TNX.net text link ads

TNX is a new text link ads broker/network that has been gaining momentum lately. On the surface it looks like most of the text link systems but deep inside its quite different.

Any website owner with at least some pages with higher PR than 0 can register as a publisher. Upon registering you should include the TNX code into your site's template and let the system crawl your pages (which could take up to a week) and then you are ready to sell text links. TNX does not serve sitewide links. Instead each page can have up to 4 unique links from advertisers.

Advantages over other similar systems

• Individual page links are sold and this means more money for the publisher and greater text link benefit for the advertiser.
• The advertisers select pages based on their theme/subject and value of PR and not based on the actual URL. The system does not allow the advertisers to know the actual site that their links are placed on and this helps prevent fraud (i.e. google paid links reporting etc)
  
• The publisher has the opportunity to approve or disapprove advertisers on each and every page (up to 4 links per page)
• The advertisers have at their disposal a wizard that can help them easily create many different text links with slightly different anchor texts.
• There is a referral program in place that can help a user earn more money.
• As of 01/04/2008 there are 39 125 Registerd Users with a daily growth of +0.28%, and there are 31 201 403 text link ads sold so far

If you are a website owner interested to know how much you could be making there is an income calculator on their homepage. You can enter your websites URL and a rough estimate of your pages PR and get your site's maximum revenue from selling TNX text ads.

If you are an advertiser you can try the system for free. Register here and get your free 5000 TNX points by posting on this thread.

GamerClix ads review

I have been experimenting lately with different sources of revenue for my online games site and I have come to install the GamerClix ads above each individual game (i.e. above pac man).

The system is very flexible and easy in setting up and running. Anyone who has used adsense in the past would find it a breeze to work with. You can use the system's "code wizard" to choose from a variety of standard industry ad formats and change the colors to match your site style and end up with the javascript code that you can "copy and paste" into your html template. This makes it a perfect candidate for an adsense alternative but, not quite. GamerClix is still in its infancy. Not too many advertisers have signed up and as a consequence the same ads are shown over and over. On top of that I have experienced that the few clicks that my ads received have resulted in no revenue which is quite puzzling but, its only been a week that the ads are running so I am willing to give it one more week to see how it goes.

In my opinion the only disadvantage is the luck of advertisers. The GamerClix team should probably set an affiliate program (which is lucking right now) in place and entice the users to refer others to the system in order to get a critical mass of active advertisers and publishers.

Make money selling text link ads

The reason why people buy links should be obvious by now to most of you. As a summary some buy links for the traffic it can bring to their site, some buy to increase their PageRank and some buy to make google see them associated with a frequently searched query phrase. If you want to read more on this please visit my post on selling links.

Some people that have been around for some time might have noticed the recent crackdown by Google on paid link publishers and advertisers. The internet community has divided itself in two camps because of this, one that is welcoming such actions from google and the other one that is calling them hypocrites. I am not here to point fingers at neither camp. The truth of the matter remains that links are still being sold and bought but not out in the open anymore.

If you have a site that has either good traffic or a nice PR then you can certainly find link buyers for it.

Depending on the traffic on your site, your PR or the theme (niche) of your site people might be willing to pay from $1 to a few hundreds dollars per month for a single link.

How do you find advertisers/sponsors for your blog ?
The easiest way that I have found is through the webmaster forums. Lots of people visit places like DP V7n and WMT on a daily basis to post their links offers or find such offers. In most forums you can find such deals in the "Buy Sell Trade" Business section.

For easier browsing the abbreviations used in the trade forums are WTB (=want to buy), WTS (=want to sell) and WTE (=want to exchange) so one can easily find niche specific offers using the appropriate abbreviations and the niche topic using the built in search (i.e. WTB travel).

Text link broker services
Finding your own advertisers is probably the most profitable way to sell links but it is time consuming. If you want to be free from the burden of finding advertisers for you sites there are professional services to do just that for you.


