Yay, 3arn.Net is now a PR4

There are usually four google pagerank updates every year. That is, one in every quarter. !st of January, 1st of April, 1st of July, 1st of of October. Sometimes, Google skips an update and sometimes Google goes above the mentioned date while releasing the new pageranks through out the data centers.
I checked my pagerank on 1st April, I didn’t see any change. It was still PR3, I was thinking that there might have been a change but my pageranks just did not change. I did not check on the 2nd of April.
Yesterday, 3rd of April, I was on this random website which gathers all the data about your website like links, PR, Alexa rank, etc. and then tells you the value of your website. It was not until that, when I saw a 4 in front of the pagerank column.
Thinking it might be some flaw in that website, I rushed to several places to check the pagerank and turns out that I was right. My pagerank really did move from a pagerank 3 to a Pagerank 4. There really had been a pagerank update!
I wasn’t really expecting this, but I think that I should have. Over the past couple of months my search traffic from Google has taken an upward trend and my website is now getting better and more stable in the Google search engine result pages.
I used to have a lot of people on my blog striving to get on the top commentators list that I have in the sidebar. Where are they? I’m sure anyone would be interested in getting a PR4 link from the sidebar widget now , just through a little bit of commenting.
I’m not sure if I would be able to make it, but now, obviously my next target is a PR5. I’ll be needing tons of help with that. By the way, if you don’t know what Pagerank is, or want to know how to get a good pagerank then check out my article: How to get a good pagerank.

The Achievements after 7 Months of Blogging

3arn.Net was restarted on 28th May and yesterday my blog turned 7 months old, I am quite happy about it, especially about the achievements of the blog. Like many others, I did not have a huge list of goals, I was just blogging and these achievements were more of an inspiration or treat for the work I was putting in. I learned many things while getting my blog out of the sea and into the glass.  I discovered how to do the same thing in different ways and how to choose the right way to save time and effort. I’ll be frank, I did not work hard at all, in fact blogging to make money is absolutely not about working hard, it’s about using your smartness to do the work! Some distinct achievements during these 7 months are:

• Blog moved from an Alexa ranking of somewhere in 2,000,000 to under 70,000.
• A total of 63,323 visitors(301 on average) and 174,870 page views (833 on average).
• In spite of switching feed once and losing 28 subscribers, presently there are 117 subscribers.
• The blog only went under one Page rank update which was very early for it, so a current page rank of 1.
• Technorati ranking starting from more than 200,000 to under 72,000.

As for myself, I was quite startled by the results of 7 months of blogging, and those stats sure raise a brow. Anyone looking for advertising can grab this golden opporunity since the ad rates have not been increased yet, you can advertise on 3arn.Net. Well, have a nice day because for me it is the time of celebration! 
Update: The blog just went through a page rank update and now has a page rank of 2!

Adsense Free Brings You 155 Free Adsense Templates

Have you ever wanted to have a semi-automated way of making money with adsense? Well, now you’ve got it. Today I’ll be talking about a website called AdsenseFree.Com and it is the website which will help you setup a huge network of websites with adsense.
That’s right, I’m talking about dozens of adsense ready templates ready to make money for you. That is, if you know how to make money with adsense. So basically adsense free gives you a whole bunch of adsense templates that already have adsense on them, they also have a theme and some content on each page.
This is perfect for adsense newbies, people who want to make money with adsense but don’t know how to create a website or simply for those who don’t have time in setting up adsense on hundreds of pages and then finding content for each page. So  by now I know what’s going on in your mind

What’s the Catch?

You must be thinking: Why is this website giving away free adsense templates, there must be some catch. They must be charging some money for the templates in one way or the other.
The fact is, you will not be charged a single penny for the templates and all 155 adsense templates are going to be gifted for you for free. All you have to do is sign up for a normal hosting package which you would have done so if you ever wanted to start up a website. That’s it!
Just for signing up for a nominal hosting package (which you will be needing anyways), you will be given 155 adsense templates ready to do the work for you. Plus, you get many other free gifts from them. Once you sign-up through their recommended host, just send them an email and you will get the reply very soon with the file attached containing  155 adsense templates and other important information.
Now those are not just 155 pages with content on them. I’m talking about 155 templates/categories each of which has their own sub-pages as content fillers. So, each category has around 70 - 150 pages filled with content regarding that category. So if you do the math, that is around 0.15 million pages ready with content and adsense on them for you to make money.
It doesn’t end there. Think how tedious it would’ve been if you had to insert your adsense publisher id into each one of them pages manually. It could easily take you a few days if you are a newbie.
But this sweet package includes a little program which will ask you for your adsense publisher id and then edit each and every page with your adsense publisher id to make sure that those pages make you money once they get traffic.
If you were to put the 0.15 million pages on a brand new website, it would take you a maximum of ten minutes to have thousands of content rich, adsense-ready pages floating around your website like they’ve been lying there for ages. That is the best part of it. However, now comes the real review of this thing which shall tell us whether this thing is good for making money or not.

