T3Leads is an affiliate network that is slowly creeping up to people, in a good way. Plus, it’ll be pretty profitable for you as well.

T3Leads tends to have leads primarily in the financial area which includes credit cards, insurance, debt and more. This is probably the best time to promote these types of leads, especially since everyone is in a financial crunch. I mean Massachusetts and other states just asked for a $1 Trillion dollar bailout! Plus, the unemployment rate continues to climb.

T3Leads does not sell generated leads. That basically means the affiliate gets the most out of the money. And who doesn’t like that? Their affiliate program is directly tied with a large network of banks and other financial institutions.

So, in essence, they don’t have like five companies working in between them. Some affiliate networks are like that and by the time the money gets down to you, the affiliate marketer, the payout ends up being chump change. With T3Leads, you get the most out of your leads.

I’m not sure if this is true as I’m pretty new to this company but it is said that “guarantee” the highest conversion rate in the industry. I am told it ranges from 1:6 to 1:9 which is a very high conversion rate. And it’s good for you if you’re a PPC marketer because you spend less and make more.

Also, a little birdie informed me that affiliates can order free ePassporte cards. Tell me that isn’t convenient?

The thing I like about T3Leads is how they payout and the frequency in which they do it. Normal affiliate networks pay you once a month, no matter how much you make within that period. On the other hand, T3Leads pay you on a bi-weekly basis and if you’re a pro affiliate marketer making over $1,000/week, you can request weekly payouts also.

In addition to getting paid bi-weekly or potentially on a weekly basis, you have the option of a quick transfer through Paypal. I’m sure most of you guys that are associated with affiliate networks know they usually pay by check, which could take anywhere between 7-10 business days to arrive in the mail at the end of the month.

Well, all that goes out the window because Paypal is pretty instant. Plus, you help save the environment by not having a check issued to you!

Not only that but they have 24/7 support and a pretty helpful forum incase you ever have questions or need help with promotional methods. I mean, everyone is there to help each other out.

In conclusion, I would suggest checking them out and taking advantage of the opportunity with the financial dilemma going on. I mean, you don’t have much to lose, yet, you have so much to gain simply by signing up with T3Leads.

In this week’s updates, there are a few key ones including site flip teams, e-mails, $100/day on Adsense post, status on the winner of my contest as well as some changes in general here on DatMoney.

First, I hope everyone had a great New Year’s Day! I hope you guys gone wild at parties, got drunk but still managed to wake up the next morning without a stranger in your bed.

Anyways, let’s get to some quick, yet, somewhat important updates that may interest you.

Contest to Win a Flip Mino HD or Ipod Nano is CLOSED – The contest officially ended on December 31st and I think I got a chance to read almost every entry. I just have to do the hard part and pick one freakin’ winner out of all the great entries! Anyways, I’ll announce the winner on Monday, January 5th for those that are interested in checking back.

Site Flip Team E-mails Have Been Replied To – Sorry for the delay to everyone that contacted me regarding the site flip team. You guys know my laptop crashed and since I bought my new computer, I was having problems getting my e-mails off my server and onto my e-mail client. Anyways, I replied to everyone that sent me an e-mail so look out for that.

Some already responded to my reply but I think most haven’t. So, we’ll be waiting, but let’s hope not for too long like what I did.

All Other E-mails and Passwords to Protected Posts – I’m pretty much caught up with all my e-mails with the exception of just a few stragglers. If you’ve contacted me for the password to the $100/day from Adsense post after Thursday night then you’ll probably be receiving a response from me this weekend.

Anyone before that should have received the password if you subscribed with a confirmed e-mail address. There were some people that I checked and they weren’t even subscribed, yet, they said they did. Just an FYI, I can check on my end…

The Q&A Post Answer and Backlinks – Honestly, I completely forgot about answering the questions with everything that has been going on. I’ll try to get that posted this upcoming week.

Google Pagerank and the “Nofollow” Attribute – I didn’t even notice until quite a few of you guys mentioned that my PR dropped. Matter of fact, I ended up making it on TheNetFool’s Top 100 MMO Blogs Pagerank Update List. But quite frankly, I still don’t care about Pagerank.

Though, I’m sure you guys are aware that I added a lot of “nofollow” attributes throughout my site. Don’t worry, it’s not going to effect any of you guys. I’m only doing this as an experiment to see if anything will change. I realized I have a TON of outgoing links that simply didn’t need to be “dofollow.”

If you have the SEO Firefox plugin installed, you will see a lot of things highlighted in red, meaning they are now with “nofollow” attributes. If you don’t see it, I changed the following to “nofollow”:

I counted and there were 25 additional outgoing links that simply were not necessary. Hey, I’m testing it out, why not?

Banner Design Changes – I haven’t had time yet but I will be cleaning up my Banner Design page. Believe it or not, I get a decent amount of organic visitors from it and that page looks horrible as a landing page.

Yeah, that’s probably a big turnoff to potential clients.

