Stepping into blogging can be extremely overwhelming. There is so much to learn, so much to achieve.
When there are tons of success stories around, there is are certainly more failures that you can read about. Blogging is not a get rich fast scheme and is more like a marathon, as we always read about.
In such a scenario, a helping hand could be extremely beneficial and can save months and months of time that others wasted trying what works and what not.
I wish there were as many people back then, willing to help the beginners and to openly take about their failures. It's great and I love how entire blogging community has grown up.
These lists of Facebook groups are certainly gems when it comes to finding easy solutions to your blogging queries.
With the help of entire BloggingeHow family, we started a AskHassam's Facebook group too. :) These groups are in no particular order. All of these groups have been able to provide massive value to the members and they are must to join for any beginner that starts blogging.
1. AskHassam Facebook Groups
At AskHassam group, Alhumdulilah, we have been able to create such a loving environment where every family member looks forward to post a helping answer to any beginner who posts a question. I've become addicted to the group and it's hard to stay away for a minute! <3
I look forward to have you as a part of the family.
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We make sure that any brother/sister who are helping beginners and investing their time, should be recognized! Looking forward to this, we announce "Hero Of The Day" Reward. There are 3 other recognition that are given away every single day for the participation and enthusiasm displayed every single day! <3
I'm sure once you join the group, you'd regret why you didn't joined it before :)
HBB group is one the most engaging groups you'll find. Brother Pradeep Kumar is really done a fine job in maintaining the group well. Very few groups on Facebook offer actual engagement rather they all turn into blog post sharing platforms.
Pakistan SEO & Bloggers has a pretty friendly environment and I love how the members love replying to the questions. The activeness of the group is what makes it on this list. My priority is to add here the groups that are active in terms of conversations/answers rather than just a blog post syndication platform.
This group is focused towards creative business owners, bloggers and entrepreneurs. With thousands of members, you are bound to find a great deal of knowledge and support in there.
The group is an incredible place for new bloggers. Being very active it's a wonder land for anyone seeking to pass his time productively, where other members share plenty of tips about the tricks and tools necessary for running a blog. It�s also an awesome place to ask questions and get feedback.
A group created by brother Aamir Iqbal, has over 46k members and is a place to share your thoughts about blogging and search engine optimization (SEO).
This post is just the beginning. There are tons of groups out there, but we'll find out and update this post with the ones that offer decent members engagement. Do suggest me any other name. Leave out in the comments below :)
You're done with writing your blog post and it's time to marketing that awesome piece of content and let people know how it can be so helpful for them. Doesn't matter if Google picks up your blog posts and reward it with high place in SERP (search engine results page), we still have many content marketing strategies and platforms, that you can implement and get a decent traffic to your blog posts, and blog in general.
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When BloggingeHow got hit by negative SEO where 45k low quality Russian backlinks were pointed towards this little blog, the blog's organic reach via search engines got depleted. Over 70% of my traffic went into drain. I believe everything happens for a reason, and this led me find more content marketing strategies and tools which would help me regain the glory. This post is what I found out. Hope it helps you out too.
It's not that you've to use all of these tools and platforms to market your blog. Every platform mentioned or may it be a tool, would work differently depending upon your niche. I would recommend you to study more about them in detail and what they can do for your blog.
Without any further due, lets lay down these highly popular content marketing tools and platforms.
Content Marketing Platform #1 Quora
Quora is an emerging content marketing platform where you could answer questions within your niche and link back to your blog posts to boost the traffic.
What I love about Quora is that it has a culture of providing quality and has far less spam than Yahoo! Answers where we had every next person spamming around. People give in detailed answers to questions and no body minds if you link back to your blog posts or resources online that provide and add value to the answer as a whole.
My advice in this regard would be to learn how you can promote your blog links in a decent manner. Try to make them look natural.
You can go back to your blog archievs and pick up with popular blog post that you wrote. Now search that topic on Quora and answer a question related to that.