The way this usually works is:

• you submit your site for inclusion
  
• you copy and paste a code snippet in your sites pagess
• your site is evaluated to see if it is worth to display any text links
  
• after approval it is entered in a directory of publishers for prospective advertisers to see and purchase links
• when advertisers are interested you get a notification and approve their links which are automatically displayed on your site
• if you reach the minimum payout for the month you can withdraw your money with paypal or other means
  

This is just to give you an idea of the process. These steps are not always there, and each text link service will have their own step by step guide to set them up.

I have tried numerous text link brokers in the past, some have not accepted my sites, some have not delivered any advertisers and that is why its worth to try a few and see which ones are working for you.

The two automated link selling programs that I have used successfully in the past are Text Link Ads and Direct Link Ads.

What services have you successfully used ?

Bloggers/Writers: get $$ for guest blogging

I am looking for guest bloggers for this money making blog as well as my web design blog

Why do I need guest bloggers ?
I don't have time to post very often since I only post unique articles (not copy and paste)

How will this work ?

• Be a webmaster, designer, SEOer (other related field worker), or have ideas on how to make money on the internet
• send me unique article(s) that can fit well in geoland.org or here (There is no real guidelines other than being original and yourself and your articles are inline with the rest of the blog's)
• if you get 2 or more articles posted in a month I will pay you $10/per article minimum. I can probably give more if they are exceptional articles. The monthly period is not a strict requirement either.
  

As added bonues you also get

• my friendship (priceless ;-) )
• 2 permanent links to your blog on every article that you write,
• get exposed to my regular audience 50-100 uniques a day on each blog
  

The articles have to be unique and thoughtful, please don't waste my time and yours sending me articles that took you 1 minute to write or are just copied and pasted from elsewhere.

Hope I covered everything that needs to be said, but if you have more questions please post them here.

GiorgosK.
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How to make money online ?

Looking at my stats today (that I had not looked for some time) I noticed that for the last 20 days quite a few people visited this very blog looking for how to make money online. This site can be found on the second page of google results for the query in question so it was no surprise. It was no surprise either that most of them left immediatelly (bounced back). People are looking for a magic formula to make money online it seems !!!

The title of this website reveals that this site is NOT about making big loads of money in any short period of time even though you could but, I am not promising it. I am just presenting ideas on how I have managed to generate some revenue and ways to improve on those ideas. I personally have managed to make enough part time money from my ventures to keep me going ... the forecasted revenues are also good so that is giving an extra boost to my endeavour...

To those that are looking on how to make money online I would summarize my thoughts as follows:

• find a subject that you are passionate about or at least one that is not going to get your bored in a month from now
• think what you want to build and what is the demand for that
• learn how to build it or hire someone to do it for you
  
• Get a proper domain name
• Get some cheap hosting (for starters at least)
  
• build it
• promote it
• monetize it (put ads or affiliate links or your products on it)
• analyze the stats
• ask questions/read/learn impove it
  
• cycle back to promotion until you get it right

Once you are comfortable with this an updating and revising your site is a breeze then you can focus on building another site

All this is usually quite involved and it needs some time investment and some patience

The more you put into your projects the more they might give back to you. Maybe not from the first months or the first year but they will.

If you have found yourself in a position of loosing your faith about making money of the internet you can consider on a recent discussion on DP on how to make $100k in 5 years in this thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=525344

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Creating a game site, things to avoid

Its almost 4 complete months ever since I launched Games Online 4 Free and lots of people have asked me how is it going ... so I figured an update was worth it. Well this post is not really an update but some things new game site owner should pay attention to.

Look for the latest version of the script that you are using, avoid hackers, I learned the hard way.

I installed the AVarcade as was mention on the original post but soon I was attacked by some annoying hackers due to some bugs in the code. The site would be attacked 5-6 times a day and it would be unusable for hours until I took notice. I used a temporary solution to deprive privileges from the database user so anyone getting admin rights on the script would not have update or delete privileges on the database. When the update to the script came out and I patched the code I reverted the privileges back to normal.