In addition, I will be raising the prices slightly as of January 12th. The 125×125 will increase from $6.00 to $10.00 and the headers/full banners/logos will increase from $21.00 to $25.00.

The reason why I’m increasing the price is the fact that I almost felt the time spent working on it compared to the cost simply wasn’t worth it. It’s still pretty cheap but I’m hoping it will either a.) increase my revenue, or b.) decrease the amount of clients.

If you remember from a previous weekly update, I mentioned that I was considering stopping the banner design service in general because I didn’t have the time. Well, this idea of increasing the prices may help everyone. Well, somewhat.

Changed My Advertising Page – Honestly, I haven’t even touched my advertising page since March 08 and if you saw it, the entire page was pretty messy. I decided to clean it up and get it organized so it looks a little more professional. The stats are from last month incase you were wondering. And no, I haven’t been promoting my site like I should be for those that are questioning the traffic.

Thanks to Everyone Willing to Help Me Out – Honestly, I can’t believe you guys are so helpful when I’m in need. First, it was my laptop crashing then it was my comments being messed up (even though I did offer an ad spot for the rest of the month ). If you help me, I will always be willing to help you. What goes around comes around, right?

Anyways, thank you to everyone once again and special shout out to Wesley for helping me resolve that issue.

So those are my updates that I can remember for the week. Of course, I’m posting this later than I wanted to because I was having problems with my internet. Go figure with all my problems, huh?

I hope to be hearing from some of you guys real soon!

This problem has been resolved thanks to Wesley.  He obviously knows what he’s doing and he has some great plugins coming out so make sure you check out his blog!  If you guys had a similar problem, feel free to read through the comments for some great advice from everyone.  Though, the conclusion to this dilemma was the Google Analyticator plugin. :D  I’ll have your 125×125 ad up later tonight Wesley! Thanks again!

This has been driving me crazy so I figured I’d write a post asking for help with this. If you comment on this (or any) post, you’ll notice if you enter in your name, site’s URL then post your comment it won’t show up correctly to link back to your site. I’m not sure what to do or how to fix it but I need help because you guys that comment will be losing out on this.

I recently upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 and slowly but surely I’m regretting it. In addition to upgrading, the only other change I did to DatMoney was simply adding the “nofollow” tag on various links on my sidebar as well as my header. But besides that I haven’t touched the site to make this mess up.

I was having a conversation with a fellow blogger and they mentioned it could be the fact that I just upgraded to WP 2.7 and some of the plugins are messing up the comment/links. It’s weird because I have another site that was already upgraded to WP 2.7 and the comment and backlink works just fine.

If you guys are still reading and still have no idea what I’m talking about, go to my “What Are Your 2009 Goals?” post and look at the comments. If you notice you can’t click on some of the commentators names to take you to their sites.

While the other ones will take you to their site but to their default error page. You’ll also notice their site URL’s will appear something like:

http://franklinbishop.net/blogging-school/’ rel=’external nofollow

It seems that I just have to close the html tag on the rel=’external nofollow’ tag but I looked around and have no idea where it is or how to change it. So, does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do because I have no idea how to fix it and I don’t want you guys to miss out on the backlinks to your sites and potential traffic.

Help? Matter of fact, whoever helps me and fixes the issue, I’ll hook you up with a 125×125 ad spot for the rest of January.

Help? Anyone? Please?

First of all, let’s say Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone and I hope you guys all have a great time drinking, partying and doing all the things that I would do. With that said, don’t you wish you could record everything so you don’t miss a beat? Well, we’re giving away a Flip Mino HD in my December Giveaway sponsored by Market Leverage and today is the last day to enter!

If you haven’t read the Flip Mino HD, iPod Nano and other great prize giveaway post, you should do so. With that said, you have a very, VERY good chance of winning and it doesn’t take much to enter.

Basically, all you have to do is write an affiliate marketing tip or secret as a blog post, by leaving a comment on the contest post or e-mailing me. Of course, there are minor guidelines so make sure you read the contest post so you’re not leaving a random comment like “Oh, I never win these contests so I hope I win this one!”

And yeah, I got one of those comments and it’s still waiting to be moderated. Honestly, I’m not even sure if I’m going to approve it, unless that contestant e-mails me their official entry.

I will be picking the winner and I think I only have about 10-15 entries, if that. I didn’t really have the time to promote this contest like I wanted to so lucky for those that did enter, your chances just increased drastically.

For those that are hesitant about entering because they don’t have a clue about affiliate marketing, I would suggest just reading on some cool affiliate marketing tips or secrets from other people and submitting it. Of course, if you do that, please don’t tell me because that’s just unethical man!

Anyways, today is the last day to enter to win a Flip Mino HD, iPod Nano and more prizes so get on it!

Each year, we all set some goals that we want to accomplish. Some do New Year’s resolutions and others just set goals so they can push themselves to accomplish that feat, cross it off and then continue onto the next. Well, each year I set my goals so I can focus on them then look back to see how well I did. So, what are my 2009 goals going to be? But more importantly, what are yours going to be?