Write about 1-200 words explaining the topic, or even more if you feel like less won't do the justice to the question, and then link back to that post.
This would bring in considerable traffic to your blog, depending upon how popular that topic was. It's all about giving back to the community. If you're honestly helping people out, they won't mind checking back your blog post that has a lot more than that.
Currently, I'm in love with Quora! <3
Content Marketing Platform #2 Reddit
Reddit was meant to be the face of the Internet. It's a similar approach as Quora where users up vote a post. There are many categories that you can join depending upon your blog's niche and start participating.
Along with helping people by answering, you can share your blog posts as a part of the answer, thus driving readership that could have never found your blog other wise.
Though Reddit moderators have a bit more conservative approach to links in the post. I would say it conservative because of the fact that you've to make the platform a win win for both the world.
If you are to promote bloggers, you have to accept their blog post links (if done decently for sure). With my experience with Reddit, I have seen many of my post being deleted even though they were high quality.
Still, it depends on the category that you're part of. Do give it a try! If you're able to get your post on the first page of the category with high upvotes let alone on the home page of Reddit (which only happens rarely), you can still drive in some serious traffic towards your blog.
Content Marketing Platform #3 Voat.co
Voat.co is like a clone of Reddit which was introduced in 2014 as an alternative to Reddit after Reddit faced pretty tough time lately. The layouts are pretty similar to Reddit, and more important, the sub Voats (are just like sub reddits) are all the same as on Reddit.
People started migrating to Voat after Reddit banned a very popular community 'Fat People Hate'
Content Marketing Platform #4 Facebook Groups
Generally when we think of a blog's social media profile on Facebook, we call out our bet on Facebook page. Lately I started BloggingeHow's Facebook group (AskHassam Facebook Group) and realized how powerful a Facebook group can be if you're able to moderate a heathly and productive discussion.
If your blog's followers are able to see value in the discussion, the community will go far beyond you even planed.
A huge issue of Facebook groups is SPAM! There are rarely any groups of Facebook where you won't see spam. It needs a thorough moderation and keen eye to pick up spam links and posts. You have to make sure that the environment is clean and focuses on the discussion that you look forward to built. Don't allow any random person to post or promote his/her product.
That is not what the group is for. Implement the rules firmly.
You can write your blog's description intelligently, linking back to your blog and your squeeze page, increasing your optins.
With BloggingeHow's Facebook group, Alhumdulilah, we as a family have been able to create a very loving environment where every person feels a pleasure to reply to the beginners.
What's awesome about Facebook group is that it lets your utilize the power of Facebook it's self. Every body is on Facebook! Find them, show them how your group can be the dream place for them, that they were missing.
People are in search of the group you're willing to create. You can begin by inviting your all Facebook friends. Facebook allows you to have 5000 friends. That's in your control. You can add people that share similar interest with you and then invite them to your group.
I'm sure if you're providing enough value, they would love to be part of it.
Content Marketing Platform #5 YouTube
We all know YouTube is surpassed Yahoo as the second most search search engine after Google. You can and have to use YouTube to promote your blog. You can re purpose your blog posts in the form on videos and put them on YouTube with great video titles.
Notice how these massively popular websites like BuzzFeed creates their videos on YouTube. They take up statistics from all around the web and collect them into extremely addictive YouTube videos of about 2-3 minutes.
The same content is then published on their website in the form of blog posts. They are on the top of this strategy of utilizing YouTube to market their blog.
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Among these list, I personally use Quora and YouTube to re purpose the content. You can create a schedule for your self. Answer at least 5 questions a day on Quora and create a 2-3 minute video on YouTube to highlight the points made into your certain blog post. Choose enticing video titles and there you go.
AdSense is one of the most popular pay per click platforms by Google where publishers/bloggers are paid when someone clicks on their ads that are being displayed on their blogs. Though, sometimes your competitors or trolls can click your ads repetitively.
AdSense team would note that your account is suddenly getting a lot of ad clicks, and they would consider it as an invalid click activity thus banning you from AdSense platform.
