Owner: The Making Money Experiment URL:http://makingmoneyexperiment.blogspot.com Join Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:39:26 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: Many people say you can make real money on the Internet. Because i am a bit sceptical about this, i started this Blog for investigating the different money making opportunities on the Web and share my results with you. My goal is to gain 100 dollars in 6 Site statistics:Click here
Paid.vg - Yet Another Bux.to 2007-12-17 13:49:00 Today I want to present you another nice paid-to-click site called Paid.vg, which works very similar to Bux.to and some other PTC sites I´ve already joined.Some days ago my friend numb2k3 from Income For Everyone asked me to join one of his paying sites in the exchange of joining one of mine. He suggested me Paid.vg, a nice paid-to-click site. I accepted his offer and joined immediately (because I´m such a lovely person :) Now, after some time of testing this new opportunity, I can tell you some facts about it.Paid.vg is a site that shows you paid advertisements. Each day you will be provided with around 7 to 10 ads you can click on. After each click, the advertised site is shown for around 30 seconds. When the timer goes to zero, you´ll get paid $0.01 (not that big bucks I know). So if you click 10 ads each day, this adds up to $0.10 each day and $3.00 each single month (I know, it would be hard to do this on a regulary basis, so it´s just the "best-case" example).So $3.00 per mo
Make Money from Forex Trading 2007-12-12 13:24:00 Today I want to tell you some things about ForexTrading
, which fascinated me since I´ve first heard about it some days ago (no, I´ve heard from it even some years ago, but didn´t realized it´s potential so far). Sure, it isn´t anything for fast money and for those who won´t take any risk, but as I said, I´m really fascinated about this money making opportunity and so I want to tell you about it here.Forex Trading isn´t the usual way for making money online in terms of all the other posts I´ve written so far here on my blog which deal about paid-to-click programs, advertising networks like Bidvertiser, sponsored posts or selling text links. But, what Forex Trading has in common, is that you can do it online (or call it work-from-home) like all the other programs I´ve spoken about so far. What is Forex Trading?First things first, I´m NO expert in the field of Forex Trading or trading in general (not yet). But I´m expert enough to understand the most basic principles involved Read more:Money
Monetize Your Blog - WidgetBucks 2007-12-10 13:55:00 Welcome to my third article about monetizing your blog. In my last two posts I spoke about the Fair Ads Network and Bidvertiser. Today I want to tell you some things about a nice money making opportunity which I recently integrated into my own blog which is called WidgetBucks.Unlike other ad networks like Google Adsense, the Fair Ads Network or Bidvertiser, where you place some pay-per-click ad blocks on your site, WidgetBucks goes a step further by providing you not only simple text links, but nice product pictures with prices, price trends and product ratings. If someone click on of those ads (or products) you´ll get paid, simple isn´t it?You have the choice of what is shown within such a widget. You can either choose a product type by yourself (e.g. funny gadgets) or you can use their MerchSense technology which only shows products related to your site or blog content (e.g. it shows digital cameras if you write about them). If you want to see the widget in action, have a look at m Read more:Monetize
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 2007-12-24 04:58:00 No money-making post today, sorry. I think everybody should have at least some days to stay away from its daily work or even hobby to have some time for family and/or friends. So I won´t write new posts for the next few days, because the family is more important these days, it´s christmas! So I want to thank all my readers and commentors I´ve had so far, you keep me staying with my goals!I wish you a MerryChristmas
, HappyHolidays
and a Happy New Year!We´ll see us in some days, when I´ll come up with new information about making money online. Until then, have a good time!Querblogger
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Subvert and Profit - Minimum Payout Reached 2007-12-22 07:09:00 I just want to inform you that today I´ve reached the $10 minimum payout limit on Subvert and Profit. I´ve been a member there for around 2 month now, but these earnings were generated in around one and a half month.Subvert and Profit is basically a site that pays you for either digging other peoples stories or voting for those articles with StumbleUpon. You´ll get $0.50 for each task from them, with an average of 10 tasks per month. A bit evil, but easy money in my opinion, although I won´t suggest anybody doing this for the long term (you may get banned from Digg or StumbleUpon).I´ve just withdrew the $10 to my Paypal account and I´m currently waiting for the money to be send (it may take some days). I´ll inform you when I´ll get paid, so you can see that S&P isn´t a scam or that like.See you,QuerbloggerUpdate: I´ve received my $10 payment with PayPal one day after withdrawing my balance! So, Subvert and Profit is definitely NO scam! Feel free to join them, it´s worth Read more:Minimum