Make sure the gamepacks you installed don't have any objectionable games in them.

I've had google warn me that if I kept serving google adsense ads on my Hentai Puzzle games my account would be suspended. Of course the games where nothing more than girls striping on completion of the puzzle but since the google team found them objectionable other might find them too so I decided to delete the games anyway ...

Don't be impatient, traffic does not come from the first day.

I have had steadily less than 100 visitors and 300 page views per day for the last 4 months. Lately that number has gone up to more than 200 visitors and 600 pageviews, which is not huge but I know that things are improving. I figured: all the directory submission that I did 4 months ago, only started getting approved lately and google started recognizing it as a game site (due to the anchors texts that I used) and started having better positions in the SERPs. So just build as many backlinks as you can and the traffic from the search engines will rise in due time ...

Directory submission software review, Website Submitter

On a previous post about creating your own submission service I briefly talked about submission software such as IBP Arelis and submiteaze that could help get the job done faster and create reports of submissions.

I recently received the codes and passwords to the website submitter software from the company that owns it and I gave it a try. It was very nice gesture and I thank them for it. This is a brief review in my sort usage of it but keep in mind that its not a paid review.

What does a directory submission program supposed to do ?
Have a database of free or reciprocal directories that the owner can easily cycle through and with a press of a few buttons fill in the directory forms and submit his/her websites.

This program's specific features and strong points are:

• takes you directly to the submit page of each directory if possible
• It has a database of more than 3000+ directories included
  
• Can add your own directories to the database
  
• Can report a bad directory directly to the developer
  
• Ability to choose directories to submit by PR or subject from a easily filtered database
• live PR of directory displayed when submitting
• automatic picking of category (not always succeful)
• works with javascript enchanced submit forms
• works with all the directory scripts I have tried (phpld, indexscript, indexu etc)
  

If you want to see the website submitter features as the the owner company describes them.

Some of the areas the program would need some improvement sorted by importance:

• Better matching of the category, even specifying more than one keyword and upon finding more than one matches the user gets notified to chose among the different matches
  
• Need more than two status choices (submitted, failed) I propose adding "don't want to submit"
• Ability to change attributes of any directory in the database, like the option to select a few and mark them submitted (in case one has submit to them manually)
  
• automatic picking of category is not always correct, search is looking for the word specified on the setting of each project, but stops searching when a match is found (a second match usually exists and might be more appropriate)
• Already filled out forms should not be changed on reload of submit form (in case of a mistake form reloads and at times some fields are changed by the software)
• incorporate shortcuts for freequently done tasks (i.e. let enter act as a form submitter)
  
• make a loading indicator more visible (the text on the bottom statusbar is not noticeable)
  
• ability to add labels on directories, our directories and the included directories and search with those labels
  

Overall it is a very nice software, recomended for anyone that is doing this kind of work on a day to day basis, saving them a lot of time.

But don't take my word for it; just try it. Download the trial version install it, watch the this video for an introduction and judge for yourself.

Create a game site

Recently I was talking to a friend developer and he revealed to me that he had build a "free online games site" over a year ago and that today it was generating for him over $500/month from adsense.

Using my own search queries estimation tool or any other keyword suggestion tool you choose (overture, seobook, keywordtracker etc.) one can search for "games online" and see that there is an awful lot of searches on that and related terms. More that 2Million searches on the query "game online" alone for this month (according to the inventory of overture). People indeed do want to play flash games online, that is what this statistic tells us. Imagine how many other individualized searches (for specific games ...) go on that do not make it in the statistics.

With this in mind I actually decided to setup a game site with free flash games for myself with over 2200 games.