Who would tell them that it was not you who clicked the ads with such a high frequency. We have a solution for that. Don't worry! Google is smart. They know that there are people trolling on Internet who do that.
How To Know If Your Blog Is Getting Invalid Clicks?
We can't tell if the clicks are not shockingly a lot more than what you normally get. You can download Google AdSense mobile app and keep track of the number of clicks you get on average per day. They have sweet graphs that can help you check that very easily.
Once you know, that on certain day, you got like 50 more clicks than what you normally get, you have to check out if you got a traffic spike on that day too which might have triggered those extra amount of clicks.
If the traffic on your blog was not extra ordinarily high on that day, that goes to show that someone is trolling you out to make AdSense team ban your account.
AdSense team gives definition of invalid clicks:
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Invalid click activity consists of any clicks or impressions that may artificially inflate an advertiser's costs or a publisher's earnings, and for which we decide not to charge the advertiser. This includes, but is not limited to, clicks or impressions generated by a publisher clicking on his own ads, a publisher encouraging clicks on his ads, automated clicking tools or traffic sources, robots, or other deceptive software.
Report AdSense Invalid Clicks
Now that you're sure trolls are playing with you, you can go ahead an fill out Invalid click activity form that Google have provided, with your name and other details. Tell them what exactly is happening, how many clicks you normally get and what happened that particular day.
Tsu is on fire, with over 8 million users in just 6 months, which is faster growth than both Facebook and Twitter! The platforms you earn for the content you share! <3
What a privilege this is to share a social platform that is on fire and will explode in 2016! Tsu that is pronounced �Sue� is free to use social that is much like Facebook or Google+ which was launched on October 14th, 2014. Tsu now stands at over 8 Million users with over 13 Million page views generated each month!
What's cool about it is that it can help you make money with the content you share on the platform! More important, now the time you'd spend on tsu won't be wasted, in fact, you will be making money out of what you share! Yay!
Finally we see a platform that implemented YouTube's monetization strategy where it rewards the content creators with the income they deserve.
Why I Hate Facebook In This Regard?
Facebook actually sucks at this! They would do their best to crush your efforts down in attempt so that you would 'Boost' your posts to reach more audience.
I hate Facebook for that!
We worked hard all these years to gain Facebook followers and readers, and then we saw Facebook crushing down our organic reach to lure us into buying Facebook ads! That sucks big time!
Facebook stole our TIME!
Take a look at this awesome interview of Tsu's Founder with Fox News
Tsu is an online social networking service founded in October 2013 and was created by Evacuation Complete, a Texas corporation.
How Will You Earn? Family Tree Explained
Below is this cool Infographic that shows us how we can actually make revenue out of what we share on Tsu.
Lets assume you're person 'A'. You invite your friend who's name is 'B'. He invites his friend named 'C' and C then invites another friend of him/her 'D'.
Now these 4 people are linked. Lets say 'D' shares a blog post on Tsu platform. For his/her content, she gets paid.
How cool is that? I'm too excited and I'm sure you're too!
Tsu grew to 1.6million users in just 6 months, which is faster than both, Facebook and Twitter! Currently Tsu stands at about 2 Million users as of Jan 2015. I'm sure it would be close to 3 million by the end of this year!
We all know why Facebook isn't too happy about that! Brands and Companies that have mentioned Tsu on Facebook have seen their page posts getting deleted with a note that post wasn't safe for the users! Wait what?!
How Tsu Is Different Than Other Popular Social Platforms?
1. Ownership Of Content
Tsu believes in content ownership, which only exists when users own the rights to their content and the income earned through it. They believe, users should be compensated for their likeness, image and content. It�s simple and it�s just the right thing to do!
2. Access - Tsu shares social revenues with everyone, for any type of content, size of network or level of influence. We can use Tsu just like we do Facebook, Twitter everyday!
3. Empowerment - Tsu's business model is global, scalable, and designed to empower the user. For the first time every user can be a content creator earning royalties they deserve.
