Do I tweet for money? Yes, I admit I do.

Now I don’t just tweet out blatant ads.  In fact I reject over 50% of the ads offered to me because they are irrelevant to my audience. I’m not going to jeopardize losing subscribers that way.

So many new “Twitter Networks” are popping up that I thought I’d list the ones I’m currently using (yes, this list is for me to remember, too). I’ll put in alphabetical order as to not show favoritism.

Ad.ly – I signed up for this one after Shoemoney recommended it (he’s so gonna win that Macbook Pro for referring the most friends).

Magpie – This was the first twitter network that originally randomly published tweets on your behalf, but they’ve now joined the cool kids club and let you approve/deny tweets.

Sponsored Tweets – Ok, this one has been my favorite so far.  Why? Because I’m a fan of Izea, and I’ve made the most money from them so far. So much for  impartiality.

Twittad – Twittad also offers the opportunity for advertisers to sponsor your twitter background with advertisements.  I’m okay with pimping out my  background on my non-personal twitter accounts.

My only complaint about all of them is having to have an account for each separate twitter account.  I have several twitter accounts – that I manage through Hootsuite – and it’s a pain to have to have log in, log out, log in, log out, etc.

And yes, dear FTC, all of the above are referral links where I may earn a referral fee if you join and make money as well.

Additional Twitter Advertising Networks that I found through Google that I have not personally tested yet:

Assetize – no referral program

BeTweeted – referral program for advertisers only

Twivert – this one looks the most promising

Am I missing any? If so, leave your referral link, and I’ll sign up through you.

Be sure to follow @workinmypajamas for post updates.  I’ll auto-follow you back and try not to blast out too many twitter ads.

I recently spoke on the “Affiliate Marketing Blogging Secrets” panel, part of the Monetization track at Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas with….

Jim Kukral, Moderator
Brian Littleton, President of Shareasale (shown in pic with me)
Angel Djambazov, Managing Editor of Revenews.com
and Todd Sawicki, stepping in for Ben Huh from ICanHasCheezburger.com.

I’ve had several people since then ask me for a list of the “tools” I mentioned that I personally use on my sites.

Many of my websites use the Wordpress platform, therefore I incorporate a lot of WP-Plugins (as I haven’t taken the time to convert to Thesis Theme yet).

Link Cloaking – I use this to mask my affiliate links, and it automatically adds the “nofollow” attritube. There is also NinjaAffiliate which is more robust, but is not free. Someone also mentioned SkimLinks.com, but I haven’t had time to experiment with them yet.

I also like to import content from my other sites that aren’t powered by Wordpress and my Twitter status updates into the sidebars of my blogs, therefore I use the Aggregate Plug-In and Twitter Tools. More recommended Wordpress Plug-Ins.

Speaking on monetizing my blogs, my main source of income is generated through affiliate programs, but I also generate revenue through additional sources, such as…

Chitika – The organic traffic visitors that I receive via Google Images generally aren’t looking to buy anything, so Chitika is cool in that it only shows relevant ads to the keywords they used to search with that pay per click.

List Building – Collect email addresses on individual post pages. I use AWeber to create hover pop-overs (usually unblockable), sign them up to receive the RSS feed via email, and set the thank you to a CPA offer (ie MarketLeverage Email Submit).

Affilistore – I have played around with this free downloadable script to make datafeed stores. If I can make a website with it in under an a hour, I’m presuming most others can as well. I downloaded datafeeds pertaining to my niche from ShareASale, changing my user id and re-uploaded to my new site. The only “marketing” I’ve done is adding the website and it’s sitemap to Google Overview and watched the sales come in.

Banner Ads – Since most people do not actually click through a banner, I prefer to shy away from CPA and CPC offers, but instead sell banner space or use a banner network such as Glam Media or TodayShow Network that pay per impression.

Google Adsense I presume everyone already knows about Google Adsense? Chloe Spencer from NeopetsFanatic.com fully monetizes her website with only Google Adsense.

Chloe was on the panel before mine “Are You Getting the Most Money Out of Your Blog as You Can?” with Dave Taylor, Tim Jones and Chris Pirillo, which was similar to our panel.

Some people wrote blog reviews about our panel, including Ms. Babble and Lisa Barone of Outspoken Media. I think our session was too “basic” for them and aimed more towards newbies.  Can’t please ‘em all.

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