Learning Forex Trading 2007-12-21 05:45:00 As I´m currently involved in learning the basics in ForexTrading
, I just want to give you some information on where to start.Trading on the Forex market isn´t something you can do without gaining enough knowledge. If you aren´t educated enough, you may lose a considerable amount of money in a very short time (sometimes within minutes), so it would be better to learn all the stuff involved with currency trading before you really start.Recently I discovered a very nice website that actually helps you in gaining access to this market. The site is called Babypips.com, a funny name, but with a lot of useful information inside. The guys who founded this website have a good understanding of the Forex market with many years of experience. But this doesn´t mean that this site i boring as hell with lot of theoretical stuff, actually the informations they provide are written in a sometimes very funny (and understandable) way. The best part is their School of Pipsology, where you´ll learn al Read more:Learning
The Immensehits Scam 2007-12-18 15:24:00 I only want to drop some lines about a scam site discovered by my friend Midwest (here´s his article about it). He recently tested a traffic building site called Immensehits.com that promises to bring you visitors to your blog or website for hard cash. He tested this site with keeping in mind that they may be scammers (so please praise this guy for risking his money ;)The results were really ugly. He bought 10,000 visitors for around $8.00 and received no single visitor at all! A clear sign that Immenseshits.com is a big scam site. If you consider that they also offer bigger packages for some hundred dollars, it would be really worth to mention that you WILL lose your money if you buy one of these ad campaigns, because you won´t receive what you´re promised to get, a ton of visitors. Please don´t do it!Feel free to tell me your experiences with Immenseshits.com!Best Regards,Querblogger
The Bux.to card - Orders are open now! 2008-03-08 05:36:00 Major announcements today! The Bux.to team has finally released it's very own form of payment via MasterCard. Let me give you some more details regarding this card, how to order it, how you will be paid, some details about the fees (don't worry, they arent't that high) and what you can do with the card in general.First of all, the Bux.to card is now only available for premium users due to the overhelming response from all the Bux.to people, everybody wants that card, but the staff won't be able to handle it. So they decided to give it only to premium users, but I think the card will sometimes be also available for standard users, but I can't say for sure.Where to order it...You can order the card from Payoneer, simply follow this link for the ordering process. But notice, you have to log i
Shrtnd.com - URL Shortening for FREE! 2008-03-05 12:08:00 I've promised it already in some of my last posts and now it is time to disclose our secret. Me and my friend Midwest from MyPPCAdvertising have worked on our first web project for the last weeks, hence the lack of updates ;) But now it is time to open it to the public!If you look at the title of this post you may already guess what this project is all about. And yes you're right, it's an URL shortening service named Shrtnd.com! We both are proud to release this service to all of our readers (and the rest of the world) free of charge.The last days we had many things to do. Starting with an idea from Midwest, we gathered some good scripts, built a website and custom design, included some kind of content, worked on some monetization strategies, bought a domain and hosting package and finall
StumbleUpon Traffic Rush! 2008-03-03 15:26:00 I just checked my Statcounter blog statistics as usual to see how many visitors have seen my blog today. Usually I get around 50 to 70 unique visitors per day, but today there was something different...As I checked the stats, I immediately recognized the holy number of 300 unique visitors to my blog. 300 visitors within only 3 hours! "What the hell?" I hear me say. Ok, I was a bit amazed and first thought there must be something wrong with the stats. So I dugg deeper to see where the traffic came from and it turned out that it was mainly from StumbleUpon
.I had no conclusion about why so many people got referred from SU to my blog, usually I get only 5 to 10 visitors a day from StumbleUpon.It did take some time until I realised that it must be because of my new domain name that I just bough