Well, after doing a lot of research on forums and learning from users who have been using the platform since early 2014, I've some interesting statistics here.
People believe that, to earn something decent out of you being social at Tsu, we have to share tons of content that people would actually share and that would go viral.
The more valuable content you'd share, the more people would get engaged it with and the more you'll. That's just how it goes with Facebook.
Some Restrictions From Tsu
Tsu ensures that people don't spam on the platform to earn. For this reason, we can only follow 1000 people, while you can get as many followers as you can. Also, we can share only 24 posts a day which would ensure that we would only share what's actually valuable and not just forward every stupid thing. That's a smart move I would say.
People who are active on Tsu are earning well! Take a look at the discussion on another blog that I took this screen shot from.
It took Lissette to reach her first 100$ in 6 months, though the next 100 came in half that time, while the next in another half. Now she got 100$ in a month! That's a fast growth I must say!
Imagine doing the same stuff you do all day long on Facebook and still be able to earn from it.! While reading stories of other people who have been using Tsu for sometime, and who tried to market their small blogs and business, they believe that it highly depends upon what sort of content you share.
Some photographers are able to sell their art on Tsu far more succesfully than on Facebook, as they believe that Tsu offers them the actual reach they earned over the time, which increased their 'actual' follwership.
While other believe that people are more concerned about engaing with other's content for the sake of 'making money' out of it. That is what is creating a lot of spam and people are seeing comments like 'I like this', or 'big like' etc. They aren't really engagign with the content in real meaning.
Again, I'm giving it a try and so you should to, there is nothing wrong with sharing your blog posts and content on another platform as you normally do with Facebook or Twitter. You can signup and try Tsu and start building your network here using this link.
Best of luck exploring this fast growing new platform! 2016 will tell if it has the structure to be the next big thing and a potential to take over Facebook.
If you're looking to start your blog and it's confusing to decide between Blogger or WordPress, this is the only guide you need to go through. :)
I started using Blogger (Blogspot) back in 2011 which I first launched BloggingeHow. Since then, I'm in absolute harmony with this amazing blogging platform I must say. Later, I tried self hosted wordpress too.
This post goes in the roots of both the platforms and what they have to offer for your future blog. Or if you're willing to switch on to any one of these from your current blog.
Why Blogger/Blogspot?
Blogger is a cloud based blogging service. Meaning by that you don't have to install anything with Blogger to get started. You just go to Blogger.com and signup for your new blog. You set the title of the blog and give it a URL. That's how easy it is to start a blog with Blogger.com.
There are many pros and cons of both the platforms. When I started Blogging, the only main reason I went with it was due to lack of money to invest. I was relying on my 1$ monthly pocket money!
Advice #1 Ask Your Pocket
So that's my next point, if you're short of money to start with, I would recommend you to go with Blogger platform.
The only investment you have to do is to buy a domain name for your blog. When you signup with Blogger, it creates a free domain name URL (yourblogname.blogspot.com) and then you can later buy a domain name and set that custom domain name via Blogger settings.
If you're not sure of where to buy a domain name, you can checkout this guide that goes through detailed steps to get a custom domain name for your blog.
I made a huge mistake of not starting with a custom domain right from the beginning of my blogging journey. I wasted about 6 months with blogspot.com domain. I wrote a detailed post about that! Don't make that mistake.
Advice #2 No Need To Worry About Being Hacked
As Blogger is powered by Google, we have strong believe that it's fairly hard to get hacked. Matt cutts, who is the head of Google's web spam team, thinks of that way too. He believes chances of Blogger blog getting hacked or any malware is rare.!
As with WordPress blogs, we need to update it to the latest versions as they get released with new bug fixes and patches. We often read about how hackers exploit WordPress vulnerabilities to hack blogs. That never happened with Blogger blogs.
Advice #3 It's too Simple
Yeah! Blogger platform is too simple to understand compared to WordPress. Not that WordPress is difficult or anything, but I must say it can be overwhelming for the newbies. When I first installed WordPress on my Bluehost hosting, I was literally drowned by so much that I could do with WordPress. That shows it's power!
