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Twitter sure has exploded this year. I remember when I first stumbled across it and wondered why people would use it when it was pretty much just the status update feature that Facebook, and many other social network sites, offer.

As with anything, as Twitter became popular people started to wonder if it would be possible to use it as a platform to make some money. But with so many people using Twitter to make money these days it can become almost impossible to make your tweets heard among the other tweets.

I’ve listed some ideas on how I think you can increase your chances of standing out from the crowd.

Custom Design

I’m in the middle of doing this myself. If you look at the big money makers on Twitter they all have their own custom background design. There are hundreds of thousands of people, just like you, trying to make money and this kind of thing will help you stand out.

Talk With Twitterers With Big Followings

A neat little trick that I have used in the past to gain followers is to find a Twitterer with a big following and engage them in a conversation. If you do it right you’ll find that some of their followers will start to follow you.

Advertise Your Page On Your Site(s)

You obviously have a web site or a blog so why not advertise your Twitter page on it? If you have more than one web site or blog then advertise it on all of them. It is called free advertising.

Run Contests That People Enter By Following You

Next time you think about running a contest, instead of asking people to join your mailing list just ask them to follow you on Twitter. I know a lot of people might just unfollow you as soon as the contest is over but hopefully you will have hooked them with your updates by then.

Place URL In Forums & E-mail Sigs

If you use a message board (forum) then why not put a link to your Twitter page in your sig? This can really make a difference if you are part of a very popular message board. Also, how many emails do you send out a day? If you send a few then why not stick your Twitter page link at the bottom of them?

Drop It When You Guest Post

If you guest post on other blogs then the blog owner normally allows you to have two links to your site in the post as a thank you. You can leave one for your chosen web site or blog and the remaining one as a link to your Twitter Page.

Commenting On Other Blogs

You may have heard that commenting on other blogs in your niche is a great way of receiving traffic (and receiving backlinks if they are do-follow), well next time you leave a comment drop your Twitter URL instead of your site or blog link.

If you have any ideas of your own feel free to leave them via a comment.

I know what you are going to say. “Steven, that sounds like the beginning of one of those scams that I used to get in the post”. Well let me just say that not only did I really earn $50.00 today but I’m going to show you just how I did it so you can do it too!

Isn’t this the part where I now ask you for money to show you how I did it?

Well I’m not going to ask you for any money, but if you still want to give me money anyway then I’m not going to complain at all.

I did it with a company called Linkworth. You might have not heard about them before but I have been singing their praises for quite some time now. They don’t just do blog reviews, they do inline ads, banner advertising, paid text links and many more things.

Here is how I went about earning that $50.00.

If you haven’t already then create a Linkworth Account.

Login to your Linkworth account and go to the affiliate page and grab yourself a banner, button, text link or two.

Put the code into your web site or blog.

Send the referral link to everyone that you know who is trying to make money.

When somebody joins under your referral link, and become active, you are given $50.00.

How easy is that?

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The whole premise of this blog is to not only find ways of making an income on the internet but to also try and find ways to do it that do not involve you forking out any kind of a fee for the privilege

1. Complete Surveys & Offers

Completing the many offers that you will find on GPT sites is possibly the easiest way of making an income. It can become rather tedious having too type in the same information over and over again so my advice would be to only do a handful at a time. I currently do two sittings, one in the morning and one in the evening.

It will not make you rich but it can bring in a nice bit of money if you put in the effort, especially if you can find a number of active referrals as you can earn more when they complete offers as well.

- GPT
- Cash Crate
- Barbie Deal Pays

2. Earn Money Posting Tweets On Twitter

As soon as Twitter started to become popular more and more people started to ask the question if they could earn money from it. There are advertisers who are looking to pay you for posting adverts on your Twitter accounts.

Obviously to avoid spammers they do ask that you have an account that is older than three months and has a good amount of followers and tweets already in place. No point them paying you to send a tweet to your followers if you only have one or two.

- Sponsored Tweets
- Magpie
- Ad.Ly

3. Get Paid To Blog

This is how I, and many others, make the majority of my income. Advertisers pay you a sum of money to write a blog post about their product, event or service and you publish it on your blog for all the world to see.

It is a great way to make money but it can get you into trouble with Google if you do not learn how to keep a good balance of paid and non-paid blog posts on your blog. Google hates blogs that post paid reviews and will take your Page Rank away. I’ve found this out the hard way.

- Buy Blog Reviews
- Sponsored Reviews
- An Exhaustive List Of Networks

4. Sharing Your Photos

Do you like to take photographs? How would you like to turn this hobby into a way to make some money? There are two ways that you can do this.

Break is a web site that will pay you $50 if they feature your picture in their gallery.

There are also sites that you can auction off your photos. Sites such as iStockphoto. There is also Shutterstock who will pay you for every download of one of your pictures.

5. Uploading Files

Did you know that you can actually earn money by getting people to download files? It is perfectly true, for every unique person that downloads your file you will be paid a certain amount of money.

One that seems to pay very well ($0.20-$0.60 per download) is Share Cash but be aware that they only seem to count downloads from United States and the United Kingdom.

6. Review Products And Services

If reviewing things is your game then you can make money doing this. Whether it is a new gadget, the latest music album, or even a web site, people want to know what you think and there are sites out there that will pay you a decent amount for your views.

- Ciao
- Triond

7. Freelancing

This can be a rather lucrative way to make money if you have the skills to do it well. Many web sites and blogs are screaming out for freelance writers to write for them and a lot of them are willing to offer a decent pay in return.

Be careful of how much you charge, you will find many people wanting to pay you a low amount of $0.01 per word. Don’t be afraid to set yourself a price that you think you are worth.

- Guru
- Freelance Free
- Digital Point Forum

8. Write And Sell Packs Of Articles

If you have enough time on your hands you could try writing packs of articles to sell to web sites and blogs that are looking for bulk articles. These work in a similar way to the PLR packs that you will no doubt have seen, only yours will not be sold to all and sundry.

- Digital Point Forum

I hope that this has been of some help to you and I hope that you have found some new ways of making money on the internet. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know if you have come across any more.