Last year around this time, I posted just a couple of minor goals that I wanted to accomplish online. It was nothing big and quite frankly, when I read it today, I feel as though I wasn’t even taking this online entrepreneur stuff seriously.

And I wasn’t.

One year ago, I started this blog and didn’t think it would grow as much as it did. Matter of fact, I didn’t even take this blog seriously so why would I assume it would? I lost track of a bunch of projects I worked on, favored certain aspects of my online business more than others and I set my goals pretty damn low which lead to less determination and motivation.

Last year, I set three minor goals that I wanted to accomplish in 2008 – increase my RSS Feed subscribers to triple digits, get some sort of Google Pagerank and increase my Technorati authorities to triple figures.

Can you tell that I obviously didn’t have too many serious goals?

Well, at least not when I wrote that post. And to think, those simple goals were shattered as I - increased my RSS Feed subscribers from the 50’s to nearly 700, I went from PR0 to PR4 back down to PR3 and at one point my Technorati authorities were over 1,000! Of course, since then it fell because we should all know Technorati is based on a 3-6 month cycle.

I didn’t even mention anything to do with revenue because I wasn’t really focused on making money online. Then when I started to make a decent amount, I was like “Damn, I can make money online!”

So, let’s get to some of my 2009 goals and expectations I have for myself so I can look back in one year and complain about it again:

1. Increase my RSS Feed Count to 1,500 or More – Last year, I wasn’t even specific on a number. All I said was I wanted to increase it to triple digits which could have been anywhere between 100 and 999. Well, in 2009 I’m aiming to double my current count and set an achievable goal of 1,500.

2. Make a Consistent $1,000/month from this Blog Alone – I’m not sure what my exact figures are but I think I make between $400 and $600 from this blog monthly. Even though I host my design work here, that is not included in the figures. And keep in mind that does not include the various separate projects I have going on either.

This is definitely an achievable goal since my private ads bring in a few hundred dollars alone. And recently, more and more sponsors have been contacting me for paid reviews which I will probably continue to do but no more than once a week because I don’t want to overwhelm my readers.

In addition, I plan to implement some referral sign ups so I can make some money and you guys can do the same exact thing simply by signing up.

3. Make a Total of $60,000 in 2009 Online – Again, another achievable goal here. There are some people who might aim higher when it comes to total revenue but before I just jump into random figures without thinking out the realistic issues, I want to preach consistency.

If you’re making, say, $500/month online now, after 12 month you would have made $6,000. Now if you think setting your goal to $100,000/year is good, well, more than likely you’re going to head for some disappointment. I mean, you would have to make more than your projected yearly amount each month. And we should all know making money online has its ups and downs.

So, rather than setting such a high goal for myself, I’m just aiming for consistency. $5,000/month is definitely a reasonable amount when you factor in all my online projects. And $60,000 is more than what most people would make at a regular full-time job.

And if you have a fairly high goal, I’m not saying you won’t or can’t make it, I’m just saying it will be extremely hard especially if you don’t make much now.  But again, it is doable so don’t let me get you down.

4. Partner with Other Online Entrepreneurs – I’ve already partnered with a couple of people on projects that have been pretty successful and I continue to expand my horizons and partner with multiple entrepreneurs.

I have already mentioned my site flipping team(s) which is still being worked out. But in the big picture, I want to network with others, build relationships, make some money on the way and more importantly, I want to learn. You can never stop learning and if you continue, success should just be right around the corner.

5. Revisit Old Projects I Keep Putting Off – When I have an idea, I tend to run with it. I don’t want to forget about it so I get it set up, for the most part. But when another idea comes up, I sometimes just jump into it and leave my other project hanging.

And as some of you guys know, I tend to procrastinate so currently, I have about 5 projects that haven’t been finished that I need to work on. Projects that will make some easy revenue come my way with very minimal work.

I’m sure once I finish these up, I will have more ideas, more projects and probably more procrastinating and postponing. But I will definitely revisit and hopefully complete all of the ones I hold off on.

Now, I have a lot of goals but I’m not going to list every single one here. And I don’t know if you guys noticed but I didn’t add the small things like increasing my Pagerank or anything like that. I’m not saying those aren’t important, but I feel as though those type of stats will just eventually come over time.

So, what are your 2009 goals? I’m definitely interested in hearing what you guys have set for 2009. With that said, if you create a 2009 goals post, let me know and I’ll add it to this post. Of course, if you want to send a backlink to this post, that is also welcomed!

Check out some of the other 2009 goals posts I have already read:

“My Goals for 2009” at TylerCruz.com
“Ryan McLean’s Goals for 2009” at Smarterwealth.com
“Balkhi’s New Year’s Resolutions” at Balkhis.com
“My Internet Goals for 2009″ at Improvingtheweb.com - Nice new blog btw Wesley!
My Goals for Standoutblogger in 2009 at Standoutblogger.com - Damn Tom, your blog has really grown! And to think, you was going to sell it!
New Years and Some Luv at Havocdynamics.xtreemhost.com - Some nice goals and thanks for the link love appreciation!