I'll talk about that in WordPress section.
On the other hand, you'll get everything about Blogger in maximum 30 minutes.
Why WordPress?
WordPress is known to be the king of Blogging platforms and indeed I must say it is. It's not about which platform is better, I believe these both ones have their own pros and cons and at the end of the day, what really matters is which one suites you the best. Which aspects of both can you let go and which matter you more than others.
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For example, for me, initial investment was a big deciding factor. I knew WordPress was pretty powerful back in 2011 too, but I didn't had the money to pay for hosting plan. So it was an easy decision for me.
With WordPress, we can do so much that we can't with Blogger. I admit that. The most important features that I miss of WordPress in Blogger are:
#1 WordPress Edge: Lack Of Ability To Totally Change My Blog Post URLs.
Even though we can change the some part of the URLs but not entirely.
For example, when you publish a blog post in Blogger platform, our post title is set as our post URL too. Lets say your blog post title is "10 Best Blogging Platforms".
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Notice how it enters publishing date of the post in URL too which we yet don't have the ability to change. We can only change the later part of the URL.
With WordPress, we have total control of how our URLs would look like and we can set it's structure very easily.
Google prefers short to the point URLs and it helps in search engine optimization a lot. I believe this is where Blogger lacks a lot.
#2 WordPress Edge: Easy Author Management
Blogger sucks at this. Imagine you wish to enroll multiple guest bloggers on your blog like how popular blogs do e.g Mashable, CNN, BBC etc.
All these huge publishers rely on hundreds of authors that write for the company consistently. WordPress offers a signup form where new authors can make their accounts and manage their blog posts with ease.
You as an admin can give those authors different roles. You can make them editor of the articles or an absolute admin.
With Blogger, we have to send an invite to individual authors and once they accept the invitation via the email they get, then their account is made into Blogger.
Still we can add a middle man between those authors and Blog admin. We can create a system where authors or guest bloggers would write and submit their blog posts for passing quality test via Editor of the blog and once those get approved, then only the article can be published.
We can't do any of such in Blogger.
I miss this feature of WordPress aaaa lot!
#3 WordPress Edge: Massive Plugin Support
With WordPress, you don;t have to be tech savy. To do certain things on the blog, you just have to install plugins with simple click installations.
Lets say you wish to add social media share button on your blog. With WordPress, you have to install the javascript your self in Blogger template Editor and only then those social share button would work on the blog.
What we need to understand is that WordPress is not just a blogging platform, it's far more than that. It's a Content Management System (CMS) that you can use to create blogs, simple static websites, or eCommerce websites and what not. Popular websites that don't have anything to do with Blogging also use WordPress as the back end software.
Where as with Blogger, it's soley a Blogging platform.
The Judgment Day � How Should You Make The Decision
I know it can be tough call to choose between the two platforms. Both are awesome and people are making living using both the platforms. It's been 4 years that BloggigneHow is powered by Blogger platform and I'm loving every bit of it.
Take in consideration the following points which will help you out make the decision.
Question #1 Can You Afford WordPress Hosting
That's the most important question that you have to ask your self. Running a self hosted WordPress blog costs about 50-60$ per year. If you can afford it, there is nothing else you need to think of. Just close your eyes and get started with WordPress. You'll appreciate your decision later on.
WordPress is worth it if you can afford it! <3
Question #2 How Serious Are You About Blogging?
Are you willing to blog for the sake of hobby and to express your self to the world? Or you wish to create a brand that would not only make you popular, but would make you a living?
If you're doing it as a hobby, I would say, simply go with Blogger as you can install custom templates with Blogger and get started. It's free and easy to use! You don't need all those powerful features of WordPress. Blogger does all the basic stuff and even more if you're willing to dive into code.