I know that the competition is actually pretty big but still I want to experiment. Google shows a total of 466 Million pages on the term "game online" but if you divide with the average of 5000 pages an average game site has nowadays the number becomes something more manageable. Only 93200 game online sites exist as of this time. Not a big deal ;)

How do you build a game site ?
Well for those that want to try this enterprise there are some scripts ready that come with games preinstalled. Some such scripts are the gamescript, flashgamescript, and AV arcade among many others. The scripts cost from 49.99 and 69.95 respectivelly for the first two and AV arcade is free to setup but it costs $20 for a bundle of games. So you are bound to spend some money to get started. Most business online or offline need some initial investment don't they ?

If you are serious about doing it you better have some nice hosting space as well since each game is 1 Mb in size on average. And you better have some nice bandwidth if the traffic does actually come your way.

To tell you the truth I installed the AV arcade for free and then searched for collection of arcade games on the digital point forums but it did take me 3 days only to download the games to my PC and then upload them to my server. Then I designed what I think is a decent template on it and started doing some link exchanges in order to get some ranking on the search engines.

I did actually spend some money (after all) buying some nice hosting with lots of space and bandwidth since I did not want to choke my other sites.

The results remain to be seen ...

Start your own directory submission service

Google's algorithm is structured in such a way that it sees links from website A to website B as a vote from owner of site A about the content of site B. The more votes one site gets the better rank it can get on the search engine results. This has created a need for websites to get as many links as possible from as many websites as possible.

I am not claiming that the algorithm is so simple that links alone can help you rank better but experience has shown that they do help. Of course the quality of the site that links to you makes a difference but definetelly in the general sense the more backlinks one can have the better it is.

One can get links naturally, because people like the content of the site and link to it or it can get "unatural" links. Link exchanges, link sales or website reviews can be considered "unatural" ways of getting back links but I have not heard of any cases where google has actually penalized a site for link exchanging (even though google is officially against link sales).

Another "unatural" way to get backlinks that is also beneficial is submitting your site to link directories. The directories organize the content in categories by topic or by country (or both) and accept suggestions of inclusions in to their pages.

Depending on the age and "value" of the directory a link can be submitted for free or cost from a few hundred bucks to even $299. Now remember google is officially against buying/selling links but the directories are actually claiming that the payment is for the speed up of the submission acceptance, and the truth of the matter is Yahoo is doing it as well with its yahoo directory so it can not be that bad.

Another form of payment a directory can request is a backlink, a link exchange in other words, "I give you a link you give me a link" sort of deal.

Well what does this have to do with any business of ours ?
Webmasters want links and some of them don't have time to waste on submissions to directories and such places. Directory submission services have been all over the forums lately with prices that very competitive. $40 for submission to 1000 directories was the last that I saw.

I know it takes time to submit to 1000 directories!! Then how the hell do they do it 1000 for only $40 ?

Well, I figured some of the services do use cheap labor; data entry people - from countries that have minimum wage less than $10/day - that given half of it will bow down in front of you in appreciation.

Well mind you there are programs that can help "semi-automate" the process. Such programs are IBP and ARELIS ($299) and submiteaze ($99) that will let you insert once the link of the site and title the owner wants to submit it by and will let you go through a list of directories and with the click of a few links and minimal data entry will have the site submitted.

These programs contain enough directories to get you started will let you include manually any other directory. Remember the sites that you will probably want to include in your services are directories that don't need backlinks - since backlinks are automatically checked and you will need access to the websites server (in order to put backlinks). A good way to find the so called "free" or "non-reciprocal" directories is a search on the webmasters forums or by visiting the directory critic website.

Sell links

Who wants to buy links ?
Google likes sites that have many good links pointing to them (backlnks). Each link counts like a vote to the site that are pointing to. The better the site that is linking the stronger the vote. Roughly speaking the more and relevant the backlinks the better position the site gets among the search engine results. This votes are somehow summed up in what is called the Google PageRank. The PageRank is the little green bar that displays for every page when you have the google toolbar on your browser, the grade scale is from 0 to 10. If you want to know more about the pagerank visit Matt Cutt's blog (one of the chief engineers at google)

Therefore people want as many links to their websites as they can possibly get. Sometimes they are even willing to pay for them.

