posts and advertising on their sites, Google are effectively attempting to control what you can and can't do. Worried about PageRank? Do what I do, switch of the little green bar in your browser and forget about it. Then carry on doing what you'd like.

Ranting aside, I thought I'd share this screen shot from my PayPerPost dashboard.

If you're scared of losing your PageRank, but want to take some paid posts either with PayPerPost or someone else like LinkWorth, I'd suggest setting up a blog that you aren't all that fussed about. Buy a cheap URL, install WordPress, and just start posting. Make it as interesting as possible, then start whacking in a few paid opportunities. Yes, most people would most probably consider it a shameful pimping of self, but unless those people can offer you a sweet $1K for very little output, then tell em' to get stuffed. If you do it right, a blog you pimp out can end up being a nice little cash cow that can help you fund a whole range of other web adventures. You've got to start somewhere.

Click here to go and join PayPerPost.

Click here to go and join LinkWorth.

When I registered with Predictify a while back, I was a little sceptical, I mean to say, their tag line was "Make Money By Predicting Future Events". Were they for real?

Well, as it turns out, they are for real, and they continue to pay out. Don't kid yourself, you're not going to make a fortune with Predictify, but you will make some additional coin, and more than enough to buy a domain name and start your online empire from scratch. What's more, Predictify is actually quite fun. It's like a social networking site with a twist. Get a few friends on board and you could run your own little sports tipping competition. See who can pick the most winners. Bragging rights and bucks.

Here's a screen shot of the payments I've received in the last couple of weeks.

Note the payouts for correctly predicting the outcome for a couple of NFL games. I made $5.37 for predicting the correct outcome in the Patriots vs. Jets game alone. What do I know about NFL? Sweet bugger all. I can name a handful of teams, with one of them being the Dallas Cowboys, and I only know them because of their cheerleaders, so that shows you don't have to actually be an expert in anything to win, you just need to make a few lucky guesses.

Predictify pay via PayPal at the end of every month.

Click here to learn more about Predictify.

I was browsing through MarketLeverage today and saw this offer that people from the US might be interested in.

Do you want the chance to win a $100 American Express gift voucher?

Well if you're a resident of the US, all you need to do is click on the banner below, follow the simple instructions, and you're in the draw.

It's all pretty simple really.

Damn I hate having to insert this sentence in just so the banner doesn't overlap with that Adsense block that sits right here.

I've recently discovered ZIP submit (and email submit) offers, and have come to the conclusion that that are beautiful money making things.

What is a ZIP submit offer?

From an affiliate marketers point of view, a "ZIP submit" offer, is a Cost-Per-Action (CPA) program in which the affiliate marketer earns a set fee anytime a user enters their ZIP code and submits it. It doesn't need to be anymore complicated than that. The user visits the site, enters their ZIP code, hits submit, and the affiliate (you) makes a set fee (usually between $1-$3) per submission.
The companies that pay for this to happen usually do so on the basis that it will generate them leads etc. The affiliate marketers promote these offers because they are usually a good way to make a bit of extra coin.

CliffNotes version, a user makes five keystrokes and hits submit and the publisher makes some money.

Why do ZIP submits work?

People usually comfortable completing a ZIP submit offer as the process does not involve them handing over and real personal information. ZIP submit followed the "Email Submit", which relied upon consumers giving up more personally valuable information, that would make them hesitant to complete the form. That is why the ZIP submit is relatively easy to make conversions on in comparison.

MarketLeverage offer a range of ZIP (and email) submits, and they are definitely worth exploring.

Here are a couple of other examples, check them out, and day dream about the potential... I'm sure there are a lot of affiliate marketers out there making a lot of money out of some of these.

Do you want to start a "Make Money Online" (MMO) blog? Yes? Well, let's be honest, you've missed the boat, that ship has sailed. The world wide web is now flooded with people trying to grab their slice of the pie. I remember hearing a saying once that "nothing original is ever created in a vacuum", and I think that saying can definitely be applied to the whole MMO niche. So with that in mind, here's the definitive list of tips you can follow to become a Make Money Online sheep.
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Do you have an undeveloped domain name just sitting there gathering dust? Personally, I have a couple that were purchased based on the "it seemed like a good idea at the time" principle. I'd tried parking them, but that wasn't working out for me.

So now I've decided to use one of the domains to create my own search engine, at least until I have time to develop the domain further. Keeping in mind that I literally spent 47 seconds on this, take a look at my uber search engine, you can check it out at VikingIdiot.com.

Whilst it may not look like the pinnacle of web design, you shouldn't expect too much from 47 seconds of hard labour, besides that, it's also bringing it some extra cash, from what would otherwise be a dormant domain. Want to know how I did it? » Read the rest of the entry..

PLEASE NOTE THAT SINCE I ORIGINALLY POSTED THIS FREEBIES4WEBMASTERS SEEM TO HAVE CHANGED. THEY DO NOT APPEAR TO BE ACCEPTING NEW PUBLISHERS AND I AM STARTING TO READ REPORTS OF PEOPLE NO LONGER RECEIVING PAYMENT.

When it rains it pours, so here's an interesting way to make a little extra cash. Freebies4Webmasters.com will pay you £5 per month (which is almost $11 AUD) via paypal for displaying a banner ad on three individual pages on your site.

You will receive your free £10 payment for joining when your first banner is live on more than three pages of your site. After that you will receive monthly £5 payments by email if the banners are still on your site.

You can choose the pages you want to have the banner displayed on, and the only criteria seems to be that you need to have the banner on at least three separate pages in order to get paid. What does this mean? Well, if you're trying to monetize a site, chances are you're not making too much money from you "Contact Us" page or your "Disclosure" page, so now you can whack these banners on those pages and you can start earning around $10 per month, plus the £10 (around $21.50 AUD) sign up bonus.

My recommendation, head on over and jump aboard the gravvy train before it is no longer taking on new passengers.

Go join up Freebies4Webmasters.com now.

Edit: Here's a live example (see below) of the banner ad you are given to display. Basically, so long as I display this banner, plus two others (which are on other older posts), I'll get £5 per month. How easy is that??