Will your blog be a multi author blog in the future? If yes, go with Wordpress, as Blogger would disappoint you in this regard. If you're willing to be a standalone writer on the blog and you wish to make your blog an expression of your self, then Blogger is a great choice.
Question #4 Are You Afraid Of Tweaking Template Code
Note that Blogger can do so many advance customization when it comes to template desgin BUT only if you know how to play with the template code. Notice how BloggingeHow's template is so professional looking. People believe it to be hosted on WordPress blog.
But that shows the power of Blogger. We can create as great look Blogger blogs as Wordpress. But with that, you have to have that mentality to eidt your blog tmeplate. With WordPress, you would not have to do that.
Most of the things can be managed via Plugins. If you can handle code, Simply go with WordPress.
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I believe it's all about your personal scenario. I hope the above questions would help you decide between the two platforms.
IF you're still confused between the two platforms, you can leave out your questions below. Best of luck :)
Managing affiliate links is tiresome. Specially when platforms change affiliate links. These 2 platforms are here to help. How cool they are? Lets find out.
If you're into affiliate marketing, you'd know that managing affiliate links can be a hefty task. Here we're with these 2 powerful platforms that have a good news for us - One Incubated by Google, while other is backed by the British Government and other prominent European investors.
At this point, you might be confused or really looking to find out fast as to how these two platforms can be AdSense alternatives.
Well, our goal is to make money with our blog, and one of the best way to do it is by selling other people's products. It's easy, specially comparing it with the process of product creation and then it's marketing is a whole another story.
In affiliate marketing, we promote products that we believe are relevant to what our readers are looking for and the products we have tested and trust most importantly.
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For that matter, we can choose various affiliate products from platforms like Clickbank, ShareASale etc.
The Problem...
The problem is, that we might be using various types of affiliated platforms where we would find the products of our choice and the flavor of our readership. Imagine we're 1000 articles into our blogging journey, and all of them have our affiliate links.
What if a merchant plans to change the affiliate link? It's a disaster! We can't go back to all of those 1000 posts on our blog and update the links. That would crack our back literally!
Also, it's extremely hard to manage your income from all of the different affiliate platforms you're signed up with.
Imagine, those platforms might have 100$ benchmark before they release their payments. And you're upto 80$ mark with all of the platforms with each product you promote? You won't get a penny until you make above 100$ with each!
That's enough to overcome our patience as Blogger! That's cruel...
How Would These 2 Platforms Solve The Problem?
Well, Skimlinks and Viglinks are a huge deal in this regard! These tools help us manage all of our affiliate links, all across your blog.
You just signup with them, get a javascript code installed in your template, and that's all! You don't have to do a single thing extra!
With Skimlinks, we get access of over 20,000 affiliate programs and products and like wise a huge lot with Viglinks too (over 30,000 I believe).
Now you'd would think, then what? Well, what we do is that we add certain keywords in their dashboard or we could choose the products we wish to promote. We simply hit save and what they would do is that all of our links related to that product on our blog, would automatically be converted to an affiliate link, from you could earn.
Your actual link that you placed won't change, and the users would still see that original link, though when they would click it, you'd get referral reward.
For Example- The Magic
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Lets say, I write a sentence about how we can get Bluehost webhosting at super low rate. Notice how I inserted this Bluehost link in this sentence. It's a link to their homepage and is not my affiliate link.
Though if I would use Skimlink or Viglink now, and choose Bluehost as a product from these platforms, they would automatically change this Bluehost link dynamically at the back end with my affiliate link. Meaning by, that when someone would now click this link, I would get paid the affiliate commission out of it.
Now, if in future, Bluehost wishes to change the structure of their affiliate link, I don't have to do anything! It would all be managed by their tool! That is MAGIC I must say! <3
Advantages Of Using Skimlinks Or Viglinks
So, now that you're getting the idea, lets find more about these awesome platforms and what else they have to offer.
#1 Super Easy Management
We just have to insert normal hyper links in our blog posts as we generally do to link to another resource, and the link would be converted to an affiliate link at the back end.
