I found something really cool today that you I know for sure bloggers like you are going to love. It’s called Odiogo. What it does is that it converts your whole blog into a podcast ready for anybody to listen, download, and/or subscribe. What’s really cool about Odiogo is that it’s actually a high-quality tool that makes text-to-speech sound as realistic as possible. Well, it’s not that realistic, but the way it works is just unbelievable. It sounds like an actual person talking, and not a robot that reads everything word for word.

Try It Out

Before you use it for your blog, go ahead and visit this going green website called Green Experience. Then click any post that you would like to read. But stop! Don’t read the post! Instead, click the button at the first line that says “Listen Now”. Then just listen as the Odiogo player reads to you the whole post. Looks cool doesn’t it?

Getting Started

Using Odiogo is pretty simple, as it is compatible with all blog platforms that publish RSS feeds like Typepad, Blogger, Moveable Type, and WordPress. Just go to the Odiogo homepage, submit your blog/RSS information and email, then all the information will be sent to you, which includes the link to your Odiogo podcast page (click here to see the SlyVisions podcast page). Oh, and did I mention that Odiogo integrates your blog podcast on iTunes? That’s right. Your blog can be subscribed through by your readers as a podcast on right iTunes! Now don’t tell me that’s not cool.

One last thing. If you’re site is hosted with WordPress, you can download the Odiogo plugin that is included with the email so that your readers can listen to the podcast version of each post right on your blog. It’s just like how you saw it from the Green Experience. The only thing I don’t like about this plugin is that it puts an Odiogo player on every post of your blog. For the readers, seeing this “Listen Now” button on every blog post would get really annoying. Meanwhile, for bloggers like me, it would simply just add too much clutter on the blog. A good idea would be to test it out on your blog for a few days and ask your readers to see how the like it. If they don’t mind seeing the button everywhere, keep it. If it annoys the hell out of them, then it’s time for it to go.

Anyway, don’t forget to subscribe to my iTunes podcast!  Click here to subscribe.

So it’s all over the blogosphere now that Google’s PR update has just already been underway. There have been a lot of sites and blogs with increased PR’s, and even some that had it demoted got it back. But I still don’t see any changes here on Slyvisions dot Com. So Google, what do you want me to do?

It seems like I will never get my PR 3 (or higher) back. I really do not want to waste my time talking about this since it’s useless, but the fact that Google hasn’t given me my PR is total BS. I have already stopped selling text links and removed all my “review Slyvisions for a backlink” posts, but what else am I missing? There are hundreds of other bloggers out there that are doing things that should get them penalized, but they’re not!

I hope Matt Cutts can tell me exactly what’s going on here. Emailing Google about a reconsideration from the Webmaster Tools did not seem to work. All I really want is an answer, and I hope to get one soon.

This is it! The last giveaway for 2007 from the make money online blog, Slyvisions dot Com! After giving away 416 Entrecard credits and a blog review, I am now giving away free RSS text links… 3 to be exact. So what do you have to do? You already know how easy it was to try and win the Entrecard credits and the blog review, but I’ll make this even easier. Just comment on this post and… well, that’s it! Just comment below and I will randomly choose 3 lucky winners by the end of 2007.

By the way, for those who do not know what the RSS sponsorship text links are, they are links that are located at the bottom of the RSS posts. These sponsors purchase these links to expand their exposure and traffic from RSS feeds of many different blogs. Normally, they go for $10/month here on Slyvisions dot Com. But with this final giveaway, you can get a full month’s worth of this advertising opportunity. So make sure you comment now before 2008 comes!

There is now a new name in town when it comes to text link advertising (and selling). I first heard about it on the DP forum when a post was made by them claiming to give free links from 5,000 quality websites. On the thread, TNX (pronounced “thanks”), which is what the service is called, posted a quick review about who they were all about.

With the help of TNX System you are able to get large amounts of non-reciprocal links from thousands of relevant websites: In just few minutes you can order thousands of links from high quality Internet resources. Links can be placed on main pages as well as on individual, deep pages of websites that either have few other outbond links or no links at all.

Sound like any other text link exchange/broker? Well, according to them it’s not. At first, everything seemed confusing when it came to figuring out how the system works. The one thing I can tell you is that this is a unique and easy way to advertise and make money from TNX. Here’s how I intrepret it:

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Here is another way to send free text messages online. The other way, posted here, uses Google. Meanwhile, this alternative uses the AIM service using AIM or iChat. Here’s how to do it in 3 easy steps:

1. Make a new buddy. Under the account name, enter in the cellphone number you want to send a message to starting with +1. So for example, if the number is xxx-xxx-xxxx, you would put +1xxxxxxxxxx (without hyphens).

2. Enter your message in the message box.

3. Click Send. Message sent. Done.

A lot of people out there have websites. From the last blog post, I have taught you an easy way of getting one. What most people don’t know is that they can make easy money from them. It might not be much, but it surely is good enough if you have a lot of site traffic. What I’m going to talk about is one of those ad programs.

First of all, ad programs are the most common way is to get money from your site. Yes, it does make your site “ugly”, but it’s worth it. Ads are in a pay-per-click setup. When people click on them on your site, you get payed for a fraction of that company’s revenues. They are easy to set up– just put in the HTML code they give you on your site, and it’s ready for people to click on. For this article, we’re going to focus on one of them called Text Link Ads.

Text Link Ads can improve your sites traffic and search engine rankings if you BUY ads from them. But if you want to make money, you SELL ads (but not literally). All you do is post the HTML code given to you. That code is a link that sends the user to a website. What you’re basically doing is referring people to some services and companies by putting those companies’ ads on YOUR site. And what happens after people are lured into these ads and buy or sign up for whatever it was they clicked for? Well, you make money. Text Link Ads payments are sent using PayPal with a $25 minimum payout every month (IF you have reached $25).

Sign up for a Publisher’s account now to start making money from your site.