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This is a paid review sponsored by James of Shetoldme.com

Social bookmarking sites are literally everywhere. You find a lot of good ones, and even a bigger number of “not-so” pleasing ones. Of course, popular social sites are the better ones because bloggers know themselves they can get more traffic with it. It can give their blog a brand awareness in front of a huge number of audience.

But what if you could also earn while trying to drive the most traffic you can to your blog? What if you could place more than 1 ad that would earn you inside a high traffic subpage? Well enough fluffs, what I am talking about here is the Social Bookmarking site She Told Me, a social bookmarking site that could help you earn using Google Adsense. Here’s a small portion of what the site looks like:

When James ordered this review and when I quickly saw the link, I was like ‘oh, this is another crappy site and I may not accept this review”. But then I went to the site and was flabbergasted by the amount of traffic it renders. Another is that it gives the best posts a direct link (dofollow) back to the blog instead of a subpage which would later direct people to the blog. In my opinion, it’s a good thing since most people don’t have really time to scan and scan pages, and later get redirected to a different site.

So to the adsense thing. Basically it all starts by putting your publisher id in your account details. Then, when you add a post to the site, your adsense account would be the one catering the ad in that page. What specific ad? Your adsense ad would be the one placed closest to the title (and according the the owner, the one with highest CTR).

So imagine, you submitted a good post. Your page went to the front page and you get the most traffic. And at the back end, there’s also a good chance for you to get as much click as possible for your ad. SheToldMe.com has an Alexa Rank of below 50,000 so that’s a pretty reasonable amount of traffic to deal with. Just to clear things off, Adsense Sharing is not against Google Terms of Services. For more info read their Program Policies here.

Now is their referral system. The lucrative part according to them is that your ad would be displayed on every pages your referred user submits. So that’s more than doubling the income potential if the one user you referred is a quality user who submits good content. Now imagine having referred 10 of them. 🙂 For more information, there’s a page solely dedicated to the Revenue sharing part of the site

Critiques and Suggestions

Well let’s go to the “bad” side. The first thing that didn’t go well with me was the domain name. Sure, digg, sphinn, del.ic.ous, are not really premium ones but i think the owner could’ve had picked a better one. Again its entirely my opinion that the domain doesn’t really suit the sites’ function that much.

Another probably is the design. Most bookmarking sites are Web 2.0ish in looks and shetoldme prefers not to be one of them. It’s understandable since the site is an adsense sharing site (w/c means it would serve a TON of adsense ads) and needs a big space to cater those ads. The logo is related to the domain but again I am quite puzzled with the domain and so as the logo. Aside from Adsense, the site also serves Project Wonderful ads although its very minimal. I really wish a more stylish design for the social site as it’s been time proven that attractive design is a MAJOR bait to attract users.

FINAL VERDICT

So if you guys would ask me if I would use that program, the answer is definitely yes! It’s free, takes 30 seconds to register and get approved, and just like any other bookmarking sites, it can yield traffic and quality links to your blog. The Adsense thing is not something I’m really interested with (I’m long banned from Adsense), but let alone the bookmarking capabilities judge for it.

And what is its difference from the bigger bookmarking sites? None! Well for me, I would always prefer to submit to smaller social sites because it doesn’t really take that much work to go up in the front page rather than with bigger social sites.. There is a considerable difference between the traffic but I would rather want to get some than totally none at all (due to the fact that it’s harder to get in the front page of popular social sites like digg…).

All in all Shetoldme.com is a pretty decent social bookmarking site coupled with the lucrative option of earning money from Adsense Ads. Joining is free and you could start earning soon. Still, DON’T expect too much from it, money wise. Over the years, I’ve seen a ton of Adsense revenue sharing sites, mostly forums and all I can say is that 80% of the time, people’s expectations weren’t met. Again it’s a pretty good site and definitely something that “might” worth a look. Check out She Told Me

Well in my entire life I have always been hearing people complaining that they are not making money with their blogs. In my own opinion that is incredibly impossible. While one may not make a lot of money from his blog, sure he can make even some cents or dollars. So getting back to monetizing, I can agree it’s hard to make a consistent income from blog but then I’m also sure that making money is very possible.

So if you have a blog that exists for a decade now and still haven’t made any money, my dear this one is for you. I’m surprised that many people do not know this things so I’m sharing it. Remember this will make you money but don’t expect this to make you money consistently. Here we go:

Matched.co.uk –> You’ve probably have heard it already, maybe not. Matched.co.uk is a site that pays you 3 pounds per ad (where’s the pound sign on keyboard?). They oftentimes give up to 5 ads. The ads just look like an adsense ad and you can place it everywhere. The ugly thing is they pay monthly, so you will have to wait, and I know waiting sucks!
Money4banners –> Almost exactly works the same way as the former. It gives a banner and pays you $5 for it. It’s different because the ads are a little lively but is not intrusive. As of now they are very picky with the applicants. If you have a blog as great as mine then you would probably get accepted also. Btw, I am planning to add it after the 468×60 ad from dp expires.
Money4Blogs –> Well this is my favorite one. The only thing you need to do is put a link on your site/blogroll and they will pay you for that. They pay on a yearly basis. The great thing here is the link can be nofollowed. I have tested it in my basketball blog twice. The first link costs $50 for one year. The other one costs $120 for a year mainly because when I applied again my site is a pr3 and 600,000 in alexa. After putting the link they would pay you immediately, I mean really immediately. After I placed the link I went to defecate for maybe 5-10 minutes and then upon opening my paypal account it’s already there.
PayPerPost –> This one sucks I believe. But this is an easy $20 to you my dear! When a blog gets accepted at PayPerPost (even if it’s a pr0 and over 3 m in alexa) you are eligible for the $20 review about payperpost.

So that are the ways to do it. Let me make it clear, I have tried all of those programs and made money from them and I can guarantee it’s very possible you can too. Why do I need to do this? For startup cost. Jason of the University Kid always emphasizes the importance of working for startup costs. And it depends to you on where and how to use it.