#2 Hassle Free and Big Time Saver
We don't have to worry about links getting updated or broken from the merchants. They'll be for ever green and working! :> I'm excited about this. In fact, I've already signed up with Skimlinks and waiting to get started.
#3 Your Affiliate ID/Links Would Stay Secure
Many affiliate markers worry about hackers getting to know their affiliate IDs via the links. This way there is a possible chance of cyber attack. With affiliate links generated dynamically at the back end, no one can get to know the affiliate IDs.
#4 All Earnings Under One Hood
This is HUGE! No matter how many different affiliate programs you choose among over 20,000 platforms, all of your earnings would be accumulated under single account! Once that reaches about 20$, you can cashout!
This is really encouraging I believe.
I'm sure by now you'd be thinking how can I get started with this :D
Skimlinks Vs Viglinks - Which To Go For?
Well, this can be a difficult decision though I'll try my best to gather facts and opinions about both of these companies so that it would be easier for you to get started with one. Just to mention, after all of my research up till now, I decided to go with Skimlinks and I'll InshaAllah share my experience with it after few months.
Introduction
Viglinks is incubated by Google and has over 30,000 affiliate programs. While Skimlinks is backed by British Government and other prominent European investors and has over 20,000 affiliate programs to choose from.
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#1 Getting Approval & Setup
As far as what I read, getting approved by Viglinks doesn't takes time and is an instant process, while it takes about 1-2 days with Skimlinks. (1-2 business days is not much though I believe)
#2 Analytics
Viglinks is known to be superior in it's analytics and it can even provide in depth information on what products are being sold via what links on your blog. Skimlinks is shy on that. Analytics is generally the plus of Viglinks.
#3 Minimum Payout
With Viglinks, there is no minimum payout balance bar, so you can cashout even with 1$ in account. While, with Skimlinks, we have to have 20$ of sale in account.
#4 Getting Approval & Setup
As far as what I read, getting approved by Viglinks doesn't takes time and is an instant process, while it takes about 1-2 days with Skimlinks. (1-2 business days is not much though I believe)
#5 Design and User Experience
Skimlinks wins on this one as of many people online. Many believe that Skimlinks has a much easy to use layout which makes things pretty easy to handle.
#6 Customer Service
This is a tie I believe. I have read equal number of people saying positive and negative for both. I believe it depends upon personal experience generally.
#7 Getting Approval & Setup
As far as what I read, getting approved by Viglinks doesn't takes time and is an instant process, while it takes about 1-2 days with Skimlinks. (1-2 business days is not much though I believe)
#8 Terms of Service and Policies
Viglinks certainly doesn't have the most clear policies. With over 30,000 affiliate programs, it's not clear which platforms are active and would add up to your earnings. The reason being that some might be available in your country and some not. While Skimlinks merchants are 100% working and any link that is converted on your blog is actually going to add up to your earning.
#9 Getting Approval & Setup
As far as what I read, getting approved by Viglinks doesn't takes time and is an instant process, while it takes about 1-2 days with Skimlinks. (1-2 business days is not much though I believe)
Hope these points would help you decide between the two companies. I'll defintely give a try to both and will post a detailed review on each InshaAllah!
You can Signup with both the platforms using the link below.
Exciting list of highest paid hollywood actors who earn incomes, that we can't count :P
We all watch Hollywood movies since our childhood. The type of movies may change over the time, and so as our favorite movie actors. With consensus, Hollywood is the biggest entertainment production world, with billions and billions of dollars floating around. More than what we could imagine a movie to cost, there are various Hollywood actors that are paid couple of times more than that sum.
Below, we have compiled top 15 highest paid Hollywood actors of all time. Spoiling for you before, Titanic star (who rocked the world with the 11 oscar awards) leads the list with mouth watering margin.
Matthew Paige Damon born in October 8, 1970 is an American actor/screenwriter who debut his career with a success film Good Will Hunting in 1997.
