Free toolbar, free money, more blog visitors
April 12, 2009
While looking at this site’s visitor logs, I noticed that a lot of visitors are using Conduit Search. Curious, I researched what this is and I ended up with the site Conduit.com.
Apparently, one can create a toolbar for free using Conduit. A toolbar is a group of icons on top of one’s browser that provides a shortcut to a site or blog.
How does one benefit from the toolbar? Well, because it rests on the browser, the toolbar provides an easy way for a visitor to visit his or her favorite blog or site. With just one click, the visitor can immediately access a site or read real-time content from a blog.
The good thing about the Conduit toolbar is that it is easily customizable and the options for the toolbar are virtually limitless. You can add your own links, have a message that instantly appears on your toolbar, and even deliver real-time RSS content to those who downloaded your toolbar.
Look at the PMT Toolbar we created.
It has our own branded logo, a search engine powered by Google, and shortcut links to popular areas on the PinoyMoneyTalk.com site, such as the PMT Blog, the PMT Forum, and even the options “Unread Forum Posts” and “New Replies to Posts” of a PMT Forum member.
Now that is very useful to our members who want an easy way to access PMT.
What’s more interesting, though, is that Conduit also provides a way for toolbar owners to make money. For every installation of the toolbar, the toolbar owner earns a certain amount depending on the profile of the person who downloaded.
A week after we created the PMT Toolbar, we already had 30 installations which gave us $5.00 of income.
Awesome, right?
If you want to create your own site or blog toolbar, head off to Conduit.com. To download the PMT Toolbar, click here.
Note: This is NOT a paid advertisement from Conduit. We are simply sharing something we found on the net that can help you increase your site visitors while giving you additional online income.
April 13th, 2009 at %I:%M %p
asteeeg… napakaganda ng idea ng toolbar… kaso lang i think it would only work to established blogs like PMT. yung mga nagsisimula pa lang, di magkakaroon ng installation… wawa naman kami…
April 13th, 2009 at %I:%M %p
RT@ ice_hot:
Mukhang suki tayo dito ice_hot ah..hehe..Sige lang, pareho ni James sisikat din tayo..There’s no need to rush, take one step at a time..hehe
@James:
Magandang idea nga ito James,how do you keep track of your visitors nga pala?
I’ll have it downloaded ASAP, not to make money pero para madaling i access yung mga fave blog ko, tulad netong sayo. Syangapala, bagong visit ko lang nung blog ni Abe Olandres, nakita ko mga vacation photos nya, ang galing ng Canon cam nya..hehe..Ikaw kamusta easter natin? hehe
April 14th, 2009 at %I:%M %p
Hello mga suki, jonharules and ice_hot! Hehe.
@jonha, sa bahay lang ako last week, dami kasi kelangang gawin at tapusin. Kaw, ano ginawa mo during the long vacation last week?
@ice_hot, oks pa rin yung toolbar kahit konti pa lang visitors ng isang blog. Mas mapaparami nga ng toolbar yung repeat visitors tapos wala namang cost o hirap yung paggawa nun kaya ok na rin na mayroon ka na kahit bago pa lang ang isang blog.
April 21st, 2009 at %I:%M %p
Great idea as a trinket, but as far as form goes I wouldn’t recommend this to be a highlighted product on a site. maybe offer it up in a freebie section. trends shows that sites who offer downloads tend to regarded as “aggressive” Still a neat gadget though
April 21st, 2009 at %I:%M %p
the toolbar is great help for bloggers for easy access to blogs around.
May 30th, 2009 at %I:%M %p
created one and asked our users to install it, first day – was able to have 25 installation, amount earned? $1.50 only???? :(
May 31st, 2009 at %I:%M %p
Yup, it’s not a lot. And it depends on the location of the users installing the toolbar. I’d assume those installing from the US or Canada would perhaps give a higher income. For example, we had 30 installations before and we got $5.00. That’s a bit higher than your rate, probably because of the location of your toolbar users.
June 8th, 2009 at %I:%M %p
aah, yeah that’s probably the reason. about 99% of our toolbar users are from the philippines. we have 40 installations now and still on $2 :/