For this reason most webmaster forums have setup subforums for link development - where people give and get advice on how to build their backlinks - and also sections where people can post their link exchange and link sale offers. A good starting point would be the notorious digitalpoint forums or any webmaster forum that has such subforums.

For more advanced link traders there are places like Text Link Ads that have a network of advertisers that want to get backlinks, and publishers that (in this scenario) are website owners offering backlinks for money. A publisher is registering to be accepted to the program and makes know the websites that he is willing to sell backlinks on. If an advertisers happens to like the website and thinks the price is fair then there is a match and the text link exchange program gets a cut of the deal.

Most link exchange programs will look for a good pagerank, decent traffic (proven with alexa statistics) and relevance of the site to be included in their publishers network.

Luckily for amateurs like me there are places that don't have so strict acceptance rules, like buy sell text link ads and the iwebtool link market (the latter does not charge for any link exchange).

So if you have a site that has built some decent backlinks and pagerank you can sell your links to interested parties.

Photographers! Make money!

Have some nice pictures ?
ShutterStock is running a photo stock website. It will let users, with a paid subscription, to download pictures; pictures that can't be found anywhere else.

What is in it for you ?
ShutterStock wants photographers to sign up and upload their pictures for money. They promise to give money for each download to your picture. The rate is $0.5 for each download. Not much mind you but if your pictures are nice and people download them then for 100 downloads you can get $50. Unfortunatelly the minimum payout amount is $75 which means in order to get paid you have to have your picture downloaded at least 150 times.

Another possible disadvantage to the program is that the subscription to the users starts from €121.91 which might prevent loads of people to sign up and might prevent you from reaching your minimum downloads fast.

I am not a photographer and don't have something to offer so I did not sign up but if you are it might be worth a try.

ShutterStock is not only for photographers
You can refer stock buyers and get 20% of any subscribers fees. You can also refer photographers and earn 3 cents per download of their pictures.

Here is the frequently asked questions in case you have some.

Agloco - Own the internet

AGLOCO is not just another pay to surf program.
You sign up for your AGLOCO account, you download a viewbar which you install on your computer and you keep it active for 5 hours a month when you are on the internet. You get paid part of the money that AGLOCO makes depending on your surfing amount.

You also get money when you refer people to AGLOCO
If you refer people to sign up then these registered users become part of your network and when they get money you get money.

You also get money from commissions
You get a share of any commissions AGLOCO gets when a Member purchases a product or service from an AGLOCO Sponsor company

Where will AGLOCO get all this money to pay all the members ?
First of all AGLOCO is owned by its members in the sense that 90% is promised to go back to the members that comprise it (since its the biggest asset AGLOCO will have). If the network becomes as big as the founders hope it will (10,000,000 users by July 2007) then advertisers will pay good money to be advertised on the AGLOCO network.

Calculate your potential monthly earnings (Taken directly from the AGLOCO site)
1.Direct Member referrals (estimate the number of Members you will refer)

2.Estimate the average number of referrals that you think each of your referrals will get

3.Estimate average monthly hours a Member surfs the Internet 5 4 3 2 1

4.Calculate

For illustrative purposes only. Your actual earnings could vary from this example, as Viewbar rates and hours may change regularly.

As of the 30th of December 2006 the viewbar is still in the testing phase but you can go ahead and register for an AGLOCO account and start building your network of referred friends and colleagues

Earn from adsense on earnticle.com

You don't have to have your own site or blog to make money from adsense.

Earnticle.com is a site that shares its adsense revenue with its authors. You just register with them and start writing articles and the ads are served 50% with your adsense id and 50% with earnticles' id. In other words you make roughly 50% of the ad revenue your articles generate.

The design is very pleasing to the eye and the blog machine behind it is wordpress. Thus you can expect that posting an article is as easy as it gets.

