What is People String?

People String is a social media site that launched on September 23, 2009. People String is making a bold attempt to compete with giants like Facebook by paying anyone and everyone to recruit members and grow its ranks. While it may be a considerable challenge to grow membership, advertisers are confident this approach will work.

Members get paid to remain active on the site and for being exposed to advertising. They share 70% of the profits with other members as long as they log in regularly. Owners are banking on this being money well spent and far less expensive than the massive campaign it would take to convert millions of Facebook users.

People String has the potential to be quite lucrative, for those willing to recruit on their behalf on an ongoing basis. Members get 5% of revenue generated by their direct recruits and 2% of all those they recruit – up to 6 levels deep. Simple math can show the revenue potential can become quite significant. For those not interested in recruiting others, the remaining income streams may be more to their liking and more are to be added over time.

People String is bound to become a popular online hot spot.

Join People String now and begin getting paid to do what you love to do!

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Originally posted 2009-11-04 14:02:21.

In my previous post Easy Ways to Promote Your Blog & Drive Traffic – Part 1 we explored Search Engine Optimization SEO, Blog Communities, Blog Directories, Stats and Site Checkers and Feed Directories. It’s my personal belief and experience that you should at least dabble in each of the categories I am providing in this mini-series in order to position yourself to connect with other bloggers, to have your blog indexed and to drive traffic to your blog.

Let’s start the second part of our list with pinging websites.

6. Pinging Sites

Pinging is important if you wish to grab the top positions on the search engines with your content. It’s an easy way to let alert search engines that you have new content on your blog and invite them to check it out. You should ping every single piece you publish whether it is an article, press release, video, etc.

Pinging sites I use are: Pingomatic.com, PingMyBlog.com, pingdevice.com, bulkping.com

7. Social Media Sites

One of the things I learned too late in the game was when registering accounts on various social media sites like Twitter.com, Facebook.com and YouTube.com – use your blog name as your username in order to get your blog indexed quickly.

Be sure to share your new blog posts on all social media sites. Ask for comments and retweets, and be sure to return the favor. More comments might actually mean higher Google ranking.

8. Social Bookmarking

Share your content with readers online by submitting your newly published blog posts to social bookmarking sites like Digg.com, Delicious.com, and StumbleUpon.com.

One of my newest favs is OnlyWire. OnlyWire is a service that allows you to submit your new blog posts to multiple social bookmarking sites across the web at a touch of a button.

Tip: Use appropriate keywords and tags for your bookmarks.

Do you have personal favorite methods you used to promote your blog or drive traffic? Please share those in the comments section below.

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IMshopping is a human-powered shopping search site and Twitter shopping service designed to help consumers find niche products around the web. Human guides respond to product questions and provide recommendations for users that might best suits their needs. The entire system reminds me a lot of ChaCha.

Twitter users can ask questions by messaging @imshopping. The shopping guides will then offer detailed responses within minutes. Shoppers can use these responses to make purchases or as a means of fact gathering prior to making a decision.

Shoppers who ask questions on IMShopping’s site can search a database for product questions that have been already answered, or present their own questions. Recommendations are delivered to the shopper and also archived anonymously for review by future shoppers. All public questions and responses are searchable via Twitter and can be viewed by following @imshopping.

The guide will give you an answer of where to find your desired item and also provide you with links to sites where the item may be purchased. You have the ability to rate the response you received from the guide, the guides are paid based on the quality and detail of their responses.

You can sign up, provide responses and earn $1 or $2 for providing quality answers. Payments are paid via Paypal. Accounts must reach a minimum of $40 to receive your payment.

You certainly won’t get rich or won’t be able to count on IMShopping to replace your day job, but I’m thinking if you play your cards right, answer questions wisely, you can extend your earning potential nicely through a little creative affiliate marketing.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

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