#16 Brad Pitt
Per movie rate: $20 million
William Bradley Pitt was born in18 December 1963. He is an American actor and film producer who received four Academy award and won one golden globe. He has been described as one of the world's most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.
#15Robert Pattison
Per movie rate: $20 million
Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born in 13 May 1986 who is a popular English actor, model, musician and a producer. He started his career by debuting with a super hit movie series Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
He later has a leading role in Twilight novels that gave him world wide fame.
#14 Daniel Craig
Per movie rate: $20 million
Daniel Wroughton Craig was born on, 2 March 1968. He is a British actor best known for playing British secret agent James Bond in a 2006.
#13 Jim Carrey
Per movie rate: $20 million
James EugeneCarrey was born on January 17, 1962. He is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer. Carrey has won 2 Golden Global awards. Known for his highly energetic, slapstick performances, he has been described as one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood.
#12 Tim Allen
Per movie rate: $22 million
He was born on June 13, 1953. Tim Allen is an American comedian, actor and a voice over artist who was known for his popular movie series Santa Clause, Home improvement, Toy Story series and Galaxy Quest.
#11 Mark Wahlberg
Per movie rate: $28 million
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born on June 5, 1971. The American actor is known for his popular movies : Planet of the Apes, Fear, Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, Invincible etc.
#10 Ben Stiller
Per movie rate: $34 million
Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller was born on November 30, 1965. The American comedian actor was known for his super hit movies : Knight at the museum, Meet the parents, Heavyweights etc.
#9 Tom Hanks
Per movie rate: $35 million
Thomas JeffreyHanks was born on July 9, 1956. The American actor, producer, writer and director is known for his roles in Philadelphia. Hanks was popular for his roles in Apollo 13, The Green Mile etc.
#8 Scarlett Johansson
Per movie rate: $35.5 million
Scarlett Johansson was born in November 22, 1984. She is an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in 1994.
#7 Will Smith
Per movie rate: $36 million
Willard ChristopherSmith was born on September 25, 1968 who is known for this stage name, The Fresh Prince. Smith has won multiple Grammy Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards. His most renowned and successful films have been Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Independence Day, the Men in Black films, Enemy of the State etc.
#6 Tom Cruise
Per movie rate: $40 million
Thomas Cruise Mapother was born on July 3, 1962 who won 3 Golden Global awards and was nominated for 3 academy awards. He is known for his popular movie Top Gun and Mission Impossible series.
#5 Adam Sandler
Per movie rate: $41 million
#4 Bradley Cooper
Per movie rate: $41.5 million
Bradley Charles Cooper was born in January 5, 1975. He is an American actor and producer who has been nominated for 4 Academy Awards, 3 for acting and 1 for producing, and 1 Tony Award.
He was named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine in 2011 <3
#3 Vin Diesel
Per movie rate: $47 million
Mark Sinclair was born in July 18, 1967, who is better known by his stage name Vin Diesel. He is an American actor who is best known for his portrayals of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious film series.
#2 Johnny Depp
Per movie rate: $50 million
#3 Jackie Chan
Per Movie Rate: $50 Million
Jackie Chan, born in Chan Kong-sang in 1954 is a Hong kong artist, a martial artist, a director, producer, stuntman and a singer! :>
We all know how cool he is <3
#2 Jennifer Lawrence:
Per movie income: $52 million
Jennifer Lawrence, an American actor, born in 1990 leads our list of highest paid Hollywood actors. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook in 2012.
She also won 2 golden globe awards and best actress awards.
#2 Leonardo DiCaprio
Per movie rate: $77 million
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born November 11, 1974. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award eight times as an actor, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator. He has also been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
#1 Robert Downey Jr.
Per Movie Rate: $80 Million
Robert Downey is an American actor, born in 1960, who's career has seen many success specially when he was young. He has won 2 Academy awards, 2 BAFTA awards, 3 Critics' Choice Movie Awards, 3 Empire Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards, 3 Kids' Choice Awards, 7 MTV Movie Awards, 11 People's Choice Awards and many many more awards!
