Well I am only five days into my membership with AGLOCO and I have already accumulated 17 total referrals. Not too bad for simply making a blog post and telling a few friends about the program on AIM. I wanted to take a few minutes here and elaborate a bit more on my original post about AGLOCO.
I have been operating this blog for almost three weeks now and I have already been amazed on several levels. The first being that, while I knew blogging was going mainstream and really taking off, I had no idea just how popular it actually is. There are blogs covering virtually any topic that you can think of: technology, love, relationships, real estate, music, financial advice, blogging tips, etc… not to mention the millions of blogs that cover no topic at all, just ramblings from the author about whatever is on their mind. The topics really are endless and it is pretty amazing.
The second thing that I noticed is that it seemed no matter where you look, you can always find someone out to make money. Whether it be writing blog posts for money, advertising for money, or selling financial advice for money, the central theme is all the same: getting paid.
I, like most people, was instantly skeptical about most of this. It just seems too easy to write a blog post and someone pay you money for it. Or, by simply posting a link on your blog, someone will pay you money for it. Like I said, this sort of stuff can be found all over blogs… surely there has to be some sort of truth to it, if everybody is doing it, right?
In reality, these are all valid means of earning an income online. Let’s take writing a blog post, for example. After doing some research on this, I found that there is a website that will pay its blogger members to write reviews of websites, services or other blogs. How does this work? The advertiser (site being reviewed) pays a fee for this service. The blogger gets paid a commission for writing a review. The review is published on the bloggers website, thus driving traffic to the site that is being reviewed. The amount the blogger makes depends on several factors, such as how many hits they get and the reach that the blog has. While this is a decent way to make a little extra money, you need to have a pretty good sized blog to make anything more than pocket change.
So how about the text ads? This works much the same way. A publisher will submit their site to the company, and the company is responsible for selling the text ad spaces to advertisers. The company keeps a portion of the money and the publisher gets the rest. Again, the bigger your site/blog is, the more money you are offered per text ad.
Notice a trend here? Sure, you can make money online, that is clear. People do it every day. But, how can the average Joe make more than a few bucks without running a semi-popular website or blog? That is where AGLOCO comes in. If you are at all interested in making a few quick bucks doing nothing more than you already do on a daily basis (surfing the internet) then I suggest you check out my original AGLOCO post .