Can This Thing Really Make Me Money?

This is by far the most important point of this post. You would only want to check this out if you were assured that it would make you money or not and if so then how would it make you money. The only drawback that this thing has is: That the content is not unique.
The content that is put on individual pages under each template or category is taken from article directories. This kind of ruins your plans of getting traffic from search engines to it unless you are really a professional.
If you are a complete newbie, first you should know how to make money with adsense because just putting up a website with 0.15 million pages and not getting even one visitor to it will not make you even a cent for decades.
So, I wouldn’t really recommend this to you if you are a first time adsense user. However, if you already have some experience with adsense prior to this then you might know how to make money with adsense without involving SEO or organic traffic.

For the PPC lovers

This might be the perfect thing if you are a PPC junkie. That is because you have 0.1 million pages and each and every one of them is targeted to a specific thing. So after this if you ever want to get any niche, you might check this website because your little niche might already be a part of this monster empire. You can pin point traffic from adwords, etc. to individual pages and make money off it.
This is called PPC/Adsense arbitrage. This is kind of tough to get a hang of but many people have made several hundreds and thousands of dollars with this (not me) and it gets cumulative with time. Just to let you know if you want to try it out and take the risk, it involves buying cheap traffic through adwords on low-bid keywords and then targeting high-bid keywords on your page and getting clicks on those ads. When your adsense earnings surpass your adwords expenditure, congratulations, you’re making profits!

But what about SEO?!

I know it is sad but SEO might be a no-no situation for this monster empire of yours unless you’re a SEO professional. I already said this before, but what would that SEO professional do here that could get your content indexed and probably get a little share of the organic search traffic is one thing: Domain trust.
By building domain trust you let Google know that you’re not one of those pesky spammers that have thousands of pages with the same content and want each and every one of them to rank in the top.
Simply because, a person whose domain has some authority would never really do such a thing and this differentiates you from the spammers. So my advise would be to try to get links from high page rank websites.
Usually, high authority websites do not link to spam websites. So, you’re standing out of the crowd right there. This can really help your website get indexed and then given traffic eventually. But I must warn you, relying on this can take a lot of time and patience is required.
There you are. I’ve given you the good sides and the bad sides of this program. I’ve told for whom this might not work and also mentioned whom this would work for and how it can be used by them to make money. Whether you go for it or not, the decision is up to you. If you have any experiences with this program, I encourage you to share with others through the comments below.

Bux.to, the story of a Scam

I finally decided to write about the really of Bux.to. I started off with using bux.to around 3 years ago. If you remember well, this is how I got started into making money online. Blogging wasn’t until late 2007 and before that I was heavily occupied with paid to click websites.
To be frank, at that time bux.to seemed to be the best paid to click website to me. In fact, stats prove that it is the most popular paid to click websites as compared to popular paid to click websites of that time. It has risen to below 2000 in the alexa top websites.
So, where did Bux.to go wrong? Quite simple…

Traditional paid to click concept

Let’s go old school (thought it’s just been 3 years, ) and see how the paid to click websites started up. I remember the first paid to click website to be adbux and many other small paid to click websites followed up soon.
How these websites operated was over a simple concept:

1. Advertisers pay the PTC website for visitors to their website.
2. Users sign-up to the PTC website and get paid for clicking ads.
3. The PTC website takes a part of the cost per visitor paid by the advertiser, and gives the rest to the users.

That’s all!
Pretty basic huh? If this goes on a small scale, it’s all cool. But when you have big ambitions and want to make a lot of money, you have a little problem.
I’m sure that there aren’t a lot of wise webmasters or bloggers out there who would want to be spending 3 cents for a visitor who would visit the website for just 30 seconds. The purchasing power of the visitor can be seen from the fact that he is clicking ads for a cent each. (No offense, I was one of them a few years ago)
So, basically this makes the traffic pretty useless and probably the only reason why a big number of webmasters wouldn’t want to be advertising on such a website. Moreover, even if there are a lot of advertisers, their advertisement budget would not be enough to cater such a large user base as it was in bux.to’s case.