Fifth Month Report! 2008-02-29 14:45:00 And yet another month passed by on my way on earning $100. But this month is a special one, not only because it´s one day longer than a normal February.This month is so special for some reasons. The first one is, I have bought a new domain for my blog to make it easier to remember and to let it look more professional (oh, I like that word ;) Unfortunately I´ve lost my PageRank (ok, I had only a PR of 0) and Alexa ranking. But I hope that I´ll get it back within the next weeks. You can help me with it too. If you would like to, please link back to me, stumble/digg this blog or add it your Technorati faves. Any help is appreciated, although I won´t beg for it :)The second reason for February being a special month is my earnings. Compared to January, where I earned $40, I´ve only made $2 Read more:Fifth
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New Domain and some busy times... 2008-02-28 11:42:00 Welcome back my fellow readers. It´s been a longer time since posting my last article here on my blog. Ok, actually the last post was on monday, but anyway, I feel sorry about the lack of updates.But I have something new to report on. I´m now a proud owner of my own domain! You can now find my blog at MakingMoneyExperiment.com, I have shortened my URL a bit by removing the "blogspot" part :) I think it was a logical step for me to get my own domain as soon as possible, so I could afford it anyway. The domain cost me only $8.41 for one year. I bought the address from Namecheap, a very nice domain registrar with good pricings. Another reason for getting my own domain was better ranking in search engines. Sure, at the moment my rankings (especially the Alexa rank) are down, but I think it w
Subvert and Profit - No more Paypal (and other problems) 2008-02-25 10:56:00 I know, it was long time ago since my last update on Subvert and Profit. But today I got some major news regarding S&P that I want to share with you.S&P now doesn´t support Paypal anymore. According to a mail I received today, these are the reasons for dropping Paypal and choosing Google Checkout as a new payment option:Subvert and Profit has switched our payment systems from Paypal to Google Checkout to serve users in more countries and save on transaction fees. Now, users may send us an “Invoice” to receive money from your Subvert and Profit account. Your withdrawal request will be paid directly to your bank account within 7 business days. After establishing a Google Checkout account that contains your bank account information, log in to Google Checkout; go to “Tools”, Read more:problems
Paid.vg - Cashout Problems! 2008-02-23 07:28:00 As you may know, I´ve reached the minimum payout limit on Paid.vg some days ago. With help of my referrals I have $12.50 in my account balance and, at least in theory, I would be able to request my first payment. But it seems, with Paid.vg payments are somewhat complicated.You can request your payments only once in a month, on every 22nd. So, yesterday was the 22nd and I logged into my account to do a cashout. But the system told me "Sorry, you can only request payment on the 22nd unless you are a premium member." I tried it again and again, but everytime the same message. I rechecked the current date only to be sure if it really was the 22nd (and it was).So, there are two possibilities. The first one could be, that Paid.vg has some serious server problems. Maybe something is wrong with t
Bux.to - First Payment Received! 2008-02-20 12:00:00 Just yesterday I talked about waiting for the first payments from Bux.to within the next days. Today the payment is alread here! I just checked my statistics and there were the holy words "Payment
sent". After only 28 business days, meaning 2 days faster than expected, I received $12.71 in my Alertpay account. It was a flawless process and I´m really happy.You know I had my doubts if Bux.to will really pay me, that´s my nature somehow ;) But now I´m convinced of the truth. At least Bux.to seems like a huge money making machine for the next month (I still have my doubts if they can sustain for a longer time with such high payouts up to some thousand dollars). What I don´t like at the moment is the Alertpay payment option, because I can withdraw my funds only via check with high fees. I Read more:First
Bux.to - Big Payout Day Ahead! 2008-02-19 13:00:00 As the title says, I´ll receive my first payment from Bux.to within some days, at least in theory. After waiting 30 business (the standard waiting time for premium users), I will receive my first cashout on February 22nd, meaning this Friday. The amount is a little bit over $12.00. I hope that they will actually pay me, because I have some doubts on how serious this company really is. Sure, many people seem to already got paid from Bux.to, but there are also some rumors about people complaining about not getting paid. As long as I don´t see my money in my Alertpay account, I must assume they are "scammers" (this sounds hard I know ;)My current account balance is about $45 with most of the money generated from my 15 bought referrals (I broke even with this investment within only 14 days).