The articles on earnticle cover a wide variety of subjects from family and health to web development and SEO.

Although it does not have many authors/readers yet since its a brand new site, I expect it to get many more interested in writing and frequenting the site soon.

Pay per review from your blog - reviewme.com

Do you have a blog ? Do you have some readers ?
You can make some money by reviewing products on your blog.

How much ?
It depends on the topics your blog covers and on the visitors that you get, but reviewme.com explains that you can get from $20-$200 per review.

How does it work ?
First send you site for inclusion to the appropriate category. Reviewme explains in its FAQ's that to be included your blog needs "citations, subscribers, and traffic."

After you are accepted in reviewme.com network, you can start receiving requests for reviews.

The advertisers will have the option to select YOU (for their review) from a list of blogs categorized by topic and traffic and cost of review.

You receive the review request and if you chose to accept it you write minimun 200 words about the product and you post it on your blog and you notify reviewme.com about the completion of your review. You get paid in the beggining of each month according to the reviews you have completed.

So if you have a blog that has a nice design and some decent traffic then you can register to be a part of the reviewme network and start writing reviews for money.

Own an internet directory

There is a whole lot of fuss, the last few years, about getting backlinks (links pointing) to your site. Its been argued time and time again in the webmaster forums that it helps a lot in the visibility of your site to have many and if possible to have links from quality sites. It would be even better to have links from sites that are similar in theme to yours.

The belief is that the more links you have pointing to your site, the better the position you get when one is searching for content (keywords) that is similar to what you have on your site. This belief does not seem to be far from the truth actually (nobody really knows the truth apart from the search engine engineers themselves).

Well this belief alone has led to the spawning of internet directories. The directories are not really a new kind of website - yahoo started out as an internet directory - its just that after the acceptance of backlinks as a value added to a website there is a rush of people to start their own web directories.

The web directories serve as a purpose to categorize the content of the web. In essence they put links from their web directory pointing to other websites but each link is put into its appropriate category/page. For example some directories have the "Regional" page which has links to pages such as "US" "Italy" "Germanay" and clicking lets say on "US" would take you to another page with links to websites related to US (could also have further categorization).

Web directories usually start out as free for all (FFA) to add a link (maybe in exchange for a backlink), and as they become popular they start charging the sites that want to be listed in them. For example the Yahoo Directory charges $299 a year for any site to be included in it (but lets non profit organizations to be included for free). Some directories can also have free links for all but have payed premium placement on top of the categories some of the popular ones are alive directory, site-sift, aviva directory, jayde but a could probably list another 2000 that are not that popular.

So how do you build one ?
Setting it up is probably the easiest to do, there is a bunch of scripts out, some free (indexscript, site sift listings ... ) and some charge a small fee (php Link Directory, eSyndicat ...). Setting it involves 1)getting a server to host it and 2)getting a domain name 3) installing/and configuring the script to the server. Later on when your directory becomes popular you create a paypal account and configure the script so that people are charged for inclusion.

Building it is only half of the trouble, the rest (if not more) of the trouble goes into marketing it so that it becomes popular. That is a whole different subject that I will probably write something about next time.

MyLot pays per post

You like the idea of writing on the web but you can't be bothered to setup a blog ?
Another way to start making money is MyLot which pays you when you start a discussion and when people respond to your posts. What exactly you get paid is not disclosed but its roughly around $0.05 per post and $0.01 when someone respond to your post. Well the money are not a lot but if you write about some topics that you like and people respond to them then you can start getting some.

The requirements on the posts are not very strict either. Basically don't post nonsense and questions that require answers of Yes/No nature, copyrighted material etc (read more guidelines here). Thus the conversations don't need too much preparation, which leads sometimes to very lame discussions but anyway its up to you to make conversations more interesting.

Another way to get some money from MyLot is to refer people to sign up and then you get 25% of their earnings. So sign up now and be very productive and start lots of great discussions and start referring other people.