The Dirty Game

Then bux.to played a pretty dirty game. What they did was simple, they started putting up advertisements without actually receiving the money according to the mechanism. For example:
Instead of charging $3000 to a person who wants to buy a 100K visitors package, they’ll give him a discount just to get some cash into the system. Then they’ll use that money to pay off a user who requested payout 3 months ago telling him that this delay was due to ‘manual check’ before payout.
One reason why this was working out was because most of the users never made it to the minimum payout OR never protested if they never got paid and left the program.
Long story, short. Soon, as more users joined they needed more inflow of cash. So, they started selling those referral packages and the premium memberships to have some cash rolling in and as of now, that’s what they’re depending on.
Apparently, they’re only paying premium members. That too only after a wait of several months or years. The system reached a stop a long time ago, I (along with some other users) just didn’t realize that in time.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, the bux.to mechanism flunked right before your eyes. i hate to say it, but yes I pronounce it a SCAM.
If you still want to check on paid to click websites, I’d recommend checking out clixsense. I also have an article on making money on the internet for beginners.

Keeping Up With Studies And Blogging

It’s been a while since I last posted. Well, life has been pretty busy with me for the last few months. I’ve been preparing for my cambridge examinations and the SAT Reasoning Test; studies aren’t easy in the last year of school. Plus, there are some project you just can’t overlook.
I’ve been replying to mails as soon as I get time, I’m sorry if I can’t get back to all of them. I have also composed a few articles for beginners who want to make money on the internet, since my previous articles are quite out-dated by now.
I’ll be publishing the articles very soon and I’ll also be completing the series on making money online in pakistan. I know it’s been a while and I didn’t do the follow-ups to it, but you can expect to get some more specific information on how to make money if you’re a Pakistani.
The most important news (and probably the reason behind this post) is: I’ve been interview by Smash Magazine. Smash Magazine is a youth magazine in Pakistan and they have interviewed me for being among the Youngest Pakistani Bloggers. It’s a 2-page interview under the title: Youngest Pakistani Blogger. If you’re a Pakistani, get a hold on the magazine; you’ll get to know me better and gain few tips from me.
As soon as I get time, I will post up scanned pages from the magazine for those of you who just want to check it out. Till then, bless me with your comments.

I Just Turned 17 - Belated Birthday Post

It’s 4 days past my birthday, and I wasn’t able to update my blog on the day of my birthday. Thanks to my examinations. Anyways, here I am, a year older since I last posted. Thanks to all those who prayed for me, my exams went good. I’m three down, seven to go.
Yeah, that’s right. I’m no more that 13 year old that just entered his teens. I’m all grown up, and damn, I feel old . Life’s ticking time and money away (Courtesy: Linkin Park), we just have to make the best use of our time.
The funny thing is, by looking at all of my blog entries (Over 150 to date), I can see myself growing up through my words. how I used to make money online back then, and how I’m doing so now. I changed this blog when I turned 15 and since that time I’ve been writing quite periodically.
With time, as we grow up. Life brings more problems and you have to deal with more obligations than you had to deal withyesterday. This hinders your progress a lot. It’s only a year till I’m 18 and then I go to university and become super busy.
Internet marketing, the word I use to summarise the ton of different things I do online, is definitely not a part-time job. This is especially in the case if you want to make some good money. But oh well, enough of my ranting.
Be kind enough, and wish me a belated birthday through a comment. It won’t cost you a penny, nor would it take more than a minute. Here’s something in advance: Thank you! Now you owe me a birthday wish.

The Economy is Recovering and I’m Investing

Here, the market came out of a recession after almost 18 months. The period was pretty frustrating but now just a week ago I started seeing an increase in some trade volumes. I’m an avid investor and there is no way I can let this opportunity of making some money in the recovering economy go away. Overall, the markets here are at a position where good companies are at their 5-year low.
I’m not currently keeping into view the loss that is still occurring on the shares of a cement company that I bought about 2 years ago. Forget the loss, I didn’t even get a dividend (interim or final).  I’m still having a loss of about 60% but I’m putting it to a side, I had some more savings amounted to almost $400 and I bought a share which is currently 900% below it’s original price, which meant a perfect investing opportunity.
So I bought it 2 days ago and to my luck it has been hitting upper-locks twice in a row and already giving me 35% profit on my investment. But I am not selling it anytime soon until my investment is at least doubled or maybe even tripled. Yeah, you heard me right. The global markets are at the second most safe position for purchasing. Reason being, the markets will make at least a 40-50% increment before any correction is made. Before any correction is made, I’m out with my money.
So if you’re thinking of investing in the stock exchange, now is the time to invest. These are the four keys I can offer you for success in this situation:

1. Penny stocks will pay out the most.
2. It is not the time for day-trading, it will restrict you from higher profits. Consider long-term investments at the moment, or at least a few weeks.
3. A little research can easily help you find the potential goldmines.
4. Look out for corrections, because it really is not too safe either but expect at least 40%-50% increment before any correction is made.

I’m investing in my local market here in the KSE index. However, if you’re trading in some other market then just be sure to look out for any corrections otherwise you could be making big money in this opportunity don’t ruin it with turning your profits into a loss