Entrecard Contest - Win 500 Credits! 2008-02-17 12:20:00 Today I want to start a little contest where you can win 500 Entrecard credits! If you don´t know Entrecard, please read my post about it to find out more.Here are the simple rules:Write a short review about this blog with at least 100 words.In your post you have to include two links pointing to ""Send me an email containing your review post URL, submit it to netzfischer[at]gmail[dot]comHave the chance to win 500 Entrecard credits!The contest will end at Friday 22nd midnight (CEST), so you have 5 days to write a review. After the time is over, a winner will be choosen randomly (with help of an online randomizer). You´ll get your credits shortly after that (maybe a day), I´ll send them via email. The winner will be mentioned in one of my future blog posts!You may win 500 credits if you´ Read more:Contest
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Paid.vg - Reached minimum payout limit! 2008-02-16 05:51:00 Only 7 days after writing about my process on Paid.vg, I finally reached the $10 minimum payout limit today! My 4 referrals kept "working" for me the last days with a steady $0.30 each day. Now I´ve reached $10.22 (that´s a total of 1022 ads clicked) and I´m ready for cashout. Thank you!One problem I´ve only realized today was the payment policy of Paid.vg. Unlike Bux.to, where you have to wait up to 60 business days before receiving your payments, Paid.vg pays within only 30 days. But that isn´t the problem here, the real problem is that you can only request a cashout on the 22nd of each month, meaning I have to wait until the end of next week...I hope I won´t miss that date for some reasons, because than I have to wait another month again before requesting my cash. I also hope they
Entrecard - Free Advertising to its Best! 2008-02-15 12:50:00 You probably have heard about Entrecard? No? No problem, let me tell you more!You may know that advertising your blog or website is a crucial task in order to succeed with your online business. Sure, it would also work without any advertising, but it would also take a much longer time to make your blog/website more popular. So, it should be one of your first goals to drive traffic to your site, the more the better. More traffic will bring you more revenue, be it from affiliate marketing, contextual ads or referral programs. But the traffic is even better if it´s free!So, recently I came across Entrecard, a nice site that offers free advertising for your site. I´ve seen it on many blogs lately, even on those from famous bloggers like Darren Rowse or John Chow.Entrecard lets you exchange 1 Read more:Advertising
My favorite Blogs - My PPC Advertising 2008-02-13 12:59:00 Today I want to start some kind of long-term series about all my favorite blogs that I´ve came across on my way on making money online. I visit them regulary and they provide many useful information on different aspects that interest me, but they are not limited to money making only.My first review will deal about My PPC Advertising
, a blog from my very good friend Tiberius Burciu.I came across Tiberius´ blog while searching for new ways to drive traffic to my own blog. It was nearly at the beginning of my money making journey as I used a service called Linkreferral (I´ve written some posts about them) to drive more visitors to my posts. I don´t know for sure, but I think it was Tiberius who first reviewed my blog on LR and we came into contact. Things went fast, we exchanged links for Read more:Blogs
Affiliate Marketing Basic 2008-02-12 12:59:00 Today I want to share some thoughts from what I´ve learned about affiliate marketing so far. This article won´t be any in-detail story on how to do marketing the right way, it´s only here to give you some insight in how to start marketing and what is involved in doing it. I´m neither an expert in this field, nor am I making a living from affiliate marketing, I´ve only done some research the past days and I want to share my knowledge with you. (Warning - Long article ahead!)What´s affiliate marketing?So, you´ve probably heard of affiliate marketing and what is involved with it? No? No problem, let me give you a short description.Affiliate
marketing is basically all about promoting products and services from different vendors to get some commissions on leads and sales. Let´s take s Read more:Marketing
, Basic
, Affiliate Marketing
Paid.vg - Approaching the minimum payout limit! 2008-02-09 12:42:00 After many days I just checked back on my Paid.vg account to see how my stats were going. I first had to provide a new payment ID (like Bux.to they have also migrated from Paypal to Alertpay), but nothing special so far.But then I went to my account statistics and was completely amazed. My earnings are nearing the $10 minimum payout limit, I currently have around $8.00 in my account. That kept me wondering, because I haven´t clicked that many ads lately. So I took a closer look and recognized that I had 4 referrals, which brought me over $6.00 within the last weeks! Thank you for all that "heavy" clicking :)So I´m only 2 dollars away from requesting my first payment from Paid.vg, let´s see if they really pay. Also I don´t like Alertpay as a payment option (I can´t withdraw money direc Read more:Approaching
PayPerPlay - My First Earnings 2008-02-06 12:29:00 After joining PayPerPlay and waiting for the new statistics, I´m now happy to announce my first earnings from NetAudioAds. It´s not much for the moment, but it looks promising.PayPerPlay has promised to start serving audio ads on February 1st and in fact they did it, but most people didn´t recognize it because the statistics system was down. It seems they had faced some database problems and bugs in the counting algorithms, but now most of these problems are gone. So today, PayPerPlay started to serve the first 100,000 audio ads randomly distributed around all member´s websites. They try to start in phases to test the stability of their servers, this may take some weeks now before they go full throttle (consider the huge amount of daily ads they are trying to play, it´s millions over Read more:First
, Earnings