Make money blogging

Ok!!! you are convinced that blogging is for you and you probably want that extra money that it can give you.

You can create your own blog and put adverting on your blog so when people click on it you get paid for the referral. Creating your own blog means that you have to have your own domain name and host (that would cost around $10/month) and then you have to generate some traffic to you site, well believe me its not easy.

A free alternative would be to get a blog from blogger.com or wordpress.com and you can eliminate the costs of hosting and domain name registration. But you still have to put your own advertisements on the site and drive traffic to it. It is still hard to do.

A better alternative for the begginer blogger is to start with a service such as writingup. With writingup you sign up and start blogging without worrying about setting anything up. The catch is that they give you a percentage of the money they are making from the advertising on your blog pages - which at the moment is 50%. Well, you can't have everything, after all they provide you with the comfort of not worrying about setting anything up and they pay for hosting. Everything is automated for you, you just sign up and start blogging.

Expected to launch soon blogcharm is another site that promises to share the revenues with the bloggers so keep an eye on it.

UPDATE: brand new blog hosting and setup for free can be found here, read the announcement on DP forums

Make money making videos

If you are not good at writing, writing for a blog that is, then maybe you enjoy using your digital camera. Its a fine hobby let me tell you but, it can also be your full time job, or a part time one.

It was recently brought to my attention that at metacafe you can post videos and get money from it!!!! So why are still people posting their videos on YouTube ?? As far as know it does not pay the publishers money when people watch them !!! At the time of this writing the user Reel Stunts has made more than $25000.

So what are you waiting for ?
It must not be that difficult to make a video, if you have the passion, just get a subject that you like shoot it and upload it to metacafe, after signing up with them and reading all the terms and conditions that they set forth.

Well so far so good, now all you need to do is get people to watch it. In order to get any money from this your video has to be watched at least 1000 times (the pay rate is $1/1000 view).

One simple promotion that you can do for you video is email all your friends and contacts to see it, tell them its your video they will get interested and probably do it. If the video is any good they will refer it to other people that they know.

Another simple way to promote it is get into forums that you hang out in and tell people about it. Or find some forums that have subjects similar to your video's subject.

So my advice is you get a subject that you like (I would prefer something funny), and you shoot it and then try to get everyone you know to watch it from their computer (watching it from the same computer or at your house is not going to register any more views) and if its any good probably more people will watch it and maybe you get Steven Spielberg come knocking at your door one Sunny Monday.

Get a blog

What is a blog ?
A blog or weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.

Why get one ?
Well everybody has one (I just got mine) and some people make money on them, so why don't you just get yourself one. You can setup one for free with blogger or wordpress (the 2 most popular ones) and start putting your ideas down. You don't have to pay for hosting nor for a domain, its completely free.

How do you make money from a blog ?
Well the basic idea is simple, you write about your favorite topic and if you have some passion you get enough people to read your blog and hopefully click on the ads that are in your blog pages.

What ads ?
Most people have ads on their blogs (just look on the top and right side), so they can make a little money to support their passion which is writing about their favorite topic. Some people make decent money because they attract a big audience and a lot more people get to click on the ads.

How do you get money from ads ?
Well when people click on the ads the click is counted automatically from your ad provider and it is translated into a few cents (or a few bucks depending on the topic). When you reach a certain amount you can collect the money.

How do I get ads on my site ?
The most well know ad provider is google with their adsense program. This is a PPC (pay per click) program that means that you get paid only if someone clicks on your ads. They have wizards to help you setup the ads and give you instructions on how to include them on your pages, so it has become pretty easy to set up a blog to display ads.

Conclusion
So to round this up, find a topic, get a blog, and register with an ad provider. Chances are that you already have some sort of account with Google, probably gmail so just go to adsense and setup up your publisher's account. Then go to blogger (same as blogspot - part of the google services) and setup your blog. If you get into trouble post a comment here and I will try to help on the technical aspects.