Ucash.in - Referrals Update 2008-02-04 12:53:00 Some days ago I´ve written about Ucash.in, a new online service to monetize your links. Only one day after that post I got my first two referrals. The last days I´ve done some free advertising for getting some more referrals to this really nice service. Now I have already 5 people referred to Ucash.in and I hope there will come some more.So let me tell you in short what I´ve done to advertise my Ucash.in referral link. The first service I used is a really good traffic exchange program called MagnifyTraffic.com. You surf other peoples websites and get a bonus, starting by 0.34 credits, for each site you visit. The credits you´ve earned can be used to promote your own site. The good thing about MagnifyTraffic (and the name suggests it already) is, that you can magnify your traffic rate. Read more:Update
Fourth Month Report! 2008-02-01 12:20:00 The fourth month is already ower now and it seems the time is running. Many things happend in January and I can proudly say, I´ve never earned more since I started TMME. So let me tell you more about the dirty little details :)Technical StatisticsAfter being a bit lazy with writing in December, I wrote 20 new articles the last month. Sure, many well-known bloggers write that amount within a week, but I´m no Problogger yet ;) I´ve also seen a return of this "investment", I got a steady stream of search engine traffic to my blog. Content is king, this is the first rule any SEO expert will tell you, and it seems to be true.My statcounter statistics showed me 967 unique visitors with 1282 pageviews, that´s an average of 31 unique visitors each day. I noticed a good portion of traffic from Read more:Month
Bux.to Premium Membership 2008-01-31 13:50:00 In my last article about breaking even on Bux.to I also mentioned to upgrade my membership to premium. I wanted to do this for different reasons, 25% more earnings for each click, faster payouts (only 30 days) and, last but not least, to show me and you if Bux.to really works as promised or if they scam us. There are two kind of people out there, the ones that praise Bux.to for earning many hundred dollars each month, and the ones that say Bux.to is a scam because of not receiving any payments.So, to find this out and to accelerate the long payout process I upgraded my account yesterday and therefore "risked" $59. I won´t loose that big amount of money if I´m not getting paid from them.Today I received the premium status and I´m already seeing the benefits. The daily ad count is now 34 Read more:Premium
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Ucash.in - My First Referral! 2008-01-30 13:05:00 Yesterday I reported about a very nice moneymaker called Ucash.in, which helps you monetizing your regular website or blog´s hyperlinks. With this free service you can shorten your links and make money from each click by showing up some banner ads in the top frame of your users windows. You could even turn your whole website in a moneymaker by automatically converting all your links into paid ones.I also mentioned the nice (10 level deep) referral program, which can bring you much more money than only from your own links. So, yesterday I took a look in my statistics and it showed me one new referral! I was very happy, not only because this happend really fast after writing the post about Ucash.in! The newly referred user (I don´t know his/her name or website) generated around 2,500 page Read more:First
, Referral
Turn Your Links Into Cash 2008-01-29 12:57:00 Yes, you´ve heard right. I´ve found a nice way to monetize your hyperlinks. And I mean every link you can imagine, be it blog or website links, affiliate links or links you post within forums or instant messengers. The service I discovered is named Ucash.in and provides you with different tools to turn your normal links into cash.So, the whole thing is easy. Think about it as a service for shortening your URLs, e.g. turn an URL like this one into a simple one like this. Easy isn´t it? But there´s more. You can also turn your whole website links into paid links. You simply generate some Javascript code which you have to embed at the end of your html code (just before the tag). From now on all your links will be transformed into paid ones (unlike with single links your visitors can see w
PayPerPlay - Waiting for New Stats 2008-01-28 11:55:00 As you may know, I´ve created a publisher account on NetAudioAds at the beginning of January. I regulary check my stats, which show me how much views my blog and my referral´s blogs/sites generate. Although Pay-Per-Play, the new advertising system that delivers audio ads, is still in its beta phase, statistics were already counted. So far I´ve personally referred 2 other people who generated over 500 pageviews this month.But since some days the stats were down and didn´t count a single view. My stats are sticking around 1500 views for the month January. But the company promises to get their database up and running until tonight. I´m really interested to see my new statistics. Btw, those views are really impressive in my opinion, especially when you consider that (nearly) every pagevie Read more:Waiting
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Adbux back - Bux.to Payment Problems 2008-01-26 06:58:00 AdbuxLast Tuesday I told you that Adbux is down and many people, especially from the Bux.to forum, made their jokes and thought they will never come back. It turned out that they are not scamming its users for the moment, because they are back. They resolved their problems with the hoster Aplus. You can visit Adbux as normal, everything is fine for now.Bux.toSince some days there were some problems regarding payments via Paypal. It seems Paypal doesn´t like PTC sites and so they stopped the business with Bux.to some days ago (as with many other PTC sites in these days). This doesn´t mean you won´t get paid to your Paypal account, that´s the same as usual. But you can´t do any payments via Paypal like upgrading to a premium membership or buying referral packs. At the moment Alertpay is Read more:Payment
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